Glastonbury 2016 Class Details - Holy Fire Karuna Reiki® Master May 30- June 3
Holy Fire Karuna Reiki® Master May 30 - June 3, 2016
Glastonbury/Stonehenge
Residental Training
Class fee $1100 USD
Room, Meals and Tax $875 USD
Total cost $1975 USD
$800 USD deposit
Class registration and room check-in Monday afternoon at 4:00 p.m.
Monday dinner at 7:00 p.m.
Class begins at 9:00 a.m. Tuesday morning
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Savings
The fee charged for room and meals will save students on average about $200.00 USD versus what is charged locally for room and meals for the same period of time.
Acceptance
Acceptance into the class is based on having had the required training and validating this by sending us your qualifying Reiki certificate. Karuna Reiki® requires having practiced and/or taught at Reiki master level for a year prior to the beginning class date. You must be signed up and accepted into the class prior to the beginning date of class. The class deposit must be paid in advance and the class balance can be paid in advance or at the beginning of class. The deposit and balance can be paid on the class web page or by contacting center@reiki.org or by phone (011) 248-948-8112. Deposit for this class is non-refundable and non-transferable.
Residential Training
This is a residential class at the Abbey Retreat House and includes room and meals. All students are required to pay the residential fee and stay at the Abbey Retreat House during the class.
Abbey Retreat House
Chilkwell Street
Glastonbury, Somerset BA6 8DH, UK
You do not need to contact Abbey House to register for the workshop.
By sending your deposit and filling out our forms, we'll
take care of your registration including room and meals.
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Booking extra days at Abbey Retreat House
After you have registered and been accepted - if you'd like to book extra days at Abbey Retreat House before or after the workshop, please contact Abbey Retreat House, +44 1458 831112 or email info@abbeyhouse.org
Rooms
The rooms are single or double occupancy depending on availability. The same fee is charged for either single or double occupancy. The bathrooms and showers are not located in the rooms, but are on the same floor. The rooms are small, yet neat and clean and include a bed, desk, sink and closet. All rooms have a view of nature and some face the Glastonbury Abbey ruins. There is no phone in the house. If you'll need a phone it is suggested to bring a cell phone that can take a local sim card or to purchase a phone while there. Cell phone stores are in the town of Wells about 6 miles away. Internet wifi is available in most of Abbey Retreat House and it does support the use of Skype. The rooms are on the 2nd floor and a chair lift, but no elevator is provided. (There are several steps at the front door.) Towels and Soap: Towels and soap are provided.
Residential Days
The Residential fee includes 4 nights stay, Monday through Thursday with check out on Friday morning. Class registration and check-in time will be Monday afternoon at 4:00 p.m.
Booking Extra Days
It is highly recommended that you book extra days before and after class to allow time to enjoy the many spiritual sites in and around Glastonbury. There are lots of B&Bs in the area, many within walking distance to Abbey House. Please use the links below to locate other accommodations.
Links for additional accommodations
Glastonbury Tourist Information Center
http://www.smoothhound.co.uk/glastonb.html
http://www.parsnips-glastonbury.co.uk/
http://www.chalicewell.org.uk/
http://www.glastonbury.co.uk/pages/site.php?pgid=251
Meals
The meals will be simple, yet tasty and nutritious. You will be sent a meal form to fill out after you’ve paid your class deposit and you’ve been accepted into the class. Meals include dinner on Monday, breakfast, lunch and dinner Tuesday through Thursday and breakfast on Friday morning. An exception is when we’ll be going to Stonehenge and eating our own snack/dinner on the bus which you are responsible for purchasing and bringing with you.
Meal Choices
Semi-vegetarian
Meals will include chicken or fish, dairy and vegetables.
Vegetarian
Meals will include vegetables, fish, dairy.
Vegan
Vegetables
Special diet
This will be handled individually based on each student’s description of their dietary needs. You will be sent a meal form to fill out after you’ve paid your class deposit and you’ve been accepted into the class.
Access to Glastonbury Abbey
Included as part of being a guest at Abbey Retreat House is free access to Glastonbury Abbey. Access both during and after hours is at the back of the Abbey Retreat House grounds through our own door.
The Tor, Chalice Well and High Street
All of the sacred sites around Glastonbury are within walking distance of the Abbey Retreat House. Especially close is the Chalice Well which is a short walk down Chilkwell Street. A path leading up to the Tor is located by walking up Dod Lane (see map) and High Street is a short 2 blocks away where all the crystal shops, new age book stores and restaurants are located.
Hike
William will lead a hike to many of the Glastonbury spiritual sites on Friday beginning at 9:45 a.m. Many of those who have been on the hike have said it is as meaningful an experience as going to Stonehenge. This is a free event and is not part of the class. Those deciding to go on the hike do so by their own choice. While the hike is safe and we’ll be going slowly and stopping to rest along the way giving people time to “smell the roses,” those going on the hike do so at their own risk. The spiritual sites we’ll be going to include: The Chalice Well, The White and Red Springs, The Entrance to Fairy Land, The Tor, Gog and Magog. We’ll also be hiking through meadows and have an enjoyable time meditating and giving each other Reiki along the way. Make sure you book extra time at Abbey House or at another B&B so you can go on the hike.
Class Information
Karuna Reiki® is a registered trademark of the ICRT and was trademarked to preserve the basics of the system. Students who go on to teach Karuna Reiki® must agree to teach in a similar manor as taught by the ICRT and to abide by a code of ethics and minimum teaching standards and to also use the Karuna Reiki® manuals offered by the ICRT. More details are available here.
You must already be a Reiki master in order to take this class. This can be with any lineage. You are required to send in a copy of your Reiki master certificate when registering. Please fax to 248-948-9534 or send as an attached file to center@reiki.org Please be prepared to complete your class payment before or at the beginning of class. Also bring any stones, crystals or sacred objects you may have as we will be placing them in the center of the circle to be blessed by our healing energies during the meditations. You may also consider taking crystals or stones to Stonehenge to be charged by the stones or to place in our ignition circle. Tape recorders are permitted in class for anyone who wishes.Your class manual will be sent to you a month or so before class. Please study and memorize the practitioner and master symbols located on pages 18-26 as we will be having a test on drawing them in class.
Stonehenge
We’ll be going to Stonehenge for one ignition. Bus transportation will be provided. Your fee to enter Stonehenge as a tourist before the ignition and the special access fee to enter for the ignition is paid for you as part of your class fee. You’ll receive one ignition in class at the Abbey House and one ignition at Stonehenge inside the stone circle. During the time of the ignition at Stonehenge, we’ll have the stones all to ourselves.
Stonehenge Guidelines
Please note that the following rules apply inside the stones: You will not be allowed to eat, drink, smoke or climb on the stones, nor is penetration of the ground by any objects allowed. Nothing can be “leant” or be supported by the stones. Some stones are lying flat on the ground and care must be taken not to step on these stones or lay anything on them. You will not be allowed to lay crystals or sacred objects on the stones. No music is allowed. We must obey any instructions given by the English Heritage staff. We will have about 1 hour in the stones.
Things to bring to Stonehenge
Raincoat • Camera • Crystals, stones and sacred objects • Towel or cushion to sit on during the ignition. Some students have found that a small fold up chair makes the ignition experience more comfortable. However, it must be a chair with legs that would not project an indentation into the grass. Chairs with straight legs will work if you also bring a piece of carpet or other pads to place under the legs.
Background
It is a good idea for you to get a good book on Stonehenge and read about its history. Stonehenge was built over a period of about 1500 years in a number of stages, the oldest of which was about 5000 years ago. It started with circular earthwork. Then over time, additional features were added with each stage becoming more impressive. The large sarsen stones, the main feature of Stonehenge were part of the final phase and were put in place about 2400BC. Recent archeological research leads some to believe that Stonehenge was a place of healing. An ancient village has been found buried underground near the stones close to Woodhenge that archeologists think was where those who built Stonehenge lived during construction. The design, construction and refinements of Stonehenge cannot be found anywhere else among the prehistoric stone circles of Europe. The size of the stones, some weighing up to 45 tons and the distance they were moved, some from over 250km, make Stonehenge one of the most astonishing of all achievements of the prehistoric people of Europe. Stonehenge was used by prehistoric people for a period of 2000 years.
Sensitives who have tuned into the people who used Stonehenge find that it was a joyous place, used to celebrate rights of passage such as weddings and child birth as well as death. Harvests were celebrated there and it was a place where people went to pray to be healed and to receive initiation into the priesthood. A carving of the mother-goddess is on the outside southern face of the 2nd trilithon from the east end of the horseshoe. Therefore, our use to initiate you as a Reiki master aligns with the purpose Stonehenge was created for. May the energy, wisdom and love of the ancient ones who created Stonehenge empower your initiation as a healer and your mission to help others.
Stonehenge and Healing
According to the latest research, Stonehenge was a place people came to be healed. The blue stones were taken from a place noted in ancient times for their healing properties. The bones buried at Stonehenge show trauma indicating people were ill or had suffered injury. Because of this, Professor Timothy Darvill states about Stonehenge: “This was a place of pilgrimage for people...coming to get healed.” “The whole purpose of Stonehenge is that it was a prehistoric Lourdes,” says Professor Geoff Wainwright. “People came here to be made well.”
Read more at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/stonehenge/article1.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/stonehenge/article2.shtml
