April 21, 2022

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Annual Retreat Dates Announced + Half-Day Sit in May!

Be here with me, in the Truth.

Practices to support your life View this email in your browser retreat*retreat*retreat   I am so excited to be able to announce my Annual Retreat dates for 2022 - November 10-13! I can't share all the awesome details yet, but be sure to block these dates for this year's wellness-based retreat. Trust that it will most definitely include: yoga, deep relaxation, meditation, organic farm-to-table meals, beautiful and serene space to rest and wander, fire pits, and collective community. Stay tuned for upcoming info on Early Bird Registration coming soon!! And, if you're curious to about why retreats are important - read my thoughts below from a previous message :) ALSO! I am holding my quarterly Half-Day Silent Meditation Retreat on May 7th - 9am-12:30pm - REGISTER HERE. The format is four 30-minute sits with 10-minute breaks between each, followed by time to get guidance from me on experiences from the sit. I cannot encourage you enough to consider joining me for this experience. This retreat is in-person and by donation -which will support the Voices of Children Foundation who are providing psychological and psychosocial support to children who are experiencing war in Ukraine. -------------------------- Why Retreat? Much of the work I do with clients and students is about being IN our lives with greater ease, with a deeper sense of alignment and wellbeing. This is something that, fortunately, requires we look at the conditions of our lives as well as the unconscious and habituated conditioning that we carry with us into those conditions. What this means in that we can (and must) do this work right here and right now with what we've got. Nothing needs to be different than it is. It is a practice of learning to be IN the very lives we live - not by escaping them. More on that here... So, if that's the case, why go on retreat? Is there value to be found in "exiting" our lives for a few hours, a few days, even a few weeks? To that I say, whole-heartedly, YES! But this is a YES with the very clear purpose of what to get out of the experience and, equally important, how to bring that back into your life. During retreat, we have the opportunity to deeply rest our body's systems, to return to a more neutral and easeful internal experience, and to connect with a deeper, more intuitive sense of self. We get the chance to drop back from the material we are in reactivity to so that we can see, with more space and clarity, how to be in relation to it, instead. When we begin to know that self more (and know that it's not a by-product of the retreat but that the retreat helps to reveal what's ALREADY THERE), we can begin to learn what creates the disruption from that state - from both an internal and external perspective. We can begin to see what needs to change - both inside ourselves and within our external lives (to the degree that it can!).  Retreats are wonderful. But they are powerful only when we use them as an opportunity to grow and transform our relationship to lives as we re-enter them. Because life, and all of what it requires of us, will always be here when we return (thankfully!).     , Ellie   ------------------------- MONTHLY MEDITATIONS *IN-PERSON* First Saturday of Each Month by donation* *April donation update: $350 to Voices of Children Foundation who are providing psychological and psychosocial support to children who are experiencing war in Ukraine   Dates for 2022: May 7 9:00am-12:30pm (Half Day Silent Retreat) - REGISTER HERE June 4 9:00-10:15am - REGISTER HERE NO SIT IN JULY August 6 9:00-10:15am September 10 9:00am-12:30pm (Half Day Silent Retreat) October 1 9:00-10:15am November 5 9:00-10:15am December 3 9:00am-12:30pm (Half Day Silent Retreat)       Share Share Forward Copyright © 2019, Ellie Burke, LLC, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list "Until we make the unconscious conscious it directs our life and we call it fate." {Carl Jung}

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