Open Heart, Peaceful Mind: A Retreat for Rest and Reflection

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Reconnect your mind, body, and spirit by learning about and experiencing a combination of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and hypnosis. Focus on reestablishing and maintaining the flow of energy along 12 principal meridians. Learn how to access this energy through acupressure of specific points along these channels and how hypnosis can increase that energy flow. …
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Nurturing New Life

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In a contemplative and creative setting, feed the inner life that is taking form. As we gather in the darkness of winter, we sense God’s eternal Light. Sinking into the silence and listening to the still small voice within, we will nourish and give expression to what is growing within us through art, poetry, journaling, …
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Five Spiritual Principles

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Pay Attention, Expect to Be Changed, Honor Your Connectedness, Choose Beauty, Live Radiantly. Rooted in early Quakerism, these advices call us to live more fully in all aspects of our lives. Explore them from a variety of perspectives and discover ways they can awaken and energize your daily life. Take time for personal reflection and …
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Journey Toward an Undivided Life: A Circle of Trust® Retreat Series Five Spiritual Principles

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“Once again I felt profoundly grateful for the circles I first experienced at Pendle Hill –grateful for what they taught me about the reality and power of the soul, about a way of being together that allows the soul to make a claim on our lives, and about the miracles that can happen when we …
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Awakening Your Senses Exercises for Exploring the Wonder of God

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Experience God through a daily round of beauty using the five senses and fine arts. Don’t just talk about meeting God – experience the Divine in ways that are sensory and participatory using watercolors, markers, paper, clay, found objects, body prayer, and more. Contemplative exercises and engaging interaction will complement our artistic activities. We will …
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Faithful Listening, Faithful Living

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Early Quakers had a strong sense of what a God-led life looked and felt like, and they were accountable to their Meetings. Today, Friends enjoy greater freedom to define what makes our lives “quakerly.” We are left, sometimes uncomfortably, with more responsibility to uphold our own sense of faithfulness. This retreat is designed to help …
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What’s Your Story? Uncover Hidden Stories from Your Life Experiences

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From a master storyteller, learn the process, elements, and skills needed to take your own life experiences and craft them into a story with the power to enlighten, inspire, and heal. By putting our joys and wounds into a narrative for others using motifs as old as humanity, we hear “the story we tell ourselves” …
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Creative Spirit: Paper Arts Collage

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Explore art-making as spiritual transformation. Nurture your inner life and activate your expressive energies by creating paper arts collages in a variety of forms, including three-dimensional possibilities. Using Melanie’s inspiring prompts and festive materials, let Spirit guide you in bringing the pieces and pages of your unfolding life story into creative expression. $555/shared room; $665/private …
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Free Flow: Creativity as a Spiritual Practice

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Experiment in creative activity to open the flow of Spirit in your life. Using simple yet profound exercises with art, poetry, movement, conversation, contemplation, and rest, you will find rich opportunities for self-discovery, expressive freedom, and connection with the Sacred. Regenerated, take these practices with you on your spiritual journey. $325/shared room; $405/private room; $230/commuter …
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