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UPCOMING EVENTS
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 Join us for Mindfulness on Tuesday at 9.30am and Friday mornings at 8am in the rotunda at Origins. All are welcome to attend in person, just bring your own mat and blanket. Also available via facebook livestream.
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.
KINESIOLOGY offered on-site @ Origins Kinesiology is a system of natural healthcare that supports wellness by holistically working on the broad human condition. Please get in touch with Melinda for more details or to make an appointment. Email: melinda.tupling.origins@gmail.com or mobile: 0449290250
WILDERNESS JOURNEYS with Kip Looking to gets some exercise and find some inner calm? This Spring Kip will be offering gear supplied and fully catered guided bushwalks on the Bibbulmun Track. Ranging in length from short day hikes to multi-day journeys, the experience will include nature based mindfulness practices that deepen connection to the living Earth. For more info please contact: kip.origins@gmail.com
YOGA at Origins Join Adam for yoga in the rotunda, 5.30pm - 7pm Wednesday evenings. First class 6th of October - $15 per class or $125 for 10 weeks
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.
2021
October 9th & 10th: Mindfulness weekend Mindfulness will be taught according to ancient tradition. Chime will instruct in a foundation of mindfulness exercise called 'Setting Up'. Sessions are at 9:30am and 3:30pm on Saturday and 9:30am on Sunday. Day attendance is welcome. Personal instruction is available too. To enrol, please contact: origins@iinet.net.au
16th & 17th: Private booking
20th: Kindy
22nd - 24th: 'A Council of All Beings'- Nature and Mindfulness Weekend Anchored in the transformative framework of the Work That Reconnects, this will be a weekend for for recharging your work on behalf of Earth. Join facilitators Helene Fisher, Kathryn Choules & Kip Cameron to energise your creativity, your courage and your inspiration! For more information please contact kip.origins@gmail.com
30th & 31st: Mindfulness and Clay with Anne This weekend will explore the inner and outer - Mindfulness practice with the emphasis on the hands using clay as the vehicle. Classes at 9.30am and 3.30pm on Saturday, and 9.30am on Sunday. Contact Anne origins.centre.coorain@gmail.com
November
3rd: Kindy
6th & 7th: 'Held together with stories - an immersive weekend with storyteller and poet Jaya Penelope. Over this weekend Jaya will tell one great initiatory story and guide you to explore its layers and resonances in your own life through reflection, journaling, creative writing, ritual, meditation, time alone in nature and time with others in community. To enrol, please contact: mistressmadrigal@yahoo.com.au Click here for more info: storytelling_with_jaya.docx
13th & 14th: Mindfulness weekend Mindfulness will be taught according to ancient tradition. Chime will instruct in a foundation of mindfulness exercise called 'Setting Up'. Sessions are at 9:30am and 3:30pm on Saturday and 9:30am on Sunday. Day attendance is welcome. Personal instruction is available too. To enrol, please contact: origins@iinet.net.au
17th: Kindy
20th & 21st: Nourish weekend
27th & 28th: Nature and Mindfulness
December
1st: Kindy 1st - 5th: Family Retreat 6th: Peace Pagoda day 15th: Kindy 16th: close for 2021
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
In 2021, we will continue with our over-arching themes of how to work with the mind of imagination and symbol in meditation and in life and the path of altruism. Thus, the Saturday afternoon talks with meditation teacher, Chimé Shore will be oriented around a series of Buddhist teachings called the Paramitas. A central proposition of the teaching is it that it matters what we do, how we do it and our intentionality as we do it. Saturday 2nd October: 3.30 - 4.30pm - talk on Prajna (wisdom) Sunday 3rd October: 10am - Wongkur of White Manjusri Saturday 6th November: tba
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.