Spiritual, Healing, Green & Alternative Events
- What's On in Cambridge / UK -
updated
29 Aug 2010
Custom Search
You can submit your special "What's On" events.
E-mail: - please use the format of the red bullet entries below.
I appreciate any contributions from your side for this service. No guarantee your event will be published - but
if you send Ralph £2.-, your event will be posted ASAP. Spam safe Java script email display on this page
Missed an event? Look up Recent Events for contacts, links and information.
2010
Sun 5 Sept: Feeding Your Demons - Psychological Integration and Non Dual Wisdom (Daylong Workshop), 10am - 5pm
This workshop is open to everyone regardless of experience, who wants to work deeply with their own ‘demons’. It will provide you with a thorough grounding in this remarkable method for transforming and befriending negative emotions, fears, illness and self defeating patterns.
You will be introduced to the radical notion that to heal and transform ourselves we must ‘feed’ not fight our demons.
The process has been developed and carefully designed by Tsultrim Allione, author of ‘Women of Wisdom’ and ‘Feeding Your Demons’. The five steps of the practice take one through the entire process of transforming ‘demons’ into allies, whereby the energy that is caught up in inner conflict becomes liberated and available to us as a resource.
Vajralila and Sudakini have trained with Tsultrim Allione at her retreat centre in Colorado and are currently the only certified UK facilitators. They are also both fully qualified and registered Psychotherapists and ordained Buddhists.
* We are keen to share this work with as many people as possible and so are willing to consider requests for concessions if you have financial restrictions.
Cost: £65* - To Book, e: feedingyourdemons[AT]me.com - T: 07917 644942
For more info and workshops at other locations => www.feedingyourdemons.co.uk VENUE: Bharat Bhavan Hall, Mill Road / bridge, Cambridge
Sun 5 Sept: "Georgian Song" Maspindzeli (London Georgian Choir), led by Tamta Turmanidze & Mark Thomas, 6:00-7:30 pm
Come and delight in the evocative folk and religious songs from the
Republic of Georgia in the Caucasus Mountains.
contact Ashlyn or Miranda tel: 01223 353586 email: ashlyn.armour-brown[AT]ntlworld.com
for additional information or www.maspindzeli.org.uk Cost: £7 (£5 concession). Tickets at the door open 5:45 pm. Refreshments will be served. Donations welcome.
Venue: The Round Church, Bridge Street, Cambridge, CB2 1UB
Fri 10 Sept: "Rethinking Buddhism" - talk by Stephen Batchelor, 7-30pm
Stephen Batchelor is a contemporary Buddhist teacher and writer, best known for his secular or agnostic approach to Buddhism. Stephen considers Buddhism to be a constantly evolving culture of awakening rather than a religious system based on immutable dogmas and beliefs. Through his writings, translations and teaching, Stephen engages in a critical exploration of Buddhism's role in the modern world, which has earned him both condemnation as a heretic and praise as a reformer.
He was ordained as a novice Buddhist monk in 1974. He left India in 1975 in order to study Buddhist philosophy and doctrine under the guidance of Ven. Geshe Rabten, and the following year he received full ordination as a Buddhist monk. In 1981 he travelled to Songgwangsa Monastery in South Korea to train in Zen Buddhism under the guidance of Ven. Kusan Sunim. He disrobed in February 1985 and married Martine Fages before returning to England and joining the Sharpham North Community in Totnes, Devon. During the fifteen years he lived at Sharpham, he became co-ordinator of the Sharpham Trust (1992) and co-founder of the Sharpham College for Buddhist Studies and Contemporary Enquiry (1996). From 1990 he has been a Guiding Teacher at Gaia House meditation centre in Devon.
(www.stephenbatchelor.org)
On Saturday 11th Stephen will lead a one day course of meditation at the Friends Meeting House.
VENUE: Friends Meeting House, 12 Jesus Lane, Cambridge city
Fri 10 - Sun 12 Sep: Open Cambridge Weekend 2010 – a free weekend of free tours, talks and open access from the University of Cambridge
Cambridge is home to some spectacular architecture, fantastic art collections and beautiful gardens. Open Cambridge – part of Heritage Open Days – gives families, local residents and community groups the opportunity to visit properties that are usually closed to the public or normally charge for admission.
On Friday and Saturday, our pre-bookable tours cover topics such as the history, architecture, art and gardens of the University, College and city buildings, whilst College and University departmental libraries will open their doors, allowing you to explore exciting collections and manuscripts.
In particular, visitors may be interested in the Tour of the historic Festival Theatre and adjoining Georgian house at the Buddhist Centre. The Festival theatre is one of few pre-Victorian theatres outside London and the adjoining Georgian house has been converted to include shrine and study rooms as part of the Cambridge Buddhist Centre. You may like to visit Abbey House: a historic Tudor house, which is now home to a Buddhist community. You may also like to join the Historic Environment Manager for Cambridge City Council as he talks about the pressures that the historic city is facing in Cambridge: city of history and change.
This year, we are very pleased to welcome a number of city venues to the programme, which will be taking part in Open Cambridge for the first time. Look out for tours of some of the city’s most significant and historic buildings.
For a chance to visit several Colleges in one day, you might want to take part in the Bridge the Gap charity walk which takes place on Sunday 12 September.
Yours faithfully, Danielle Bassan, (Community Affairs)
Office of External Affairs and Communications -
Tel: +44 (0)1223 765490.
More => www.cam.ac.uk/communityaffairs
Tuesday 21 September 2010: “An introduction to the Baha’i Faith” - talk by Dr Nahal Mavaddat, 7.00 for 7.30 p.m.
Organised by the Cambridge Inter-Faith Group (www.cam.net.uk/home/interfaith)
Venue: Friends’ Meeting House, Jesus Lane, Cambridge, CB5 8BA; All welcome.
Fri 8 Oct: "Openness, Clarity and Sensitivity" by Lama Shenpen Hookham, 7-30pm
After a gap of 20 years we are delighted to welcome Lama Shenpen back to the Cambridge Buddhist Society. Lama Shenpen Hookham is the Principal Teacher of Discovering the Heart of Buddhism. In the 1970s, on the advice of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, she went to India where she lived in the Tibetan community as a nun for six years. There she studied and meditated in retreat under the guidance of Tibetan teachers such as Karma Thinley Rinpoche, Bokar Rinpoche and Kalu Rinpoche. In 1978 His Holiness, the 16th Karmapa, head of the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, instructed her to return to the West to teach Mahamudra.
There she met Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, who became her main teacher. She also met her husband, Lama Rigdzin Shikpo, whom she taught alongside for twenty years. In all she has spent nine years in retreat, and Khenpo Rinpoche has encouraged her, as lama, to teach and transmit Mahamudra, the innermost teachings of the Kagyu tradition. Lama Shenpen is fluent in Tibetan and has translated a number of Tibetan texts into English for her students. Her Oxford University doctoral thesis on the profound Buddha Nature doctrines of Mahayana Buddhism, has been published as The Buddha Within. She is also the author of There's More to Dying than Death.
Since then, Khenpo Rinpoche and Lama Rigdzin Shikpo have encouraged Shenpen to develop her teaching activities and in response to this she has developed a training called Discovering the Heart of Buddhism, and her students have formed the Awakened Heart Sangha, a spiritual community under her direction. Lama Shenpen now spends most of her time in semi-retreat at the Hermitage of the Awakened Heart, in North Wales. www.buddhism-connect.org Venue: Friends’ Meeting House, Jesus Lane, Cambridge, CB5 8BA;
Sat 23 Oct: "Jupiter-Knowledge and Belief" - an experiential astrology workshop with Derek Hawkins, Cambridge Jungian Circle
Using a large floor map of the zodiac,each participant will navigate a way through their own horoscope, with an emphasis on exploring the meaning of Jupiter in their chart. This can be a therapeutic and empowering experience as the meaning of their own horoscope becomes embedded in their mind and body.
=> Each participant needs to send Derek their birth details at least two weeks prior to the workshop.
Derek Hawkins is a well known astrologer who has devised a unique teaching method. He has taught for the Faculty of Astrological Studies, the London School of Astrology and the College of Psychic Studies.
Fee: CJC members £35, non-CJC £45 - More info at http://cambridgejungiancircle.org.uk/Experiential%20Astrology%20workshop.html This event is hosted by the Cambridge Jungian Circle, www.cambridgejungiancircle.org.uk Plase contact Alexandra Drysdale E-mail: , phone: 01223 570896
Sun 21 Nov '10: 8th Faith Fair & 10th Civic Celebration of Community (theme: Faith and Prayer), 2-5pm
the Cambridge Inter-Faith Group (www.cam.net.uk/home/interfaith) invites you to attend our eighth Faith Fair and tenth
Civic Celebration of Community on Sunday 21 November 2010 at 1.30 for 2.00 p.m. - end 5 p.m.
Free entry and refreshments - All are welcome.
Enquiries: Contact David Wilman VENUE: The Meadows Community Centre, 1 St Catharine’s Road, Cambridge CB4 3XJ - View map on Streetmap.co.uk
EVENTS - home
Sun 5 Sept: Feeding Your Demons - Psychological Integration and Non Dual Wisdom (Daylong Workshop), 10am - 5pm