Esalen® Massage Professional Training – Session One
With Peggy Horan and Dean Marson
September 26 - October 3, 2023
This retreat (offered as two immersive 8-day modules) is a guided, transformational journey via Esalen Massage, a renowned presence-based approach to touch developed over the last 60 years in Big Sur, CA. Whether you are a seasoned practitioner or a newer bodyworker, in this workshop you will be given tools to expand your capacity for skillful and heartfelt touch by exploring the interface of technique, improvisation, and intuition.
Rewilding Retreat: Recovering the Wisdom Within the Wild
With Mary DeJong
September 30, 2023
You are warmly invited to this in-person day retreat that will companion your connection to a wonder-filled and wild world. Grounded in spiritual ecology and eco-theology, Rewilding Retreats offer a sacred space for reconnecting to a sacramental and animist worldview; guided practices that recover ways of "reading" the land as sacred scripture; and re-membering ourselves to the wider community of creation. We will be deepening into the wisdom that is inherently within the season of Autumn and how we can engage the numinosity that is imbedded throughout the wheel of the year and the calendar of the Earth. Come join…
Generating Transformative Change 2023/24 – Retreat 1
October 18 - 22, 2023
Over the past 19 years, through over twenty-nine programs delivered on three continents, GTC has developed into one of the most powerful, awakening, and mature learning journeys available today. The 9 month program includes 4 retreats, intersession work, individual and group prototypes and individual coaching. GTC graduates are extraordinary professionals of all ages, from diverse backgrounds and from many parts of the world. This is a Cohort program and reserved for participants enrolled in the 9 month program.
Thriving Communities Gathering – From Blight To Bloom
October 26 - 28, 2023
Please join us in our 10th Gathering of Thriving Communities at the Whidbey Institute from the afternoon of October 26 through the afternoon of October 28 to embark on an exploration of agriculture and community impact through regenerative and indigenous farming techniques aimed at creating health, community, and sustainability.
The Warrior Monk Retreat
With Dan McKee
November 1 - 5, 2023
Whidbey Institute
A powerful experiential retreat designed to bring about greater depth and integration of our spiritual, emotional, and psychological development. Practiced for over 25 years and more than 100 times internationally, Warrior Monk staff and participants create a transformative environment, blending experiential work with a restorative and mindful deep immersion retreat space.
Restoration & Renewal Retreat
November 30 - December 3, 2023
You are invited for restorative and personal time in nature at the beautiful Whidbey Institute. Retreats include delicious, and nourishing meals served with care by our kitchen staff. Arrive and simply sink into the land.
Discovering the Open Heart
With Caverly Morgan and Dr. Kristin Neff
December 14 - 17, 2023
When we open our hearts to ourselves, our lives are transformed. We have greater peace and more capacity to cope with emotional challenges. We become happier and more satisfied with our lives. But it’s sometimes hard to open our hearts. We don’t know how, or we don’t think we deserve it. Join Caverly Morgan with special guest Dr. Kristin Neff for an experiential workshop that will examine these issues.