PRIVATE RETREATS

At Wild Peace Sanctuary, we host and facilitate private retreats for individuals, couples, families, and groups, to support healing and transformation through ways of relating to ourselves, each other, and the natural world through the lost art of natural reciprocity. 

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Through practices that increase our somatic awareness, and bring us into a greater sense of resonance and attunement with our authentic selves, we can gain insight into how we compromise our integrity, dignity, and wellbeing in the search for a sense of acceptance, safety, and belonging from people, places, and things that cannot meet those needs. We rediscover our ancestral birthright of knowing ourselves as a part of nature

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may ahve  unhealthy attachments to people, places, and things that we have may sacrificed

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Our work draws from many modalities that have begun to emerge in mainstream healing and education, including “wild nature within” practices like nature meditation and guided visualization; farming and animal-facilitated therapies; wilderness and forest experiences; nature-based art and somatic therapies.

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Within this week, we will examine how western, globalized corporate culture has over-developed our individual egos, minimizing our ability to connect with nature including other humans.  A strong component of this work will be to develop our ecological self and establish a mindfulness practice. Key concepts: self, arrested development, narcissism, consumerism, ecological self, mindfulness. (Jeanine)

Week 4. Recollective Ecopsychology. Ecopsychology is about remembering the deep interconnection between psyche and nature. Radical ecopsychology frames this as the recollective dimension or side of ecopsychology. What difference does this make? (Andy)​​​​​

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belonging, shame, grief, ritual, initiation, animism, kinship, ancestral life ways and inheritance, anti-oppression, peace making, good relationships, listening, decolonialism, effects of modernity on mental/emotional health, family, beauty, hungry ghosts, the destruction of empire and generative life lines and practices of remembering for our spirits so we do not drown in hopelessness or despair. Modern worldview, indigenous worldview. Colonial mind, kinship mind. Mind of separation, mind of communion. I intend through any platform I have available to me, to amplify voices and perspectives of indigenous people around the world. The wisdom we need to shift our consciousness and come out of this mess, comes from knowing how to be in right relationship, think like a circle, a web, and indigenous people know how to be like place, think like place, how to be in right relationship with a good long history of custodianship. I hope to hydrate our awareness with more perspectives from this way of thinking and being.

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​Because, for all the seeds they plant, they need to sing the right songs to the seeds and the earth, and then harvest the right materials to make the baskets, to collect the harvest. For most every practical aspect of daily and seasonal life, has a ceremonial aspect as well. To do everything in a traditional, prayerful, relational manner, takes time, offerings, songs, listening, patience. Knowing when to move, plant, to cut the trees. 

 

Earth is the Great Mother who gave birth to us, feeds and nurtures us throughout our lives, and welcomes us home at the end. Through pespectives and practices that bring us into greater resonance and attunement to the land, we can release unhealthy attachments to people, places, and things that we have may sacrificed our health, integrity, dignity, safety, or wellbeing in the search for that same sense of acceptance and belonging. We rediscover our ancestral birthright of knowing ourselves as a part of nature. 

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Everything is a circle. Life moves in cycles. We must go back to the rhythms of the earth. We need to act from an understanding of the interconnectedness of the earth. The planetary boundaries. All of Earth's systems affect each other. We need to think holistically. 

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When we are suffering loss and no-one seems to understand, the Earth, who suffers losses daily, will hear and hold you. When we start to listen for forces greater than ourselves we re-enter a sacred relationship of deep reciprocity with the flow of life that was our natural way as a child before we were educated to ignore our intuition, our curiosity, our wonder, and our sense of interconnectedness with all things. We develop an embodied spirituality that restores our full humanity by remembering our sacred relationship to the land.

 

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Our domestication/attachment to harmful people - Shiloh. Shanti imprinting. 

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At Wild Peace Sanctuary we host workshops, gatherings, and retreats focused on reconnecting with the living spirit of the land, and reclaiming our own inner wild spirit. Through earth-centered practices drawn from the fields of ecotherapy, sylvotherapy, nature-based ritual, we can deepen our sense of connection with life, with one another, and with our own wild soul. We belong to the Earth so true healing comes from remembering our place within the interconnected web of life. with life, with one another, and with our own soul