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How might your life have been different if there had been a place for you to go -- a place of women, where you were taught such knowing, where you learned of the eternal cycles of life and death and rebirth without judgment, fear and condemnation?
How might your life have been different if you had been taught that a woman's truest self emerges like dawn from darkest night?
And what if you had been taught that the feminine soul is wild, willful, chaotic, earthy, sensual, sweet, emotional, passionate and compassionate?
As children and young adults, most of us learned just the opposite. Family and larger society deemed the willful, earthy, passionate, chaotic parts of soul inappropriate, bad and even “sinful”. And so we banished those parts of us to the shadows, not knowing we were cutting ourselves off from the truest, most life-giving parts of self; not knowing that the feminine cut off from its passionate source is in danger of becoming lost, turning us into the mad woman in the attic.
The August retreat is a call to reclaim lost parts of self from the shadows. Nestled in a nourishing and private retreat center in the lush foothills of the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania, we will create for ourselves a place of women where, through a variety of means including writing, mask making, myth and other interactive experiences, we will enter the Mystery to honor the depth of the feminine. This is a call to wholeness; a journey of renewal of spirit. Join us as we discover that our deepest fears hold our deepest treasures . " Where you stumble, there lies your treasure." ~Joseph Cambell |
