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Plant Identification At The BRC: Feel The Ground Beneath Your Feet
Teacher: Corinna Botoulas, David Styles and Annemarie HeidukCost: 2 days accommodationDates:
If you are feeling energetic and keen to visit the green hills of Ixopo, the BRC invites you to help remove alien vegetation from the grasslands. At the same time, it is an opportunity to learn about the plant species growing in Ixopo with horticulturist, Corinna Botoulas, and botanists, David Styles and Anne Heiduk, as they explore and identify the variety of flora. They are all volunteering their time to compile a list of species for the Centre. Come and join them and perhaps discover a new specie!View teacher detailsCorinna Botoulas is a Horticulture graduate and owned a landscaping business for 26 years. She still runs her garden maintenance business. Parallel to this, she runs a healing practice. A graduate of Astrology and a Soul Collage® Facilitator, her passion lies in empowering people to discover 'their inner soul-full selves' and to awaken them to their life's potential.David Styles is an active botanical explorer in eastern South Africa, having collected more than 5,000 plant specimens from KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape and Mpumalanga Province and has four plant species named after him. He is currently completing his Doctorate at the School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu Natal, researching the pollination biology of Sisyranthus, a genus of approximately 15 species nearly endemic to South Africa.
Annemarie Heiduk is an early career postdoctoral researcher with profound expertise in pollination ecology. She is particularly interested in the evolution of complex floral phenotypes and pollination strategies with focus on Apocynaceae, one of the largest plant families in the world. She gained international renown as an expert on pollination of species in the tribe Ceropegieae, in particular, specialized deceptive trap flowers in the genus Ceropegia. In her research, she bridges several scientific disciplines (taxonomy, phylogeny, chemical ecology, pollination biology, and evolutionary developmental biology) in an interdisciplinary approach to understand the role of insect pollinators in shaping flowers.
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Plant Identification At The BRC: Feel The Ground Beneath Your Feet
Teacher: Corinna Botoulas, David Styles and Annemarie HeidukCost: 2 days accommodationDates:If you are feeling energetic and keen to visit the green hills of Ixopo, the BRC invites you to help remove alien vegetation from the grasslands. At the same time, it is an opportunity to learn about the plant species growing in Ixopo with horticulturist, Corinna Botoulas, and botanists, David Styles and Anne Heiduk, as they explore and identify the variety of flora. They are all volunteering their time to compile a list of species for the Centre. Come and join them and perhaps discover a new specie!View teacher detailsCorinna Botoulas is a Horticulture graduate and owned a landscaping business for 26 years. She still runs her garden maintenance business. Parallel to this, she runs a healing practice. A graduate of Astrology and a Soul Collage® Facilitator, her passion lies in empowering people to discover 'their inner soul-full selves' and to awaken them to their life's potential.David Styles is an active botanical explorer in eastern South Africa, having collected more than 5,000 plant specimens from KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape and Mpumalanga Province and has four plant species named after him. He is currently completing his Doctorate at the School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu Natal, researching the pollination biology of Sisyranthus, a genus of approximately 15 species nearly endemic to South Africa.
Annemarie Heiduk is an early career postdoctoral researcher with profound expertise in pollination ecology. She is particularly interested in the evolution of complex floral phenotypes and pollination strategies with focus on Apocynaceae, one of the largest plant families in the world. She gained international renown as an expert on pollination of species in the tribe Ceropegieae, in particular, specialized deceptive trap flowers in the genus Ceropegia. In her research, she bridges several scientific disciplines (taxonomy, phylogeny, chemical ecology, pollination biology, and evolutionary developmental biology) in an interdisciplinary approach to understand the role of insect pollinators in shaping flowers.
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Plant Identification At The BRC: Feel The Ground Beneath Your Feet
Teacher: Corinna Botoulas, David Styles and Annemarie HeidukCost: 2 days accommodationDates:If you are feeling energetic and keen to visit the green hills of Ixopo, the BRC invites you to help remove alien vegetation from the grasslands. At the same time, it is an opportunity to learn about the plant species growing in Ixopo with horticulturist, Corinna Botoulas, and botanists, David Styles and Anne Heiduk, as they explore and identify the variety of flora. They are all volunteering their time to compile a list of species for the Centre. Come and join them and perhaps discover a new specie!View teacher detailsCorinna Botoulas is a Horticulture graduate and owned a landscaping business for 26 years. She still runs her garden maintenance business. Parallel to this, she runs a healing practice. A graduate of Astrology and a Soul Collage® Facilitator, her passion lies in empowering people to discover 'their inner soul-full selves' and to awaken them to their life's potential.David Styles is an active botanical explorer in eastern South Africa, having collected more than 5,000 plant specimens from KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape and Mpumalanga Province and has four plant species named after him. He is currently completing his Doctorate at the School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu Natal, researching the pollination biology of Sisyranthus, a genus of approximately 15 species nearly endemic to South Africa.
Annemarie Heiduk is an early career postdoctoral researcher with profound expertise in pollination ecology. She is particularly interested in the evolution of complex floral phenotypes and pollination strategies with focus on Apocynaceae, one of the largest plant families in the world. She gained international renown as an expert on pollination of species in the tribe Ceropegieae, in particular, specialized deceptive trap flowers in the genus Ceropegia. In her research, she bridges several scientific disciplines (taxonomy, phylogeny, chemical ecology, pollination biology, and evolutionary developmental biology) in an interdisciplinary approach to understand the role of insect pollinators in shaping flowers.
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Under The Rose-Apple Tree: A weekend of meditation practice Teacher: Stephen CoanCost: 2 days accommodation + R350 surchargeDates:
The teachings of the Buddha sprang from his enlightenment experience under the bodhi tree. The key to this final awakening, according to the Buddha, was his recollection of a childhood experience that occurred when, on a hot day, “I was sitting in the cool shade of a rose-apple tree” and, quite naturally, he entered a meditative state. “Following on that memory came the realization that: ‘This is indeed the path to enlightenment’.” While the Buddha’s enlightenment can be difficult to comprehend, this earlier experience is more accessible, possibly even familiar to us. Re-connect with and renew that experience in a Zen-style retreat supported by a programme of sitting and walking meditation. There will also be time to enjoy the beautiful grounds of the centre - and to sit under trees. Please note: apart from an introductory talk and a discussion period the retreat will be held in Noble Silence.View teacher detailsStephen Coan has been involved with Buddhism for over three decades. Inspired and informed by the Theravada and Zen Buddhist traditions his retreats place an emphasis on the centrality of practice in living a skilful and enlightened life, and the profound benefits of doing nothing, seriously. He draws on his own life experience of moving between being and doing as a film and theatre director, writer, journalist, and poet.
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Under The Rose-Apple Tree: A weekend of meditation practice Teacher: Stephen CoanCost: 2 days accommodation + R350 surchargeDates:The teachings of the Buddha sprang from his enlightenment experience under the bodhi tree. The key to this final awakening, according to the Buddha, was his recollection of a childhood experience that occurred when, on a hot day, “I was sitting in the cool shade of a rose-apple tree” and, quite naturally, he entered a meditative state. “Following on that memory came the realization that: ‘This is indeed the path to enlightenment’.” While the Buddha’s enlightenment can be difficult to comprehend, this earlier experience is more accessible, possibly even familiar to us. Re-connect with and renew that experience in a Zen-style retreat supported by a programme of sitting and walking meditation. There will also be time to enjoy the beautiful grounds of the centre - and to sit under trees. Please note: apart from an introductory talk and a discussion period the retreat will be held in Noble Silence.View teacher detailsStephen Coan has been involved with Buddhism for over three decades. Inspired and informed by the Theravada and Zen Buddhist traditions his retreats place an emphasis on the centrality of practice in living a skilful and enlightened life, and the profound benefits of doing nothing, seriously. He draws on his own life experience of moving between being and doing as a film and theatre director, writer, journalist, and poet.
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Under The Rose-Apple Tree: A weekend of meditation practice Teacher: Stephen CoanCost: 2 days accommodation + R350 surchargeDates:The teachings of the Buddha sprang from his enlightenment experience under the bodhi tree. The key to this final awakening, according to the Buddha, was his recollection of a childhood experience that occurred when, on a hot day, “I was sitting in the cool shade of a rose-apple tree” and, quite naturally, he entered a meditative state. “Following on that memory came the realization that: ‘This is indeed the path to enlightenment’.” While the Buddha’s enlightenment can be difficult to comprehend, this earlier experience is more accessible, possibly even familiar to us. Re-connect with and renew that experience in a Zen-style retreat supported by a programme of sitting and walking meditation. There will also be time to enjoy the beautiful grounds of the centre - and to sit under trees. Please note: apart from an introductory talk and a discussion period the retreat will be held in Noble Silence.View teacher detailsStephen Coan has been involved with Buddhism for over three decades. Inspired and informed by the Theravada and Zen Buddhist traditions his retreats place an emphasis on the centrality of practice in living a skilful and enlightened life, and the profound benefits of doing nothing, seriously. He draws on his own life experience of moving between being and doing as a film and theatre director, writer, journalist, and poet.