Dearest Students,
I wanted to make a note, I have changed the date and location of Summer Retreat this year! Yes what you have come to expect the 4 retreats a year at Joyful Journey Hot Springs,( October Retreat will for sure be at Joyful Journey) this year I am making a shift due to some scheduling conflicts but truly I believe coming to the valley to where I live in Paonia is going to create a deeper space of working with your grief, being on private land where there will be more space for quiet and reflections in Circle Work, this is the home of where I hold Earth Ways Yoga TT and where I do my personal work with my teacher, I share this to say, this is more a primitive space, of being with the land, the natural elements of summer, there is a river to swim in, a land surrounded in Cottonwoods, Oaks and Aspen, it is off grid , there is a yoga tent , no cell phone service and just peacefulness with no bells and whistles that we come to expect from Joyful Journey, I say this just so you know if this is the right retreat for you!! Lodging will be on your own, either finding a great airbnb, camping, there is a National Forest right next to Wild Cooperative or I can pair youth someone that might like to share lodging! I just wanted to share, so you can prepare!! I am so excited to shift this retreat in the quiet of the Western Edge of West Elk Mountains and Needle Rock!!
Schedule :
Thrusday July 16th, 5pm-7pm
Friday and Saturday 8:30 am-4:30 pm evenings on your own
Sunday 8:30 am-1pm!
Please Join Kate Mulheron, Founder of Earth Ways Yoga and special guest, Jay Kraemer, LAC , chef and intuitive musician for a 4-day guided Retreat at Wild Cooperative https://wildcooperative.wordpress.com in Crawford, Co for a very special retreat time 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 mountains of the Western Fork 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 , 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 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 ,of the East 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 of your right to be 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.
What to Expect from Retreat:
*Sunrise Honoring of the 7 Directions Ceremony each Morning
*Learning tools on how to work with the Natural World as an alliance for a more balanced way of being
*3 Hour Morning Earth Ways Yoga Practice w/ Kate
Mending the Broken Heart Process
*Healing Vibrant lunches by Jay Kraemer with the option of breakfast items
*Deepening connection with Like minded Community in Circle
Walks on the oproperty and river soaking ig it inspires you!
Optional Acupuncture with Jay, $75
Retreat Cost:
Suggested $550, but will take sliding scale from $500-600 , lunches, and snacks included plus your own accommodations , either camping in the National Forest near Wild Cooperative or airbnb,in the town of Crawford, Hotchkiss or Paonia are great places to look, we can help you find something if you are having troubles! And if you wanted to be paired up with anyone to share lodging let me know!
Please note, a $300 non refundable deposit is due at time of signing up and you have until the week before retreat to get a full refund after that the retreat exchange can be used as credit with upcoming retreats or privates with me. Thank you for understanding!
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!!
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