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News September 2006

Hello! Welcome - Enjoy!

Lightwork Moving Meditation DVD

Shot on the beaches of Thailand, this beautiful DVD guides the viewer through the LMM sequence.  With original music and tropical imagery, this DVD is another fundamental spiritual and physical support for the Spiritual Warrior.

 

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$25 + gst
604-733-8776
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Lightwork Winter Meditation Retreat

January 12 - 19, 2007

Mar de Jade, Mexico

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Come join us for our annual winter retreat on the beautiful beaches of Mexico.  Mar de Jade retreat centre, located on the Pacific Ocean, 1.5 hrs north of Puerto Vallarta, will be the setting for our 7 day Meditation Retreat.  Enjoy the tropical weather as we meditate, explore local hotspots, relax in the hot tub, eat gourmet meals on the dinning room patio, visit the ocean and create a lovely retreat community. 

Lightwork Retreat $595

Ocean front Accomodation and Gourmet Meals at
Mar de Jade Retreat Centre approx. $1200
Airfare not included

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For more information, or to book accommodations
Visit the Mar de Jade website: www.mardejade.com


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Get into meditation!
This class is a great way to try meditation and learn powerful tools.  Open to all, easy and fun - no experience required.
 
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Level 1 is a wonderful way to invite more peace, ease and clarity into one's life - no experience required.
 
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Lightwork Moving Meditation
Sept. 15 - Dec. 8
Fridays 7:00 - 8:00 am
Drop In $10
Kitsilano Community Centre

 
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September Work Parties at the Lightwork Ecovillage
Sept. 16, 23, 30
All Welcome!

Let us know if you would like to join in.


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Lightwork Summer Retreat at Hollyhock
Cortes Island, BC
  Our summer retreat was beautiful as usual. We were wooed by the wonders of the Hollyhocks garden, healed by the deep and rich Lightwork sessions, satisfied by gourmet food on the deck, nourished by the warm summer days and spectacular ocean views.  The “love vibe” as we call it, hit a new high, as we took our affinity to new places.
 
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Debbie and Sandra on the glorious deck.
 
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Debbie and Cathy let the healing energies flow.
 
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Cathy and Angie feeling the love-vibe.
 
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Scott sets the energy for the next session in one of his favorite class rooms.
 
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We get very creative on our retreats.
 
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The handprint is one of the oldest symbols of stating spiritual presence.
 
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And a butterfly joins our beautiful creating-from-spirit session.
 
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3 bald guys - Keith, Warren and Scott - happy to be alive on this wonderful earth!
 
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One of our lovely session spaces.
 
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The amusement was in full flow.
 
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Lightwork, A Musical Journey into Spirit
2006 Summer Tour

At Lightwork we are always experimenting with new ways of introducing people to spirit.  A Musical Journey into Spirit combines meditation with spiritual movement, theatrics and original songs; all with the intent to inspire spiritual reality in the viewer.  We performed this production at the Lightwork Ecovillage Music Festival, on Hornby Island in the New Horizons Hall, at Hollyhock in their wonderful festival tent, in a huge Gazebo at the summer Tofino market and at the Clayoquot Sound Community Theatre.

 
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The Lightwork Band warms up on a hot day at the Lightwork Ecovillage 1st Annual Music Festival with a few originals.

 
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Julia Thiessen in the Yes stance!
 
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Sandra, Scott, Krista and Julia bring on the night as the sun fades behind Clayoquot Sound.
 
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The show is vibrant to say the least, as the visuals take the Hornby Island audience to new places.
 
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Scott still has the moves!
 
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Performing in an actual theatre was a change on this unusual tour.
 
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The summer festival groove.
 
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Krista's enthusiasm bursts forth!
 
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Scott in communion with an old friend.
 
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The Pacific life-force.
 
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A meditation at Hot Springs Cove.
 
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The band feels the energetic bounty of music.
 
 
 
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Lightwork song of the month: click here to play
Looking Inside

As Scott sat with pen and paper beside his acoustic guitar, he started playing a cord structure while he thought about his spiritual journey and the spiritual journey in general.  He remembered the first time he turned inward and saw what was there.  As looking within and being inward became his practice and life’s journey it inspired the lyrics to the song Looking Inside.  In the chorus of this song he refers to not only the light he found within but also the darkness.  The process of releasing the darkness is also referred to in the lyrics.  These thoughts and cord progressions became the song.  Eventually recorded at Venture Studios in Vancouver and released on the Lightwork Band CD, Step By Step.

 
Looking Inside
 
I looked into the skies
I looked into the night
I looked into the lies
I looked into the light

It's time to let go
It's time to release the flow
To step out of the shadow
Of this dormant volcano

And when you look into my eyes
You'll see festivals in my eyes
You'll see dragons in my eyes
You'll see angels in my eyes

At last I can see
The changing world inside of me
At last it is time
To let my light shine

And when you look into my eyes
You'll see freedom in my eyes
You'll see the pain in my eyes
You'll see the light in my eyes
 

 
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Lightwork Ecovillage 1st Annual Music Festival 
  It was one of the hottest days of the year and the 1st Annual Lightwork Music Festival was born with love and power from both performer and audience member alike.
 
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Susan Summers kicked off the festival with some lovely spiritual tunes backed up by Lyle Povah.
 
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Anna Beaumont belts out another tune and gets the audience moving with the Chakra Movement Song.

 
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Jennifer Zickerman took us into the blues and into hilarity simultaneously.
 
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The Lightwork Band lays down another solid original tune.
 
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Yo, Gary Grennan, slammin' some rhymes with beat provided by Scott and Lyle.
 
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The Journey into Spirit transforms the Ecovillage night.
 
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Escaping the heat.
 
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And a fond farewell, we look forward to next year's festival...
 
Lightwork Ecovillage Cob Workshop
Both our relationship to the land and our bodies were transformed by the depth of building an earth friendly home from the Ecovillage elements themselves.  It is a truly amazing process, building a cob structure; Jim Traynor guided us through this process with nobility and grace.
 
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Each day of the cob workshop started out with 1 hour of Lightwork Moving Meditation at sunrise. Yes to that!
 
 
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Solid foundations with rock from the land.

 
 
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Getting the foundation plumb with the level.
 
 
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The first ingredient in the magical cob mixture is sand. Cloe prepares a bucket full.
 
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The next ingredient is clay from the Ecovillage wetland, meditated - to align the platelets and imbue it with power.
 
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Keith adds straw essential for tensile strength.
 
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In cob construction you dance the mixture together, demonstrated here by Krista and Gary.
 
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Layer by layer the cob is applied in a specific manner to create one solid strong wall structure.
 
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Julia and Sandra show the cobbers thumb!
 
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Slowly by surely the structures form begins to show.
 
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Scott and Jim enjoying the view from Lightwork Ridge.
 
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Building with cob is an extremely physical and spiritual experience. We take a day off to enjoy the wonders of our beautiful Ecovillage home and surroundings. At the beach.
 
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Scott, Cloe, Jeanine and Gary go for a paddle at sunset and see lots of wildlife.
 
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Jim brings his mastery to the south-west corner.
 
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Julia and Scott build the double door frame which sits within the south wall.
 
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Next, the straw bale wall is constructed, very exciting for all.
 
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A happy crew.
 
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All foundations complete. All 4 door frames in position. Cob walls continue to grow and straw bale wall stands tall.
 
 

West Coast Magic


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Piercing the Fog, MacKenzie Beach, Vancouver Island, 2006

 
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Kelp in Calm, Clayoquot Sound, 2006
 
 
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The Dark and the Light, Clayoquot Sound 2006

 
 

Love and Creation


To be in the world from a place of love
It is the way to freedom

To know the wounds that hurt so much
Like a sword ripping through one’s soul,
are not forever

To know that love is boundless
It transcends all pain
It heals all damage
It caresses body and imbues life force
It creates the evolution of Spirit
And destroys limits
It slays fear with a power beyond time and space

Love and creation

Love is the building blocks of reality
It is what we are here to do
We must all
Find courage...reassure the body
...summon the Spiritual Warrior
...and love


 
 

All realities are valid realities,
nothing ever goes wrong.

Transcending judgment is one of the most challenging aspects of the spiritual journey to freedom.   We look at something and judge it from a place of right or wrong, good or bad, with either a negative or positive charge.  Judgment is created by a wound, a part of oneself that is not healed; a part which is not whole.

As we get more and more versed at seeing reality for what is rather than judging it - as a dichotomy, as right or wrong - the more we free ourselves from the limitations of the analyzer/mind.  We start to realize everything is being created for a specific reason and all of it can be used for our healing.  We start to be able to see other realities without judging them, not putting them into a right or wrong category.  We start to see all realities are valid.

Ultimately, when we see all realities are valid realities, we understand that this is the way to freedom.  This doesn't mean we support all realities.  There are realities we choose to put energy into and there are realities we choose to leave alone.  On a basic level we understand all realities are valid.  All have their place, in the evolution, the healing of individual beings.  All were created for a purpose.  We start to judge ourselves less and less.  We start to judge others less and less, to the point where we realize we have never done anything right and we have never done anything wrong, we have done just what we have done.

There are levels upon levels of neutrality - it is a process.  When one reaches their next level of neutrality the universe just opens up and freedom is more and more present in one's life.  Every situation that happens in your life is there for a specific reason.  If we can get out of judgment with it and see what it is truly about, we are able to get the learning and that is what moves us forward on our path to freedom.  Judgment is a trap, it is a cage. We need to free ourselves from it and ultimately understand all realities are valid realities and nothing ever goes wrong.

 

- Scott Robinson