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The Way of Nature Fellowship Workshop and Custom Retreat Topics (Programs marked with a * are recommended as extended programs)
1) Introducing John P. Milton’s Twelve Principles and Associated Practices: A Path of Awareness
2) NatureQuest
3) GaiaFlow® Intensive
GaiaFlow was created by John in the 1980’s to provide a spontaneous, understandable and learnable way of unifying inner and outer Nature through sacred movement. This unique motion form is a dynamic, flowing style of meditation and a way of movement that inspires your Union with all of Nature. GaiaFlow integrates five levels of liberation through movement: first, you learn and cultivate the core principles of Taoist movement as expressed in T’ai Chi Chuan and Qi Gong; second, you explore and practice traditional skills of tracking and stalking; third, you discover how to invoke the totemic beings of Nature, such as plants, animals, wind, water, stones and nature spirits; fourth, you experience all perceptual form in movement as a unified field, with no separation between inner and outer process; and finally, you follow all perceptions back into Source, until GaiaFlow emerges in the pure expression of spontaneous, joyful flow as the creative play of Source.
*4) T’ai Chi: The Cheng Man Ching Form -- Cheng’s basic 37-posture form extended to a 108-movement form by John: Beginning
*5) T’ai Chi: The Cheng Man Ching Form: Intermediate
*6) T’ai Chi: The Cheng Man Ching Form: Advanced
In order to cultivate the practice of T’ai Chi, it is ideal to study with John on a regular basis: for the Cheng Man Ching Form, three to four times a year is ideal; for Pushands, a yearly program is recommended.
Also in production is a five-disc DVD set from The Way of Nature Productions, featuring John giving step-by-step instruction in T’ai Chi.
*7) Pushands: T’ai Chi Chuan, Two Person Forms -- Single-handed
*8) Pushands: T’ai Chi Chuan, Two Person Forms -- Double-handed
*9) Pushands: T’ai Chi Chuan, Two Person Forms -- Daliu forms
*10) Qi Gong & Cultivation of Universal Energy: Basic 8 Brocades plus whatever practices are most needed by the group/participants
*11) Qi Gong & Cultivation of Universal Energy: Swimming & Sitting Dragon
*12) Qi Gong & Cultivation of Universal Energy: Intermediate
*13) Qi Gong & Cultivation of Universal Energy: Advanced
Grandmothers, Ancient Taoist Sage, etc.
14) Intro to Spiritual Practice & Sacred Passage - Qi Gong & Spiritual Practice
Learn how to strengthen your body, mind, & spirit, and deepen the knowledge you possess about the power in your spirit. This program will take you through three levels. First, the teachings will emphasize Qi Gong, and the opening it gives into the Twelve Principles. Second, you will learn how the Principle strengthen the practice of Qi Gong. Lastly, you will explore how the cultivation of energy through Qi Gong helps to carry you to Source Awareness. Selected kundalini and Dzogchen practices may be included, depending on the spirit of the group.
*15) Realization of Source: Intensives on the Four Doors: Dzogchen Recognition
*16) Realization of Source: Intensives on the Four Doors: Taoist Cultivation
*17) Realization of Source: Intensives on the Four Doors: Tantric Union
*18) Realization of Source: Intensives on the Four Doors: Non-dual Advaita Vedanta Realization
19) Renewing Personal Energy – Balancing Your Natural Life Force
John brings to you profound practices of renewal, teaching a series of both ancient and modern methods to purify deep blockages, regenerate Qi, and reclaim inner serenity. Drawing upon his background in Qi Gong, Dzogchen, Hindu & Buddhist Tantra, and Shamanism, John shares with you a wide variety of energy practices to explore. All are easy to learn and joyful to do. Additionally, John will share profound ways to realize Source Awareness assisted by advanced energy cultivation techniques.
*20) Sacred Relationships: People to People - emphasizing dyadic practices
*21) Sacred Relationships: People to Nature - emphasizing purification & unification of perception
*22) Sacred Relationships: People to Source - emphasizing dydadic and perceptual means to realize the primordial Awareness that is the base of all forms
23) Spiritual Warriorship: Functioning from Source
24) The Path of the Shaman: Communion with the Natural elements & totems
25) Geomancy: How it works to empower us
The ecology of the outer environment will be linked to the ecology of the inner world in this teaching. A variety of ancient sacred traditions that honor humanity's connectedness with the earth will also be explored. One of the main goals of this training is to help individuals cultivate tools for growing into a more profound relationship with Nature and with their innermost essence.
26) The Sacred Stones Seats of Crestone - One week Training and Meditation Retreat
Spend a week in the vastness of Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains as John takes you on a unique, spiritual pilgrimage into the area’s sacred stone meditation seats. Used for millennia for the cultivation of spiritual practices, John has kept this sacred area relatively secret for the last 25 years, both to honor the Native ancestors who created and used these seats, and to protect them from abuse and dishonor. Unique to the Western world, these sites, and many others like them, are now in danger because of the very fact that so little is known about them. Now, the only way to save them is to open this ancient mystery school to all.
27) Pilgrimage to Sacred Sites
John will guide you on a pilgrimage through a selected sacred site, sharing a wide range of applications, principles and practices throughout. What will be exchanged is left open for discussion within the group, and indeed depends largely on the group and the location. It’s a wonderful opportunity for spontaneous, mutual exploration of spiritual principles and experiences. |
