PAUSE: A Midwinter Retreat
January 24 – 26, 2025
with Teresa Reid & Cori Hildebrandt
Does the fast pace and demands of modern life leave you exhausted, with little left to give?
Do you long for space and time to S L O W down?
Would you welcome a weekend of rest, where everything is taken care of for you?
Then it is time to PAUSE with Certified Open Floor International (OFI) Teachers, Teresa Reid + Cori Hildebrandt, and gather with other like-minded souls during the depths of midwinter to take a break from your everyday routine- to listen to your body- to sense your inner knowing- to tap into currents of inspiration- to resource yourself.
…reconnect with yourself, others, and nature…
This thoughtfully curated, all-inclusive retreat is anchored in the teachings of the resource-based, mindful movement practices of Open Floor International. From writing to dance parties, guided movement to time in nature, spacious time alone to co-resting opportunities, there’s a little something for everyone and every part of your being. Music supports our practice.
WHAT’S INCLUDED:
- 5 curated Open Floor International explorations/sessions: meditation, dance movement, nature, art, writing
- Time to rest, refresh, revitalize alone or together
- 5 homemade vegetarian meals (Friday dinner through Sunday lunch) made with fresh, local ingredients (GF, vegan, and diary-free diets can be accommodated with notice)
- A variety of lodging options to meet your comfort
Schedule
Friday – Arrival & Enter
3-5pm: Check-In 5pm: Community Meditation
5:30pm: Dinner
7-9pm: Session 1 – Opening Circle & Dance of Arrival 9pm: Sauna/Bed
Saturday – Deepen/Expand
8am: Breakfast
9:30-11:30am: Session 2 – Meditation/Art in Motion
12:30pm: Lunch
2:30-4:30pm: Session 3 – Nature & Movement
5:30pm Dinner
7-9pm: Session 4 – Big Dance
9pm: Sauna/Bed
Sunday – Enter/Explore/ Broadening & Deepening
8am: Breakfast
9:30-11:30am: Session 5 – OFI Meditation Cycle & Closing Circle
12:30pm: Lunch 1:30pm: Departure
Meet Your Facilitators:
Cori Hildebrandt, MA, LPC, LPCC MN
Coriander Living Collective, Open Floor International Teacher, Certified Brainspotting & EMDR Psychotherapist
Movement is life. Movement helps process and integrate experience. An integrated being is a healthy being. And yet things happen in life that fragment and fracture our whole sense of self. Movement is one of the great ways Cori knows to reclaim parts of self, to process emotions, to gain insight, to connect with spirit, to heal, and to integrate our self towards wholeness of being.
Cori is a non-dancer and Type A by definition! “I spent most of my life shying away from dancing, feeling awkward in my own body and self-conscious. Until I was introduced to conscious dance at a retreat in Sedona. Once I pushed through the discomfort, on the other side I found an expansive sense of freedom, it lit something up in me, that I knew I wanted to share with others.”
She is a socially interested, resourceful professional dedicated to promoting self-sufficiency, awakening awareness and insight, encouraging action, fostering healing, and cultivating satisfaction in the lives of others.
Teresa Reid
Rooted & Rising, Open Floor International Teacher, Dancing Freedom Facilitator, Authentic Movement, SomaYoga
As the visionary and steward of Rooted & Rising, Teresa serves individuals and communities by weaving her love of dance, somatic inquiry, earth-based wisdom and whole systems healing into simple yet powerful explorations of embodied emergence. She’s been dancing since she was a child, but it wasn’t until her health declined and life turned upside down that she discovered dance as a healing practice…a spiritual practice. “Within the dance, I encounter myself in new and beautiful ways. It provides the space to both honor my human experience and transcend it…to listen deeply to my own, natural rhythms while abiding in something greater. I trust all beings have this organic intelligence that longs for harmony and coherence, and it is my role to attune, guide and co.create with these rhythms, make space for vitality to arise, and weave threads of integration through curiosity and compassion.”