The Enlightened Body: A Life-changing Journey into Light, Joy and Love within the Body

RETREAT BY INVITED PRESENTER

For three days, we come together in a small, intimate circle to explore the potential for the inner radiance of our bodies. Incorporating meditation, journaling, breathwork, and movement practices, we will be exploring both light and shadow, and practicing the art of alchemy—sourcing greater peace, joy and love through experiential powerful practices.

BONUS: Add an extra day and stay for Susan’s signature program Finding Your Voice.

“Susan’s meditations have been a game changer for me. I can’t speak highly enough about Susan and this community and the positive shifts I have had in my life since beginning.”

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The body may seem dense and heavy, but in reality it is ever-changing – highly responsive to guidance, intention and action. Your relationship to your body and all that it holds is a gateway to experience greater freedom, wholeness, and joy. Our physiology relates not only to our physical experience, but also to our emotional, societal, and spiritual journeys. The physical experience of our body is shaped by non-physical aspects … and reflects these to us.

Understanding and connecting with our body is a potent pathway to bring to light what is hidden, transform our challenges and fulfill our needs.

This retreat is an exploration of the higher potentials of your experience within your body beyond conditioning. We will work together with the deeper layers of reality – of our bodies, minds, and spirits.

During this retreat we will:

• Explore the messages your body holds about yourself and your life
• Work with the spectrum of physical expression, from challenges to the highest potentials
• Bring into awareness your unique energetic blueprint and how it impacts your experience
• Understand the conditioning and influences that have shaped your experience
• Connect in circle with fellow explorers, discovering the shared threads in our challenges and realizations
• Practice ritual, play, inquiry, and meditation as gateways to transformation

The retreat is an interactive guided journey through progressive layers of exploration – moving from the physical to the emotional, ancestral, and spiritual. Together we’ll weave inquiry, play, ritual, and meditation to open new pathways of healing and transformation.

To support your arrival, Susan will also meet with you for a personal 30-minute Zoom session in the weeks before the retreat, helping you prepare for the transformational experience ahead.

ADD FINDING YOUR VOICE

Stay one extra night and add a one-day program exploring the connection between body and voice – uncovering the patterns that keep us silent and finding greater freedom to speak what is true for you with confidence, trust and love.

Our hesitation to say no, to freely express what we want or need, or to confidently share our views and talents often has roots in our past — and in our bodies. We can learn to hold back our words, silence our needs, or make ourselves smaller without even realizing it.

Together we will explore the hidden patterns that silence us — and rediscover the freedom to speak what is true. We will discover how to work with our internal fears around speaking so that instead of diminishing our voice, we can release the constraints on it and begin to express our true selves with confidence, trust and love.

• Explore the hidden — and sometimes not-so-hidden — messages we received as children that shaped our freedom to speak honestly and express what we truly feel
• Uncover the underlying silencer and the connection between voice and the nervous system — how our fight, flight or freeze response can affect our ability to speak, both literally and figuratively
• Discover what blocks your voice from speaking your truth and soften the tension
• Learn specific tools and techniques to strengthen and open your throat
• Recognize and interrupt the vocal shut-down that happens when our nervous system is triggered
• Discover the connection between your voice and your heart – so that even in speaking tough truth, you can do it with love
• Find greater freedom in being heard, seen and expressed

In short we’ll begin to uncover these patterns and explore what it means to expand and express ourselves more freely.

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

• Intimate setting with personal access to the teacher
• Interactive sessions with question and answer periods
• Shamatha and guided meditations
• Delicious all-vegetarian meals with locally sourced ingredients
• Option to extend stay on Personal Retreat
• Extensive library of dharma books
• Expansive wooded grounds with beautiful paths, flora and fauna and walking trails

OPEN TO ALL

There are no prerequisites for this program; it is appropriate for all.

SCHEDULE

(subject to change)

Friday, April 2

Saturday, April 3

Sunday, April 4