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  P. O. Box 17
  Petoskey, MI 49770

email Seamus at
celticbodyprayers@yahoo.com

I am grateful for life,
for living in this beautiful place,
for the gift of doing the work I love.

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field.  I will meet you there.” - Rumi

 Our greatest calling on planet earth - from the time of our first fire through the nuclear fires of today – has been to learn the art of living.  We’ve not always done well with our calling.  But along the way we’ve touched some essential truths that have given us some guidance.  As the joke goes, the devil grasped for these truths and then he said, “Hey let’s organize this.  We’ll call it religion.”

 On Labor Day weekend 2009 Tara’s Meadow will host its 13th annual retreat, “The 3-fold path.”  It’s named for the content I’ll be sharing, from my own yearnings and learnings to date in navigating this life.  From triskele to trinity, using what I know from the ancient vision of the Celts and druids on through the teachings of Gandhi, I’ll share a triad of primal energies and a simple practice based on these to summon balance into our lives.  But I don’t wish to emulate the devil too much, so I’m keeping this Labor Day retreat an open-ended experience.  During our 4-day experience there will be time provided, with an open invitation to any fellow sojourners who wish it, to share their own tools and the wisdom fruits from their own life experience.  Beyond what any one of us knows, there is a meadow where we can all meet.

More on “the 3-fold Path” Labor day weekend retreat can be found by clicking the Retreats/Community link.

 GUEST SOJOURNS FOR SUMMER 2009  Last summer I had the honor and blessing of hosting several “guest sojourners” on reserved weekends with me out at Tara’s Meadow.  Both individuals and couples came for a variety of experiences – from solace and play in the beautiful heart of nature, to Island tours, Celtic Body Prayers movement meditations (described below), swimming, hammocking and hikes through nature.  Click on the Tara’s Meadow Center link for more information.

 SUMMER SOLSTICE CELEBRATION 2009  Mark your calendar for our fourth annual fun celebration of Summer’s arrival at Tara’s Meadow.  Here we greet the summer with a May Pole twining, games, music and communion with a great group of friends.  Look for updates as the season draws near by clicking the Workshops/Services link.

CLASSES, & PERSONAL CARE SESSIONS  Look for a list of personal, or small group study topics by clicking the  Workshops/Services link.  You will also find there a full description of our “personal care sessions”, which are individualized programs for your growth and navigation of life’s challenges and mysteries.

TWO BEAUTIFUL RETREAT SITES  Now the “School on the Hill” on the mainland joins hands with Tara’s Meadow, Beaver Island, as another a place to offer retreats.  Both places are magic, blending the beauty of landscape with a deep history of community.  In the summers on Beaver Island, and now during Fall-Spring on the mainland, I can continue with my work of welcoming and comforting folks, offering them solitude and beauty in nature, kindness, gentle movement meditations, and new learning of the spirit.  I am grateful for this gift of the work I love.  I am grateful for these two enchanted places to share.

 

Celtic Body Prayers Celtic Body Prayers® offer us a fresh new path for restoring balance in our lives.  Utilizing gentle movement-meditations, ecology and verse, shamanic healing and the deep wells of native and contemporary wisdom, the Body Prayers® Arts can help us cultivate our bodies, minds and spirits together in one graceful daily practice. First Introduced by Seamus Mullin-Norgaard in 1995 and featured prominently in his annual Beaver Island, Michigan retreat, Celtic Body Prayers® is a unique, healthful exercise and meditation art.  Utilizing recited sacred earth poetry, Celtic Body Prayers® is a new approach to balancing body with gentle exercise, mind with meditation and spirit with prayer.  By once again giving voice and movement to the ancient poetry of the heavens, the elements and Creation, Celtic Body Prayers® offers us a rich new daily practice for celebrating the health and beauty of ourselves and our environment. Body Prayers® are unique for their wide breath of resources and cultural inspirations.  Seamus has skillfully blended his background in contemporary ecology (M.S. in environmental studies) and the movement meditation arts (yoga, T'ai Chi, Qi Gong), along with the sacred wisdoms traditions of the diverse cultures he has studied or lived amongst (notably the Native Irish and Native Americans).  In Body Prayers® the breadth of knowledge and respect for the global traditions is inclusive rather than exclusive, honoring Christianity, Buddhism, Native American Spirituality, and most notably the Sacred Earth Ways of the Celts.  Drawing from these diverse backgrounds Seamus is able to tailor a healthful daily practice of movement meditations, exercise and spiritual affirmations sensitive to a wide range of beliefs and backgrounds.    Come explore the Celtic Body Prayers® Arts for a new ecology of health, grace, and spirit. Celtic Body Prayers® movements, based on nature's creatures, mysteries, elements and plants, include... The Deer's Cry - a simple, graceful morning prayer based on St. Patrick's Lorica. The Wizard's Dance - sheer poetry in motion, a slow dance that breathes shape and fire into the ancient Song of Amergin. The Tree Lorica - A gentle exercise of one's legs, back and trunk involving the spirit of the trees. Please, feel free to investigate our website thoroughly and to tell your friends about us.  Check out when and where Seamus will be holding future workshops by clicking the Workshops/Services link below.  For more information on our Retreats and Community building activities click on the Retreats/Community link, also below. Peace and blessings.