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 Mindfulness Sessions on fb streaming. Live practice stream including commentary. Venue: Coorain – Balingup, and Facebook Time: Tuesdays from 8am to 9am with Chime and Fridays from 7:30 to 8:30am with Anne.
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*
2023
November 1st: Kindy 11th & 12th: Mindfulness Weekend The goal is to build an independent practice that can be used in conjunction with many activities, inner or outer. The purpose of mindfulness is to support common good and healing. Sessions are Saturday 9:30 am and 3 pm and Sunday 9:30 am (three 90-minute sessions). To book accommodation, or for more information contact: melinda@originscentre.org 15th: Kindy 16th – 19th: Kambarang Flower - 3rd 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. Real in the Blood : Join us for discourse, bushwalk, meditation and ceremony at the final Nature's Song workshop for the year as we explore links between an archetype of embodied dynamic understanding called Vajrayogini in trans Indo-Himalayan Buddhist Vajrayana teaching and indigenous practices and understandings. The same force in nature causes sap to continue to rise and flowers to form in the Kambarang – the second spring. For more information, contact Jesse Pepper: jesse.pepper@gmail.com or 0424 675 865 25th & 26th: The Energy That Moves Mountains: a Weekend of Sacred Poetry with Jaya - sorry, cancelled
29th: Kindy
December
1st - 3rd: Family Retreat People are welcome to come and stay from Friday 1st December till Monday 4th December. We aim to enjoy each other's company and have some fun. Peace Pagoda Day is celebrated on Sunday the 3rd of December, with a joyful ceremony and shared lunch afterwards. Things begin at 10am at the rotunda, everyone is welcome! For accommodation booking, please contact: melinda@originscentre.org
3rd: Peace Pagoda Day
9th & 10th: Mindfulness Weekend The goal is to build an independent practice that can be used in conjunction with many activities, inner or outer. The purpose of mindfulness is to support common good and healing. Sessions are Saturday 9:30 am and 3 pm and Sunday 9:30 am (three 90-minute sessions). To book accommodation, or for more information contact: melinda@originscentre.org
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
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, 19 & 20 August and 18 & 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.