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During this retreat, we will explore cultural trauma, individual, interpersonal, and collective grief, and why it is so important to make space for our grief. With the aid of ancestors, benevolent beings, and guides, we will remember how to heal individually and collectively.
Check In: June 18, 2023
Check Out: June 22, 2023
Tuition + Meals: $1,035
With TreeHaus Lodging Package: $1,671
With RicePod Lodging Package: $2,011
With Nest Lodging Package: $2,271
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Class description
We are all holding so much in our hearts these days. Over the past few years, many of us have experienced more loss than any other time in our lives. We have waded through more uncertainty than the nervous system was designed to respond to. And now, there is more clarity and wisdom about the systems that need to be dismantled for us all to thrive. It is time to gather together and find refuge in one another and our spiritual practice. The Finding Refuge retreat is a space designed for you to peer into your heart and notice what is present there. It is a space for you to process the tenderness housed in the heart and heal the places in your heart that feel fractured or broken.
During this retreat, we will explore cultural trauma, individual, interpersonal, and collective grief, and why it is so important to make space for our grief. With the aid of ancestors, benevolent beings, and guides, we will remember how to heal individually and collectively. We will make space to breathe, grieve, gather, move, rest and celebrate. We will connect with our intuition and the heart’s wisdom. We will investigate why it is important to presence ourselves to the reality of suffering. We will spend time considering what conditions need to be in place for us to experience collective liberation. Space will be made to tap into our own medicine and what we want to seed, root, and grow for future generations. The retreat will include altar building, prayers, mantra, pranayama, meditation and movement practices, journaling, ritual, and small and large group discussions.
FOUR THINGS RETREAT GUESTS WILL WALK AWAY WITH UPON RETREAT COMPLETION
- A deeper understanding of cultural and collective grief
- A deeper sense of relationship with self and others
- Practices that will continue to nourish their spirits beyond the retreat including mantra, meditations, self-study and rituals.
- A clearer sense of how to create conditions for liberation and freedom for all.
biography
Michelle C. Johnson is an author, yoga teacher, social justice activist, intuitive healer, and Dismantling Racism trainer. She approaches her life and work from a place of empowerment, embodiment, and integration. As a dismantling racism trainer, she has worked with large corporations, non-profits, and community groups, including the ACLU-WA, Duke University, Google, This American Life, Mercedes, Yoga Alliance, Kripalu, Eno River Unitarian Universalist Church, Lululemon, and many others. Michelle published the first edition of Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World in 2017; and the 2nd edition of Skill in Action in November 2021, published by Shambhala Publications. She teaches workshops in yoga studios and community spaces nationwide.
Michelle’s newest book, Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief was published by Shambhala Publications in July of 2021. Whether in an anti-oppression training, yoga space, individual or group intuitive healing session, the heart, healing, and wholeness are at the center of how Michelle approaches all of her work in the world.
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Supply List
- A sacred object to build an altar with the group
- Props or mats they would like to have
- A journal
Wild Rice Retreat offers mats, blankets, blocks and straps if you prefer not to bring your own. Chairs are also provided for guests who require them.
