Why not have a FALL getaway and enjoy a very special weekend together!
A communication workshop for all couples. A very special workshop for couples.
A great chance to rekindle the romance and love in your relationship.
A chance to get away from work and home pressures and to focus on each other!

A wonderful communication workshop for  couples of all ages, faiths, sexual orientations. A chance for couples in a committed relationship to get away and focus on each other. Four trained couples give talks on family, sex, money... all the things all couples have to deal with. Very specific communication skills are modelled and encouraged. ...further info at www.unitedinmarriage.org Please register NOW! $45.00 deposit and $450.00 for the weekend including 2 nights accomidation, 5 meals each and the cost of the workshop.... credit card, cheque, post-dated cheques or a a donation are acceptable payments.

This gentle yet profound learning experience will take you away from all the pulls of the world into horse time.  You will walk the labyrinth and be surrounded by incredible learning that will fill your heart and soul as you ease your way into spring.The labyrinth is an ancient symbol related to wholeness, and this process is a wonderful metaphor for life’s journey. Included in this experience is an opportunity to expand your intuition, courage, creativity and spirituality. You walk the labyrinth with your wisdom horse who guides you as you step onto the path of your most heart-based self. This workshop also features an expressive arts component to help support your learning. This is a gentle and beautiful way to welcome the new life of spring! Cost: $299 - less 10% for early registration until March 28th!

Opening Ceremonies begin at 7 pm in the Great Hall followed by Introduction of Workshop Leaders and a Crystal Bowl Meditation with Terez and Tibetan Brass Bowls with Kalaya.
Sunrise Ceremonies start at 6:45 am each morning with a variety of movement and meditation exercises. Workshops start at 8:45 am Saturday & continue to 9:15 pm with breaks for lunch and dinner. The schedule is the same for Sunday except after lunch workshops are 2 hours long. Closing Circle at 4 pm in the Gym.
The Festival Store is in Columbia Hall and has space to sell various crafts, crystals, jewellry and more. If you are registered as a festival participant and want to bring items to sell we charge a 20% commission. Healing Oasis is downstairs in McLaren Hall and The Sanctuary for Reiki and Healing Touch. We have many readers and healers available for private sessions at $15 for 1/2 hour & $25 for 1 hour. The Sanctuary is drop in and by donation.
Accommodation is on a first come first served basis, so register early if you intend to stay on site.

Spring is coming and lets get going to Halcyeon Hot Springs for a wonderful weekend Retreat with Joan Casorso. Gift yourself this weekend to Relax, Revitalize, and Refresh the Body, Mind & Soul. Joan Casorso will be facilitating this fun, interactive & informative Inner Rhythms Weekend Retreat, taking place 5 minutes from Halcyeon Hot Springs Resort, BC. We will be renting two private homes with a private 30 ft pool & hot tub on the decks of the two homes.
The pool & hot tub are fed directly from the natural underground stream of Halcyeon Springs. (No chemicals added).

Revitalizing Activities:

1.  Djembe Hand Drumming & Dance
2. “Yoga Plus” – land & water yoga
3.  Reflexology & Home care treatments for body, feet & face
4. Relaxation techniques
5. Good Company, Good Food, Great Location

Working with Craig, it's the quality of each moment with the horse, not just the movement produced, that is most of interest. As the rider develops the understanding and ability to communicate more clearly, the movements improve-- but rather than learning tricks to mask mistakes, riders learn what they are doing that is producing the mistake and how to ride with such clarity that the movements become fluid, light, and precise. Craig's methods produce, very quickly and without abuse, a calm, willing, responsive horse interested in engaging in a conversation with his rider. Horse owners are in training right along with their mount, learning to maintain a conversation sustainable after the horse leaves.

You will access and interpret your own personal journey in sacred space through intuitive animal communications, power animals, shamanic journeying, meditations, shadow work, fire ceremony, and soul healings. Be ready for a unique, profound, and powerful healing experience to discover yourself, transform the essence of your being, and strengthen your connection to the whole. Join us in the light!
Friday, May 24 – 6:00 – 9:00 pm- Registration - Introduction and Information - Opening of Sacred Space - Drumming & Rattle Circle - Opening Meditation - Journey - Power Animals
Saturday –9:00 – 5:00 pm (supper hour 5:00–7:00 pm – approximate) - Dream recall - Colour work – identification of patterns and “feel” - Shadow work - Earth paintings - Animal communications and healings - Find your guide - Soul healings
Saturday –7:30 pm - Fire Ceremony – Preparation of fire sticks (7:30 pm) - Fire Ceremony – Healings, Transformations, and Offerings (8:00 pm)
Sunday, May 26 – 10:00 am – 5:00 pm (if possible it is recommended that you do not plan to leave early: finish times are approximate) - Dream Recall - Animal communications and healings - Past life regression - Earth Paintings - Group healings - Soul healing - Closing of sacred space.
WHAT TO BRING ** Pictures of your animal friends – photos can be on copy paper or photo paper between 3” X 4” and 5” X 6” – no frames ** Hand Drum and Rattle – required for sacred space, healing circles, drumming circles, and fire ceremony. ** Clear quartz crystal (any shape or size) ** 2 lunches (one each for Saturday and Sunday) + snacks (lunches often end up being potlucks). Saturday night supper is provided (wheat and dairy free) ** Clothes for all weather – warm, cold, wind and rain. ** Journal and pen ** Blanket (lightweight) and pillow **
No Live Pets Please**

Relax in a community of like minded women coming together to hang out, connect, laugh, have fun, share stories, let go, listen to your heart, learn more about yourself and re-energize your soul.  Take time to just be who you are. “Come and experience a time for you.  You will cry a little, laugh a lot, you’ll remember you are not alone and that others are there for you.  You’ll reconnect with your joy and your sense of wholeness in a place where you can be free to be who you are.” 

Opening Ceremonies begin at 7 pm followed by Introduction of Workshop Leaders and a Crystal Bowl Meditation.
Sunrise Ceremonies start at 6:45 am each morning with a variety of movement and meditation exercises. Workshops start at 8:45 am Saturday & continue to 9:15 pm with breaks for lunch and dinner. The schedule is the same for Sunday except after lunch workshops are 2 hours long.
Closing Circle at 4 pm.
The Wise Woman Store is in Columbia Hall and has space to sell various crafts, crystals, jewellery and more. If you are registered as a participant and want to bring items to sell we charge a 20% commission.
Healing Oasis is downstairs in McLaren Hall. We have many readers and healers available for private sessions at $20 for 1/2 hour & $30 for 1 hour. To receive an application to work in the Healing Oasis, e-mail christina@holisticcounsellor.com
Accommodation is on a first come first served basis, so register early if you intend to stay on site.

Cranio sacral is the name given to the approach to osteopathy developed by Dr Sutherland 100 years ago. He saw how the bone structure of the skull permitted slight motion and noted that restriction of normal motion due to injury, trauma or disease could affect health. The cranial osteopath works gently with the bones in the skull and associated bodily systems to remedy such conditions. The Reflexologist can achieve the same result by combining an understanding of cranio-sacral therapy with conventional reflexology, since the bones of the feet reflect the skull and sacrum exactly.
The body’s inner health is perceived through a gentle pulse called the CSRI. It arises at the core of the body within the brain and spinal cord and the fluid, which surrounds them. It is a tide-like rhythm, which expresses itself throughout all of the body. Areas of congestion and restriction in function of any part of the body can be felt as an imbalance in its motion and treated.
A reflexologist has a highly developed sense of palpation and is trained to detect and assess the dynamic state of the body tissues;’ Both within the feet and the rest of the body. By using the gentle techniques of Cranio-Sacral Reflexology” the practitioner is able to release the strain patterns found and support the body in its attempt to retum to an ideal state of balance and function for healing to progress.
Cranio-Sacral Reflexology is suitable for everyone, from newborn babies to the elderly including those with fragile and acute medical conditions:
Baby and Infant Conditions, Colic, sucking difficulties, reflux Premature babiesRecurrent ear and throat infections-Irritability, insomnia, excess crying,-Development and behavioural delay/ disorders, Poor eye coordination, Difficulties in turning the head Birth trauma, Adult General Trauma and Conditions, - Sinusitis, Stress related illness, Jaw disorders, Bronchitis and Asthma, Insomnia, Depression, Migraine, Tinnitus, Back, shoulder and neck pain, Whiplash, and sports injuries.

Mother & Daughter's Retreat
July 2 - 4, 2008 at Mountain Waters Retreats, Nelson, BC
This is a special Spa Retreat to celebrate and nurture this most mysterious of relationships.

Heart Centered Therapy level 1 with with Alaya Chikly
July 10 - 14, 2008 at Mountain Waters Retreats, Nelson, BC
The gift of Heart Centered Therapy lies in the opening of the heart. Learn how the gentle tools of HCT can transform the emotional component of disease in the body tissue, and the unresolved traumas in our families and our ancestral lineage without relivi

Inward Journey ~ Outward Adventure with Richard Klein
August 22 - 27, 2008 at Mountain Waters Retreats, Nelson, BC
What happens when we take the meditative state of awareness into our relationship with nature  experience the beauty of the Mountain landscape with you senses awakened and your body alive.

Men's Retreat:
Men at Midlife with Richard Klein, Nelson, BC
August 28 - September 1, 2008 at Mountain Waters Retreats
 Midlife can become an opportunity to reassess and notice how we can bring more depth, passion and meaning to our day to day experience.