This 9 Day Awareness Training, Naturequest Solo and Meditation Retreat will bring our AAT Community together in one of the world's most beautiful and spectacular natural areas . Beautiful red, white and orange slickrock canyons, waterfalls, extraordinary rock arches and other stone formations create one of our favorite places to enter the Sacred Way. You experience a land that evokes visions of dinosaurs and ancient beings, whose shapes are echoed in the formations of the canyons. Explore the numinous qualities and distinctive energies hidden within the radiant red rock canyons, pristine waterfalls, exquisite natural arches and stone spires of this spectacular region. Part of this retreat will build on the Dzogchen transmissions John has provided in earlier Retreats. He will emphasize teachings from the great Dzogchen master, Longchenpa. This teaching holds some of the purest teachings of the Way of Natural Perfection. John will also teach on a series of Dzogchen practices to clear, open and empower our right, left and central channels. Half our teaching time will be devoted to both of these extraordinary Dzogchen Teachings. The retreat will also emphasize some of John's teachings on Taoist Internal Alchemy. He will select from some of the following: Opening the Micro and Macrocosmic Orbit Circulations, Fusion Practice, and a new series of Qi (Chi) Energy Cultivation practices that help with the conversion from Jing to Qi, from Qi to Shen (Spirit) and from Shen to Wuji. Overall, the Advanced Awareness Training emphasis in 2008 and 2009 will include a significant emphasis on cultivating Internal Energy through a series of esoteric yet very practical both Taoist and Dzogchen techniques. Daily T'ai Chi for Enlightenment training on form will also be included. Also, daily "Sensing Hands/Push hands' practice will be taught. John will also teach on the linkages between these Taoist practices and Tibetan Buddhist, Bon, Native American, and Dzogchen teachings and practices. We will also go deeper with Teachings on GaiaFlow, and refining how the principles of T'ai Chi and Qi Gong Training apply to deepening GaiaFlow practice. John will also share his series of dyadic (two-person) practices that he designed to realize Source in each other, as well as in Oneself, in close relationship. This series of practices could be described as interpersonal Dzogchen, with an applied continuing view of Source as the basis for all relationships and their changes. There will be four days of wilderness solo to cultivate these advanced practices during this retreat. The whole focus is on the teachings and the chance for individual meditation retreat practice in the solitude of the wilderness. All are welcome to attend this retreat. This Retreat will embrace the vast spaces and natural luminosity of Utah's Canyon Country. The land and John's unique training will integrate to support the special practices he will be teaching - an inner cultivation that will help us to recognize our Primordial Awareness that underlies all Being. $999 fee.
Teacher: John P. Milton |
