Spring Renewal Retreat for the Body, Mind & Spirit
and Sings with Ravens in concert
March 27-29, 2009
WENDELL HUMPHREY
Wendell Humphrey is a Shoshone-Bannock, who lives in Perry County. As he learned about his heritage and cultural, he found that this knowledge helped him in his many varied types of artistic expression. He is very active in passing on this knowledge.
Presenters:
This year, the Retreat offers many more opportunities to refresh, rejuvenate, and relax.
Friday night concert
The weekend will begin Friday, March 27, with a musical performance by Terri Riveria Piatt, who was nominated for a 2008 Native American Music Award, and Athens area eco-fem folk artist, Megan Cameron.
$10 donation for concert if you are not attending the retreat.
Saturday and Sunday
will include:
☼ Terri, gifted Curandera, female healer,
will teach you how to scan people's
energy fields and clear any
blocks using a traditional
Native American form of
energy healing.
☼ Nature hike with Birder Jeff Calhoun who will help
you identify the different bird calls you hear in
early spring. The Carpenter Inn and Conference
Center is located on 250 acres of rolling hills,
wooded areas, and meadows.
☼ Terri and Megan will lead a water blessing in which individuals will be invited to soak their feet allowing toxins to leave their body, truly refreshing and rejuvenating them.
Debbie proudly holds up the drum she made last year at the Spring Renewal Retreat.
☼ Make your very own Native American frame drum for healing and connceting to spirit.
Not only will you make a drum, but Wendel will show you how to use it to connect with spirit. He will also conduct drummings on individuals if they chose to balance the chakras.
TERRI RIVER-PIATT, (Sings with Ravens) is known by many as a gifted psychic and Curandera -female healer. She sometimes employs the use of a Temezcal (sweat-lodge) to talk to spirit and find the source of an illness, then cleanse, heal, and retrieve lost parts of your soul. She can also see and hear people's spirit names.
MEGAN CAMERON
JEFF CALHOUN, Naturalist and Birder
Terri is explaining how to pass the pipe during a pipe ceremony.
☼ Then people will be invivted to enter the quiet contemplation of a Labyrinth walk to usher in spring, quiet their mind, and relax.
$205 - Includes tuition, materials, and all meals.
$305 - includes tuition, materials, meals, and 2 nights of lodging in prviate room with shared bath.
Because we think this event is so worthwhile and understand people are under financial strain due to the economic times we are extending the early bird registration fee.
Limited to 20 people;
Registration deadline March 20, 2009
Camping is also available onsite for $20/night. Contact Megan to make arrangements.
There are two work exchange scholarships available for this retreat. $50 without lodging, $90 with lodging.
"The healing session was powerful and wonderful to be a part of. Spiritsong Workshops created a charming ambiance and I felt loved and cared for.
The retreat more than met my expectations and I would absolutely recommend it to friends."
