Is there a place where you find yourself standing in a “tragic gap”; that space between what “IS” and “what could be”? Is your life feeling fragmented or out of sorts? Are you ready to “put the pieces together” and feel more grounded, whole, and at home in your being? Author, educator, and Quaker Elder, Parker Palmer, writes that we all live in a “tragic gap,” a space between our life as it might be and our life as it is. It is a space filled with challenge and opportunity, tension and aspiration. In this retreat, set in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, we will weave together principles and practices from The Center for Courage & Renewal with time-honored yoga practices. Within our Circle of Trust®, you will be invited to identify individual and collective tragic gaps. On the yoga mat, you will be invited to explore a diversity of all-levels movement, meditations, mantra, music, and breathing practices. In both Circle of Trust and yogic practices, we will invite you into an awareness of wholeness and connection. In both solitude and community, our time together will be in service of honoring the tragic gap and living into our authentic, whole identities. Please consider giving yourself this gift to connect with your innate wholeness.
This program is being independently organized and led by a Courage & Renewal Facilitator(s) prepared by the Center for Courage & Renewal. While we support our facilitators in various ways, CCR has no direct responsibility for the planning or facilitation of this event. Please direct any questions to the facilitators using the contact form below.
The Center for Courage & Renewal and its facilitators do not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, height, weight, physical or mental ability, veteran status, military obligations, and marital status.
