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Affectionate Awareness as a Path to Liberation

with Michele McDonald and Steven Smith 

A Metta Vipassana Retreat with Mindful Movement

Wednesday April 30 - Wednesday May 14, 2014

Location: Hollyhock, Cortes Island Canada

For all inquiries and registrations, please contact:

Phone: 1-800-933-6339 x232

Web: www.hollyhock.ca

email: registration@hollyhock.ca

Theme: Develop compassionate awareness and a more loving heart with this unique melding of mindful movement with Metta and Vipassana practice. Experience seven days on beautiful Cortes Island practicing Metta (unconditional love and kindness) and Vipassana (insight) meditation, followed by seven days of cultivating mindfulness. Discover the four immeasurables (unconditional love, wise compassion, empathetic joy and equanimity)through meditations fusing innate spiritual emotions with the intuitive wisdom of vipassana.

• April 30 - May 7: Cultivate Unconditional Love, Wise Compassion, Empathetic Joy, and Equanimity-the Immeasurables are meditations fusing innate spiritual emotions with the intuitive wisdom of vipassana.

• May 7 - May 14: Cultivate Mindfulness with a 6 sense-door awareness practice including affectionate awareness and reverence for our bodies, liberating the heart-mind with clarity, ease, and authenticity.

 For more information about teachers Michele and Steven, click here. 

 Joy Kerfoot will contribute mindful movement to this retreat. She teaches yoga, dance and moving meditation.

Registration/Accommodation/Meals:

$1,270 - $2,150 CDN / 14 nights 

7-Night Options Available: Apr 30 - May 7 Metta; May 7 - 14 Vipassana.

Details: www.hollyhock.ca