Please Join Kate Mulheron, Founder of Earth Ways Yoga and special guest, Jay Kraemer, LAC and intuitive musician for a 4-day guided Retreat Journey at our retreat home for over 14 years at Joyful Journey Hot Springs, for a very special retreat time July 24th-27th to honor your heart’s path, your heart’s calling, your heart’s healing: Grief’s Song: Healing Your Wounded Heart!!
Come explore the energy of SUMMER in the desert at Joyful Journey Hot Springs and the Element of Fire. Follow the rhythms of your heart and how to find balance and harmony in the summers journey of your heart’s calling. There are four officials of the FIRE MERIDIAN CHANNELS : Heart, Small Intestine, Heart Protector, and Triple Heater, the emotion is joy and the color is red , through the movement of Earth Ways Yoga, meditation and self study of the acupuncture and spirit of the points to help you deepen into these channels!! The only element that needs 4 meridians to guide the complexity of ones heart, the great mystery of this life is to understand the meaning of ones heart, as every time you think you do, another lesson, another teaching , wowza, it may feel like its back to the beginning! of your healing! But it is truly never back to the beginning its just a deeper understanding of ones self to rebuild once again, a little stronger and with more resolve . This season can be about staying on track with your mission in life and finding space to balance your well being in the heat of the summers light!!
This is a retreat to acknowledge your walk with grief, As a human no one gets out of this life without a wounded heart. It is apart of the path of being human, but how we work with grief, through our whole beingness can be an art form, it takes great patience and perseverance to walk truly in the fire of ones own awakening to hopefully find more harmony and acceptance , which takes TIME. Grief and her song has wailed through your very beating heart which has defined the creation of how you walk in this world, your relationship with grief, what body language patterns you have accumulated in this life as you explore your relationship with grief and the tools it takes to move grief though ones being!!
LOVE and JOY is the beingness of the heart but when our human complexity of healing the experiences you have had in this life becomes shut down or too raw to hold we create boundaries and shields for protection, and when you feel you are ready to be with your particular stage of grief you have been holding there are tools to support you.. What works for one person for sure is not going to work for another, we are unique individuals that it takes great grace , walking carefully through the mind field of ones emotions to get to resolve., hopefully. We are complex beings, us humans, but we do the best we can as walking a path of the wounded hearted!
As those of you that have come to expect at retreat, yes we will Honor Dialy Directions, Learn Circle, practice Earth Ways Yoga , live music, ear acupuncture hot springs, and study the 5 Element Meridian System, (Fire Element, which is all about the HEART) What do we know about the Fire Element, it takes 4 MERIDIANS to hold the space of our complex heart and the seeking of heart is JOY, but to get to joy means we must clear what is in the way or the heaviness of heart ( no matter hold OLD your grief is)
MENDING THE BROKEN HEART, A Grief Process
I am so happy to introduce a new process called " MENDING the BROKEN HEART, A Greif Process" This is a process created by my teacher and Mentor Gran Tia Blassa through The Continuing Circle, A Non Profit https://thecontinuingcircle.org , and it is a process of working with art, drawing, meditating, working with color, shape and symbols as a way to put on paper from your unconscious, conscious, Essence/Soul, Wounded Hearted Body to see before your eyes this experience you have walked.
"Learning to name, give shape and color to your sorrows will bring your human capacity to heal and cultivate aliveness to your daily expression as a human. You will feel more cohesive, and connected to your own actions and desires to know love and express joy within yourself and within the circles and communities with whom you share life.
During this time you will work with shape and color as metaphor. You do not have to share you experience but simply allow yourself to be gently guided through your emotions. There are no expectations of what you “should” experience. This is simply an opportunity to feel better, to heal, and perhaps feel more whole. All you need is a willingness to sense and feel in your own way. “ Gran Tia Blassa
In the summer months, is a time of the incredible heat of the sun, growth of internal direction that has a manifestation of outward growth, which CAN become dry, over worked with dehydration, depletion and exhaustion!! When we acknowledge the 5 Elements in the Cycle of Life, you begin to watch patterns and habits each season and start to acknowledge where you may get stuck emotionally, energetically and then the lifeforce of Universall Flow can be blocked to your sheer potential of what is possible in the healing ways of your life!! What a journey we have all endured from the year of 2020 and now we have much to acknowledge and honor that we have worked with, fallen into and strengthened the direction forward fro 2025! It is now time that you get all of your parts: mind, body and essence to cooperate with your spinal, strengthened center you hold!!!
What have you learned through your Spring’s Equinox inspirations , Eclipse Season and Venus Retrograde of the East where nothing is the same , a new alignment has taken place for you, your heart is changed, it has grown, deepened and opened to a deeper level of self intimacy and how that has shifted you, as you welcome the strength and clarity of what your heart understands now of the South and Summers Light!!!
On this retreat, you will practice working with Circle to unlock your inner guidance of your heart’s truth speaking and truth seeking as you embody a deeper alignment and your great gifts and talents of your soul's heart path!!! By the end of this retreat you will be very clear on the intentions you are ready to nourish for the year to come!! I
Through the course of the weekend, you’ll learn to build a tool box for yourself through Yoga, Nature Ways, and Ritual in these chaotic yet defining times!! It is time we get our internal being in its strength to move forward for the work that is ahead for you, as you learn how to come back to yourself and deepen into what is important through your own values, integration and cohesiveness of all your parts: Body, Mind, and Essence, so that you may remain STEADY and STRONG for what is ahead and be authentic in your strength for this next cycle of life!! The Sensitive Self was meant to help us survive and stay in balance, however, when it is overtaxed, it collapses, and through these teaching you will be reminded of your internal strength of what it means to move forward in a balanced way!! This retreat will teach you to clear and filter the chaos of everyday life while maintaining your core alignment, functionality and perhaps have joy and love in your heart. This time is for you to honor nature and allow nature to share with you. Learn tools to support your ability to live in the world more balanced and with focus on where you are headed. Learn to honor your acute awareness of thought, feeling, seeing and knowing — your Sensitive self.
This retreat, held 3.5 hours from Boulder at the healing Joyful Journey Hot Springs in the beautiful San Luis Valley, will be a sacred time spent focused on your relationship with the natural world through your yoga practice, and how that relationship can help you cultivate a deeper understanding of your own unique gifts and talents.
What to Expect from Retreat:
*Sunrise Honoring of the 7 Directions Ceremony each Morning
*Learning tools on how to work with the Natural World
*3 Hour Morning Earth Ways Yoga Practice w/ Kate and Live Music by Jay Kraemer
*Relax & Recharge w/ the deeply healing waters of the Mineral Hot Springs
Mending the Broken Heart Process
*Healing Vibrant Meals by the Joyful Journey Kitchen
*Nature Walks in the Deeply Healing San Luis Valley
*Summer Fire Releasing Circle
*Deepening connection with Community
*Optional Energetic Realignment Sessions w/ Kate $75
Optional Acupuncture with Jay, $75
Retreat Cost $650 plus accommodations (prices listed below, if you are in FINANCIAL HARDSHIP please reach out for payment plan! We are here to help you get here if this is where you know you want to be!!
Joyful Journey Accommodations options are listed below. Soaking is included in your stay and your meals are included as well.
Visit the Joyful Journey website for more details: http://www.joyfuljourneyhotsprings.com/
Yurt:
Yurt with one person $158.34 per night
Yurt with two people $193.34 per night
There are varying prices with different rooms, check with Charmaine when you call to book!!
Campsite:
Campsite with one person $60 per night
Campsite with two people $95
Hotel:
Double Queen :$170.67 /per night per night Single Occupancy
Double Queen $205.67 Double Occupancy
Full registration amount is due at registration or you can create a payment plan but due by start of retreat and is non-refundable, accommodation price can be paid through Joyful Journey front desk. Please call Yvette at Joyful Journey to register for your sleeping arrangement!
Please register with Kate 970-314-0406 or at katemulheronyoga@gmail.com
*Please note that this is a sober and technology free event. To honor the space, community and ceremonies we are asking that attendees abstain from alcohol and drugs two days prior to retreat and throughout the duration of the retreat.
Thank you and we look forward to sharing this time with you!
Kate and Jay
