Harbin Hot Springs

Retreat Program: Seminars and programs are held for about 20,000 nonresident members, usually on a day, overnight, weekend, or week-long basis. Rooms are provided and many people camp on our beautiful, natural grounds. The natural hot waters are very healthy, quiet, and while silence is the rule, they promote comradery. The silence honors the water and nature in general. The many classes, ceremonies, and conferences create a sense of serious purpose. We provide free yoga classes several times per day in our events center.

Sales to Members: The largest activity in this category is our organic, mostly vegetarian restaurant, this promotes a healthy lifestyle. In addition is the café which promotes sharing amongst members and teachers by providing a gathering area during the day. We try to blend all parts of life into a spiritually oriented, coherent whole based on our beliefs, so that being here is a total experience.

Spiritual Community Program: The Spiritual Community Program covers our resident membership. The heavy majority of these are employees who run the facilities and other programs, including construction and repair as well as administrative functions and staffing other programs. There are many community activities directed towards resident members, though not nearly as many as those that are open both to resident and visiting members, as our main aim is to serve all our membership.

Health Treatments: The majority of the health treatments are massage, but they include many other kinds of work promoting healing. The combination of these treatments, the hot waters, and the mountainous outdoor experience provide an exhilarating feeling which makes people open to our teaching and point of view. Other healing modalities are cranial-sacral, deep tissue massage, water massage (Watsu) which was created here, acupuncture, shiatsu, spa treatments, etc. A deep religious experience comes best with healthy bodies and minds.

Conference Program: The Conference Program is open to nonmembers as well as members; participants are usually not a part of the retreat program. These are weekend, Monday through Friday, or week or more long conferences, seminars, spiritual meetings, classes, and workshops. We have five buildings especially devoted to these conferences. The people who attend them are usually coordinated and fed by the facilitators or teachers. The subjects are more often part of the Human Potential Movement, but also are on spiritual or health subjects. The above described conference program is in the process of being reconstituted after the 2015 Valley Fire destroyed most our facilities.

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