Do you feel pulled in a million directions?
Uneasy and anxious?
Distracted by technology and the ever-increasing pace of life?
Perhaps you are facing a major life transition?
Do you need direction and clarity?
This is your invitation to breathe, reset and find your time to deeply rest.
Imagine a meaningful five days and four nights on beautiful Bowen Island. Reconnect to the deeper life within you. Reclaim your peace.
The Rooted and Rising Retreat is a transformative invitation: designed to foster a renewal of connection to inner self and your authentic story.
Nestled in Rivendell Centre in the ocean landscape of the Gulf Islands (near Vancouver, BC), and held in the loving support of friends, these days together combine practices that unearth inner wisdom and guidance. We will use guided yoga movement, breath practice, poetry, and supportive sharing circles. In sharing a disciplined set of agreements, we will explore rooting practices, healing our bodies, and exploring the inner landscape of our lives. Revision your passions. Set creative intentions for the future.
Come home to yourself, grounded in your reality. Be ready to rise!
During the retreat, you will experience the Clearness Committee: a discernment process arising from the early Quakers. In this process a person who longs for insight – transitional, vocational, relational, or spiritual – has an opportunity to be the “focus person” while a prepared “committee” of others listens, records and asks open questions.
There will be nourishing, healthy meals, ample time for solitude, movement, rest by a crackling fire, reflection, journal writing, compassionate conversation alongside opportunities for explorations in the island’s winter energy.
Your guides are Dan and Robyn Hines.
Dan was mentored by the Quaker activist Parker J. Palmer and the Center for Courage & Renewal. He has facilitated life giving experiences for thousands of participants in the lineage of Circle of Trust. In these wise spaces, there is a trustworthy and brave space of attention, imagination, and confidential conversations.
Robyn is a RYT 500HR Yoga Facilitator. After decades of explorative yoga, the grounding and calm she found piqued her curiosity and she embarked upon a series of yoga teacher trainings to expand and deepen her knowledge and understanding. She is a strong proponent of a health-filled lifestyle: sound nutrition, weights along with high intensity exercise, quality sleep and an active lifestyle in nature. She enjoys guiding gentle hatha flow, yin, nidra and restorative yoga, meditation and breathwork.
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.
