Retreat

For many of us concerned with the state of our world, these are challenging times. This retreat will offer an opportunity to reconnect to our internal resources and restore a sense of groundedness, supported by arts exploration and yoga practice. Participants will be invited to practice Kundalini yoga (breathwork, physical postures, and meditation), make art together in community, connect with nature, and process their experience in a group setting. The weekend will include ample time for solitude and quiet reflection on the GilChrist grounds.

This weekend retreat is an invitation to journey inward to balance, energize, and recharge body, mind, and spirit as we move from winter hibernation to spring rejuvenation! We will explore the seven energetic centers called chakras as we dive into this dynamic and contemplative retreat. As we become more familiar with each chakra through yoga, breathwork, journaling, meditation, and chanting, we can open to greater awareness of our innate life force and experience subtle shifts toward greater acceptance, healing, and wholeness. Join us for this spring renewal! 

Start your new year with introspection and recommit to self-care practices! With the deep letting go and awareness of silence, we see into the core of our hearts and experience the rich knowingness of peace and harmony. From co-facilitator Marti Jeffs, “Heart-based meditation is effortless and deeply relaxing, and results in great benefits on many levels. Our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies are enhanced and healed with regular meditation practice.

Underneath the routine of doing and expectation, a gracious joy for simply being awaits. Fall is a glorious time to slow down and revel in the beauty of being enough. Open landscapes, cozy cabins, and sounds of nature are a balm to busyness, affirming you are enough: just as you are. With this retreat, you are invited to reflect and relax into who we are as the hustle and bustle melts away. Poetry, nature, solitude, and togetherness will cocoon this special time of unwinding and unfolding layers to bask in your inner light.
 

Have you wondered why some of your life patterns seem impossible to resolve? Have you felt spiritually blocked and can’t figure out what to do next? Come to GilChrist to explore and heal the family generational patterns in your family soul that influence and energetically block your spiritual path through contemplative exercises and family systems constellations. You will have time alone and in silence during the retreat to reflect, journal, and walk on the beautiful GilChrist grounds.

Ten one-week residencies provide the opportunity for selected preschool through fifth-grade teachers to spend a quiet week of reflection, writing, reading, and planning for the following school year. 

This teacher residency program is sponsored by the Nancy M. and Douglas M. Yeager Family Foundation in partnership with the GilChrist Retreat Center of the Fetzer Institute.

Sometimes winter inspires one to seek refuge in solitude and quiet, which can be rejuvenating. Sometimes too much can bring about a melancholy spirit. This retreat provides space for hibernating in togetherness. The intent is to create a warm atmosphere of choice between solitude or an activity together and reflect on the energies of each experience. This wintertime retreat will offer yoga practices, hiking, sledding, and community dinners with games by the fire.

About the Facilitator

Described by Jung as “a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the psyche,” our dreams have the ability to tap into the wisdom of our personal and collective symbolism, myth, metaphor, and the Divine. By carrying uncensored messages in the form of symbols from the unconscious, dreams hold answers to understanding ourselves and often present solutions to problems in waking life.

SoulCollage® is a simple intuitive process of creating many small collages and then giving voice to the images to discover their identity and the wisdom they carry. It is an imaginative, contemplative way to mindfully access the Stillpoint of our True Selves. Using SoulCollage® as a spiritual practice integrates mind, body and spirit and builds community. Whether you are new to SoulCollage® or are experienced creating cards, this retreat offers time and space to creatively explore your inner being and the wisdom and blessings available there.

SoulCollage® is a simple intuitive process of creating many small collages and then giving voice to the images to discover their identity and the wisdom they carry. It is an imaginative, contemplative way to mindfully access the Stillpoint of our True Selves. Using SoulCollage® as a spiritual practice integrates mind, body and spirit and builds community. Whether you are new to SoulCollage® or are experienced creating cards, this retreat offers time and space to creatively explore your inner being and the wisdom and blessings available there.