Workshop Schedule Summer and Fall 2010

Peace Within: Shamanism as a Spiritual approach to Healing

Cancelled

Participants may arrive after 3 PM on the 2nd and remain on the grounds until 3 PM on the 5th. All personal items must be removed from the guest rooms by noon on Sunday.

Workshop Description

This workshop draws from principles of peacemaking and healing highlighted in Myron Eshowsky’s highly acclaimed book Peace with Cancer:Shamanism as a Spiritual Approach to Healing. The workshop teaches what he has come to call the Halakha method, a nonviolent spiritual mediation approach to healing that utilizes shamanic traditions to address cancer and other chronic illnesses that mimic war in our bodies. Halakha, which literally means, “the way we walk”, teaches us to develop compassionate, non aggressive methods for healing and peacemaking.

Shamans traditionally are viewed as mediators between the ordinary world and the world of Spirit. Participants will experience a wide range of healing and inner peacemaking approaches within shamanism. Topics include,but not limited to: the anatomy of the soul—a model that explains the embodiment of trauma and how it manifests spiritually as illness, numerous healing methods for unburdening the soul of illness and alleviating symptoms, methods for creating peace within and with others, how persons with illness (emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual) can work towards self healing and wellness.

About Our Presenter

Myron Eshowsky, M.S. (Counseling) is an author, mediator, consultant, shamanic healer, and educator. He is a pioneer in the integration of shamanic methodology for the purpose of addressing modern problems. He has authored dozens of articles on these topics in a wide range of journals and authored the book, Peace with Cancer: Shamanism as a Spiritual Approach to Healing. For the last two decades he has studied extensively how cultures throughout the world view and address conflict. He has consulted and taught throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. His unique synthesis of spiritual healing modalities has proven to be effective for many of his clients. Listening deeply, he works with clients to get to the core concerns in order to facilitate deeper healing and personal development. Myron was the first known shamanic healer to be named to provide shamanic healing by a U.S. Health Insurance Plan.

www.myroneshowsky.com
www.peace-with-cancer.com

FEE $250 plus lodging and meals.

Pilgrimage: Following the Yearnings of your Heart

Cancelled

Participants may arrive after 3 PM on the 24th and remain on the grounds until 3 PM on the 26th. All personal items must be removed from the guest rooms by noon on Sunday.

Workshop Description

In the ancient practice of pilgrimage lies a fresh and lively quest: to pursue the hunger of our hearts and to find God in the “thin places,” where God seems especially close. That hunger takes many forms, from classic pilgrimage destinations like Lourdes to idiosyncratic quests like Western boots (which got me focused on pilgrimage). An honest quest stirs us to action and to reflection.

About Our Presenter

Tom Ehrich is the president of Morning Walk Media Inc., a web publisher of faith-oriented writings and provider of consulting to congregations seeking health and fresh life.

He is an Episcopal priest, who served congregations for 20 years. Before that, a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal.

Tom has been married for 33 years and is the father of three sons.

www.morningwalkmedia.com

FEE $270 plus lodging and meals.

Writing a Way Open (Contemplative Writing Retreat)

October 14 - 17

Participants may arrive after 3 PM on the 14th and remain on the grounds until 3 PM on the 17th. All personal items must be removed from the guest rooms by noon on Sunday.

Workshop Description

If you are a writer looking for a way to bring new life into your creative work or if you are simply interested in finding ways to integrate writing into your life as a practice, this retreat will give you some simple methods to do so. How might walking, breathing, reading, and silence invite your own new words? Writing in solitude and in community, we will draw on the insights of poets, monks, seekers, and other adventurers who can offer us fresh ways of engaging language and opening into a deeper presence.

What you can expect to take home from this retreat.
1. a renewed appreciation of words and reading.
2. Several new methods for writing creatively in solitude and in community.
3. A deeper understanding of the ways in which writing and contemplative practice can complement one another.
4. A deeper awareness of the way in which other writers and poets have understood their experience of words and Spirit.

Who should attend? ANYONE interested in words, creative process, and the life of the Spirit.

About Our Presenter

Peter Anderson

Peter Anderson earned an MDiv from Earlham School of Religion, a Quaker seminary in Indiana where he subsequentlly taught writing for several years. His latest book, First Church of the Higher Elevations: Mountains, Prayer, and Presence (Denver, Ghost Road Press, 2005), explores the confluence of geography and contemplative spirituality. He has also written twelve books for young readers exploring themes of human ecology, history, and the American West. From 2003-2008, he was the editor-publisher of Pilgrimage Magazine (www.pilgrimagepress.org). From 2006-2009, he was the poetry editor at The Mountain Gazette, a regional magazine distributed throughout the Rockies. Currently, he teaches writing at Adams State College in Alamosa, Colorado. He lives with his family on the western edge of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in south central Colorado.

pilgramage@fairpoint.net
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FEE $225 plus lodging and meals.

Travel Photography with Steve Larese

October 14 - 17

Participants may arrive after 3 PM on the 14th and remain on the grounds until 3 PM on the 17th. All personal items must be removed from the guest rooms by noon on Sunday.

Workshop Description

Learn tips and techniques for getting the most out of your travel shots. Portraits, environmental, food, architectural, landscape and other areas will be explored. From beginners to experienced travelers, Steve will demonstrate techniques he uses when photographing for his books and magazine articles. Even the simplest point-and-shoot camera can be used to take photos of your experiences that you’ll treasure.

Maximize and learn about your camera. Understand different types of travel shots. Overcome tricky photo situations. Learn to interact with your subjects and environment better.

About Our Presenter

Steve Larese

Steve Larese is a photographer, writer and editor specializing in the cultures and history of the American Southwest. In addition to his freelance work, Larese is also editor of Guestlife New Mexico and Guestlife El Paso, the region's premiere in-room hotel books, www.guestlife.com. Larese is also an accomplished architectural and cuisine photographer, working for such publications as SuCasa, Arts & Antiques, Old House, Organic Gardening and Chile Pepper magazines. The travel editor, photo editor and staff photographer at New Mexico Magazine for 10 years, Larese’s award-winning travel writing and photography appear in periodicals and books internationally, including National Geographic Traveler, National Geographic Adventure and Interval World magazines. His photography may also be seen in his latest books, The Santa Fe House: Historic Residences, Enchanting Adobes, and Romantic Revivals (with Margaret Moore Booker), published by Rizzoli Press, and Durango Perspectives, published by Schiffer Publishing. He is also the author and photographer of the award-winning Best Recipes from New Mexico's B&Bs, available at major book sellers. Please feel free to contact Steve at (505) 331-8358 or stevelarese@yahoo.com.

www.stevelarese.com

FEE $225 plus lodging and meals.

Listening to the Voice Within..
Passion and Purpose

October 28 - 31

Participants may arrive after 3 PM on the 28th and remain on the grounds until 3 PM on the 31st. All personal items must be removed from the guest rooms by noon on Sunday.

Workshop Description

This retreat is for those who are yearning for a sense of direction, a clarity about meaning and purpose in their lives, a rekindling of true passion for life and vocation. You may be in transition between jobs or relationships. Retirement questions, forced or voluntary, may be ahead. Whether you are seeking clarity to make a courageous life choice or a need to recapture joy in your life and work, Listening to the Voice Within provides an authentic retreat experience and discernment tools to help you rediscover your passion and purpose.

About Our Presenter

Bob G. Stice, LPCC, is a counselor, communicator, facilitator, observer of human behavior, and lover of creatures, great and small, human and otherwise. For the past 30 years he has maintained a comprehensive private practice in counseling and psychotherapy in addition to filling various clinical and administrative positions in behavioral healthcare. Along with an ongoing private practice, he keeps a busy schedule as a speaker and facilitator for workshops, retreats, and conferences. A Clinical Member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, Bob also serves as Clinical Consultant for the Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande, Director of Clinical Services for Casa Esperanza in Albuquerque, Clinical Director for Outcomes, Inc., in Albuquerque, and is on the faculty of the CREDO Institute, a national comprehensive wellness program for clergy. His academic background includes undergraduate and graduate degrees in theology, education, and counseling psychology.

FEE $295 plus lodging and meals.