Transfiguration Retreat
2011 Transfiguration Retreat
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May 14-21, 2011 Excelsior Springs, Missouri
The retreat officially begins May 14th, after our dinner, and officially ends May 21st, before dinner.There will be dinner and a party that evening for those who stay. The retreat cost includes staying the night of the 21st and breakfast the 22nd.Please join us for this extraordinary event !
Dear Waking Down in Mutuality Friend,
The Institute of Awakened Mutuality will be hosting our annual Transfiguration Retreat on May 14-21, 2011 at the Lake Doniphan Conference & Retreat Center in Excelsior Springs (just outside Kansas City), Missouri. You can see the site at www.lakedon.org.
Our retreat setting is a serene lakeside environment of sacred natural beauty with an outdoor fireplace and beautiful paths through the 280 acres. Our retreats at Lake Doniphan have been incredibly transfiguring experiences for all who attended. The serenity of the site is a gentle support for us all.
We invite you to this deeply trans formative event! This promises to be an extraordinary convening of the community of Waking Down in Mutuality practitioners, mentors, and teachers. Our group will become a sacred container for the precious work that unfolds through our collective presence.
In the early mornings after breakfast, you can choose from special optional sessions, such as silent meditation, dancing your prayers, shamanic work, and explorations in conscious embodiment.
Mid-morning, we’ll divide into several larger sittings for gazing meditation and conversation about your process. After lunch, small group meetings will be held. In each of these groups, one or two teachers, joined by a mentor assistant, will facilitate 5 or 6 students in deeper individual work and mutuality in an intimate, highly personalized setting. The afternoon closes with a gathering called Nectar, an optional non-verbal space to allow the day to settle and integrate into our bodies. The Nectar sessions are led by various teachers who offer gentle music. People sleep, rest, or sit silently as they bathe in this peaceful time.
On many evenings, we offer special optional events, including a marvelous talent show, presentations, and a party.
Wednesday is our day off to integrate and relax in our own ways. Meals will be provided for those staying on site.
PREREQUISITES» COST» SINGLE ROOM FEE» CANCELLATION POLICY» TUITION SUPPORT / PAYMENT PLAN» DONATIONS ARE WELCOME»REGISTRATION Click Here to Register Online. If you are planning to attend, please register soon.. A deposit will hold your space. To Register by mail, or for inquiries, please contact Juliet at registrar@awakenedmutuality.org or 503-252-6620.
UNTIL THEN We look forward to being with you in Excelsior Springs, and to experiencing how we organically transfigure as we gather together. This will be another precious week, a time of intensified clearing and transformation for everyone present. Please join us!
Much love,
Hillary Davis, Deborah Boyar, Ron Ambes, Krishna Gauci, and Juliet Amoroso for the Institute of Awakened Mutuality
TESTIMONIALS»
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“Thank you for so clearly offering the work I long for at the deepest level.” “Mind-blowing; an incredible deepening of experience.” “I had the experience of expanding heart and deepening awareness. I feel I belong here. I am grateful.”
“I love the accessibility of all the teaching staff. Their answers to my questions were always understandable to me, and helped my process greatly. By slowing down, I was able to tease apart the various components in a way that both honored and healed them. Issues that seemed infinitely large became substantially smaller and accessible for me to examine.” James Trofatter, Avon, IN.
“The retreat called forth the very best in me, and all of me. I have been waiting 30 years (all of my life) to have what I got this week. I feel like my whole being has been re-imprinted with corrective self, other, collective, and parental experiences. The meaning of this is mostly ineffable, but I cannot wait to be a part of the unfolding of this. This was my first time to claim consciousness as me. I have been denying this experience to myself (mostly) unconsciously for quite some time, and to feel that wall come down has been transfiguring. I feel like my Ground just met itself, and all of me is looking forward to meeting myself this way, and being able to rest and rely on this new-found source-friend from now on. The community here has given me an All-Being Welcome, which has forever changed the course of my life. This week has given me new ownership of my personality, revisioned not as broken and pathological, but understood and understandable, intelligent even. It has changed my vision of healing. Kat Coder, Los Altos, CA.
“I finally got what this work is about – at least enough so that I have no doubts about me, my process, and my place in the world. I feel very happy where I am for the first time I can remember. I don’t feel like I need any more than this, right now.” Bart Walton, Portland, OR.
“I have attended a total of 3 Transfiguration Retreats, and consider them vitally important to my Waking Down process; and to deeply connecting to the Waking Down community. SO much more can happen in a week than a weekend; so it’s exponentially more powerful. I found this to be true for my own inner process, and also in terms of mutuality & with my particular small group, with other participants, with different teachers and mentors. I loved seeing different people interact, and seeing so much integrity upheld in how people were treated. And I loved getting the ‘flavor’ of the different teachers more & hearing them speak in group situations, going to their different offerings, and having casual contact with some of them. In fact, during a retreat at 7 Oaks, in VA, I benefited enormously from my contact with different teachers: I was oozing into my 2nd Birth, and I had the opportunity to work and consult with a variety of teachers, and had the honor of being ‘midwifed’ into my 2nd Birth by all of them!
In each retreat, there was time to experience myself as knowing and being known by others in the community in a sustained and deeper way. And there was time to have fun, to relax…..an important part of the ‘organic process’! Of course any Transfiguration Retreat is an unparalleled and wonderful opportunity to soak up the transmission…..and being in a beautiful setting in nature adds to the overall healing effect. I feel VERY blessed, and hope that many others get to have this experience.” Leslie Oelsner, Fayetteville, AR
“I experience new flavors of consciousness in the body” “Powerful, deep. It really served to integrate my current process.”
“My experience at the Transfiguration Retreat was incredible. Being surrounded by such beauty created a sacred space in which to drop deeply within myself. I was really new to Waking Down at the time & I had only been in the work for two months! So having the opportunity to be in the company of so many others who were living in the fire of conscious life was quite a gift. The waves of feeling that washed over me in my small group each day were embraced with open arms. The company of Saniel and Linda, along with the awakened teachers and mentors stabilized me both energetically and emotionally. I had been on sabbatical from my work, doing energy healing and counseling, but my experience at the retreat impacted me on such a deep level that it enabled me to return to my client work with renewed strength. I highly recommend the undeniably powerful Transfiguration Retreat!” Lena O’Neill, Seattle, WA.
“Fantastic. The momentum and depth were profound. I didn’t realize I could change this much this rapidly.”
“The Transfiguration Retreat is a priceless opportunity to meet with others in deep mutuality, while still being welcomed and fully met as the unique and special individual that you are. Profound transformations are inspired as a result of the alchemical “container” that gets created when we’re all together for a week at this retreat.” Toresa Marlen, Cotati, CA
“Like surgery. Deep, incisive work with compassionate support and interacting.” “This was a good opportunity for me to be more real.”
“In August of 2000 I attended the Transfiguration retreat on the Northern California coast. The very essence of the container created by the Teachers was experienced by me as a most subtle and profound invitation. I felt invited to be me in a way I never knew possible. Not that I knew how to come forward in that way, but the invitation was something I’d been waiting for my whole life. Over the week of the retreat I became aware that beneath all my years of seeking was the belief that I would never awaken. Upon seeing this, the awareness dawned that awakening was a completely natural part of the unfolding and maturing of the real potential of a human being and that it was going to be so for me. A number of other openings occurred during that week, as the retreat proceeded. Two days after returning home from the retreat, in the middle of the night I experienced a major shift in consciousness. Six months later that event was confirmed as the second birth. For me, there was an acceleration and deepening that was far beyond my normal daily experience. I highly recommend this retreat. “ Ron Ambes, Salem, OR
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