We have had a wonderful 35 year run. And we know it is our time to close down. In some way, we live on because we know we live in hundreds and hundreds of wonderful women. Knowing when to stop, to let go, and to go to the ground is as much a part of the path as knowing how to walk it. Our decision to bring a full and honorable closure to this very solid, challenging and transformative learning community is a sign of our good health and our strong heart. And yours.
In this last retreat, a full 6 days long, we will bring together many aspects of what we have learned over three decades. We plan to incorporate our best design and theory elements into this form: bodywork, movement, art, spiritual practices, women's group theory, leadership strategies and interventions, cosmologies, healing modalities, work with trauma, and transnational feminist thinking and practice, social justice and oppression issues as they emerge. We know so much more about women's work than we did 35 years ago when we started. We are able to hold complex, fragile, intense and transformative women's process. In this last retreat, we will also be adding sessions to discuss ethics, practice and theory.
We intend to fill Hope Springs with 35 women to embody the spirit of this 35 year old body of transnational feminist work. We will be a learning community of women who just have to return one last time, women who have never thought about coming and women who have always said, "I just couldn't fit in."
We hope to have many young women who are interested in learning this form because, although Women's Way is ending, some of us will continue teaching and training. Our work is never over, after all. As long as there are students, we will make forms for passing on what we have learned through our work with women's communities. And, we know young women are our future.
With enthusiasm and good will to each.
Joy, Rita, Beth, Bhanu, Alexandra
" That which is not fully given away is lost forever."
Feb. 9-14, 2010
5 Day Introduction to Experiential Astrology.
Hope Springs, Ohio
, our five-day experiential retreat has been offered for 7
years now. Time-tested and found useful by many, this work is both for beginners
in astrological thnnking, intermediates and people more faqmiliar with the
world view. The work is hard, fun and lasting.
is based
on the laws of nature and the cosmic order. The organizing principles
are both ancient and modern in that each astrological chart reveals
the uniqueness of that individual, the particular brilliance of
the diversity that she represents, and her place in the larger
benevolent order of the universe. In the ancient nights before
history was written, our foremothers studied the night sky and
made meaning out of the patterns of stars and planets. They projected
this benevolent system of meaning of the early cultures onto the
night sky in story form. Over time they organized these patterns
of meaning into a system which helps individuals understand both
the patterns and the meaning in their lives. Astrology provides
a challenging and forgiving lens through which to look at your
life and the unique patterns of diversity, difference and oppression
that you are encountering as well as issues of personal brilliance,
activism and collaborative potential. A woman who is fully living
her chart is manifesting her soul's mission in this life. A feminist
study of astrology offers a strong and gentle cosmic support to
a small, ordinary, individual life.
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