$350.00
Meet with Susan online to practice Embodied Spirituality Practices, including Embodiment Practice, embodied meditation, and more. Reading Heart Open, Body Awake will support these practice sessions. Plus written, audio, and video support prior to the retreat.
Dates: June 21, 1am – 12;30 pm MT, 22, 23 9-2 and Aug 10 11am – 12;30 pm MT
Includes live meetings and recordings of live meetings. Pay from the Heart option ARE NOT available for the in-person retreat since there are a limited number of spaces available. If you want to participate and the cost is a hardship, please email me directly.
Description
We will meet June 21, 22, and 23, 2024. June 21 is online 11-12:30 MT along with the online retreat participants. June 22 and 23 in person from 9-2 in Boulder. We will gather at 9, share our intentions, and begin our practice. Then we will meet with the online participants during the 11-12:30 time slot. After this, we’ll have an embodied, relational, mindful lunchbreak, for 45 minutes. From 1:15- 2 will go outside to the trail for a guided group practice in nature. Further we will support each other to extend the retreat into the afternoon and evening as desirable.
In addition, we’ll meet August 10 for another Summer Embodiment Gathering.
To prepare for the retreat, you will receive a variety of written, audio, and video support.
Deepen your process of reclaiming embodiment. You will receive Susan’s Embodiment Self-Inquiry Inventory when you register and other materials to support you to create a weekend retreat for yourself beyond the online meetings and to support your ongoing practice.
Central to all our work is Susan’s unique embodiment practice, moving into embodied meditation, followed by a period of sharing, discussion, and teaching and closing with singing or embodied meditation. You will receive a recording of each gathering which many people are using repeatedly as guided practice.
You will receive written, audio, and video support for your practice including: written guides to embodiment practice, written guide to embodied meditation, the interface between embodiment practice and embodied meditation, practicing in nature, and more.
Embodied Spirituality is a growing body of work that marries embodiment and spirituality. Many approaches to yoga, meditation, contemplation, nature-based spirituality, and even aspects of all the major religions can be included in embodied spirituality.
How do we go through the body to spiritual connection?
So much of organized religion developed around controlling and subduing our bodies and our emotions to grow spiritually. Embodied spirituality embraces the awakened body, emotional awareness, relationship, sexuality, family life, and political activism.
Many approaches to embodied spirituality emphasize the heart. The heart is the gateway to so much of our spiritual potential. In our approach, as explicated in my new book, Heart Open, Body Awake: The Four Steps of Embodied Spirituality, the spiritual heart and the actual physical heart are recognized as an inseparable unity. In fact, the book explores how all of experiential anatomy can be an essential part of the spiritual path.