{"id":888,"date":"2008-11-25T22:45:45","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T11:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/?p=888"},"modified":"2008-11-25T22:45:45","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T11:45:45","slug":"sahaja-yoga-workshop-in-tasmania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2008\/11\/25\/sahaja-yoga-workshop-in-tasmania\/","title":{"rendered":"Sahaja Yoga Workshop in Tasmania"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_889\" style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/img_3195-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-889\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-889  \" title=\"Sahaja Yoga Workshop participants, Tasmania\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/img_3195-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Sahaja Yoga Workshop participants\" width=\"243\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2008\/11\/img_3195-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2008\/11\/img_3195-2-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sahaja Yoga Workshop participants<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On the weekend of 11-12 October 2008 a Sahaja Yoga seminar\/workshop was held in Northern Tasmania at Golden Valley. \u201cMountainside Nature Retreat\u201d was the venue, set on the side of an old volcano-shaped peak amongst blooming blackwoods, daffodils, and very happy birds.<\/p>\n<p>The Goddess of Spring gave Her best show with warm clear sunshine, morning mist and many flowers. On the Friday night there was a welcome, and then the Theatre of Eternal Values\u2019 production of \u201cFriends\u201d was played, followed by songs and meditation.<\/p>\n<p>This was followed by a sumptuous dinner that set the standard for the weekend. The twenty people who came were very generous with food and marvelled at the quantity and quality.<\/p>\n<p>Meditations and workshops happened on Saturday, using the elements: water for foot-soaking and sitting on the earth. The film, \u201cFreedom and Liberation\u201d, was played, before the usual scrumptious dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday morning\u2019s meditation was very beautiful and strong. A talk given by Shri Mataji in Brisbane was played on video.<\/p>\n<p>The barbeque lunch was very joyous and everyone enjoyed the open air, eating a local butcher\u2019s chicken sausages and patties.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some comments from the people who attended the workshop:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I go to meditation groups, after a while I need my own space. I couldn\u2019t stay away from you all!\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI didn\u2019t know people could be so happy and beautiful. \u2018Spirituality\u2019 is usually serious.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cHer photo fills this room with love and joy.\u201d<br \/>\nOne lady was monitoring her acid levels, and couldn\u2019t believe they were neutral after all the food she ate at the weekend!<\/p>\n<p>Phillip and Sarah Frankcombe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the weekend of 11-12 October 2008 a Sahaja Yoga seminar\/workshop was held in Northern Tasmania at Golden Valley. \u201cMountainside Nature Retreat\u201d was the venue, set on the side of an old volcano-shaped peak amongst blooming blackwoods, daffodils, and very happy birds. The Goddess of Spring gave Her best show with warm clear sunshine, morning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,7,10,16,1],"tags":[246,652,448,654,525,570],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-38","category-films","category-meditation","category-shri-mataji","category-uncategorized","tag-freedom-and-liberation","tag-meditation","tag-sahaja-yoga","tag-shri-mataji","tag-tasmania","tag-workshop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h1Q1-ek","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}