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Unless otherwise noted, programs begin at 7 pm and end at noon. Sign up for our newsletter here. View registration, pricing, and cancellation policy Please note that the Christine Center does not offer either health care or psychotherapy. We offer opportunities for spiritual deepening and exploration, as well as personal restoration and peace.
Returning to Your Light: A Self-Love Retreat for Healers February 14 through February 16 (Friday to Sunday) with Kimberly Lovejoy and Christine Lord (view bios) View retreat info here: www.returningtoyourlight.com This retreat is for all healing professionals such as: therapists/counselors, body workers, nurses, social workers, energy workers, Lightworkers and caregivers who are looking for an opportunity to rest and rejuvenate. It will be a place where healers can come together and create a space of quiet contemplation; a time to return to their own Light and the voice of the Divine Creator. This will be an opportunity for like-minded people to remember that their own wellbeing is priority when serving others. Sometimes we become overworked, out of alignment in our work/personal life balance, disheartened by the troubles of the world, or are missing the joy and heart in our work that once was previously there. Our prayer is that you will find peace, sacredness, love and know how truly supported you are. Self-love is the sacred medicine we all need and as healing professionals, we can forget or set aside our own needs. When we are filled with love, knowing you are the embodiment of love, we can reach farther and be the Light this world needs. This retreat will include a time to still the mind and rejuvenate the body. There will be gentle yoga, dance, music, quiet reflection, community, and ceremony. There will also be an opportunity to sign-up for Swedish massage and Reiki sessions. To reserve a space, please submit a payment for $200 for the retreat cost to Kim Lovejoy through Venmo @Kimberly-Lovejoy-2 or PayPal.me/kimlovejoy55, or you can send a check made out to Kim Lovejoy, LLC. A follow up email will be sent with more details as the retreat approaches. Additional fees will include lodging and optional meals, and a follow up email will include more information about this. Details can be found at christinecenter.org/reservations. Feel free to let us know if you have a friend in the therapy/ healing field that would benefit from learning more about this retreat!
February 20-21 (11am Thursday-11am Friday) with Tracy Chipman – MA, CYT, AYS Tuition: $95, plus lodging and meals Yoga Nidra, also known as “yogic sleep” is an ancient practice that offers very deep rest. It is a systematic method, creating an experience of restful alertness allowing the physiology, the neurology and subconscious mind to sink into a deep wellspring of relaxation and rest. Please join Tracy in the sanctuary of the Christine Center for this delicious gift given to and received by your sweet self.
February 28-March 1 (7pm Friday – 12pm Sunday) Tuition: Sliding Scale $75-$200, plus lodging and meals Join us for our 7th annual celebration of women coming together for ritual, retreat, relaxation, and deep spiritual practice. This year our amazing facilitators will be offering opportunities to deepen our understanding of our own story, to approach the perspective through which we experience life, to use movement and sound in connection with our bodies (Qi Gong), and to use sound and silence for meditation. Breakout sessions will include introduction to myofascial release with opportunities for massage/MFR sessions, nature gratitude journaling, and an opportunity to develop your own henna art. Come gather with us and experience the essence of a beautiful circle of women.
With Carol and Neal Carbon March 5-8 (Thursday-Sunday) 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. Carol and Neil Carbon are senior Diamond Approach teachers and lead groups around the country. For more information and to register: Johanna Seubert at j.seubert@tds.net or 715.267.7507
the Wilderness WITHIN! March 8-10, 2020 (Sunday through Tuesday) With Julia Gray Tuition: $99 plus meals and lodging Sunday evening is unstructured; program begins Monday at 9am-Tuesday 2p We create our HOME, within, in alignment with Spirit. We are invited to listen deeply to the movement of God in our lives and develop a relationship for Divine expression through our human self. It is a process of unveiling & revealing that which has always been there. The very nature of Spirit that lives and flows through all! This is an invitation to explore the Wilderness WITHIN you! We will borrow coaching techniques, concepts from non-violent communication, and practice the transformational experience of silence. You are invited to bring a journal or any other creative material that activates your interior.
March 13-15, 2020 Join Andrea Russell and Sheryl Lilke on a meditation and yoga retreat. During the retreat, we will focus on slowing down and deepening your meditation practice. Days will include gentle yoga to prepare your body for sitting, several periods of seated and walking meditation, dharma talks, and opportunities to ask questions and receive support. Much of our time together will be spent observing noble silence, enabling us to turn our attention inward and create community based on shared devotion to practice. It’s a wonderful and welcoming environment for those who are new to retreats and/or yoga and meditation. Click here for more information and to register. https://andrearussell.com/meditation-retreat//
March 19-22, 2020 (Thursday-Sunday) Daily 10:00 am – 5:00 pm (Commuters welcome!) With S. Gabriele Uhlein, OSF, PhD Tuition: $60 a day / $30 for half days (all materials included), plus meals and lodging. Commuters: bring a bag lunch or purchase a delicious vegetarian meal for $16. Brush, paper! GO! Large sheets of vellum paper and 24 open paint pots of gorgeous colors await! Experience a fun and supportive community of happy painters. (Come with friend!) No previous art skill is required; bring a sense of play, adventure and openness. Each day includes two studio sessions with S. Gabe and an evening optional conversation circle. If you have ever felt blocked and uninspired, these days are the perfect remedy! Painting from intuition brings freedom and restores creative zest. Dare to enter a marvelous “judgement-free zone” for discovering possibilities and breaking through limiting blocks old patterns that can invigorate all aspects of life. Just wait till you see the studio walls!
March 20-22, 2020 (Friday through Sunday) Tuition: $200, plus meals and lodging (early bird registration before March 1: $175) You carry life. There is something within you; a poem, book, expression, a hope the world needs to hear and see. This is your invitation to come away. Amend the soil of your heart and soul. Prepare them to receive the seeds of renewed dreams. Birthing Your Own Vision moves through seven phases of declaring, setting aside and properly aligning your dream/purpose so that it will manifest in full, at the right time, in the right season. Journaling, creative expressing and reflecting will make up much of this retreat time. Do note the life of this sacred time will come from within you, from the experience and encounters and less so from the material and mechanics of the retreat itself. Please come prepared to connect deeply with yourself and God. And to celebrate in every phase!
March 26-27, 2020 (11am Thursday-11am Friday) with Tracy Chipman – MA, CYT, AYS Tuition: $95, plus lodging and meals Being mindful, we create space for shifting our experiences, expanding our awareness, and opening to life. In this workshop, we explore our breath and our embodied presence as tools for wholeness, acceptance and joy. We’ll make space for each moment, populating our experience with calm and balance. This program will include various meditation techniques, (loving kindness, walking & seated meditations) gentle movement/stretching, and Yoga Nidra, a form of deep, restful yogic sleep. Also in the program will be circle sharing, dialogue, and time to immerse in the peace and stillness of nature, around the beautiful Christine Center grounds.
with Amie Heeter March 27-29th Tuition $175 + lodging and meals Join Amie Heeter for her 9th annual spring meditation and yoga retreat at the Christine Center! Retreats are an invitation to dive deep, intentionally, into a place that supports the opportunity to see inside and listen. An opportunity that nourishes us, and can sustain us for the months ahead as we engage with our work, relationships, and life in the everyday. We will draw from the well of contemplative wisdom and yogic practices as the catalyst for this nourishment, and for this heart quenching connection we all need. Winter’s dark and cold can leave us devoid of energy, with an accumulation of inertia and malaise. Add what we are experiencing as a collective, and these moments become more of a necessity than a luxury. We will harness this seasonal transition of winter to spring and utilize yogic tools to vitalize, clear, empower, and inspire. Our days will include breath centered Parayoga~ a slow flow approach to yoga that emphasizes mindful attention on the breath ~ meditation, Yoga Nidra, writing, reflection, and group discussion- as well as ample free time to explore the surroundings and enjoy the quiet, creative atmosphere. Some yoga experience required, open to all levels of practitioners.
March 27-29 (Friday-Sunday) Tuition: $150, plus meals and lodging Harness the muse of the trees, the sky, and the hearts of fellow word-lovers. We will create synergies of written expression reveling in the good that observation and writing brings to our lives; observation in nature and of our own nature. Like exercise and good nutrition, exploration through a writing practice contributes to a healthy, happy life. Our goal in this workshop is to commit to and sustain a healthy writing habit. There is not good or bad writing, only writing that helps us be present, process, and wonder. We are, after all, Poets of Life. Dawn has two decades of facilitation and development experience. While she is an oft published and teacher of poetry, she believes in a Yogic approach to writing – “no judgement and it feels so good to stretch.” Join Dawn and other Poets of Life in this positive and good-for-you workshop.
New Dates!! April 10-12 (Friday through Sunday) with Andrea Russell Join me on a retreat close to home in the tranquil woods of northern Wisconsin. During the retreat, we’ll focus on slowing down and deepening your yoga and meditation practice. We’ll also learn Ayurvedic lifestyle and practice recommendations to align harmoniously with the season, so your health and well-being may flourish. I’ll also be joined by a certified Ayurvedic bodyworker offering abhyanga massage and consultations at an additional cost. Each afternoon there will be free time to walk in the woods, sit on benches overlooking the pond, drink tea, read, knit, or whatever else feels relaxing and restorative. There is a real sense of community at these retreats and many participants return time and time again. It’s a wonderful and welcoming environment for those who are new to retreats and/or yoga and meditation. These retreats are short and sweet, but offer just enough time to come back home to yourself without having to travel far. For more information and to register: https://andrearussell.com/wisconsin/
with Liz Rog & Tracy Chipman April 17-19 Tuition: Sliding scale of $150 – $350, plus meals and lodging Please join community song leader Liz Rog and storyteller Tracy Chipman for this women’s* weekend retreat soaking in the soul tending experiences of singing and storytelling. Solace means to offer comfort and consolation in a time of distress and sadness. Together, giving and receiving, we’ll build community through song and story. Liz’s Bio Tracy’s bio: Tracy stepped onto the path of storyteller 25 years ago under an Oregon hazelnut tree and has never looked back. She believes story and storytelling are deeply in our human bones and more than ever we need the evocative richness of old myth & folk-lore to weave with the fabric and the narrative of our precious lives and communities. * open to those identifying as women
Ayurveda Retreat: Cleanse, Relax and Rejuvenate with Suzanne Howard April 19 – 24, 2020 (Sunday through Friday) Tuition: $1400 (all inclusive)-Max 4 participants Spring is a great time to release what Ayurveda calls “ama” (or toxins) from the body and mind. This retreat offers an opportunity to completely un-plug and experience deep relaxation and inner peace in a tranquil natural and spiritual setting. Based on the longer Ayurveda program of Panchakarma, which cleanses the deep tissues (dhatus) and subtle channels (srotas) to increase vitality and inner peace, this retreat includes: Four daily 2-hour Ayurvedic body treatments; Organic, nourishing meals of mostly kitchari and herbal tea; Customized botanical blends; Morning and evening guided meditation; Daily gentle yoga classes; Self-guided silent walks in nature; Quiet, introspective time in your room, the Christine Center spiritual library, their peaceful facility or their beautiful grounds; Pre-and-post retreat recommendations Please contact Suzanne after you register to arrange for an Ayurveda Intake and Assessment at least one month prior to the retreat: suzannehoward16@gmail.com Suzanne Vani Devi Howard is a Certified Ayurveda Practitioner and professional member of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. She is also a Panchakarma Technician, Herbalist and Sivananda Yoga Teacher (500 hours), a classical lineage of yoga based in Hinduism and ancient Vedic and Vedanta scriptures. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and grew up in the Kettle Moraine Forest area of Wisconsin. “
April 20-22 (Monday to Wednesday) with Wendy Mitch Tuition: $150, plus meals and lodging When we shift our mindset from inward to outward, profound change can happen! In this retreat we will take a deep dive into the concepts of self-deception (having a problem, not knowing I have a problem and resisting the possibility that I might even be part of the problem), collusion (provoking the very behaviors I say I hate in others) and ego (repetitive thought patterns that are mostly unhelpful) but also how our spiritual practice can move us from inward to outward, problem focused to solution focused, ego to ego less.
April 23-24 (11am Thursday-11am Friday) with Tracy Chipman – MA, CYT, AYS Tuition: $95, plus lodging and meals Yoga Nidra, also known as “yogic sleep” is an ancient practice that offers very deep rest. It is a systematic method, creating an experience of restful alertness allowing the physiology, the neurology and subconscious mind to sink into a deep wellspring of relaxation and rest. Please join Tracy in the sanctuary of the Christine Center for this delicious gift given to and received by your sweet self.
with Kathy Roberg, RN, MS and Nancy Hemesath, MA April 26-28 (Sunday to Tuesday) Tuition: $150, plus meals and lodging This workshop targets the essential final chapter of our lives. Distilling lessons from our ancestors, articulating the meaning of our lives, and chronicaling stories and blessings for those who live beyond us. Navigating these final years in a conscious and thoughtful process, we embrace the opportunity to fully honor our lives through death. Participants will identify and Embrace the influence of the heritage from our ancestral stories; review life events, persons and circumstances that shaped our lives; gain an understanding of the values and significance that we have to contribute to others; design a life completion that celebrates our legacy. Major Topics: Presentation Methods: Content presentation; Individual time for reflection and journaling; Video; Poetry; Small group sharing
May 14-17, 2020 (Thursday-Sunday) Daily 10:00 am – 5:00 pm (Commuters welcome!) With S. Gabriele Uhlein, OSF, PhD Tuition: $60 a day / $30 for half days (all materials included), plus meals and lodging. Commuters: bring a bag lunch or purchase a delicious vegetarian meal for $16. Brush, paper! GO! Large sheets of vellum paper and 24 open paint pots of gorgeous colors await! Experience a fun and supportive community of happy painters. (Come with friend!) No previous art skill is required; bring a sense of play, adventure and openness. Each day includes two studio sessions with S. Gabe and an evening optional conversation circle. If you have ever felt blocked and uninspired, these days are the perfect remedy! Painting from intuition brings freedom and restores creative zest. Dare to enter a marvelous “judgement-free zone” for discovering possibilities and breaking through limiting blocks old patterns that can invigorate all aspects of life. Just wait till you see the studio walls!
May 15-17 (Friday to Sunday) Tuition: $150, plus meals and lodging Join Iris Mickey, Certified Yoga Therapist for a weekend of discovering the Fascial Web of your bodies inner landscape. This weekend will be a combination of movement and stretching to identify and move through the different planes of our bodies inner fascial network. In addition, we will use Yoga Nidra meditation to explore the different facets of our minds inner landscape. Come prepared for movement and times of stillness. Curious about Fascia? Look up Anatomy Trains to get a glimpse this fascinating fascia that holds us all together!
May 15-17 (Friday to Sunday) with Tom Roberts Tuition: $150, plus meals and lodging “The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.” Alan Watts This retreat will provide us with the opportunity to cultivate the innate sense of returning to our spiritual home. We often feel that fundamental plea from within, inviting us to take stock of how far we might have wandered from our deeper wisdom, our deeper sensing true self. Thus, creating a life that is chaotic and out of balance. Zen and The Art of Coming Home will invite us to calm the frenetic looking and searching, born out our fear that we somehow are deficient and not good enough, and to return to our longed-for spiritual home. To re-mind ourselves that in order to be spiritually “at home” we must remember to secure our place in the world, to be at ease with ourselves. We will explore the elegant Zen methods of re-minding ourselves of “coming home.” These methods will help us with re-aligning and to live from that place of spiritual depth and wisdom. Embracing each moment with great patience, openness and compassion. The beauty of Zen methods is in the fact that Zen is a method. A method that can be easily integrated into any spiritual tradition.
May 22-24 (Friday to Sunday) with Adina Joy Levitt Tuition: $150, plus meals and lodging Adina has woven her shamanic training with her love of Free Form Dance & Movement to create this ceremonial form of reconnecting with the body as a sacred tool to dive into the mystery of our very beings. In a world where so many of us feel stressed in our bodies, we can learn to stop and listen to the wisdom that our bodies hold by carefully exploring both our bodies’ biology and simultaneously entering the unseen realms. With eyes half closed in the candle-lit meditation hall we will use dance as a means to tap into this exploratory journey to receive guidance from our bodies, ancestors, healing guides, and Future Selves. Instead of learning steps to a specific dance routine, Free Form Dance gives us unlimited access to interact with our unique life stories. Our stressful situations become places for us to learn from, moving away from a survival mentality, unraveling myths from our ancestry, and learning to dance in the flow that resides in and around us all. Adina completed a 3 1⁄2 year Shamanic Apprenticeship and has participated in medicine dances in forests, outdoor arbors, and parks in order to connect in a conscious way with the Earth, her body, and the larger interconnection of the Universe. No previous dance experience needed. Participants will have time to journal and process their work with the group during the retreat. You find out more about her here: www.adinajoy.com
May 22-24 (Friday to Sunday) with Rahjta Ren Tuition: $150, plus meals and lodging My approach on almost all topics is what I have come to describe as “The Harmonic Gateway.” This is the implementation of frequency/vibration/sound and music as a pathway to quieting one’s mind. When “sound invokes silence” – this is not silence as aural/auditory silence, but the ineffable silence within all existence. From this inner stillness, I interactively and collectively guide our men’s group through the Harmonic Gateway into heart-space/center. Throughout the day(s’) retreat, we practice living as an expression of this selfrealizing boundlessness, aspiring for an integration into everyday life. The methods offered within this retreat for men seeking to enrich understanding, insights and wisdom emanating as resonant field of heart, are purely experiential cultivated from my own practices. This immersion holds a concentration focusing on nurturing the balancing of intellect/information-processing and heart-based intelligence/
May 29-31 (Friday to Sunday) with Andrew Harvey Tuition: Sliding scale of $150 to $250, plus meals and lodging Andrew Harvey has spent 40 years devoting himself to the Rumi Renaissance and to Rumi as the prophet of love of the new universal mysticism. Nothing could ever express what he has been graced through him. And now, his work is focused on the other great universal mystical poet, Kabir the great poet of India, loved by Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs but whose vision of the One transcends all religion. It is as if Rumi flooded us with tender fire to prepare us to be burnt alive in the astringent flames of Kabir. Rumi is the great prophet of love, Kabir is the fierce and sublime prophet of truth. Rumi can be fierce, but leads with refined ecstatic tenderness; Kabir can be tender, but leads with a breath-taking ferocity that aims to murder the ego and incinerate injustice and illusion. Rumi is the supreme aristocrat of poetry; Kabir speaks in the raw stark realism of a peasant who knows the horror of poverty. Now is the time inspired by Rumi to meet Kabir and experience the extreme and gorgeous dialog in the heart between these two amazing universal masters. Our time requires a simple, naked, absolutely truthful, unflinchingly fierce and exalted voice, that voice is Kabir. Rumi made us vulnerable to love and now Kabir kills us into the eternal life of truth of embodied Divine humanity. Even more than Rumi, Kabir is the voice of the embodied Divine human and, in his amazing celebration of living God in a body, all of us can glimpse our next stage of evolution when we will live as Kabir did… as the Beloveds fierce, clear, passionate, compassionate, humble, grounded beloved. Join Andrew as he guides us to be burnt alive in love and resurrected in our essential divine nature.
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Yoga Nidra
7th Annual By Women for Women
The Diamond Approach to Inner Work: An Ongoing International ProgramAs a contemporary spiritual path the Diamond Approach offers
Please bring your own creative materials; journal, art book, knitting, etc.
Silent Meditation Retreat
Intuitive Painting
Birthing Your Vision
Peace in Every Breath
Spring Yoga & Meditation Retreat 
Poets of Life Workshop
with Dawn AndersonA Seasonal Three-Day Northwoods Retreat
Soul + Solace – Singing & Storytelling; A Women’s* Retreat
Liz Rog is a songleader in the global Ubuntu tradition which welcomes all voices to weave
everyday song into community. Liz delights in helping people rediscover their ancestral birthright of
group singing. She lives in the Driftless of Northeast Iowa and enjoys traveling to other
towns and regions to help in the re-seeding of the earth with songs for renewal.
Shifting Perspectives: A Transformative Approach to Life and Love
Participants will be guided to unpack many of the obstacles, which lead to conflict, division and unhappiness in relationships.
The writings of Arbinger, Carl Jung, Eckhart Tolle, Mark Nepo, and Richard Rohr, will provide the framework for this transformative retreat.
Participants can also expect spiritual deepening practices of guided meditation, breath work, journaling and contemplative practices.”Yoga Nidra
The Tapestry of Lives: Linking Ancestors and Legacy
Evening : Ancestral work – and outline work for life review
Day work: Life Review; Shaping a spiritual Ethical Will; Designing the perfect ending consistent with our legacyIntuitive Painting
The Web of Your Inner Landscape: Myofascial release through Yoga
Zen and the Art of Coming Home
Exploring Stress in Our Sacred Bodies through Free Form Dance & Movement
Please contact Adina with any questions: adinajoylevitt@gmail.com
An Immersion into Heart and Sound: A Program for Men
feeling-sensing/insight.
Divine Love: Rumi and Kabir
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Call (715) 267-7507 or email christinecenter@tds.net to sign up for programs