NEWS: SPIRITUAL HAIKU CONTEST 2013 WINNERS - Sponsored by Paras Dharma Ashram

CONGRATULATIONS HAIKU POETS ... 

...for winning All Expense Paid Spiritual Retreat in Rishikesh (Himalaya) in Spiritual Haiku Contest 2013  Click here to know more about it... - Sponsored by "Paras Dharma Ashram" - An organisation, based in Kushinagar, which believes in making people's life better through love, compassion and selfless service.

AND THE WINNER OF RETURN AIR TICKET ALONG WITH ALL EXPENSE PAID SPIRITUAL RETREAT IS...

Julie Warther (Writer – USA)

She wins Return Air Ticket from USA to Delhi (India) to participate in week long 'all expense paid spiritual retreat in Rishikesh' for the following Haiku Submission…

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at the mountain's peak

an inchworm reaches the top

of a blade of grass

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Julie Warther is a member of the Haiku Society of America and the 2012 winner of the Robert Frost International Haiku Award.  She recently completed a two week residency at The Studios of Key West in Florida and is a regular contributor to a number of both print and online haiku journals.  Julie lives with her husband and three children in Ohio (USA) where she enjoys the small-town life.

...AND THE FOLLOWING POETS (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) WIN ALL EXPENSE PAID WEEK LONG SPIRITUAL RETREAT IN RISHIKESH… 

(FOR OTHERS, DON'T DESPAIR, SPIRITUAL HAIKU CONTEST 2014, WILL BE ON SHORTLY. TO BE NOTIFIED FOR THE SAME, PLEASE SEND A MESSAGE AT THE ADDRESS WRITTEN BELOW...)

Nazarene Garmonsway

University Student  - New Zealand

in moonlit dust, forms

Suspended in forest shade

Like shadows punctured,

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Kate S.  Godsey

Psychotherapist, poet, photographer - USA

let me change like clouds

unfolding into faces

of the infinite

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Anna Lipniacka

Physics Professor - Switzerland/ Norway

The Sea

Salty water flows

sweeping my fingers like time

I was seabed once

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Claudia Schoenfeld

Event Manager – Germany

dot, by dot, by dot,

lanterns strewn across the stream,

i follow seaward

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Claudia Schoenfeld lives with her family in a small town close to the Black forest. She blogs at 'Jay Walking The Moon'  and is co founder of dVerse Poets pub, a bustling and alive online poetry community. She loves traveling, painting, exploring nature on her road bike and every once and a while (psshhh) she steals away to play the piano in the half-dark..

Eduard TARA

Mathematics teacher - ROMANIA

                               Still hearing the sound

of the ancient ocean’s waves –

Himalayan wind

Born on February 10, 1969, in Iasi, Romania. Mathematics teacher at a secondary school near Iasi. Member of Romanian Haiku Society since 1992. From 2002, he had won 130 prizes at international haiku contests and 12 prizes at international tanka contests. Awarded haiku poems in 26 countries, all the continents (excepting Antarctica…). The poems were written or translated by the author himself in 20 different languages.

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Sasa Vazic

Journalist, translator, editor, writer - Serbia

at the edge of spring . . .

the dark scent lingering in

a wilted rose bush

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Saša Važić is a freelance journalist, astrologer, translator, writer of prose and poetry, essays, book reviews. Author of over 1000 articles on various topics which appeared in newspapers and journals, member of the Association of Literary Translators of Serbia. Co-Owner, Co-Publisher and Co-Editor of Simply Haiku, member of the editorial boards of the Haiku Association of Serbia and Montenegro's magazine, Osvit, of Haiku Novine (Niš, Serbia), International Editor for moonset (Oregon, USA), and member of the World Haiku Club and the Haiku Oz (Australia), her haiku have been included in over ten national and international haiku anthologies and in a number of national and international haiku magazines. To date she has received 52 awards and commendations. Largely, through her translation efforts she has brought English language haiku poetry, articles and books to Balkan readers and vice versa. Važić is the editor of the bilingual Haiku Reality 

Jana Žufić

Artist - Crotia

withering wind’s wake –

unveiling stars beyond stars

beyond bare branches

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Born on December 27, 1978 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Jana Žufić is a multimedia artist and

transdisciplinary experimenter. Her fascination with “the poetics of orderly chaos”, as she calls it, is reflected in her works. She lives in Croatia, between Poreč – a small town on the western coast of the Istrian peninsula – and the capital Zagreb – home of the Zagreb School of Animation and the New Tendencies*, which both played an important role in her formation. Her main field of interest lies at the intersection of new media, (animated) cinema and contemporary art. She worships Mother Nature, thus enjoying outdoor activities such as swimming or hiking, but also engaging in indoor yoga practice on an almost daily basis. She started writing haiku in January 2012, at the turning point of a spiritual crisis.  [*Pictured in front of Vjenceslav Richter's Systemic Sculpture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia]

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CONGRATULATIONS EVERY ONE, YOU ALL WILL BE RECIEIVING AN EMAIL FROM PARAS DHARMA ASHRAM VIRTUAL CITIZEN CO-ORDINATOR WITHIN A WEEK OR TWO WITH MORE DETAILS AND INFORMATION.

FOR OTHERS, DON'T WORRY, SPIRITUAL HAIKU CONTEST 2014, WILL BE ON SHORTLY. '

TO BE NOTIFIED FOR THE SAME, PLEASE SEND A MESSAGE AT...

TWITTER - @VerseEveryDay
Google+ - +Shashi S 

NOTE: 

A) Number of poetry submissions were very less, so the organisers have had decided to increase the number of winners in Spiritual Haiku Contest.

B) To know tentative details of the Spiritual Retreat program, please click here...

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Shashi

ॐ नमः शिवाय

Om Namah Shivaya

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Win an all expense paid Spiritual Retreat...

UP CLOSE & PERSONAL : Winter Spiritual Retreat by an unique Community Paras Dharma Ashram

INVITATION FOR A WEEK LONG SPIRITUAL RETREAT

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Days filled yogic practices, meditation and the service. Visits to powerful spiritual centers in and around Rishikesh, Kushinagar and Varanasi, where you will have a chance to experience your inner peace. A trek along holy river Ganges in Himalaya to attune yourself to the nature. A day spent in meditation and a silent walk in the pristine surrounding of Buddha's Nirvana Temple in Kushinagar. Or take a leisurely boat ride on the softly flowing Ganges in the holy city of Varanasi and watch the world famous Ganga Aarti of thousands of oil lamps on the Varanasi Ghat. During the retreat, you will also have an opportunity to visit a village in remote corner of eastern Uttar Pradesh near Kushinagar to undergo a training program in the service of rural village folks.

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The bi-annual Winter and Summer Spiritual Retreats is organized, for a limited group of only 25 ‘pre-selected’ participants, by a unique community and Non-Profit Organization and Trust “Paras Dharma Ashram” which is based out of Kushinagar.

Triveni Ghat - Rishikesh

The organization believes in over all spiritual growth through selfless service along with powerful meditation techniques and yogic practices. To inculcate these ideas and the thought process as well as to train aspiring people, who believe in spirituality and selfless service, the organization has created A well co-ordinated Winter and Summer Spiritual Retreats of ‘One’ and ‘Two’ Weeks Duration.

The organization also subsidizes the cost of participants to some extent as well as also sponsors various competition to select deserving participants of creative and spiritually focused attitude. Currently, the organization has initiated a contest “Write A Haiku on Spirituality” in Haiku Group at Google+ (Click here to win an all expense paid one week ‘Winter Spiritual Retreat’)

WINTER SPIRITUAL RETREAT (2014)

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This will be organized Between 3^rd Week of Dec, 2014 to 4^th Week of Dec, 2014

ONE WEEK DURATION

(Rishikesh/Kushinagar)

Day One:

Reach Rishikesh in the afternoon and after lunch walk alongside the Holy River Ganges and visit many of the ashrams on the way. Spend an idyllic time at the Triveni Ghat and close the day with a great dinner at German Bakery.

Day Two:

Divine Life training / River Rafting in the River Ganges / 15KM trek to one of the most powerful temple of Shiva on top of a hill

Day Three:

Travel to Kushinagar Via Delhi

Maha Nirvana Temple of Buddha at Kushinagar

Day Four:

Reach Kushinagar – One of the most holy place of Buddhism, where Buddha attained Nirvana. Explore the Temple, attend Mantra Chanting. Visit the local town and end the day with your favorite Chinese / Japanese / Thai dishes for lunch and dinner.

Day Five:

Meditation with Buddhist Monks / Training in Tantra Meditation / Pranic Healing

Day Six:

Training in Yogic Sadhana / Praanayaam / Vippasana

Day Seven:

Service in Village – Teaching at village school / Preparing and serving lunch and clothes / Providing medical health care etc.

Day Eight:

Arrival at Delhi

TWO WEEK DURATION (Rishikesh/Kushinagar/Varanasi)

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An extension of the program days at both the centers i.e. Rishikesh and Kushinagar, with an inclusion of two day yoga initiation and practice in the holy city of Varanasi. Register for more details…

NOTE: The above program is provisional. The final schedule and program will be confirmed to the participants on 1^st Dec, 2013.

REGISTRATION:

Myanmar Temple Kushinagar

The organization “Paras Dharma Ashram” preselects the participants for the Winter or Summer Spiritual Retreats for One or Two week program. This selection process is based on the interest shown by the aspiring participants. A desire to learn specific yogic and meditation techniques is valued at Paras Dharma Ashram, hence a participant with desire to learn something specific is a preferred choice. The screening is done through A) Question and answer session through emails, B) Back ground assessment as well as C) Dedication of the aspiring participant for selfless service.

This screening is done to encourage and support people who care for spiritual growth and enjoy selfless service, and interested in being much, much more than just a TOURIST.

The process of selection of participants for the Winter Spiritual Retreat (Between 4th Week of December, 2013 and 4^th week of Dec 2014) will be begin by 1^st week of Aug, 2013 and will be completed by 1^st Dec 2013.

For registration into the two programs, please send an email to virtual.citizen@gmail.com to receive the registration forms by first week of January, 2013. Once you have submitted the initial registration forms, you will be sent a set of questionnaires for assessment and finally admitted to either one or two week Winter Spiritual Retreat Program 2013.  

COST:

Ganges Varanasi

As a non-profit spiritual organization, Paras Dharma Ashram does not charge any profits but subsidizes some of the costs of all the participants, as well. Since the travel, boarding / lodging cost varies from year to year as well as during the long term planning of these retreats, we are not able to give exact cost at the moment.

Yet, on the average, cost of boarding and lodging (Including breakfast, lunch and dinner) comes to be around 115 US $ per day per person on twin sharing basis. Travel, Training, Reading Materials, Tools and local travel cost will be around 400 US $ for one Week and 550 US $ for Two Week Program per person.

All the cost will be finalized and shared with all the selected participants by 1^st Dec, 2013.

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PARAS DHARMA ASHRAM TEAM

Contact

Virtual.citizen@gmail.com

for any information, suggestion and / or registration

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ॐ नमः शिवाय

Om Namah Shivaya

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