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Upcoming Events: Camps & Retreats

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If you haven’t found us on Facebook, you might want to “like” our page. Every day, we share links that often don’t appear here. Here are upcoming events. 

Operation Purple Camp (Nationwide) –Applications will be available in March. Sierra Club, the National Military Family Association work with partners to send thousands of military children to camp each summer for one week –for free. Do keep tabs on the NMFA site for applications, and start thinking about a kid ages 7-15 who could really use the break this summer. Watch this video, and then come back to read the other events listed below.

Veterans Retreat (NY)  Claude Anshin Thomas, a Vietnam veteran will hold his well known retreat for veterans, active duty, families and friends. Thomas, who lived with the debilitating effects of PTSD is now a Buddhist monk. The retreat is to address the trauma of war, reduce stress, and bring a community together. If you cannot afford this retreat, please let the know –scholarships are available, “don’t let money be an issue.” This retreat is non political and non religious. Watch this video and come back to see the final event listed below. 

 

Free Yoga Class (Hopkinsville KY)  This class meets on Wednesdays from 5:00 – 6:00. One hour north of Fort Campbell, the class is open to veterans and their families and is sponsored by Connected Warriors Yoga.

In San Francisco: New Year’s Event With Honoring The Path Of The Warrior

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PRESS RELEASE

Fierce Intention In The New Year
Coming Together For A Day Of Meditation,
Mindfulness, Qi Gong and Writing 

Saturday, January 7th, 9am to 5pm

Free, Lunch Included. Need A Ride? Let Them Know.

Non denominational, open to Persian Gulf vets or who have served since 2001.

Registration info is below.
Mindfulness Care Center, 42 Gough Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

Click to be taken to Honoring The Path website

Turning from the old and the dark  - it takes fierce intention to stay with building a new life.

Join with the support of other veterans in this new year retreat to fiercely set goals about how you want to live.   We will spend the day together igniting this intention and finding the way forward.  The day will include:

    • An introduction to Traditional Chinese Internal Martial Arts
  •     Sensory Awareness and meditation  to cultivate clarity and steadfastness.
  • Writing and journaling as tools for exploration and finding what lies ahead.

Scott Philips, our guest instructor for the Martial Arts, will be teaching us to:  “Cultivate Emptiness in Motion” – an introduction to Traditional Chinese Internal Martial Arts, as meditation, healing, and the expression of one’s true nature.
Roger Housdon, our guest instructor for the wrting portion, says: “I teach soul memoir. Soul memoir is where your outer life meets your inner world. It uses the raw material of your life story to reveal the deeper intelligence of your inner journey. Through a variety of exercises,you are encouraged to reach down into the events of your life and find the deeper layers of wisdom and healing that may lie within them.”

“When I heard about the mindfulness/ meditation event, I was enthusiastic about getting together with other veterans. I was apprehensive about being in a group, but I felt instantly at home.” - Mike Smith, US Army, OIF Vet

Mission

Honoring the Path of the Warrior is a program that assists post 9/11 and Persian Gulf veterans in making a positive transition from military to civilian life. We provide a pathway of meditation and mindfulness that welcomes, honors, and integrates their service and leadership.

Our programs combine nature and engaging physical activities; meditation, Sensory Awareness and mindfulness practices. The intent is to provide Veterans with connection, community and tools that support them in using their strengths and experiences to find a meaningful and productive path in civilian life.  Mindfulness-based interventions have proven to be successful at transforming stress, anxiety and trauma in a number of diverse populations and are being used within the VA system for returning veterans as well as deployed soldiers.

HPW is a San-Francisco-based non-profit organization under the fiscal sponsorship of the San Francisco Zen Center.

PLEASE REGISTER!  Give Army Veteran Dyan Ferguson a call at 415-310-7075.

Please consider supporting this very important work!  Make a tax-deductible contribution through our fiscal sponsor, San Francisco Zen Center.  To donate online, please go to:  www.HonoringThePath.org/supporting-hpw/contributing.

You can also join our mailing list for event notices and news about us here:  http://www.honoringthepath.org/contact

Upcoming Events: Earn CE Credits at a Trauma Seminar with Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.

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An event worth trying to go to if you’re in the area.  PTSD research pioneer and physician Bessel van der Kolk will be at Kripalu at a 2 day seminar Frontiers of Trauma Treatment.

From the blog:

Program Details

For therapists, health professionals, yoga instructors, and other individuals interested in studying the nature and process of trauma.

Overcoming trauma means learning to fully engage in the present without being hijacked by survival-related emotions and sensations. Success means allowing yourself to know what you know and feel what you feel without reentering the misery of the past. Recovery depends on having physical experiences that contradict the sensations and feelings of helplessness and disconnection. Physical mastery of a body-based practice like yoga can open new pathways to current reality.

This workshop, based on the foundational practices of yoga and mindfulness meditation, includes

  • Current research on trauma
  • An exploration of the way overwhelming experiences change the capacity for self-regulation and how imprints of trauma are held in the body
  • How brain function is shaped by experience and how life itself can continually transform the organization of brain circuits
  • Specific techniques that address affect regulation, the integration of dissociated aspects of experience, chronic helplessness, and the reintegration of human connections.

Your increased understanding fertilizes the application of effective trauma interventions, including EMDR, yoga and sensorimotor processing, Internal Family Systems, and neurofeedback.