Programs to Inspire, Transform, and Heal
Step out of daily life for a few days to learn with others in a spirit of deep community support.
Programs begin in the evening after supper and conclude after lunch unless other wise noted.
Schedule is subject to change.
We had a wonderful, enriching time. Thank you for tending to our every need as we allowed ourselves to go spiritually deeper. It felt like everything you did was to support our journey. The Center never disappoints. Thank you for the sacred space.
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Here is our September Enewsletter
Aging into Higher Consciousness : Awake the Potential to Shape Aging
October 5-7 (Wednesday-Friday) Begins at 7PM
With Delmarie Gibney, FSPA and Lucia Leck
Hosted close to the time of the autumnal equinox, when life is being harvested and the balance between light and darkness is shifting, we focus on our own aging process, looking back at who we have been and forward to to who we are becoming. Engaging in this transition inspires a shift in consciousness, where we become aware of how we can actively shape our own aging instead of drifting into old age.
Nurture Your Nature Women’s Retreat
October 14-16 (Friday-Sunday)
With Coleen Elwood and Tara Cindy Sherman
Please note: Limited Space is still available. Please call Linda at 651.808.2195 to make a reservation.
Experience blending ancient tantric techniques with earth based shamanic practices for a weekend immersed in the beauty of autumn and an exploration of SHAKTI. Learn More
Healing Affirmation through Song
Has been postponed to a date to come in 2017 due to Christine Center scheduling issues. We apologize for any inconvenience this creates.
With Julie Rust
Do you want a deeper understanding of self-healing practices. Spiritually enlightened music, melodies and words will open the heart, allowing Spirit to move in unimaginable ways. This retreat includes the Sacred Space Experience™, in which Spirit chooses your healing song; a powerful and transformative experience for all who are open to receiving the gifts.
Julie’s experience of near-death has given her an incredible toolbox of resources that will be presented, allowing you to pick and choose the techniques that resonate with you. These tools will help to shift and maintain your frequency for happiness, health, and alignment with the Divine. Learn More
Living Life: Through Stillness into Heartful LIFE
October 20 – 24 (Thursday-Sunday)
A liminal Christine Center meditation experience with Robert Sardello and Gabriele Uhlein, OSF, PhD
The Mystics know the secret – openness to utter Stillness, being present with LIFE, and releasing what we experience, each moment. This contemplative meditation retreat will transform your way of being in the world. Beginners as well as advanced meditators are welcome. The meditation will be simple, yet utterly profound in its transformative power. Learn More
Yoga Nidra: The Healing Power of Extreme Relaxation and Effortless Meditation
October 25-26 (Tuesday-Wednesday)
With Roberta Hodges
Yoga Nidra is the most powerful relaxation technique known. It means conscious deep sleep. Experience supreme relaxation of body and the most profound stillness of mind helpful in treating diseases and exhaustion caused by stress. Learn More
Painting from Soul: Intuitive Painting Open Studio
October 27-30 (Thursday-Sunday: Daily 10 am-12:30; 2:30-5:00 pm, including Sunday.)
Commuters welcome!
With S. Gabriele Uhlein, OSF, PhD
Jumpstart your natural creativity in a fun and supportive community of happy painters! (Come with a friend!) For those with every level of artistic experience. Learn More
Your Ancestors Are Calling! Get in Touch with Them Through Imagery and Intuition
October 28-October 30 (Friday-Sunday)
with Audrey Chowdhury, MS, ATR-BC
This weekend retreat is designed to help you access the wisdom and guidance of your ancestors through intuitive creative processes which include SoulCollage®, mandala creation, music and writing. The intention of this exploration of your lineage is to explore the facts, the beliefs, and the ways of being that you have inherited so that you can become aware of how you have been affected by these ancestral patterns and experiences. Learn More
Sound and Silence
November 4-6 (Friday-Sunday)
With Cecilia Corcoran, FSPA, PhD and Wendy Kohlhaas, ICS, CSAC, LPN
Two practices make up the framework of this retreat. Both are based on praying from the heart with a minimal of words. One practice cultivates deep listening and the other is a response that may be as subtle as a breath or as lovely as a word. Learn More
Heart Centered Meditation and Yoga
November 4-6 (Friday-Sunday)
with Katherine Banbury
This retreat is for relaxation, restoring energy and enjoying yourself. No prior knowledge of yoga or meditation is necessary. Katherine will lead yoga practice that will bring you back home to yourself with joy, empowerment and harmony. Conversations will invite you to express what you are learning and experiencing. More to Come.
Myofacial Release Weekend
November 4-6 (Friday-Sunday)
With Laramee Paradise, CMT and Kathy Wojta
Tuition: Meals and lodging, plus $25 room fee.
Contact Laramee at 612.232.4669 or ljparadise123@yahoo.com before registering through the Christine Center.
Come to a feast of Myofascial Release Therapy for MFR therapists and by MFR therapists. Discover steps toward your potential as a MFR therapist. You must have taken at least one seminar by John F. Barnes, PT.
4 Pillars of Mutual Awakening with Patricia Albere
A three-session retreat program
Fridays-Sundays: November 18-20, 2016
February 10-12, 2017
May 12-14, 2017
A virtual program with Patricia Albere and Supportive activities facilitated at the Christine Center by Cecy Corcoran, FSPA, PhD
Experience and explore collective awakening for extended periods of time. The series is designed for all levels of interest and experience, for all lineages and traditions. The 4 pillars are Creative Union and We-Mysticism in November, Sacred Dialog in February, and Spiritual Transparency in May. Each retreat will feature a three hour session with Patricia (November offers two, three-hour sessions). Learn More
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h Annual Uplift Yoga Retreat
November 18-20 (Friday-Sunday)
With Kate Karshna and Angela Coffee
Yoga and Ayurveda for Vibrant Health
Come explore Ayurveda through yoga asana, breath work, and meditation; daily routines (dinacharya); and the medicine of food and spices. Ayurveda, the “knowledge or science of life,” is the sister science of yoga and offers guidance for living in harmony with the wisdom of nature. Our retreat will introduce foundation teachings about Ayurveda; offer experiences in caring for elemental energies in our bodies; present yoga classes attuned to Ayurveda; and explore food and spices for healing and balance. Everyone welcome. Learn More
Thanksgiving Mandala-Making: Open Studio
November 25-27 (Friday-Sunday: Daily 10 am-12:30; 2:30-5:00 pm, including Sunday.)
With Gabriele Uhlein, OSF, PhD
Commuters are welcome: bring a bag lunch or purchase a lovely vegetarian meal for $15.
Take the opportunity to relax, refresh and reflect as your hands create circles of beauty and light. Especially enjoy working on black paper with luminous artist-grade colored pencils. No previous art experience is necessary and all materials are provided. It is a time to come home to yourself and to Spirit. Learn More
Health and Inner Peace with Relaxation and Full Natural Breathing
November 25-27 (Friday-Sunday)
With Roberta Hodges
Relaxation of body and breath releases the tensions caused by stress in your life. Healthful relaxation creates space within for peaceful spirit and life force energy to enter. Come learn many body and breath relaxations of varied length and styles that can be done while lying, sitting, walking or standing. These techniques can be used in almost any situation where you find yourself in need of calming alone or with others. Learn More
Aryuveda, Yoga, and Meditation
December 2-4 (Friday-Sunday)
With Andrea Russell
Come deepen your yoga, meditation, and pranayama practices. Learn Ayurvedic recommendations to attune your practice to live in harmony with the season for greatest health as well as ample time for reflection, restoration, and enjoyment of nature. All levels of are welcome. Learn More
The Compassionate Heart
December 16-18 (Friday-Sunday)
With Henrita Frost, SSND and Johanna Seubert, FSPA, DMA
Tuition: sliding scale $75-$150, plus meals and lodging.
Discover the power of the human heart for compassion.
Empowered by the practice of Loving Kindness Meditation allow yourself to engage in a journey with compassion. Sense it flowing from your experience of self-compassion and moving to embracing all beings and the environment with an all-inclusive loving kindness – omitting none, as we offer healing to the Global Community. Learn More
Introduction to Christian Meditation
December 17 (Saturday)
With Cecilia Corcoran, FSPA. PhD
Eleven hours of guidance in the practice of Christian meditation. We begin with introductory work to understand the tradition of Christian meditation as a spiritual practice. We will move into meditating together in the simplicity of silence, deep listening, using a mantra, a biblical text, chanting and the breath. Learn More
Peace, Freedom, Creativity, Soulful Self Love Retreat
With Beck Forsland
December 16-18 (Friday-Sunday)
The holiday season brings up emotions, feelings, memories. Some are positive, full of love and light and gratitude and compassion for ourselves, for others. Some are less-than-positive and bring up fears, anxieties, feelings of lack, annoyance, short-tempered
Seasons come and go, but the love and connection you have with yourself can be consistent and can reflect into each relationship in your life. Awaken your body and soul with a weekend designed to enable you to be fully, completely present and compassionate within the holiday season. Learn More
The Christine Center Annual Year-End Retreat with Special Guest Andrew Harvey
December 27-January 1 (Tuesday-Sunday)
Hosted by Gabriele Uhlein, OSF, PhD and members of the Leadership Team
These retreat days are an opportunity to attune to the wonderful energy and transformative power of meditation and contemplation, especially at the holy “turning time” of the year. Participants are invited to join the contemplative schedule of the Christine Center and to be nourished by the deep winter quiet and our delicious vegetarian meals. This year we are joined by our special guest, Andrew Harvey who will offer daily reflection and soul conversation. Experience our special annual New Year’s Eve ritual and celebration. Learn More
Resting in Darkness…Full of Light Yoga
January 6-8 (Friday-Sunday)
With Iris Mickey
Join Iris for this retreat to embrace the inner light. Even at times if greatest darkness, we have access to our innate goodness, love and light. We will use a variety of practices from yoga to explore and enhance this inner light of consciousness. Practices suitable for all levels and will include daily asana, yoga nidra for self inquiry and seated meditation. Start the new year learning ways to sustain your own inner light! More to Come
Painting from Soul: Intuitive Painting Open Studio
January 12-15 (Thursday-Sunday: Daily 10 am-12:30; 2:30-5:00 pm, including Sunday.)
Commuters welcome!
With S. Gabriele Uhlein, OSF, PhD
Jumpstart your natural creativity in a fun and supportive community of happy painters! (Come with a friend!) For those with every level of artistic experience. Learn More
Shine: Yoga, Sound and the Sun
January 13-15 (Friday-Sunday) More to Come
With Aveen Banich
Nancy Boler Yoga
January 19-22 (Friday-Sunday) More to Come
Evolutionary Consciousness
January 27 More to Come
With Patricia Albere
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- Include the Christine Center in your will or living trust.
Want to discuss how you’d like to support the Christine Center? Then let’s talk! Contact Ann Swanson at aswanson@christinecenter.org to start the conversation.
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