Discover true nature through the relationship as a spiritual practice. Embracing Our Personal Relationships with Our Spiritual Nature.
This course starts with foundational concepts and practices based upon understanding the core 5 survival strategies that exist and manifest in our personalities and deeper layers of seeing and experiencing ourselves in the world.
The understandings of our patterns help us understand the primary and ancestral experiences that inform and influence the lens we perceive the world from and how we interact relate react or respond in relationship to self other and the world. We also learn what engenders compassion and evolution and what blocks it. As the course progresses, we work with more advanced practices and processes that help us bring more compassion and care towards ourselves and our partner into our everyday lives.
We want to learn how to be with each other in a way that will deepen and expand the relationship, give it the freedom, and the opportunity to develop its potential. Just as our soul can develop, our relationships can develop.
A relationship between two people is a kind of soul, a type of field of consciousness; it can either be blurred to its true nature or it can be transparent to it. Transparency and congruence of the individual and couple allows the luminosity of true will or true nature to manifest within the relationshipand through it.
Such transparency requires both people to be sincere in their interaction, caring about what happens in and to the field. A question we love to ask is How are we feeling about the quality of our connection? We recognize that, “In the same way that I care about my soul and how it is going to manifest, I care about the soul of my interaction with you. I have the opportunity here to discover and experience your truth, and mine, and to learn how we can both develop further through our relationship. The more I come to know you, the more I come to know myself. ”When we are by ourselves, we experience our authenticity differently than when we are with another. And our experience of being with someone varies depending on whom we are with.
We can be authentic and real in any situation, but what arises in us will differ depending on whether we are alone or interacting—and each interaction is unique.
Each Person, each relationship, each interaction, is special is unique with special gifts preferences, woundings, truths etc, Each interaction is an opportunity for life to manifest its possibilities.
SCHEDULING + CURRICULUM OVERVIEW:
FALL RETREAT: Early October
PREREQUISITE- Read the Five Personality Patterns by Steven Kessler
FIRST RETREAT DAY, Friday Evening 2 hrs 5-7 EST
ORIENTATION + LAUNCH + COMMITMENT TO GROWTH BLESSING
SECOND DAY RETRAT, Saturday - 5.5hr 10-12pm 2-4:30pm EST
5PP REVIEW + GROUNDING
Introduce and review the deeper framework in Steven Kessler’s 5 Personality Patterns - We will explore the nature of trauma, and the way intense feelings are directly rooted in our childhood and family constellations are the subconscious emotional material that is most intimately being worked with in relationships - doorway into intimacy.
A respect for the scope of these feelings, their origin, and how they manifest in the body, thoughts - and that they are a younger parts that need to be treated with love and care and compassion so they can reconsolidate and be embraced, felt, and integrated in new ways.
THIRD DAY RETREAT Sunday 2.5 HRS 10-12:30EST
LOVING PRESENCE + SOMATIC AWARENESS IN THE BODY - AN EXPERIENTIAL EXPLORATION
This day is to highlight the power of presence and really identify and examine and experience and clarify the nature/ feeling / results in one’s own direct experience of presence.
FOURTH DAY RETREAT Saturday, 5.5 hrs 10-12pm 2-4:30pm EST
DIVING INTO THE EMOTIONAL BODY -
SUBCONSCIOUS SOMA - CLARIFYING CORE WOUNDS IN OUR DIRECT SOMATIC EXPERIENCE + BRINGING PRESENCE AND INQUIRY
We have already identified our core pattern - now we are going to dive into the core underlying emotions - and getting somatically comfortable with titrating and gradually becoming conversant and then fluent with the felt sense and experience of them in the body, and meeting them… safe context and container to be able to inquire and deepen.
What are the core dances that have already been problematic in the relationship - and how do they relate to the core pattern? How can we better deconstruct these dances when they’re happening, create names for them, and instate knowledge and preventative measures to support them in dissipating.
FIFTH DAY RETREAT Saturday 5.5 hrs 10-12pm 2-4:30pm EST
PRESENT MOMENT CONTACTING IN RELATIONAL SPACE + MEETING CONFLICTS + NEEDS + FEELINGS
We inhabit our abilities to meet each other in hearing about what the other person’s core feeling is in the moment
We explore different ways we can healthily respond to core feelings:
Supportive options that open space and creativity to flow
Titrate conflict in conversations
Conscious somatic experiments that help to support eachother… learn how to keep checking in as things come up…keeping it fun curious and interesting.
Bottom lines, boundaries, and agreements
Carrying out agreements. bringing our partner on board to help and support carrying out the prescription of the agreement.
Making requests.
Apologies, Making repair - and formulate and request apologies.
SIXTH DAY RETREAT Friday night, 3HRS 10-1EST
PSYCHIC CONVERSATIONS, THE CONTINUED DIALOGUE
Awareness of the psychic conversations that are happening all the time - We will learn different ways to contact what me might THINK is happening or the STORY that we’re having…in order to open a deeper conversation.
SEVENTH DAY RETREAT Saturday, 2.5 HRS 10-12:30 EST
CLOSING INTEGRATION RITUAL & CELEBRATION
RETREAT TUITION: $555 to attend online via Zoom.
The retreat container is sacred and we ask you to honor it as such. You will find that giving yourself this special time and participating fully will be life changing.
To register for online participation, click below for details and the registration link on our new Events Page
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BONUS WINTER IN PESRSON RETREAT:
JOURNEY
Beginning of the 1st TRIP day - review, and do one breakout exercise…
2nd Day - Integration in the morning - then people hang out throughout the day… walks, hikes, lounge, connect with eachother…
Arrive in the evening, one night where we have an orientation, logistics: what the next day and a half look like…
Dinner or snacks? Dinner could be nice. Land in person.
Where people are right now since the last time we met online - get the shapes of what they are bringing into the ceremony, what they are intending for - what questions they might have… what their prayers are… have everyone witness eachother in that.
The following morning… we will have the ceremony - it will last 7 hours.
HOUSING OPTIONS:
$1222 per couple for the full retreat…
3 nights - 4 days.