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General Information for Preparing for Center of Light programs, 
especially those at the NewsBank Conference Center

in Chester, VT
See class schedule for your specific programs

     PREPARING FOR OUR WEEKEND PRACTICES

 Preparing yourself, to make the most of this work.

All program information can be found via that explicity program link,
found  in our calendar section, here.

You will receive explicit notes if there are explicit preparations for the practice you are registered in, but these notes will serve amply for your preparation.

You are investing a great deal of time and energy to be here with us.
I highly recommend you take time to prepare yourself, at all levels, to insure you receive the greatest benefit from this work.

It is also advisable, wherever possible, to take some time after a practice, for greater integration of your experiences.

 
It is such an honor to be of service in these Changing Times.
I am deeply looking forward to seeing you and offering, and engaging in, practice with each of you this coming prorgram.

We are in a time of profound transformation.
You have heard me say this before.
It is time to come into visceral realization of this, and to enter deep, reverent, cohesive states of awareness, integral to our own wisdom, nature, and being.  It is time to do the transformational work we all have prepared for our selves to do, to enter those cohesive states of our true essence.
This practice will assist us in this very directly in this process.
I ask you to come prepared to do the work!  It will be joyful, humbling, empowering, enlightening, if you come ready to truly participate.  What you bring in willingness will be rewarded in what you take away as the gifts of Grace available to us through this work.

In this practice, we will engage in deep healing ceremonies.   We often call upon powerful allies of the subtle worlds to assist us in casting off sheathings of all past traumas, and encumbrances, as well as past life and genetic imprints layered in our consciousness, which do not serve us, to release, and to restore our true essence, the Original Instructions, and the Crystalline Matrix of Light and Life which is our birthright and inherent nature.  We call upon Holy Beings of pure realms and frequencies of consciousness to assist us to dissolve all encumbrances of these natures, and awaken our true essence, our source being.  Many of your own guides and teachers will be gathered with us for this work.  Many of you can see, and feel, even now, that this is a potent gift offering.  Come prepared.  Feel the joy in your body, even now, rising up for for-giveness and liberation.  Feel the part that has sheathed you, ready to be shed like the skin of a serpent who has outgrown its own sheathing, there, in its time, for a purpose, but NO LONGER SERVING.  There are two aspects to this, the release, and the resolution or attunement, to the refined states of our being, which we will invite to come back forward from that point of origin.  Sit with this.  Prepare.  Be ready to receive, to awaken, to renew.

In a final offering, we shall engage in the Ba, or SoulStar Initiations.  You may read about these in my recent newsletters.  See:  http://thecenteroflight.net/CenterNews.html
It is probably the most profound tool for awakening I have experienced, no matter how many times I experience it.  I look forward to this time of renewal.

Invite your friends who have not yet decided to come!
And, we will have 3 recent studio recorded CD's of main practices we engage in.  If you wish, you may carry them home to continue the work, to remind you of all you walk through in each practice, this weekend, to deepen the experience.

I highly recommend taking some time in these remaining days, to ask for guidance & preparation, to ask for that which is holding you back, that which is encumbering you, to come forward, ready to be dissolved, released, and transformed into the higher, more clear aspects of who you truly are as a luminous being.
It is up to you to prepare the space, to do the work you have come here to do.
Simply sitting quietly in reflection, setting clear intent, asking for that most beneficial to resolve, or attenuate our awareness to, is appropriate to this.

The better prepared and ready to enter luminous state of our being, we each are, the greater will be the benefit of the practice, for us all!

Sunday afternoon, we will complete with a world healing service, in which we are asked to charge the waters of life with our prayers and offerings, through our light and voice. What can we bring to the altar after we have truly received our own gifts of awakening, to assist planetarily at this time?  You most likely know of the Emoto water crystal effect.  We shall utilize this knowledge to baptize the waters of the world, with our prayers, to share through the world, as we go home.

For additional information on the nature of this program,  the link for this program can be found in our calendar section, here

See: http://thecenteroflight.net/Articles.html for all articles and newsletters on this body of work.
And, to see more news on the program, or to sign up to our newsletter for future program announcements and articles, if you have not:
    • Feel free to share this information with others whom may benefit from it!
We have moved to this new, world class facility, and can accommodate others who may wish to join us.
I look forward to seeing you.
Many blessings in all you are doing.
Zacciah

Zacciah Blackburn, PhD
Director
The Center of Light Institute of Sound Healing and Shamanic Studies
www.thecenteroflight.net

802.674.9585




Other info, Accommodations, MEALS

MEALS:
    Sat lunch:  we begin at 12:30 PM; we ask that you eat before your arrival, or bring something to tide you over til supper.
    Sat DINNER:  Many of our guests like to find a location for a group meal, and we may assist you in that process, should you have interest.
There are ample quality cafes and restaurants in Chester.
    Sunday Lunch:   You may bring meals, or walk to a local restaurant for lunch on Sunday.  
We are in walking distance to cafes and restaurants in town. 
Weather
This event is held regardless of weather conditions. 
We are in peak spring time.  We suggest taking time to enjoy the extraordinary beauty of this region during your stay!!


Sales items
Through the years, as a service to the many who have asked me 'where did you get that ........(book, CD, djembe, dorje,....)..., etc...', I have created a business supplying these treasured items to others.
We will have quality instruments, sound healing tools, special crystals from Tibet, books, CD's, statuary from Egypt, and other sacred objects for your perusal.
Feel free to look at our website www.sunreed.com to see if there is any instrument you want to be sure we bring with us for you to check out.  We obviously, cannot bring our entire stock with us, but will be glad to try to accommodate your wishes to look over items of interest to you.
We may have some of our special photos of "Earth and Sky" or Sacred Sites on hand.
We are a registered business, and do charge 6% VT sales tax on purchases.
We have several staff to assist you with questions for these items.
Feel free to take time before and after the program, or during breaks, to look and listen to our offerings.

BIOMAT
Dorothy will have her Biomat available for private sessions and just to try out.
Speak with her to sign up, there will not be enough time for everyone who wishes to try this unique engineering device, which couples crystal generated ions with infrared light spectrums, to create a deep spectrum for healing and wellness at a cellular level.
Contact her at dstone@gmavt.net or 802.324.5574 to reserve time.
See this link for full information on this unique biotuning device:
Time in Chester
Chester is a unique, beautiful, and enticingly rich taste of rural Vermont.  The quaint village and green are lined with shops, antiques, natural and quality food offerings.  It is the home of the Vermont Country Store, among others.  Take time, if you do not travel to Vermont often, to share in the Vermont experience.  There are exquisitely beautiful roads and trails in the region to partake of the countryside.  We can help with these should you want more information.

Zacciah's Time

For those whom have not worked with Zacciah before, you will find him to be most amicable and approachable during class time and long breaks.  During classes, he carries a good deal of energy for the entire group. 
  • During breaks, this may require his undivided attention, often needing to check in with guidance as he "fine tunes" program content, exercises, etc.  Please be sensitive to this and give space to his needs during shorter breaks. 
  • You will find ample opportunity for in depth and personal questions and answers during class time.
  • He is available for more social conversation during longer breaks such as lunch.
  • For in depth personal questions, and guidance, which does not feel appropriate to ask during the group work, or not pertaining it, please schedule a private session with Zacciah, see: 
We appreciate your understanding.

ACCOMMODATIONS
If you have not booked a room yet and are in need, we recommend you look at our site or the Chester business site for this service:

We have blocked off some inexpensive ROOMS in a private home, kept unoccupied, for this purpose, close to the program location, should you wish to stay with us. 
CALL our offices weekdays 10-5 to register!  802.674.9585


To Bring: 
Plan on comfortable clothes.
Comfortable solid chairs are available. If you need cushions, backjacks, or blankets, please bring them.
Bring a notepad and pen if you choose to take notes or journal.  Many find this valuable, and we do occasionally use journaling after a practice as a technique to move deeper into the work.


Openings remain,
if you know others whom might have interest in joining us.  Feel free to share this information with them, or, Please, have them contact us!


Many blessings
Zacciah
 

Zacciah Blackburn, PhD
The Center of Light
www.thecenteroflight.net
802.674.9585


 
ADDITIONAL NOTES ON PERSONAL PREPARATION,
for those who choose to read further!
 

These programs offer a rich, dynamic opportunity to enter into awakened states of consciousness, understand more about our innate self, and relationship to the greater whole, as well as each other.

Those of you whom have attended these programs in the past know the extraordinary nature of these programs.
We highly recommend you set aside ample time this week for self preparation and setting clear intentions, and that you might, also, invite those those whom might best work with you, to come to the greatest and most beneficial realizations over the course of this program.  As you read the nature of the program, you should realize we intend to dive into great depths of work, for our own growth, but also to come into greater service for the collective good.


I ask that you:
Bring a clear spirit ready to share and learn, and ready to be transformed.
This is, for most individuals, powerfully transformative work.
You can assist your own participation to be in its fullest potential, if you take some time for preparation.
  • I recommend that you engage in simple awareness/meditation practices, just 'tuning in', asking yourself where places of harmony or disharmony reside within you, and, how you can clarify or come into balance with these.  Listen.  Listen to the response.  Take notes, journal, if you wish, to bring these messages more fully into your cognitive centers.  Bring them with you to work on over the weekend.
  • Note the nature and quality of work we shall be engaging in at the newsletter link above, to assist you in these preparations.  Just putting emphasis of your awareness on these qualities shall assist those qualities to arise which could most benefit from this work, within your own psyche.
  • It would be beneficial to set aside a time each day, at least 2-3 times before we begin, to check in, in this way, or in your own way, as well as to set a clear intention. 
  • An example of clear intention setting might be:
  • "I wish to enter into these practices with an open heart and spirit, to explore and learn more deeply, about the nature of who I am, and my role, at this time, in this Universe.  May I be a ready vessel to open to those possibilities for growth, deeper, and clearer understanding, which present themselves to me at this time, during this practice, and daily in my life.  May I be an instrument to bring forward universal awareness, abundance, and peace, to others in my life.  I invite in those beings and forces of Universal consciousness, whom can best assist me at this time, for my highest growth, awakening, and understanding.  In a sacred way, I ask these things at this time. Thanks be to all aspects of Creation."

I, also, highly suggest you plan ample time after each day, and, if possible, after the end of the program, to relax into, and integrate, the deep and rich tapestry of energies you are likely to find yourself bathing in at the end of each day of this program.  It will assist you over rushing back into your everyday lives.  Also, be attentive, that you will not re-enter your life as you were before the program.  You will, most of us, be in a more elevated and awakened state of being.  Be kind to yourself, and to others, and take time with any life altering decisions.  Others in your life may not realize that you are in a different place.  We recommend you hold compassion in relations with others.

We offer our humble thanks for your participation in this great work, and send you Many Blessings!
This is not just about personal transformation, but in doing the work which will bring us into balance and harmony with universal principals, incorporating those principals into our lives, and bringing them forward into all our relations, in service to this great time of transformation for the entire planet.  Many teachers speak to this time as important to the harmonic unfolding at levels even beyond our imagination, at universal proportions.  Each step we take is important and beneficial, beyound our normal understanding, to the unfolding of harmonic principals within the universe itself.

I dearly look forward to seeing you so many of you again, meeting several new faces, and working with you these two precious days!!
 
In a sacred way, we offer these trainings for our own elevation, and for the awakening of all humanity.
May we each serve in our own capacity for this.  For each step we take, each action, in harmony with the Whole, we do indeed assist all others in their own capacity for development.


Zacciah


Sound
Though Zacciah utilizes sound during practices, you are not required to join in any sound work.  There usually are opportunities to join with simple voice exercises.  We often use a simple guided chant or are asked to make a sound from the heart to give voice to our feelings.    However, there is no need for any kind of training or need to have "a voice".  All it takes is an authentic heart to easily join in.

The manner in which Zacciah uses sound is different than most people have experienced.  It is coupling sound with heightened states of consciousness, which allows others to more readily enter into advanced states of awareness.
It is not an experience that can easily be described.  Yet, it is not uncommon for participants to come away feeling deeply transformed.

Zacciah uses, primarily, his voice, but does, also, use a variety of sound instruments (Crystal and Tibetan bowls, bells, Native drums, rattles, etc.)  While there may be the possibility to join in a chant with your own drum or rattle, it will not be a major focus of the work in this practice.
You can learn more about the nature of Sacred Sound as Zacciah uses it at:
http://thecenteroflight.net/Articles.html
http://thecenteroflight.net/AboutUs.html



Upcoming Programs
Several times a year we offer programs in our ILLUMINATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS Series, utilizing the tools of the Egyptian Pantheon, Tibetan and Hindu, Western and Indigenous wisdom, and other esoteric schools of learning.
Besides our monthly Sound Healing Trainings, and our sacred journeys, our next practice in Vermont and elsewhere can be seen on our calendar.

We also are providing sacred tours & retreats, such as  Sacred Sounds, Sacred Earth, and, the TREE OF LIFE, the Sacred Temples of the Earth program, here in New England, in the next year.

You may view our latest list of programs, including upcoming ones in CAN, EUROPE with plans for a summer sacred sites journey, as well, at:
http://thecenteroflight.net/Classes.html

You may subscribe to our newsletters for all up to date information, or ask to be on a regional notice list.   http://thecenteroflight.net/CenterNews.html

  • Outdoor Shamanic trainings, including tours of sacred sites:
  • Return to Beauty, VT, usually annually, Karpay initiations into Peruvian mysticism
  • Temples of the Earth, Awakening the Dragon, The Seal of Solomon, outdoors with the sacred mountains and lakes of New England (forming a perfect Star Tetrahedron,) and inner Merkaba teachings
Our full program list with information on all of our programs, is available at:
http://thecenteroflight.net/Classes.html

Please let us know how we can assist with additional information.

Again, we look forward to seeing & working with each of you!!!
Expect a nourishing and enriching journey together....

Blessings to each of you!!
Zacciah, and Staff
The Center of Light


Zacciah Blackburn, PhD
The Center of Light Institute of Sound Healing and Shamanic Studies
http://www.thecenteroflight.net/
Ascutney, VT  05030
802.674.9585
info@sunreed.com
 

feel free to share this with others interested in this work.





 





 
In this overall body of work, we are fundamentally 
Co-Creating the Template of Heaven on Earth
 Re-invigorating the original matrix, or Original Instructions, for harmony with all life
embedded in each of us, at a soul level, and at a level of cellular memory,
as well as the often unused portions of our DNA matrix.

For additional information on the background of this entire series of programs  see The Great Awakening,
as well as our many Articles.
See class list for latest links to other practices
(all practices open to all participants, no pre-requisite required.)
   
The foundation of these programs is constantly updated from information arising from the Star Elders. Living Wisdom Keepers, & others guiding this work.  Though constantly evolving, practical exercises to enter awakened lucid states of consciousness (what is also refered to as enlightenment, or ascended states of consciousness,) will be offered, utilizing Sacred Sound, which will enhance the participants experience significantly.
These are being offered, also, at a time in deep correspondence to the Maya Calendar days of great Transformation, Awakening, and Renewal.
We are in a time when a new window of opportunity is opening for human consciousness to more readily access understanding and experience of the Unity of Creation.  This is fundamental understanding to this entire period of time, and will be specific to our practice. 
 

These are general notes and guidelines which will assist you in adequate preparation for the practices, and to find logistical information for the weekend!


LOGISTICS, and add'l notes


  • Sat, Sun, see dates for your program in our calendar section, here
    • Saturday 12:30 - 6:30 PM
    • Sunday 10AM - 4PM
Unless other wise listed, the practice is at the NewsBank Conference Ctr, Chester VT.
NEWSBANK CONFERENCE CENTER
352 Main St
Chester, VT  05143
See map and directions here
Please read this mail for important information regarding these practices, and things I suggest or ask of you to bring, or prepare, for this work. 
I would suggest you print out at least this top page with address and times that you can easily be reminded of place and times, and/or bring it with you.  You may also, wish to print out directions, the preparatory practices, etc as needed.


After reading this mail, if you have any questions not in this mail, or in the enclosed links, please contact:
My offices at
at admin@sunreed.com
or by phone, 10-5 most weekdays
802.674.9585
ALL PROGRAM INFORMATION is available at the link for this program.
It can be found in our calendar section, here.

 Arrival & starting time
Please note our starting time for this program.  Plan to eat before your arrival, or come early with a bag lunch.  You can also pick up something in the idyllic town of Chester from the many restaurants, cafes, delis, and natural food store/deli almost just across the street from us!

Plan to arrive at least 15-20 minutes early, to give yourself time to park, unload, walk in, find a chair, take care of personal needs, connect with friends and others, etc, before the program begins.

Seating

We are in a very comfortable world class conference center, with comfortable chairs and seating.  But, you may bring your own, esp if you wish floor mats, pillows, or backjacks, or blankets, etc.


Our Sunday World Healing Service
may involve the use of drums and rattles.  If you wish, you may bring one, but we have plenty to lend, if this is called upon.
  We will advise you by mail if there is more to be mindful of.

Accommodations
The program is in Chester at a beautiful conference center of the NewsBank organization.
Chester is a very endearing Vermont Village, with lovely shops, restaurants, inns and B&B's.
We do have rooms available via the conference center, as advertised, but, unfortunately, we ran out for this practice.  Please advise us earlier of your need for a room next practice.  We will try to secure more rooms, but are not able to now.
You can see links to Chester accommodations, directions, a map, and a link to a google map on line at:

 ROOM ASSIGNMENTS
 
IF YOU HAVE ROOMS WITH US: 
There is nothing you need to bring outside of your personal articles. 
You will find bedding, towels, linens, etc, all provided.  There is a full kitchen, you can bring your own foods and make or share meals here.  At check-in, you will be assigned your room, and will be given the house address (just down the street, within walking distance of the building,) and a PASS KEY!  Be sure you get these from our front desk attendant(s) at the door.  (Another reason to be sure you arrive EARLY!)
When you leave, NewsBank staff will come in and strip beds, clean, etc. 
However, we are asked to leave things as you found them
in the Kitchen; but no worries on cleaning beyond that. 
Thank you!!


Meals
As stated, please eat lunch before your arrival on Saturday, and/or bring something sufficient to insure you have the energy to get you through the afternoon.  You will find assorted fruits and other snacks, along with water, coffee, and teas, available to you, as well.  But, we recommend you not be dependent upon these for sufficient energy for the work we have to do.
Saturday evening, there are ample places for lovely meals in town, and you will find other like minded souls ready to accompany you to a meal, should you wish that.  If staying with us, you can prepare or eat meals in the housing facilities.

For SUNDAY LUNCH, you will find numerous qualities cafes close by.  We'll share information at the program.

Again, for your questions, please contact our offices at admin@sunreed.com, or, call 802.674.9585 M-F 10 am - 5 pm ET
HOWEVER, we will be leaving by early afternoon on Friday to setup, so call before that time.

Forgive me, in advance, if I am unable to respond to other questions individually, especially, to your in depth questions or comments regarding this mail.  Please bring those with you to the practice!!

BE PREPARED!

ADDITIONAL NOTES ON PERSONAL PREPARATION,
for those who choose to read further!

Come prepared to do authentic work.
If you have not done this work before, you will find it in depth, touching deep places of wisdom and healing, and, for most of us, touching into realms of greater Mystery we rarely have such opportunity to enter into, or merge with.
COME PREPARED TO DO THE WORK.
This may require you to give up aspects of your self, your view of the world, your imprints of who you think you, and why you are here, that are not based in reality, or are not serving you at this time.
Much of what we were taught to believe, about ourselves, our society, our world, and our universe, are not based in authentic truths.  Some of these realities may have served us in the past, yet are not serving us at this time.  We shall have the opportunity to clarify that which does not serve, and touch that which does, that which is the source of our deeper truth.
THIS, we shall tap into, peer into, and have the opportunity to deeply merge with.  Our authentic truths.
COME PREPARED TO MEET YOUR SELF
The Q'ero, profound wisdom keepers of the Incan/Peruvian traditions, call this time the TARIPAY PACHA, the Time of Meeting Our Selves Again.
IT IS THAT TIME. Come Prepared.
We are being supported by the Cosmos, at this time of Profound Transformation for the whole planet.  Many experience this as stress and chaos; yet, when we learn to hold awareness in our true essence, we discover something else emerges.
We offer authentic teachings on how to prepare our self to receive the holy waters of our own universal being, our own highest wisdom, and that of other great teachers, healers, and beings of the subtle worlds, who come to share their wisdom and blessings with us, during each of these practices.  It is not unusual for participants to enter deep states of transcendent and transformational wisdom.  Many report life altering experiences.
I do not wish to play this up or get you revved up for what is not so.  However, this is humbly stated and offered based upon decades of service to many in this work. 
THERE IS DEEP POTENTIAL to meet this wisdom, and receive these blessings.
COME PREPARED!

Please note how you perceive this, and how your body and awareness embraces these ideas, or retracts in any way, from them, as this may be a clue as to how readily, and available, these deep source points of empowerment and nurturance are and will be available to you.  Or, it may indicate psychic or psychological forces at play within us, which do not wish to move, to give up power, or fear of the 'unknown' waiting for us.  In truth, it is known, it is all that is known, we simply have lost touch with it.
If there is anticipation, anxiety, or fear in reading this, we shall define and create safe and sacred space to allow you to go as deeply as you are ready to within this body of work.
Yet, it is important to note, YOU are in control.  You do not need to go where you are not comfortable treading, or ready or willing to go.  We simply offer the opportunity to transcend, transform, prepare.

Yet, you were called to this work.  And something is ready to reveal itself to you, or be offered up in profound healing for you.
Both potentials are available to each of us.  Deep healing.  Profound transformation and alignment with our Higher Truth.
Come Prepared!
It can be beneficial, before this practice, if you spend some time, in meditation, journaling, or something of this nature, as to how you perceive your relationship to these Higher Truths.
Even if you do not know exactly what that is.
I ask that you ask these particular questions in a meditative, prayerful time.  Even if it is just 5 minutes, give your self this time.
Ask that your own higher guidance, and that your guides and teachers from the other realms come and be with you.
Sit quietly, and ask
  • WHAT IS IT I REALLY WANT?
    • What is your ultimate pursuit, dream, desired outcome in your life?
  • WHO IS IT I REALLY AM?
    • Do I truly and fully even understand this?  Or, is my true self, my true nature, something beyond my current understanding or imagination?
  • FOR WHAT PURPOSE DID I TRULY INCARNATE NOW?
    • Again, do I truly understand and know this?  Am I pursuing my true path and purpose, or is there more that I have not yet seen, been able or ready to even see, or attain to?  How might I best achieve it?
  • HOW MIGHT I PREPARE FOR THIS?
    • To strive toward, to attain to, to embody my true nature, desires, and purpose?

Sit and rest with these, each, one at a time, or review them all and sit, quietly, reflectively, receptively.
Listen quietly to the responses, which may come in subtle waves of reflection, or immense sounds or visions...just rest, and pay attention to what you perceive in response.  It may be in a language you are not used to, yet fully understand, if you simply allow yourself to.
Write it down.
Bring your responses with you.
And be prepared to do the work.

Many blessings to each of you.

OTHERS MAY JOIN US
If you have other friends, colleagues, or acquaintances who have been asking, or whom you feel might benefit from this work, please inform them of it, even at this late date.
There are so many lives we might touch, and we truly wish to be of service, with this authentic work, in this time of Profound Change.  Perhaps they are on the cusp, and just need a gentle tug or word of encouragement.  Many will find reasons why they cannot.  The forces at play, cosmically, to bring about this Great Shift we are in, often appear in forms of stress, chaos, intense challenges in our personal lives.  It may seem untimely and impossible to come.  Some of you may experience that even now as you prepare to come.  Yet, these forces are the very reason one should come, to engage in work that is mindful, and intended to assist us through these times of profound change. 
What appears on the surface reminds us of our greater path.  And, often, it appears as obstacles or challenges, which, when viewed from beneath the surface, are, in actuality the very things we need to let go of, or transform some aspect of.  As the Elders have said, it is a time in which the structures of our belief, which no longer serve us, shall crumble away.
If there are any others you wish to share this with, you may send this mail, or this portion of it, this link, and/or the attached flier of the program. 

Sunday World Sound Healing Practice
We continue our World Pujas, our World Healing Services, with each of these practices.   These practices stretch into Infinite Potential to manifest what we most desire or which to be, in our lives  We shall, also, work with the Earth to meet her Highest Potential, for all Sentient Beings.
  We often join collectively with thousands worldwide in these practices.

The Hathors, and others of the "High Council" I speak with in my newsletters, will be guiding us here.  You each will be offered the opportunity to sound these realities into manifestation.  There MAY be the opportunity for you to use rattle or drum in these practices.  Thus, if you wish, you may bring your own frame drum (Native American style), or rattle, or borrow one of ours**. 

No prior drumming or singing experience is necessary.

If you did not read my last newsletters, they often have artices relating specifically to upcoming practices.  You may see those here, and please pass it on to others...
You can also sign up for it at that link, if you do not yet receive it.

INSTRUMENTS, OILS, CD's, BOOKS, OTHER TIMES
**We have a number of drums available, as well as the many instruments, CD's, books, and sacred items we bring to each program, and sell via http://www.sunreed.com, if you are not familiar with that aspect of our work.  If there is something you wish to be sure and see, check out the site, and call us, as we do not bring everything with us.

TIME
Time and time again, this work has proven to be in deep synchronicity with the rhythms and cycles of life, and the cosmos, meaningful at levels beyond our greatest comprehension. 

Each practice is related to one of the major or Cross Calendar days, such as Samhain, Imbolc, or Beltane.  We note the potentials of lunar and astrological activity often strongly associated with the times we meet.  
 These are often spoken of in the newsletters, also.
For instance, when meeting at the height of "Samhain,"  this is traditionally seen as Nov 1, energetically it actually falls between the 4th and 7th each year.  This is historically known as a time to celebrate harvest, and commune with the spirit worlds, a time when the Veils are thin.  It is the beginning of winter, a time to strip the ground bare, and turn inward and contemplate the seeds we shall plant next year.

We welcome you to come, enjoin with us, in this sacred work, with your own prayers and affirmations.
The vast majority of participants find the work incredibly meaningful, transformative, and life altering.
The more prepared you are to enter authentic states of transformation and insight, the more likely you are to be embraced by those very states.
We encourage you to spend time in prayer and meditation, before this practice, to call upon your own higher guidance and wisdom, teachers and allies, to be present with us, to prepare you for the greatest and most beneficial outcome to this work.
What you bring, your level of preparedness and readiness to immerse into the Heart of the Sacred, will have an impact upon you and all present.
All we ask, is that you be present, and available, for the work.
That is all that is needed. 
The rest will take care of itself.

We welcome you into this work, and look forward to seeing you, and participating with you.

Again, feel free to forward this to friends and colleagues who may have interest in participating, or who you know would benefit from this work.  We thank you in advance.

Many blessings in all that you do.
Zacciah Blackburn, and staff
http://www.thecenteroflight.net

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Additional notes from another practice, if you wish to continue reading:

The Work
There are two notes I wish to make in regards to this particular weekend.

First, many of us are going through extraordinary shifts and experiences of either chaos, or resolution and/or harmonious alignment in our paths.
I understand both patterns.
However, it is my experience, and guidance, that we have met an 'edge' to our progress, collectively, in this planetary transition, and many of us will find greater and greater ease to rest in, and drive from, a greater clarity and collective place of knowing.
It does require our due diligence, patience, clarity, and knowing, in order for it to unfold.
I have watched a red tail hawk in flight, perch, glide about, and dive for prey on my property much of the last 3 days, at the same time I have been engaging in various aspects of preparation for this work.
In a medicine way, knowing the great alliance Hawk has consistently brought to my work, I recognize this as a great gift of the messenger who asks me to pay close attention to where my awareness is, when he appears.
This confirms, for me, just what I am sharing with you, as well as the second note, which is the opportunity for personal healing, and planetary service that will be offered in this weekend work, such as that outlined just a bit further below, beginning with the red highlight regarding this practice. 
Please do take note, even if you have seen these other notes before.

Some folks have questioned why I focused on this subject matter in the article as highlighted.  It is a rare use of this language, and rarely used in my work.  It was/is specifically guided.  I do apologize to any one whom is offset or offended by the language (really, only one word or phrase,) used in this article.  If you have not read it, please do, and please note any visceral reaction you may have, especially to that one word/phrase perched carefully in this highlighted article. 
If this can be read, and met, with one's greater awareness, it becomes an opportunity to meet any lingering resistance to our own  deepest insight, growth and healing, as well as the greatest levels of empowerment and knowing we can attain to, which are being offered in this practice.  Please bring forward your thoughts, seeds, senses, and experiences, over the weekend.
From my perspective, I am being asked to step up to the plate, to meet our deepest secrets that are ready to be revealed, and healed.  Please bring them with you.
They do not need to be shared with anyone but yourself.
The guides and allies who will be in the room are asking this of us, and are ready to support us in this work.


This content of most of the remainder of this mail is drawn from earlier practices, but can be beneficial to prepare for this weekend, as well, though our intent and approach may be different.
If you have not attended a practice before, we highly recommend you read it.
There is some additional information below which may be useful even to our most adept students.


Those who have engaged in this work before, know it is important, beneficial, and deeply informative and transformative.
You can read very beneficial information on the primary program page, as well as our articles and newsletters linked below.
I just sent out a new newsletter, today, with another relevant article regarding this program.
I did so as well, last week.  If you did not receive them, they may be viewed here:
      • (you may sign up for here, or in the News link just below, also, if you do not receive my newsletters.)
If you have not been keeping up with the information, and intent of this program, I highly recommend taking some time to do so, as well as to prepare yourself for the weekend.
Earlier articles relevant to the program, can be viewed here:
Set time and space for yourself, every day, to prepare for this program.  Set 'seeds' of intent, to peer into your deepest life purpose, and essence of who you are.  By just framing the questions, you open the door to the Great Mystery to come forward with more clear response.  Work with the energetics of the sun as it informs and transforms us leading into this time of Beltane.  We will work specifically with this at least one day of the practice.   Be mindful, by all means of the preparations of the Earth for raising her life force, and preparing her seeds for spring.  This is an energetic we will 'lean' into this weekend.
Come, prepared to be 'present, and available,' to do this work.
The more you come in a ready state, the more the Universe will provide for you.
This content of the mail is specific to earlier practices, but can be beneficial to prepare for this weekend, as well, though our intent and approach will be slightly different.
What is your highest purpose? 
What does your realized self look like to you? (The qualities of that self.)
What keeps you from manifesting it?

In this practice, we especially wish to peer into the perceptions, beliefs, and emotional states which may prevent us from easily recognizing and enabling our deepest truths to unfold.
We highly recommend you spend some time asking the questions of what is holding you back, what is weighing you down, what is not serving you, what can you let go....
The process of release and clearing allows the highest potentials and principles of Light to enter our awareness, penetrate our field, and integrate into our substance.
All aspects of our psyche not resolved dampens our field, and creates the 'veils' that keep us from directly perceiving abundance, light, principle.
Please read these last two sentences again.


Through the weekend, we will be aligning with potentized allies, and potential of all life to realize our highest purpose and intent, our highest will and life force.  The union of these two seed our wheel of life, our field of being, with creative forces able to penetrate the world around us with our essence and values, and integrate the highest ideals of being into our common waking states.
They can charge our wisdom templates with ways of knowing beyond our normal visionary state, allowing us to speak, walk, and be in illumined states, even during our 'normal' waking and working hours.
Take some time to reflect, and set purpose and intent, to draw in the highest vision of these principles, you can imagine.  Ask for guidance and insight, to come during this period of work, (not necessarily in this moment of reflection....this time you take beforehand is setting the intent for the potential we enter during the weekend.)
Spend some time imagining the highest states of clarity, purity, joy, and exaltation (ecstasy/bliss.)
This will set the stage to assist us to draw these in for our work, which assist in manifesting it.
The practices this weekend are designed to create a template for entering heightened states of well being, visioning, and interconnectedness with All Life.
They can be used to carry forward in every day life, meditative practices, and self evolution.
We are in a profound time of change and transfiguration.  Take time to honor the process, plan time, if at all possible, afterward, as well, for reflection, integration, etc.
We hope to complete the practice with a "World Healing Service".
But, I am being guided to insure inclusion of explicit frequencies of energies are transmitted during this practice.  This may preclude the 'traditional' forms of our World Healing Service.

NOTE FOR THIS HATHOR PRACTICE:
I highlighted a specific practice in this recent article in one of my most recent newsletters:
A practice based on this information will be offered for deep healing and clearing of our auric field, and mental and emotional bodies, as well as activation and empowerment of our core essence.  We have powerful guides and allies who will be assisting us, individually, and collectively, personally, and planetarily in this practice.  Those who feel complete in this aspect of their own personal work, and whom prefer to enter World Service, will be given special opportunity to do so, much like our "Tonglin" practices, during this specific service.  If you have questions about this, please do bring them to the weekend.  Specific instruction will be given, with alliance to participate in, and complete this important world healing service offering.  Please come prepared.

You may bring your frame drums or rattles to join during this practice, in the event we are able to ask you to use them, though we should have plenty to share at the program.
As those who are returning know, what has been coming from the evolution of these practices is rich.
Each time we engage in them, more arises, deeper insight, clarity, awareness, connectivity.
What is happening now is yet more immense.  I truly expect an ever more enriching program.
The ties to this 'wheel of time' are astounding in deeper cultural views.
The universe is informing us of immense opportunity.
We welcome the opportunity to share with others.
If you have friends who would like to join, please encourage them.
We are offering these practices in deep service and gratitude to the local community, for the evolution of each of us, and the greater Earth.

Be mindful of all that you experience, on a daily basis, and moment to moment.  More and more, we are being called to be mindful of, and present to, the power within each moment.
Each moment you can bring mindfulness, or presence, to your awareness, you will find the ability to access, enrich, clarify, awaken deeper perception, choices, and therefore, actions, and their outcomes.

May we become more mindful, attentive to our gifts, to what and how we manifest in our lives. 
May we be the foundation of a collective awakening to a greater good and potential, in alignment with the vast bounty of the Greater Whole!
Namaste!

I dearly look forward to seeing you, and sharing with you.
Many blessings
Zacciah
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Zacciah Blackburn, PhD
Director
The Center of Light Institute of Sound Healing and Shamanic Studies
www.thecenteroflight.net
Owner
Sunreed World Musical Instruments
www.sunreed.com
802.674.9585

Location and Directions

Place:      NewsBank Conference Center
352 Main St
Chester, VT  05143
 
 Sign in front of building
Enter through the front doors, program is upstairs.  

Handicap accessibility, elevator available.
Conference center, Chester, VT

   
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  • PARKING:
    There is adequate parking behind the Conference Center off of Senior Circle (see map), adjacent to the builidng, or across the street, behind the NewsBank main offices, off of Cobleigh St., across from the Center.
Directions:   From Chester Center  (see below)













 

Driving Directions to The NewsBank Conference Center

Chester, VT

  • Chester is located 10 mi off Rt I-91, exit 6
  • 11 mi from Springfield VT,
  • or approx 15 mi. from Londonderry, or Ludlow, VT
  • PARKING:
    There is adequate parking behind the Conference Center off of Senior Circle (see map), adjacent to the builidng, or across the street, behind the NewsBank main offices, off of Cobleigh St., across from the Center
  • Enter through the front doors, and go upstairs.  Handicapped accessibility, elevator available.
  • . Map is below!
Driving Directions:

From I-91 N or S, and most points East, South, or North:
Take Exit 6, Chester, and turn onto Route 103 North toward Chester
(From Bellows Falls & Exit 6 I-91):
At the intersection of Rt 11 (toward Londonderry,) bear left onto Rt 11, and continue into the center of Chester.  The Center is on the right just after the small green in downtown Chester.

From Rt 103 South Bound (From Ludlow) and Rt 11 (South,  From Springfield) :
From 103 or Rt 11 south, upon entering Chester, there will be a T intersection at Main Street.
Turn Right at the stop sign onto Main Street, if on 103 from Ludlow.
From Springfield, turn right onto Main St (103 here), but, at the intersection of Rt 11 (toward Londonderry,) bear onto Rt 11, and continue into the center of Chester.  The Center is on the right just after the small green in downtown Chester.


From Rt 11 East Bound ( From Londonderry, Manchester, Upstate NY):
Enter Chester from the West.
Route 11 becomes Main Street in Chester.
The Center is on the left just before the small green in downtown Chester, which would be on your right if you continued straight.

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We wish you, all, many blessings in the Journey
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