I'll let you know when the recording is available.
Then, on Saturday, June 21st from 10am-4 pm I'm offering Descent and Return: Giving Life to Life, a full day retreat built around the Sumerian tale of Inanna and Ereshkigal. This is not a gender biased myth, but the story of one aspect of the feminine that dwells in all of us.
After hearing the story of Inanna and Ereshkigal we'll use sandtray, discussion, collage and journaling to explore the ways the wisdom of this ancient myth relates to our modern lives....
Descent & Return,
Giving Life to Life
A myth is a stone dropped into the still waters of a clear lake. As the
stone drops it creates ripples in ever widening circles. Eventually all ripples
come to rest upon the shore. Encoded
with ancient wisdom regarding the human experience, a myth offers us an
opportunity to enter the narrative in our own way, hear what’s most relevant to
our life and awaken to a personal understanding of its teachings.
A myth can hold both the comfort of a
story told and retold and the freshness of a story heard for the very first
time. In this way it can carry us to new
shores or imbue familiar places with new meaning and potency.
In the Sumerian myth of Inanna, Queen of
Heaven and Earth and Ereshkighal, Queen of the Lower Realm, we enter the primal
landscape of an ancient and ongoing human journey – the journey of descent and
return. The myth of Inanna and
Ereskighal is a narrative map that illuminates this journey. It suggests how we
can strengthen our connection to the full range of our human potential as we
engage in the descent and how we can return with new vitality and wholeness. We’ll deepen our experience of this timeless
myth using journalling, sand tray, time in nature, discussion and collage. Together we’ll enter the landscape of Inanna
and Ereskighal to discover our individual path to integrating the collective
wisdom that this myth reveals.
Where:
Unity of Taos
When:
Saturday, June 21st, 10:00 am
to 4:00 pm
Fee:
$55. includes materials and snacks
Early
Bird Discount! Register by June 6th
$50.00
Registration
ends June 17. For registration and details information: Call 505 310 2765
Presenter: Rose Gordon began facilitating workshops
and retreats in 1997. Trained in Council Circle practice by Gigi Coyle and Jack
Zimmerman, Rose has worked as the Restorative Justice facilitator in Taos
County since 2004. Her experiential
retreats integrate 2 decades of scholarship, training & direct service
including a degree in Hospice & Grief Counseling, 5 yrs. as Director and Faculty Member for Upaya Zen
Center’s Being with Dying Program, facilitation of bereavement groups & design & facilitation of training programs
and retreats in topics including Descent & Return, Stress Reduction,
Dreamwork, Compassionate End of Life Care and Restorative Justice in Colorado,
NY, Boston, Dubai and Thailand. Rose
trains hospice volunteers and is an invited presenter at Southwestern College,
Santa Fe Community College and Southwest Acupuncture College.
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