Rosen Method Bodywork:
Accessing the Unconscious Through the Body
Marion Rosen and Gloria Hessellund

Self-awareness can change fixed attitudes, while touch can become an avenue for discovery. Learn the basic tenets and practice of Rosen Method bodywork, specifically how to interpret the meaning of muscle tension and how to support the release of that tension through gentle touch. Discover how muscle tension, breath, and body postures interface with emotion. Explore the areas of body wisdom that are hidden from conscious awareness. Develop greater touch sensitivity and strengthen the ability to see subtle changes in the breath—changes that indicate a person is speaking truthfully or experiencing an old memory.

A wonderful opportunity to learn the Rosen Method of bodywork from its founder, Marion Rosen, who has a unique and remarkable ability to decipher the meaning of body language, as well as an unusual capacity to penetrate the outer layers of a person and see the innermost workings of the human heart.

Awakening the World:
A Global Dimension to Spiritual Practice
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

What is the relationship between our individual spiritual practice and global transformation? How can we use our spiritual awareness to help the world to evolve? Open to seekers of any tradition, this workshop will address these vital questions and take the participant into a global dimension of spirituality. We will explore the spiritual practices and attitudes we need to cultivate, opening us to the real purpose of spiritual transformation at this time of crisis and transition. As we step into an era of global consciousness, do we need to realign our spiritual understanding, or is this dimension already present within most traditions? We’ll look at the dangers and difficulties, as well as spiritual potential, of this present time and what it means to fully participate in individual and global spiritual life.

Sound Therapies
John Beaulieu with Silvia Nakkach

BioSonic Repatterning™ is a method of healing that uses tuning forks to attune the nervous system and repattern our minds, bodies, and spirits. Witness through demonstration how this form of energy medicine, based on sonic ratios inherent in nature, has practical applications in the healing arts.

Topics include the history of sound healing, the study of wave phenomena, sound and molecular science, sonic anatomy, voice and movement analysis, and sound as super-conscious psychotherapy. We’ll also discuss: the alchemy of mind, the art of still point, cranial anatomy, sonic fields, chaos theory, and sacred geometry.

Learn the theory and practice of healing with Pythagorean tuning forks through direct experience and group exercises. Silvia Nakkach will facilitate and demonstrate how tuning forks can relax the voice while increasing creativity. Students will explore techniques of ear reception, point stimulation, and overtone healing, and examine numerous case studies representing areas of children, relationships, psychiatric disorders, and addictions.

Faces of Your Soul:
Mask Making Your Ancestors and Spirit Guides
Kaleo and Elise Ching

Discover your spirit guide and create your own unique totem mask.

Guided imagery and mask making are ancient and ubiquitous practices that summon archetypes, latent or raw, within the psyche, to emerge as creative embodiments that express personal as well as universal themes and meanings. In this workshop you will be initiated into manifesting and empowering your relationship with your spirit guides. The journey begins with chi kung to open the body for protection and strength and for encouraging creativity and self expression. You will then sculpt a plaster mold of your face and paint and embellish it with the inspiration of your spirit guide, thereby revealing your totem mask. This workshop is designed for artists, therapists, healers, and anyone interested in the mysteries of energy flows, archetypal influences, and creativity as a journey of self-discovery.

Risking Delight:
How Poetry Reveals Our Joys,
Loves, and Longings
Roger Housden

“Why all the embarrassment about being happy?”
—Wendell Berry, poet, novelist, essayist, philosopher

This day uses the language of poetry to inspire a renewed sense of meaning and joy in our lives. A good poem summons the best, the deepest of who we are, and captures it in language. We will explore some of the world’s great poems, alone, with partners, and together as a group, reading them aloud, learning one or two by heart, and reflecting upon the echoes, the meanings, and the relevance they have for our own lives. Most of the workshop will be experiential in this way. There will also be short periods of silence to allow for meditative reflection on our personal responses to the material.

Grail, Circles, and the Sacred Feminine:
A Healing Story for Psyche and Planet
Jean Shinoda Bolen

Jean Shinoda Bolen delivers the legendary, mythic, and spiritual realm of the Sacred Feminine. The Grail and goddesses are archetypes, symbols with universal depth and meaning. The three phases of the moon, the triple goddess, and woman as maiden, mother, and crone are also stages of a woman’s life. Cut off from sources of meaning, without a connection to the sacred feminine, the inner landscape becomes a wasteland. The wounded Fisher King, the healing Grail, and the wasteland are symbols of outer reality and inner metaphors. Hear the stories, participate in a guided meditation, and experience meeting in small circles. Learn how to be in touch with inner sources of wisdom and compassionate action, and then form circles with sacred centers that nourish and support us—our purpose—as spiritual beings on a human path.