Joseph, with his calm and loving demeanor, expertly leads pilgrims into a meaningful understanding of how we can allow our journey to be the beginning of a sacred journey within ourselves. He firmly believes that a sacred site is a “Portal”, a passage into another dimension that we create through our own thoughts.

After witnessing and being part of many transformational experiences of spiritual seekers at Chalice Well, Joseph realized the next step on his path and created The Spiritual Retreats Center. He now shares his love, passion and higher purpose by guiding seekers like yourself to these places of peace and power around the world.

A Message From Joseph:

My work is reaching those who are on the leading edge of the new consciousness. Working with them to assist them in discovering more of their life purpose and in accomplishing what they came to earth to do.

When I am asked to work with someone, I will assist them in unfolding their potential, offer suggestions and ideas that will create the window for them to see more choices. I will assist to  bring  a wonderful experience of growth, expansion, peace during these expansive and transformative times.

I will help in embracing the new and welcoming change, knowing that nothing ever leaves unless something better is coming.

The qualities of synthesizing and unity. The ideal of group service and working together for common goals is increasing. I agree, and this is why we must work together to delegate, take action and organize all the energies about into a more beautiful pattern.

If allowed, I will help to manifest your next steps. To open doorways to the new, release old ways of thinking, and surrender to this pull of higher evolution rather than resist it.

Step back and look at things differently. Begin to reassess your work, your life, and more importantly your perceptions.
Remember, you are the one who must take the actions on the whispers and new paths that seem to call to your heart so you can create your ideal life.
Are you prepared to begin the next major step on your life’s journey?

You’re About To Experience A Magical Journey of Spiritual Awakening And Emotional Freedom 

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You can now help a friend in need by letting him know that lemon juice is beneficial in preventing the disease. Its taste is pleasant and it does not produce the horrific effects of chemotherapy. If you can, plant a lemon tree in your garden or patio. How many people die while this is a closely guarded secret so as not to jeopardize the beneficial multimilionnaires large corporations?

As you know, the lemon tree is down, does not occupy much space and is known for its varieties of lemons and limes. You can eat the fruit in different ways: you can eat the pulp, juice press, prepare drinks, sorbets, pastries, ... It is credited with many virtues, but the most interesting is the effect it produces on cysts and tumors. This plant is a proven remedy against cancers of all types. Some say it is very useful in all variants of cancer. It is considered also as an brod spectrum anti microbial against bacterial infections and fungi, effective against internal parasites and worms, it regulates blood pressure if too high, and antidepressant, combat stress and nervous disorders.

The source of this information is fascinating: it comes from one of the largest drug manufacturers in the world, says that after more than 20 laboratory tests since 1970, the extracts revealed that: It destroys the malignant cells in 12 cancers, including colon, breast, prostate, lung and pancreas ... The compounds of this tree act showed 10,000 times better than the product Adriamycin, a drug normally used chimiothérapeutte in the world, slowing the growth of cancer cells. And what is even more astonishing: this type of therapy with lemon extract not only destroys malignant cancer cells and does not affect healthy cell.

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Ronda holds a Master of Science degree in applied social psychology (research methods) and has been working with individuals, groups and corporations for over 20 years.

Philosophic/Religious Orientation and Influential Mentors:

Ronda’s orientation is influenced by her life-long introspection and wide repertoire of investigation and learning. Ronda was brought up in an spiritual home where Christianity was seen from the larger perspective of inner responsibility of following the "Christ-like" path toward realization that extends beyond any religious dogma or denomination.

Fascinated early on with the questions of why we are here, what really matters, and how to know truth, Ronda became a life-long student of western and eastern religion and philosophy, psychology, social systems, and physics. Her work today is non-denominational, devotional, and openly respectful toward the sacred fullness that is already who you really are before and beyond any system of belief or superimposed religious structure.

Over the years, Ronda has studied a wide repertoire of sacred, scientific and mystical understandings. In particular, Ronda has been profoundly influenced by the works of: Richard Moss with whom she studied for 4 years (energetic & integrated transpersonal psychology); Stephen Aizenstat (dream tending and archetypal systems of symbol and imaginal intelligence); J Krishnamurti (beyond the limits of mind); Michael Harner (shamanic attunement and practice); Jack Zimmerman (relational shamanism and energetic transmission); Brugh Joy and Carl Jung (shadow and archetype integration of self); Gurdjieff (freeing repetitive blocks and conditioning); William Rand (Reiki master and Kahuna healing arts training); Deepak Chopra (cosmic potentiality/spiritual laws); John Welwood and Ken Wilber (integrated cosmology of eastern and western understanding); Hafiz (impassioned poet/mytic/seer); Leonard Cohen (one "darned sexy and soulful poet/songwriter!")

Ronda brings to these significant orientations, the added qualities of dynamic attunement to one's unique creative power through the art of seeded inquiry. Ronda's work has become deeply transformational with a focus on full Self-Realization, embodied realization and freedom of Being.

LIFE WORK: Ronda  LaRue considers herself very much, "an inner/outer bridge" in that she has walked the delicate line of being well "in"(volved in) and yet not "of" (caught up by) the world. She has managed to maintain a deeply mystical and poetic approach to life while having been a respected and successful (and self proclaimed "type A") business entrepreneur for more than 24 years (InfoVision Systems) as well as a recognized visual artist and poet with several of her works in private collections both nationally and abroad. (Explore this web site for more.)

Ronda says that she can very align with her client and relate to her/his worldly issues and linear mental blocks because she has been there too... In fact, because she has made consciousness her life long inner study coinciding real work in the real world, Ronda is able to "re-enter" this space of worldly and egoic perception with her client, and from there point to the way "out' to a much richer inner landscape of wisdom and soulful artistry.

Ronda feels most blessed by the passion she feels for seeing others find and free their soulful nature to living as true artists of life. According to Ronda, reclaiming the artistry of living Presence is precisely what the ancient sages as well as today's contemporary seers point toward when they talk about: "becoming enlightened", "entering the Kingdom of Heaven", realizing "The Power of Now", "ending the search", Loving What Is"... In short, Remembering Who You Really Are. 

To learn more about Ronda visit the website here:    www.ojaisoularts.com

 • Removing the source of the stress or avoiding the cause
• Taking deep, calming breaths, thinking peaceful thoughts
• Taking walks in sunshine and fresh air
• Having a regular exercise program and an enjoyable hobby
• Getting together with friends and family with focus on the positive
• Listening to calming, peaceful music, enjoying Meditation, Yoga, Tai Chi,
• Having regular, nutritious meals
• Helping others is good for both the giver and the receiver
• Taking time to learn new things, taking a class

combined with the SCIO Biofeedback scan to evaluate body-mind-spirit will give you a new inner balance to create the Life YOU want to live !
Our Spiritual and Health Retreats are a perfect blend of all of this and will allow you to go home feeling refreshed and rejuvenated emotionality, physically and mentally 

An exquisite Swiss/Irish-cross breed she smiles, born in an excellent vintage year ....... lived with her parents in Africa, Lebanon, India, Germany and Switzerland; she qualified in 1972 as a Laboratory Technician and gathered experience in a Private Clinic in Berne and a Doctor’s Surgery in the famous ski resort Gstaad/ Switzerland; from there she followed her dream; for the next 22 years she climbed the career ladder from Air Hostess to In-flight-Supervision Manager and Trainer of Airline Crew.

During this entire time she never stopped studying, educating herself in Holistic Health modalities and taking every opportunity she could in distant countries and Europe to visit seminars and qualify in several Natrual Health therapies.

After 3 years of severe illness which was a result of environmental toxins ( nerve gases used to kill insects, DDT, Pyrethroide, Pyrethrum, Formaldehyde and Lindane!), she left her flying career to found The Little House of Avalon in1998 with the goal to help others not only maintain but find their way back to good health naturally.

To find out more this amazing woman please visit www.littlehouseofavalon.com

is well connected by rail and road to the rest of the country.

Ashoka's rock edicts

Ashoka's rock edicts, dating from 260 BC, at Dhauli, 8 kms from Bhubaneshwar, stand testimony to his conversion to the gentle faith of the Buddha. These two 'Kalinga Edicts' differ from other Ashoka edicts which expound Buddhist principles. Dating from 260 BC the Dhauli edicts give detailed instructions to Ashoka's administratiors to rule his subjects with gentleness and fairness.

Six kilometres from Bhubaneshwar are the caves of Udayagiri and Khandagiri, dating from 2nd century BC, on two separate hillocks separated by a road. At Udayagiri is the famous Hati Gumpha (elephant cave) of King Kharavela. There are several caves worth visiting with stone figures from the Buddhist pantheon and fine wall friezes.

The three sites of Ratnagiri, Udaigiri and Lalitagiri, constitute a separate circuit, well connected by road to Bhubaneshwar. Ratnagiri in the fertile Birupa river valley, 90 kms from Bhubaneshwar, was a great centre of Vajrayana Buddhist till the 12th century and the Mahavihara of Ratnagiri played a great role in the development of the Kalachakratantra during the 10th century. Today, pilgrims can see the remains of this monastic university along with the beautiful sculpted panels that reveal the intricate motifs on the niches.

In Udaigiri, 5 kms from Ratnagiri, the remains of a sprawling monastery has been recently excavated, that can be reached through a long stairway. Rock-cut sculptures adorn the hilltop. Lalitagiri is situated on a small hill and has a large number of votive stupas and the remains of a chaitya hall. Also noteworthy are the large number of Buddha figures housed in the site museum. There is a stone carver's village that has survived from ancient times where excellent sculptures are often to be found.

Everything that we have, including this body, we have taken from this planet. What

we can give is only a paltry part of what we have taken. Giving as an act could be very deceptive and could turn ugly, but

if your way of being is giving and your actions are only a manifestation of that, when you open your heart to give, grace

invariably seeps in. That is inevitable.

It has been my fortune and privilege that at a very early age, I became witness to a certain state of giving -- my great

grandmother who lived to be 113 years of age. In the morning, if she was given breakfast, she would always go about

giving away at least two-thirds of it to the ants, birds and squirrels, particularly to the ants. People would say, ‘She is

throwing all her food around, this old woman will die without eating,' but they all died while she lived. There were many

days where I saw her with a little bit of breakfast that was left on her plate. She would simply sit there, watching the ants

eat. Tears would be streaking down her cheeks and when somebody asked, ‘Won't you eat?’ she would say, ‘I'm full. I'm

already full.’ It was many years later that I realized her way of transacting with the world. If the ants ate, she was being

nourished. A logical mind would never understand this, but it was this nourishment which gave her an extraordinary

longevity.

Each of us can also make every act and every breath into a process of giving – seeing how we can contribute to

everything around us, no matter what we are doing. In just 24 hours, we will be so rich that the experience of life, the

beauty of life, will set a glow on our face because that is the only way life functions. The whole process of life is a giving.

It is a transaction. In every giving there is a taking. We are taking more than we are giving, but in your mind, just ignore

the taking. You just keep giving because you do not have to take; it will be pushed into you.

There was a man who cleared one hundred acres of forest and made it into farmland. His two sons helped him and they

became prosperous. When the man was dying, he called his two sons and told them that the land should never be

divided, but the produce should be taken equally, fifty percent, by each son.

Accordingly, they went by their father’s word. One of the brothers got married and had five children. The other one never

got married. Life went on and they each took fifty percent. One day, a thought entered the mind of the brother who had a

wife and five children: "I'm getting fifty percent; my brother is also getting fifty percent. But I have a wife and five children

while my brother has nobody. When he gets old, who will take care of him? He should have a little more than me because

I have the wealth of my children. But he is too proud; he will not take it from me." So in the dark of the night, he carried a

bagful of grain quietly and walked into his brother’s store, dropped this bag and walked back. Whenever he could, he went

on doing this.

The same thought also entered his brother's mind. He thought, "I am alone, my brother has five children to feed and I am

getting fifty percent, but if I give him extra, he will not take it." So he started doing the same thing at night. This went on for

many years and both of them never noticed. One night, both of the brothers carrying sacks of grains in secrecy walked

towards each other's storehouse and came face to face. Suddenly, they realized what was happening.

--Jaggi Vasudeva

18.

 In spiritual terms then, stress may

mean losing the frequency or a feeling that we have lost our connection to the Source - or perhaps a forgetting that we are

always plugged in – a misperception of sorts.

But when we take the time for a quiet moment to become aware of this essential connection, it grows brighter and

stronger. The power of the connection stays with us and can more easily be felt and recognized. The following metaphor

of a beach came to me in channeled form and reminded me of Anne Morrow-Lindbergh’s wonderful memoir titled, “Gift

from the Sea.” She reminds us to be “as choiceless as a beach” waiting expectantly for a gift from the sea.

The ocean is expansive and the possibilities endless, coming

to you who wait patiently on the shore. The waves wash up

exactly what you require for your continued growth and

evolution. It is a matter of openness and willingness to be

present - to remain on the beach and to recognize what comes

to you from the depths of the water. If you are not at the

shore, you will miss the treasures which are there for you.

When your thoughts are of past and future, you have left the

shore and therefore you miss what comes to you. Therefore,

align yourself with the present moment, because this is the

only place where you can receive anything of real value.

This is the shore, the spot where you breathe in Spirit’s

offerings, blessings, and peace.

So allow yourself to become like a beachcomber of sorts, spending some of your time being curious on the shore to

discover what may come to you. Remember to always give thanks for the bounty that you receive. This thanksgiving puts

you into the natural cycle and assures that more blessings arrive on the shore.

By acknowledging the gifts of Spirit, you demonstrate that you are in tune with life, you are operating in tandem with

universal principles, you create the “flow” that in actual fact has been there all the while, but now you step into it, you

place yourself strategically.

PLACE YOURSELF IN THE FLOW OF LIFE BY BEING IN THE PRESENT, LETTING GO OF PAST AND FUTURE, AND

OFFERING THANKS AND ACCEPTANCE OF NOW.

Healing continues in its many forms. It has many different faces and methods of appearance. It does not discriminate, but

comes to you who accept it. Acceptance, therefore, is a major element in healing. It comes to those who accept help, who

are truly open to receiving the gift.

Embracing the present gives you the keys to the future. It unlocks the door to what it is that you desire, what you seek. It

lays the groundwork, so to speak and paves the way for an integrated and balanced tomorrow.