 February 2011 Newsletter
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 Retreat Highlight
Spring Rejuvenation and
Cooking Retreat
with Nicole DuVent and
Quantum Leaps staff
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April 15-17th, 2011
Spring is the time for renewal and new growth and opportunities. Come and shake out the winter at Quantum Leaps this lovely Spring weekend. You'll take part in daily cooking classes, learning how easy it is to create delicious, healthy meals. You'll be inspired to try new foods and recipes and will receive a copy of the new Quantum Leaps Lodge Cookbook to take home with you. You'll also take part in daily yoga, receive your choice of a massage or craniosacral session, and have free time to walk the labyrinth or go for a hike along the beautiful Blaeberry River.
go to QuantumLeaps.ca
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Book To Read:
Muhammad by
Deepak Chopra
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Movie To Watch:
Zeitgeist; Moving Forward
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Dear Friends,
We are sitting here at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California looking out over the BIG BLUE ocean! Brian and I are on sabbatical so to speak, learning and growing. Esalen is a place of deep relaxation and beauty. As we learn here, we will be taking nuggets of information and learnings back to our magical Esalen North, Quantum Leaps, to share with you. Esalen was the place that inspired Brian 25 years ago to begin to build Quantum Leaps Lodge, a space for inner and outer explorations. One of the founders of Esalen, Dick Price, told Brian; come and learn here at Esalen and then take that out into the world to share. And so that is what we keep doing.
Last week we took part in a 5 Rhythm's Dance retreat and this inspired us to write this month's musings. Read below.
This Sunday we begin this retreat; Seduced by Earth: Deep Imagination, Soulcraft™ and the Dreaming of Nature
http://webapp.esalen.org/workshops/8925
With that, our Retreat schedule for this year has filled in even more. We've added a beautiful Plant Communication retreat in July with Denise Holden. Before that in June, the Atmapuri Project is returning to Quantum Leaps to host another inspirational Silent Meditation and Yoga Retreat. Then in August, for the couples out there looking for a connecting and playful experience, there is a Retreat for you! See the link below for the complete listing of upcoming 2011 Retreats.
We are also meeting some beautiful teachers here at Esalen and hope to create with them in 2012.
Remember for all Retreats, if you register 1 month ahead, then you receive $50 OFF your Retreat package. And if you've "Retreated" with us
before you receive an additional $25 OFF. We hope we've created something for you to be inspired to come and play with us.
blessings and sending you warm California Sunshine,
Brian & Annette
Quantum Leaps Lodge
Golden, BC
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Retreats and Workshops 2011
The Quantum Leaps Retreats calendar is filling in for 2011. To see the listings of what we have planned so far for your
inner and outer explorations go to......
www.quantumleaps.ca
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Stoking Your Creative Force
by Brian O and Annette
The LEFT BRAIN is our logical, analytical, rational, and thinking side of our bodies. It allows us to function in the world, do math equations, figure out how to get somewhere, and read this newsletter. Life can sometimes be overwhelmed with Left Brain function. We spend most of our day there whether you are at work, at school, or sitting at the computer when you get home. We need to nurture both sides of our brains. We need to spend time using and excercising our RIGHT BRAIN. The Right Brian is the creative, intuitive, and emotional side of our beings. This is connected more to our heart source, our inspiration, what gives us juice in life! A child lives more in their Right Brain. When we tap in, we allow the unconscious to speak whatever and however it likes without judgement or comparing; just allowing it to flow. Being in the Right Brain is about being in the NOW. And the emphasis is on BEING..to BE in the moment of what is!
Brian and I just finished a 5 Rhythms Dance Retreat and this type of dance allows you to just be in the Right Brain. The Dance is estatic. It is whatever moves you in the music to be put into expression through your body. There are no steps to follow. You move to the music to your own beat, you become the music, you become your own expression of who you are without judgement or caring what you look like or comparing yourself to anyone else in the room. It is FREEDOM! To move your body in this way allows you express yourself spontaneously, without restriction...just like a child does when he/she is being imaginative and just simply playing.
5 Rhythm dance is just one outlet for expressing our Right Brain's and stoking that creative fire within. Art, Music, Writing, and Meditation can also be expressions of this as long as there are no notes to follow, no rules, no steps that must be done. Just improvising and
being in the flow is what allows the unconscious to arise. Automatic writing is where you are not thinking about what to write next but just allowing the words to flow on the paper. You may be surprised as to what arises.
Find oppotunities to get out of your logical thinking mind and dance your own dance! There truly is freedom and beauty in what you express.
"Energy moves in waves, waves move in patterns, patterns move in rhythms,
energy, waves, patterns, rhythms! Nothing more. Nothing less. A dance" Gabrielle Roth
"Dance until the dancer is gone and then there is only the dance" Gabrielle Roth
What Gabrielle Roth essentially is saying is that if you want to be in the flow, let go of control and thought.
So we hope these words encourage to find a creative outlet to excercise that side of yourself that loves to be childlike and play!
So come and dance with us!
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