R. Miriam Maron's Summer 2010 Newsletter

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A special evening of

soul-stirring chant,uplifting song, andinspiring wisdom

Friday evening,July 16, 2010 at 7:45 PM

Oneg Shabbat to follow at:

Bethel Lutheran Church17500 Burbank BoulevardEncino, CA 91316-1799

Makor Ohr Shalom in Encino, CA

RABBI MIRIAM MARON INVITEDAS GUEST RABBI AND WILL LEAD

A SPECIAL MUSICAL SHABBAT

http://www.makom.org/

Photo by: Rico Mandel
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New Classes to Start in Conejo Valleywith Rabbi Miriam Maron and Rabbi Gershon Winkler

Jewish ShamanicWisdom for

Biding Your Time on EarthAkashic Bookshop & Center - Thursday evening, September 2, 2010 7-9 PM1414 Thousand Oaks Blvd., Suite 103 - Thousand Oaks, CA 91362

Cost: $20 (credit cards accepted)

Shamanic Kabbalah is a very ancient body ofJewish wisdom that has been transmittedmostly orally for close to four thousand years.Based largely upon a non-linear way of thinkingand experiencing, Jewish shamanism offersalternative perspectives on the meaning of life,

the paradox of God and evil, the mystique ofbeing human, the intimate relationship of soulwith body, and the sanctity andinterconnectedness of the earth and all her

creatures. Employing the sacred tools ofancient texts, soul-stirring chants, shamanic

journeying, trance-inducing movement, andguided imagery, Miriam and Gershonwill marinate us in the lesser-promulgatedancient teachings of the Kabbalah that defy

conventional religious thinking and challenge ustoward heightened consciousness and inner-healing.

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Join us this Fall for HIGH HOLYDAY SERVICESwith Miriam Maron and Gershon Winkler

Rosh Hashanah, Thursday September @ 11 AMYom Kippur Eve, Friday September 17 @ 7 PM and

Saturday, September 18 @ 11 AM(Concluding ceremony at 6:30 PM,

followed by catered break the fast feast at sundown)

Ancient WisdomSpirited Chants

Entrancing Movement,Jewish Shamanic Ceremonies

and Joyful Celebration

At the Center for Energetic Healing,nestled in the scenic foothills of the Santa Susana Mountains of Simi Valley, California

(1248 Rocky Road, Simi Valley, CA 93063)

Limited overnight lodging available on premisesSuggested Donation per person for Rosh Hashanah: $75 and Yom Kippur: $150

(more if you can, less if you can't Open to all - no one is turned away for lack funds).

For reservations and directions, email Arna at [email protected] or call her at (805) 208-5803

Photos by Dali and FoalPhotos by Dali and Foal
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Last Chance for Late ComersInstitute for the Wisdom of the Masters Name TM of the Walking Stick

Foundation Presents: Our 4th 2-Year, 4-Week Program on

Jewish Shamanic Healingwith Rabbi Miriam Maron, B.S.N., R.N., M.A and Rabbi GershonAT THE BRANDEIS-BARDIN INSTITUTE, SITUATED ON 3,000

ACRES OF PRISTINE WILDERNESS IN THE SCENIC SANTASUSANNAMOUNTAINS OF SIMIVALLEY, IN SOUTHERN CA

Ancient Jewish mysterywisdom consideredillness a majoropportunity for personal

life shifting andunfolding. Healing is notabout fixing but about

directing the flow of theailment toward therestoration of balance inthe dynamics betweensoul and body. Ritualsinclude prayers andincantations that calledupon forces active in thespirit realms, variousplants, incense smoke,the rams horn, planetaryinfluences, and stones.Some ceremonies alsoinvolve drawing a circleon the earth with specific

mystical symbols, andmany such rites requirechanting and drumming.Often, the purpose ofthese rites is to clear the

bodys own channels ofimpediments andresistance to enable thesmooth flow of the lifeforce within each of us.

During this rareopportunity to explorethe lesser-promulgated

body of Jewish tradition,

Rabbis Miriam Maronand Gershon Winklerwill familiarizeparticipants with ancientand medieval Aramaicand Hebraic source textsas well as oral traditionsfrom which this long-neglected body of

wisdom originates.

These two mavericks ofcontemporary Judaism

will also guide usthrough practica ofceremony, guidedimagery, chant, andmovement towardexperiencing theseteachings and drawingthem deeper withinourselves, beyond theintellect, and into actualpractice. The programincludes studies inrealms of the Jewish

mystery wisdom aboutanimal, tree and stonespirits, totems, the four

winds (or fourdirections), andshamanic journeying Jewish-style.

The work that I did with Miriam through the Jewish

Shamanic Healing Training Program has been deeplytransformative for me. She isa role model for me as ahealer and an educator. Herwork brings into embodiment

our ancient teachings. Shehas deeply touched me and Iam proud to have her as myteacher.-- Shoshana Simons,

Ph.D.

With wit and wisdom, Rabbi Gershon renders user-

friendly the more crypticteachings of lesser-known Kabbalistic source texts andoral traditions in order to

inspire and inform ourlives.

Andrew Weil, M.D.,

author of Spontaneous Healingand Eating Well for Optimum

Cost: $1425 per Week

($1200 for returning JSH

students who have completed all

four sessions) Cost includes

private a/c room with your own

bathroom, all-kosher meals, and

tuition.

Commuter Cost: $750

(includes tuition and meals only)

Easy commute from Los Angeles

and Santa Barbara (LAX or

Burbank Airports)

Payment:by Credit Cards

accepted via CCNow on

www.walkingstick.org Events

page.

A 9% additional charge applies.

Dates: first two weeks:

- Sunday, June 6 @ 6pm throughFriday, June 11, 2010 @ 1pm.

- Sunday, October 10 @ 6pm

through Friday, October 15, 2010

@ 1pm

To register, send a check or

money order for $800

($500 is your basic deposit and

$300 is your deposit toward the

remaining 3 sessions) to:

Walking Stick Foundation

1336 North Moorpark Road,

Suite 289,Thousand Oaks, CA 91360

Please indicate your email

address, phone number,

and any dietary restrictions

For more information, email:

[email protected]

or call 805-795-2996
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the ninth of Ahv, for example (Midrash Agadat Bereisheet, No. 68 and Midrash Bereisheet Rabbah 85:1). And

the fifteenth of Ahv was a time of national celebration when Israelite women would dance freely in the

orchards to awaken the passion of the earth toward the ripening of the fruit yield.

We go into solemn introspection on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, yet they are also celebrated in white

clothing, representing joy and hope, and even the Yom Kippur fast, the ancients taught us, is not properly

observed without a joyous feast preceding it! And not four days after these Days of Awe we celebrate joyfullythe festival of the harvest, Sukkot!

No days, declared the first-century Rabbi Shimon ben Gamliel, were as festive for the Israelites as the days of

Yom Kippur and the fifteenth of Ahv (Mishnah, Taanit 4:8).

Not too sad, not too jovial? Just right, something in between? Or very sad, or very happy? There is ample

room for all of us to come to the altar of our Creator as we are in the moment, without having to twist

ourselves out of shape in conformity

to religious regimen. As Solomon

wrote about the Torah: Her ways are

ways of pleasantness, and all of herpathways are Peace (Mishlei 3:17).

The moment the Word of God came

down from Sinai, we are told, the

souls of the Israelites left their bodies

at the sound of the first word

Ahnochee -- I Am. The Word flew

Tis the season to be jolly ... ormaybe just to be

- A Teaching from Rabbi Miriam Maron Judaism is a rich tradition with a number of seasonal commemorations that bid us to look inward, or

celebrate, or grieve, or party, or feel liberated, or to feast, fast, sit, dance

But what if you were really not in the mood prescribed by the particular season? What if the place you

happened to be at in the moment wasnt in alignment with the intended mood of the month or week or

holiday?

Wisely, our Torah left each of us ample room for our individual walk. This upcoming month, for example, the

Moon of Ahv, is a tragic month, during which we grieve over the destruction of our Holy Temple and of our

commonwealth and independence some 2500 years ago and 2,000 years ago, respectively. Yet, it is also amonth during which we celebrate the joy of the subsiding summer heat, the restoration of the moisture within

the trees, the re-unification of our ancestral tribes (Talmud Yerushalmi, Taanit 26b) following centuries of

having been split up into two kingdoms. The ninth of Ahv is a sad day, the fifteenth a joyous day. The month

of destruction is at the same time also the month of restoration; it is said that the Messianic hope was born on

The Shma in ancient Hebrewwrit [Mount Grizim, Israel]Introduced by the words:

Praise your God, for there isno God but the One.

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back into the heavens and complained to God: What, you send me down to the dead? They are all dead!

God then took the Word and tweaked it, spiced it with sweetness, adorned it with softness and pleasantness

and sent it back down again. This time, the Word of God arrived custom-made to each individual, to the

youth in the way youth could absorb it, to the young men in the way young men could absorb it, to the elderly

in the way the elderly could absorb it, and to the women in the way women could absorb it, each according to

their nature and their capacity, as is written in Psalm 19:8 -- The Torah of God is perfect; She restores the

soul (Midrash Shir HaShirim Rabbah 5:16, para. 3; and Midrash Shmot Rabbah 5:9 and 29:4).

So go out and engage the sacred events not as a subject to it but as a keeper ofit. Come to it from where youare, and let it bathe you with its magic and gift you with what is destined for you and you alone, in the moment

and where you stand. Remember what God told Moses in the wilderness of Midyan: The place where you

are standing, is holy (Exodus 3:5). Miriam Maron 2010

Join the likes of Deepak Chopra, Miriam Maron, Ken

Wilber, Gershon Winkler, Jean Houston, Avram

Davis, Marc Gafni, Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei,

Sally Kempton, Lama Surya Das and a host of other

spiritual teachers on this second part of a five-year

explorative journey to discover the gift and wisdom of

Integral Spirituality, and its pragmatic relevance for

the 21st century.

The Integral Spiritual Experience kicked off last New

Years weekend with The Personal Spiritual Journey --Your Unique Self, and was a major success, filled to

capacity with well over 600 participants of all ages,

cultures and walks of life from around the globe.

This next event will focus on an issue most of us yearn

for, struggle with, perhaps even run from while at the

same time craving it: Love.

Rabbi Gershon Winkler and Rabbi Miriam Maron

have been invited back again to participate as guest

teachers and break-out group facilitators in what

promises to be a very exciting treatment of a very

significant theme.

For more information, and to register, visitwww.integralspiritualexperience.com

!!!!!! VERY IMPORTANT !!!!!!WHEN REGISTERING, PLEASE INDICATE

THAT YOU WERE REFERREDBY MIRIAM MARON and/or GERSHON

WINKLER, AND DROP US A NOTE AS WELLto [email protected]

Integral Spiritual ExperienceReturns this Winter

with Deepak Chopra, Miriam Maron, Ken Wilber, Gershon Winkler,

Lama Surya Das, and a host of others...

December 30, 2010 - January 3, 2011

At Asilomar, in scenic Pacific Grove, CAhttp://www.visitasilomar.com
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Co-Founder, Institute for the

Wisdom of The Masters of the Name TM,

Lecturer, Composer, Singer/SongwriterWorkshop and Retreat Leader, PrivateHealing and Mentoring, Ritual andLife-Cycle Ceremonies, Jewish andInterfaith Services

PO Box 3931, Thousand Oaks, CA, [email protected]
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