Yumtha Center for Conscious Living and Dying Training and Events


				Yumtha's "End of Life Care" Training Nov 1-2/08 "The Stillness Within" Women’s Meditation Evenings Wednesday Evenings 7:00 pm to 8:30 p.m. Women's Zen MEDITATION Retreat: Aug 9 Embrace the Music House Concerts Grief Support Group Yumtha:Women's Envisioning Counsel: Mayumi Oda with leading women teachers, authors and activists Classes fill quickly - register today!
	~You are invited~ Please come and join us and listen to the voices of wisdom at Yumtha See : Women's August Retreat Coming Sat and Sun. Nov. 1-2 / 08: Yumtha: End of Life CareTraining, for Compassionate Care Nov.1-2-08 Women's Relaxed Zen Retreat Women's Relaxed Zen Retreat Saturday, August 9th, 10:00am - 4:30pm with Chris Fortin, Meg Alexander & Lane Olson A day-long retreat that provides time and space for women to come together in mutual support -- to embody and share the deep heart of meditation practice. Long time dharma sisters Chris, Meg and Lane on a quarterly basis offer our women’s retreats. The schedule is relaxed with sitting and walking meditation, outside walking meditation, a practice talk and time to speak of our lives and practice. The cost of the retreat is $10 to support Yumtha House, plus the traditional practice of a dana donation for the teachers. Please bring your own meditation cushions; chairs are available at Yumtha. Please also bring a bag lunch (there is a grocery store in Graton just down the road). To register, you must send a deposit. Make out a check for $10 to Lane Olson and send to her at 335 Alden Ave, Rohnert Park, CA 94928. For further information, contact Lane Olson at lane.olson@sonoma.edu or 707-793-7978. We look forward to cultivating what is true through this deep and wonderful practice. ---------------------------------------------------- Yumtha:Providing End-of-Life Care: 2-Day Workshop Nov 1-2 in 2008 Sat-Sun November 1-2, 9am-6pm Yumtha to collabirate with Zen Hospice Yumtha Center : Metta Care Center 4115 Ross Rd, Sebastopol, CA 95472 707-829-6893 Dr Anna Bonas DC LAC OMD for Class Reg. www.yumtha.org yumtha@msn.com We are all touched by patients, family and friends who are growing older. It is time to prepare and become familiar with end of life care, so that we can respond with greater ease and confidence. Participants are introduced to multiple aspects of providing practical, emotional and spiritual support to men and women with cancer, AIDS, or other terminal illnesses. No prior experience, nor employment in health care, is necessary. Through reflection and the application of simple Buddhist teachings, participants learn methods on how to be present and open to what is happening in the moment. They also explore their own relationship to death and dying. We welcome participants from all disciplines, cultures, and spiritual traditions who bring curiosity to our contemplative care methods. This workshop provides an opportunity to learn how providing care reconnects us to our innate wisdom and compassion. Tuition: $270.00; CEUs: $30 additional* * This workshop meets the qualifications for 16 hours of continuing education for the CA Board of Registered Nursing (provider #8793) and the CA Board of Behavioral Sciences (provider #4241). DC and LAC, ceu's pending Lead Trainer Jennifer Block has served as Director of Public Education for the Zen Hospice Project since 2004. Zen Hospice was founded on the principal that dying is much more than a medical event. It is a time for important psychological, emotional and spiritual work, and a time for transition. The "Zen" part of our name reflects our approach of bringing mindfulness and compassion to our programs. DC and LAC, trainers to be assigned, to address the health and issues facing alternative care for the elderly, ill and dying, and the needs of their patients. Jane Ellen Heath MD, C.Hom. Auricular Acupuncture "The Stillness Within" Women’s Meditation Evenings Summer Break Begins again in Fall Wednesday Evenings 7:00 pm to 8:30 p.m. - a non-sectarian evening of meditation with women Location: Embrace Health Care and Yumtha Center 4115 Ross Rd, Sebastopol, CA 95472 707-829-6893 You are invited to join our Wednesday evenings meditation, please arrive at 7 p.m. Myosho Ginny Matthews is a Rinzai lay ordained nun in the Zen lineage of Joshu Sasaki, Roshi her teacher since 1973. Myosho is also a professional dancer/teacher and committed to family/community life. For the past few years, she has lead Zen retreats for women and mothers/children retreats. She offers Zen meditation at her studio, in the downtown Sebastopol Dance/Art Space. Fee: Donation: Dana ~ your generosity~ **************************************************************************** ~We have some weekend and weekday spaces available for classroom rental for classes and retreats. Please contact us for availability~ ************************************************************************** Music ~ Classes and Events in our past Women's Relaxed Zen Retreat** Saturday, January 12, 10:00a-4:30p with Chris Fortin, Meg Alexander & Lane Olson Location: Yumtha Center, 4115 Ross Road, Sebastopol, CA 95472 A day-long retreat that provides a time and space for women to come together in mutual support to embody and share the deep heart of practice. These retreats for women are offered by long time dharma sisters Chris, Meg and Lane on a quarterly basis. The schedule is relaxed with sitting and walking meditation, outside walking meditation as weather permits, a practice talk and time to speak of our lives and practice. The cost of the retreat is $10 (which will be a donation to Yumtha) plus the traditional practice of a dana offering for the teacher (in this case, Chris). Please bring your own meditation cushions, chairs are available at Yumtha.* Please also bring a bag lunch (there is a grocery store in Graton just down the road). To register, write a check for $10 to Lane Olson and mail it to her at 335 Alden Ave, Rohnert Park, CA 94928. For further information, contact Chris at chrisfortin@comcast.net or 707-527-8106, or lane.olson@sonoma.edu, or 707-793-7978. Meg will be away in January but will rejoin us for the spring retreat in April. We look forward to beginning the New Year together, and to cultivating what is true through this deep and wonderful practice. ----------------------------------------------------------------- One day retreat with Yvonne Rand December 1, 2007 ~RESCHEDULED ~ 4115 Ross Rd, Sebastopol, California 95472 In this one day retreat Yvonne will invite participants to consider aspects of the feminine dimension in traditional Buddhist practices for training the mind. Feminine and masculine aspects of human sensibility arise in men and women alike regardless of biological gender. A threshold question, therefore, concerns the difference between qualities and capacities, which seem archetypally feminine or masculine. Contemplation of Buddhist sacred art offers a useful entry point for answering the question. Wisdom, for example, is embodied in the female figure Prajnaparamita. Sarasvati with her lute stands for the creative arts. Green Tara, stepping out into the world, represents engaged compassion. Avalokiteshvara in male form and White Tara in female form each represent absolute compassion. Protection in transitions such as childbirth and death is the domain of Jizo Bodhisattva, a monk. Buddha as healer has male form. Some of these associations may seem counter-intuitive on first impression. Yet meditation upon the images can lead to appreciation of their aptness. How do we categorize dimensions of human experience such as relationality, receptivity, creativity, language, invention, leadership, spirituality, family, community, and the like? Is the connection between what is feminine and what is masculine best illustrated as a spectrum along a straight line? As a circle? As a tapestry? Are concerns with gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and obscurity, and praise and blame feminine or masculine? And what of generosity, morality, patience, enthusiastic perseverance and concentration? The distinction between feminine and masculine is itself an aspect of one of the Two Truths. What happens to the distinction in the other Truth? Does it persist? Does it disappear? In the phrase "this and that", which word(s) are feminine in aspect? Which are masculine? Full One-Day Retreat: $70 includes all class and teaching fees Send check to: Yumtha Box 76 Graton, CA 95444 to register and pay prior to class. Please include Name, Address, Phone, and E-Mail ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are invited to a Winter Concert Embrace the Music of Wendy DeMos Sunday: December 2, 07 7 PM Sunday night Yumtha/Embrace Health Care ~ House Concert 4115 Ross Rd, Sebastopol, CA 95472 We are excited to have A Holiday House Concert of Sacred Music with a lovely Canadian singer/song writer. Join us Share Wendy’s beautiful vibrations warming our hearts in a winters evening with friends. Wendy DeMos “Her music is deep, tender and full of love” ~Kate Munger, Founder, Threshold Choir~ Listen her Music at her website www.wendydemos.com or www.myspace.com/wendydemos Advanced Reservations: $20… Bring your friends… $25 at door “Embrace the Music” Online Reservations yumtha@msn.com Mail advanced check to: Embrace/Music Box 76 Graton, CA 95444 ________________________________________________________ Grief Support Workshop Sunday December 9 2-4 pm Yumtha Center/ Embrace Health Care 4115 Ross Rd Sebastopol,Ca 95472 Reverend Shelley Ruden Sebastopol, Ca For information and registration (707) 794-8272 Theunderstanding_heart@yahoo.com The Holidays are upon us. It is a time filled with loved ones and celebrations. For those of us who have experienced loss it can also be a time of sadness and disorientation. It might be the very first holiday season without that special someone. How do we cope? How do we help another to cope? Come and spent a few hours learning about grief and how it can manifest. Grief has its cycle and we can learn how it works. Understanding that it is normal helps. The goal is to bring comfort and support to your self or someone you love. Together we will explore and share. A simple two hours could give you one of the best gifts you will receive this holiday season. Reverend Shelley Ruden has been an ordained minister for over 25 years. She has worked with many people in periods of transition. Recently she has been working with Hospice in the Foothills of the Sierras. Workshop fee - $25.00 Minimum 6 people , limited to 12 Register by December 2 One on one grief support also available with Shelly Ruden For information and registration (707) 794-8272 Theunderstanding_heart@yahoo.com _________________________________ September Classes: 4 Evening Classes with Yvonne Rand September 14, 21, & 28, & October, 5 2007 Friday evenings 6:30- 8:30 PM Jizo Ceremony for Children Who Have Died, Saturday, September 15, 2007 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Meditations on Dying and Death A series of four evening classes with YVONNE RAND Yumtha Center for Conscious Living and Dying 4115 Ross Road, Sebastopol Friday, September 14, 21, 28, & Oct 5, 2007 6:30 to 8:30 P.M. If we are born, inevitably we shall die. Practicing traditional Buddhist meditations on the certainty of dying can work significant and, paradoxically, life-enhancing changes in the reactivities (such as fearfulness, flight into distraction or fantasy, compulsive hedonism, desire for material things) which facing the fact of dying may ignite. During this class Yvonne will guide participants through a series of classical meditations on impermanence which offer potent correctives to our culture's dysfunctional attitudes about dying. Yvonne Rand is a meditation teacher and lay householder priest in the Soto Zen Buddhist tradition. She began her practice and study of Zen with Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in 1966. Her other principal teachers and mentors have been Dainin Katagiri Roshi, Maureen Stuart Roshi, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Venerable Tara Tulku, and Shodo Harada Roshi. Her primary practice path is Zen, augmented by practices and teachings from the traditions of Theravada and Vajrayana. Ms. Rand incorporates insights from western psychotherapeutic traditions in her teaching. She also investigates the relevance of the arts and gardening for training the mind. Ms. Rand is married and is a mother and a gardener. For e-mail registration & directions, contact Dr. Anna "Noe" Bonas DC LAC OMD: yumtha@msn.com For further information, call: 707-829-6893. 4 Friday evenings: Class fee range $ 68 to $100. for the Month. Payable to Yumtha, Box 76,Graton CA 95444 (No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please contact Dr. Bonas for information at yumtha@msn.com ) A Ceremony for Children Who Have Died We will gather together to acknowledge and mourn the death of children through abortion, miscarriage, stillbirth, and death after birth. We will make offerings and say good-bye in a ceremony of remembrance and letting go, with the intention of nurturing and tending both the beings who have died and beings who continue to live. Please bring a piece of red cloth, scissors, needle and thread. Both women and men are welcome. Saturday, September 15, 2007 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Yumtha Center for Conscious Living and Dying 4115 Ross Road Sebastopol, CA 95472 Contact: Dr. Anna “Noe” Bonas DC LAC OMD Tel: 707-829-6893 E-mail registration & directions: yumtha@msn.com *Yvonne Rand* is a Soto Zen Buddhist priest and meditation teacher. For the past 41 years she has attended people suffering from life-threatening illnesses, people in the late stages of dying, and people who have lost a family member or a friend. In recent years she has worked extensively with caregivers who encounter dying and death in connection with their work. There is no fee for the ceremony Donations are gratefully accepted. For a tax deductible donation, make checks payable to The Callipeplon Society, which support for Yvonne’s work ~ Separate Donations can be made to Yumtha ~ Thank you Jami Sieber CONCERT/SOLD OUT You Are Invited To a Yumtha Center Benefit House Concert with Jami Sieber, Electric & Acoustic Cellist, Vocalist and composer Saturday,7:30 pm May 5, 2007 Confirm Your Tickets today Join us for an evening of music with the “Rumi of sound”, and penetrating music created by the amazing and truly gifted performer Jami Sieber. The benefit is for Yumtha: Buddhist Residential Care & Hospice, which is being developed in Sebastopol, CA. Yumtha is a Center for Compassionate Care and Trainings, for residents and the public. It is a center for living and education that supports “end of life spiritual practices” from different multi-cultural traditions. These practices nurture us to live fully, while supporting us in a time of need, personally, with friends and with our family. Reserve your seat House Concert Space is limited Seats are Confirmed by mailing a check to: YUMTHA/Concert Box 76 Graton,CA 95444 Contact: Dr Anna “Noe” Bonas DC LAC OMD yumtha@msn.com Concert Fee: $25~ or your generous donation ~ Location/Directions in Sebastopol given with Reservation Confirmation