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Gratitude Retreat
To register for this retreat, please contact Katia Sol directly at katia7sol@gmail.com.
It's that time of the year time to give thanks for all of the abundance and gifts that have been harvested in 2014. And what better way to celebrate Thanksgiving than spending a whole weekend focusing on gratitude while surrounded by natural beauty and soaking in the healing pools of Avalon Springs!
Led by Katia Sol, this weekend retreat will immerse you in the uplifting and transformative practice of gratitude. You will be guided in developing a daily gratitude practice, through time in circle, alone, and on the land. We will reflect on what we are grateful for from 2014, in preparation for the coming Solstice and New Year. The retreat also includes a daily gratitude-themed yoga class, a hike in the beautiful Mayacama Mountains, delicious meals prepared by the onsite therapeutic chef, and plenty of time for reflection and soaking in Avalon's healing mineral hot pools.
The healing waters are the heart of the Avalon Springs experience. The mineral hot springs of Avalon have been honored for centuries for promoting harmony and wellness. Relax and unwind in the Magnesium-rich Medicine Spring Water. Experience the skin-softening effects of the Boron-rich Mother Spring. Melt away tensions while feeling the strengthening effects of the Iron-rich Dragon Spring. And stay hydrated with your choice of seven different mineral drinking springs, flowing fresh and clean straight from the earth.
You will return home from this retreat rejuvenated and with the foundation needed to continue a daily gratitude practice that can transform your life. For,
"The moment you shift from a mindstate of negativity or judgment to one of appreciation, there are immediate effects at many levels of your being: Brain function becomes more balanced, harmonized, and supple; your heart begins to pump in a much more coherent and harmonious rhythm; and biochemical changes trigger a host of healthful responses throughout your body. Especially in difficult times, remembering to return to gratitude is a radical life-affirming act that builds your capacity for resilience." (M. & J. Levy)
For more on the Transformative Power of Gratitude, view Katia's TEDx talk on this topic at: http://tinyurl.com/KSgratitude
YOUR TEACHER/GUIDE KATIA SOL
katia-sol Katia Sol is passionate about helping individuals cultivate the personal shifts that in turn enable them to transform their lives, their communities, and the world.
Katia has spent the last 18 years facilitating educational, international development, and leadership programs in more than 30 countries and with several First Nations around the world. Her most current work in this area includes being a co-facilitator for the Ecology of Leadership program at the Regenerative Design Insitute and a design partner for Emergent Performance Consulting, while working on the completion of her PhD. Katia's primary areas of expertise include transformative learning, group facilitation, Indigenous wisdom practices, experiential education, leadership development, and global change. Gratitude has transformed her life, and she loves to share it with others!
Visit her website at www.katiasol.com
YOGA: SALINA ESPINOSA-SETCHKO
Salina Yoga
Salina's passion for teaching was birthed in the public school system as a middle school classroom teacher. Here she integrated her lifetime activism with her creative style of teaching to empower youth. After four years of teaching, Salina attuned to the lack of balance and nourishment in her overstressed life and found yoga as a pathway to health. Transformed by the practice and by the new experience of freedom in her body, she began offering yoga after school and before school to students.
In the Spring of 2013, she joined the Mindful Life Project in Richmond, where she offers yoga and mindfulness to youth in the classroom as a tool of transformation and leadership. In addition, Salina belongs to a cohort of young people of color trained by Joanna Macy, a eco-philosophist and root teacher of the Work That Reconnects. In this cohort as a Keeper of The Work That Reconnects, she offers the work in marginalized communities and communities of color.
"Yoga is a vehicle to travel to the inner worlds of our own body. How we move on the mat is a powerful mirror for us to watch how we move through our communities. It is an invitation to feel our life, our body and to join the collective earth body. Yoga gives us the capacity, the space, the room in our bodies to hold this wondrous, challenging, beautiful human experience."
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LocationAvalon Springs
13333 Big Canyon Rd
Middletown, CA 95461
United States
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