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Re-Dreaming
The Second Half of Life
(adapted
from the work of Angeles Arrien and her book The Second Half of Life)
Note
to reader: Cross culturally 36 is the turning point of the Second
Half of Life!
This
eleven month journey offers women an opportunity to join together
in an exploration into what it means to be living in the Second Half
of Life in these changing times. We inquire into and transform outdated
ideas of what it means to be an elder in this culture, through themes
of changing identity, meeting new possibilities, sensuality and the
changing body, relationships as spiritual practice, legacy making,
creativity, integrity and authenticity, integrating life experience
and letting go.
We
show up and answer the call to be wise stewards and mentors. We
track our life’s journey and make meaning from the threads
we unravel and re-weave into living a more embodied and authentic
life.
Each
month offers an evening gathering to open one of the Eight Gates
of Initiation in The Second Half of Life. Embodied practices are
offered to integrate the body in all of our explorations and to
open the portals of perception to fresh ways of meeting what arrives
at this time of our lives.
A three
day optional retreat is offered in the autumn of each year to deepen
through dreamtime explorations, time in nature, silence and deep
listening. These retreats are in Paradise Found, a 6 ½ acre
sanctuary on the Sunshine Coast, where the eight gates are tangibly
created to integrate further through the magic and power of the
imagination.
Autumn
Retreat Dates: September 25 - 27, 2009
If you wish to sponsor a group in your area, contact Penny
to inquire. There are also opportunities for people to participate
from a distance, and the Alumni includes participants in both Canada
and the US. The retreat is open to all alumni from the previous
years.
Days
of Retreat in Paradise Found will also be offered throughout the
year to support and encourage a deeper play and exploration through
expressive arts, movement and inquiry. Participants in the Second
Half of Life will receive a reduced rate for these days. |
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Re-enchantment of the Body, Movement and Life
“It makes a wonderful difference whether we find in the body
an ally or an adversary.” Goethe
To
re-enchant is to re-word, re-spell, re-mean. re-write and re-right
the body, movement and life.
We
question cultural beliefs, the history of exercise and its origins,
the origins of life itself and what it means to be human, to have
and be a living organism on the planet earth. We explore the body
as a living activity, not something to be controlled, shaped, fixed
and objectified, but an intelligent and indigenously wise organism
with resources yet to be integrated.
We
move and are moved, breathe and are breathed, sound and uncover
new meaning through rich inquiries into embodied consciousness.
Yoga, Continuum Movement, Evolutionary Movement, Perceptual Inquiry
and deep listening offer fresh possibilities for movement, pleasure,
and integration in the body and life.
These
classes offer a synthesis of over 25 years of exploration into Fitness,
Yoga, Yoga Therapy, Continuum Movement, the rich inquiry work of
Susan Harper through Portals of Perception (and Hubert Godard),
Em’oceans and Sensations and Dreamtime, How Life Moves work
of Caryn McHose and Kevin Frank, as well as an ongoing apprenticeship
with the natural world, in the body and daily life.
What
is Continuum movement?
“Continuum
is at the same time a philosophical, scientific, artistic, musical,
poetic, and spiritual concept, a cosmology, and an advanced state
of consciousness. When applied to our affairs, continuum leads us
naturally to a saner and happier world. In other words, continuum
as an experience is a direct involvement in the harmony and congruence
of our inner and outer realities. It enables us to live the real
lives of our bodies.”
James Oschman, Energy Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performance.
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from the Inside Out
“You
have a brush. You have your color. Paint Paradise. Then go in….”
Kazantzakis
Paint
yourself into your body, life and dreams! Creating without judgment,
interpretation or the need for productivity is an opportunity to
free the creative spirit.
Through
gentle movement, breath and sound explorations we soothe the inner
critic and free the creative spirit to express through the slippery
sensation of paint on paper. We can paint ourselves into our dreams
and visions, and into the absent places within our body. We can
paint from our heart, our hips, our lips and our backs. Painting
from the Inside Out teaches us to trust the process, awakens insight
into our life’s journey and is a magical and transforming
experience of pleasure, play and possibility.
Some
things cannot be spoken or moved or even written, however given
paint and a brush they find themselves expressed onto paper through
color, shape, space and form. Paintings are not analyzed or critiqued
but rather given acceptance and a voice to encourage meaning making
and integration of our life’s journey. No experience in painting
is an asset, however it is a wonderful opportunity for those who
“know how to” paint to return to a place of not knowing.
Penny
offers classes, daylong workshops and retreats in Painting
from The Inside Out. |
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Sessions
Penny offers private sessions to support you in meeting what is
arriving in life, the body, and dreams at this time in your journey.
Deep listening, tending sensation in the body, embodied tracking,
perceptual inquiry, Yoga, Continuum Movement, the healing salves
of creative expression and dreams are all invited and drawn on to
encourage movement and adaptability to meet the unfolding moment.
Together we cultivate a field of presence that encourages mystery
in the moment to meet and integrate the unlived life.
Penny
also offers private sessions to explore concerns in movement, injury,
and habits that are no longer serving the flow of life. Through
perceptual inquiry and personalized meditation and movement practices
to support embodiment, the body is integrated as a wise teacher
and ally.
“One
of the great discoveries of presence is that we can have total trust
in the body.” Daniel Odier |
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