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Lakota Benedictine Experience
June 24 – July 1, 2007
Borderlands Education and Spiritual Center, Hill City, South
Dakota
Dr. Martin Brokenleg, O.S.B., Director of Native Ministries
Programme, Vancouver School of Theology, B.C., Superior of
the Community of St. Michael, OSB, a non-cloistral Benedictine
community in Vancouver, Former Professor of Native American
Studies, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD, and an Oblate
of Blue Cloud Abbey, South Dakota will offer the Lakota
Benedictine Experience June 24 – July 1, 2007, at Borderlands Education
and Spiritual Center located at Borderlands Ranch, 23120
South Rochford Road, Hill City, South Dakota, in the heart
of the Black Hills.
Building on the 2003 and 2005 Lakota
Benedictine Experience, Dr. Brokenleg offers his warm and
engaging style to those exploring the commonalities and differences
of two distinct and encompassing spiritualities that encourage
Balance in daily life. Dr. Brokenleg will bring together
these two very diverse but communal spiritual traditions
and examine them through the lens of sacred space, the rhythm
of worship, and hospitality. An Episcopal priest, an Oblate
of Blue Cloud Abbey and a pipe carrier in his family of the
Sicangu Lakota people, Dr. Brokenleg will address common
but differing perspectives on kinship and community, spiritual
practices and reverence for the land.
The ancient Lakota
culture assumes a primacy of spiritual tradition and practice.
But Benedictine tradition, in writing much longer than Lakota
tradition, appears to be older. Both spiritual traditions
include spiritual practices and perspectives that may support
one another and be a mirror to the other. The Lakota Benedictine
Experience will include exploring these two traditions in
worship, discussion sessions, film and daily spiritual practice.
We will recognize the Benedictine rhythm of daily prayer
and some time for work as well as silence and free time surrounding
Martin’s presentations. Some of the topics addressed
will be the sense of kinship of all of creation, a reverence
for the earth, pilgrimage as an outer and inner journey,
the role of women, the gifts of intuition and imagination,
and the sense of life as a sacred ceremony.
Participants
may arrive on Sunday, June 24, any time after lunch. You
may spend the afternoon hiking the fields, walking the labyrinth,
or rocking on the deck. Our first meal together will be supper
at 6 pm. Monday will be a day of grounding and orientation
to the area led by Linda Kramer with preparation for Tuesday’s
pilgrimage to Pine Ridge and Wounded Knee Cemetery. We will
also stop at the Badlands, Oglala Lakota College and Red
Cloud School. Martin will join us on Wednesday to begin a
rhythm of Benedictine worship, morning seminars, afternoon
quiet time and time for daily work projects. The atmosphere
of the Experience will be relaxed and informal. Good walking
shoes, a sun hat and sun block, sunglasses and a water bottle
are musts! The ranch is located at 6000 ft. altitude so dress
in layers to be warm at 40 degrees and cool at 90 degrees.
The Experience will close after worship and brunch and our
final session on Sunday, July 1.
Tuition is $475 and meals
for the duration of the Experience are $200. Lodging at the
ranch in shared rooms and baths and a comfortable homelike
setting is $150. Bunkhouse lodging and camper hookups are
available for $75. Hotels are available one half hour away
in Hill City. (www.hillcitysd.com) Participants will fly
into Rapid City Regional Airport on United, Northwest or
Delta. Rental cars are available at the airport. Shuttle
service is $35 one way.
20% discount on tuition for 2 or more registering together
prior to March 31, 2007.
10% discount on tuition for 2 or more registering together
after March 31, 2007.
15% discount on tuition for those who support Borderlands
financially or with in kind service.
10% discount on tuition to former event participants.
Only one discount may apply.
Register with a $100 deposit mailed to Borderlands, 23120
So. Rochford Road, Hill City, SD 57745. Please contact 605.574.4746
or Linda@Borderlandsranch.org for
more information.
Click Here for printable registration
form.
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