Women of Color Retreat
October 6, 2023
5:00 PM (EST)- October 9, 2023 12:00 Noon (EST)
Location: The Journey Space – A Healing Arts Center 6110 Oberlin Ave, Glen Echo, MD 20812
How might your life be different if there was a place you could go? A place for women with shared lived experiences.
Join us for an intimate weekend retreat offering gentle yoga, mindful self-compassion, and afternoon sister circles.
The retreat will offer time for both silent reflection and connection with women working towards healing, building resilience, and empowering each other.
This much needed sacred self-care time will give you tools to begin the journey of rejuvenation and spiritual centering. We look forward to being on this journey with you.
Registration Closed
Registration Fees:
Early bird $475 (paid in full before 9/1/23)
Regular price $525 (option to pay deposit $250 balance due 9/15/23)
Refund Policy -A refund will be issued for cancellation made up to 9/17/2023 (minus processing fees). No refund is available after this time, except on compassionate grounds for extenuating circumstances.
Pre-registration chat – Not sure if you’re ready to register? Come meet Kimberly and Ve’Lyn via zoom. We’ll share how we came to offer the retreat and answer your questions (use Calendly link to sign-up):
- Wednesday, August 16 at 5pm or
- Saturday, August 19 at 10a EST
Disclaimers:
*This is a mask friendly retreat. Organizers will follow CDC guidelines, masks may be required.
*Promotional pictures may be taken at this event. Participation implies consent to be photographed.
About this retreat (mind-body-spirit approach)
Why silence?
In this busy world we live in, it is useful to find times to drop into silence, solitude, and reflection. Without chit-chat, taking care of others, or electronics, there’s space to drop into yourself to acknowledge and process your undiscovered thoughts and feelings.
Silent retreats have been attracting meditators for thousands of years, and recent research confirms the benefits of mindfulness and meditation — reduced stress levels, lower blood pressure and improved sleep.
What is mindfulness?
Mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment, through a gentle, nurturing lens. Focusing one’s awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one’s feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations.
Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) combines the skills of mindfulness and self-compassion to enhance our capacity for emotional wellbeing. Mindfulness is the first step—turning with loving awareness toward difficult experience (thoughts, emotions, and sensations).
What type of yoga?
Kripalu yoga teaches us to live our practice on and off the mat. Rather than striving for the perfect pose, we will use gentle yoga postures to learn to focus within and access the body’s wisdom. (suggested reading Black Women’s Yoga History: Memoirs of Inner Peace by Stephanie Y. Evans or visit link http://www.blackwomensyogahistory.net/)
Kimberly Middleton
Yoga and MSC teacher
Kimberly is a Kripalu Yoga Teacher (RYT500), trained Mindful Self Compassion (MSC), and Pathwork® Associate Helper offering individual sessions and group classes, online and in the Greater WDC area. Her approach uses practical wisdom offering guidance for self-development, along with yoga, mindfulness, and meditation to expand the capacity to facilitate deeper spiritual connection. (Use kimberly7917@gmail.com to contact)
Ve’Lyn Crosby
Life, Health & Leadership Coach
Ve’Lyn Crosby specializes in supporting high-achieving women as they learn to choose the soft life. Leveraging a blend of spirituality, mindfulness, and down-to-earth guidance on habit formation and change management, she empowers her clients to embody authenticity and let go of external measures for success.
Ve’Lyn creates nurturing spaces for women to rediscover themselves while cultivating inner peace, joy, creativity, gratitude, and ease. A certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach and Spiritual Life Coach, Ve’Lyn is praised by her clients as a compassionate and empowering guide. Visit her website (www.velyncrosby.com) to learn more.
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