A Typical Day

We arise early to a brilliant sunrise over the sea and move along to our morning yoga session, which we finish with a quiet meditation.

We shower and dress for the day and help ourselves to a buffet breakfast of juices, grains, eggs - whatever we want seems to appear.

Then we meet as a group for two hours in the meeting room. We discuss issues that are important to us like our emotional state, our relations, our fears, and our joys. We learn new material so that these matters take on a new character. We begin to seem less stuck and are more able to take action and have compassion for ourselves and others. The whole gamut of emotions - sadness, anger, grief, joy, and gratitude - all seem to show up.

After a lunch together, we have several hours for rest, conversation, our creative projects, or communing with nature. We are taking care of ourselves in a very special way, a way that is not our habit.

After another learning session, we adjourn to the dining room for a lovely hot meal and the richness of developing friendships.

Then follows an evening session in which we review the learning of the day, meditate, sing, and bid each other a good rest. Off to be we go before 9 pm with the feeling that we are coming home to ourselves in an important way. Then to the sounds of the tides, we sleep.

We finish the retreat with mixed emotions. There is some sadness that it cannot go on forever, but even as we drive down the driveway from the house, there is the joy of hope and possibility and the challenge of keeping our new learning alive.

Each workshop consists of the Core Learning Program and a creative activity. The creative activity is led by a specialist in the particular activity. No prior knowledge or special skill in the creative field is necessary or required. Come as you are!