Happy Dance
Dance is a powerful medium through which, if we allow it, we can learn about living our lives. Through dance we can learn how to move through our lives with fearless autonomy, grace and spirit. In this workshop we will use meditation and movement as a means to get in touch with our deepest joy and bliss. Close your eyes and allow your body to flow with the music. No dance experience necessary.
About Ettel
Breathe Into Being Explore using your breath to lighten your mood, relax your mind and rejuvenate your body. In this workshop we will talk briefly about breathwork and then breath for an hour. Mary will introduce you to one of the most powerful tools in the toolbox; Simply Breathing. Join us in having a better relationship with the air we breathe.
Mary Ruttenberg is a Holistic Health Professional, Spiritual Life Coach, Conscious Breathing Coach, and educator with over 25 years experience. Mary is an accomplished Conscious Breathing Coach. Her studies have included Rebirthing, Grof, Pranic, Biofeedback,
Transformational Breathing, and Tantric Breathing. Her desire to know more has led her to teachers from the Far East to the American Tribes. Mary has been leading classes and seminars since 1987 on many subjects including Stress Management, Psycho Structural Bodywork, Conscious Breathwork and Woman Power.
As My Own Woman Workshop
Reverend Edie Weinstein
What is your personal manifesto? If you were to live as your own woman, how would that be? This workshop begins with exercises to reveal 'Where We Are'. After all, what other choice is there? Then with writing, music, meditation and movement we clarify our values and inquire 'Who Am I'. Gently we make the leap into considering 'Who Do I Want to Be?' Finishing with a love letter to You. Enjoy your senses awakening as touch, taste, sight and smell are incorporated into this workshop designed to help you write your manifesto, as Your Own Woman.
Edie Weinsteinis a work in progress. Her
creative, career and spiritual paths have led her to become a writer, speaker, interfaith minister, reiki master, clown, greeting card writer and social worker. She engages in life fully, inviting others to join her. As a guide, she holds a mirror up to those with whom she works, so that they may see their own beauty and discover their own answers. www.liveinjoy.org
An Evening with
the Shechinah Oracle:
Shechinah is the name of the Divine Feminine in the Jewish wisdom tradition. Rabbi Rayzel Raphael has researched and crafted a deck of Shechinah Oracle Cards based on the ancient teachings. Used similarly to a Tarot deck of divination, the images on the cards are a wonderful tool to unlock the inner world of the psyche. Through story, song and meditation, the legends of Shechinah, the Feminine Divine, will be revealed for your life. During this workshop, Rabbi Rayzel Raphael will help you understand these messages for the next step of your journey. This evening will pave the way to beautiful nighttime dreams.
(Rabbi) Rayzel Raphael teaches about s pi rituality, dreams, kabbalah and is a ceremonialist for weddings and other life
cycle ri tuals. She is a visionary artist and an award winning singer/ songwriter with five recordings to her credit. Her most recent creation is a deck of Shechinah Oracle cards res earched from Jewish text and tradition. For more information visit www.shechinah.com
Come On ~ Get Happy!
Are you living from your highest joy? Join us at the bucolic Elkins Estate for a weekend retreat where we will explore and uncover the delicious and delightful ways in which we can tap into our innate happiness. Empowering workshops, delicious food, singing,
spa treatments, dancing, chocolate, community and a good nights sleep.
Friday April 20th
2:00 - Check-In - Time for Spa ~ Meditation ~ Hike
6:00 - Dinner
7:30 - Happy Dance - Ettel Dobson
Saturday April 21
7:00 – Yoga
7:00 – 9:00 Breakfast
10:00 – 12:00 Breathe into Being - Mary Ruttenberg
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:30 – As My Own Women Workshop - Edie Weinstein
6:00 – Dinner
7:30 – An Evening with the Shechinah Oracle - Rayzel Raphael
Sunday April 22
7:00 – Yoga
7:00 – 9:00 Brunch
8:00 - 10:00 Happy Trails Meditative Walk - Amy Ragsdale
10:00 - Closing Circle
Massage:
Mary Ruttenberg
Stacey Cohen
Acupuncture:
Jin Shin Jytzu:
Hannelore Devlin
For more information on The Elkins Estate
please visit www.elkinsestate.org
Shared or Private Rooms
in a 1896
Guilded Age Man
Happy Trails ~ Meditative Walk
Drop sails & drift across a landscape that brings you home. In a small group we will silently move over bridges, through trees & along stonewalls, collecting symbols of forgiveness & our desires. Amy will lead the way as Nature reminds us that we already possess all that we wi
ll ever need. Amy Ragsdale For a girl who ran away from formal education screaming , I have spent a lifetime paying attention… and learning! What a time to b e alive! Opportunities to grow and heal are all around us. An insatiable longing to work towards sustained joy has lead me to amazing books, workshops and an abundant number of instructive relationships. www.amyragsdale.com
