Wattle Hollow Event
FromFall 2010
A day of silent introspection (Vipassana style) meditation, combined with yoga stretching.
Beginners and old-timers welcome. No charge; dana accepted. Lunch will be served.
Wattle Hollow Event
FromFall 2010
Together we will explore the patterns we created a long time ago, in forming the personae/personality, and how the mind continues to reach for this template. Silent meditative witnessing, automatic writing, and yoga will be the tools that we use to expand our awareness.
Led by Joy Fox, Wattle Hollow owner, therapist, and retreat leader.
Cost: $100. And no one is ever refused attendance at a Buddhist event for lack of finances.
Wattle Hollow Event
FromFall 2010
Spend three days in the Heart of the Ozarks
and experience an eclectic, organic approach to creating music
in a provocatively creative atmosphere.
A weekend of musical exploration and growth.
Registration fee of $250 per person
includes rustic lodging, healthy gourmet meals, and…
* An intimate concert by Jack Williams and Still On The Hill
* Nature walks
* Open mics, song swaps, quiet time to write and create
* Inspiration and camaraderie
* Catering by Chef Tuesday
* Work
Wattle Hollow Event
FromFall 2010
Friday evening – Sunday after lunch.
Anna Cox, founder and director of 'Compassion Works for All'
We are blessed again, to have this wonderful teacher, Anna Cox, come up from Little Rock, where she counsels maximum security and Death Row prisoners, among her many functions.
Anna Cox is a practicing psychotherapist in Little Rock, Arkansas. She is also a trainer, lecturer and consultant on psychotherapy, meditation, the expansion of consciousness, subtle healing, death and dying, living spiritual lives and lives of compassionate service. She offers talks and workshops that encourage individuals to conceptualize their life as a spiritual journey rather than as an ordinary life of accomplishing goals that promise worldly happiness.
A practitioner of Vajrayana Buddhism since 1980, Anna has lectured and taught classes extensively on Buddhism. Anna helped to found the Ecumenical Buddhist Society in Little Rock, which supports a variety of Buddhist traditions by bringing lineage masters from around the world to offer teachings and retreats.
Since 1993, Anna Cox has offered volunteer psychotherapy and spiritual counseling, group psychotherapy, and meditation classes with incarcerated individuals on and off death row in a maximum-security prison. She has written and published the free monthly newsletter, Dharma Friends, since 1997. Anna Cox also presents lectures frequently on the abolishment of the death penalty in Arkansas and in other states.
For over twenty years, Anna has traveled the world extensively in pilgrimage to holy sites of all religions, places of human suffering, and to places of great transformation. Anna feels deeply that ours is one human family and that no one should be excluded.
Cost: $125, includes meals and lodging. You may also offer dana (Pali word for “donation”) to Anna for the teachings.
NOTE: this retreat is now full.
Wattle Hollow Event
FromFall 2010
November 5 – 7(Friday evening – Sunday after lunch)
It’s our annual weekend with Geshe-la. If you want to “prepare” for the Dalai Lama’s visit to our town next May, come to this retreat.
Cost: $100, plus dana for Geshe-la.
Note 7/25/: retreat is now about half-full…., so don’t wait too long to sign up, and send in a deposit to secure your place.
Wattle Hollow Event
FromFall 2010
Sunday, November 14th, 1 p.m. – 7 ish
This is an annual celebration of our lives. Come early and stroll around the grounds, the creek, or the Peace Path. We’ll gather at 3 p.m. and share a giant (vegetarian) potluck meal, followed by a circle of thanks. Thanks can be a poem, prayer, song, dance, dramatic presentation (I dare you to STRETCH your imagination) or even the spoken word.
Wattle Hollow Event
From2010 Schedule, Summer 2010
Celebrating the Ocean Goddess Yemaya
July 17 & 18 (10 AM Saturday and ending at Noon Sunday)
In this dance weekend we will explore art, song, poetry, and dance for Yemaya, the Yoruban Orisha of the living Ocean, considered the Mother of All. She is strongly protective and cares deeply for all Her children, comforting them and cleansing them of sorrow.
Altar of Yemaya
As an embryo we all spend the first moments of our lives swimming in a warm sea of amniotic fluid inside our mother’s womb. We must transform and evolve through the form much as a fish before becoming a human baby. Yemaya dresses herself in seven skirts of blue and white. Like the seas and profound lakes she is deep.
Yemaya was brought to the New World with the African Diaspora. In Brazilian Candomblé and Haitian Vodou she is worshipped as an Ocean/Moon-goddess.
Symbols and Sacred Objects of Yemaya: Ocean, mermaids, the virgin Mary, New Year’s Eve, February 2, the North Star, half moon, dreams, indigo, pound cake, boats and ships, sacred dance, and the Number 7, all sea creatures, seaweed and other plants that grow in the ocean, silver, pearls, mother of pearl, coral, moonstone, crystal quartz, turquoise, and any blue gem or bead.
Heather will be joined by Jeff Porter, who has recently studied Yemaya in Africa, will lead the drum class and accompany the dancing.
Heather Burns
About Heather Burns
Heather Burns teaches popular and folkloric Afro-Cuban and Afro-Haitian dance. Along with rhythm and correct placement, she draws her students attentions to the contrasting elements of controlled/free, feminine/masculine, and joyful/aggressive expressions in dances.
In Cuba, she apprenticed under Cuban cultural historians, playwrights, actors, musicians and professional dancers at Cutumba Ballet Forlkorico. After studying dance at Duke University, the Lakota Indian Reservation, the University of Washington and Los Angeles, she found her true match in the eclectic Cuban mix of French, Spanish, Haitian and West African heritages. (And she adds, there is a bit of Scottish and Tahitian flavor that she cannot do without.) A Master of Arts degree in Cultural Anthropology helped her to make sense of all of this.
Herself a product of an Arkansas cotton farmer and a theater director, Heather has combined the earthy and the dramatic in perhaps unlikely places. She took oral histories of wacipi dancers and studied with yuwipi prayer-song musicians. She has taught dance in Compton, CA’s middle schools and worked with South Asian immigrant teens to create dance works in Seattle, WA.
Heather presently lives and teaches in Oklahoma, working as a great artist with schools and dance companies throughout the region, and with the dance department at the University of Central Oklahoma.
Cost: $100 includes food and lodging.
Wattle Hollow Event
From2010 Schedule, Summer 2010
The theme for this weekend silent meditation retreat will be:
“Time Out”
Joy Fox, Wattle Hollow owner, therapist, and retreat leader,
will guide us in exploring our concept of time:
“The iron grid of time that society imposes on our psyches keeps us locked into a certain mindset, and locked out of present tense reality. During this weekend, we will use writing, Vipassana meditation, eating exercises, stretching and sharing to peek into living here, now.”
Cost: $90, includes lodging, food and retreat. Please know that no one will be turned away for lack of finances.
Wattle Hollow Event
From2010 Schedule, Spring 2010
Cobbing Fun at A Greener America workshop
We will continue to build the newest cob building: Sea World, with more emphasis on sculptural furniture, adobe floors and the last of the windows. Expect your building experience to be accompanied by music, whimsy, and dancing. No suffering allowed.
We will also have a guest lecturer for a couple of hours on the weekend days, Richard Herman, sharing his expertise on permaculture.
Our meals will be gourmet vegetarian (from local sources), some of it cooked in solar ovens. Daily yoga classes for those who wish. This is a time to relax, learn, and commune with friends and nature. Continue Reading »
Wattle Hollow Event
From2010 Schedule, Spring 2010
Spend three days in the Heart of the Ozarks
and experience an eclectic, organic approach to creating music
in a provocatively creative atmosphere.
A weekend of musical exploration and growth.
Registration fee of $250 per person
includes rustic lodging, healthy gourmet meals, and…
* An intimate concert by Jack Williams and Still On The Hill
* Nature walks
* Open mics, song swaps, quiet time to write and create
* Inspiration and camaraderie
* Catering by Chef Tuesday
* Work