UPCOMING EVENTS Read our Update to find out more details about what's happening at Origins and Coorain. You can subscribe to our mailing list to get the Update e-mailed to you.
NOTE: Private retreats, new courses and personal booking is done through the Origins Office: origins@iinet.net.au or 9764 1109 unless otherwise stated. This calendar may be added to or changed during the course of the year as new courses or events come on stream.
MINDFULNESS @ ORIGINS CENTRE Stay tuned for 2023 days and times for mindfulness sessions.
PRIVATE RETREATS If you are interested in private retreat at Tusita, a cabin/studio facility near Coorain, please contact the Origins office origins@iinet.net.au Anyone doing private retreat should have some experience of Origins Centre and our general protocols.
GOVERNANCE The centre relies on a culture of mutual respect and support and has done for 35 years. It is joy to provide the centre on a long term basis, as best we can. Your support in maintaining a well kept place and a friendly, helpful culture are, of course, what makes it all happen as well. Together we make Origins what it is.
*A gentle reminder - please care for others and yourself, and do not attend Origins if you are feeling unwell, especially with cold or flu symptoms. Thankyou*
Peace Pagoda Day is our last day for 2022, then we close for summer. See you in 2023!
2023
February 8th:Origins re-opens after summer with Kindy: 10am - 2pm 22nd:Kindy
23rd to 26th:Nature's Song Retreat with Darrell Henry The Foundations of Ordinary Body Mind Spirit Land for Healing and Lifelong Learning. Darrell Henry is an Aboriginal psychologist who is a student of many traditions. He brings together Western Archetypal Psychology, Buddhist meditation practices, and Aboriginal spirituality for a holistic and grounded approach to healing. The three retreats this year are progressive movements of the same essence. For more information, click here or email Jesse: jesse.pepper@gmail.com
March
3rd to 6th: Offering Hands with Chris and Bevie Come and enjoy some nice slow movement focused on organizing and activating your arm facial lines. We will explore our hand to core connection over the weekend using a range of movement modalities including slow yoga, Qi Gong and Feldenkrais. Join Bevie Barker and Chris Newell and like minded friends for a deep dive into the process of cultivating interoception. For more information click here
11th & 12th – Mindfulness Weekend 20th – 24th – Yoga Week with Deniz 25th & 26th – Poetry with Jaya April 31st March – 3rd – Respite weekend with Holly & friends 5th: Kindy 8th & 9th – Mindfulness Weekend 14th – 16th – Nature weekend with Helene 19th: Kindy
21st – 23rd – Cultivating Metta with Diane Join Di in a weekend of experiencing the sacredness a loving heart. The weekend offers gentle yoga, breathwork, sound, mantra and meditation based around the framework of the Yoga Sutras on Maitri (benevolence, friendliness), Karuna (kindness, compassion), and Mudita (pleasantness, happiness, joy). For more information, please email: dinamay@bigpond.com
28th – 30th – Nurture Wellness Retreat with Melinda Empower your inner healer with guided mindfulness and nature-based practices, circle, sacred art activities and more. Please register your interest at: happynwellkinesiology@gmail.com
May 3rd: Kindy 6th & 7th – Weekend with Raelene 13th – 21st – May Retreat
25th – 28th – Nature's Song Retreat with Darrell Darrell Henry is an Aboriginal psychologist who is a student of many traditions. He brings together Western Archetypal Psychology, Buddhist meditation practices, and Aboriginal spirituality for a holistic and grounded approach to healing. For more information, click here. 31st: Kindy
June 10th & 11th – Mindfulness Weekend 14th: Kindy 24th & 25th – Poetry with Jaya 28th: Kindy
July Closed for winter
August 7th-9th: Bibbulmun Track Foundation 9th: Kindy 12th & 13th – Mindfulness Weekend 23rd: Kindy September 2nd & 3rd – Nature & Mindfulness with Kip 6th: Kindy 9th – 17th – September Retreat 20th: Kindy October 4th: Kindy 14th & 15th – Mindfulness Weekend 18th: Kindy 21st & 22nd - Feldenkrais/I Liq Chuan with Bevie and Chris 27th - 29th – Weekend with Melinda November 1st: Kindy 11th & 12th – Mindfulness Weekend 15th: Kindy 16th – 19th – Nature's Song Retreat with Darrell Darrell Henry is an Aboriginal psychologist who is a student of many traditions. He brings together Western Archetypal Psychology, Buddhist meditation practices, and Aboriginal spirituality for a holistic and grounded approach to healing. For more information, click here.
Perth Teachings with Chime -Yoga Moves - Studio entrance at 45 Evans Street, Shenton Park (google West Subiaco Masonic Hall, 78 Herbert Road for directions, cnr of Evans Street & Herbert Road). For more information, please contact: mindmed@tpg.com.au
2023 Final session of the 2022 series, class and wongkur on the passion of Vajrayogini: 11 & 12 February.
Vajrasattva is the archetype of purification and restoration, the central purpose of practice. As an Adi-Buddha or primary archetype, he/she/they re-present a great fullness of mindful compassion, the very core of the teachings. Vajrasattva could also be translated as the active practice of undivided or perhaps unified being … both universal and individual, holistic, and intimate, like a diamond with many facets. One can think of Vajrasattva as all the efforts to heal and maintain the path of peace, in oneself and the world: now, in the past and in the future.
Vajrasattva series: 1 & 2 April, 17 & 18 June, 5 & 6 August and 19 & 19 November. Saturdays, 3.30pm – 4.30pm: Discourse, questions & comments and suggestions for practising. Sundays, 9.50am – 11am: Interactive wongkur (ceremonial, symbolic, sacred theatre) related to the previous day’s discourse. Each weekend will celebrate and explore a different Vajrasattva text.
All sessions are live in the studio, on ZOOM and recorded (available for 3 days only post session). Venue: Centre for Movement Studies, 45 Evans Street Shenton Park and on ZOOM Cost is, as always, by dana. There is a bowl at the entrance of the studio if attending in person. For Zoom attendees: Please send your donation to the Teachers Account: BSB 066 504, Account 1012 8642 or Paypal: https://paypal.me/chimshore?country.x=AU&locale.x=en_AU To register and receive further information (e.g. ZOOM links), please contact Gaby at mindmed@tpg.com.au
THANKYOU Thank you for taking an interest in Origins Centre’s programs, courses and events. We endeavour to offer a well run, inclusive and kind place. The entire enterprise is run on the idea of mutual support and fair exchange. We are a not-for profit charity.