Diving Deep and Surfacing:
a Women's Retreat on The Garden Island of Kauai
March 11 - 19, 2016
With
Leonie Wolff & Nancy MacLeod
and
Sandy Jennings, Master Chef
Link for retreat prices, more information and contact/registration at bottom of the page.
Experience the Five Pathways of Retreat.
Surrender The Details:
Leave your busy to-do list and day to day life behind. Allow us to tend the details.
Turn your phone off… Ours will be on, we will ‘listen’ for the people in your life. This is your time.
Be Present with the Still Point:
Learn or deepen a personal practice of meditation.
Explore breath, movement and stillness. Experience nourishing rest.
Be with Community:
Gather with others who will be on the same path.
We will offer each other presence and generous listening.
We will respect each others choice for silence or being alone.
Take that solitary walk you crave… We will watch for your return.
Nourish the 5 Senses:
See the light, color and exquisite beauty of Kauai.
Taste the delicious & loving nourishment of Sandy’s food.
Smell the intoxicating blend of garden and saltwater.
Listen to the sounds of the ocean and the laughter of your delightful companions.
Feel the warm caress of trade winds, sand on your bare feet and
the indescribable feeling of moving through warm saltwater.
Release and Remember:
Retreat will take you to a place where you will feel… Awake. What may arise is a bit of discomfort.
A shadow of grief or the awareness of a burden you are carrying.
You will be in the perfect place of safety and comfort to face and release it.
You will leave Kauai so much lighter.
Retreat will also take you to a place where you will feel… Inspired. You will remember.
You will notice a movement, a shifting relaxation that will open you to a deeper place of comfort.
You will notice a quiet yet persistent voice between the sound of the waves… Your own clear voice of wisdom.
You will leave Kauai remembering the beat of your own magnificent Heartbeat.
Diving Deep & Surfacing includes 2 private Integrative Life Coaching sessions with Leonie.
One prior and one after the retreat.
Our Kauai hOMe... Hale Luana
(It will be Humpback Whale season in March!!!)
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Burning Our Way Out. The soul hovers like a sun within... Burning it’s way out with out ever leaving center. We call this, the burning out... Passion. From where does our passion come? It is not taught. It is only allowed through. Or not. When resisted, it carves out the Heart daily. When allowed through, it rises and swells and almost drowns us with its heat. |
Yet somehow the steady tending of it’s release... Not stopping it and not drowning in it...
This steady, tender humility of holding our lips open to the rush of inner light,
letting the vibrancy of all feeling rush by our open mouths...
This is the rhythm of grace. This is the source of all song,
Despite gravity, against gravity in counter point to the weight of the world, a glowing heat that can be blocked but not contained emanates through all beings as love, thought, longing and peace. When letting this vibrancy through we open the common heart that lives beneath all human longing and
the fire at the core begins to rise.
This rising forth is what I live for. It is what keeps me alive. if I were a dancer, I would only try to scribe this endless rising against the sky, over and over, giving it away and away.
Oh the Heart like a whale, has no choice but to surface.
Or we die.
And having surfaced, we all must dive.
Or we die.
And more than books or flowers or thoughtful gifts that show I know you, the dearest thing I can give...
Is to surface with the sheen of my Spirit before you.
And so I look for the truest friendships...
Watching the deep for Spirits to surface...
All wet with Soul.
~Mark Nepo
This steady, tender humility of holding our lips open to the rush of inner light,
letting the vibrancy of all feeling rush by our open mouths...
This is the rhythm of grace. This is the source of all song,
Despite gravity, against gravity in counter point to the weight of the world, a glowing heat that can be blocked but not contained emanates through all beings as love, thought, longing and peace. When letting this vibrancy through we open the common heart that lives beneath all human longing and
the fire at the core begins to rise.
This rising forth is what I live for. It is what keeps me alive. if I were a dancer, I would only try to scribe this endless rising against the sky, over and over, giving it away and away.
Oh the Heart like a whale, has no choice but to surface.
Or we die.
And having surfaced, we all must dive.
Or we die.
And more than books or flowers or thoughtful gifts that show I know you, the dearest thing I can give...
Is to surface with the sheen of my Spirit before you.
And so I look for the truest friendships...
Watching the deep for Spirits to surface...
All wet with Soul.
~Mark Nepo