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The Ojai Foundation is pleased to present our

Summer Work Retreat

A Two Week Immersion in Mindful Service and Ceremonial Practices

Step out of time for a moment to deepen your connection to yourself, community and our planet

 

August 15th through August 29th, 2008

 

Cob Oven Building, Council Teachings,

Natural Building Workshops

 

Personal Vision Quest

and Sweat Lodge Ceremony

                                                                                                      

Facilitators:

Rachel Dawson and Doug Adrianson

with Paul Perrota

 

$250 for two weeks

with team oriented land-based service projects

 

This two-week program offers the opportunity to be of service to our 40 acres of beautiful semi-wilderness land and live close to nature as you deepen your relationship with yourself while exploring the ceremonial practices and philosophies on which The Ojai Foundation bases its work.

 

Includes: Hands-on Projects such as yurt maintenance and kiva repair, Land Walk and Orientation to The Ojai Foundation, The Way of Council, Medicine Wheel Teachings, Mindfulness Practices, Daily Meditation, Co-Created Community Meals, Arts Evening, and Rustic Shared Accommodations

 

Rachel Dawson is The Ojai Foundation's Land Steward and Path of Service Coordinator.  For the past eight years, she worked with TreePeople in Los Angeles where she supported community-based tree planting projects. She is a graduate of Larry Santoyo's L.A. Permaculture Design Course and Ariel Spilsbury's 13 Moon Priestess Ordination.  She continues to deepen her relationship with spirit through her advanced work in the Third Road faerie tradition.

 

Doug Adrianson believes council, ceremony and nature can enrich anyone's life, and the sooner the better. A lifelong writer and editor who loves the power and mystery of language, for 10 years he has spiraled deeper and deeper into the work of The Ojai Foundation. He is an experienced council trainer and co-chair of The Ojai Foundation's Board of Directors. He facilitates rite-of-passage retreats for teenagers and adults, both in Ojai and elsewhere, and has been a weekly council-circle leader at five schools.

 

First trained in the Yaqui way, Paul Perrota has been guiding Sweat Lodge ceremonies for over 15 years to help others develop and nurture an intimate relationship with nature and with self.

 

Apply on-line at www.ojaifoundation.org

or contact Rachel at pathofservice@ojaifoundation.org or call (805) 646-8343 x134

 

T  H  E         O  J  A  I       F  O  U  N  D  A  T  I  O  N

9739 Ojai- Santa Paula Road, Ojai, CA 93023

(805) 646-8343   fax (805) 646-2456   www.ojaifoundation.org

 
 
 


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"If there is any positive side to stark changes coming our way, it may be in the benefits of close communal relations, of having to really work intimately (and physically) with our neighbors, to be part of an enterprise that really matters and to be fully engaged in meaningful social enactments instead of being merely entertained to avoid boredom.

Years from now, when we hear singing at all, we will hear ourselves, and we will sing with our whole hearts."

"The Long Emergency", 2005, by James Howard Kunstler, Grove/Atlantic, Inc., publisher.



--
"If there is any positive side to stark changes coming our way, it may be in the benefits of close communal relations, of having to really work intimately (and physically) with our neighbors, to be part of an enterprise that really matters and to be fully engaged in meaningful social enactments instead of being merely entertained to avoid boredom.

Years from now, when we hear singing at all, we will hear ourselves, and we will sing with our whole hearts."

"The Long Emergency", 2005, by James Howard Kunstler, Grove/Atlantic, Inc., publisher.