The Gift of Allowing: Surrendering to Our Deeper Wisdom
Friday - Sunday
October 5 - 7
Friday at 3:00 until Sunday at 3:00
Optional yoga at 1:30 with early check-in at 1:00.
Sleep on-site (dorm style) or at home, or book the quaintly restored Abita Hotel next door
Fall Retreat for Women
Allowing isn’t a passive endorsement of unacceptable social and interpersonal dynamics. It’s a practice of being fully in the moment with engaged attention to what it is. Allowing brings us into direct relationship with the flow or blockage of our life force. By bringing awareness to this reality, by not resisting it, we actually gain access to greater reserves of energy.
Join us for an experiential workshop retreat in which we take a deeper dive into the practice of allowing. As we allow what IS, accepting life on life’s terms can be a transformative process of discovery. It can also be quite challenging, as no one rushes to the chance to feel pain, disappointment, fear or loss.
We sometimes even resist positive qualities of our personalities that don’t go with our self-image. Resisting the flow of love, wealth or higher purpose can create an emotional backlog and spiritual stagnation.
There are many reasons for not allowing that may make sense, but ultimately hinder growth. To list a few:
October 5 - 7
Friday at 3:00 until Sunday at 3:00
Optional yoga at 1:30 with early check-in at 1:00.
Sleep on-site (dorm style) or at home, or book the quaintly restored Abita Hotel next door
Fall Retreat for Women
Allowing isn’t a passive endorsement of unacceptable social and interpersonal dynamics. It’s a practice of being fully in the moment with engaged attention to what it is. Allowing brings us into direct relationship with the flow or blockage of our life force. By bringing awareness to this reality, by not resisting it, we actually gain access to greater reserves of energy.
Join us for an experiential workshop retreat in which we take a deeper dive into the practice of allowing. As we allow what IS, accepting life on life’s terms can be a transformative process of discovery. It can also be quite challenging, as no one rushes to the chance to feel pain, disappointment, fear or loss.
We sometimes even resist positive qualities of our personalities that don’t go with our self-image. Resisting the flow of love, wealth or higher purpose can create an emotional backlog and spiritual stagnation.
There are many reasons for not allowing that may make sense, but ultimately hinder growth. To list a few:
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In a welcoming and supportive group, you will identify some stuck places and practice allowing what is. Our approach includes a range of modalities, including inner sensing, mindfulness, art, breathwork, journaling, movement and co-counseling. As you open further to allowing what is, something that you aren’t directing can emerge by itself. The energy moves, a flow occurs, something new arises…
From Diamond Heart Book I: “The only thing you can do is to be open and allow things just to happen, to allow the butterfly to emerge inside you out of the larva and be a different being. You might be amazed, saying, ‘Oh, all this time I thought I had to crawl faster. I didn’t know it was possible to fly.’ It will never occur to the larva that it can fly.”
Patricia and Catherine draw on their own expertise in facilitating sacred space and on the wisdom of their beloved teachers such as Pema Chodron, Thich Nhat Hanh, Tara Brach.
From Diamond Heart Book I: “The only thing you can do is to be open and allow things just to happen, to allow the butterfly to emerge inside you out of the larva and be a different being. You might be amazed, saying, ‘Oh, all this time I thought I had to crawl faster. I didn’t know it was possible to fly.’ It will never occur to the larva that it can fly.”
Patricia and Catherine draw on their own expertise in facilitating sacred space and on the wisdom of their beloved teachers such as Pema Chodron, Thich Nhat Hanh, Tara Brach.
Facilitated by Catherine Williams, MA and Patricia Stout, LCSW
Catherine Williams, MA
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Patricia Stout, LCSW
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Limit 16 participants—register early to secure your place. Must have 8 paid registrants by Sept 30 to hold the retreat. Your commitment allows it to happen!
$180 for three days
$250 for three days and 2 overnights
(Both rates includes food, all supplies and retreat facilitation)
Financial arrangements are available for retreat. Contact Patricia at [email protected]
Additional optional services; some limitations apply:
Reserve your spot with a deposit of at least $60 today.
$180 for three days
$250 for three days and 2 overnights
(Both rates includes food, all supplies and retreat facilitation)
Financial arrangements are available for retreat. Contact Patricia at [email protected]
Additional optional services; some limitations apply:
- Reiki $30 for 30 min with Elizabeth Jackson, as schedule allows
- Yoga Friday at 1:30 for $10
Reserve your spot with a deposit of at least $60 today.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER ONLINE
You'll also have the option to pay deposit online with credit card or Paypal.
To pay by check, make payable to Women's Center for Healing and mail to:
You'll also have the option to pay deposit online with credit card or Paypal.
To pay by check, make payable to Women's Center for Healing and mail to:
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Women's Center for Healing & Transformation
71667 Leveson Street Abita Springs, LA 70420 |
Catherine Williams, MA is a SoulCollage® Facilitator, Drama Therapist and Certified Teacher of the Enneagram of Personality. For over 25 years she has led workshops integrating the visual arts, movement and drama. Her love is to support creative self-expression and the revelation of one’s precious wholeness: the one and the many that we are. Visit Catherine's website: Revelationaryarts.com
Patricia Stout, LCSW-BACS is a holistic social worker and clinical supervisor dedicated to wellness, emotional intelligence and consciousness-raising towards a cultural paradigm shift. She offers individual and group holistic psychotherapy for women, along with workshops, meditation classes, and retreats. Certified through Eupsychia Institute for Well-Being with Jacquelyn Small in Psycho-Spiritual Integration and Integrative Breathwork, Patricia facilitates the Breathwork experience, since 1991, to address a range of issues from compulsive behaviors to environmental concerns. It is her dream to create loving community and to deepen women's spiritual and personal growth for the greater good.
Patricia Stout, LCSW-BACS is a holistic social worker and clinical supervisor dedicated to wellness, emotional intelligence and consciousness-raising towards a cultural paradigm shift. She offers individual and group holistic psychotherapy for women, along with workshops, meditation classes, and retreats. Certified through Eupsychia Institute for Well-Being with Jacquelyn Small in Psycho-Spiritual Integration and Integrative Breathwork, Patricia facilitates the Breathwork experience, since 1991, to address a range of issues from compulsive behaviors to environmental concerns. It is her dream to create loving community and to deepen women's spiritual and personal growth for the greater good.
