Retreat Program Calendar

Retreat Programs with the potential to awe, transform, and heal

The Christine Center welcomes everyone to come and participate in retreat programs with the potential to awe, transform, and heal. Learn new skills, discover ways to grow spiritually, experience new depths of understanding. If you’re being nudged towards deeper meaning, step out of daily life for a few days to learn with others in a spirit of deep community support.

Our facilitators are experienced and skilled. Lots of wisdom is found here.

By Women For Women

March 7-9

Annual fest for women who want to explore together. This exciting retreat will be given by women who come forward to share their expertise in wondrous and varied ways. Sessions will be focused by facilitators donation their talents and wisdom. Expect deepening and creative experiences. There is no tuition, just meals and lodging.

Gratitude Journal 2014 with C’ariel Bezin. We will make a six page cardstock journal booklet on the topics of “Gratitude for Love”, “Gratitude for Peace”, Gratitude for Joy”, as well as other topics. Those who attended the gratitude journal session last year may share stories of how gratitude journaling brought more good into their lives. Bring your creative spirit and prepare to play with markers, colored pencils, and magazine pictures to make your keepsake journal booklet. C’ariel is a writer of haiku poetry, a Reiki Master Teacher, and a meditator with forty years of experience. She teaches all levels of Reiki, conducts workshops for the Virtues Project, and teaches classes on attracting good through the process of journaling throughout Central Wisconsin.

Awakening Your Soul with Lauri Ann Lumby. Soul is the unique way that you are gifted to find meaning, purpose and connection. Soul, when engaged leaves you feeling fulfilled, content and whole. Lauri is a writer, poet and published author with over twenty years of experience assisting men and women in the birth of their Soul through one-on-one mentoring, classes, workshops and retreats. She has a BBA in Marketing from the University of Iowa along with advanced certificates in Pastoral Ministry (specializing in adult education) and Spiritual Direction.

Soul Sister Icons with Tammy Barthels. We will be creating “Soul Sisters” Icons – images to assist us on our journey, connecting us with the Sacred within. Tammy is a Spiritual Director, Certified Social Worker, and is currently in her third year of studies at Wartburg Theological Seminary. She has facilitated retreats since 2001 with an emphasis on connecting women with their Inner Truth and walking with others as they journey toward wholeness with God.

Sugar Blues with Susan Dunne Guzman. Learn ways to get a handle on what one eats and drinks. This is most effectively achieved not through willpower or discipline but by understanding what causes those crazy uncontrollable cravings and knowing that you can reduce them naturally over time. Learn the Yin/Yang of cravings. How to substitute healthy snack options when sugar cravings arise. Plus the benefits of dark chocolate. Susan has a lifelong passion and interest for fitness and good nutrition. She received her certification for Holistic Health Coaching through the Institute of Integrative Nutrition from State University of New York, SUNY.

Alternatives for Healthy Living with Rebecca Litscher. This session will educate you on healthy recipes including super foods to boost your energy and metabolism. Healthy recipes and snacks will be provided. Rebecca is a personal trainer, specializing in women’s health through fitness and nutrition.

In Celebration of Crones with Kathryn Schiedermayer and Bernie Corsten. Crones, Grandmothers, Sages, Elders; by whatever name you call them the Wise Women of the world should be honored. The celebration of this milestone in a women’s life is steeped in tradition; one that many women today are reclaiming. It is time to joyfully embrace the beauty, wisdom and knowledge that each woman has to share with the community. Together we will create a croning ceremony (for yourself or a loved one in your life) to honor the path traveled and to prepare for the journey still ahead. Kathryn is a nature lover and master gardener volunteer with a love of herbs and has taught gardening and herb classes throughout the Midwest. She is a Reiki practitioner and is studying other energy modalities. Bernie is a Reiki Master and creator of a women’s group in Wausau that promotes a holistic approach to wellness. She has also created a laughter club in Wausau, including at a nursing home as part of their activity program.

 

Diamond Approach to Inner Work

New Class starting March 14-16

The Diamond Approach is a path of spiritual realization characterized by sincere inquiry into one’s experience, fueled by the love of truth. The immediate contact with the truth of our experience allows the unfoldment of our Soul to reach increasingly deeper levels of truth. Our work includes meditations, teachings, movement, and experiential exercises.

2014 Dates: March 14-16; June 13-16; September 5-7; December 12-14

Times: Friday 7-9:30 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Sunday 9 a.m.-noon

Teacher: Carol Carbon is a senior Ridhwan teacher of the Diamond Approach. She has studied directly with A.H. Almaas, the founder, and she leads groups in Boulder, Colorado and the Upper Mid-West Region.

For more information contact Johanna Seubert at the Christine Center at j.seubert@tds.net or call 715-267-7507 x223. Visit ridhwan.org.

 

Spiritual Memoir: Where a Life Meets Mystery

March 21-23

Memoir becomes spiritual with intention—when we look for holiness within the details of our personal stories, when we open ourselves to transformation as we write, and when we consider crafting our stories to best engage an audience. In this retreat for writers of all levels, we will explore memoir as a way to make the inner journey manifest in a broader world. We will also experience the writing process as a framework for spiritual growth. Together we will discuss selected readings by contemporary memoirists from a variety of religious and secular backgrounds, generate material on topics such as early childhood, holy places, work, our bodies, crisis and doubt, and offer one another comments on our writing.

Facilitator: Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew. Tuition is on a sliding scale basis of $180-$230, plus meals and lodging.

Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew is a well-known teacher at The Loft in Minneapolis and spiritual director living in Minneapolis. She is a recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board artists’ fellowship, the Loft Career Initiative Grant, and a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. Her books include Swinging on the Garden Gate: A Spiritual Memoir and Writing the Sacred Journey: The Art and Practice of Spiritual Memoir. Learn more by visiting www.elizabethjarrettandrew.com and www.spiritualmemoir.com

Here is an sneak preview article Into the Mystery by Elizabeth to be published in the March 2014 edition of the Edge Magazine.

 

Your Dreams are Alive!

March 28-30

Explore the invisible world of dreams and experience the wisdom of your dreams. Marge approaches dream study with the idea that your dream is communicating something that you need for your current life situation, that there is an “intelligence” at the center of your psyche that seeks to grab your attention via the dream. Carl Jung names this intelligence the “Self.” This experiential program shows you how to make connections with your dreams and how to continue to work with your dream symbols on your own. Only you, the dreamer, can know what your dream means because the dreamer experiences something that comes “alive” while exploring their dream. That sense of aliveness is our goal in this dream program. In a weekend with a group of 4 to 8 people, you will have time to work with your dream and to learn from how others experience their dreams.

Facilitator: Marge Zulaski, OSF. Tuition: $100, plus meals and lodging.

Marge is a member of the Christine Center Leadership Team. Read Marge’s bio here.

 

Jenifer Ebel Yoga Retreat

March 28-30

I call my yoga retreats love fests because when you enter the stillness inside and open to the deeper silence there, your heart will soften and open and you will start to see yourself and the world in a different light. I have seen this happen thousands of times in yoga classes, but even more profoundly in an immersion situation, like you get at The Christine Center.

Facilitator: Jenifer Ebel. Tuition $250, plus meals and lodging.

Jenifer has had over 40 years of inquiry, study, and practice of yoga. She is a Certified Yoga Teacher with 500 hours as a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance. Jenifer has been teaching yoga for over 20 years with teacher training in Iyengar, Kripalu and Anusara styles of yoga. For more information visit smilingyogi.com.

 

Spring Mandala Retreat: Greening Center

March 28-30

As spring thaws and days lengthen, what a wonderful time to center, to create and to honor new life! Using springtime themes as inspiration, participants have the opportunity to celebrate all that is budding forth in their own experience. We will use artist-grade colored pencils and all materials are provided. No previous art experience is necessary.

Facilitator: Gabriele Uhlein, Ph.D., OSF. Tuition: sliding scale of $125-$250, plus meals and lodging. There is an additional $15 materials fee for the weekend. Program begins Friday evening at 6:30 p.m.

Gabriele is a member of the Christine Center Leadership Team. Read Gabriele’s bio here.

Here is an article and story about the benefits and blessings of Mandala art. Why Create a Mandala

 

Amie Heeter Yoga Retreat

April 3-6

Contact Amie for details or to register at beyourtruth@gmail.com or at 608-957-3327.

 

Hello, Myself! An Intuitive Painting Retreat for Creative Self-Discovery

April 4-6

This is a time to paint, artist or not, from the mysterious soul-place where dreams are born, and to rediscover your own authenticity in the creative process. Leaving judgments and concern for product behind, be ready to wonder and marvel at what your soul knows about YOU! 

Facilitator: Gabriele Uhlein, OSF, Ph.D.  Tuition: sliding scale of $125-$250, with $10 per day studio fee, plus meals and lodging. Begins on Friday evening at 6:30 pm.

Gabriele is a member of the Christine Center Leadership Team. Read Gabriele’s bio here.

Read Gabriele’s article about Intuitive painting published in The Edge Magazine. 

 

Holy Week Retreat

April 16-20

Come experience being with the Christine Center community as we enter deeply into the mystery of Christ in Holy Week. We offer quiet and reflective days. Choose to participate in group meditation and the liturgies of Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday. We’ll close with a celebrative brunch on Sunday.

Facilitators: Christine Center Core Team with Fr. Frank Corradi. Cost: $300 (includes all meals and four nights in guest house or modern hermitage); $250 (includes all meals and four nights in rustic hermitage).

 

Sacred Dance and Meditation Retreat

April 25-27

Sacred Dance is a way to elevate the consciousness and experience group unity. Through the combined efforts of singing, music, sacred phrases from many different traditions, and movement, participants are steeped in the life energy which opens the heart and leads to deeper meditative experience. The Dances are a joyous, multi-cultural way to touch the spiritual essence within ourselves and others, and will be coupled with times for silent meditation to help deepen the experience. The retreat is open to all. No previous music or dance experience is necessary.

Facilitators: Johanna Seubert, FSPA; Henrita Frost, SSND. Tuition: $75-$150, plus meals and lodging.

Henrita and Johanna are members of the Christine Center Leadership Team. Read their bios here.

 

Spiritual, Creative and Dream Journaling Retreat

April 25-27

Deepen your spirituality, better understand relationships, foster creativity and delve into your nightly dreams with more focus through journal writing. Over the course of this three-day retreat, leader Cynthia Gallaher will help you uncover the journaling method or methods that best suit your personality. You’ll take part in hands-on explorations of journal dialogs, Japanese haibun (journal entries that end in a short poem) and naikan gratitude journal methods, Leonardo Da Vinci-style notebooks, artists’ journals, modern dream journaling techniques and more.

This retreat provides a stimulating and non-judgmental atmosphere for both newer and long-time journal writers. By the end of the retreat, participants can experience more clear direction toward spiritual, creative and emotional renewal through journal writing, and be motivated to develop a regular journal writing practice.

Facilitator: Cynthia Gallaher. Tuition is on a sliding scale basis. Range is from $85-$125, plus meals and lodging.

Cynthia Gallaher is a poet, playwright, nonfiction writer and journal writer. She leads journal writing workshops in libraries, schools, centers and spas throughout the Midwest, and teaches an online course on journal writing at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The Chicago Public Library lists Gallaher among its “Top Ten Requested Chicago Poets” and Today’s Chicago Woman magazine named her one of “100 Women Making a Difference.” Her most recent book is Omnivore Odes: Poems About Food, Herbs and Spices, and she maintains the “Frugal Poet’s Guide to Life” blog.

Read Cynthia article What Make a Dream Journal Different from a Waking Journal.

 

Yoga with Heart

April 25-27

Want more out of your yoga practice than a great Downward Dog? Asanas (postures) are the foundation for a deep, rich, authentic life. We’ll discuss common barriers American Yogis face and how to remove them. The schedule includes: daily Hatha Yoga classes, basic meditation, and coursework that’s a culmination of esoteric and contemporary wisdom.

Facilitator: Rob Schultz. Tuition $150, plus meals and lodging.

Rob Schultz is a professional-level Kripalu yoga teacher and a Reiki Master. Rob’s life work has been synthesizing the teachings of yoga, western psychology, and the world’s metaphysical traditions. To alleviate chronic back pain, he turned to yoga in the mid 90′s and has been owner/operator of Point Yoga since 2008. His undergraduate studies were in religion. Visit www.pointyoga.com.

 

Yoga Nidra

April 27-28

Yoga Nidra is the most powerful relaxation technique known. It means yogic sleep, conscious deep sleep. As simple as guided relaxation, it takes one into supreme relaxation of the body and the most profound stillness of the mind. This transformingly deep, blissful state of consciousness is the perfect condition for physical and emotional healing and also brings one into a deep state of meditation. It is particularly successful in treating diseases and discomfort caused by stress and is very effective for those suffering from physical, mental and emotional exhaustion.

Facilitator: Roberta Hodges. Tuition: $95, plus meals and lodging. 

Roberta Hodges has been studying, practicing and teaching yoga in the Himalayan tradition for 25 years, including Raja Yoga, Bhakti Yoga and more recently, Tantra Yoga. She has made several trips to India for study, practice and inspiration. She is also a practicing massage therapist and energy worker.

   

Spiritual Awakening

May 23-25

“There is being asleep. There is being awake. And there is being awakened.”

-Amrit Desai

Please join us for a weekend of meditation and exploration on the subject of awakening: waking up to Spirit moving in your life, to your creativity, to the manifestation of your heart’s desire. The possibilities of awakening are endless. Come breathe new life into areas of your life that have been closed off. We’ll use meditation as a vehicle in each of the five sessions. We will learn to quiet the mind and discern what barriers we may be holding onto that prevent us from being more awake to Spirit in its many manifestations in our everyday lives. Meditation, journaling and small group work will help to provide contemplative focus. Bring a notebook for journaling, an open heart and a sense of humor! You will be encouraged to attend all five 2-hour sessions beginning on Friday evening and ending with brunch on Sunday.

Facilitator: Mike Ward. Cost: meals and lodging.

Instead of tuition, we’re asking for donations to install much needed new ceiling lights in the dining room. We’ve arranged for local artist Rick Sturtz to provide us with beautiful pre-war globes. Tuition for similar programs is $150-$300.

Mike Ward is a retired psychotherapist from Boston, MA. A practitioner of meditation and yoga for many years, he brings an experienced and joyous soul to this inner work. For additional information, call Mike at 617.877.6938 or e-mail him at mikehward@aol.com.

   

Volunteer Weekend

May 30-June 1

Calling for a weekend of work and fun! You’ll meet interesting people, share the good food of our table, and have a sense of accomplishment as we work on the trails, gardens, and grounds. If you would prefer to come during the week of June 9-12, please call Cecy Corcoran at 715.267.7507. Register early to reserve your shared room, or choose to tent. Meals and lodging are provided.

 

Buddhist Psychology Retreat

May 30-June 1

Buddhist psychology, the abhidharma, offers a psychology of liberation. This course will help beginning and experienced meditators to be able to track the processes of how suffering arises from sensory input and how it releases, increasing positive states and decreasing negative states, tracking intention, and balancing positive states in a way that sets up awakening. We will use the Indo-Tibetan way of concentrating the mind called the Nine States of the Mind-staying as a meditative vehicle.

Facilitator: Susan Mickel, M.D., Ph.D. Tuition: $200, plus meals and lodging. 

Susan Mickel is a meditation practitioner and teacher. She has been teaching Buddhist retreats in the Burmese mindfulness tradition and Tibetan Mahamudra for the past twelve years. She learned Burmese mindfulness meditation from several teachers, practicing at the Insight Meditation Society, Spirit Rock, and other centers. Daniel Brown, PhD and Rahob Tulku Thupten Kalsang Rinpoche are her current teachers of Mahamudra and Dzogchen. Susan practiced for many years as a behavioral neurologist; she has completed her Ph.D. in clinical psychology. For more bio information visit www.pointingoutway.org.

   

Mahamudra Level II

June 1-8

Facilitator: Susan Mickel, M.D., Ph.D.

For more information or to register visit www.pointingoutway.org.

 

Listening to your soul; Navigating Life’s Transitions

June 17-19

Welcome the summer with a special gift of tuning in to your inner wisdom. The Christine Center provides a quiet and sacred natural space for calming and gently turning inward. Stepping off the “fast track” to refresh, renew and remember is a wonderful gift and that is what you’ll get during this retreat! Experience a variety of practices focused on mind, body and spirit awareness – from seeing nature through a new lens to practicing breath awareness to learning through visual images. These are just some of the practices which are all aimed at helping you navigate life’s unfolding after the retreat. The workshop will be experiential and reflective and each participant will leave with an extensive resource list for future use. This workshop is appropriate for anyone committed to their spiritual journey.

Facilitators: Linda Cates and Genevieve Kirchman. Tuition: sliding scale of $75-$150, plus meals and lodging.

Linda Cates has been studying and practicing creating an internal awareness and stillness for the last ten years, and has a special relationship to the Christine Center as a Board Member devoted to the sustainability and mission of this sacred space. She is a resource development professional from Southeastern Wisconsin and recently transitioned from a long-term position in a hospice organization to spend more time with her new husband and launch her consulting services.

Genevieve Kirchman’s personal vision is to support a world where everyone is valued and connected. She is a lifelong learner with a renewed focus on spiritual self-awareness and meaningful connections. Genevieve brings her enthusiasm for life and 25 years of teaching social and emotional learning to her work. For the last ten years she has enriched both her professional and personal life through meditation and other self-awareness practices. Most recently, she was certified as a facilitator for SoulCollage® and is excited to share this process with others to enhance their own discovery.

   

Self-Mastery Training Weekend: Four Workshops for Emotional Nutrition and Balance

June 20-22

This weekend training will use the science of Tantra yoga to teach students how to effectively layer their practice by using asana, pranayama, intention, and meditation to create desired energetic, mental, and emotional effects. The goal is that students leave with tools to create a personal home practice that will give them a feeling of self mastery of their mind, body, and emotional stress. One year of experience with hatha yoga experience is recommended.

Facilitator: Thea Jensen. Tuition: $200, plus meals and lodging.

In 1998, she took her first Hatha yoga class while attending massage school and something clicked, it felt like coming home. 10 years later, in 2008, she enrolled in The Yoga Center of Minneapolis’s 230 hour program and in 2011, she graduated from Devanadi’s 500 hour teacher training. Currently, she is in Para Yoga’s master training program with Rod Stryker.

 

Your Dreams are Alive!

June 20-22

Explore the invisible world of dreams and experience the wisdom of your dreams. Marge approaches dream study with the idea that your dream is communicating something that you need for your current life situation, that there is an “intelligence” at the center of your psyche that seeks to grab your attention via the dream. Carl Jung names this intelligence the “Self.” This experiential program shows you how to make connections with your dreams and how to continue to work with your dream symbols on your own. Only you, the dreamer, can know what your dream means because the dreamer experiences something that comes “alive” while exploring their dream. That sense of aliveness is our goal in this dream program. In a weekend with a group of 4 to 8 people, you will have time to work with your dream and to learn from how others experience their dreams.

Facilitator: Marge Zulaski, OSF. Tuition: $100, plus meals and lodging.

Marge is a member of the Christine Center Leadership Team. Read Marge’s bio here.

 

Aging with Grace

June 27-29

As people live longer than ever before, we have an opportunity to find meaning and grace from within, focusing on spiritual growth and maturity, renewal, and service. Life continues to call us to deeper and greater potential, and to harvest the wisdom of life’s experiences for the enhancement of the world we live in. The retreat will help participants reflect on the quality of their inner life and find ways to broaden their spiritual life and understanding, and share this with others.

Facilitators: Henrita Frost, SSND and Johanna Seubert, FSPA. Tuition: Sliding scale of $75-$150, plus meals and lodging.

Henrita and Johanna are members of the Christine Center Leadership Team. Read their bios here.

 

Compassionate Acceptance: A mindful path to healing life’s wounds

June 27-29

We all carry with us a store of life’s hurts, betrayals, and traumas. Much of the impact of these experiences resides deeply in our nerves and cells of our bodies, to be relived repeatedly throughout our lives. Too often, we develop a type of aversion to these hurts; a kind of wishing they would go away. Deep healing occurs only when we soften our self aversion and begin to accept and relate wisely with deep compassion to that part of ourselves that need healing. This retreat will provide a spacious and safe place to work on bringing mindful and compassionate acceptance to these difficulties. Through the exploration of Contemplative, Taoist, and Buddhist teachings and healing practices you will finally be able to reach a kind of healing based on acceptance and compassion that is often overlooked. This depth of healing is integral to deepening the spiritual path.

Facilitator: Tom Roberts. Tuition: $150, plus meals and lodging.

Thomas Roberts is a Psychotherapist and Hypnotherapist in private practice (Innerchange Counseling) in Onalaska, Wisconsin. He has over 35 years of experience in clinical psychotherapy and his own personal Zen Buddhist practice. He is the author of The Mindfulness Workbook: A Beginners Guide to Overcoming Fear and Embracing Compassion (New Harbinger Press, 2009)..Tom is adjunct professor in the Department of Psychology at Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin where he teaches Mindfulness and Recovery, and Positive Psychology classes. He is also adjunct professor at St. Cloud State University in St Cloud Minnesota Community Counseling and Community Psychology Program where he teaches courses in mindful approaches to mind-body healing. Over the past 25 years, Thomas has become a leader in the fields of mind-body healing, clinical hypnotherapy, and mindfulness. He has worked in a variety of settings from inpatient addiction treatment programs to his present private practice, where he specializes in hypnotherapy and mindfulness therapy with particular emphasis on developing and presenting his unique approach to mind-body healing.

 

Embracing the Soul’s Knowing

June 27-29

What are the questions that won’t go away, that keep you up at night, or that surface when you’re most contemplative? And what if the guidance you need for them is already present and waiting for you? In this spacious and illuminating weekend, we’ll enter into deeper relationship with our soul’s knowing, that sacred “yes” in our innermost being to what is healthy, healing, and true for us. We’ll explore how our unique inner guidance systems work and what it takes to trust them with every question in our lives, large or small. We’ll learn how to listen to and embrace what we most need in our lives, work, and relationships – and open to what’s calling us now from our own hearts and the world. Come with an open mind and heart, and be prepared for deep personal reflection, generative conversation, unexpected insights, and creative play!

Facilitators: Tom and Sara Hurley. Tuition: $150, plus meals and lodging.

Tom Hurley has been immersed in the soul’s knowing during more than 30 years of pioneering new paradigm leadership with the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Chaordic Alliance, World Café, and Oxford Leadership Academy. He works with individuals and teams in many different settings.

Sara Hurley is a spiritual counselor and lover of God and nature who has been a teacher in the Diamond Approach work for more than 15 years.

 

Free to Paint from Soul!

July 3-6

Come remember how to paint from Soul, freely and without judgment. Follow Nature’s abundant energy and give yourself to the creative process, letting each brushstroke be fresh and true. What a joy to paint with integrity from pure, creative intuition!

Facilitator: Gabriele Uhlein, Ph.D., OSF. Tuition: sliding scale of $150-$275, plus meals and lodging. $10 per day studio fee. Retreat begins Friday evening at 6:30 p.m.

Gabriele is a member of the Christine Center Leadership Team. Read Gabe’s bio here.

 

A Day of Native American Earth, Fire and Air

July 5   

Come celebrate the 4th of July weekend on the land and become grounded with earth energies. Len Badillo of the Bear Clan will lead healing breathwork and movements to create balance. He will provide medicine wheel teachings and the haunting, beautiful sounds of his native flutes. The day will end with a pipe ceremony and a talking circle at the fire pit. Appropriate for all ages.

Facilitator: Len Badillo. Tuition: $100 and $20 children under 18, plus meals and optional lodging for this one day event. Begins 9:00 a.m. and closes after dark. Camping available.

Len Badillo, LMT is a Shiatsu therapist and Native Healer. He is member of the Native American Church and leads Native American flute circles and ceremonies throughout the Midwest.

 

Praying with Sacred Sound

July 11-13

Learn the many spiritual and healing benefits of chanting. Learn how to let tones, vibrations, and frequencies fill your consciousness as we chant together. We chant to fill ourselves with gratitude, healing, surrender, praise. We listen to experience a field of harmonic sound that is permeated with love. As we vocalize our heart’s desire through simple chants, we surrender to the healing power of sound. We come to be more present to ourselves and to one another. The Christine Center is ideal to host this program with our meditation hall, which has an amazing resonance for voice. Every voice is welcome. No skill or ability is required.

Facilitators: Cecy Corcoran, FSPA, Ph.D. and Wendy Kohlhaas. Tuition: sliding scale of $75-$150, plus meals and lodging.

Both women studied with Jonathan Goldman’s Healing Sounds Intensive in 2013 and did a long practice of toning and chanting. Wendy is a drug and addictions counselor. Cecy is a member of the Christine Center Leadership Team. Read Cecy’s bio here.

 

Writer as Shaman

July 11-13

Writer as Shaman is a unique experiential contemplative learning opportunity. It is for writers of all levels who long to transcend the world of everyday realities and immerse themselves in the mystical worlds of their muses. This weekend is about learning to let go and delving deeply into our inner worlds in order to access our own deep resources, especially those hidden from our conscious awareness. It is about creating a sacred space conducive to inner play, it’s about cultivating our imaginations and sharing our stories. Most importantly, it is about accessing the power of words to transform our lives. A lofty, but attainable goal, only you can prove to yourself.

If you feel called, please join us. Together, we will take ourselves out of ordinary time and leave our computers behind. All you need is your journal and an open mind. Consider setting intentions to write into your own healing, wholeness, vision, or future—for the stories you take away will be the stories only you can tell.

Facilitator: Bridget Birdsall. Tuition: TBA, plus meals and lodging.

Bridget Birdsall is an author, artist, teacher and speaker. Despite a life-long struggle with dyslexia, Bridget made a mid-life decision to pursue her MFA in Writing for Young Adults and Children. Bridget has taught writing related courses throughout the Madison area, including local high schools as a guest artist, Madison College and Edgewood College. She introduced the Writer as Shaman through the Division of Continuing Studies at UW Madison where it received rave reviews and is often wait-listed. Bridget is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships. Her first independently published book,Ordinary Angels, based on her own life experience, landed her a New York literary agent. Recently Sky Pony Press acquired the rights to her YA (Young Adult) novel, Double Exposure, expected out this fall. Bridget believes that by writing our stories we can access the higher wisdom within our soul. Learn more at bridgetbirdsall.com

 

Yoga Nidra

July 11-13

Yoga Nidra is the most powerful relaxation technique known. It means yogic sleep, conscious deep sleep. As simple as guided relaxation, it takes one into supreme relaxation of the body and the most profound stillness of the mind. This transformingly deep, blissful state of consciousness is the perfect condition for physical and emotional healing and also brings one into a deep state of meditation. It is particularly successful in treating diseases and discomfort caused by stress and is very effective for those suffering from physical, mental and emotional exhaustion.

Facilitator: Roberta Hodges. Tuition: $150, plus meals and lodging. 

Roberta Hodges has been studying, practicing and teaching yoga in the Himalayan tradition for 25 years, including Raja Yoga, Bhakti Yoga and more recently, Tantra Yoga. She has made several trips to India for study, practice and inspiration. She is also a practicing massage therapist and energy worker.

 

Soul Collage

July 25-27

Come learn and practice Soul Collage, a very simple yet powerful collage process to create your own deck of inner guidance cards based on the many parts of your Self.

Facilitator: Audrey Chowdhury. Register at www.creativespiritguide.com. For more information email Audrey Chowdhury at acsunprairie@aol.com.

Audrey Chowhdury, MS, ATR-BC, is a board certified art therapist, a SoulCollage Facilitator/Trainer, and a certified practitioner of Integrative Breathwork by Jacquelyn Small of Austin, Texas. She has been presenting retreats and workshops for several years in Wisconsin, the Midwest, and beyond. She loves witnessing the unfolding of wisdom, beauty, and deeply felt connections that occur during transformational inner work. Her style has been described as intuitive, warm, encouraging, open, and inviting.

 

Looking forward to

Writing Psalms

July 25-27

Facilitator: Ray McGinnis

 

Get to Know your Chakras

August 3-7

Facilitator: Stephanie Lovlien, LMT

 

Frequencies of Brilliance, Level One, 14-day Certification Course

August 10-24

Facilitator: Efrén Solanas

 

Broken Open by Love: an Invitation to Sacred Activism with Andrew Harvey

August 15-17

A collaborative event with Holy Wisdom Monastery. More information soon.

 

Holding Center, Seeing True! A Summer Mandala Retreat

August 22-24

Facilitator: Gabriele Uhlein, OSF, Ph.D.

 

Wild Brush of Soul: Summer Intuitive Painting Experience

August 29-31

Facilitator: Gabriele Uhlein, OSF, Ph.D.

 

Silent Retreat with Individual Spiritual Guidance

August 24-30

Facilitators: Fr. Tom Borkowski, S. Marge Zulaski, OSF

 

Andrea Russell Yoga

September 12-14

 

Yoga Without Postures

September 14-15

Facilitator: Roberta Hodges

 

Hildegard Fest

September 19-21

Facilitator: S. Gabriele Uhlein

 

Jenifer Ebel Yoga Retreat

October 24-26

 

SoulCollage® and Yoga Retreat

October 31-November 2

Facilitators: Lolly Bower and MaryAnne Schoenike

 

Christian Mystics

November 14-16

Facilitator: Gabriele Uhlein, OSF, Ph.D.