Engaging the Senses: A Soul-Affirming New Year’s Celebration

Listen to the Whispers of Your Soul

RETREAT BY INVITED PRESENTER

Welcome 2022 with mindfulness, introspection, fun, and imagination. This weekend will be an invitation to living with purpose and accessing the aliveness and miracle of this precious journey we call life! Together we will create an experience that is spacious, warm, engaging, creative, and inspirational.

“The program, the presenter, and the nurturing environment of the center, staff and beautiful grounds created a very peaceful and healing experience.”

~ previous program participant 

STAY SAFE DURING COVID-19: We are committed to your health and safety; class size is limited to 8 to facilitate social distancing and ample teacher attention. Please read our COVID-19 Precautions & Preparations to understand our additional strategies.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Join the festivities and the contemplation as we blend expressive arts and gentle movement with mindfulness practices. Ambitious souls can gather with the Dharmakaya Center staff and Executive Director to witness the midnight transition from 2021 to 2022.

The rest of the weekend will offer playful creative exercises, SoulCollage®, movement, and a delightful sound bath—activities that combine to create a beautiful integration experience inviting soulful rest and restoration.

Create a Scroll that honors your core values: Rather than review the past or project the future, we begin our weekend together by attuning to the present; it is our guide, teacher, and source of innate wisdom. To guide or process we will consider questions like: What do we hold most dear?  What makes our hearts sing?

SoulCollage: A daylong contemplative journey: Developed by Seena Frost, SoulCollage involves the use of collaged imagery on 5 x 8 cards to create a “deck” that captures a glimpse of the Divine spark that lives within all of us.

SoulCollage is a beautiful creative, sacred visioning tool for accessing your deep and authentic inner wisdom. It helps unlock emotional obstacles that keep you stuck, and offers accurate guidance for how to step into the most authentic expression of your vital core self.  It is a wonderful tool for activating inner-directed purpose and guidance.

• Guided Meditation
• Introduction to SoulCollage
• Tips for Creating Cards
• The Contemplative Practice of Sifting For Imagery
• Card Making
• Using The SoulCollage Writing Prompt: I Am the One Who
• Group Share

Group Meditation: Meditation offers a myriad of benefits for mind, body, and spirit. Practitioners often find it beneficial to meditate together in community, jointly increasing their depth of focus and comfort in their meditation practice. Join the Dharmakaya Center staff as you become more peaceful, feel more centered, experience a greater sense of wellbeing.

Sound Bath: Gifted Sound Healer Amy McTear creates an atmosphere that will enable you to drop into deep relaxation and soulful  restoration. Amy will bring her awesome assortment of sound tools and instruments for an evening of vibrational healing—a beautiful musical journey. Amy’s New Year’s Sound Baths are a long-standing tradition in the Hudson Valley.

Oracle Practice: Working in triads with a reader, a scribe and a witness, let your card speak its magic. What intentions or questions do you have for 2022?  We will focus on crafting the right question and on being spirited; additional imagery decks will be available for playful introspection.

Close the weekend renewed and refreshed as you enter 2022!

No art-making experience necessary; all materials will be provided.

“The process and the manifestation provided many lessons. I couldn’t believe how much creativity and contemplation was brought forward in such a short time.”

~ previous program participant 

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

• Group size limited to 12 to ensure personal access to the teacher
• There will be opportunities to be in community while enjoying silent creative exploration
• Group sharing and deepening will be woven into the weekend time together
• Guided meditations create the fertile ground to drop in
• Option to begin each morning with salutations and silent meditation
• Delicious all-vegetarian meals with locally sourced ingredients
• Extensive library of dharma books
• Expansive wooded grounds with beautiful flora and fauna
• Option to extend stay on Personal Retreat

OPEN TO ALL

There are no prerequisites for this program; it is appropriate for all.

SCHEDULE

(subject to change)

Friday, December 31

Saturday, January 1

Sunday, January 2