REGISTRATION IS OPEN!
May 7th – May 9th, 2010
REGISTER BY APRIL 16TH AND PAY ONLY $131
Email, zvilove@gmail.com TODAY.
Have you ever wondered how you can bring more relaxation, joy, and personal fulfillment into your life? Without having to be Zen, Buddhist, or a Yogi! Meditation and awareness practices are for Jews too and can support an authentic Jewish practice. Zvi will be facilitating a full Shabbat experience at Pearlstone Retreat Center near Baltimore, MD. You will learn valuable practices for your well-being and spiritual toolbox that will allow you to decrease stress, enhance body-heart-mind flexibility, and live more authentically. There will be instruction in Jewish inspired meditation and Yoga, contemplative prayer services and delicious Kosher Shabbat meals, individual psycho-spiritual counseling and exploration of other research- informed awareness practices. The weekend will be held in social silence to allow retreatents to enter into a deep inner space of personal awareness. (If you just thought, “I could never do that,” then this Shabbat is especially for you.)
Is this for me?: This retreat program is geared towards Jewish and Jewish-interested people from 20 – 40 years old. It is for graduate students, Hill staffers, coffee house bloggers, social justice activists and free floaters, etc …
About the Tefilah Services (Prayer): The prayer services at this retreat will follow the elemental flow of traditional services, though the liturgy will not be fully traditional nor completely read. Each service will be crafted to add to the experience of the weekend — a deepening inward for greater personal awareness. Thus,the services will include ample silence, chanting, verbal kavvanot (intentions), and verse contemplation. It will be intended that an individual can pray the full liturgy to themselves as they sit in the room with the whole minyan. The Torah service will follow the Renewal style of 3 Aliyot where whoever would like can come up for a group blessing. If you have specific questions about the services please email: zvilove@gmail.com .
Program Cost: The entire weekend costs $231 per participant. This includes 2-nights lodging in dormitory style type rooms, 5 delicious kosher meals, a complete weekend workshop series including meditation, contemplative services, and Yoga instruction, and an individual psycho-spiritual session with Dr. Zvi Bellin.
Registration Information and Location: Please email zvilove@gmail.com to receive your registration form. The retreat will be held just outside of Baltimore, MD at the Pearlstone Retreat Center (www.pearlstonecenter.org) 5425 Mount Gilead Rd, Reisterstown, MD 21136-4110.
(410) 429-4400
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:
FRIDAY, MAY 7TH
Arrival and Check In (Snacks available) – 3 – 4:30pm
Meditation Instruction – 4:30 – 5:30pm
Prepare for Shabbat – 5:30 – 6:30pm (Individual Sessions)
Candle lighting and the Logistics of Silence – 6:30 – 7pm
Kabbalat Shabbat and Ma’ariv – 7 – 8pm
Shabbat Dinner – 8 – 9:15pm
Stories, Chanting, and D’var Torah – 9:30pm – 10:30pm (Lailah Tov)
SATURDAY, MAY 8TH
Early Morning Sit – 7 – 8am
Gentle Yoga – 8 – 9am
MediTEAtion (Light breakfast served) – 9 – 9:30am (Individual Sessions)
Contemplative Shacharit and Torah Service – 9:30 – 12pm
Shabbat Lunch – 12 – 1pm
Afternoon Practice – 1 – 4pm (Sitting Meditation, Movement Meditation, Q and A period)
Shabbas Shluff (Snacks available) – 4 – 5:30pm (Individual Sessions)
Shabbat Mincha Practice – 5:30 – 6pm
Third Meal/Dinner – 6 – 7pm
Evening Pracitce – 7 – 9pm (Sitting Meditation, Dynamic Breath Meditation)
Ma’ariv and Havdalah – 9 – 9:30pm
Night Program – 9:30pm (Yoga practice and Special Topic Talk: Cultivating Personal Meaning in Jewish Living)
SUNDAY, MAY 9TH
Early Morning Sit – 6 – 7am
Flow Yoga – 7 – 8:15am
Breakfast – 8:15 – 9am (Individual Sessions)
Contemplative Shacharit – 9 – 10:30am
Transitioning back to the “Real World” – 10:30 – 11am
SAFE TRAVELS AND MANY BLESSINGS!
FACILITATOR BIO:
Dr. Zvi Bellin holds a Ph.D. in Pastoral Counseling and is a licensed therapist in Maryland and DC. Zvi directs intimate retreats for the Jewish community that are both spiritually uplifting and intellectually stimulating. His teaching style follows the tradition of blending Torah study with contemplative Jewish practice. Zvi has studied extensively with teachers spanning various Jewish denominations, including, Rabbi David Zeller, Miriam Ribner, Rabbi Zvi Miller, and Rabbi Jeff Roth.
Please contact zvilove@gmail.com with any questions or concerns.
This program is gratefully being endorsed by The Awakened Heart Project, Nehirim: GLBT Jewish Culture and Spirituality, and the Moishe House.
