Brenda Morgan, Ph.D Meditation Teacher & Catalyst
SOMETHING IS HAPPENING DEEP IN THE SPIRITUAL STRUCTURES OF THE WORLD, slightly outside our conscious perception. It is magical and points to the beginnings of waking up and directly opening to what is beyond our everyday lives: the Living, spiritual structure that allows us to be here.
DURING THIS EXPANDED SPIRITUAL RETREAT, Brenda will be sharing through meditation, direct insight and dialogue on a group and individual basis. This is unlike any retreat she has offered in the past, as the focus will be more on enhancing spiritual unfoldment through heartfelt exploration. This will be a personal discovery process to help catalyze spiritual movement without denying real individuality.
TIME WILL BE SET ASIDE for self-reflection and understanding through group and individual activities. There will be gentle and compassionate attention to your body, mind, and emotional and spiritual awarenesses to ignite a deeper, peaceful and embodied presence for your spiritual unfoldment.
COME EXPLORE the awakening process of embodied existence that embraces both divine and human experience. The body-mind is an expression of the living spirit and is not trivial just because it is temporary. It is not something to “get rid of” or “get out of.” The interplay between the divine field and your body-mind is the key to embodied existence. Your life matters not just because you exist, but because your presence and your personal life expression is the Living Spirit incarnate. This is the true purpose of existence.
Mid Day Breaks + Lunch Provided + Saturday Dinner
Delicious, nourishing meals & snacks will be served during your retreat. Our menu is prepared with simple, natural ingredients with an emphasis on health, flavor & balance. Each meal offers vegan and gluten free options and highlights organic and local produce whenever possible. We take great care in serving a menu that is nutritious, tasty and also energetically balanced, to help enhance & support your retreat.
Time is woven throughout the
retreat for self reflection + relaxation
FRIDAY, JUNE 23rd
6:15 pm: REGISTRATION
Arrive an hour earlier if you wish to relax & explore the land at Grass Lake Sanctuary
7 pm: CONNECTIONS + INTRODUCTIONS
Building & developing connections for the retreat to come + special gift for each participant! Refreshments will be served. Mingling & music afterwards.
SATURDAY, JUNE 24th
10 am – 8 pm: SPIRITUAL & HUMAN PRESENCE:
Who And Where Are We?
Group & individual reflections, activities & movement, meditation & insights with Brenda.
SUNDAY, JUNE 25th
10 am – 2 pm: SPIRITUAL & HUMAN PRESENCE: Life Integration
Group & individual reflections, activities & movement, meditation & insights with Brenda. Ends with meditation and personal Q & A with Brenda regarding spiritual evolution & life integration.
Click here for downloadable brochure & mail in registration
QUESTIONS?
(734) 494-0674
or email us at info@movedbythelight.com
Located at
Grass Lake Sanctuary
18580 Grass Lake Road
Manchester, MI
www.grasslakesanctuary.org
ONLINE PAYMENTS
$100 Deposit (non refundable)
$325 Full Registration
*Once registration is received you will be added to our email list for updates & pre retreat packets
QUESTIONS?
(734) 494-0674
or email us at info@movedbythelight.com
Overnight Accommodations:
This is a daytime retreat, so sleeping arrangements need to be made. Some options for you:
- Overnight stays at Grass Lake Sanctuary cabins or bungalows
- Local inns, motels & airbnbs
- Staying at the home of local participant
For Housing Assistance:
Please contact Patty Hart Lodging Coordinator:
734-645-7251
or email
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AUGUST 19th-21st 2016
Grass Lake Sanctuary
18580 Grass Lake Road
Manchester, MI
www.grasslakesanctuary.org
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R E T R E A T F O C U S
The awakening of our hearts is a ceaseless and natural process of living our lives, where our personal exploration and experimentation trigger deeper awarenesses about what it means to evolve spiritually in the fullest sense of the word. It is an embracing of body, mind and spiritual awarenesses, a unified and peaceful unfoldment of who you uniquely are while on Earth.
A T T H E R E T R E A T
The retreat space at GLS was created to be a safe and supportive environment where you can unwind life-stresses and become available to new ways of being. Be prepared to relax, receive and absorb simple tools catalyzing the natural unfoldment of the awakening of your heart!
A S A B A C K D R O P
This 145-acre retreat sanctuary & nature preserve is dedicated to life balance and connection. Enjoy rolling hills, wooded trails, organic gardens and food, a pond and overnight stays in cabins or bungalows.
O U R M E N U
The retreat menu is specially designed for your dining pleasure, health & alertness with both vegetarian & traditional options. Tasty gourmet snacks including gluten-free and low glycemic options are available.
O V E R N I G H T A C C O M M O D A T I O N S
This is a daytime retreat, so sleeping arrangements need to be made. Some options for you:
- Overnight stays at Grass Lake Sanctuary cabins or bungalows
- Local inns, motels & airbnbs
- Staying at the home of local participant
For Housing Assistance:
Please contact Patty Hart,
Lodging Coordinator:
734-645-7251
or email
Please click here to download our brochure
for more information about workshops & our presenters
R E G I S T R A T I O N
FEES:
With lunch + snacks: $395/person
With 7 meals/snacks: $440/person
(when stay in cabin or bungalow)
PAYMENT OR DEPOSIT:
$100 non-refundable deposit
$395 or $440 full payment
ONLINE PAYMENTS
$100 non-refundable deposit
$395 Daytime Attendance w/ Lunch & Snacks
$440 Overnight Stay with 7 meals/snacks*
*Options for overnight stays in cabins/bungalows $100 total per night, four per unit. For housing information please contact Patty Hart at 734-645-7251 or email
For more information call 734-494-0674
Email: info@movedbythelight.com
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MARCH 18th-20th
Chelsea, MI
Friends Retreat Center
7748 Clarks Lake Road
Chelsea, MI
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RETREAT ACTIVITIES: Life requires a twofold approach for personal and spiritual transformation. Self-love is about your integration into the physical plane, your creative expression. Learning to reside in the softness and peace of the Living God at the same time allows profound transformation to occur. The wondrous spiraling of human and spiritual evolution is fulfilled when self-love with Love of the Divine are united. This is the fullest approach to life.
AT THE RETREAT: A safe, supportive and catalytic environment will be held for you where the spiraling of body, mind and spirit can deepen their journey into love and its expression. Be prepared to relax, receive, absorb, and take home tools for a life of peace, love and expression that is uniquely yours.
WE WILL BE meeting at the Michigan Friends Center. The retreat building is surrounded by woods and offers a scenic, tranquil space for our retreat. There are hiking trails and beautiful views outside the windows; this is a simple and quiet space in nature.
Presentations
The Spiral Of Existence
Impermanence & the Wonder
of the Universe
Brenda Morgan, Ph.D
Spiritual Alchemy – Turning Lead Into Gold
Alisa Dowell, B.A
Humanly Divine: Holding Space For The Tender Self To Emerge
Tom Egan, M.Ed
Self-Care: Elements Of Healthy Boundaries
Susan Fancy, B.S
Life…For Beginners
Matthew Gannage, B.A
Light And Shadow:
Embracing Shadow To Reveal The Light
Sharon Huxford, MSW
Honoring Your Creativity
Tom Mansell, M.A
Extend Your Expression,
Extend Your Aliveness
Carl Newmeyer, B.A
Following Our Gut:
Letting Body Wisdom
Jumpstart Growth & Creativity
Sarah Nuxoll, B.A, B.S
Reconnecting To The Intuition Of The Body
Jane Robinson, M.A, LAC, Ph.D
Energy Speaks
Jenny Lynn Santoro, Intuitive Stylist
Hand Made: Our Bodily Relationship With Tools, Creativity, And The World Around Us
Philip Yamron, Art Business Owner
Overnight Accommodations
Please contact Patty Hart, Lodging Coordinator:
734-645-7251
or email: patty@everybodyhappy.net
RETREAT MENU
You can browse our specially designed menu for your dining pleasure, health and alertness! DOWNLOAD MENU
DOWNLOAD RETREAT FLYER + REGISTRATION
Please send your registration & deposit to:
Brenda Morgan, PhD
P.O. Box 130842
Ann Arbor, MI
48113
or pay online:
$100 Non Refundable Deposit
$395 Retreat Fee with Lunch & Snacks
When registration payment received, a pre-retreat packet will be sent to you by email
For more information call 734-494-0674
Email: info@movedbythelight.com
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The human heart is, somehow, in rhythmic harmony with the pulse/heartbeat of the Earth…
The Earth is, somehow, in rhythmic harmony, in sync with the pulse/heartbeat of the Sun…
And the Sun is, somehow, in rhythmic harmony, in sync, with the pulse/heartbeat of the Galaxy in which we reside…
And our Galaxy is, somehow, in rhythmic harmony, in sync with the entire Universe’s pulse/heartbeat…
And when there is a “change” in the pulse/rhythm broadcasting through the Universe, it, somehow, adjusts the pulse/heartbeat of our Galaxy, and our Galaxy adjusts its pulse and changes our Sun’s pulse/heartbeat, and the Sun adjusts the pulse/heartbeat of the Earth, our home…
And here is what is truly awe-inspiring (as if the latter was not enough!): in this transformation of energy patterns affecting other energy fields, the Earth, somehow, adjusts the literal pulse/heartbeat of our actual physical hearts.
One thing is consistent for all life: it needs relationships to exist and to express. Millions/billions of simple/complex living relationships exist everywhere. From simple elements such as hydrogen and oxygen forming water to the union of two beings creating a child. From receiving nourishment through food and water to the nourishment of our hearts.
As far as the transformation of heartbeats/pulses in our universe, the how and why is not known “scientifically.” But these living relationships, the transfer of rhythms from one to the other, with distance meaning nothing, do something that indicates a living, active relationship. There seems to be One Being here, communicating. And its cellular components are in relationship in every moment, no matter how confusing things may seem.
Life exists because “relationships” exist: it is a basic building block of reality for us.
Learning to feel the sameness, the union, in life can ignite wonder, awe, hope for positive change anywhere in our lives. Look in all directions, not just up and down and inward. Feel what is going on here, and fall into the wonder and awe and magic of being alive.
Who knows how or why? Just allow yourself to feel the impact of such truths, for this is evolution at work, when your heart is moved to feel beyond everyday perceptions. Let it help you begin to see the forest and not be restricted by just seeing the trees. And the forest is the living network of the Cosmos, somehow magically expressing itself as “us.”
And when we begin to feel life and relax our tendencies to be thinking about it and what we can do ‘to’ it, true evolutionary magic begins.
As for our daily lives? Well, I would suggest taking it one relationship at a time, whether it is with yourself, another, others or beyond. This begins the journey into Oneness throughout time and beyond. Each pulse/heartbeat expression of awe and wonder, one healed person at a time, each with the potential to ignite something “unknown” in another, sometimes in ways that are not understood.
What a wonder!
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RETREAT ACTIVITIES: The retreat will focus on unique, simple tools and practices for contacting the living flow of the very Nature of Life, which is a wondrous loving stream of relaxed movement through body, mind and spirit. Sharings focus on helping participants become sensitive to awarenesses that indicate how to exist peacefully, happily and without stress. The land itself provides its own catalytic force for transformation when participants become immersed in the peaceful and meditative space.
AT THE RETREAT: A safe, supportive environment will be provided where you can begin to uncoil life-stresses and absorb new ways of being. Be prepared to relax, receive, absorb, and take home tools for a life of peace and expression.
AS A BACKDROP: This 145-acre retreat sanctuary & nature preserve is dedicated to life balance and connection. Enjoy rolling hills, wooded trails, organic gardens and food, a pond and overnight stays in cabins or bungalows.
AUGUST 21st-23rd
Manchester, MI
www.grasslakesanctuary.org
Download Retreat Brochure
Presentations
OUR FEELING NATURE and
THE FEELING OF NATURE
also
AN OASIS, TRIGGER MECHANISMS & YOU
Brenda Morgan, PhD
ON SOLID GROUND:
Building & Restoring Foundations
Of The Heart
Robin Brophy BS, CDA
WALKING WITH NATURE
Marnie Burkman, MD
FEELING NATURE THROUGH MUSIC
Dick Chrisman, Ph.D
WABI SABI:
Nothing Lasts, Nothing Is Finished,
and Nothing Is Perfect
Alisa Dowell, BS
LISTENING AND HEARING:
Pathways To Connecting
Jim Dreyer
NATURE & VULNERABILITY
Tom Egan, M.ED
DOING LESS, BEING MORE:
The Art Of Resting & Rejuvenating
Lana Jerome, GLS Land Steward, MG, CTP
DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE?
Joanna Mills, BS, MA
NURTURING LIFE:
The Mysterious Power
Of Smiles & Laughter
Carl Newmeyer, BA
JOIN-UP:
Nature, You, and Stories From The Heart
Annette Thoin, BSE, MA
To register:
Download Retreat Brochure & Registration
Please send your registration & deposit to:
Brenda Morgan, PhD
P.O. Box 130842
Ann Arbor, MI
48113
or pay online:
$75 Non Refundable Deposit
$395 Daytime Attendance w/ Lunch & Snacks
$440 Overnight Stay with 7 meals/snacks*
*Options for overnight stays in cabins/bungalows $100 total per night, four per unit. For housing information please contact Patty Hart at 734-645-7251 or email
When registration payment received, a pre-retreat packet will be sent to you by email or mail. OVERNIGHT STAYS in cabin/bungalow are also available.
For housing information please contact
Patty Hart at 734-645-7251 or email
For more information call 734-494-0674
Email: info@movedbythelight.com
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