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Daily Morning Celebrations:
The Best of Bayside!
Each morning we gather for a period of contemplation and celebration.
These reflective moments will be coordinated by one of the campers and
bring together poetry, music, meditation, rhythm, song, and a few
surprises...
Each year a few of the campers share their own peak learning and experiences
with the group, building a week's worth of meaningful programming by tapping the
best resource out there - Bayside campers!
If you have a spiritual practice, talent, or bit of knowledge that you'd
be willing to share with your fellow campers during our time together,
please let the registrar know.
Morning Workshops
Sailing Lessons
With Wesley Woods staff
Avast ye mateys! Prepare to be capsized!
Yup, some brave Bayside adults will be heading out into the rolling waves
of Lake Geneva to learn to be jibey and tacky and how to capsize and make it
look like you meant it to happen.
(Participants will need to pass the Wesley Woods swim test.)
To be Announced
Something marvelous is bound to come up. Meanwhile,
here's last year's workshops...
(2009) Food as Medicine
With Dr. Terry Wahls
Learn about the critical link between mitochondrial health and our
well-being. This course focuses on how the food we eat is responsible for
our health.
Having once been confined to a wheelchair by progressive multiple
sclerosis, Terry changed her diet and is now able to bicycle to work every
day. She has become passionate about the critical link between our
nutrition and the health of our brains and our bodies.
Terry will present her research into food as medicine and discuss her own
"out of the chair" experience along with stories of others who have made
dramatic health improvements through changes in diet. Participants
will make several recipes to taste some wonderful food that is great for the
brain, the joints, the body - and tastes terrific!
Dr.
Terry Wahls is an Associate Clinical Professor of
Medicine at the University of Iowa. She has a joint appointment with
the Veterans Administration Medical Center and the University of Iowa
Hospitals and Clinics where she sees patients in the traumatic brain injury
clinics.
More information can be found at her Web
site:
www.terrywahls.com.
(2009) Buddhism 101 The Practice of
Presence
With Eric Nelson (2 to 12 participants).
Each day we will include two 15 minute teaching sessions, followed by
inquiry practice in dyads and sitting meditation. We will close each day
with time to journal and share our experience in a dialogue circle.
No previous meditation experience is necessary to participate.
The workshop will be based on the spiritual practices developed by A.H.
Almaas and presented in his most recent book "The Unfolding Now" ($15.95).
Preview the book at
Google Books .
Eric Nelson is a meditation practitioner for 30 years
with training in Hinduism i.e. Kriya Yoga and Vedanta (teachers D.P. S.
Dwarakesh, Swami Kriyananda and Yogananda); Theosophy training at the
Arcane School; Tibetan Buddhism (teacher Lama Surya Das); and Diamond
Approach (teacher A. H. Almaas).
Porch Workshop
A perennial favorite! Join seasoned Baysiders in exploring the
complex personal, spiritual, and political facets of contemplating the
world from an old wooden rocking chair on a large shaded porch overlooking
the timeless splendor of Lake Geneva. Participants will learn
valuable skills like:
- several easy-to-assume postures for shut-eye meditations
- positioning yourself to make the most of the handrail and footrest
- how to appear to be reading while watching the sunbathers on the beach
- the best nods and grimaces to entertain passersby
Depending on how rapidly the workshop progresses, participants may
investigate more advanced skills like:
- leaning w-a-a-a-a-y back
- VLHR (very-low heart rate) meditations
- synchronized snoring
If you would like more information, please feel free to
contact the camp registrar:
Stephanie Lent
Middleton, WI 608-831-1784
Last
updated
01/15/10 by Cliff Missen
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