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Ken Mellor
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OCTOBER
2013 PROGRAM
Ken Mellor
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Bio

ABOUT KEN MELLOR

 

Oct 1

THE POWER OF LIFE: Producing Deep Fulfilment & Healing
- Manchester

 

Oct 2

HEART-FELT LIVING ,
- Didsbury, Manchester

 

Oct 2

MEDITATION EVENING
- Didsbury, Manchester

 

Oct 5 to 11

INTO SILENCE AND TRANSPARENCY
- Trigonos, Wales

 

Oct 15 & 16

EXPANDING IN SPIRIT DAY BY DAY
- Bristol

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ABOUT KEN MELLOR

Ken Mellor has years of international experience running communities and leading workshops that combine meditative practices with personal growth strategies. He is an inspiring spiritual master and mentor. Always down to earth, he is fun, practical and engaging. People usually feel comfortable and safe when with him and open up to the transcendent, to exploring their lives in depth, to making decisions that can transform how they live.

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.

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THE POWER OF LIFE: Producing Deep Fulfilment and healing
- Manchester

 

1st October 2013
(9.30am - 5.00pm)

 

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:

+ Approaches that help to open us to Life.
+ How to build the intensity/charge of Life-energy in our systems.
+ Ways of to open ourselves spiritually to the forces that heal.
+ Approaches that harness and transform the energy/symptoms of ill health into aliveness and health.
+ Releasing past trauma by reliving it.
+ Strategies for dealing with others who stongly disagree with our interests and practices.


Venue: The Didsbury Parsonage, Stenner Lane, Manchester M20 2RQ (Click Here for Directions)
Times: 9.30 am to 5.00 pm
Bring: It's a wooden floor, so bring yoga mats, cushions, blankets etc. to sit on. Chairs will be provided.
Contact Person: John Hofton
Telephone: +44 161 248 7728 or +44 7810515309
Email: jhofton655@btinternet.com
Fees: £85.00

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Heart-Felt Living
- Manchester

1st October 2013
(9.30am - 5.00pm)

 

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
Times: 9.30am to 5.00 pm
Contact Person: Jim Hirsch / Marina Bauguil
Telephone: 07833 924702 / 07976 372698
Email: jim_hirsch@hotmail.com / marinab36@o2.co.uk
Fee: £85.00.

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MEDITATION EVENING
- Didsbury, Manchester

 

3rd October 2012
(7.30pm - 9.30pm)

 

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.)

There will be a chance to ask questions and to experience an initiation into the Vedic Mantra.  This is a potentially life changing opportunity to start on a path to a full understanding of our Selves and our world.

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
Times: 7.30pm to 9.00 pm
Contact Person: Jim Hirsch / Marina Bauguil
Telephone: 07833 924702 / 07976 372698
Email: jim_hirsch@hotmail.com / marinab36@o2.co.uk
Fee: The evening is free. Donations to cover costs are welcome.

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INTO SILENCE, STILLNESS AND TRANSPARENCY
Trigonos - Caernafon, Wales

6th to 12th October 2012
(9.00am - 9.00pm most days - see below)

 

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.


Venue: The Trigonos Centre, Plas Baladeulyn, Nantlle, Caernafon, Wales  LL54 6BW, U.K.
Times: 10.00 am (Saturday) 9.30am to 9.00pm (Sun. to Thurs.) 9.30am to 4.00pm (Friday)
Contact Person: Jim Hirsch
Telephone: +44 (0)7833924702
Email: jim_hirsch@hotmail.com
Fees: £560.00 (Non-members); £504.00 (Paid Up Members)

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EXPANDING IN SPIRIT DAY BY DAY
- Bristol

15th & 16th October 2013
(9.30 am - 5.00pm)

 

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:

+ It is fully available to everyone as it is; there is nothing new to learn.
+ Doing something active to reveal it to ourselves usually block its revelation.
+ It is beyond space-time reality (some call it “the Beyond”).
+ It is often easiest to point to what it is not than to say what it is.
+ Everywhere and every-when, it is also nowhere and no-when.
+ Our contractedness and density diminish our awareness of it in its subtlety.
+ The meaning of life, profound peace, understanding, and aliveness, evolve as our ongoing direct experiences of it become more prolonged.
+ The hunger and thirst to know it fully is inexorable and in us all.
+ Knowing it is possible for everyone.

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.
Times: 9.30 am to 5.00 pm
Contact People:
Jane Kibblewhite & Marianne Wilson:
Telephone: Jane 01225 858119; Marianne 07796690326
Email: Jane janekibblewhite282@hotmail.com; Marianne mw@protocolpr.co.uk
Fee: £85.00 one day, £150.00 two days

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REGULAR MEDITATION EVENINGS

The Awakening Network Meditation Evenings

Starting 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/.

Full instruction will be given each time so beginners are always welcome. 

The classes are free and donations for Healthy Spirit to cover costs will be welcome.

Contacts details for further information:

Marina Bauguil                                   Jim Hirsch
Tel:                 07976 372698                                     07833 924702
Email:             marinab36@o2.co.uk                         jim_hirsch@hotmail.com

Healthy Spirit,
37 Barlow Moor Road
Didsbury
Manchester M20 6TW.

The meditations include:

  • Mantra meditation and other internal spiritual practices
  • Meditations for more relaxed living by expanding our consciousness of the world around us, our daily lives and our health and wellbeing.
    • Releasing our full creative potential, achieving our goals and solving problems
    • Creating a more peaceful and harmonious environment in three ways:
      • in our thoughts, feelings and other internal processes
      • between us and others around us
      • in the wider world generally.
    • Living more fully centred in our own natural processes

 

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.

ENQUIRIES:

Marina Baugui
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Tel:   07976 372698                             
Email: marinab36@o2.co.uk                   

Jim Hirsch
Tel:   07833 924702
Email:   jim_hirsch@hotmail.com