LIFE BREAKS
GOLDEN GIFTS OF THE SOUL
with Renate Heimann-Dari
Reiki master from Germany
a workshop using the Japanese art of kintsugi to lovingly give attention to the breaks in our lives and appreciate and gild the gifts they have brought us.
17 - 19 May 2024
Poulstone Court, Herefordshire
Life Breaks...
We have all had painful experiences in the course of our lives and have almost always - at least in retrospect - been able to see what a gift they were for our growth and our becoming and being.
In this workshop, we will turn our attention lovingly to the breaks in our lives and consider, appreciate and literally gild the gift they have brought us.
To do this, we will use the Japanese tradition of Kintsugi, in which the fractures are honored and gilded. Working with a real tea bowl we love that will represent our lives, we will allow it to break for us.
We will lovingly look at these fragments of our life, appreciate them and reassemble them into our self (or the bowl of our life) and gild them. In this way, the imperfect becomes something new, something very perfect, whose great value and beauty becomes clearly visible.
This outer level is the mirror of what life has brought us, but also what miracles our self-healing powers can bring about. With the help of Reiki, psychosynthesis exercises, meditations and reflections, we will look at these life breaks, appreciate them and also gild them internally. The real vessel that is created in the process will always connect us in the future with the value of our life path and its gifts.
Please bring a vessel (tea bowl or similar) that means something to you in your life and that you would like to allow to break on behalf of your life, to show its individual parts and fractures and to come together again to form the valuable vessel for the life that you have become. I will bring all other materials to the workshop.
The Venue: Poulstone Court Retreat and Meditation Centre
Kings Caple, Herefordshire, UK
Poulstone Court is a charming Victorian country house, rebuilt in 1877 around an older core, which dates back to the 16th Century, set in peaceful surroundings of the Wye Valley in the heart of the beautiful Herefordshire countryside.
The house and its gardens are full of personality, with an honest, peaceful and nourishing energy radiating within. Poulstone has been a home to retreats for over 25 years and is infused with the practice and energy of many diverse traditions.
The house is on three floors and surrounded by its own grounds. The grounds include extensive gardens, a large walled kitchen garden and several outbuildings. The oldest part of the buildings is the barn (where we will be working on our kinstugi), some parts of which date back 450 years.
The views from all parts of the house are stunning. The grounds incorporate a “ha-ha”, which provides an uninterrupted vista of the rolling Wye valley landscape.
There are 10 bedrooms in the house mainly comprising of twin rooms and large four bedded rooms. You will therefore be sharing with two, three or four people to a room. There is one single room. The house has six bathrooms, four with shower hoses and an additional four separate shower rooms. All the rooms are spacious, retaining much of their original character with lovely views onto the gardens and fields beyond.
You can find out more about Poulstone here
Facilitator: Renate Heimann-Dari
from Germany
Reiki master, psychosynthesis therapist, business coach, many times gilded by life
Organiser: Kate Jones from UK
Reiki master, nutrition coach and also many times guilded by life.
The Details
Date: 17 - 19 May 2024
From 6.00 pm on Friday to 5.00 pm on Sunday.
Costs: £540 shared/£560 single (limited availability)
This cost includes:
- Accommodation in shared rooms (one single available) - please indicate your preferred room-mate on the booking form
- All vegetarian meals from dinner on Friday to lunch on Sunday. If you have any specific dietary requirement other than vegetarian food Poulstone may be able to accommodate this for an extra fee of £5.00
- Faciltiation by Renate
- Materials
- Organisational costs
You can pay a deposit of £50 to secure your place. You will then need to pay an installment payment of £220.00 by 28th February.
Alternatively you can pay £270.00 to book.
The final balance of payment is due by 30th April.
If you pay via Eventbrite there will be a booking fee added to the cost. If you would prefer not to pay this fee please contact the organiser Kate for alternative ways to pay.
If you pay via Eventbrite there will also be a booking fee added to the cost. If you would prefer not to pay this fee please contact the organiser Kate for alternative ways to pay.
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