Green Goddess Healing Retreat
With Melissa Mauro
July 7 - 9, 2023
RETREAT BY INVITED PRESENTER
Melissa’s wide range of healing experience—both allopathic and holistic—culminates in this unique Goddess Healing retreat, designed especially for women. Through nature, ritual, movement, and introspection, you will learn the art of surrender—and how to work with the flow of life, instead of against it.
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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
In this transformational weekend, we will harness a range of modalities—from Kundalini breath work to sitting and walking meditation and ritual ceremonies—to identify and release the blocks and patterns that keep you from living your full potential and experiencing unlimited freedom and joy
- Unlock your intuition and connect with helping guides
- Connect with earth energy on our sacred forest walk and goddess dance ceremony
- Release resistance/blocks into a purifying fire
- Appreciate the cleansing energy of water by sharing in a herbal tea ceremony
EVENT HIGHLIGHTS 
- Intimate setting with personal access to the teacher
- Interactive sessions with question and answer periods
- Shamatha meditations
- Delicious all-vegetarian meals with locally sourced ingredients
- Option to extend stay on Personal Retreat
- Extensive library of dharma books
- Expansive wooded grounds with beautiful paths, flora and fauna
OPEN TO ALL
There are no prerequisites for this program; it is appropriate for all who identify as she/her.
SCHEDULE
(subject to change)
Friday, July 7
| 3:00 PM | Check in begins |
| 6:00-7:00 PM | Dinner |
| 7:15-9:00 PM | Welcome and Introduction |
| Meditative shamanic journey; spirit animal discovery |
Saturday, July 8
| 7:00-8:00 AM | Morning Salutations and Meditation |
| 8:00-8:45 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM-11:00 AM | Sacred forest walk (guided walking meditation) |
| 11:15 AM – 12:00 PM | Free time |
| 12:00-1:00 PM | Lunch |
| 1:00 – 2:30 PM | Program: The art of intention and surrender |
| 2:45-3:30 PM | Kundalini breathwork for healing and awakening |
| 4:00-5:00 PM | Goddess Dance Ceremony |
| 6:00-7:00 PM | Dinner |
| 7:30-9:00 PM | Fire ceremony (chanting and offering intentions to the fire) |
| Group sharing |
Sunday, July 9
| 7:00-8:00 AM | Morning Salutations and Meditation |
| 8:00-9:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM-11:00 AM | Kundalini meditation and healing integration |
| 11:00 AM-11:30 AM | Closing and Q&A |
| 12:00-1:00 PM | Lunch |
| 1:00 PM | Checkout and Departure |
Teacher
Melissa Mauro continually searches for natural ways of healing beyond her years of training and work experience as an MD. Aside from serving as a hospitalist at Mayo Clinic and Essentia Health in Minnesota and running her private practice in New Jersey, she immerses herself in nature, among trees and plants, which she calls the muse of her creativity and fountain of youth. As an advocate for self-care, Melissa has experimented extensively with her own healing and helped countless others through meditation, herbalism, shamanic practices and additional therapies such as myofascial massage, acupuncture, and hypnotherapy. Inspired by her own journey,…
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