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I’m still pondering the questions of “What is the Christine Center, really?” and “What role does it play in the lives of the people who come here?”
Previously, I noted how we serve as a sanctuary, a place of spiritual restoration in a world that too often assaults our sense of inner peace. We are, however, much more than that. My dad, a pastor, sometimes said with a sigh that some members of his congregation were “Too heavenly for any earthly good.” The Christine Center is not that.
May no fate willfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better. (
–Robert Frost “Birches”)
Ultimately, our goal is global transformation, and that requires a more active role in addition to those of sanctuary and restoration. “Earth’s the right place for love,” and this is where we best cultivate and share it.
So, are we a clearing in the woods offering rest or a beacon of light showing the way?
Yes
, we are.
Stay tuned….
Russell King, Executive Director
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February Program Higlights
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Yoga Nidra 24
February 6-7 (Tuesday-Wednesday)
with Patricia Wack
Enjoy 24 hours of restoration and rejuvenation through the easiest yoga practice of all – simple, deep, natural rest! The Christine Center welcomes you to a monthly day designated for health, well-being, and ease.
This program includes time for physical movement in the form of gentle exercise; simple yoga with chair assistance and Qigong; information and discussion and three sessions of Yoga Nidra of varying styles, including Himalayan technique as taught at the Christine Center by Roberta Hodges.
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Compassionate Presence to Mind and Body
February 16-18 (Friday-Sunday)
With Susan Mickel, MD, PhD and Pam Eyden
Compassionate presence to our experience of ourselves and the world around us is the heart of the practices of yoga and meditation. This weekend offers instructions on yoga postures, and mindfulness and loving kindness meditations, emphasizing the cultivation of openness and kindness in all that we do. By opening our hearts to all experience, we open to who we most deeply are, our innate goodness and wisdom.
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MEDITATION: A Journey Within
February 19-22 (Monday–Thursday)
Monday evening 7:00 pm – Thursday noon lunch
with
Henrita Frost, SSND and Johanna Seubert, FSPA
Tuition: Sliding scale $100-$150, plus meals and lodging
Taste the nourishment of silence, meditation and community as we rest in the stillness and winter beauty of the Christine Center. A meditation retreat is an opportunity to explore, with guidance, the possibility of greater calm, insight, and awareness. We can learn to defuse stress, broaden our perspective, and deepen our ability to face the challenges of each day. We will enjoy periods of Insight Meditation, Loving Kindness Meditation, group guidance, and solitude. Our hope is that our time together will lead to greater clarity, connection and compassion.
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Take Advantage of Early Bird Discounts available on these upcoming programs...
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Writing to Wake the Soul: When Memory and Imagination Meet
March 21-25 (Wednesday-Sunday)
with author Karen Hering
Tuition: $220 before February 21; $270 after, plus meals and lodging
Discover the creative energy and hope that rise when memory and imagination meet in your writing. Whether we write for our own eyes only or for other readers (and whether our words are fiction, memoir, poetry or otherwise), writing invites us to unwrap the gifts of both memory and imagination, seeing not only what has been and is now, but also the extraordinary possibilities of what might still come to pass with our creative engagement.
Karen Hering, author of
Writing to Wake the Soul: Opening the Sacred Conversation Within,
will lead this writing retreat for both experienced and emerging writers. The retreat includes: personal time for your own writing projects; optional daily guided writing sessions on the theme of memory and imagination; gentle qigong or tai ji to listen to your body; and daily circles and community meals for creative exchange with writing friends, new and old.
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Journeys Into The Heart: A Christine Center Retreat with Robert Sardello
April 19-23, 2018 (Thursday – Monday)
with
S. Gabriele Uhlein, OSF, PhD and Robert Sardello
Tuition: $300 early bird rate until March 19th, then $350, plus meals and lodging
Hosted by S. Gabriele Uhlein, join Robert Sardello for a 4-day journey into the heart. Entering, discover cognition awakening in entirely new ways under inner heart guidance. In a troubled era, can heart-presence become daily presence? Drawing on heart-practice from multiple spiritual traditions and grounded in the liminal life-work of Robert Sardello, this retreat invites us to conscious heart-mind and to comprehend the true spiritual gift of the time in which we live.
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Hope and Sacred Activism
May 24 – 27 (Thursday-Sunday)
With Andrew Harvey
Tuition: $250 Before April 30; $300 After April 30, plus meals and lodging
These chaotic and challenging times are challenging all of us to put love and wisdom into clear, wise action urgently.
Andrew Harvey will present his vision of Sacred Activism, the Holy and transforming force that is born when the profound peace, passion, and stamina of deep spirituality is combined with radical action.
He will present by drawing on his books; The Hope – a guide to Sacred Activism, Savage Grace the five Sacred Passions, and the nine Laws of Sacred Activism, along with the fundamental practices that can ground you in Divine peace, joy, strength and give you the energy to persist and thrive even in difficult circumstances.
Guidance will also be given into inner and outer shadow work that is essential for the success of Sacred Action.
You will leave this retreat with renewed hope, purpose and meaning and have simple essential tools in which to confront with Grace the challenges our contemporary crisis inevitably poses.
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The Christine Center W8303 Mann Road Willard, WI 54493
Thank you for your support!
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