Being Green Again - Day of Retreat

Being Green Again - Day of Retreat

with Penny Allport & Amy Kiara Ruth 

"We began as a mineral
We emerged into plant life and into
the animal state, and then to being human

And always we have forgotten our former states,
except in early spring,
when we dimly recall being green again." Rumi

Join us for a day of inquiry in what it means to be "green again."

Through explorations in Continuum Movement, Continuum Montage, perceptual inquiry and How Life Moves (work of Kevin Frank and Caryn McHose), we will traverse the trail of the body's biological history.

In the playful field of possibility, we will enter the organic origins of life unfolding, and foster new ways of being embodied humans at this potent time in the evolution of consciousness on the planet.

In the history of our biological evolution lies the secret of "being green again" in all of its facets and freedom.

In breath, sound and movement inquiries we will open the potential for new movement possibilities and the reorganization of patterns of inhibition, separation and pain. Join us and be green again!

About Amy Kiara Rut: Amy Kiara Rut, BSc (Kin, Ed) is a kinesiologist and somatic movement educator. Amy enjoys working with individuals of various levels of ability to bring out their movement potential and draws upon her extensive movement experience and training in dance, kinesiology, taiji/qigong, the Pilates method, Self-Regulation Therapy, Continuum and Continuum Montage, and related somatic movement forms. www.amykiararuth.com

Annual Retreats in Paradise Found

Penny offers four scheduled retreats per year in Paradise Found. All take place near or on the changing of the Seasons, with Dreaming in the Dark in Winter, Spring Renewal in the Spring, Primordial Wisdom in Summer and Re-Dreaming the Second Half of Life in the Autumn. See below for details and dates scheduled.

Personal Retreat

Groups: Gather a small group of friends, colleagues or family to celebrate a significant birthday, graduation, rite of passage or important moment in your life where you wish to pause, integrate, and deeply experience the moment through ceremony and celebration.

Penny has created "rites of passage" and ceremony for weddings, baby blessings and other soulful moments and welcomes the opportunity to cocreate with you!

Download the Personal Retreat Brochure (2.5 Mb).

Re-Dreaming The Second Half of Life Retreat

See Re-Dreaming The Second Half of Life for details and pre-requisite for attendance at this retreat. This retreat is adapted from the work of Angeles Arrien and her book The Second Half of Life. Note to reader: Cross culturally, 36 is the turning point of the Second Half of Life!

This retreat offers women an opportunity to join together in an exploration of what it means to be living in the Second Half of Life in these changing times. It is open to all participants, present and alumni who have taken the 11 month Intensive with Penny.

In the autumn of each year we gather to deepen through dreamtime explorations, time in nature, silence and deep listening. These retreats are in Paradise Found, a 6 ½ acre sanctuary on the Sunshine Coast, where the eight gates are tangibly created to integrate further through the magic and power of the imagination.

Dreaming in the Dark

Throughout history Mystics, Healers, Medicine Men and Women, Yogi’s and Monks have honored the “hibernative call”. Nature mirrors this same incubation process with the season of winter, in order to bring forth new life in the spring.

Honoring the hibernative call serves to channel prana (energy) through alternative portals of life giving and inspiring pathways, perhaps not accessed in our habituated lives. The stillness cultivated is beyond the absence of movement, and we greet the future flowing into the present.

Explorations in breath, sound and movement, based in Continuum Movement, invite us into the unfolding potential of what it means to be an embodied human. Perceptual inquiry and explorations in evolutionary movement offer fresh resources and deepen meaning.

As we journey towards the Winter Solstice and the darkest day of the year we will take up practices that support slowing down and resting into resonance with the rhythm of the natural world. We explore what it means to receive, movement in stillness and the stillness in movement. Keep watch for next date.

Spring Renewal - Breathe New Life Into Your Dreams

Spring is a time of renewal, rebirth and resurrection. It is a time of new growth, where nature mirrors the emerging life within each of us. To “resurrect” is to breathe new life into, to revive and to restore life to. Drawing on the ancient wisdom of the mystics we will dive deep into the creative soup of the Mystery and breathe new life into the dreams that continue to call us. We will whisper sweet sounds of encouragement, offer gestures of praise, and gently urge the neglected and (almost) forgotten dreams of our potential to arise and find their form in creation.

Through the rich resources of Continuum movement, perceptual inquiry, meditation, dreams, journaling, nature, silence and reflection this weekend offers an opportunity to rest into the sweet territory of silence and draw on this potent time in the seasonal cycle to support the uniqueness of what is emerging in each of our lives at this time.

Fresh possibilities awaken in dormant places and we find ourselves, like the new shoots of spring, deeply rooted in rich soil, answering the call of light, water and life to fulfill our life’s dream at this time.

An extended period of silence is included in this three-day retreat to support the unique longings of each individual to be met. There is also an opportunity to explore Painting from the Inside Out as a portal in our inquiry into the renewal rites of spring. Accommodations in the Dream Lodge, nourishing meals, a journal & other tools/resources included. Keep watch for next date.

Primordial Wisdom - A Summer Intensive

Primordial - "existing from the beginning; original; rudimentary; primitive" Websters Dictionary.

Land in the primordial ooze of creation, through explorations in breath, sound, movement and inquiry into the wisdom of our origins based in Continnum Movement (www.continuummovement.com).

Explore the body as vessel and sacred container of our primordial origins and wisdom. Enter into a species inclusive consciousness and discover the resources of the infinite life forms on the planet. Embody the elemental nature of the body and recover illimitable resources of vitality and creativity.

Beginning to show up in the 72 trillion cells we call a body offers us an embodied presence to meet the challenges and opportunities of this potent time on the planet. Creativity is our birthrite. Thus, there will be time to enter into explorations in self expression through painting, writing, movement, story telling and sound.

We will enter an extended period of silence together to deepen and allow the inner teacher time to inform and integrate experience.
Keep watch for next date.

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Days of Retreat at Paradise Found - Summer Intensive

Days of retreat in Paradise Found offer an extended time to rest into the deep well of inquiry and creativity, through Continuum Movement explorations, time in nature, silence and perceptual play. We return to daily life with resources for living freshly in the moments arriving. Keep watch for our next retreat.

Awakening Vision, The Courage to See

Through movement, creative collage, explorations in nature and tending the longings of the Soul at this time, we will create individual vision boards inviting the Mystery's dream for us to find form from the formless soup of possibility.

The vision boards are intended to support your journey in the unfolding year as a vision of potential for the unmanifest life to come into form. This is not vision boarding for the things that you want, but rather a vision of the silent longings of the Soul at this time.
Let the vision board become an altar and mirror of the un-manifest longing to be manifest in an embodied and integrated way in the coming year. Keep watch for our next retreat.

Tender Beginnings - Welcoming the Onset of Spring

Through poetry reading and making, movement, explorations in nature and tending the fresh growth just beneath the surface of awareness, we will move and breath together and weave a web of words not written before and never to be written again on the blank page of our lives.

Our lives are poetry in the making. Allow words to form out of the movement of life and support integration of the life longing to be lived through you at this time. Tend the fresh new stirrings of Spring. We have a wellspring of resource within us just waiting and wanting to be met, tended and encouraged into the living body of creation. Rest into a day of inquiry, movement, silence and the sweet embrace of the natural world to nourish and encourage that which is tapping on the stones of your dungeon.

Please wear comfortable clothes to move in, bring a small snack/lunch. Organic tea and sweetness served with lunch. All supplies included. Plenty of gumboots to walk the land in! Keep watch for next date.