Hugh Smiley

Workshop in Toronto,  June 9-10 weekend, 10:15 – 5:15

“Helping people to meditate better is a deep passion of mine. Using mindfulness and the human voice to understand the blocks really makes it easier and faster!”  - Hugh

Hakomi is a method of assisted self-study and emotional healing based on the practice of loving presence, mindfulness, and the modifications of underlying ideas and rules that drive behaviour. This weekend workshop will use experiential exercise in mindfulness to explore how these ideas, attitudes or psychological beliefs (often unconscious) limit, interrupt or even rule out our ability to meditate.

This exploration will help clear the way to increased clarity, creativity, confidence and awareness of the present moment as well as support a more successful meditation practice.

Location: Xiaolan Health Centre, 88 Prince Arthur Ave., Toronto

The fee is $240 + HST (early bird discount) up to May 9 and $285 (+HST) if registered after May 9.

Facilitator Hugh Smiley, has studied and worked with Hakomi founder Ron Kurtz since 1979 and has studied and practiced meditation since the early ’70s. He has developed the Korason Method of Authentic Voice and Dialogue and taught in 9 countries. Recently Hugh has been studying flamenco singing in Toronto and Sevilla, Spain.

To register:  please visit www.hakomiontario.com or call Hugh at 416-924-4941

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Get good at your mistakes, i.e. get good from them. Learn some alchemy and transform night into light, mud into gold. Going into the dark night takes courage; so does exploring the subconscious mind. But it helps to remember that, just as the sun still shines above the clouds on a gloomy day, it is also still shining at night and reflected on the moon. Even on a cloudy night, we can take the flashlight of the conscious mind into our nocturnal adventure to access new information and find our way back home. If the battery dies, we can always lie back, dream a little and wait til sunrise.

The most successful entrepreneurs make the biggest errors, often losing everything several times on their journey to excellence. Not only necessity, but mistakes, too, are mothers of invention (cornflakes, microwave ovens, vulcanized rubber and penicillin).

Admitting our fallibility can not only be reassuring to others but leave us in a humble, open and receptive state of mind – a good place to learn.