This is an in-person program and we will be following all California safety protocols with regards to Covid-19.
Richard Waxberg will contact you to answer any questions you may have, as soon as we receive your application. Or you can contact Richard anytime at: 805.640.0532 / richard@krishnamurticenter.org
Once you have been accepted into the program, you will receive an email with instructions to pay your deposit securely.
Tuition & Room Fees Cover all meals
Registration: $40
Regular Tuition: $875 (includes breakfast, lunch and dinner)
Krishnamurti Retreat room fee: $680
The room price is subsidized. The price listed is per person per room, and room allocation will be determined by the Krishnamurti Retreat staff.
College Student Scholarship Tuition: $437.50
Tuition Scholarships are approved by Richard (805-640-0532) and limited to full-time college and graduate program students. All participants pay the same Krishnamurti Retreat room fee.
A limited number of partial tuition scholarships are awarded with the criteria of a serious financial need and according to the amount of scholarship funds available for each Intensive.
Local commuter participants pay the Tuition of $875.
PROGRAM POLICIES
Registration and Payments: Participants are required to pay a non-refundable $40 Registration Fee, along with the 50% Deposit of the Tuition Fee to hold their place in the program. The balance of the Tuition fee is due one month before the program begins.
Cancellation: If a participant cancels participation in the program 30 days or less before the program begins, they get half of their Deposit back, excluding the Registration Fee.
If the program is cancelled for any reason by the KFA, all program payments will be returned.
Transportation: The Ventura County Airporter shuttle from LAX to Ventura (Four Points by Sheraton hotel) charges $50 each way and can be purchased ahead of time (www.venturashuttle.com). Uber service is also availble from LAX directly to the Pepper Tree Retreat for about $160 one way. As a complimentary service with no charge to participants, the retreat will pick up participants at the Four Points by Sheraton hotel in Ventura at 3:30 PM on the first day the program begins, and will drop off participants at the Four Points by Sheraton hotel at 12:15 PM on the day the program ends. For all other times, participants must make their own travel arrangements.
Flight & other Public Transportation Arrangements: We strongly recommend that every participant independently purchase trip-insurance (for example: www.insuremytrip.com), just in case the unlikely possibility arises that the Programs do not run, or if a participant must cancel for personal reasons.
For further information on the Intensive Retreat: please contact Richard Waxberg: 805.640.0532
For further information regarding the Krishnamurti Retreat room arrangements: please contact the retreat front office: 805.646.4773
This new week-long, in-person Explorations into Freedom Intensive Retreat is a special invitation honoring new participants and anyone who has only attended once before.
This is a rare opportuity for any person who has been exposed to Krishnamurti’s teachings to take the next important step into a deeper dimension of what he is pointing to, a transformation of human consciousness and a profound realization of the unburdened mind beyond conflict and fear.
This Intensive Retreat takes us on a fascinating journey into the core of the potentially life-changing teachings of Krishnamurti. With the help of fresh and powerful energies released directly through the in-person sharing of insights together, we can dive deeply into the otherwise unaccessible hidden regions of the mind.
The levels of penetrating inquiry possible through our shared in-person dialogical explorations help us to discover for ourselves where the distortions in our current highly conditioned consciousness begin to impact on our thinking. This can help to liberate us from these old dead patterns of thinking so that new dimensions in perception can flower.
Through these explorations, we are cleansing the mind of its distortions, revealing hidden operations, freeing the mind of any inner-resistance we may have unconsciously accumulated that limits our perception from taking flight into the unknown and the intense joy in being alive.
If you have ever wondered what participating in a week-long, fully immersive, in-person exploration into the heart of Krishnamurti’s teachings can mean for you, the Awakening of the Unburdened Mind Intensive Retreat can be the perfect gathering of like-minded people to discover something new.
Please join us to find out how far this inspired journey of self-discovery, the illuminating power of ‘insight’, and the direct perception of ‘listening and seeing’ can take us.
Our work together takes place on the grounds of the Krishnamurti Center, where Krishnamurti lived and wrote, surrounded and protected by the sacred mountains and energy of the spiritually alive Ojai valley.
Our work unfolds in an atmosphere of affection, sensitivity and helpful support, creating the perfect ground for deep insight and friendship to flower.
Richard Waxberg and Deborah Kerner
live in Ojai, California. They moved to Ojai in 2004 by invitation to create and begin facilitating the Explorations into Freedom Intensive Retreats for the Krishnamurti Foundation of America. They offer three 8-day retreats each year at the Krishnamurti Center in Ojai, in February, June and October. They have also facilitated retreats in British Columbia, Canada and Denmark.
They are both practicing artists. Richard plays the Japanese Shakuhachi flute. Deborah is also a published poet. Both Richard and Deborah had successful careers in New York City as designers. Richard taught art and design, aesthetics and art history at the prestigious Parsons School of Design.
They left their lives in New York City to begin a new spiritual life, taking up the challenge Krishnamurti proposed of stepping ‘out of time’, stepping out of the limited and conflictual ‘me-centered’ consciousness. Their journey took them to Ojai, California to continue their studies of Krishnamurti’s teachings, and to India where they taught several art and design courses for a full school year at the Rishi Valley School in rural Andra Pradesh, a school based on Krishnamurti’s teachings located near his birthplace.
During their year of teaching at the Rishi Valley School, Richard and Deborah also traveled to 4 Krishnamurti schools throughout India, to participate in dialogues with teachers and staff on what it means for students to experience an education based on Krishnamurti’s teachings.
As part of their earlier spiritual work, they studied Native American shamanic practices for 12 years with 3 traditional Native American elders before discovering the profound life-changing teachings of J.Krishnamurti. It was during these studies that they learned the importance of gathering, storing and releasing energy as an essential part of spiritually transformational work.
They continue exploring current studies and observations on human consciousness that reflect Krishnamurti’s profound message of transformation, freedom, and love.
The Tuition fee and the Krishnamurti Retreat room fee cover the entire program including all meals, materials and round-trip transportation from Ventura to Ojai. We pick-up and drop-off all participants flying into LAX, who take the Ventura Airporter Shuttle from LAX to Ventura, once on the first and last day of the program.
In order to hold your place in the program, we ask all participants to please pay the $40 Registration fee plus a 50% Tuition Deposit. The balance of the Tuition payment is due one month before the program begins. The Krishnamurti Retreat fee is paid upon arrival the first day of the program. The program fills on a First-to-Sign-Up basis.
Once you have been accepted into the program, you can pay your Registration Fee and Tuition Deposit by credit card via our Secure Payment Form that will be sent to your email.
Food: Delicious vegetarian food is served during the program. We will make reasonable efforts to meet your dietary and other special needs. Please let us know in your application.
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