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The Medicine of Slowing Down: Day Immersion

  • Confluence Art Center 20159 Hazelnut Ridge Road Scotts Mills, OR, 97375 United States (map)

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Embody Team Leader Ariel Hart and Embody Community Member Denise Gour LSW, invite you to a nurturing day immersion.

Ticket includes a vegan, Ayurvedic lunch

What to Expect ~

Honoring our bodies – The Ritual of Movement

  • Listening with the whole body

  • Moving to the tune of nature

Honoring our truth – The Ritual of Acknowledging Joy and Sorrow

  • A sensory exercise exploring the oneness of both

  • Self-Compassion, Self-Forgiveness

  • Forgiveness reframed

  • Sensing our “blessons”

Honoring our spirit - The Ritual of Deep Play

  • Exploring sensory absorption in the outside world

  • Creating DreamSpace (from Trisha Hersey’s Rest is Resistance)

  • Making an offering and giving thanks

Honoring all wisdom – The Ritual of knowing and not knowing

  • Meditation as deep listening

  • Giver, Receiver, and Gift as one 

  • Spontaneous acts of gratitude and loving wishes

  • Cultivating a menu of practices that affirm and nurture your highest self

Schedule of our Day ~

11:00 am - Opening Circle

  • Welcome and settling into the retreat mind

  • Grounding practice to bring us home into our bodies

  • Practice ~ Intention Gathering and Offering

 12:00 pm - Honoring Our Bodies - Practices

  • Movement to spark sensory awareness

  • Sound Bath- listening with the entire body

  • Flower Essence- to begin conversation with the land spirits

  • Outside Practice – moving with natural rhythms

 1:00 pm - Guided Intro to Silent Lunch and Deep Rest Practice

  • Savoring the delight of the senses

  • Acknowledging the 1000 hands who bring us this food

  • Resting as a sacred act of self-care

 2:00 pm - Honoring Our Truth – Practices

  • Awakening the Heart

  • Honoring our Joys and Sorrows

  • Naming the “Blessons” (Blessings and Lessons) from our grief

  • Guided Self-Compassion Practice

  • Guided Forgiveness Practice

 3:30 pm - Honoring Our Spirit through the Ritual of Deep Play

  • Deep Play Introduction

  • Outside Practice

  • Engaging and absorbing the magic of spirit/self-directed play

  • Giving Meaning to Gratitude

  • The ritual of receiving and making offerings

4:30 pm - Receiving, Honoring, and Sharing Wisdom in All its Forms

  • Meditation as deep listening

  • Acknowledging giver, receiver, and gift as one

5:15 - Integrating Today’s Gifts into Our Daily Life

  • Creating a Menu to sustain a practice of intention setting, creating ritual, offering ourselves love

 5:30 pm – Closing Reflections

 5:50 pm – Closing Ritual

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