Dancing at the Edge and Finding Joy
October 28 - November 04, 2023
Maria Cook and Johanna Munson
Contact:
johanna@johannamunson.com
About the Retreat
Together we will enjoy incredible natural beauty, gorgeous accommodations, and a perfect balance of activities and time to integrate so that you will emerge deeply restored, renewed, and ready to live into your dreams.
Our time together will include the creation of an ancestor altar, a temazcal, and other practices that will touch your spirit and teach you skills to handle the unexpected twists and turns of life.
We will address your unmet longings for your soul and explore your purpose and destiny through activities, reflection, and sharing so that you can return home ready to get to the Yes!
Join with us to use creative activities to enhance your intuition and sense of inner knowing. You will be able to trust your decisions, tap into sources of support, and have an expanded sense of what is possible in your life.
Our goal is for you to connect to your highest self as well as to a field of support by learning and practicing skills in this magical time and place, and to experience a confidence in yourself born from feeling connected.
You will have a chance to laugh, play, deepen, explore, and relish, returning filled up with new friendships and more insight about how to embrace life fully!
Schedule
7:30- optional meditation
8:30-9:30- breakfast
10.00-11:30- class
11:30- 1:30- free time
1:30-2:30- lunch
3:00-5:30- excursion or class
6:30-7:30- dinner
7:45-9:00- evening program
Day-by-Day schedule
Sat Oct 28:
Happy Hour, Welcome dinner, 7:45 gathering- open the circle and create sacred space and intentions
Sun Oct 29:
AM course: introduction to conscious listening with practice, honoring your inner voice, speaking your truth with grace
After lunch: creative exercise, Qi Gong movement
Evening: Song circle on the beach
Mon Oct 30:
AM course: introduction to ancestral work
After lunch: visit to town of Chacala, gather supplies for ofrende ancestral altar
Evening: work on altar creation
Tues Oct 31:
AM course: Indigenous medicine, the elements, cultivating a deeper connection to your intuition and a sense of the sacred
After lunch: Temezcal
Evening: Sharing Circle
Wed Nov 1:
AM course: Energy Medicine and joyful living, Qi gong movement
After lunch: creative exercise
Evening: river of life drawing exercise
Thurs Nov 2:
AM course: Thinking through life stages and graceful transitions
After lunch: outing to local cemeteries, connection to local ceremonies and activities around Day of the Dead
Evening: Free
Fri Nov 3:
AM course: Visit to affiliated school program
After lunch: Sharing Circle, qi gong movement
Evening: Dance Party
Sat Nov 4:
Closing circle, prepare for departure
Payment & Cancellation Policy
$1200 tuition; $1000 before June 15 with $500 deposit
Includes morning and afternoon classes and gatherings for workshops, ritual-making, heartfelt sharing, and creative endeavors; movement practice; outings to experience local culture and support non-profit organizations; and a temezcal ceremony.
About the Teachers
Maria Cook and Johanna Munson
Maria Cook is an adventure guide, medicine woman, energy worker, acupuncturist, and retreat leader. She has a busy acupuncture practice on Bainbridge Island in WA. She also leads retreats in Puget Sound and internationally, focusing on empowerment, adventure, and connection. Many of her retreats include wilderness adventure, often kayaking, and she also loves incorporating indigenous wisdom and partaking in ancient ceremonies and rituals. She is an advanced student of listening techniques and a very experienced facilitator. She practices qigong and energy medicine and has lots to teach about stress reduction techniques. She combines the sacred with a sense of fun. Participants at her retreats love her enthusiasm, authenticity, and playfulness. Her passion is assisting others in transforming old beliefs and patterns so that they can live more fully, become all that they are meant to be, and shine their light out into the world which so badly needs us. https://journeyforpurpose.com/
Johanna Munson is a deeply spiritual entrepreneur whose soul-centered leadership brings you peace of mind through End of Life planning. She knows from personal experience what a difference it makes when important conversations happen before a crisis occurs. As an End of Life Educator and Peace of Mind Guide she loves to lead workshops and engage with humans for transformation bringing joy and fulfillment to those she serves. Mediumship is her new passion and she brings about healing and connection through her contacts in the spirit world. Acting as a resource for others, she has completed certification as a Conversational Intelligence Coach, a Death Doula, and is a licensed Willow End of Life Educator. As a spiritual seeker she has explored many different religions and approaches to the age-old question of what it means to exist in a human body yet feel a soul calling. Her happy place is connecting others to their souls in a deep and transformative way. https://www.johannamunson.com/