"The experience of the Horizon Event Intensive with Don was truly life-changing for me.  I've been a meditator and student of conscious awareness for more than forty decades.  Don's straightforward, no-nonsense approach to accessing the greater part of ourselves took all the effort out of my own approach to receiving life's gift.  The unpretentious manner in which Don offers his wisdom makes one feel comfortable immediately upon entering the retreat space.  It also allows for the the participants to interact with authenticity and a sense of presence that I've not experienced in a lifetime of retreat attendance elsewhere.  It allowed for many of the "puzzle pieces" to finally fall into place for me. The week was one of the most valuable gifts I could have given myself.  Thank you, Don!"

In Love & Light, Malka Cheryl

"My testimonial is that everyone says I am glowing after my return from seven of the most amazing days of getting in touch with my body and Soul.  The participants in the group are like as important to me as a group of college friends who get together every year!

Additional sharing on the Horizon Event:

 

"It's six weeks since I completed the Horizon Event Intensive and I'm flowing in the awareness of Being, deeply relaxed and grounded, it's the middle of a busy work day.  What I wanted to "get out of" the Intensive was to live from Consciousness throughout my deadline filled weeks, I got that. The Intensive was given by Don while living with him in a beautiful and comfortable home, we were a small group, living together, preparing meals together and that made for a pleasant, intimately warm and enjoyable week.  Spending our days in specifically themed guided meditation session after meditation session, each session building on the last until a powerful and wondrous Spiritual Presence filled our days, it was a true intensive.

Many of the themed meditation sessions where deep, expansive, energetically rich resulting in experiences of Beingness that were ecstatically alive.  My whole body would be subtly vibrating in ecstatic vital radiance.  Profound Presence would flow through my whole body and out my hands and feet in a state of natural intoxication on Being, at the same time grounded, feeling completely, comfortably myself. This is what it is to be living wholeness as an enlightening human being! 

Day after day living and meditating together with the addition of lots of personal attention from Don the distinctions of the ego, personal self, choice, the Spiritual Heart Center, Soul, and sensing created a profound balance and opening to the direct availability of living from Space itself or Conscious from Consciousness(Presence/Being).  All this created a context of Aware Openness that has made available a deeply connected Spiritual Presence or living from the heart of Space itself in ordinary work-a-day life. The key distinctions in Consciousness/Space/Being that became directly and experientially clear in those sessions, under Don's relaxed, masterful and sometimes humorous guidance, have stayed powerfully present.  

Additionally, Don did a personal session before and after the Horizon Event Intensive as part of the program and provided recordings of most of the sessions from the week.  The recordings have supported me in continuing to strengthen the Spiritual Presence that I became grounded in during the Intensive. All the elements, distinctions and personal guidance in experientially accessing and identifying subtle aspects of Being (Space as Spirit, Presence) have amplified, clarified, and empowered my years of meditative practice.  If you are an established meditator and are committed to living as Presence/Being do the Horizon Event Intensive.  I flow gratitude and celebrate my choice to do so every day.   Mark Hayes

 

                                          Founder’s View - Uncovering the Language of the Soul

If you want to contact the Soul, then you must learn its language. I have long known that the Soul’s language is not expressed in words or thoughts. The language of the soul is expressed in sensing and feeling.

In general, the inspirations that show up during a meditation as images and ideas are products of your ego and your mind.  I have often encouraged you to become the Witness, so that you realize that they are not you and you are not those thoughts.  Standing back from the mind’s activity and becoming the Witness felt like a most powerful place to stand … until now.  As I learned recently, even when we identify ourselves as the Witness, there is still an I (ego) there.  The evolution of daily spiritual practice goes on endlessly.  As the universe evolves, so do we.  As we evolve, so does our practice.  Such findings keep us on our toes, and make it fresh each and every day. 

In September, I had an opportunity to look more deeply at my own daily meditation practice. Having stepped back from the daily responsibilities of the Feast, I found that I was finally free to take a weeklong meditation intensive called The Horizon Event with Don Kollmar, a teacher from Holland. For some time now, a trusted friend and spiritual companion had recommended Don's work to me, but I was just too busy to follow up. The fact that the event was held in Aptos, California on the Monterey Bay--during the annual whale and dolphin migration--gave me an added incentive to make the week happen. To say The Horizon Event was life-changing is an understatement. It is with gratitude that I am able to share an aspect of this experience with you here.

The evolution of consciousness has been the major theme in my life for as long as I can remember. I have studied the techniques offered by a number of traditions, and I hold each of them in high regard and appreciate them, in different ways and at different times. The meditations of that week were like no others that I have experienced.

I recall reading an interview with Eckhart Tolle recently, where he was asked by the interviewer how he kept himself from drifting into the past or the future during his meditations. Tolle replied that he knows when he has drifted into the mind world, because he will feel excited, agitated, or maybe even depressed as he is tumbled around in the future. Eckhart spoke of balancing presence and stillness, and living our lives from an awakened consciousness. He said that we must move from an old consciousness to a new consciousness. Those were inspirational words that I have heard before. But how does one do that? I think I now have a glimmer of how that is done with regularity and precision, but I’m limited by space from writing more.

It will be my privilege to give you the opportunity to experience what I’ve learned during the coming months. Don has agreed to record an interview for us later this month, and we will air it in December. Don is a very humble man whose students promote him and his unique teachings. He doesn’t promote himself. You can believe me when I say that it was my idea to invite him to join our faculty for the coming Winter Feast. He has now agreed to lead a series of meditations for the 2014 Winter Feast. His work may not be for everyone, but it will be a catalyst for many of you as you progress in your practice. I have been a meditator for over 30 years (off and on to be sure), and this work has catapulted my practice like no other has done.

The language of the soul is sensing, and the meditations that are offered give clear guidance to embrace that language. Through sensing, it is my experience that one reaches an entirely new relationship with stillness … with Space. One becomes that Space. It is in that Space that thoughts occur, but they don’t hijack you from your intent for long.

I have found that I can engage in this delicate soul language with attentiveness and a new level of alertness.  There is no longer drifting off during my practice.  Soul lives in the present, and I am fully there in that communion. 

Of course, it is difficult to express an abstract experience in words. I will leave the rest for Don to share during our upcoming interview.  What I can say is that I am able to live in deep gratitude for all the events in my life, even those that I do not particularly like.  I wish the same for you. 

Have a blessed and bountiful Thanksgiving, if that is your holiday.  I am grateful to be able to contact you through these letters.  May they inspire you, and keep you faithful to your practice.  Peace begins in our very own hearts.  
Sending You Love and Support,

Valerie Skonie

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