Osho Leela Meditation Center, Boulder:
1025 Rosewood Ave, #107, Boulder, CO 80304.
The Seminar will be held at the Osho Leela Meditation Center, convenient to the Denver International Airport, located in Boulder in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Within walking distance is a bus stop, a food store, about 10 good restaurants, and plenty of open space for relaxing or hiking. The venue has a small kitchenette and refridgerator for those who wish to bring lunch. Coffee and tea is available as part of the seminar.

Seminar Program
The seminar will focus on

• session dynamics
• diagnostic techniques
• tuning into the client
• creating treatment plans
• understanding the energetic impact of the treatments
• experiencing the effects of active meditations

and in particular the seed leaf level of the Colorpuncture Function Circles Treatments, which comprise the third and final course from the Colorpoint Institute. There will also be further advanced Colorpuncture treatments taught, as well as hands on practice on how to use the lightset, how to use the active meditations, practice giving and receiving the treatments. For seminar timings and travel info click here. For details and registration information, or phone 303 800 5447.

What You Get with Certification:

The certification process in the Colorpoint Method focuses on Colorpuncture in the session environment. When you opt to become certified you receive:

• Course workbooks Level 1, Level 2 and Function Cirles Course (nearly 65 Colorpuncture treatments)
• Colorpoint DVD Tutorial video
• Osho Kundalini ™ Active Meditation CD
• Audio Learning CDs for Level 2 and Function Circles Course
• Esogetic Oil
• Soul Spirit Color set
• Written Examination dates
• Entrance into the Practitioner Seminar
• Required reading textbooks can either be included, or bought separately

The Colorpoint Method is the teaching distilled from years of work with thousands of people from different cultures using Colorpuncture and meditation in the environment of a healing arts, self exploration gathering. Two teachers led this experiment in human consciousness and health, Peter Mandel and Osho. Knowledge about the mind/body connection from both are combined into a method which can be focused on either the body level and physical pain and ailments, on the emotional level and energetic blocks, or the psychic level and spiritual issues and karmic issues.

Past life methods, dialoguing (from John Upledger), and hypnosis were combined with the latest energetic models of the human body to arrive at the deepest understanding of how an individual can understand and put into action their own purpose in life, thereby calling on their deepest sources of energy and integration. The findings of these experiments showed clearly that people who are living what they perceive as their purpose in life clearly, are less prone to all kinds of health issues, and more healthy in general. It is a teaching in empowerment, in how to educate people in the wisdom of their own bodies, in listening to themselves, and becoming more "Tuned In" to their health and well being based on their own individual truth.

Obviously this entire body of knowledge cannot be transmitted in one weekend. The purpose of the certification and Practitioner Seminar is to make sure a basic understanding of how Colorpuncture and active meditation and tuning in work together when practitioners experience the treatments and meditations on themselves in the presence of a teacher with 22 years experience. The Function Circles in particular need hands on experience to understand in this context. Once this understanding is in place, the practitioner has the basic tools for further work on their own. Advanced seminars are in planning now for further teaching about the mind/body understanding with Colorpuncture and meditation.

The teaching includes several therapeutic methods such as:

• Eugene Gendlin's focusing
• nervous system monitoring from the trauma work of Babette Rothschild
• tuning in from Sarita Newman
• how to take a client history
• Diagnostic Techniques
• Active meditations from Osho

The Colorpoint Practitioner Seminar can be attended at any time after the completion of Course Level 1. You can also attend as many of the Seminars as you like, with a discount on the later ones.

Who is "Osho" and what does meditation have to do with it?

Osho was a spiritual teacher who specialized in working with Western psychology. He coined the phrase the "Psychology of the Buddhas" to sum up his teaching of what Man's source of intelligence is, and how to access higher consciousness. His meditation techniques, often called Active Meditations, integrate his understanding that modern Western Man cannot simply sit down and watch his breath, as Buddha's disciples did. Modern Man needs to begin with the body, movement, dance, energizing and relaxing the body first through movement (that's where the"Active" name comes in), and then inner silence and peace becomes available. His teaching is presented in a structure he also called "The science of the inner." Osho on Amazon.

Colorpuncture and Meditation
In the 1990s Peter Mandel traveled to India to teach for 5 years Colorpuncture in public seminars, as well as private therapist trainings. James St Clair attended all of those teaching opportunities with Mandel, as well as many of his seminars in Europe. The work in the Osho Academy of Healing Arts during that period was to combine Osho's meditations with Mandel's Colorpuncture treatments to find out if using the mind/body connection Mandel has mastered so well could be used to help people attempting to clean up psychic and energetic phenonmenon on their path to more consciousness. The answer was a resounding YES, and the methods taught here have been refined and expanded beyond those seminal years to yeild the Colorpoint Method.

In it's essence the method is based on Buddha's teaching of the body: "If you want to see what your body will look like in ten years, look at your thoughts now." This is the basis for any wholistic approach, the knowledge that the body and mind are connected and influence each other profoundly. Scientists and doctors such as Michael Talbot (The Holographic Universe) and Dr. James Oschman (Energy Medicine, the Scientific Basis, see below "Suggested Reading") have compiled research identifying and documenting the scientific principles upholding this simple statement of the mind/body connection. Working with this knowledge at its deepest level, the Colorpoint Method turns the statement around and asserts, "If you want to release the mind from it's patterns of limiting thought, start with the body's expression. " The Method utilizes the body in clearing blocks in the mind, and vice versa: when physical symptoms are opened and examined, the changes are anchored in the conscious mind. Essentially this is befriending and making an ally of the mind, which becomes then the most powerful healing agent available to the individual: his/her own mind and beliefs.

Author Tom Robbins comments on Osho eloquently:
"I recognize the emerald breeze when it rattles my shutters. And Osho is like a hard, sweet wind, circling the planet, blowing the beanies off of rabbis and popes, scattering the lies on the desks of the bureaucrats, stampeding the jackasses in the stables of the powerful, lifting the skirts of the pathologically prudish and tickling the spiritually dead back to life. "

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Is meditation a practice to gain "peace of mind?"
The answer is yes and no. Meditation eventually leads to inner peace, as it is practiced. However to think of peace of mind is a contradiction in terms, actually. By its very nature the mind is constantly commenting and judging, about others, and one self. What you can discover through meditation is the knack of finding the distance between yourself and the commentary, so that the mind, with its constant circus of thoughts and emotions, no longer intrudes on your inherent state of silence.

2. Is meditation a mental discipline or effort to control or "tame" the mind?
Meditation is neither a mental effort nor an attempt to control the mind. Effort and control involve tension, and tension is contrary to the state of meditation, which happens in relaxation in a natural state. There is no need to control the mind, we only need to understand it and how it works. This understanding comes best from simple observing. Hence the term "The Witness" in the world of meditation as describing the part of the individual that is strengthened in the practice of meditation.

3. Is it a form of concentration or contemplating?
Concentrating is a narrowing of awareness. By contrast, meditation is all-inclusive, your consciousness is expanded. The meditator is simply aware of whatever is happening inside and outside of himself. This again leads to more and more relaxation.

4. Is meditation difficult to learn?
No. It is only a knack, something that with practice gets easier. In the beginning like riding a bike, one falls off ocassionally, but then gets back on and continues riding. It is similar with meditation. And it really helps to learn in the presence of people who have experience with it.

Dates, Times 2012 Seminar

Friday evening, Aug. 10 - optional evening session.
Saturday, Sunday, August 11, 12. Seminar.

Friday, August 10, Early check in is between 4:30 and 7:30 pm.
From 8:00 to 8:30pm there will be a talk on active meditation.

Sat. Aug 11, 9:30am check in, 10:00 start. Friday evening is an optional session at 8:00 - 9:30pm. If arriving Sat morning at Denver Airport, allow two hours travel time. We recommend arriving Friday eve. if possible.
What time does class end on Sunday?
The seminar finishes 4:30 pm, Sunday, August 12, 2012.
There is also an evening session on Saturday from 8 - 9:30 pm for additional teaching.

Requirements

When attending the Practitioner Seminar, please bring:
your Colorpuncture lightset, either P117, or Combi Deluxe set.
Your esogetic oil
Your Soul Spirit color set
Your Course workbooks. Course Level 3, the Function Circles, can be picked up at the Seminar if you don't have it yet.

To attend the Practitioner Seminar you must have completed Course Level 1 and 5 documented sessions. To see the three discount packages for Certification, click on the tab Pricing. To receive certification in the Colorpoint Method you would need to complete the following requirements:

• Complete Courses Level 1, Level 2, and Function Circles Course
• Submit the documented sessions records *
• Successfully complete the written exams
• Complete the required reading before the Practitioner Seminar
• Attend the Colorpoint Practitioner Seminar

* For certification 30 documented sessions are required. However, you will only need the first 5 (five) sessions finished for the seminar. You can then have the next 12 months for completing the rest, to be submitted before your certificate is issued.

Required Reading:
The following three books are part of the learning of the Colorpoint Method and are required for certification. These books must be read before attending the Practitioner Seminar. Questions covering the pertinent material are included in the final examination for certification.

The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment
by Babette Rothschild, (Hardcover - Oct. 15, 2000), new $25. You can either buy it from us new, or used for a cheaper price at Amazon.com - click here to buy at Amazon. While the Colorpoint Method is not exlusively addressing trauma, empowering the client in therapy is one of the goals and Rothschild addresses the issue excellently in this book, along with several others of value to our approach.

Somato Emotional Release and Beyond
by John Upledger (hardcover), new $50.10. You can either buy it from us new, or used for a cheaper price at Amazon.com - click here to buy at Amazon. John Upledger describes in depth the method of "Dialoguing" with the body, helping the client to visualize, isolate, and then reframe blocks in the physical and emotional body. Another key point in the Colorpoint Method.

Focusing
by Eugene Gendlin, new $31.50. You can either buy it from us new, or used for a cheaper price at Amazon.co.uk - click here to buy at Amazon. American psychologist Eugene Gendlin offers six specific steps for opening the inner world of deeper feelings and intuition, which help in the session environment for the client to become more at home in their body and with their sensations and feelings. A great help to ground the Colorpuncture treatments in awareness.

You may attend the seminar whether or not you intend to become certified. The price for attending the seminar is $500, which includes the Course Level 3 Function Circles advanced, and the weekend seminar in Boulder. Completion of Levels 1 and 2 are required.

Certification Packages
These packages enable you to purchase the required equipment from Peter Mandel to practice Colorpuncture, as well as the Courses and Seminar required to become certified.

If you are a practitioner who has already completed course work with Colorpoint Institute and want to become certified, or just opt into the Practitioner Seminar for training in the Colorpoint Method, phone us at 303 800 5447.

Accommodation options you can choose:
The Boulder Twin Lakes Inn offers a room share for $75.00 per person for 2 nights, maximum three people. They are about 8 miles away from the venue. Phone them Toll Free at: (800) 322-2939.
The Holiday Inn Express in Boulder is walking distance to the venue, and they are more expensive. Their contact info is (303) 442-6600.

You can register and pay for the course work and certification online in our store by credit card. If you would like to pay offline by personal check or money order phone us at 303 800 5447 for arrangements.

Map of Seminar venue - Boulder, CO

(Don't see the red marker for 1025 Rosewood? Scroll a little around the map, it will show up.) This Google interactive map shows where the Osho Leela Meditation Center is, the venue for the Seminar. A shuttle from the Denver Int'l airport to Boulder leaves once per hour, and costs $12.00.
Get driving instructions on Google Maps here.