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Every moment we're creating the future.  Unleashing creative energy and consciously using it to fulfill dreams opens the way to happiness, contentment and joy.  In this experiential workshop, we'll use creative self-expression, writing and dance to unleash the creative flow and tap into your inn

If a critical number of women, and men, too, could come together to unfold the Sacred Feminine in all of her vast and extraordinary essence, what truths could be uncovered? What qualities of discernment, clarity, support, and love could be embodied?

 Self compassion is not only the act of making friends with ourselves but discovering, often to our surprise, the part of us that is larger, bolder, more confident and bravely willing to step out into the world.

This 4-day retreat with Henk Brandt and Carolyn Rivers will focus on working with Henk to develop the power of Mindfulness, bringing us closer to an intimate, more harmonious life, and with Carolyn to identify our Heart Callings, the unrealized potential or buried longing many

Enter the wild and peaceable kingdom of poetry to celebrate the animal spirit. A reading by Barbara G.S. Hagerty and Susan Laughter Meyers.

We may think of fiction and memoir as being opposites, but in fact there’s a surprisingly thin line between the two. The essence of both is story.

What does conscious evolution mean? How can we live it in our relationships and spiritual unfolding, and use it to discover our vocations of destiny? How do we follow the compass of joy: the Law of Attraction to What We Want to Give?

Join author, Debra Moffitt, for this interactive program to discover simple ways to invite peace and calm into everyday life. Debra presents exercises inspired by wisdom traditions from around the world that can be accessed anytime and anywhere.

The learning experience that led to this talk and Jean’s latest book, Like a Tree: How Trees, Women, and Tree People Can Save the Planet began when a huge beautiful tree in front of her house was cut down through a vote by a homeowner’s association.

Right now, Dr. Jean Houston is working in critical areas to inspire and train women to take their power. This is the open moment in history for women everywhere to use their gifts, ignite their courage, train themselves and each other to receive and act upon the destiny that is theirs.

How can we cut through the blocks and create an opening for transformation? A simple tool…Conscious Breathing! The breath is the great mover of energy. It is known as prana, chi or life-force. As energy beings we “breathe life” into our desires.

Within the structure of the 5Rhythms® Dance Meditation Practice, you'll discover the seven portals or doorways into the realms of the ecstatic dancer and poet.

Need a relationship toolbox? Revolutionary findings from the frontiers of Mindfulness training as well as breakthroughs in neuroscience offer radically new interpretations of how and why intimate relations succeed or fail, and what we can do to make a difference.

Writing, whether it’s poetry, journaling, fiction, essay, blogging or just jotting, is an invitation to venture and explore. And often, what the words churn up is surprisingly powerful.

Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of The Butterfly’s Daughter and twelve other novels and books, and Debra Moffitt, author of Awake in the World: 108 Practices to Live a Divinely Inspired Life, screenplays and internationally published short stories, will present an interactive workshop on Friday evening with a conversation around the writing process and ways to create passionate characters using place, direct experience and images in storyboards.  Following the introduction, writers will have an opportunity to create their own visual storyboard as a way to spur the creative imagination, find the passions and yearnings of their characters and have insights into aspects of them that may surprise and delight.

On Saturday, Debra Moffitt will lead a workshop exploring character through the journey and how the journey helps to build a coherent structure for story in fiction and non-fiction.  Writing practices will include guided visualization, collage, work with the storyboard and more. 

A special Member's Event to join Henk Brandt and Carolyn Rivers as they share stories from their recent journey to Instanbul, Ephesus, and Cappadocia.

In order to live a life of compassion, connection and health, a life of personal and professional success, the first prerequisite is that we learn to listen.

The documentary Miss Representation, by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and aired on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. The film explores how the media’s misrepresentations of women have led to the underrepresentation of women in positions of power and influence.

Please join us for an inside look at Tony, Emmy and Oscar-winning actress Ellen Burstyn's creative genius, as she reflects on her personal quest for illumination and wisdom.

“Writing can be another way to light incense at the altar.” - Natalie Goldberg

A Ritual That Will Change Your Life.  This is an invitation to step into the fullness of who you really are! 

This retreat is based on Mark’s New York Times #1 bestseller The Book of Awakening, which Oprah Winfrey chose as one of her “Ultimate Favorite