Reverse Meditation: A Weekend Retreat with Andrew Holecek (MAD-I-O-101423)

Reverse Meditation: How to Use Pain and Emotional Upheaval to Accelerate Your Path

A Weekend Retreat with Andrew Holecek
with Special Guest Appearance by Dr. Richie Davidson

The Reverse Meditations offer a radical way to bring the difficulties of life onto the path. They will show you how to find freedom in the most unwanted experiences, including illness and death. These practices are the opposite of what we consider meditation, and vastly expand our sense of practice, and the path altogether. They represent a healthy revolution in spiritual practice that turns your understanding of meditation inside out and upside down, bringing everything onto the path. Obstacles that previously obstructed your path are transformed into opportunities that now accelerate it. By putting your meditation into reverse you’ll actually find yourself going forward. The reverse meditations nurture an indestructible ability to handle anything that life throws your way.

Topics include:

• Transforming anxiety and fear
• Contraction and expansion: the combustion cycle of the path
• Unleashing the power of the unconscious mind
• How to work with anger, reactivity, and stress
• Traditional support from Buddhism and Hinduism
• Finding the sacred in the profane
• The practices that prepare for reverse meditation
• The four stages of reverse meditation
• Freedom from the need to be free
• Emptiness, Nonduality, and the Reverse Meditations

Please join us at this special weekend long retreat on October 14th and 15th. It is open to all, newcomers and experienced practitioners alike.

Date/Time/Location:

Saturday, October 14th - Sunday, October 15th
9am - 5pm CT (both days will have two sessions: 9am to 12:30pm with a lunch break then 2pm to 5pm)
Promega, BTC Auditorium, 5445 E Cheryl Parkway, Fitchburg, WI

About Andrew Holecek:

Andrew Holecek is an author and spiritual teacher who offers talks, online courses, and workshops in the United States and abroad. As a long-time student of Buddhism, he frequently presents this tradition from a contemporary perspective – blending the ancient wisdom of the East with modern knowledge from the West. Drawing on years of intensive study and practice, he teaches on the opportunities that exist in obstacles, helping people with hardship and pain, death and dying, and problems in meditation. Known as an expert on lucid dreaming and the Tibetan yogas of sleep and dream, he is an experienced guide for students drawn to these powerful nocturnal practices.

Andrew Holecek is the author of many books and offers seminars internationally on meditation, lucid dreaming, and dream yoga. He is the author of Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming and the Tibetan Yogas of Sleep, the audio learning course, Dream Yoga: The Tibetan Path of Awakening Through Lucid Dreaming, Dreams of Light: The Profound Daytime Practice of Lucid Dreaming, and The Lucid Dreaming Workbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering Your Dream Life (See all of his books). Dr. Holecek is a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, and the author of scientific papers on lucid dreaming.

Cost: 

Base fee - $225
Sponsor fee - $290
Reduced fee - $150

Contact:

Tergar Madison Meditation Community
301 S. Blount St., Madison, WI
madison.coordinator@tergar.org
(608) 440-3757