I just got an email from Glenstal abbey in Limerick Ireland. I am signed up for their newsletter. Anyone who wants to investigate what I say in this post can go to their website glenstal.org or sign up for the newsletter yourselves.
I often get advertisements for events being held at the monastery. They are always for yoga chant meditation. I have not once got an add from them about anything Catholic going on there.
This is some of the emails I got:
A Month of Wednesdays: Chanting and Meditation with Marsha Eger, MA Ritual Chant
October 2, 9, 16,23, and 30, 2013
Our work and family responsibilities can make our lives a bit frenetic at times. A mid-week break focused on slowing down our minds and bodies and finding our peaceful center is a very necessary.
Join chanting meditation teacher, Marsha Eger for five Wednesday evening sessions at Glenstal Abbey during the month of October. These evenings will be devoted to chanting and meditation and are especially set for the mid-week time to give participants a break from routine and responsibility.
When I lived in Ithaca, New York I would hold these chanting sessions for friends and community members. We would meet every Wednesday to chant and meditate. It is important to stop, slow down and take pause mid-week. The chanting and meditation would help us shift out of our frenetic work pace and into a lovely quiet space that would then reset our energy and our focus for the final two days of the week. It changed how we approached everything.
Personally knowing the value and importance of taking pause and the power of chanting and meditation to help us do this, I have planned five sessions for participants to experience this for themselves.
Give yourself this lovely break in the week and join Marsha for five Wednesday evenings of chanting and meditation at Glenstal Abbey.
We will begin at 7:30 p.m. and end at 9:00 p.m. The evenings will include chanting and meditation, special readings, poetry and sharing of our experiences. Tea will be provided.
These sessions are open to people of all ages and all singing abilities. It is about finding our own voices that is most important.
The cost is €12 per session or €50 for all five sessions if paid the first evening.
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Five gatherings to help you explore and deepen your spirituality in a supportive and stimulating environment.
With Fr. Simon Sleeman, OSB, Noirin Ni Riain, PhD, and special lectures with Abbot Mark Patrick Hederman and other members of the Glenstal Abbey monastic community
This is a new Glenstal Abbey offering and is open to searchers and seekers of all creed and requires no prior experience.
12-13 Oct.
29 - 1 Dec.
31 Jan. - 2 Feb.
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BREATH OF LIFE
Exploring Body, Mind, and Spirit through
CHANT AND ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE
A one day Workshop at Glenstal Abbey
Saturday, 20 July, 2013
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.
COST OF THE WORKSHOP IS 80 EURO
To enroll contact: Marsha Eger at 087 184 5370 or at chantingmeditation@yahoo.com
On Sunday,25 Septmber, chanting meditation teacher, Marsha Eger and Niall Kelly, Alexander Technique teacher, and will once again offer this very popular daylong workshop focused on chanting, meditation, posture and breath work. The workshop will be held at Glenstal Abbey beginning at 10 a.m.
Events in our lives can cause us to contract or to close in on ourselves, pulling our body out of alignment without our even being aware of it. It soon becomes a way of being and limits our breath. It can also cause back or neck pain. As a result of not fully utilizing our lung capacity, which is only possible if we use good postural habits, we may have less energy, find that we easily tire and our thinking may even become a little less sharp.
Using Alexander Technique, toning, and chanting and meditation, we will invite participants to focus on the sacredness of your breath and to learn to make full capacity and use of breath to help you live a more energized, conscious, healthy and fully present life, no matter what your age.
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