Join Susanna and Puran Bair for a special 5-day retreat in beautiful New Lebanon, in upstate New York. When you uncover your heart, you discover reserves of strength, sensitivity, power, compassion, and creativity that you never knew existed. Your heart has all the energy and insight you need to transform your life.

The theme of this retreat is "from breakdown to breakthrough". We all go through times in life when all that we have created seems to break down. We often fail to appreciate how necessary this process can be in order to reach a breakthrough. Puran and Susanna discuss in detail the steps of glorification and surrender in their book Follow Your Heart: The Map to Illumination. The steps of surrender -- steps 2, 4, 6, and 8 -- are vital to take you deeply within yourself, allowing a greater glorification to manifest within.

• From the "yes!" of step 1 (commitment) comes the "no!" of step 2, in which you test all that you think you know to see upon what you can truly rely.
• From the harmony of step 3 comes the difficulty of truly uncovering and embracing your ideal in step 4 (idealization). Your ideal makes you greater than you ever imagined, yet all you see is how the world, your closest friends and family, and yourself, fail to live up to the ideal. This makes it all the greater when you create an accomplishment that is driven by your passionate commitment to your ideal, in step 5.
• The great glory of step 5 (expertise), opens to the great existential surrender of step 6, in which all that you thought you knew, all that you have become, and all that you know as yourself, gets cast away so that a greater self can emerge in step 7.
• Step 8 involves a progressively greater sacrifice of your mind's ideas to the power of your heart's wisdom, insight, and guidance, infused with the experience of unity within the One Heart.

Enjoy five days of meditation, movement, presentations, and discussion with Susanna and Puran Bair, two modern masters of heart and breath who have taught thousands of students. While you will not experience every step of the path during this group retreat, you will catch the energy, you will learn more about where you are on the Map to Illumination, and you will come to deeply appreciate where you have been, where you are now, and what is your next step on the path of unity within the Heart of All.

This event is limited to 35 people to preserve the intimate nature of the event. Register to reserve your place today.

SR: July 27 - Aug 1, 2012
Transform Your Heart: From Break Down to Breakthrough, New Lebanon, NY
Led by Puran and Susanna Bair

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