Transformative Workshops and Retreats
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” Albert Einstein
Our “rational” minds, operating contentedly in our own world, can easily cast away intuitive feelings which are not congruent with the worldview it lives in. Caged inside of the “servant” mind, the rational mind can shield us from our inner knowing. (This is how the ego gets a bad rap.) The necessary ego, the necessary rational mind, allows us easy navigation through this human constructed system called our reality. This is how we forget to listen to our deeper wisdom.
How do we step away from the faithful servant to see new perspectives, expand our worldview, to listen? The intuitive mind is the connection to the divine. The intuitive mind is a “sacred gift”.
How do we open it?
Transformational workshops and retreats are safe spaces to bear witness to collective healing. Experiences are designed to guide us below our all-knowing conscious selves into our deep being to discover what is holding us back. Sessions allow time for integration so that we may reflect on our insights gained and better know how we can take home our newly discovered gems of wisdom.
“Julia is clearly very knowledgeable about the purposes and facilitation processes for each of the activities we completed. She has a very gentle, calm, and spiritual manner. Her mirroring and reflection skills were awesome as she was able to ask questions to help us dig deeper into the meaning of our experiences. I felt safe, calm, nurtured, and loved throughout.”
Cecilia, Fredericksburg, VA
Tapping Into Our Intuition
The Natural World as our Life Coach
Nature is a brilliant Life Coach. In this workshop we will experience opportunities to listen to our inner knowing through the voice of the natural world.
Saturday, June 1st, 2024
10am to 2pm
In the Green Mountains of Ripton, Vermont
(Rain Date June 8th)
$100
“I participated in the October Transformative Women's Yurtshop. It helped me gain insight and an action plan on creating change in my life. I found some new tools for self-care and insight into the steps I am taking to create a more peaceful self and life.” T.S. in Ripton
Spring Women’s Moon Circle
April 8 and 23, May 7 and 23, 2024
6:00 - 7:30
Many spiritual traditions have integrated the power of the moon into their practices. Here at Trillium Healing Arts, we will follow the moon phases as we set our intentions, release that which is blocking our progress and honor our journeys.
New moon time is the time of setting intention and to go within for introspection. As the moon becomes full, shining light on our lives, we are given the opportunity to see that which does not serve us, clearly see our path, and celebrate our accomplishments.
Moon Circles are held outdoors around the fire circle and in the yurt if weather is inclement.
Participation in all circles is recommended in order to get the most out of the circle.
$100
FULL
Past Workshops
Transformative Retreat
March 21-24, 2024
Silver Spring, Maryland
Transformation is possible when we are able to change our perspective. Throughout this retreat you will have the opportunity to alter your sense of awareness so that you can see yourself in a different light. Here, you will dig deep to discover the hidden assumptions, relationship and patterns beneath your thoughts and concerns.
Together, we will explore new ways of seeing through a variety of experiences. Guided meditations, breathwork , and other provocative experiences will help you loosen the ego’s grip in order to journey in other ways. You will be guided through these experiences with focused intention and supported integration.
Intention Setting Yurtshop
A Workshop in Discovering the Heart
in order to Manifest our Dreams
3 Saturdays, January 13-27, 2024
10am-12pm
$150
Intention is a focus on a way of being in the ever-changing present moment which seeps into every aspect of our lives. Clear intention allows us to let go of what we think we want, be open to what may come, and to notice opportunities outside of the picture the unexamined ego paints.
We live in a face paced, success driven society which measures itself through progress, money and busyness. Because of this, we often get lost in accomplishing our goals and refocusing on the next goal when the exuberance of victory fades.
But, has all of this gotten us any closer to the feelings
of satisfaction our hearts yearn for?
Setting intention is not easy. It requires soul searching. It requires that we understand the ego’s motivations and habitual ways of thinking which shape how we see ourselves and respond to our world. Paraphrasing shaman Sandra Ingerman, “Are you looking at your life through the lens of an authority figure or society, or are you looking through your soul?”
We will experience shamanic journeying, guided meditations, and other forms of self discovery in this workshop to dip below the ego’s grasp and discover our intuitive selves. When we gain an understanding of how the rational mind may be short sighted or narrow minded we can set intentions true to our hearts.
Transformative Retreat
November 9 -12, 2023
Silver Spring, Maryland
Transformation is possible when we are able to change our perspective. Throughout this retreat you will have the opportunity to alter your sense of awareness so that you can see yourself in a different light. Here, you will dig deep to discover the hidden assumptions, relationship and patterns beneath your thoughts and concerns.
Together, we will explore new ways of seeing through a variety of experiences. Guided meditations, breathwork , and other provocative experiences will help you loosen the ego’s grip in order to journey in other ways. You will be guided through these experiences with focused intention and supported integration.
Transformative Women’s Workshop:
Deep healing through journeying within
Tuesday’s 7-9pm September 19 through October 24th, 2023
Middlebury, Vermont
This workshop is a safe space to bear witness to collective healing. Experiences are designed to guide us below our all-knowing conscious selves into our deep being to discover what is holding us back. Each session will allow time for integration so that we may reflect on our insights gained and better know how we can take home our newly discovered gems of wisdom.
New possibilities in how we perceive ourselves in relation to our world emerge from a place of not knowing. Kedar Brown describes a transformative opportunity as “standing in the threshold between who you have known yourself to be and who you are becoming”. Come, enter a sacred circle of women prepared to let go, not know, and transform so that you may step into who you are becoming.
Dream Workshop
Explore your dreams and discover the power of your subconscious mind as it uncovers your inner wisdom
October 6 through November 10, 2022
6:30-8:00 pm
At the Yurt at Trillium
Facilitated by Theresa Gleason, MSW
and
Julia Wolf, CTLC
Theresa Gleason is a licensed clinical social worker who has facilitated dream groups, and teaches dream work in her private practice. She has had the fortune to study with Matthew Fox, Rupert Sheldrake, Lauren Artress, Andrew Harvey, Stan Grof, Ray Moody, Mara Freeman, learning Projective Group Dream Work from Jeremy Taylor who has kept a dream journal for 25 years. Theresa finds that the more she explores, engages, and works with her dreams, the more they reveal both for individual and collective healing.
Julia Wolf is a Certified Transformative Life Coach and Energy Healer. Dreams have guided Julia on her transformative and healing path for decades. She began participating in Dream Circles 3 years ago and has found them to be a beautiful way to explore, not only her own inner wisdom, but the collective wisdom of the circle.
Remembering We Are Nature
Natural World As Our Life Coach Workshop
August 7, 2022
10:00 to 2:00
In the Green Mountains of Ripton Vermont
In this workshop we will learn how to center our selves into our hearts, a place of receptivity and a state of not knowing in order to receive messages from the nature hiding within us.