Serene Retreat in North Georgia
NaMestoy Farm
Our Events for April
Directions to NaMestoy Farm (from south - Atlanta)
GA400N to Highway 369 west (left at light) 6.3 miles to right on Whitmire Road (Just past Wallace Tatum Road) 1.4 miles to property on right just past Matt's Landing. 7490 Whitmire Road, Cumming, 30028
Phone: 770-205-9358
Ongoing Events At NaMestoy Farm
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Awake In The Woods
Saturday April 28 1- 4PM
Have you heard of “forest bathing” (shinrin-yoku)? Come try out some of the practices of forest bathing in this gently guided experiential session that will lead you deeply into mindful presence and activate joy. Research has identified what we intuitively knew about slowing down, and mindfully spending time in the woods - that it contributes to our well-being and health. Healing benefits include stress reduction, improved mood, less fatigue, and increased immune functioning.
Just as guided meditations can help you focus and deepen your experience, participating in “Awake in the Woods” will guide you through an experience in the woods that will deepen your connection to nature, to yourself, to others, and to your spiritual connection. By attuning to nature, you naturally attune to your own divinity, your consciousness expands, and a sense of peace pervades all. Sharing this experience in the presence of like-minded people increases our sense of interdependence and the sacredness of all. Come join us!
All levels of walking ability will enjoy this program.
What to bring:
*Water bottle (and snack if you wish)
*Wear comfortable shoes (that you don’t mind getting muddy)
*Dress for the weather - in layers as needed
*Bug repellent and/or sunscreen as needed (unscented or lightly scented preferred)
*Journal if you have one
*If you have allergies, your epi-pen or other medications as needed
By donation. (Suggested donation sliding scale $10-$30, but do not let money stop you from attending.)
Please register by sending an email to Marjorie at marjpomper@gmail.com. Questions or more information, contact Marjorie at 770-366-6005.
Your facilitator is Marjorie Pomper, Ph.D., Certified Interpretive Guide, Georgia Master Naturalist, docent at the Chattahoochee Nature Center and member of the Association of Nature Therapy Guides. A meditator for over 30 years, she leads “Well Being in the Woods” programs at Chattahoochee Nature Center and for a variety of groups.
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Sacred Circle Mondays 9-11 am
When we sit together in Circle, we wait for inspiration; and when it comes, we speak as the enlightened beings we know ourselves to be.. Everyone is welcome to join us. No reservations are necessary, and there is no fee.....
Meditation With Bert Sunday April 8
10AM - 2PM
Everyone is invited to our meditation sessions.on and brief discussions. YoFormat For Meditation: Our first silent meditation is 15 minutes, from 11:00 - 11:15. Our second is 30 minutes, from 11:20 - 12:50. The third is an hour, from 11:50 - 12:50. The fourth is an hour, from 1:00 - 2:00, and the last is 45 minutes, from
2:10 - 3:00. We sit in silence together most of the time and take breaks occasionally for walking meditation and brief discussions. Participants may come and go as they please while still respecting the silence. Bert Levitt is our esteemed facilitator.
Donation: Free
Healing Circle With Karen - Sunday April 29
12PM - 2PM
Karen Cole, our beloved energy healer, is the conduit through which blocks in our mind, body, and spirit are removed so that our natural ability to heal ourselves is released. Karen will be working with individuals in the meditation room while the rest of us will be receiving healing from the Gongs and group healing from one another.
Love offerings accepted
About Our Sacred Circle
When we sit and gaze together in Circle, we wait for inspiration; and when it comes, we speak as the aligned beings we know ourselves to be.. Everyone is welcome to join us.
No reservations are necessary, and there is no fee.....
I must tell you that our Sacred Circle on Mondays is a most special time for me; and my daughter, Carrie, even plans her visits to NaMestoy around this special gathering. And now we are also attending a similar group on Tuesdays at 1pm hosted by Kim Lemen in her lovely home in Canton. I envision more and more of these Circles of Light shining forth throughout Metropolitan Atlanta. If you, too, feel the call to host a group in your local community, I will be happy to support you in this. When getting started there may be just one person show up, so I would be that third person until there are some regulars attending.
In a country of people who don't seem to have the time to build deep relationships, the Vision Alignment Project presents this vision:
"We see a world where groups and circles of people gather together regularly to support one another in the manifestation of whatever their individual dreams are; where people easily align with each other because everyone wants only for the highest good of all... devoting time together for the sacred aspects of life; where they remember to create a spiritual environment that makes it easy for everyone in the community to experience Oneness."
Even as a mother protects with her life her child, her only child,
So with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings;
Radiating kindness over the entire world
Spreading upwards to the skies, & downwards to the depths; Outwards & unbounded
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Bert Levitt's Bio & Details on Meditation Experience
Bert Levitt MA, LPC has been working with couples and individuals for over 38 years. He has seen firsthand that everyone has within them the ability to change. The skills set that Bert brings to his practice comes from a wide array of sources and experiences.
He has worked with abusive partners, addicts, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, chronic pain syndrome, and numerous other conditions, as well as all sorts of life and relationship issues. Working with couples to clarify intentions and act skillfully is a special focus. His marriage of 35 years has been his greatest teacher in couples counseling.
Bert has been nurturing and facilitating our meditation group here at NaMestoy since its birth in 2011. This is what he has to say about meditation: "My life long spiritual quest has led to my current meditative practice. The non-dual (not two but one out of which all things arise) way of meditation that leads to an awakened heart in the most direct way I know. Ramana Maharshi, perhaps the best known teacher of the non-dual way here in the west,also instructed students to meditate this way.
During the meditation time we search inside ourselves for the “I” we most fundamentally believe ourselves to be. The work is to put all our attention on the inner feeling of “I”, holding that feeling for as long as possible. Aides in this quest are questions to pose to ourselves; "From where does this 'I' thought arise?" Or "Who am 'I'”?
What we discover is that the “I” which we believe to be our individual self in the world vanishes when searched for. In it's place appears Absolute Being. Residing effortlessly and constantly in unshakable Absolute Being is the Awakened State.
Format For Meditation: Our first silent meditation is 15 minutes, from 11:00 - 11:15. Our second is 30 minutes, from 11:20 - 12:50. The third is an hour, from 11:50 - 12:50. The fourth is an hour, from 1:00 - 2:00, and the last is 45 minutes, from
2:10 - 3:00. We sit in silence together most of the time and take breaks occasionally for walking meditation and brief discussions. Participants may come and go as they please while still respecting the silence.
Donation: Free
(Please note that the times for Meditation and Healing Circle has changed. Some of us want to attend the "Waking Down In Mutuality" gatherings at the Unitarian Universalist Metro Atlanta Church in Roswell at 11420 Crabapple Rd. It meets on the second & fourth Sundays each month from 4-6PM. Everyone is welcome to attend these meetings, too)
