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REFLECTIONS AND REVELATIONS - THE RETREAT
A Special In-Depth Retreat with GENEEN ROTH
Mt. Madonna Center, Watsonville, California
May 11 - 16, 2010
There is an unfolding that happens in this time away from your regular life that cannot happen, or would take years longer to happen, otherwise. After a few days of being away from your day-to-day life, the membrane that separates you from yourself and your deepest longings begins to dissolve.
The thoughts and beliefs that continually keep you from being yourself become apparent. In this safe, nurturing space you will move into what you really want for your life.
Beginning with the longing to be free from issues of eating, wanting more, and never having enough and using the strength of that longing, we will explore basic questions such as: What am I really hungry for? How can I have what I want without suffering afterwards? Can I see myself and be seen for who I am? What would happen to my world and who would be threatened if I were happy? Is it possible to contact the source of love, light, stillness, peace and to live my life from that place?
Using a combination of individual focus, mindfulness, silence, writing, movement and support that builds community, we will start with our relationship to what we consume and journey to the universe within us - the jewel that has been there all along, waiting to be known.
"There were too many "ah ha" moments
to name them all...." — Gina Bivalacqua
The time we spend together will be soul, body and spirit time. We will explore what keeps us from committing to the promise of ourselves. We will explore the foundation upon which we build our lives and open the direct experience of spaciousness, happiness and joy by sensing our bodies, living with support, and developing the ability to feel emotions without acting them out or repressing them.
THEMES
- Discovering that no situation or feeling is unworkable
- Learning to cherish yourself
- Understanding how long lasting change actually happens
- Learning not to abandon yourself when you are in pain
- Identifying your pattern of eating/working/spending
- Refining a way of eating that is tailored to your body, feelings and life
- Learning a new process of writing into your deepest nature
- Receiving ongoing support at the retreat and afterwards
ONGOING SUPPORT
Half of the students at the retreat are returning students; this--using their relationship with food as the path to everything that matters--is their life practice. Half of the students are new each time.
In addition to the time at Mount Madonna, ongoing support is offered throughout the year. Depending on your particular needs, you may choose to attend two small (twenty-five people) weekend groups with Geneen that are open to all retreat students, teaching calls once a month with Geneen, private sessions with one of the three co-teachers, and the opportunity to participate in local support groups that have formed in various cities throughout the country.
We welcome you to our community.
RETREAT FACULTY
Geneen Roth -
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Chohan Neale has been working as a psycho-spiritual therapist and workshop facilitator for 25 years. She has lived and worked internationally for most of her life and currently resides and has a practice on Australia's east coast.
WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID ABOUT REFLECTIONS AND REVELATIONS
"Here is some of what I got, although words cannot express the magnitude of what I have gained:
• I always wondered why people said 'love the body you have'. I get it! I love my body - all of it.
• I can trust my body! It is very wise if I just listen.
• I can be alone! I spend my life packed in by others...but I can stand alone when I need to and it feels good.
• I am beautiful and I love myself! (And I believe it when I say it!)"
-Shannon Craig
"The main thing for which I want to express gratitude, deep and heartfelt gratitude, is for the way in which this work has brought me into a new feeling of safety and trust inside myself. I have tasted what it is like to feel like my internal landscape is not strewn with landmines--that everything is truly workable and is in fact lovable and worthy of love. I feel so at peace because of that experience." -Caitlin Stewart
More Comments About the Retreat
"I've learned more about my self in 6 days than in 40 years, and the learning has been a true connection to me.... Every single part of my physical being, and every single sense of my enormous self is incredibly grateful to have been led here. Thank you is an abused word at times, used flippantly, thrown around without care. My thank you is from the inner reaches of my being. Thank you."
-Eve Ashton
"What I got out of the retreat with you is that the weight is not the end result. My presence and my development as a being whose ultimate goal is evolution, and a return home--that is the goal, the only one. The weight and the food is the particular hand I've been dealt; it is the doorway that I can walk through to get there. I literally feel myself at the threshold, and there's absolutely no turning back. It is my path. The Yoga of food...
Geneen, thank you for sharing your story and your path. Thank you for forging the road before us, and thank you for officiating my long and happy marriage to amazement!"
-Noni Sanchez
"I have struggled with compulsive eating for 35 years... and this retreat is the best thing I have ever done. "
-Dianne Torres
"There were too many "ah ha" moments to name them all.... But my knowledge and knowing of where home is real for me the first time in my life.... I truly now understand my connection to Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. "
-Gina Bivalacqua
"I feel like this work was what I have been longing for since I was 14 years old and began my emotional/compulsive eating... Thank you for the work that you do. I really know that life has more beauty than I allow myself to feel... "
-Carol Selman
"For me personally, the path I had begun recently had primed me for this. The piece I had not been aware I needed was the capacity to stay with my feelings, positive and negative, and to be curious and welcoming to them and to really experiencing all that is life... This retreat provided a path and a context for my journey with myself and so far it has been an amazing journey."
-Michelle Bloomworth
"...for me this retreat gave me the choice: live with gusto or wait to die."
-Kathryn Ferguson
"I spent a lot of time alone growing up. However, this type of silence (at the retreat) has a direction and purpose that is most nourishing and healing. It allows me to quickly become present and immediately consider kindness to myself in everything I do." -Elaine Oleksick
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CONFERENCE FACILITIES AND REGISTRATION
Mt. Madonna Center is a nurturing retreat location set among the redwoods and grasslands with a view of the Monterey Bay. Our gathering is nestled in inspiring and peaceful nature, and in a supportive and caring atmosphere. Mt. Madonna Center is south of San Francisco Bay near Santa Cruz and Watsonville, CA.
The tuition includes lodging and vegetarian meals. Transportation to/from airports can be coordinated by our retreat manager.
To register, please mail or fax the completed registration form along with your check, money order or credit card information. You may also register online. Once we receive your registration, we will send you a questionnaire that will need to be completed prior to the retreat.
If you have previously attended one or more Reflections & Revelations Retreats with Geneen and would like to register for this retreat, please contact Judy Ross, Retreat Manager, at 703-401-0871 or email us at
for returnee tuition fees and registration information.
REGISTRATION AND CANCELLATION POLICY
If you cancel your registration 8 weeks or more before the retreat begins, a full refund less a $350 registration fee will be given. For cancellations received between 8-4 weeks in advance of the retreat start date, a 50% credit toward the next scheduled retreat will be given, provided your cancelled space is filled. No refunds are provided for cancellations less than 4 weeks in advance of the retreat start date.
$1,660 Shared accommodations (3 to 4 per room)
$1,760 Shared accommodations (2 per room)
For more information or to register you may call 831-685-8601, fax 831-685-8602, or write to Reflections & Revelations, P.O. Box 2852, Santa Cruz, CA 95063
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