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Ken Mellor
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OCTOBER
2013 PROGRAM
Ken Mellor
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Oct 1 |
THE POWER OF LIFE: Producing Deep Fulfilment & Healing |
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Oct 5 to 11 |
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Oct 15 & 16 |
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ABOUT KEN MELLOR
He is a Master of Meditation, a Reiki Master, and a spiritual mentor. He has extensive experience in working with people from many different backgrounds. Ken is also a psychotherapist and trainer of psychotherapists. He is a prize winning author, most recently with his books Urban Mystic and Inspiration, Meditation and Personal Wellbeing (clicK here for information). Together with Elizabeth, his wife, they were recently recognised for their many accomplishments by being accepted for membership of ATMA (The Australian Teachers of Meditation Association) in the personal development, medical and spiritual areas of living and teaching; and were also granted the Siddhartha Award from the Shiva Ashram in Victoria (Australia) for their many years as international teachers of meditation. |
THE POWER OF LIFE: Producing Deep Fulfilment and healing |
1st October 2013
This workshop is about how the Power of Life, which when embraced, can realign, heal, fulfil and enliven us. It offers deep knowing, peace and completion to us all. The Life Force, the Tao, the Divine, Love and God are names we give to what underpins and gives existence to every aspect of our lives. Whatever this is animates, heals, embraces and fulfils us in ways beyond imagining. Importantly, it relies to a great extent on making ourselves available to it. Regrettably, there is a great distraction to this availability these days. We live in a time of both extraordinary physical abundance and the existence of amazing technologies for improving our health and wellbeing. The distraction arises through our having grown up with these options. For many of us have come to believe or hope that abundance and technologies are enough in themselves to provide health, wellbeing and spiritual fulfilment. Some of us have also come to believe that they are the only worthwhile options. Yet a few moments of reflection that take us beyond the surface layers of our habitual day-to-day preoccupations are enough for us easily to recognise that such beliefs or hopes are myths. Major and minor physical problems, emotional and psychological difficulties, and lives lived with a deep sense meaninglessness abound in our “abundant, technological” worlds. During the workshop, areas covered will include:
Venue: The Didsbury Parsonage, Stenner Lane, Manchester M20 2RQ (Click Here for Directions) |
Heart-Felt Living |
1st October 2013
The Ancients taught that the heart is the seat of the soul, and this workshop will give you the opportunity to investigate this teaching for yourself. Life is love and love enters our lives through our hearts, saturating us with immense richness as it does. Our physical hearts pump blood with all its life-supporting elements and nutrients throughout our bodies. Without this we would die. What is not as well known is that the energy present in and around the heart is a ‘heart’ too. And this heart pumps the life energy (heart energy) of our feelings throughout our systems in ways that impact us physically, emotionally, cognitively and spiritually. Heart energy gives us the passion and compassion that opens us to vast reaches in ourselves. Its flow also opens our availability to others and turns our lives’ journeys into shared experiences. Heart centred meditations help us to experience and expand the wonderful benefits of our feelings –particularly love. Love is a natural corrective to the strong cerebral emphasis in the lives of many people. It is also a unifying, healing and fulfilling energy. And as our hearts open up, we find everything else open up, too. Love is life and as love enters our lives they become warm and rewarding. More than all of this, an expanded heart opens us to Oneness ‘beyond’ all our everyday understanding. This workshop takes you through a series of meditations that open the heart in ways designed to encourage heart-centred living in all who attend.
Venue:Healthy Spirit, 37, Barlow Moor Road, Didsbury, Manchester M20 6TW |
MEDITATION EVENING |
3rd October 2012
This is an opportunity for anyone who would like to enjoy an introduction to meditation with Ken and Elizabeth Mellor. Anyone simply wishing to spend meditative time with them is also welcome. (You can also take the opportunity of spending the day with Ken by attending the workshop that starts at 9.30am. See the details above.) Ken and Elizabeth Mellor have taught meditation and acted as spiritual mentors for many years. They are members of ATMA (Australian Teachers of Meditation Association) and are certified by the associatiion to teach in the therapeutic, personal development, spiritual areas.
Venue:Healthy Spirit, 37, Barlow Moor Road, Didsbury, Manchester M20 6TW |
INTO SILENCE, STILLNESS AND TRANSPARENCY |
6th to 12th October 2012
In the presence of Life Itself we experience utter silence and transparency. There we can discover our Selves as we never have before. The hunger or thirst to do this is powerful in everyone. Somewhere within, we all know that our completion lies here. We know that we need to 'go in' as 'deeply' as possible, that this is how we need to connect with the Source of Life. And we can succeed with this simply by paying alert attention as we remain silent and undistracted by others around us, while living through what arises in our silence and aloneness. Eventually we can discover that there is actually nothing to do, that all we need is 'to be'. We 'go in' by witnessing, by experiencing and by living all the layers in us that are part of our world-bound lives. These layers have developed in us all throughout the years we have lived. Complete physical silence and stillness gives us enough time to explore what is involved. Having sufficient time to do make the discovery is an essential ingredient. This practice promotes the direct experience of our beings beyond our day-to-day experiences. The workshop gives us extended opportunities to enter silence and reap the rewards. Click Here to download the outline of the processes of the workshop. Read this in advance to make sure you agree with them.
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EXPANDING IN SPIRIT DAY BY DAY |
15th & 16th October 2013
There is a “presence” imminent in all aspects of our lives, the world and the Universe in which we live. Impossible to define in words, it is, nevertheless, possible to know it. And with an expanding knowing, many wonderful changes reveal themselves in us as we go about our everyday lives. Anyone can know these changes. This workshop will take participants through several meditations and other practices that bring this imminent (all pervasive and available) “presence” into ongoing awareness. Common “phases/stages” that may occur in our awakening as it expands will also be discussed. The Tao, God, the Infinite, and the Divine are amongst the names given to this “presence”. In fact, many people throughout history have mentioned it and have shared a great dilemma when doing so: How can we discuss whatever this is when there are no words for communicating what it is? What many have done, though, is to reveal several of its dimensions, including:
The practices that Ken and Elizabeth have taught for years lead to the refining of our bodies, feelings, thinking and spirituality so we open up to “presence”. It is already there and our increasing refinement enables us to know it directly. The value of these meditations is that they are easily made part of our everyday lives, lives that we need to continue to live so our practices increasingly become a way of life. Their teachings are clearly effectiveness, too: clear in the number of people who now have ongoing awakened awareness of this “presence”. Come and share these wonderful processes for one or two days.
Venue: Emmaus House, Clifton Hill, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1BN, U.K. |
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The Awakening Network Meditation EveningsStarting Wednesday 12th September 2012, there will be weekly meditation from 7.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. at Healthy Spirit (See Below). The meditations are based on a combination of Eastern and Western practices and the classes will cover different aspects of meditation. For more information about the meditations, go to: http://www.awakeningnetwork.net/. The classes are free and donations for Healthy Spirit to cover costs will be welcome. Contacts details for further information: Marina Bauguil Jim Hirsch
The meditations include:
Full instruction will be given each time, so beginners will always be welcome and there will also be benefit for experienced meditators in regular attendance. For more information about The Awakening Network and its programs, go to http://www.awakeningnetwork.net/ . The classes are free and donations for Healthy Spirit will be welcome.
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