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A first step forward
My brother and I used to hike and paddle through the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. That moment when I’d left the car at the edge of civilization, hefted my pack onto my back, turned toward the wilderness, and taken that first step was both thrilling and frightening. It’s frightening, because you’re making an investment and betting on yourself, and because there is no time for hesitation, much less turning back. It’s thrilling because you’re feeling up to the challenge, you know the trail will call on you to be creative, strong and yielding, and because this beautiful journey will lead to a place you want to be. So it is, at this moment, here at the Christine Center.
We are days away from taking a major first step toward our goal of sustainability by purchasing 10 acres adjacent to the campus. The land once belonged to the Christine Center, offers a lovely mix of marsh, stream, and forest for new trails, and contains buildings that will be put to creative use. The purchase almost immediately provides us with five new sleeping spaces toward our goal of 20. Almost miraculously, the additional beds will be obtained at a small fraction of what it would cost to build new hermitages. Truly, there is something special about the Christine Center, as we continue our 38-year history of having needs met in unexpected ways.
Our sustainability plan calls for both the new sleeping spaces and the creation of online services that can produce operating revenue, and we are now making tangible progress toward those goals. Our recent survey showed us how important it is to offer more hermitages with private sleeping spaces and running water, so we’re working those changes into our sustainability efforts, as well. And, of course, we are still in the process of reimaging the original barn, and how that space may best serve your needs. Challenges await—primarily those of raising sufficient funds to make the needed changes—but, as always, we have faith.
We’re glad you’re hiking this trail with us. Let’s lace up the boots and see what we may find together.
Russell King, executive director
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Take some time to explore!
Yoga Nidra 24: A Day of Deep Relaxation
June 5 – 6 (Tuesday–Wednesday)
With Patricia Wack
Tuition: $95, plus meals and lodging
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. Each month, one of our featured instructors will offer a mid-week Yoga Nidra based program designed to help you experience quiet clarity and calm from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. Join us as we take a 24 hour “time out” from our busy lives to unwind one serene breath at a time. You may even choose to extend your stay and create your own customized personal retreat. Our woodland sanctuary awaits you!
This program includes time for physical movement in the form of gentle exercise; simple yoga w/ 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. This program requires the ability to get down and up from the floor with chair assistance or without. Please dress comfortably.
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Put your mind at ease...
The Heart of
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
June 8 – 10 (Friday-Sunday)
With Barbara Wulf
Tuition: $150, plus meals and lodging
Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment.
– Jon Kabat-Zinn
Based on the principals and practices of the 8-week MBSR Program started by Jon Kabat-Zinn in 1979, this workshop offers a “taste” of the program. Through the use of MBSR mind/body techniques one can feel more alive and joyful, and gain immediate access to powerful inner resources for improving health and healing.
The Heart
of
MBSR Includes:
- The Seven Foundational Attitudes in establishing mindfulness
- Guided instruction in mindfulness practices (Body Scan, Sitting with Breath, Loving Kindness Meditation, and Walking Meditation)
- Gentle mindful yoga
- Group dialogue
- Tools for practicing Mindfulness in daily life
There will also be time to rest the spirit and commune with nature in the peaceful setting of the Christine Center.
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Open your heart and embrace your gifts...
Venerable Women: Living LOVE
June 8-13 (Friday–Wednesday)
With Dawn Morningstar
Tuition:
Entire program, June 8-13: $475 (Early bird discount $375)
Part I – Relationship with self: $190 (Early bird discount $150)
Part II – Relationship with divine: $190 (Early bird discount $150)
Part III – Relationship with others: $190 (Early bird discount $150)
Deadline for the Early Bird Discount is May 8, 2018
Experience rejuvenation, grace, and ease and immerse yourself in love. No matter where you are on your journey, gently transform your life by focusing on your most important relationships: with yourself, with your Divine, and with others.
This is for you if:
- You want to stop feeling alone on your journey
- You want to be uplifted and inspired
- You are ready to make lasting change in your life and want to feel safe and supported
- You are a spiritual seeker, healer, leader, coach, minister, teacher, or other who serves— and want to nurture yourself
- You want to learn the twelve secrets (already inside you) to live an extraordinary life
- You want to connect with others on the path who choose to manifest a kind and loving world
Living LOVE
is the life-changing Venerable Women program that provides a space for personal self-discovery and the deepening of spiritual understanding. In addition to moonlight meditations and deep wisdom sharing, you will learn the twelve divinely inspired Venerable Attitudes (the 12 V-Attitudes).
Venerable Women
provides materials, best practices, and proven ways to grow.
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The Diamond Approach to Inner Work
And Ongoing International Program
June 14 – 17 (Thursday-Sunday)
With Carol and Neal Carbon
For more information and to register: Johanna Seubert at
j.seubert@tds.net
or 715.267.7507.
Program Description
The Diamond Approach is a path of spiritual realization characterized by sincere inquiry into one’s experience, fueled by the love of truth. The immediate contact with the truth of our experience allows the unfoldment of our Soul to reach increasingly deeper levels of truth. Our work includes meditations, teachings, movement, and experiential exercises. Carol and Neil Carbon are senior Diamond Approach teachers and lead groups around the country.
As a contemporary spiritual path the Diamond Approach offers
- a unique synthesis of psychological understanding and timeless spiritual wisdom.
- awareness of direct personal experience as a doorway for inner work, which can reveal intimate knowing of one’s deepest true nature.
- support for unfolding of one’s inner journey, and living in the world with freedom and maturity.
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Allow your creativity to flow!
World-Making with Our Bodies, Hearts and Radical Imaginations
June 20 – 24 (Wednesday-Sunday)
With Kate Karshna and Angela Coffee
Tuition sliding scale: $150 – $250, plus meals and lodging
How can we create space in our minds, lives, and bodies to open up to opulence, grace, and wisdom? How can we attune ourselves to desire in a way that sparks passion, clarity, and resilience? During this 5-day retreat, we will deeply rest, replenish, be curious, and play together around these questions. Incorporating the wisdom and practices of yoga, Ayurveda, and mindfulness, we will create a time of spacious and nourished inquiry to support the unique world-making we are each being called into. We will dance, make art, chant, and cultivate ceremonies that clarify and support the work of creation and manifestation. This retreat is open to anyone who wants to playfully move, celebrate, and create within a community of supportive and collaborative world-makers.
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Savor connections, both new and old...
A Christine Center Special Women's Event, Bring Your Mothers, Daughters, Aunts, or Friends!
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Or mail your gift to
The Christine Center W8303 Mann Road Willard, WI 54493
Thank you for your support!
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