This very experiential workshop will introduce you to six healing modalities, with a practice incorporated for each. It will also help you tune into your energy and your own healing abilities. You will leave feeling more centered and refreshed - and with the skills to maintain this in your daily life.
This workshop is a combination of experiential and didactic learning / discussion. In it, AnnE will share eight invitations she has been working with for herself and with clients to make life richer, joyful, and more meaningful. An exercise will be offered around one or two of the invitations, whatever time permits.
Dreamwork is a practice of unpacking and understanding the meaning of the dreams for the purpose of gaining self-awareness. If you are on the path of self-growth, spiritual development or simply want to know who you are, don’t ignore your dreams. It is one of the most rewarding and profound inner work practices out there. In this workshop you will learn: What is dreamwork, Types of dreams, Dreamwork approaches
Fire represent light whose symbol can be of utmost importance in many cultures and religions. It also serves a gathering time and spot, a place of warmth, vibrant sounds and colors all of which will serves as the premise of our work around the bonfire. The ceremony will provide time of reflection and purposeful meaning in your life, reflections on that which you are prepared to dissipate from your life or that which you seek to bring back into your life.
In this experiential learning, we will go over what the autonomic nervous system is, why it’s important to your health, and how to nourish it to optimize your healing. Ashley will guide you to feel for yourself the different states of your nervous system using the polyvagal theory, and how to regulate your body to feel calm in anxious situations.
Latihan, a spiritual exercise originating in Indonesia in the 1920s, is a movement meditation that invites exploration of the unknown and embracing the mystery of life. During this practice, you’ll be invited to surrender to 'what arises from within', engaging wonder, curiosity, and deep awareness. You’ll connect to the divine presence within us all your body’s authentic wisdom. It’s a practice of letting go and surrendering to the Divine. Let go of DOING and surrender into BEING.
What if in your quest to ‘find yourself’ it turned out you were there all along? Join Ashley in a guided meditation to venture inward and get to know the different parts of you, inspired by the Internal Family Systems model. We will write or draw during the meditation to learn and connect to various parts of ourselves, as well as prompts afterwards to reflect and integrate what we have learned.
Erin will lead through group through the Japanese tradition of repairing broken pottery with the gold seams of kintsugi. It serves to represent the imperfections and damage we all own as humans and how with an alternate perspective, can be seen as beautiful and not something to be disguised. All participants will leave the retreat with their own kintsugi bowl.
Kimberly will be facilitating our group drumming circle (no musical experience required!) around the bonfire to encourage creativity, connection and community. Percussion instruments and instruction will be provided.
Kia invites you to learn body awareness techniques to discover what you need, show up for your emotions, and set intentions for the life you want. She will guide participants through restorative yoga and somatic therapy practices to help release body-stored stress and reestablish the mind-body connection. No special equipment, yoga training or meditation experience required.
Together we will give voice to our raw feelings, emotions, and experiences in a supportive and nonjudgmental environment. Clinical studies have documented the healing psychological and physical impacts of writing within a safe and sacred space. Enjoy inspiring writing prompts, time to write, and time to share, inspired by evidence-based expressive writing practices. Just bring something to write with and something to write on. This healing program offers a place for supporting one another and we stay clear of writing critique.
Do you remember when you were a kid and music would make you wiggle and move? Ecstatic dance is exactly that. It is a way to get back in touch with the whole self, a journey of self-discovery through music and movement. We will dance, starting slow, building to a peak, and then returning to stillness, during which time you will get to experience the euphoria of music, rhythm and connection with others.
The half of the group will invite you take all the insights from the dance and weekend to set some intentions to take home to your life. We’ll be creating a Prayer box, a beautifully decorated box which will hold your prayers, affirmations, and intentions, much like Tibetan prayer wheels. There will be craft supplies to help you decorate the box with images, intentions, mantras etc. that reflect your take aways. Inside the box you can place affirmations, goals, prayers, and intentions. When you head home, you can use this box to as a tool to keep your intentions alive and active in your life.
The end of a retreat is as important as any other part, and approaching it as a sacred moment of practice can hold many gifts. Join Mindy in a reflective and intentional program to say goodbye and close out our time together with the intention to process, absorb, and integrate the retreat experience before we dive back into "real life."