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OPENING OF THE "CASA SARASWATI" / 10 July 2010
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- On July 10-11 Our new international home will open with the first Open Workshop (Tenerife Spain)
- On November 6-15 we will have our first 10 days retreat at the "Casa".
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REFLECTIONS 2008
THE WISDOM OF INNOCENCE
After eighteen years of teaching the ‘Fool at Heart’ in different ways, what can I say? Whether the Fool at Heart is alone or with twenty companions, the simplicity of what is shared, has a mysterious way to bring down barriers, and to unexpectedly reach the heart of its audience. The language communicated belongs more to silence than to speech, to stillness than to movement, to feeling than to thinking, to innocent humour rather than to clever comedy.
In Presence, the ‘Fool at Heart’ seems to speak directly to the ‘being’, to the unformulated narratives, ‘to what is about to become’, and so creates a space that holds and contains, like a bubble of consciousness. From this, emerges a trust and a sense of coming home. In the same way, as I experience the contagious wonder of a young child entering the living room, where many who are present will lift up their head and smile, having forgotten for a moment their own predicament. What is this power that can transform and liberate us? I think that it is the Wisdom of Innocence, that extraordinary gift of the child and of the inner-child of the adult. Sadly, this gift has been misunderstood and undervalued in our present culture. I suggest another way. Let’s turn it upside down and put the feet first, learning to walk again, without preconceived ideas, trusting in the (freedom of) not knowing, in the Wisdom of Innocence.
© Didier Danthois
See the Newsletter 2008
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FOOL AT HEART - Daily Meditation
A new idea
came forward
following the
Scotland retreat,
and in order to
respond to
the individual
need to feel
supported
and inspired
spiritually when
you live far
away from other
Sacred Clowns.
We have
decided together
upon a daily
meditation time,
for anybody
who wishes
to join in.
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Daily Meditation
International
Tuning Time
from 7-9am
UK time
A time to
connect & rest
in your
compassionate
presence
with your
Sacred Clown
family from
around
the world.
| | With Love, Didier | |
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“Nurturing Heart & Soul”
in meditation, mime-clowning, singing, dance & stillness.
No public performance this year.
This course will focus on strengthening your spiritual ground into "Being" and on developing the artistic skills of the Sacred Clown. We will aim at nourishing a playful Trust in the “Unknown”, in the mystery which lies at the centre of the creative process of the “Fool at Heart”.
Here are the details to book your flight to Tenerife South Canary Islands:
ABOUT The Casa Saraswati Tenerife Spain
The Casa Saraswati is the newly opened *Fool at Heart* International Retreat Centre. A blessed land for Healing & the Arts, spaciously spread on 7 terraces , 800m above the sea. Here the boundless love of the Great Mother overflows as you breath, as you leisure among fruit trees, flowers and groves. And so, you merge with the vast expanse of sea and sky, here below, and become as still as Pic El Teide our Southern guardian.
An oasis of peace, it is situated in the luscious rural area of the North West, away from all the touristic developments of Tenerife. It has a wonderful sub-tropical climate the whole year around which alows the growth of exotic fruits & flowers, avocado trees...etc.
This climate has proved to be beneficial to various health conditions.
WHAT TO BRING (this text is being reviewed at the moment)
It is a very warm location and it is still summer in November. Bring along light clothing and don’t forget your clowning swimming suites to enjoy the wonderful swimming pool. A jumper might be useful in the eventuality of cool breeze passing by in the evening.
HOW TO GET THERE
BY PLANE: ( Text here is being reviewed)
There is a range of websites which finds the cheapest flights for you to Tenerife South:
www.dialaflight.com Telelphone bookings only: 0161 954 7096
www.lastminute.com, Tel: 0871 222 3207 / 0871 222 7547
www.avro.co.uk Tel: 0870 458 2841
www.cheapestflights.co.uk Tel: 0870 758 1292
www.bookflymonarch.com Online Booking Only
www.opodo.com Online Booking Only
www.airberlin.com Tel: (Germany) 01805 737 800
Ryanair now also flies to Tenerife South. Offers cheap fares but there is 15kg of checked-in luggage restriction. See:
www.ryanair.com Tel: 0871 246 0000 (UK) 0900 116 0500 (Germany)
0900 20 22 184 (The Netherlands)
TAXI: ( Text here is being reviewed)
From the airport a taxi can take you directly to Christoforo Centre, which is 26 km (15 miles) from Tenerife South, Reina Sofia Airport. The cost of the fare is around Euro 25 to 30.
BY CAR ( Text here is beeing reviewed)
From the airport of the South, Reina Sofia, go in the direction of Los Cristianos, follow the freeway beyond Los Cristianos and Las Americas beach, in the direction of San Juan Beach, pass the village of Armenime,
you will arrive to the crossing that lead to playa Paraisa: 350 metres after the crossing, on the right handside, you will see a stone bell tower. Behind, the great wooden door is Cristoforo. |
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Casa Saraswati (Spain). An improvisation with Nature; mime, dance, music, clowning both in and outdoors. An exploration of creative interdependence with each other and nature.
There will be no Midsummer Clowning courses in 2010.
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