Retreats & Workshops
Stacy & David's retreats are journeys…journeys into your deepest self, inspired by soulful singing bowls, listening deeply, exploring concepts of personal meaning, group encouragement, creating with freedom, and often working within breathtaking landscapes. We cultivate an environment of compassion, acceptance, and encouragement. Engage your whole self in an intentional oasis from the daily routine, where you can discover who you really are, and begin to dismantle self-limiting & self-defeating patterns of living.
Our workshops and retreats vary in their particular focus and location, yet all include important fundamental elements, such as:
Our workshops and retreats vary in their particular focus and location, yet all include important fundamental elements, such as:
- Cultivating stillness. We slow down--stretch out time--so that you can listen, reconnect inward, and rediscover the joy of the simple and profound.
- When you "get out of our own way," you can discover the vitality yearned for in life.
- Unleash the natural creativity within you. This is not about art production, but about self-discovery, healing, catharsis, and creating your future from a place of self-knowledge.
- Often, experiences in nature help you to know yourself.
- Shift your awareness and perspective in empowering ways. Become familiar with your own unique, Whole Self, and an enriched way of living.
Our approach borrows from many cultural myths & traditions, Carl Jung's writings, dreamwork, synchronicity, archetype, principles of quantum physics, Paul Petzholt's leadership training, meditations, various spiritual practices, relationship with nature, and many other influences that resonate and inspire us.
Announcing a new Mini-Retreat,
working with Sound and Voice!
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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:
Contact Stacy to sign-up, or for more questions....Use Contact Form at bottom of page.
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
Contact Stacy to sign-up, or for more questions....Use Contact Form at bottom of page.
"Spirals Inward & Outward, and Timelessness" Retreat,
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Deep Listening Mini-Retreats, 2017
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(Monthly, from January-June 2017, in our offices).
The mini-retreats were filled with singing bowl meditation, group conversation, time for quiet individual contemplation and creative exploration through journaling, watercolor painting, coloring mandalas, or individual meditation.
A perfect small, supportive getaway into silence and renewal.
The mini-retreats were filled with singing bowl meditation, group conversation, time for quiet individual contemplation and creative exploration through journaling, watercolor painting, coloring mandalas, or individual meditation.
A perfect small, supportive getaway into silence and renewal.
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December 2017,
MSU Healing & The Arts class:
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MSU Professor Elizabeth Croy brought her "The Arts and Healing" class to our offices for a 'field trip.' What an incredible group of people formed this very special class. We enjoyed every moment with you all!
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May 2016,
Day-retreat with Cancer Support Community staff: Thanks to the Gallatin River Lodge for their beautiful space! |
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Retreat Venues:
International:
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Southwest USA:
New Mexico/ Arizona |
Montana:
Highland Mountains |
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