Opening to Mystery: Exploring the SoulCollage® Council Suit
Fifth Annual KaleidoSoul SoulCollage® Retreat
June 10-13, 2010 Rolling Ridge Retreat Center Andover, Massachusetts
The real trick to life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery. ---F.A. Wolf Please join us in early summer 2010 for our annual KaleidoSoul Retreat! It's not too soon to make plans for this fun weekend of community, card making, and inner discoveries.
We'll be exploring the following aspects of SoulCollage®: * Source Card * SoulEssence Card * Witness Card * Council Suit (archetypes & spirit guides)
The Source, SoulEssence and Witness cards represent the "One" and the Council Suit represents some of the "Many" that make up our souls. These aspects of the SoulCollage® Deck are unseen and therefore mysterious. During this four-day retreat, we'll be using SoulCollage®, guided meditation, small group activities and large group ritual to open ourselves up to the Mystery of Spirit. There will be LOTS of time for card making, sharing our SoulCollage® cards and card making ideas, as well as doing readings with our Decks. The card making tables will be set up round the clock all three days, so you can make SoulCollage® cards while breakout sessions are going on, in the middle of the night, and in your jammies by the light of the moon if you want! 
Option breakout sessions may include:
- Archetypes 101
- Transpersonal Cards: Experiencing the One
- Savoring the Silence
- SoulEssence
- What is Witness Energy?
- Archetypes Council Meeting
- Goddesses Among Us
- Living a Mythic Life
- Spirituality & SoulCollage
All teaching sessions are optional (except for the Opening and Closing Circles). At our KaleidoSoul Retreats, you are always encouraged to relax and renew in whatever ways speak most deeply to your soul.
NOTE: If you're a KaleidoSoul Kindred Spirit Member, you have the valuable option of spreading out the cost, with several smaller monthly payments instead of taking a big chunk out of your checkbook at once. Click here for more information about becoming a Kindred Spirit Member.
At this women-only retreat, you'll... - Spend three days/nights at
Rolling Ridge Retreat Center, a beautiful retreat center surrounded by trees and a huge lake in Andover, MA (about 25 miles north of Boston). As soon as you drive through the gates, you'll breathe a deep sigh of relief as peaceful energy envelops and awakens your soul. This is time for you! - Enjoy hours and hours of sifting through images and making SoulCollage® cards to your heart's content.
- Dive deeper into your SoulCollage® practice by participating in activities and guided visualizations designed specifically to put you in touch with Source and your own personal archetypes and spirit guides
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- Get to know others who are embracing SoulCollage® as a spiritual practice and tool for self-expression.
Participate in one or two Yoga classes with Laura Hegfield (optional) Take part in a Moonlight Labyrinth Walk Enjoy a 15-30 minute chair massage with certified Massage Therapist Lucy Belter, of River Spirit Massage in Topsfield (small extra fee) | Previous Retreat Participants Are Saying: The experience was more powerful than I could have imagined. The connections to everyone, the songs, the dancing, the creating- it was truly a magical experience I will never forget. My creative fire has been stoked and I will keep on creating! -- Amy Menard, Andover, MA I loved it! You gave me the space to discover what has been a talent long tucked away because I did not give it space. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!--Pat Izzi, Cranston, RIThe loveliness of the whole weekend has really stayed with us...especially how taken care of we felt by your generosity...the abundance of gifts and images, the delicious food, and the beauty of the area. --Cynthia Shaw and Laina Leckie, Nyack, NY It was food for my soul... It was a glorious, enlightening, heavenly, soothing, creative, fun, relaxing, and emotional experience. I feel immensely blessed to have been able to participate. -- Cheryl Finley, Oak Park, IL AcapellaSoul I went to the retreat expecting one dimension to my experience, but found a sense of self and community that was totally unexpected. -- Sue Ferrell, Westford, MA This retreat was one of the most rewarding and enjoyable experiences I've ever had. My self-love, self-nurturing and connections within myself were turned up several notches this weekend. I feel as if questions have been answered and the weight of the world has been lifted from my shoulders. I feel at peace and unified within myself and within the community. --- Janet Levine, NY I now feel re-connected, peaceful and rejuvenated. --- Brenda Fernandez, MA It was like diving into a well of synchronicity. -- Stephanie Harkness, Winthrop, MEYou never know before an experience like this how much the heart will open. Anne Marie and Anne created such a safe space that mine opened effortlessly. --- Laura Hegfield, NH Anne Marie is a gifted facilitator and is able to create both a sacred and safe space, and to both nurture/affirm and stretch others to explore more and go deeper. -- Lis Gordon, Beverly, MAMy expectations were not grand but I never could have expected what has happened. Transformations happened right before our eyes! It was a wondrous and exciting weekend. -- Joyce Hokans, Shrewsbury, MAThe pace of the retreat was perfect and responsive to the needs of the group both individually and corporately. -- Paula Tanzi, Osterville, MA I loved having the freedom to do whatever I wanted instead of having to adhere to a rigid schedule. I REALLY loved having so much open time to make cards. --- Dot Everhart, PA Anne Marie's presentation style and leadership was very good. She gave us clear, concise instruction interwoven with acceptance and encouragement that made me want to risk trying new things. -- Janet Waggoner, Shelton, CT |
If you've been practicing SoulCollage® on your own, this is a tremendous opportunity to experience the powerful energy that comes from creating SoulCollage® cards in community.
If you've practiced SoulCollage® in a group already, this is a great way to expand your circle of SoulCollage® sisters while growing closer to your own beautiful Self.
Meet Your Retreat Facilitators
Anne Marie Bennett is a freelance writer, self-taught artist, experienced SoulCollage® Facilitator and Trainer of Facilitators who trained directly with Seena Frost. She has a BS degree in Education from Southern Connecticut State University and has taught children, teens and adults throughout the East Coast. Her workshop and retreat participants flourish as she gently guides them through the process of self-discovery while encouraging playful, creative self-expression with a joyful, open heart. She passionately believes that we are all lit from within... and that SoulCollage® helps to remove the shadows from our souls so that we can be our true, radiant, authentic selves. Anne Marie lives, laughs, writes, sings (and makes her own SoulCollage® cards!) in Beverly, MA.
Anne Boedecker is a psychotherapist, collage artist, and SoulCollage® Facilitator who uses expressive art for spiritual growth and healing. Her passion is the creative care of the soul through art, music, writing, meditation and movement. To read more about Anne's background, philosophy, and workshop offerings, click here.
For Laura Hegfield, For Laura Hegfield, visual art, yoga, meditation, marriage, mothering, coaching, teaching art/yoga to Jewish teens,and perhaps most profoundly- living with chronic illness for the past 10 years, have all been fertile ground for her personal spiritual unfolding. Along with being a SoulCollage® facilitator, Laura is a certified Yoga & Jewish Spirituality teacher and a Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach. Laura’s young adult adventures began first at Temple University as a Jazz performance vocalist. Her path then took a surprising turn that led her to Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, where she graduated with a BS in Textile Design. Laura whole heartedly believes that: awareness, clear vision and sacred listening, allow us to live in wholeness: body, mind, heart and soul. Learn more about Laura on her blog, Shine the Divine.
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