As a guide to the inner wilderness, I also take people out into the wilds, both one-on-one and in small groups, knowing that nature is a powerful muse, mirror and healer. In her vital folds, we are offered the chance to find our sense of belonging again in the web of life, to wonder into the mystery of our place and gifts, and to find enchantment with the animate earth
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We invite you to join us on Dharug country this May, in the place of healing, dreaming and community called Little River. This is part of a series of small-group programs that we are offering to people who are called to do the work.
We invite you into the circle with us, to take your seat at the fire, to feel into the truth of who you are. We invite you in to the majesty and mystery of what it is to be alive in the web of life in this wild turning of the wheel. We invite you into a weekend of healing, reflection, community and wanders on the land.
We invite you to gather with us around this jewel of an offering about sentience, stillness and awe.
Here’s a little on how we understand it. What is it for you?
Sentience
Rob says: Sentience is the ground of our being. More than consciousness, it is the central organising principle that flows through life itself. It shapes our wounds and our gifts and animates the fabric of energies that live in us and the world around. It also constantly seeks to return us to our deepest wholeness, through the doorway of our wounds; our grief, shame, depression, or sense of being deficient. If we can learn to tune into the wisdom in our suffering, we connect with the vast resources of being on a profound journey of growth, healing and transformation.
Christie says: Sentience is what makes life worth living. It is our sensations that vividly represent what our perceptions mean to us and have allowed our species to enter a new landscape of possibility, 'the soul niche', where we use our sensations to better understand ourselves, one another, and the world.
On this Wild Edges retreat we will be cultivating our relationship with the sentient dimension of being by cultivating sensory awareness, through somatic practice and meditation that deepens connection by, listening and attending to the world within and without.
Stillness
Rob says: If sentience is the conductor, stillness is the medium. The silence between breaths, the fertile darkness of the space between the stars. All things arise out of silence and return to it. But it is not inert. It is a living, generative, radiant medium, and we are bathed in it. Beneath the cacophony of daily life, stillness blooms, calling us back into its midnight fold. This quiet space of healing, contemplation, insight and deep creativity.
Christie says: It is in stillness that we exist by being rather than by doing. It is istillness that we can detach from the demands of striving and achieving. It is in stillness that the busy mind will quiet and we will once more hear the voice of our deepest longings and knowings. It is in the stillness that we find ourselves and we will know that we are enough.
This Wild Edges program will invite you deeper into the stillness at your centre, out of which new possibility unfurls and takes form. We will stop and be still and drink in each moment and lovingly tend to the quiet. Come find a clearing in the dense forest of your life.
Awe
Rob says: When was the last time you were claimed by awe? Perhaps emptied out by the magnitude of a three hundred million year old view, silenced by the vaulted spires of a gathering storm, or enchanted by the slow, spiralling poetry of a wedge-tailed eagle adrift in the wild blue firmament. Perhaps forever changed by the mercy of a lone light that flickered in darkness. Now we are in a land that lies beyond words, in the rapture of being, enfolded by mystery, born to dream and to wander this one wild and precious life.
Christie says: When life feels truly dark and awful it takes just a single moment of awe to remind us that life can be good again, that it will not feel this way forever. That we can experience joy and play and something other than grief, depression or discomfort. It was in my own darkest moment that an awe experience in nature showed me the way out.
On this Wild Edges retreat we will be cultivating awe through praise walks on the wild land, by way of ceremony and circle, by offering gratitude where we are called to offer it, by taking our place beneath the majesty of a sky on fire with stars.
May 12th-14th
Little River Wilderness Property, Lot 32, Glen Chee Rd, Ganbenang.
$450
What to expect
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