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Many of us feel the need to live a deeper spiritual understanding, yet have been unable to make such an understanding part of our daily lives, our way of walking in the world. Zen practice creates the container of awareness that allows for such change.
Hollow Bones is pure Zen understanding, practice and insight, stripped of its oriental cultural context, profoundly deep and, at the same time, most practical and ordinary. The Hollow Bones Retreat does, however, maintain the root and form if its heritage, Japanese Rinzai Zen. This is a direct and demanding style of practice. In this school of Zen, you are invited and challenged to awaken now, and there is a compassionate, but fierce insistence that you do so. Meditating, sitting quietly is not enough. You must awaken! You must become free! You must answer the question, "Who are you?" from the depth of realization (direct experience), not speculation or faith.
Non-sectarian and pragmatic, this retreat is an opportunity for beginner and experienced meditators alike to bring a new aliveness and edge to their practice. The workshop fee covers basic costs. Additionally, a voluntary, tax-deductible donation based on value received and ability to give may be made to the organization which sponsors this work
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Kathleen Kelly-Hoffman is the founder and Director of the Bay Area Yoga Center. She has been practicing the art of yoga for the past 18 years, and has been a teacher of Hatha yoga in the Vinyasa tradition since 1993. Kathleen is registered with the Yoga Alliance, a national non-profit organization designed to support quality yoga instruction for the public, at the 500 hour level. She received her first Yoga Teacher Certification from the White Lotus Center in Santa Barbara, California. Kathleen has studied with senior teachers from many different schools of yoga. As a result, her teaching style is a blend of fluid movement of postures known as vinyasa, with the attention given to alignment of the Iyengar school. Kathleen puts high emphasis on her status as a student of yoga and teacher apprentice to her teachers, Ranjani Cobo, Tracey Rich, Ganga White and Denis Junpo Kelly. She travels to workshops at least twice a year to seek out her current teachers and experience the wealth of knowledge from new ones. Kathleen also teaches yoga/meditation workshops nationally with her teacher Junpo Denis Kelly.
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