Workshops and Retreats
INDWELLING:
How the Body is Sacred
Rediscover the sacredness of your own body.
Learn how to breathe through your feelings.
Remember how to trust your experience inside your own body.
Learn how to release your judgments against yourself.
Remember how to soften and release tension and pain.
Ease anxiety and depression.
Allow breath to deepen bodily awareness.
Enjoy having moreß energy available to your choices.
Learn to sustain peace of mind and body.
Stay present.
RETREAT into SOLITUDE and
RENEW the FEELING of SPIRIT FLOWING through YOU
Activities: meditation, mindfulness, conscious breathing and movement,
self-reflection, discussion.
Date / Saturday, October 12, 2013
Time /
8:30 am – 4:00 pm
Location / Claret Center Hyde Park / 5536 S. Everett Ave., Chicago
Facilitator / Allan Schnarr, M.Div., PhD. (Questions: 773-564-9172)
Cost / $100.00 (limited scholarships)
Registration / Call Alma at 773.643.6259
INDWELLING FEEDBACK
- “Thank you for valuing our insights instead of telling us what we should learn or feel. It helps us practice finding answers within ourselves.”
- “Thank you for creating an environment where we could stop judging and hyper-analyzing ourselves, and “just be”. Where we didn’t have to worry that we were doing it wrong, and could instead give ourselves permission to go on our own personal, private journey.”
- “I also felt your sharing of your personal challenges courageous and powerful in that it give hope to me that I can release some of my suffering through the techniques you have taught today.”
- “The biggest realization that I came to today was that the body and spirit must work together equally to attain a creative peace through which all things can flow. It’s fine balance.”
- “I had a wonderful and enlightening experience. I get lost using my mind to the exclusion of listening to and respecting my body. The practical exercises you showed us are going to become a part of my life.”
- “I especially loved the “Breathing Fully” exercise. I cannot remember when I last felt so relaxed, peaceful, and safe. I really did feel like I was breathing like a baby. It was an incredible experience.”
- “The retreat has been worth every minute and dollar. It did confirm and strengthen my work with Qigong, and it also opened fresh insights of how energy work and Christian prayerfulness can converge.”
- “The Divine Breath practice and the call to attend to the pelvis and let it rock back and forth with the inhale and exhale worked wonderfully for me. The gentle rocking with the breath softened the pain I’ve been carrying in my upper back for 1 ½ years. So gentle. So effective. A real gift.”
- “The taking of the Divine Breath into fear was another revelation. Quite something to experience walking right into the “ooh-no-not-again-place” and having it go sheer, dissolve, fall apart. Many thanks.”
- "This is very helpful in continuing my journey. I can finish my undealt with issues and continue on my spiritual journey without conflicting with my religious beliefs. Your program gave me so many tools."
- "There were a couple of meditations, when I looked ahead in the Manual I thought I wouldn't get much out of, but these turned out to be the ones that were most revealing to me."
- "I benefited amazingly through the experience of staying with my feeling, especially when I want to flee."
- "Your examples of your own story and your guidance was essential and perfect. Thank you. You are a resource gold mine."
- "There is a treasure house of material here you have created for us, and it will take me time to absorb and integrate. Thank you for such a gift."