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1222.0. "Elat Chayyim retreat center" by TNPUBS::STEINHART (Laura) Tue May 12 1992 16:29

    I received an attractive, 16 page booklet recently promoting Elat
    Chayyim, The Woodstock Center for Healing an Renewal - Summer 1992.

    Phone 1-800-398-2630
    PO Box 127, Woodstock NY 12498

    They are offering a number of intriguing seminar classes at a retreat
    center about an hour and a half northwest of New York City.  You can
    attend the retreat center without registering for seminars.  You can
    also attend some weekends.

    They offer childcare, kosher vegetarian meals, private sessions with
    health practitioners, swimming, sports and double-occupancy rooms with
    air conditioning and private baths.

    Some seminars include:

     Entering the Gates of Jewish Spirituality with Reb Zalman Schachter-
     Shalomi.  Mysticism, personal and communal practice, participatory.

     Sex, Death & Power - A Dramatic Exploration of Tales from the
     Wilderness with R. David Azen and Margot Stein Azen.

     Creating Jewish Video - R. Ayla Graftein.

     Living the Myth of Joseph, An Exploration for Jewish Men with Joe
     August, Peter Pitzele and R. Jeff Roth.

     Walking the Sacred Path, A Sharing of Native American and Jewish
     Spiritual Traditions with George Fence and R. Aryeh Hirschfield.

     Twice Blessed:  A Week for Lesbian, Gay or Bisexual Jews with Andy Rose
     and Felice Yeskel.

     Play, Health and Spirituality, A Fourth of July Retreat for Singles and
     Single Parent Families with Paul Marienthal.

     Torah and Dharma with R. Zalman, Ram Dass and Friends.

     Beyond 1492/Beyond 1992 with Matthew Fox and Arthur Ocean Waskow.
     Healing the earth, mysticism in Christianity and Judaism.

    
    There is a table of fees.  For example, $400 per adult for a 5 day
    course, double room with AC, and board.  Financial aid is available.