Venue: 2805 Broadway Street, Boulder, CO 80304 (info@boulderintegral.org)

Over the last 30 years, many forms of Buddhist-inspired psychotherapy have emerged to help men and women process their shadows, triggers, blockages, and repressions, so they can become better functioning adults. And while many of these programs have helped people have healthier egos, they have a much less impressive track record for creating and sustaining spiritual insight in their practitioners. This lecture will explore:

• Therapy not grounded in the truth of impermanence is counterproductive to both the therapeutic process and the spiritual path.
• Your angst is your liberation. Anxiety, dread, depression, anger, resentment, jealousy, and insecurity are the very doors that will lead you away from egoic suffering and into true freedom.
• What you can do to use your own angst as the means of your liberation.

Jun Po Roshi spent many years in the intense practice and study various psychotherapies and doing Men’s Work, unpacking his own shadow material. What he realized was that no matter how skillful, therapy that treats the ego as real strengthens attachment, creates ongoing suffering, and blocks spiritual insight.

The implications of this are profound for our relationship to our own ego, to our spiritual insight, and to our ability to take our seats as Awake, embodied spiritual beings. Come join us for a provocative and deeply engaging lecture into spirituality and therapy in the 21st Century.

Jun Po Roshi is the 83rd Patriarch in Rinzai Zen, and was the first dharma heir to Eido Shimano Roshi. He has extensively studied numerous schools of psychotherapy and is an elder in the ManKind Project (MKP). He has created, according to Ken Wilber, the “first true innovation in Zen in 1,000 years” through the creation of Mondo Zen™. www.MondoZen.org

Poetry Reading by Jason Matthew Turner

Friday 1/22;  6:30 – 8:30 pm
$10 BI Members – $15 Non members
Venue: 2805 Broadway Street, Boulder, CO 80304
Email: info@boulderintegral.org

Here’s a chance to meet and hang out with Diane Musho Hamilton, one of the most gifted teachers in the Integral World.  Diane has led many spiritual retreats and trainings, both in her role as a fully-ordained Zen priest (she was given dharma transmission by her Zen master, Genpo Roshi, in 2006), and as a leading student of Ken Wilber’s through the Integral Institute.  She is a core founder of iEvolve: Global Practice Community and a co-director of Integral Life Spiritual Center.  She is well known as an innovator in facilitating group dialogues, especially controversial conversations about culture, religion, race and gender relations.

Diane Hamilton and Jeff Salzman are dear friends, and have lovingly collaborated as integral teachers and pioneers for many years.  The evening at Boulder Integral (Friday 1/22;  7 – 9 pm) will be a casual conversation between the two, and an opportunity for you to share your questions and insights on what it is to walk the path of Integral Dharma.  Join us!

Poetry Reading
Jason Matthew Turner is a traveling poet and photographer. His expression invites spiritual insight into the human condition, as well as the higher reaches of our evolving potential. He believes deeply in the power of art as an agent of personal and cultural transformation, and has performed all across the United States, including at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, and the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in New York City. Learn more at http://evolutionaryartist.blogspot.com.

January 31, 2010
2pm – 4pm
Boulder Integral Members – $10
Regular Entrance – $15

Event will be held at
Boulder Integral Center, 2805 Broadway Street, Boulder, CO 80304 (we are in the north/west corner of Broadway and Balsam)
Limited parking only. Car-pooling and the SKIP bus highly recommended.

Best selling author Sara Davidson, and international peace activist, Rabia Elizabeth Roberts, will talk about their recent trip to Afghanistan. They arrived in Kabul believing the U.S. should withdraw its troops, but after 8 days their presumptions were turned upside down.

The people they talked with made it clear that peace, for them, requires more than withdrawing troops or sending more. Rabia will address how the progressive community can help Afghans, especially women, attain the peace they want, and Sara will relate the human stories from their trip.

Seating will be limited so , so please rsvp to website-feedback@saradavidson.com

Sara Davidson is the bestselling author of Leap! What Will We Do with the Rest of our Lives? and Loose Change, the definitive book about growing up in the ’60s.  As a journalist, novelist, TV writer and radio host, she’s earned a reputation for writing cutting edge pieces about the way we live. Read more at www.saradavidson.com

Elizabeth Rabia Roberts, Ed.D. is an educator and social activist who has worked for more than 40 years on issues related to peace, justice and environmental health. She is co-founder of the Boulder Institute for Nature and the Human spirit and directs its new Path of the Friend program. She has taught at Harvard University’s School of Education and was a founding faculty of the Naropa University’s MA in Environmental Leadership. in 1999 she and her husband, Elias Amidon, sold their Boulder home and began an open-ended international pilgrimage of service and teaching. After 9/11 this work took them increasingly to Muslim countries. Over the past years she has worked in Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Syria, Jordan and most recently Afghanistan. She plans to return to Afghanistan to work with women there in April 2010. She is co-editor of the anthologies Earth Prayers and Life Prayers.

• We’ll have plenty of food and drinks, but in the spirit of community, it would be great to bring something along to share.
• You may bring along a sleeping bag if you don’t want to drive after the party. We have plenty space to crash for an after-party zzzz-zonk!
• Tickets are selling fast! Purchase your tickets soon (link below). We’ll be selling tickets also at the entrance on the night of the party (if there are any remaining). Please bring printed confirmation as your ticket.
• Parking is an issue anywhere in Boulder. We have our own limited parking to the south and west of the center. Please car pool with a designated driver.  Street parking is available. Please be respectful of the neighborhood.  We are located at the north/west corner of Broadway and Balsam.

For 21 days you will be instructed, inspired and supported to eat and live, guided by the Nutritional wisdom of your Healthy ancestors, your body’s innate wisdom, and scientific evidence.

You will learn a way of living that produces:

• Weight Loss of 8 to 15 lbs
• Radiant Health without medicines
• A beautiful toned body
• Balanced energy and strength
• Greater self-control and discipline
• Freedom from cravings and addictions

“Food Is Your Best Medicine” teaches you to markedly improve your Health and energy by improving the way you eat. You are also informed and encouraged to exercise, to study and journal, and support one another during the course.

Every session provides a high level of inspiration and education by Dr. Cropley. Charley’s passion comes through in his lectures! He presents information in a way that simply cannot be matched by reading it. You will leave each class feeling highly motivated and fully committed to live what you have learned. The amount and quality of information you will receive in each class is phenomenal.

For 21 days you will study and practice a way of eating that will make sense to you and that you can follow for the rest of your life. Additionally you will learn about such topics as Truths and Fallacies about Weight Gain; Raw Foods; Food Combining; Carbohydrate and Fat Metabolism; Myths about Cholesterol; The Psychology of Eating; Strengthen Self-Control using Kindness, and much more.

Additionally you will receive an “online” course book that you can print out for yourself. This course book is “in the trenches” practical. It includes detailed instructions and menus for each day of the course, recipes, shopping lists… You will also receive access to a special website that will include even more inspirational and educational information.

OVERVIEW OF THE EATING PROGRAM

You will adapt your eating program to the level of challenge that you feel best suits you at this time. There is absolutely NOTHING you are required to eat or not eat. Most people will follow an eating program that begins with a core diet of fruit, nuts, seeds, oils, small amounts of grains or starches and generous amounts of vegetables and animal or vegetable proteins. The program is adaptable for both vegetarians and non-vegetarians. You may or may not choose to exclude potentially allergenic foods such as milk, wheat, sugar, yeast etc.

Allow about one hour per day for homework and to prepare basic foods.

COOKING CLASS – “SIMPLE NOURISHMENT”

This class will teach you how to make 4 to 7 days worth of nutritious, delicious, practical dishes in one food preparation session. You will also receive practical training in how to supply your home, as well as how to eat at work, while traveling and at social engagements. You will gain a deeper understanding about what the actual impact of certain foods really has on your energy, weight and Health. This information will not be covered in “Food Is Your Best Medicine”. What you learn here will be invaluable to you during the 3 week course and for the rest of your life. I cannot over emphasize the value of this class.

INFORMATION

LOCATIONS OF ALL CLASSES WILL BE AT

Boulder Integral: 2805 Broadway St. Boulder, CO 80304

Sun (1/10) Cooking Class: Location is tentative and subject to change.

Please carpool if possible as parking is limited!!

(and it’s better for our environment!)

• Tues, January 5: 6:30 – 9:00 pm*
• Sun, January 10: 12 – 5 pm Cooking Class 3 – 5 pm
• Wed, January 20: 7:00 – 9:00 pm
• Wed. February 3: 7:00 – 9:00 pm

For details on dates, times, and registration, please click here.

To learn more about Dr. Charley Cropley, visit www.charleycropley.com

For questions, please contact Nan Fitzgerald, 303.818.7982,  Nanfit1@yahoo.com

Intro to Integral Theory and Practice

Sunday, March 7 or Sunday, June 13

1 – 5 pm

$85 (Boulder Integral Members)
$95 (Non-Members)

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR MARCH 7 INTRO
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR JUNE 13 INTRO

• Heard about the Theory of Everything?
• Or evolutionary enlightenment?
• Tired of the same old left vs right, good vs bad, yes vs no arguments we hear all around us?
• If you are considering attending the Integral Incubator, this might be a great way to kick off the five-day intensive…

The Intro to Integral Theory and Practice is a class for people who want a quick, efficient download on the emerging worldview that seeks to integrate the gifts of all other worldviews:

• The gifts of science and religion
• The gifts of the East and the West,
• The gifts of the Ancients, the Moderns, the Post-Moderns

The goal — and indeed the result — of this integration, is a view and a way of living that is larger, deeper, more flexible and wise. At Boulder Integral we recognize this as a new stage in the on-going evolution of consciousness and human culture, and seek to explore and enact it in our lives. Through the Integral Incubator and other programs, we are pioneering the development of various kinds of integral practices, designed to help people become more aware, in touch, and capable of skillful action.

This four-hour class focuses on the key element of Integral theory: evolution. We will show patterns of history that make sense of our human heritage, and also deeply inform and inspire smarter solutions to today’s global challenges. We will also map the stages of personal evolution that starts with each of us at birth, revealing insights, and indeed energetics, that accelerate our personal evolution in real time. Soon we’re surfing the rising wave of Emergence itself!

Intro to Integral Theory and Practice is taught by Jeff Salzman, co-founder of Boulder Integral and leader of the Integral Incubator, and Nomali Perera, longtime integral life practitioner, and certified Integral Coach.

Jeff Salzman is lead teacher at Boulder Integral as well as part of the founding circle. He is co-founder of CareerTrack Training, and has worked in adult education / transformation for twenty five years. For three years Jeff worked side by side with Ken Wilber building the Integral Institute, an international center for integral theory and application. A Divinity School dropout, he has a Masters Degree in Indo-Tibetan Studies from Naropa University. Jeff is devoted to the Integral Worldview and to helping it arise in people’s mind/bodies through the world of Boulder Integral. At the present time Jeff is the primary benefactor of our enterprise and is responsible for the programming at our center. He can be reached at jeff@boulderintegral.org.

Nomali Perera is a member of the founding circle of Boulder Integral. She manages events and general operations, with a keen eye for the look and feel of the center. Bitten by the integral bug, Nomali moved from Sri Lanka to Boulder, Colorado in 2002. She has a BA in Contemplative Psychology & Religious Studies from Naropa University, an MA in Nonprofit Management from Regis University, Denver, and recently graduated as a certified Integral Coach from Integral Coaching Canada. Prior to her current position at Boulder Integral, Nomali worked at Ken Wilber’s Integral Institute.  She can be reached at nomali@boulderintegral.org.

Intro to Integral Theory and Practice

Sunday, March 7 or Sunday, June 13

1 – 5 pm

$85 (Boulder Integral Members)
$95 (Non-Members)

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR MARCH 7 INTRO
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR JUNE 13 INTRO

• Heard about the Theory of Everything?
• Or evolutionary enlightenment?
• Tired of the same old left vs right, good vs bad, yes vs no arguments we hear all around us?
• If you are considering attending the Integral Incubator, this might be a great way to kick off the five-day intensive…

The Intro to Integral Theory and Practice is a class for people who want a quick, efficient download on the emerging worldview that seeks to integrate the gifts of all other worldviews:

• The gifts of science and religion
• The gifts of the East and the West,
• The gifts of the Ancients, the Moderns, the Post-Moderns

The goal — and indeed the result — of this integration, is a view and a way of living that is larger, deeper, more flexible and wise. At Boulder Integral we recognize this as a new stage in the on-going evolution of consciousness and human culture, and seek to explore and enact it in our lives. Through the Integral Incubator and other programs, we are pioneering the development of various kinds of integral practices, designed to help people become more aware, in touch, and capable of skillful action.

This four-hour class focuses on the key element of Integral theory: evolution. We will show patterns of history that make sense of our human heritage, and also deeply inform and inspire smarter solutions to today’s global challenges. We will also map the stages of personal evolution that starts with each of us at birth, revealing insights, and indeed energetics, that accelerate our personal evolution in real time. Soon we’re surfing the rising wave of Emergence itself!

Intro to Integral Theory and Practice is taught by Jeff Salzman, co-founder of Boulder Integral and leader of the Integral Incubator, and Nomali Perera, longtime integral life practitioner, and certified Integral Coach.

Jeff Salzman is lead teacher at Boulder Integral as well as part of the founding circle. He is co-founder of CareerTrack Training, and has worked in adult education / transformation for twenty five years. For three years Jeff worked side by side with Ken Wilber building the Integral Institute, an international center for integral theory and application. A Divinity School dropout, he has a Masters Degree in Indo-Tibetan Studies from Naropa University. Jeff is devoted to the Integral Worldview and to helping it arise in people’s mind/bodies through the world of Boulder Integral. At the present time Jeff is the primary benefactor of our enterprise and is responsible for the programming at our center. He can be reached at jeff@boulderintegral.org.

Nomali Perera is a member of the founding circle of Boulder Integral. She manages events and general operations, with a keen eye for the look and feel of the center. Bitten by the integral bug, Nomali moved from Sri Lanka to Boulder, Colorado in 2002. She has a BA in Contemplative Psychology & Religious Studies from Naropa University, an MA in Nonprofit Management from Regis University, Denver, and recently graduated as a certified Integral Coach from Integral Coaching Canada. Prior to her current position at Boulder Integral, Nomali worked at Ken Wilber’s Integral Institute.  She can be reached at nomali@boulderintegral.org.

Dec. 10th, 6:30pm
$10 (for members)/$15 (non members)

Joyful, peaceful, serene, transparent, interdependent, fully present, timeless, aware … feeling loved, lovable and loving.

Author and dear friend of Boulder Integral, Jim Warner, will guide us on the journey to this Holy Grail state of conscious, full-out loving. Jim will both share his own story and draw from the stories of the thousands of leaders he has guided at retreats and in transition seminars.

Drawing from his recent book, Facing Pain – Embracing Love: The Map to Authentic Living, Jim will present the difficult tradeoffs we face as we strive for both worldly success and intimate connection. These include: success vs. significance; accumulation vs. stewardship; competition vs. compassion; guardedness vs. forgiveness, and control vs. surrender.

About Jim Warner

Jim Warner’s insights are grounded in a rare combination of experience and empathy. Between 1980 and 1992, Jim led the start-up, growth and sale of Precision Visuals, a successful Boulder software company. Today, as founder of OnCourse International, he is a dedicated coach, guide and facilitator to leaders and companies facing challenging transitions. Having worked with more than 2,000 high achievers – as well as hundreds of their spouses – in retreat and workshop settings, Jim is a recognized expert at helping individuals, couples and teams achieve greater self-awareness, authentic, productive communication, and more fulfilling relationships – for more satisfying, productive lives.

Jim is the author of Facing Pain – Embracing Love, Aspirations of Greatness, and the audio series When Having It All Isn’t Enough. Jim has been married 33 years and enjoys enriching relationships with his three adult children. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan as well as an alumnus of Harvard Business School.

What does the common cold and flu have to do with adaptation, habituation, and healthy evolution? What does the cultivation of spontaneity have to do with immunity? How can understanding this positively change our relationship to getting sick, and reduce the illness of ‘fear of flu’ which is more pandemic than the flu itself? In this talk we will explore an alternate paradigm to the current germ theory, and look at it within the context of spiral dynamics and Chinese medicine.

This will not just be a theoretical presentation. We will explore within our bodies the mechanisms behind evolution, habituation, and spontaneity and how this directly relates to immunity and health. This presentation will also include some natural methods to both treat and prevent colds and flues.

If we are interested in living a truly integral life, then we are challenged to embody the mental, emotional, and physical aspects of the theories we love. This presentation will open a very profound conversation around how to do just this. The time for just thinking about it has passed, we must live it with every pore. Our very life depends on it. See you there.

You will learn:

• The microcosmic mirror of evolution (triune evolutionary mechanism) within the pleomorphic nature of bacteria and viruses.
• An alternate germ theory discovered by scientists, Antoine Bechamp, and Gaston Naessens.
• The relationship between habituation, spontaneity, and immunity.
• The importance of internal/external living conditions and taking full responsibility for one’s health vs. the destruction of a perceived evil.
• Natural remedies for colds, and flues, including an in depth understanding of a very effective essential oil formula used to prevent and treat colds and flues.

Alexander M. Love, M. Ac., Dipl. OM, NTS facilitates groups to deepen their understanding of Natural Medicine, including diagnosis and treatment.  Alexander assists students to not only grasp new theoretical concepts, but to embody these concepts and touch the heart of Natural Medicine.  Alexander is currently pursuing a Ph. D in Classical Chinese Medicine.  He received a Master’s degree in Acupuncture from the Academy for Five Element Acupuncture (AFEA), and is a Diplomat of Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM).  Alexander is a faculty member at AFEA in Gainesville, Florida, teaching Chinese Herbal Medicine, Five Element Acupuncture and business practices.  Alexander teaches Core Synchronism throughout the United States and has created the first 11/2 year intensive course in Core Synchronism and Natural Medicine.  He is the president of the Institute for the Medical Arts and has a private practice in Boulder, CO.  For more information or for a free 30 minute consultation contact Alexander at 303-947-1315 or alexander@enjoyvibrantliving.com.  See www.enjoyvibrantliving.blogspot.com

What: Senshi Meditation & Mindfulness Practice
When: 7-8pm Monday nights. starting Nov. 9th (please be in the meditation hall a few minutes before 7pm)*
Cost: Free
Where: Meditation Room at Boulder Integral (2805 Broadway Street, Boulder)
Facilitator: Keith Martin-Smith

“Senshi” means “warrior” in Japanese, and this is warrior training for your body, your mind, and your spirit. Becoming an accomplished athlete, artist, businessperson, or author requires discipline of practice. Our spiritual practice is no different.

Senshi Meditation takes seriously the idea that there is nothing more important in your life right now then waking up. Every minute spent asleep is another minute spent in bondage, in contraction, in ignorance, in servitude to old stories, patterns, and obsessions. This is a life and death practice, and we will take our seats as warriors dedicated to our path.

OVERVIEW

• This meditation class will begin informally at 6:45pm, where any questions can be answered, we can talk, warm up, and drop in.
• Meditation will go from precisely 7pm until 8pm.
• We will sometimes engage in one or all of the following as part of our practice: mindful physical embodiment, energy work, and/or discussion of the Dharma.
• The sit ends at 8pm, but there will be another optional 15 minutes of post-sit discussion for anyone interested in staying and discussing anything that might have come up.

DETAIL

• Meditation practice will follow the Rinai Zen tradition, which is derived directly from the Japanese Samurai. Rinzai, more than any other meditative discipline, embodies the energy of spiritual practice as warrior practice. When you take your seat in a Rinzai Zen sit, you take your seat as a warrior, and you resolve to face whatever arises during the sit — emotional, physical, or spiritual — without movement of any kind. No scratching, no shifting in your seat, no adjusting your posture, no eye wandering. The body remains utterly, completely still, as a service to yourself and to those around you. We will use concentration meditation as a way to Clear Deep Heart/Mind and Samadhi (unreasonable joy).
• Physical Embodiment Practice will follow the stretching, breathing, and strength-building used in Northern Shaolin Kung Fu. The focus will be on mindful execution and mindfulness practice, no matter what discomfort the body is experiencing.
• Energy Work will include qi gong movements and sitting qi gong practice.
• Discussion of spiritual classics and other suggested books will fine tune our philosophical understanding of our practice.
• Mondo Zen Protocols (deconstruction and reconstruction of the ego) will occur by appointment only, outside of class time.

PROTOCOL

Will be explained before we seal the container of our group. Instruction will be provided for other activities at the appropriate time. No unnecessary speaking or eye contact during the hour of formal practice — this is a sacred space dedicated to our Awakening!

METHOD

Boulder, CO has many strengths, but a sharp and clear lineage of spiritual discipline, taught in an uncompromising way, is not one of them. While emotional processing, the honoring of all perspectives, and go-at-your-own pace models all serve our emerging, post-conventional selves, they can be toxic to the spiritual path. “There is a way between voice and presence where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens. With wondering talk it closes.” —Rumi

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR

Keith Martin-Smith began studying the Dharma in 1996, and took Red Tara Empowerment and Bodhisattva Vows with Lama Tsering Everest in 2001. In 2007 he met Jun Po Roshi and became a formal student of his, and was given the Dharma name “Ko Gen” (“Tiger Eye”). Keith/Kogen has been authorized by Jun Po Roshi to teach the Mondo Zen deconstruction/reconstruction protocol and meditation.

Kogen is also the most senior disciple and only lineage holder of Grandmaster Jeon Hoon Jeon, 3rd Generation White Tiger Master, and has been given the title of “Co-Master” in the instruction of Northern Shaolin Kung Fu and Qi Gong. He has been training since 1994 and teaching since 2003. His training in Kung Fu and Qi Gong is ongoing on the way to becoming a Master. He has also studied Jin Woo, Hung Gar, Wing Chun, and Jinqui Qi Gong.

“What is better, satisfying 1,000 desires or conquering one?”

INTEGRAL FRAME FOR THOSE INTERESTED

An absolutistic (Amber) frame for teaching has been used for millennia in spiritual and physical disciplines, but has been increasingly abandoned as we moved into modernity (Orange) and postmodernity (Green). But we are seeing in places like Boulder, CO, some of the problems when one throws out the Amber, hierarchical frame for teaching: namely, it is the most effective way to create change. Amber is wonderful at helping to break the body and the mind into a difficult discipline. Orange interpretations of these disciplines can focus too much on the status and ranking of the student, while Green interpretations are, among other problems, reluctant to force one kind of training and philosophy onto students. The result of the loss of Amber teaching methods applied to marital arts and spiritual practice has been a reduction in the quality of students and of their overall competency.

We can add Orange and Green emergent truths and understandings into pre-and-post practice structures, to honor the insights of those worldviews. But putting those structures into the Amber frame destroys the pressure that Amber has been so carefully formatted to create, and lengthens the entire process when it doesn’t destroy it utterly.