Women's Wisdom Retreat Offerings
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“When you wake up and you see that the Earth is not just the environment, that Earth is us, you touch the nature of interbeing. And at that moment you can have real communication with the Earth.
That is the highest form of prayer.”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
2025
Women’s Wisdom Retreat Series: Sacred Embodiment
Our bodies are a continuum of place; in the
same way that our ancient languages, myths,
symbols, and customs arose from the voices,
gestures, features, and cycles of their surrounding
environment, we are born of and phrased by
the elements and rhythms of the Earth. The
impulse to follow these movements is our enduring
necessity – physically, mentally, emotionally, and
spiritually – to coregulate with the ecology we are
a part of.
As the early Daoists stated, women possess a
heightened capacity to connect with and
draw on the vital energy of the natural world;
in fact, that which governs this life force – The
Dao, or “The Way” of the universe – is itself
equated with the feminine. To come into
coherence with this source, then, is to reclaim our
sacred embodiment; is to fully inhabit our range
of perception and the intuition, relationality,
interbeing, healing, and creative power that it holds.
You are invited to join us for a three-part retreat series on reorienting with and maintaining this resonance through somatic practices and the Daoist art of Qigong. As we explore movement alongside the myth and mysticism of women’s wisdom, you will rediscover embodiment as a sacred space of belonging.
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Resources and refreshments included, as well as a donation on your behalf to our local ​YWCA Crossroads Shelter.
If you are unable to attend live – either in-person or online – you will receive a link to the recording.
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Email Erin Holtz Braeckman at villageyogastudio@hotmail.com to register.
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IN-PERSON Offering ~ $120
(for 3 Saturdays, 2:00pm-4:00pm)
January 11
May 3
September 13
ONLINE Offering ~ $100
(for 3 Sundays, 2:00pm-4:00pm)
January 12
May 4
September 14
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