Juniper Retreat
Plant Medicine and Earth Mysteries
a retreat for women ages 16-25
August 15-21, 2010
Cost: $925
Juniper, the well loved character in the Wise Child series written by Monica Furlong, lived a life full of mystery, magic and the healing arts. During this retreat, we will bring this way of life that is all but lost in today’s society, into the present and experience the power behind living life intuitively and with an expanded awareness of our relationship to the natural world.
We will explore the power within us and learn what it is to stand in our truth as women who help to maintain balance and the natural order of things.
Most ancient cultures lived a life that worked with the energies of the Earth and the Cosmos helping to bring about healing and to maintain a healthy way of being for their communities. During the Juniper Retreat, we will come together as a small community of women, both young and old, creating a vibrant day to day living that is sacred and in alignment with nature’s divine order providing us with a magical experience and deeper awareness of self.
The skills and activities below describe some of what the Juniper Retreat has to offer:
Plant Medicine:
An abundance of medicinal plants grow through out our landscape here at Hawk Circle. We will learn how to identify them, harvest them and prepare them for use in healing oils and salves as well as tinctures. We will also be harvesting plant material to dye wool and other fibers which we can use in the creation of our medicine bags.
As a community of women, we will work together to gather plants and herbs for our meals each day. Hearty soups, herbed breads and honey cakes will be our sustenance for the week.
The Lodge:
Each evening we will gather comfortably, in the teepee and while making our selves comfortable, tending a small fire, we will enter into sacred space where stories and teachings of the feminine will be shared. Singing, drumming and dancing will all be part of the lodge experience.
Ritual:
Our daily and weekly rhythm will be infused with ritual and ceremony helping to bring our group together in a magical experience and to further enhance our awareness of the sacredness of the natural world. From sharing a morning song to the ritual art of bread baking, we will experience the power of ritual woven into daily living.
Skills and Craft:
Intuition is a powerful skill that we all have but is often not fostered. Throughout the week we will learn different techniques to listen to our intuition enhancing our inner voice and inner vision. We will also learn techniques that help to maintain balance in our lives and in our communities. Along with theses skills we will work on crafts, infusing our power and spirit in to our work, creating medicine objects such as a woven or felted pouch, bone talisman, and rattle.
Water Ceremony:
We ask all participants to bring a bottle of water from their local stream, river, lake or ocean for a water ceremony. We will be combining our waters, shifting the frequencies creating a potent pool of water that all can draw from, take home with them returning the water to its source to support the healing of our life giving water ways.
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