“What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Explore the rich resources at the core of your being, and turn these resources into new patterns of action. With a deeper awareness of the self, we reawaken our spirit’s true desire, and take the courageous steps of living our beliefs and values. Time will be provided for personal reflections, small group sharing, along with developing personal powerful action steps.
Facilitators: Ed Wondolowski, Erik Larson, and Kevin Helms
The most important journey you can take is the journey within. This is a journey to the truth of who you really are.
Learn Raja Yoga, a practical and simple form of meditation and spiritual understanding that sets the foundation for ongoing spiritual development. It is about discovering, exploring and understanding one’s inner world of thoughts, feelings, attitudes, values, and intentions and developing the spiritual skills / inner strength to face the realities of the outer world. It is the art of bringing inner and outer realities into balance starting from the inside out. Becoming more aware of your internal environment enables you to check, choose and change. You will start to develop a sense of mastery as you recognize the inner resources that you have and your ability and responsibility to use them to create a better quality of life.
You will learn to see the self as a soul … a spiritual being, and you can experience a direct connection and relationship with the Supreme Source of purest energy and highest consciousness. Every soul has a right to experience this ultimate relationship.
Facilitators: Sandra Budge, Champa Patel and Merrillyn Hener
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This retreat is specifically designed for those wanting to explore the '11th Step' of prayer and meditation and those who are participating in a Twelve Step Program. This is an experiential retreat to explore the realm of prayer and meditation in a focused way at a place created for meditation and silence. Learn the easy steps to meditation to easily connect with your Higher Power, bring strength and peace into your life, clarity in your thinking and self control. There is an AA closed meeting on Saturday |
Comments from previous retreat participants:
1. "After a period of long term sobriety without a conscious contact with God, I drank again…not once, but twice. I know I needed to work on this missing link, developing and nurturing a relationship with my Higher Power. This retreat taught me how to connect with my soul, with who I am. Without that knowledge, I could not find God. I was introduced to my Higher Power. In this regard, the 11th Step retreat far exceeded my expectations…Thank you"
2. “Beyond any of my expectations and I am so pleased I came, even though I was so skeptical”
Facilitators: Dorothy Steinfeld, Kamla Etwarrow, Kathy Thompson
This is a retreat offering insights and experiences to free you of old ways of seeing and being! Living without fears and living with wholeness increases our quality of life and makes us happier and healthier. For this, it is essential to develop a spiritual foundation and a love-ful connection with God. When you learn to trust yourself and value your inner world through Raja Yoga meditation, you are able to discern who you are with clarity and respect and build on your strengths. With determination and patience you can change habits of thinking and establish inner power through a deepened understanding of the meaning of consciousness.
Facilitators: Tyrone Jackson, Irene Miller
"No man is angry that feels not himself hurt” Francis Bacon
Anger is a form of pain that takes many forms, both passive and aggressive. This retreat aims to work from the outside-in. It takes participants on an inner journey from the outward expression of anger down, through the mind, into the depths of the soul, offering insights, awareness, and practical solutions to overcome anger along the way. It is based on the principles of observation, reflection, learning, practice, and change.
Facilitators:Sandhya Kanthan, Erik Larson
A Weekend Retreat & Conversation for Healthcare Professionals
to highlight and build on the human experiences in healthcare
The program will include a therapeutic blend of conversations, meditation, story-telling, reflection, talks, and time to be quiet with nature and yourself. It’s a weekend for you to nurture yourself and experience respite and refreshment of spirit. Give yourself this special gift of filling your life and work with renewed meaning and ease.
Further details will be available soon.
During gardening, walking the labyrinth in silence, or marking a trail in the mountain woods, we will deeply listen to Mother Nature. Experiencing her divine qualities, we invite her pure influence into our attitudes and perspective.
Facilitator: Erik Larson
This special retreat is a catalyst to encourage retreaters to become ILLUMINATORS! Our lives are better when we share it however, our past history tends to get into the way in enjoying our lives and the lives of those around us. To explore life's calling and be clear on how best to move it into action will require us to be clear on our intentions and harness authentic ways of bringing them to the point where we are moved closer to divinity! In addition, we will explore strengths and how when used in service reduces any fear that dims our light. What you believe in, is what you become, but are we able to see clearly what we believe rather than what others say I am or what the ego says we are? We will also observe how our moments define who we are and how clear we understand intention and if we are moving closer to divinity.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
Facilitators : Kanu Kogod, Kat Satterley, Jenna Mahraj
Experience a fusion of spirituality and practicality, depth and lightness, reflection and play. Choose Change & Become is a retreat for young adults 18-35, who want to see a profound change in themselves and the world. The weekend is built on empowering the individual through a collective spiritual experience with the aim of giving you life-long tools.
Facilitators: Kristina Hoefel, Saurabh Gupta, Aarti Pappu, Anne-Christelle Le Hir
There are energetic and spiritual dimensions to the way money circulates and there are real advantages to knowing these subtle dynamics. As events in the world dictate that we take a fresh look at our operating systems around money, they are equally a signal to raising our individual awareness in our dealings around money to a mode of trust, accountability and selflessness.
This retreat is about bringing richness to your life:
Facilitators: Elizabeth Aivars, Judy Rodgers, Kala Iyengar
‘In Authentic Silence I can understand the hearts of others’
Silence is not an idle act. Silence is a hidden Spiritual Power. When we immerse ourselves in silence we gain inner strength and healing - emotionally, mentally, intellectually and spiritually. Silence is not only Golden…but it makes you, the soul as valuable as a diamond.
Most of us feel uncomfortable when we are silent and with others. We may feel that others will value me more if I’m talkative. Of course, this is the furthest from the truth. explore what it feels like to be in Silence while with others and still feeling your own self-confidence, dignity, and self worth.
In Silence we touch a part of our inner core that is perfect and pure, a place that is nourishment to the soul. Silence becomes a breath of fresh air to our inner being. As you increase your experience of silence, the power you accumulate can help those without power to continue in their efforts of self-development and the experience of peace.
During the retreat there will be a brief class each morning to help guide you into the depth of silence so you can experience the most benefit. There are also group and individual activities in silence, silent walks, mandalas, and karma yoga or lending a helping hand.
Explore silence and explore the beautiful you!
Facilitators: Dorothy Steinfeld, Sandra Budge, Susan Pollock