Manzanita Village Retreat and Five Changes Coaching (Warner Springs and Los Angeles)

Caitriona Reed & Michele Benzamin-Miki

PO Box 67 Warner Springs, CA 92086 phone: (760) 782-9223
The Thirty Pressing Questions - a weekly on-line learning experience.
$57 monthly or $247
The Thirty Pressing Questions - a weekly on-line learning experience.

I was speaking with a colleague the other day who was saying how some people are afraid of 'going deep', afraid of questioning, of daring to challenge cherished assumptions.

She laughed and said, " . . we live there . . . " and laughed again. "We live deep!"


You're probably reading this because you ‘live deep' too, in that dangerous (for some) place of inquiry, asking the questions others do not ask, because you value the authenticity that comes from such questioning. And because you value the answers that come to you too. They are answers that are uniquely your own.


And because you understand that only by asking such questions can you ever really effect real change in your life

 
Meditation Retreats
Various Options
Meditation Retreats

Retreats at Manzanita Village are open to all. They weave together the teachings and practices of the Buddhist Traditions with the timeless themes of Peace-Making and Non-Violence, Social-Justice, Personal Integration and Creativity. Retreats follow the traditional forms of monastic practice, blending Theravada (Vipassana) practice with Thien (Zen).


Typical Retreat Days include meditation, Dharma talks, discussion, and movement; with some unstructured time for hiking, reading, and resting. In addition to traditional retreats we also offer workshops with specific themes —creativity, creative-writing, martial-arts, deep-ecology, as well as queer-specific themes and retreats for transgendered people, as well as for people of color and of mixed-race.


Although we are a Buddhist inspired center and offer traditional Dharma practice, we are ecumenical in spirit, inquisitive by nature, and averse to those who espouse a singular point of view. We hold to the basic Buddhist Precepts and also recognize that “the understanding we presently posses is not changeless, absolute truth”.


The teachings given here are flexible and practical. The style in which they are presented is non-coercive, non-hierarchical, and creative, and always honors the wisdom that we understand to be inherent in every person. As a result of our open approach there is a natural sense of community that is felt on every retreat, no matter how long or short it is.

 
Life Coaching, NLP, Clinical Hypnosis
By Arrangement
Life Coaching, NLP, Clinical Hypnosis
  • Do you ever feel burned out, exhausted, overwhelmed?
  • Do you ever feel that there’s no end in sight to the constant challenges and struggles that come your way?
  • Do you long for a change in your lifestyle, your career, your friendships, your level of health and well being?
  • Do you hunger for more passion and spontaneity in your relationship?
  • Do you desire the kind of success that has so far eluded you?
  • Do you want to attain that success while maintaining your values, spirituality, and integrity?

WOULDN'T YOU LOVE TO TRANSFORM YOUR VISION OF WHAT IS POSSIBLE AND EXPRESS YOUR TRUE POTENTIAL?

It is rash to imagine that we can attain our peak without the aid of wise counsel. Professional athletes have coaches, great spiritual teachers have mentors, organizations have consultants. Why would you imagine that you deserve less, or could achieve your best with less?

My colleague Michele Benzamin-Miki and I will work with you as life-coaches and consultants to help you move towards outstanding excellence in your work, your relationships, and your life.

  • We will work with you by phone or in person; or with a combination of both.
  • We will consult with you on an ongoing basis, meeting every week, every two weeks, or once a month.
  • Or we will work together with you for a shorter 'Breakthough Series' usually a minimum of eight hour-long sessions.
  • We are also available for short-term single-issue interventions (one or two sessions), where we will use hypnotic and other techniques for smoking-cessation, insomnia, anxiety, or fast phobia interventions. By the way, these single-step procedures, like all the work we do, are 100% guaranteed.
  • As your life-coach, success-coach, and hypnotherapists, we bring our more than twenty years experience to help you where other modalities often fail.

And - for your information hypnosis or trance, - which is simply the use of the inductive capacity of the imagination - is one the the most effective ways to access your own innate ability for self-healing and transformation. We use some amazing cutting edge hypnotic tools - though trance itself is as ancient as your own human and natural capacity for transformational personal change.

  • We will design the frequency and number of sessions to give you maximum benefit. After an initial free consultation by phone we will decide with you the best course of action for our work together. You will be given rare tools that you will use to change every aspect of your life - your career, your relationships, your health, your ability to communicate effectively and your problem-solving skills.
  • Possibilities for personal transformation are limitless. What you are capable of doing is limited only by your imagination, and the limitations you impose on yourself.
  • Our work with you will help you bring the vast realm of what is possible, into the world of the concrete, actual, and practical.
  • We will also expose and eliminate internal obstructions that may have limited you for a lifetime.

It's true. You can excel in ways you may have never imagined. The work you will do with us will help you to tap into very essence of who you are as a human being, no matter your circumstances, what you do, or what you dream of doing and becoming.

Please contact us us to schedule a meeting by phone to discuss how we can help you.



Caitriona Reed is a clinical hypnotherapist, life and business coach and consultant, and motivational teacher, and neurolinguists teacher and trainer. She is also a meditation instructor, and a Dharma teacher empowered to teach by the well-know Vietnamese Thich Nhat Hanh, who one referred to her as, 'my most promising student'. 310-339-1660



Michele Benzamin-Miki is a clinical hynotherpaist, life coach and consultant, and motivational teacher, and neurolinguists teacher and trainer. She is also a meditation teacher and non-violence trainer. She teaches Aikido and Iaido and has three 5th degree black belts in those art.310-339-3531



And at Manzanita Village contact Caitriona and Michele at 760-782-9223



Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation!

 
Business Coaching and Consulting
By Arrangement
Business Coaching and Consulting

More than just inspiring you towards your success - Giving you the tools that will make your success a certainty!

Did you know that more than 80% of small businesses, and solo entrepreneur businesses, fail within the first year or two? Yet there are tools, strategies, and systems that when you implement them will guarantee your success!

More than that, they will transform your work into a profound delight and joy! And if you already love it, you will love it even more!



We offer you guaranteed, cutting-edge strategies in the following areas:

  • Skills for precise communication. Negotiation. Sales.
  • Congruity of values and goals.
  • Implementation of systems geared to your specific requirements.
  • Strategic planning and visioning your work and goals.
  • Mindfulness techniques for the workplace.
  • Time management that gives you more time for family, friends, and the things you love to do.
For the entrepreneur working out of a home-office, small businesses and firms, small, medium, or large corporations and organizations. We use only proven tools that will have an immediate effect on your productivity, relationships and the overall well-being of you, your organization and the individuals within it.
 
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