Love: The Divine Balance
Prayer, meditation, gentle body movements and directed group sharing will be avenues through which we explore the flow of Spirit in our lives and discover the unique and personal balance found in divine Love.
Joy: The Door to Peace
Have you ever experienced the joy of freedom that impels the unencumbered flow of a stream? This retreat offers the opportunity to uncover the innate joy that flows in you and brings with it a deep and abiding peace. Visio Divina, guided body movements, meditation, group sharing and activities to tap your creative flow will help you to discover your joy that opens into the deep peace of contentment.
Beyond Dementia: Spirit, Love, Connection
In this workshop, participants will learn skills and gain tools that will enable them to continue to communicate meaningfully and journey with loved ones who are experiencing dementia through the awareness and use of our shared connection to Spirit, Love, the Divine, God – all beliefs are embraced.
Specially designed activities including instruction in communication techniques, gentle movement, mindfulness, body prayer and opportunities to explore what you have learned will be part of the day.
Acceptance: Where Do I Go from Here?
This retreat will focus on positive, healing ways to move into the newness that will flow from acceptance. Challenges come into our lives that require us to face change, engage deeply in self-reflection and discernment and ultimately accept how we and our lives have been altered. Whether we accept the change as positive or not so positive but necessary we are then faced with the question, What next?
Some activities will include engaging in balancing movement flows, deep prayer to help open yourself in a hopeful, affirming way to the fresh and yet to be developed, and creative exercises to support the inspiration and inventiveness that will sustain you as you manifest all that is good and life-giving about acceptance.
Life: The Expression of Freedom
When you imagine freedom, what images come to mind? A leaf dancing without limit in a summer breeze. Young children soaring higher and higher on park swings. Or, perhaps, the times when your body has been still but your thought has been open to limitless possibilities and opportunities. Rewarding, nurturing, blessed life is lived as an expression of freedom. True freedom is autonomy, sovereignty, self-government, emancipation all lived in and as the love that is divine. In this treat, participants will journey together through visio divina, body prayer and meditative movement, journaling and other activities designed to help them identify what might be limiting their expression of freedom and move into the experience of consciously living life as an expression of freedom.
Personal Truth: Grounded in the Divine
This retreat explores the premise that who and what we are flows from our source, Spirit, God. Our divine identity is uniquely our own, a gift from our creator. How does this premise ground our experience and understanding of our personal truth and serve as our foundation and guide for deepening our recognition of our innate self?
Lectio divina, centering prayer and sacred movement form the focus of the activities for this day of exploration and deep reflection. Come away from this day of retreat with a clearer, more focussed realization of how your deepening understanding of the divine opens doors to the magnificence of the truth of your being and personal, spiritual journey.
Grace: Your Companion in Grief
Do we journey alone in grief? In a time of grief have you been surrounded by family and community but still feel alone trying to navigate a landscape filled with emotion and uncertainty? Or perhaps, you feel mired and immobile amid overwhelming sadness and loss? Whether you feel paralyzed or moving without a beacon to guide you, you never traverse grief alone. Grace, the unmerited love of divine Spirit, God holds you in the times of fear, loneliness and sorrow and renews your heart through boundless tenderness, wisdom and compassion.
In such challenging and uncertain times how do we find our way to the blessings and guidance that flow to us from grace. Movement flows to free the flow of Spirit in you, deep prayer that can guide you to the renewing blessings and exercises to open expression of the forces of grief seeking balance and transformation will assist participants to recognize their companion, grace, and uncover the portals to balance and renewal.