Join Doug and Catherine Sensei on this unique retreat and custom exploration of Australia’s Tropical Far North Queensland. Human history includes many approximate maps of the archetypal journey of spiritual unfoldment, including everything from shamanism and agriculture-based cosmologies, through the likes of Christianity and Buddhism, to modern self-realization methodologies. We explore how, throughout the ages, spiritual traditions have used archetypes to bring the heroines and heroes of our journey to remain deeply embedded in our unconscious, or to make breakthroughs so as to become highly integrated and self-aware.

"The Five Great Elements" Retreat: On Bali, the “island of holy water,” Earth, Wind, Fire, Water and Ether (also known as Akasa or space) are at the core of its myriad spiritual ceremonies. With this backdrop of Hinduism and Bali's ancient animistic roots, Achariya Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat will lead us through a 10-day retreat focusing on Buddhadharma and the “The Five Great Elements.” The elements are seen as the origin for understanding suffering and liberation from suffering connected to the chakras, planets, emotions, senses, and ego. “From the five elements arise the five senses and the five fields of sensory experience, the five negative emotions, the five wisdoms and five extensions of the body; the constituents of every physical, sensual, mental and spiritual phenomenon.”-Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche For those in the Bali area please join us for this journey through emotion & intuition (water), grounding (earth), mobility (air), transformation (fire) and the space in between (ether).