Past Venues
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Mini-Retreat, working with Sound and Voice!February 17th, Saturday 9:30am-12pm
"Resonant Sound; Conscious Voice" mini-retreat at Holy Rosary Church
(we are grateful to Father Leo and his staff for their generosity, letting us use this visually and acoustically inspiring space). |
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About this retreat:
The mini-retreat will be the first of periodic retreats where we will work on voice, the sound we create from within ourselves — our bodies, our minds, and our hearts. The voice is our signature, and beautifully unique. We will co-create a supportive, inspiring space to explore its multi-faceted qualities--its resonances, its power, its tenderness. We can become more conscious, alive and empowered in our embodied voice. Speaking aloud passages and phrases that are deeply meaningful, feeling them travel through our bodies and through the external world is a powerful experience, one in which we can feel truly heard and also express and claim who we are!
The acoustics of the sanctuary — its stones carrying the sound for 6 seconds — allows us to hear longer the journey of our own voice moving through the sanctuary and back to our ears.
Finally, an intrinsic part of this mini-retreat is our active awareness and honoring of our completing the circle of speech within the energetic whole — the concept of "listening into speech." It is the awareness that the group, with their honoring presence, listens the speaker into speech. The power of receptiveness is a part of the vocalized sound, and deeply important for our speech. It's an important concept to live into and honors a principle often invisible in our lives and in our world.
Ingredients of the morning:
The mini-retreat will be the first of periodic retreats where we will work on voice, the sound we create from within ourselves — our bodies, our minds, and our hearts. The voice is our signature, and beautifully unique. We will co-create a supportive, inspiring space to explore its multi-faceted qualities--its resonances, its power, its tenderness. We can become more conscious, alive and empowered in our embodied voice. Speaking aloud passages and phrases that are deeply meaningful, feeling them travel through our bodies and through the external world is a powerful experience, one in which we can feel truly heard and also express and claim who we are!
The acoustics of the sanctuary — its stones carrying the sound for 6 seconds — allows us to hear longer the journey of our own voice moving through the sanctuary and back to our ears.
Finally, an intrinsic part of this mini-retreat is our active awareness and honoring of our completing the circle of speech within the energetic whole — the concept of "listening into speech." It is the awareness that the group, with their honoring presence, listens the speaker into speech. The power of receptiveness is a part of the vocalized sound, and deeply important for our speech. It's an important concept to live into and honors a principle often invisible in our lives and in our world.
Ingredients of the morning:
- 9:30am, Introductions: to each other and to ideas of embodied voice, feeling resonance, locating place in our body from which we speak.
- 15 minute Singing bowl meditation, to clear and settle us to begin our work together.
- Witnessing our voices moving within and outside of our bodies, into the sanctuary and then back to our ears. Honoring ourselves and each other.
- Folks will bring a passage or poem that has personal meaning, and read it aloud in the acoustically alive space, one at a time. (We hope to have time for each person to read twice if you desire, to play with different qualities of voice if you wish).
- Journaling
- Group discussion, sharing our experiences
- Closing words
"Spirals Inward & Outward, and Timelessness" Retreat
September 2017
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A day retreat within a special, undisclosed location deep within the Montana natural landscape, and deep within our own internal landscape.
David and I are grateful for the time spent with all our fellow "spiral" retreat participants, you all are very special! The flow of the day:
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Deep Listening
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MSU Healing & The Arts ClassDecember 2017
MSU Professor Elizabeth Croy brought her "The Arts and Healing" class to our offices for a "field trip." An incredible group of people formed this very special class. We enjoyed every moment with you all!
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Day Retreat with Cancer Support StaffMay 2016
Thanks to the Gallatin River Lodge for their beautiful space
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