Please join the Still Water Working Group and Board for a Spring Awakening Party.
March 27, 2010, 2 to 4:30 pm., at the home of Dotz Darrah and Bruce Weddle, 7315 Maple Ave, Takoma Park MD

Please join us a 2 p.m. for drinks and treats.
At 3 pm we will have a short Honoring the Community program including a brief overview of our stepping stones as a community.

Children are welcome – we will have special age-appropriate activities for young people.

Please Register Online so we can mindfully prepare places and programs.

For more information, please contact Dotz at dotzd@erols.com or 301-891-3717.

Hope to see you there.

 

Our practice is to take refuge in the present moment because the present moment is always available. The present moment is full of life, full of wonders. We don’t have to run towards the future to get it. You are already a wonder and surrounding you are wonders you can experience, if you know how to stop and to become fully present. – Thich Nhat Hanh

Many of us, take little time in our daily lives to come back to ourselves. We are focused on schedules and tasks, and on meeting other people's needs. A day of practice allows us to refresh ourselves and to more deeply experience the flow of life around and through us.

You are invited to join us on Saturday, April 3.

Our Morning of Practice will take place in the Octagon at Blueberry Gardens in Ashton, Maryland. Our program is below. The suggested donation is $25—$50. Please feel free to contribute less or more according to your circumstances.

Blueberry Gardens is about 13 miles from Crossings in Silver Spring and also 13 miles from the Columbia Yoga Center in Columbia. We will faciiltate the formation of car pools to make the drive more enjoyable and to reduce gas consumption.

To register, please go to our online registration site. If you have questions, please contact Barbra Esher, our registrar for this event, at shiatsuacupuncture@verizon.net . For directions, go to the Blueberry Gardens website.

We hope you can join us. Please pass this notice on to friends or groups you think might be interested in joining with us.

Coming Home to Ourselves Schedule

We invite you to attend the Still Water Mindfulness Practice Center's annual Spring Community Retreat at the Charter Hall Retreat Center on the Chesapeake Bay.The retreat is a time for Still Water practitioners, their families, and friends to gather for a communal weekend of nature, friendship, and mindfulness. 

The setting at the confluence of the Susquehanna River and the Chesapeake Bay is beautiful. The weekend is infused with a gentle mindfulness, supported by morning and evening meditations, dharma discussions, bells of mindfulness, walking meditation, partially silent meals, and practices that encourage mindfulness in daily life. 

The community shares responsibility for meals, meditations, a children's program and other activities. Each individual or family will be assigned to a meal team and will contribute to the purchasing and preparation of one meal. There is also time to relax, paddle canoes, play music and enjoy being with each other. 

Here is a sample schedule from a previous retreat.

Cost: The Still Water MPC has established a sliding scale for our retreats so that all may attend:

You are welcome to contribute any amount between the limited-income contribution and the benefactor contribution (or more if you wish), in accord with the urgings of your heart and your means and circumstances.

With your contributions, Still Water MPC is better able to meet its financial obligations, support its teachers, develop new programs, create space for those with limited incomes, and offer no-cost community events.   If contributing at even the limited-income level would be a hardship, please let us know and we will endeavor to make other arrangements with you.

NOTE: All contributions above $70 per person for those staying in the lodge and $40 per person for those staying in tents are considered voluntary, tax-deductible contributions.

Registration Click here to register for this retreat.

Questions? Please contact Richard Crenshaw, the retreat registrar: richard@maggiesmusic.com, 443 223-0234.

Hope you can make it.