Now you must go out into your heart as onto a vast plain

~ Rilke

Retreats

Retreats are opportunities to step beyond your borders and discover your deepest belonging, both to yourself and to the larger web of life. Programs are unique depending on the facilitators and individual emphasis, yet each one is set in the context of the natural world where an intimate and mutually reflective encounter can occur with the world at large. All programs support your own unfolding as well as the realization of your place amidst the larger unfolding fabric of life.

Historically, the wilderness has been a place for initiating humans into their authentic being. By removing ourselves from our everyday context and immersing ourselves in the rhythms and cycles of the natural world, we are drawn out beyond the confines of our usual definitions. It is then that we stand at the threshold where our deepest identity might shift from something static and private into that which is vast, ever-changing and intimately connected with all life.

Retreats incorporate awareness and nature-based practices as well as tools such as authentic movement, dreamwork, deep imagery, expressive arts, council and ceremony. The interplay of modalities along with extended time on the land supports lifting the veil between your rational mind and all that seeks to inform you. By becoming more permeable to the subtle whisperings that are in and around you, you allow your waiting depths to be evoked and support the natural movement of your own unfolding.

Although the structures vary, retreats are organic in process as they are informed by each participant, by the group as a whole and by the particular ecosystem in which we find ourselves. Through an intimate and conscious encounter with the world, with each other, with your own inner impulses, with the larger earth community that awaits you, you will be guided to the fertile edge of your own deepest creativity. When we open to the more-than-human world we are not only mirrored and reflected in our own deepest nature but come to learn about the wild things themselves. In this way we move beyond our typically anthropocentric lens and open to the possibility of living in a more conscious and mutually enhancing way with all life.