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Mandala Retreat participants
Lucille, Gail, Marjorie, Jill, Shannon (R to L) and Sharon (not pictured)


Mandala Retreat facilitator, Rev. Starr DiCiurcio

Program Listings for
September, October and November
 

 

 

    


 


  
                               
                  

                            
                                      

   See below each month for descriptions of the programs.

     

         September

      1 2 3 4
 
5 6 7

 
8 9 10 11 A Day of Healing

 
12 Sunday Gathering

Rowena Fay


Knitting Circle

Angela Thomas
 
13 14 Meditation,
Contemplation
and Centering Prayer

Rowena Fay

Kingfisher Sangha North

 
15 Eckhart Tolle
Study Group

Steve Costion
 
16 Soul Collage

Lin Murphy
17 18 Private Rental
19 Sunday Gathering

Rowena Fay

A Tea to Honor Wise Woman
Phyllis Huber

 
20 21 Meditation,
Contemplation
and Centering Prayer

Rowena Fay

Kingfisher Sangha North
 
22 23 Fall Equinox

Lin Murphy
24 25 Private Rental
26 Sunday Gathering

Rowena Fay
27 28 Meditation,
Contemplation
and Centering Prayer

Rowena Fay

Kingfisher Sangha North

 
29 30    

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SUNDAY GATHERINGS          with
Rowena Fay

 All Sundays except September 5, 10:30—11:30 AM

Experience the Great Mystery, that deep, abiding wisdom which continually is at work in each of us. Some drumming,
guided imagery, silence and writing are used to help us access the answers which lie within each one of us. Shared reflections and breaking of bread. Inclusive language and images.

Register: Call 518-587-4967

Cost: Donation to Still Point
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MEDITATION, CONTEMPLATION and CENTERING PRAYER: Touching the Mystery Within: with Rowena
Fay

Tuesdays 1—3 PM.

This 2 hour gathering is designed to facilitate the participant’s experience of the Sacred through drumming, toning, guided and silent meditation as well as experiencing the natural beauty of Still Point. If you are looking for support in your  spiritual practice, this gathering might be for you.

Register: Call 518-587-4967

Cost: Donation.
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KINGFISHER SANGHA NORTH

Tuesdays, 7-8 PM


We are a Buddhist community practicing in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh. Our practice of Engaged Buddhism includes sitting and walking meditation, a short teaching, and discussion. 
www.kingfishersangha.com.

Call Amy Bonser Feldman at 893-6167
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ECKHART TOLLE STUDY GROUP          with Steve Costion
 
 Monthly, 3rd Wednesday: 7:30—9:30 PM
 
 
We will have 1/2 hour discussion, guided meditation, listen to a CD or watch a DVD featuring Eckhart and then do a
 silent meditation.
 
Register:  email Steve at scostion@gmail.com  Cost: Donation.

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A DAY FOR HEALING

Saturday, September 11, 10 AM-1 PM


This gathering is for anyone interested in exploring the world of healing (becoming whole). Meditation, drumming, toning and sharing our experiences and insights are key elements of this experience. Individual sessions of various healing modalities are available as well. All are welcome.

Register: 518-587-4967 or email stillpt423@aol.com  Cost: $25 for individual sessions.
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A KNITTING CIRCLE with Angela Thomas

CALLING ALL KNITTERS AND CROCHETERS!   Please join us as we gather to create ‘Still Point Shawls’!


Begins Sunday, September 12, 2:30-4 PM

For centuries shawls have symbolized shelter, peace and spiritual sustenance. Since the inception of the Prayer Shawl Ministry in 1998 by Janet Bristow and Victoria Gallo, thousands of people around the globe have received these healing shawls. Please join us as we continue this tradition. We will gather once a month to create shawls for healing, comfort, transition and celebration.

Materials
:
·        
3 Skeins Lion Brand Homespun or any yarn of your choice that equals six ounces and 185 yards each.
·        
Size 11 or 13 knitting needles.
·        
Knitting into the Mystery; A Guide to the Shawl –Knitting Ministry by Susan S. Jorgensen and Susan S. Izard (optional)

Angela Thomas
is a lifelong avid knitter who began to knit prayer shawls after attending a "Knitting into the Mystery" workshop with Susan Jorgensen.  Angela is a  Holistic Nurse who loves the Healing Arts of knitting, poetry, writing and photography.

Contact: Angela Thomas atvtrn444@yahoo.com.

Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either." Elizabeth Zimmerman
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FROM ANGELS TO ARCHETYPES
SOUL COLLAGE;   focus on the Council Suit and Source Card With Lin Murphy

September 16,  7-9pm

Explore your spirit guides, council advisors in the unseen world.

examples of council: The Goddess, Water Bearer, Great Spirit

I will have images, but you can also bring your own if you have spiritual images that you want to create a card with. (make photocopies)

Cost: $25

You must pre-register by calling Lin at 269-3333 or e-mail: murphylin@aol.com
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A TEA TO HONOR WISE WOMAN PHYLLIS HUBER

Sunday, September 19, 1- 4 PM

We gather to honor a woman who embodies WISDOM. Our special guest is Phyllis Huber.  Phyllis will tell her story and the insights she has gleaned during her life as we gather to ‘own’ the “Wise-Woman Archetype” which too often lies dormant in many women today. BOTH MEN AND WOMEN ARE WELCOME!

Tea and light snacks provided. 
Register email stillpt423@aol.com or call 518-587-4967.

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 CELEBRATE THE FALL EQUINOX with Lin Murphy

Thursday, September 23, 2010  (actual date of equinox)

fire ceremony 6:00- 7PM

Honor the earth and the cycles of the seasons. I am told we are to focus on the "progression of the equinoxes". Fire Ceremony to honor the balance of light and dark, and the masculine and feminine energies within us.
outdoors.
Open to ALL; families and children welcome (its great for kids to learn to take time out to honor the rhythms of nature.

www.stillpointretreatcenter.com for directions

Cost: donation
potluck supper to follow (bring a dish to share)

RSVP:  Lin @ 269-3333
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October

 
          1 2 Evolving Ourselves; Evolving Our Planet

Lin Murphy and Dr. Michael Wayne
 
3 Mindfulness Day

Mary Scott
4 5 Meditation,
Contemplation
and Centering Prayer

Rowena Fay

Kingfisher Sangha North

 
6 7 8 9 A Day of Healing

 
10 Sunday Gathering

Rowena Fay


Knitting Circle

Angela Thomas

 
11 12 Meditation,
Contemplation
and Centering Prayer

Rowena Fay

Kingfisher Sangha North

 
13 14 15 Realigning Ourselves Workshop

Jen Getchell

 
16 A Retreat Day for Women

Rev. Starr DiCiurcio

 
17 Sunday Gathering

Rowena Fay

A Tea to Honor Wise Woman Mary Anne Brown
18 19 Meditation,
Contemplation
and Centering Prayer

Rowena Fay

Kingfisher Sangha North

 
20 Eckhart Tolle
Study Group

Steve Costion
21 22 23  Behind the Mask: Rediscovering the Woman Within

Judith Prest
24 Sunday Gathering

Rowena Fay

 
25 26 Meditation,
Contemplation
and Centering Prayer

Rowena Fay

Kingfisher Sangha North

 
27 28 29 30 Reiki II Class

Rowena Fay
31 Sunday Gathering

Rowena Fay

 
       

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EVOLVING OURSELVES, EVOLVING OUR PLANET   with Lin Murphy, MA and Dr. Michael Wayne, PhD, LaC

October 2, 10 AM– 4 PM

Are you noticing an intensity in the air?  Feeling an inner urgency? Thinking you want to “do something” but don’t know what it is?
We are experiencing profound personal and planetary shifts. During this Salon we will immerse ourselves in
soul collage making to explore the theme, Evolving Ourselves, Evolving Our Planet.

We are living in extraordinary times…we have an opportunity to create our personal and collective future.

In the morning, we will focus on personal evolution:

- reconnecting with our passion
- expressing our unique gifts
- sharing our gifts

In the afternoon, we will focus on planetary evolution:

- visioning our ideal world
- developing a shared vision
- co-creating a world that works for all

Benefits:  Come away with a renewed sense of hope about 2012 and beyond.
Through a creative process, you will be more aware of your unique gifts and souls purpose; we will create a community to
support each other in the times to come.


Cost: $65 by Sept. 30; $75 at the door;
bring a lunch

ADVANCE REGISTRATION by Sept. 30, 2010

Call or e-mail  Lin Murphy  269-3333; 
murphlin@aol.com
mail check for $65 to:  Lin Murphy, 58 Henry St., Saratoga, NY, 12866

 

Lin Murphy, MA is a Life Coach with One Roof Holistic Health Center. She is passionate about how we each can most
authentically express ourselves and manifest our gifts.

Dr. Michael Wayne, PhD, LaC, Director of the Center for Quantum Transformation is an acupuncturist, teacher and author of the groundbreaking book "Quantum Integral Medicine, Towards a New Science of Healing Human Potential". He has a private practice as an acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist.

http://linmurphy.coachesconsole.com;

Reconnect with yourself, Reclaim your energy and Rediscover your passion for living.
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SUNDAY GATHERINGS          with Rowena Fay

All Sundays except October 3, 10:30—11:30 AM

Experience the Great Mystery, that deep, abiding wisdom which continually is at work in each of us. Some drumming, guided imagery, silence and writing are used to help us access the answers which lie within each one of us. Shared reflections and breaking of bread. Inclusive language and images.


Register: Call 518-587-4967

Cost: Donation to Still Point
_________________________________________________________________________________________________

MEDITATION, CONTEMPLATION and CENTERING PRAYER: Touching the Mystery Within: with Rowena Fay

Tuesdays 1—3 PM.

This 2 hour gathering is designed to facilitate the participant’s experience of the Sacred through drumming, toning, guided and silent
meditation as well as experiencing the natural beauty of Still Point. If you are looking for support in your  spiritual practice, this
gathering might be for you.


Register: Call 518-587-4967

Cost: Donation.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________

KINGFISHER SANGHA NORTH

Tuesdays, 7-8 PM

We are a Buddhist community practicing in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh. Our practice of Engaged Buddhism includes sitting and walking meditation, a short teaching, and discussion.  All are welcome! www.kingfishersangha.com.

Call Amy Bonser Feldman at 893-6167

________________________________________________________________________________________________

ECKHART TOLLE STUDY GROUP          with Steve Costion

Monthly, 3rd Wednesday: 7:30—9:30 PM

We will have 1/2 hour discussion, guided meditation, listen to a CD or watch a DVD featuring Eckhart and then do a
silent meditation.

Register, email Steve at scostion@gmail.com Cost: Donation
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A DAY FOR HEALING

Saturday, October 9, 10 AM-1 PM


This gathering is for anyone interested in exploring the world of healing (becoming whole). Meditation, drumming, toning and sharing our experiences and insights are key elements of this experience. Individual sessions of various healing modalities are available as well. All are welcome.

Register: 518-587-4967 or email stillpt423@aol.com                    Cost: $25 for individual sessions.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________

A KNITTING CIRCLE with Angela Thomas

CALLING ALL KNITTERS AND CROCHETERS!   Please join us as we gather to create ‘Still Point Shawls’!

2nd Sunday of each month: October 10, 2:30-4 PM

For centuries shawls have symbolized shelter, peace and spiritual sustenance. Since the inception of the Prayer Shawl Ministry in 1998 by Janet Bristow and Victoria Gallo, thousands of people around the globe have received these healing shawls. Please join us as we continue this tradition. We will gather once a month to create shawls for healing, comfort, transition and celebration.

Materials:

·         3 Skeins Lion Brand Homespun or any yarn of your choice that equals six ounces and 185 yards each.

·         Size 11 or 13 knitting needles.

·         Knitting into the Mystery; A Guide to the Shawl –Knitting Ministry by Susan S. Jorgensen and Susan S. Izard (optional)

 

Angela Thomas is a lifelong avid knitter who began to knit prayer shawls after attending a "Knitting into the Mystery" workshop with Susan Jorgensen.  Angela is a  Holistic Nurse who loves the Healing Arts of knitting, poetry, writing and photography.

Contact: Angela Thomas atvtrn444@yahoo.com.

Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either." Elizabeth Zimmerman
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REALIGNING OURSELVES WORKSHOP with Jen Getchell

Friday, October 15, 9 AM-4 PM

Take this opportunity to identify your own personal unhealthy patterns of thinking, feeling and acting.  Learn how to stop these patterns right in their tracks and create new healthy, authentic paths for living.  Learn how to let go of feelings of guilt, shame, distrust, judgment and loneliness.  Are you feeling like your life has stagnated?   Opportunities in all areas of life are not flowing your way?  Together we can dream big through an angelic guided meditation, vision quest exercise, spiritual toolkit development discussions and much more.  Rejuvenate yourself and ignite the spark that lies within you to bring the needs, wants, desires best suited for your highest good to fruition

Jen Getchell, a clairvoyant since childhood, has been connecting people with their crossed over loved ones, spirit guides, and angels for over 18 years.   Jen feels strongly that each of us can eradicate our unhealthy patterns of thinking, feeling and acting and living a more authentic, true-to-self life.  With practical experience in the educational and medical fields, Jen has found the perfect way to balance these with her natural intuitive and healing gifts.  She holds a safe space for all those to heal and hear their personal messages with grace, ease and dignity, empowering clients to hold themselves to their highest possibilities. 

Cost is $75
.  

For more information or to register please visit
www.justjennieg.com.  
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RETREAT DAYS FOR WOMEN     with Rev. Starr DiCiurcio

Saturday, October 16:
Spiritual Growth through Relationships

 10:30 AM—4 PM

These days of retreat invite you to take time for the nourishment of your spirit. Rev. Starr DiCiurcio will lead you in an exploration of the topics listed on the schedule. Together with other women, enjoy experiential activities such as deep listening, gentle movement, reflection, stress reduction, prayer and meditation. On each retreat day you also will have quiet time set aside for individual journaling and solitude.
You will be nourished by the land, by the teachings of the great wisdom traditions and by one another.

All are welcome! Whether you have spent a great deal of time in spiritual practice or none, you have something special to offer to us all.
Come on your own or bring a friend, your mom, daughter, grandmother or cousin. This is a time to rest, relax and enjoy!  It is for all of you—your body, mind and spirit.

Bring a lunch, a journal and comfortable layers of clothing for indoors and out.
.
Rev. Starr Regan DiCiurcio is an interfaith minister who facilitates retreats and offers private spiritual counseling. She is a writer and author of
 
Visiting Thich Nhat Hanh: An American in Plum Village. Rev. DiCiurcio is also ordained in the Tiep Hien Order of the Buddhist community of Thich Nhat Hanh.

Register: Email StarrRegan@aol.com or call 518-793-7501      Cost: $45 per retreat day.

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A TEA TO HONOR WISE WOMAN MARY ANNE BROWN

Sunday, October 17, 1- 4 PM

We gather to honor a woman who embodies WISDOM. Our special guest is Mary Anne Brown.  Mary Anne will tell her story and the insights she has gleaned during her life as we gather to ‘own’ the “Wise-Woman Archetype” which too often lies dormant in many women today. BOTH MEN AND WOMEN ARE WELCOME!

Tea and light snacks provided. 
Register email stillpt423@aol.com or call 518-587-4967.

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BEHIND THE MASK: Re-discovering the Woman Within  with Judith Prest

Saturday, October 23, 10 AM-4:30 PM

       All throughout our history, humans have made and used masks for ritual, ceremony, prayer, play, celebration.  We can wear masks to disguise ourselves or to represent different aspects of ourselves, the natural world or the universe.  Masks can hide, protect or transform.  Masks can show us who we were, who we are, who we are becoming.

       Spend a day creating a mask and exploring what the concept of "mask" has meant in your life.  What's behind the mask?  How do masks serve us and protect us? How do they hold us back from knowing ourselves and revealing our truths to the world? 

What place do our "masks" have in our lives? 

Judith Prest, LMSW, is a published poet, collage artist and expressive arts practitioner.  She has been doing creative writing and expressive arts programs for groups and individuals since 1998. She lives in Duanesburg and has kept a journal off and on for over 40 years.


Cost: $70.00 (includes tuition & art materials) Bring a lunch, your journal and your favorite writing implement.

Register: Contact  Judith Prest  at  jeprest@aol.com  or  518 895-8001

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REIKI II CLASS  with Rowena Fay, certified Reiki Teacher

Saturday, October 30: 10:00 AM—4:30 PM

Classes include: Review of Reiki I, Learn and be attuned to 3 of the Reiki Symbols, Intuition and Reiki: quantum Physics and Reiki; CERTIFICATE as Second Degree Reiki Practitioner


Cost: $100 Materials included. Bring a lunch;

Register: Call 518-587-4967 or email
stillpt423@aol.com

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November
 

  1 2 Meditation,
Contemplation
and Centering Prayer

Rowena Fay

Kingfisher Sangha North

 
3 4 5 6
7 8 9 Meditation,
Contemplation
and Centering Prayer

Rowena Fay

Kingfisher Sangha North

 
10 11 12 13 A Day of Healing

 
14 Sunday Gathering

Rowena Fay

Knitting Circle

Angela Thomas

 
15 16 Meditation,
Contemplation
and Centering Prayer

Rowena Fay

Kingfisher Sangha North

 
17 Eckhart Tolle
Study Group

Steve Costion

 
18 19 20 A Retreat Day for Women

Rev. Starr DiCiurcio

 
21 Sunday Gathering

Rowena Fay

A Tea to Honor Wise Woman
Sharon Flesher

 
22 23 Meditation,
Contemplation
and Centering Prayer

Rowena Fay

Kingfisher Sangha North

 
24 25 26 27
28 Sunday Gathering

Rowena Fay

 
29 30    

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SUNDAY GATHERINGS  with Rowena Fay

All Sundays except November 7, 10:30—11:30 AM

Experience the Great Mystery, that deep, abiding wisdom which continually is at work in each of us. Some drumming, guided imagery,
silence and writing are used to help us access the answers which lie within each one of us. Shared reflections and breaking of bread. Inclusive language and images.


Register: Call 518-587-4967          Cost: Donation to Still Point

_________________________________________________________________________________________________

MEDITATION, CONTEMPLATION and CENTERING PRAYER: Touching the Mystery Within: with Rowena Fay

Tuesdays 1—3 PM.

This 2 hour gathering is designed to facilitate the participant’s experience of the Sacred through drumming, toning, guided and
silent meditation as well as experiencing the natural beauty of Still Point.
 If you are looking for support in your  spiritual practice, this gathering might be for you.


Register: Call 518-587-4967                                                       Cost: Donation.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________

KINGFISHER SANGHA NORTH

Tuesdays, 7-8 PM

We are a Buddhist community practicing in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh.
Our practice of Engaged Buddhism includes sitting and walking meditation, a short teaching, and discussion.  All are welcome!
www.kingfishersangha.com.

Call Amy Bonser Feldman at 893-6167

________________________________________________________________________________________________

ECKHART TOLLE STUDY GROUP          with Steve Costion

Monthly, 3rd Wednesday: 7:30—9:30 PM

We will have 1/2 hour discussion, guided meditation, listen to a CD or watch a DVD featuring Eckhart and then do a
silent meditation.

Register, email Steve at scostion@gmail.com                  Cost: Donation. 

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

A DAY FOR HEALING

Saturday: November 13. 10 AM—1:00 PM

Come home to your Deep Self! This day begins with a viewing of the Matrix Energetics DVD. We will have some of silent reflection,
possibly some drumming and toning and sharing.  Individual sessions of various modalities of energy work are available depending on the
practitioners present.

Schedule your session by calling 518-587-4967 or email stillpt423@aol.com.  Cost: $25 per session.

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RETREAT DAYS FOR WOMEN     with Rev. Starr DiCiurcio

Saturday, November 20:


 10:30 AM—4 PM

These days of retreat invite you to take time for the nourishment of your spirit. Rev. Starr DiCiurcio will lead you in an exploration of the topics
listed on the schedule. Together with other women, enjoy experiential activities such as deep listening, gentle movement, reflection,
stress reduction, prayer and meditation. On each retreat day you also will have quiet time set aside for individual journaling and solitude.
You will be nourished by the land, by the teachings of the great wisdom traditions and by one another.

All are welcome! Whether you have spent a great deal of time in spiritual practice or none, you have something special to offer to us all.
Come on your own or bring a friend, your mom, daughter, grandmother or cousin. This is a time to rest, relax and enjoy!  It is for all of you—your body, mind and spirit.

Bring a lunch, a journal and comfortable layers of clothing for indoors and out.
.
Rev. Starr Regan DiCiurcio is an interfaith minister who facilitates retreats and offers private spiritual counseling. She is a writer and author of
 
Visiting Thich Nhat Hanh: An American in Plum Village. Rev. DiCiurcio is also ordained in the Tiep Hien Order of the Buddhist community of Thich Nhat Hanh.

Register: Email StarrRegan@aol.com or call 518-793-7501      Cost: $45 per retreat day.

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A TEA TO HONOR WISE WOMAN SHARON FLESHER

Sunday, November 21, 1- 4 PM

We gather to honor a woman who embodies WISDOM. Our special guest is Sharon Flesher.  Sharon will tell her story and the insights she has gleaned during her life
 as we gather to ‘own’ the “Wise-Woman Archetype” which too often lies dormant in many women today. BOTH MEN AND WOMEN ARE WELCOME!

Tea and light snacks provided.  Register email stillpt423@aol.com or call 518-587-4967.

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518-587-4967
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