The Whole Health Center

Spring 2008 Schedule

(Event details below summary list)

For 27 years The Whole Health Center has pioneered in integrating spiritual, psychological and holistic health care services through private appointment and group classes and retreats. Our ongoing classes and workshop program continues to address a broad understanding of the health of the individual and society. We are also offering more programs in conjunction with other centers.

Local Weekly Classes

Monday Night Group
Monday evenings: 6:30-8:45

Tai Chi Chu’an: Yang short form
Wednesday evenings in Southwest Harbor: 7:30-8:30

Qi Gong
Wednesday evenings in Southwest Harbor: 6:30-7:00

Morning Meditation & Qi Gong
Tuesday and Friday mornings: 8:00-9:15 (meditation 7:30)

Workshops and Retreats

True Heart/True Mind Intensive
November 6-9

Zen and Qi Gong
Morgan Bay Zendo, Surry, Maine: Saturday, August 2

Ask about our qi gong study tour in China, May 2009

Compassion, Integration and Healing -
and the Tibetan Practice of Tonglen
Bar Harbor, Saturday, July 19

Herbal Workshops and Courses with Chris Marano:
The Language of Plants
Three-part course in Bar Harbor begins July 13 - see below

Two Workshops in Wendell, Massachusetts:
Saturday, July 26: Awakening the Heart of Qi Gong
Sunday, July 27: Compassion, Integration and Healing

* Foundations of Spiritual Psychology *
Please see the sidebar for detailed information

Morning Meditation and Qi Gong

Tuesdays and Fridays, 8:00-9:15 am

Preceded with a half-hour meditation period at 7:30, qi gong continues at The Whole Health Center this summer. Cultivating awareness, flexibility and vital energy through integrating the dimensions of body, breath and mind; and drawing on meditations, gentle movement, and muscle/tendon exercises from several qi gong traditions.

Cost: $15 per class, or $25 for two classes in the same week. Participants may come on a class-by-class basis, although there will be a continuity of learning.

Monday Night Group

Monday evenings, 6:30-8:45

Our long-running support and study group with meditation.

Tai Chi Chu'an: Yang short form

Wednesday evenings, 7:30-8:30 at Harbor House in Southwest Harbor

Call for more information.

Qi Gong

Wednesday evenings, 6:30-7:30 at Harbor House in Southwest Harbor

Call for more information.
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True Heart/True Mind: The Enlightenment Intensive

November 6-9 at The Whole Health Center

True Heart/True Mind is designed to help us fall free of our mental baggage and become directly aware of our underlying nature as human beings. A good deal of personal growth often occurs in the process. Over the last couple of years our TH/TM retreats have been attracting a growing number of younger participants - in their early and mid-twenties and even late teens. And thank God for that. Our April True Heart/True Mind has been set aside specifically for our younger generation of participants to work together with their peers. If you know - or are - a younger person mature enough to engage in this intensive heart-opening and mind-opening work, this might be an excellent opportunity for you. Please check the sidebar for detailed information, and you can also ask us if you wish to receive complete descriptive literature of True Heart/ True Mind. Residential retreat. $485.00.
Scholarship support available.

Zen and Qi Gong

The Morgan Bay Zendo, Surry, Maine, August 2, 10-4

A day to explore these two complementary traditions of stillness, harmony, integration and awareness. With Hugh Curran and Paul Weiss.

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Compassion, Integration and Healing – and the Tibetan Practice of Tonglen

Bar Harbor, Maine, July 19: 9:30-4:30

Tonglen is nothing less than a technical guide and support system for the exercise of unconditional love with regards to others and to ourselves. Paul believes that the ancient Tibetan practice of tonglen is so broad, versatile, sophisticated and deep that it is able to go to the heart of both the psychological and the spiritual healing needed in our lives and in the life of the planet. Hence we are making this training available as much as we can. Tonglen is part of a triumvirate of basic Buddhist practice - stillness, insight and compassion. It is a practice of compassion that is also capable of being uniquely integrative of every area of our life. Though it may begin as a formal meditaiton practice, it is ultimately an orientation towards being, a sense of iintimacy and compassion that slips into and supports all of our living. Please ask for a more complete description of what this workshop will cover.

To register call Paul Weiss at 207-288-4128. $85.00

Programs with Clinical Herbalist Chris Marano

The Language of Plants

This three-part course marries the scientific and the intuitive as we learn how to interpret what plants are teaching us about themselves through their physical characteristics, their communities and their habitats, and their subtle energies and qualities. Part One: Sunday, July 13: The Language of the Physical. Part Two: Sunday, August 17: The Language of Personality. Part Three, Sunday, September 28: The Language of Connection. Please ask us for a more complete description of each of these classes (which are meant to be taken as a whole). $85.00 each or $195.00 for the whole series.

Programs in Wendell, Massachusetts, July 26 and 27

Saturday: Awakening the Heart of Qi Gong

Sunday: Compassion, Integration and Healing

Each of these workshops addresses, in complementary ways, the way in which our chronic mental and emotional reactivity limits our full development as human beings. Qi gong begins with the body and its energy systems, and extends to the heart, as we learn to relax past chronic contractions of body, mind and spirit through a joyful integration of movement, breath and awareness. The second workshop, Compassion, Integration and Healing, focusing on Tibetan tonglen practice, begins with the heart, and shows us how to open into our full capacity for presence and love.

An excellent combo. $85 each, or $135 for both.

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Always more to come.


HOME SERVICES * New * FOUNDATIONS OF SPIRITUAL PSYCHOLOGY WHO WE ARE TRUE HEART / TRUE MIND INTENSIVES Also called the Enlightenment Intensive CURRENT SCHEDULE Classes, Retreats, Workshops & Groups LIFE SKILLS FOR THE 21st CENTURY Available Trainings CHINA TRIPS WRITINGS TALKS (MP3s) AFFILIATE LINKS CONTACT US	Spring 2008 Schedule (Event details below summary list) For 27 years The Whole Health Center has pioneered in integrating spiritual, psychological and holistic health care services through private appointment and group classes and retreats. Our ongoing classes and workshop program continues to address a broad understanding of the health of the individual and society. We are also offering more programs in conjunction with other centers. Local Weekly Classes Monday Night Group Monday evenings: 6:30-8:45 Tai Chi Chu’an: Yang short form Wednesday evenings in Southwest Harbor: 7:30-8:30 Qi Gong Wednesday evenings in Southwest Harbor: 6:30-7:00 Morning Meditation & Qi Gong Tuesday and Friday mornings: 8:00-9:15 (meditation 7:30) Workshops and Retreats True Heart/True Mind Intensive November 6-9 Zen and Qi Gong Morgan Bay Zendo, Surry, Maine: Saturday, August 2 Ask about our qi gong study tour in China, May 2009 Compassion, Integration and Healing - and the Tibetan Practice of Tonglen Bar Harbor, Saturday, July 19 Herbal Workshops and Courses with Chris Marano: The Language of Plants Three-part course in Bar Harbor begins July 13 - see below Two Workshops in Wendell, Massachusetts: Saturday, July 26: Awakening the Heart of Qi Gong Sunday, July 27: Compassion, Integration and Healing * Foundations of Spiritual Psychology * Please see the sidebar for detailed information Morning Meditation and Qi Gong Tuesdays and Fridays, 8:00-9:15 am Preceded with a half-hour meditation period at 7:30, qi gong continues at The Whole Health Center this summer. Cultivating awareness, flexibility and vital energy through integrating the dimensions of body, breath and mind; and drawing on meditations, gentle movement, and muscle/tendon exercises from several qi gong traditions. Cost: $15 per class, or $25 for two classes in the same week. Participants may come on a class-by-class basis, although there will be a continuity of learning. back to top Monday Night Group Monday evenings, 6:30-8:45 Our long-running support and study group with meditation. back to top Tai Chi Chu'an: Yang short form Wednesday evenings, 7:30-8:30 at Harbor House in Southwest Harbor Call for more information. back to top Qi Gong Wednesday evenings, 6:30-7:30 at Harbor House in Southwest Harbor Call for more information. __________________________________________________________________________ True Heart/True Mind: The Enlightenment Intensive November 6-9 at The Whole Health Center True Heart/True Mind is designed to help us fall free of our mental baggage and become directly aware of our underlying nature as human beings. A good deal of personal growth often occurs in the process. Over the last couple of years our TH/TM retreats have been attracting a growing number of younger participants - in their early and mid-twenties and even late teens. And thank God for that. Our April True Heart/True Mind has been set aside specifically for our younger generation of participants to work together with their peers. If you know - or are - a younger person mature enough to engage in this intensive heart-opening and mind-opening work, this might be an excellent opportunity for you. Please check the sidebar for detailed information, and you can also ask us if you wish to receive complete descriptive literature of True Heart/ True Mind. Residential retreat. $485.00. Scholarship support available. back to top Zen and Qi Gong The Morgan Bay Zendo, Surry, Maine, August 2, 10-4 A day to explore these two complementary traditions of stillness, harmony, integration and awareness. With Hugh Curran and Paul Weiss. back to top Compassion, Integration and Healing – and the Tibetan Practice of Tonglen Bar Harbor, Maine, July 19: 9:30-4:30 Tonglen is nothing less than a technical guide and support system for the exercise of unconditional love with regards to others and to ourselves. Paul believes that the ancient Tibetan practice of tonglen is so broad, versatile, sophisticated and deep that it is able to go to the heart of both the psychological and the spiritual healing needed in our lives and in the life of the planet. Hence we are making this training available as much as we can. Tonglen is part of a triumvirate of basic Buddhist practice - stillness, insight and compassion. It is a practice of compassion that is also capable of being uniquely integrative of every area of our life. Though it may begin as a formal meditaiton practice, it is ultimately an orientation towards being, a sense of iintimacy and compassion that slips into and supports all of our living. Please ask for a more complete description of what this workshop will cover. To register call Paul Weiss at 207-288-4128. $85.00 back to top Programs with Clinical Herbalist Chris Marano The Language of Plants This three-part course marries the scientific and the intuitive as we learn how to interpret what plants are teaching us about themselves through their physical characteristics, their communities and their habitats, and their subtle energies and qualities. Part One: Sunday, July 13: The Language of the Physical. Part Two: Sunday, August 17: The Language of Personality. Part Three, Sunday, September 28: The Language of Connection. Please ask us for a more complete description of each of these classes (which are meant to be taken as a whole). $85.00 each or $195.00 for the whole series. Programs in Wendell, Massachusetts, July 26 and 27 Saturday: Awakening the Heart of Qi Gong Sunday: Compassion, Integration and Healing Each of these workshops addresses, in complementary ways, the way in which our chronic mental and emotional reactivity limits our full development as human beings. Qi gong begins with the body and its energy systems, and extends to the heart, as we learn to relax past chronic contractions of body, mind and spirit through a joyful integration of movement, breath and awareness. The second workshop, Compassion, Integration and Healing, focusing on Tibetan tonglen practice, begins with the heart, and shows us how to open into our full capacity for presence and love. An excellent combo. $85 each, or $135 for both. _____________________________________________________________________ Always more to come.
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