The hallmark of spiritual Development is the free and open capacity to love. Where true love exists, there will be dynamic physical health, satisfying relationships, as well as creativity and sustained pleasure. Our soul aches for this expression. Yet most of humanity struggles to allow this essential soul force. There is tremendous confusion and fear around loving. Loving seems dangerous and too risky. So we push ourselves to love because we are told we should love, and we all hold back from this threatening inner movement. We pretend to love, and we run from love.

In this workshop together we will explore the roots of this basic human conflict and learn the true anatomy that will open the doors to this purifying and essential heart force. There will be teaching, process work, and spiritual practice

The weekend will be at the Steiner House in Ann Arbor, MI

Beginning Friday at 6:45 p.m. and ending Sunday at 12:00 p.m.

Pleasure is the organic outcome of emotional healing and spiritual development.  Pleasure is our birthright.  Pleasure is the “God” state and love is a pre-requisite.  We need pleasure for healing and yet our wounded-ness and unconsciousness obstructs pleasure.  So how do we bring these concepts into practical application in our lives?

We will explore the concepts above through lecture study, meditation, movement, experiential exercises and process work, and implement simple steps to get a taste of what these teachings can unlock in our lives. You are asked to hold retreat time and space in-between the on-line segments.

About Madeline

Madeline Dietrich is the Creator of Unlock Pleasure, a program that works with the holistic nature of pleasure to support people to redefine and reclaim pleasure as a tool for greater wellbeing and resilience. She has been a student of the Pathwork lectures since 1984, and later a Helper, Teacher, Facilitator and community leader.   Currently Madeline teaches in the Helpership Development Programs in Japan, Israel and Canada. To this work she also brings her training as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, aspects of positive psychology, and her own lived experience with pleasure.  Madeline lives in Ottawa, Canada.  www.madelinedietrich.com

October 2nd, 3rd & 4th, 2020

Where: Online only. The workshop will be offered via Zoom.

Friday: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Saturday: 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.; 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Sunday: 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

             Registration

Terri Irving (tlsirving@gmail.com)
906-280-3982

Suggested Donation: $225 - $450 

Our relationship with money reveals our deepest degrees of separation as well as our true faith in life. 

Money, like sex can be a compelling screen covering past wounds, unmet needs, issues around control, security and authority, and ultimately trust in Life.

Conflict, shame, avoidance and compulsion that surround money can obscure the radical and simple gesture of Surrender of Life, which can open the door to the Infinite Treasury, which is our True Nature.

All too often, especially in spiritual circles, frank discussion of finances is taboo.  In this retreat we will explore compassionately, mindfully, playfully and fiercely our contractions and flows around money as a barometer to the “immeasurable abundance that is available to all humans.”

Our curriculum for the retreat will be Guide Lectures #130-Abundance versus Acceptance; #205-Order as a Universal Principle and #250-Exposing the Deficit and Awareness of Grace.

DATES AND TIMES:
October 11th, 12th and 13th, 2019

LOCATION:

Rudolf Steiner House
1923 Geddes Avenue
Ann Arbor, Michigan

REGISTRATION & PAYMENT:

$245.00.  Please email tlsirving@gmail.com to pre-register.

The aim and practice of the Pathwork is to savor Life.

To fully savor life, we need to meet it as it is experienced in the moment, in an undefended way. This means that in that moment, we have access to a full range of feelings in response to the pleasant and unpleasant situations that life delivers. Our feelings are the portal to our deeper True Self.

Most of us experience fear or other unwanted feelings of pain, rage, fear, loneliness or despair, and so we block this organic movement of thefeeling body. This blocking not only limits our capacity to be fulfilled, but also attracts stronger and stronger doses of what we have denied and avoided.