Recordings of the 2016 Annual Retreat at the Oblate Retreat Centre, Crewe
Friday – Sunday, 19-21 February 2016
“The Secret Path of the Heart”
With
Saadi Neil Douglas Klotz and
Philip Tansen O’Donohoe
There is a light that shines beyond all things on earth, beyond us all, beyond the heavens,
beyond the highest, the very highest heavens.
This is the radiant light that shines in the heart of human beings.
–Chandogya Upanishad
MYSTICS FOCUS ON THE HEART because they know it is the centre of the being that controls the mind and all its vehicles, including the physical body. All mysteries belong to the heart yet the heart knows no mysteries. This is because the heart is the seat of true understanding. Bright but hidden, the Real Self dwells in the heart.
MANY BELIEVE THAT CONSCIOUS awareness originates in the brain alone. Recent scientific research suggests that consciousness actually emerges from the brain and body acting together. A growing body of evidence suggests that the heart plays the most significant role in this process. Far more than a simple pump, as was once believed, the heart is now recognised by scientists as a highly complex system with its own functional “brain.” The heart generates the body’s most powerful and most extensive rhythmic electromagnetic field. Compared to the electromagnetic field produced by the brain, the electrical component of the heart’s field is about 60 times greater in amplitude, and permeates every cell in the body.
THE SECRET PATH OF THE HEART is a path of inner healing and a gradual unfolding of the Real Self. This retreat is an opportunity for you to explore the sacred space of your own heart sphere and to gain an increased capacity for life in the heart. In this way one may reach to the very depths of one’s being and at the same time may expand to encompass the whole universe. The emphasis of the practices shared during this retreat will be to feel every experience as coming from and belonging to the heart, so that feeling and love may control every experience. There will be Dances of Universal Peace, walking meditation, heart meditations, sound, mantra and rhythmic movement to emphasise the heart space and heart rhythms.
The retreat is open to all who are ready and willing to open the doors of the heart.
Download a list of the contents of each session: Contents list
RECORDINGS:
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Friday 19th Feb 2016
| Evening Session | Tansen: Welcome and Invocation | Download file |
| Tansen: Dance: Shalom | Download file |
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| Tansen: Names and introduction | Download file |
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| Saadi: Dance: Abba Abada | Download file |
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| Tansen: Logistics of the venue | Download file |
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| Saadi: the programme | Download file |
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| Tansen: Dance: Let my heart reflect Thy light, Lord | Download file |
Saturday 20th Feb 2016
| Morning practices | Tansen: Breathing with mudra | Download file |
| First morning Session | Saadi: Invocation | Download file |
| Saadi: Dance: Mityil-adu min daresh | Download file |
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| Saadi: Teaching | Download file |
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| Saadi: Chant: Alaha Hedi | Download file |
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| Saadi: Wazifa: Ya Muqalib | Download file |
| Second morning Session | Tansen: dance: La ilaha illa ishq | Download file |
| Tansen: teaching | Download file |
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| Tansen: dance: Om Mane Peme Hung | Download file |
| First afternoon Session | Saadi: dance: Inana Gepeta | Download file |
| Saadi: meditation. Wazifas: Ya Dayim, Ya Qayim | Download file |
| Second afternoon Session | Tansen: dance: Om Sri Bhairava Namaha | Download file |
| Tansen: teaching | Download file |
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| Tansen: Sing/dance: Om Puurnnam-Adah
Om Puurnnam-Adah Puurnnam-Idam Puurnnaat-Purnnam-Udacyate |
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| Evening Session | Tansen: Dance: Angelic Bismillah | Download file |
| Saadi: Dance: Allah huma j’al | Download file |
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| Tansen: dance: Custom zikr | Download file |
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| Saadi: Story: Conneda and the little shaggy horse | Download file |
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| Saadi: dance: Kalama | Download file |
Sunday 21st Feb 2016
| Morning Practices | Download file |
| First morning session | Tansen: dance: La Wasselatee | Download file |
| Saadi: dance: Shimeni khahotam al-libbeka shimeni khahotam al-zeroeka ki-azza kammawet ahaba “Set me as a seal upon your heart and arm, Love is as strong as death” |
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| Tansen: teaching | Download file |
| Second morning session | Tansen: dance: Om Tare Tutare | Download file |
| Saadi: dance: Wa illa huna | Download file |
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| Saadi and Tansen: teachings | Download file |
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| Saadi: dance: Alaha Abaru | Download file |
| Afternoon session | Tansen: dance: Shanoon | Download file |
| Tansen: dance: Medicine Buddha | Download file |
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| Tansen: dance: Kalama, and sing: May All Beings Be Well | Download file |