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ESSENCE OF YOGA FESTIVAL 29th-31st JANUARY 2010 at Park Place Wickham, Hampshire.

Lift your spirit in the New Year with an inspirational weekend of yoga (asana, pranayama, yoga nidra, mantra and meditation) with teachers from an assortment of traditions and bathe in Satsang (joyful chanting from the heart) Saturday evening.
Teachers  include: Satchidananda Ma,Liz Murtha, Shantipriya, Bill Feeney, Fiona Agombar  and more!
Weekend rate £195 (accommodation and meals included) Early bird booking before 31st October 2009 £165
Saturday Only rate £50 (meals included) Bookable after 1st January 2010
Satsang Concert Saturday Eve only £10

For availability and booking please ring 01329 833043. Full details on http//www.essence-yoga.co.uk 




A group of Franciscan Indian nuns in the diocese of Portsmouth could be spending their last Easter in their home if urgent funds are not raised to pay for repairs.

In January 2009; Park Place Pastoral Centre was served with a restriction order by the fire and rescue officer, banning the sisters from using the place unless various repairs were carried out immediately in order to comply with the latest fire regulations to public buildings.

This involves upgrading and networking the existing fire alarm system, changing all doors to fire-proof doors, building extra fire escape routes via external staircase to the main building, putting up fire-retardant screens near staircases and replacing existing furnishings and furniture with those made from fire-resistant material.

The estimated cost for this work is approximately £200,000.

The nuns are members of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of St Mary of the Angels, in conjunction with the Portsmouth diocese. The centre is a resource, not just for the diocese but also for the wider community, both Christian and non-Christian. It offers a location where people of all faiths, or none, can come together to develop their values, facilitated by a temporary withdrawal from the purely material demands of everyday life, and relax in an environment of peace and calm.

Hundreds of individuals and groups have used the centre for activities as diverse as retreats, conferences, days of reflection, and prayer, in-servicing training courses, annual general meetings, school and youth group events, painting and calligraphy, yoga sessions and holidays.

The centre has a unique Indian/Franciscan ambience with its east meets west spirituality.

Of all the sisters' pastoral centres in France, Switzerland and the UK, Park Place is the main fund raising centre for the order’s projects in developing countries like India, Ethiopia, Brazil and Tanzania. In these countries the sisters run a school for the blind, a school for orphans whose parents have died of HIV/Aids, a clinic mainly for people with Aids and shelters for street children.