Sunday, June 9, 2013. All-Day Retreat w. Suzin Green & Claude Winn

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Long Day's Journey Into Light 

A Devi Yoga unTraining Retreat 

w. 

Suzin Green & Claude Winn

CHANTING. MEDITATION. YOGA.TEACHING TALKS. ART-MAKING. LAUGHTER. GOOD COMPANY.

This retreat will be held in Suzin's studio in Kingston, NJ. Space is limited. Please register as early as possible.   

Optional Early Morning Session: 6-9 am

Daylong Retreat: 10 am - 6 pm

$150: Early Morning Session, Breakfast, Daylong Retreat

$125: Daylong Retreat only

For more information, to receive a web or print brochure, or to register,

please use this link to email Suzin

  

Saturday, Feb. 16: Valentines For Saraswati Kirtan & Fire

 

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Valentines for Saraswati Kirtan & Fire Ceremony

Saraswati Sacred Fire @ 6 pm

If you live within commuting distance of central NJ, please join us for this very special event at my 

home studio near Princeton, NJ. Weather permitting, we’ll hold an outdoor Fire Ceremony. Since it gets rather cold as the night deepens, we’ll light the fire around 6 pm. This way, bhaktas among us can sit around the blaze, chanting mantras and making offerings without risk of frostbite...

Valentines for Saraswati Kirtan @ 8 pm

Suzin Green

w/ Dan Johnson, tabla

& Karttikeya, percussion

Pot Luck Supper will be served all evening.

Please bring something to add to the bounty.

Saraswati is traditionally celebrated at this time of year. Although “she” comes down to us through the Hindu Goddess Tradition, Saraswati belongs to all. Considered the origin of music and creative power of the arts, she is also the light of insight intelligence and eloquence -- and the rapture of aesthetic bliss. Along with these sublime aspects, Saraswati is the energetic root of truth from which knowledge and excellence spring.. This is an archetypal field we do well to cultivate.

This event will be held at my home studio in central NJ. 

If you'd like to attend, please use this link to email.

Private Sessions w/SG

Private sessions offer spiritual guidance and coaching that empowers the way you move through all aspects of life. The process enables you to be seen and heard on your own terms and develops the ability to stay present with whatever is arising. Sessions also include Eyes-Closed Work. This meditation-based practice fosters that sense of internal spaciousness from which all things are possible.

Private Sessions can help you: 

• master listening and communication skills 
• re-invent yourself in a rapidly changing world  
• decipher the riddles of relationships, career, or calling 
• ease the experience of living with illness or pain
• neutralize harmful effects of stress
• unravel emotional knots and harmful patterns 
• open creative blocks
• cultivate emotional intelligence
• experience deep relaxation 
• live with a stronger sense of grounding and stillness in daily life

Office hours in NYC and Princeton, NJ. 

Skype and Phone Sessions are also available.

If you have questions or would like to schedule a session, 

please email: suzingreen@gmail.com 

Meditation & Chanting

The Monday Night Blog
w/Suzin Green
An Online Resource for Meditation, Chanting, 
and Cutting Edge Wisdom from the Ancient and the Sublime

The Monday Night Blog started as a place to collect wisdom text excerpts and sacred poetry I brought to my Monday Night Meditation Class at the Princeton Center for Yoga & Health. The blog's content slowly grew and I began adding audio clips of dharma talks, class chanting, and guided meditations. In this way it took on a life of its own, drawing visitors from all over the world. Thanks to the easy-access and interactive possibilities of the internet, the Monday Night Blog is now the gathering place for class. You can join anytime, any place. I look forward to meeting you here...

Use this link to visit the Monday Night Blog

FAQs about Eyes-Closed Work w/SG

What is Eyes-Closed Work?  

As you rest in a comfortable position, I guide you into a relaxed state, conducive to self-discovery and inner vision. As memories, images, or physical sensations arise, a rich inner journey unfolds. You may “travel” to metaphorical places, re-enter a dream, meet previously unknown aspects of yourself, dialogue with totemic beings, explore roots of chronic illness or pain, re-frame memories, or rest in a state of stillness. The varieties of experience are endless. In my role as traveling companion, witness, and guide, I offer careful nurture, insightful counsel, and unconditional safety and support.

How will Eyes-Closed Work help me with

issues or concerns in my daily life?

Eyes-Closed Work develops greater clarity and presence, increasing your effectiveness in the world. Family relationships, workplace performance, community service, creativity — all benefit from this work. There is a paring down to your essential self, a simplifying that allows you to see life as it actually is. You become rooted in your personal power and live with more equanimity and joy.

How long is each session?

The ideal session runs approximately two hours. If you require a shorter time frame, 60- or 90-minute formats are available.

The Autumn Garden

I was recently walking in a perfectly manicured September garden. Summer blooms had been replaced by the more humble offerings of fall and the garden had a sparseness and simplicity that took my breath away. I've always loved the magnificent abundance of the Fall: the harvest, the foliage, the moon. This year though, I'm experiencing Fall through different eyes: autumn eyes. Eyes that seek out spaciousness and simplicity; eyes that find comfort in brown grass dying back down into the earth. There is a softness to the autumn garden I've not seen before. And a silence that roars in my heart.

The silence speaks its own special language, pulling me deep inside myself. Absorbing me in that inner sense of knowing. This listening to silence has a fierceness to it. It moves me into unexpected places, pushing me up against notions of who I am and why I'm here. It laughs at me too, testing my trust in myself. Am I willing to rest in the air of my being. Am I really okay with how fluid the ground I want so solid beneath me truly is. Can I sit still, can I wait, can I look and see what is, rather than what I want it to be.

Sitting in the Great Bowl of Silence

Many years ago, one of my spiritual mentors gave a beautiful teaching on the syllable "om." He said that if we really listened, we could hear "om" vibrating inside every sound. I performed this practice diligently and while I can't say I began to hear that subtle om within the cacophony of daily life, something else happened: my capacity to listen went deeper.

I began to sense a great bowl of silence inside me, and worked to root my listening as far down into it as I could manage. This allowed me to listen with very clean ears and opened me into hearing what I think of as the deep song. Which is not a song at all. It's a presence. The more I learned to listen to my own deep song, the more I began to recognize it in others. And that was when I realized my calling as a transformational healer and teacher.

Several years later, when I began to study Sanskrit, I was astounded by the way the sound of "om" moves through us. Try it and you'll see. It begins deep in the belly with the mouth wide open and ends on the lips with the mouth fully closed. It was then that I finally got it. In the way that making the sound of "om" mimics the opening and closing of any process, metaphorically at least, "om" does contain everything.

And the thing of it is, one can ride "om" into the very depths of our being. Which is where we find the great bowl of silence. Try it. Sit in a meditative stance and bring your focus to breathing. Just listen. Listen to the in-breath. Listen to the out-breath. Listen to the space between them. Listen for that subtle vibration of "om." Listen for the silence underneath it all. And when you stand up, moving into daily life action, try to move from that silence. Practice this for awhile and see how you feel.

We live in a time when marketing is everything, when the pitch has to tell us what we get before we're willing to buy. So I'll tell you a secret: the great bowl of silence contains everything. Once we begin to touch it in a regular kind of way, life takes on a whole different feel. The poet-saint Kabir expressed this so beautifully when he sang: Inside this clay jug there are canyons and pine mountains, and the maker of canyons and pine mountains! All seven oceans are inside, and hundreds of millions of stars. The acid that tests gold is there, and the one who judges jewels. And the music from strings no one touches, and the source of all water.

Kabir finishes his song proclaiming, If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God I love is inside of me. He might as well have named it Silence.