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  1. Jun
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      Avoiding The Wall
      4:30 pm – 3:00 pm
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      Join us for five days that will change the way you see and experience your health. Avoiding the Wall means taking proactive measures before you crash. Understanding how to change the underlying conditions that effect your energy, your mood, and your outlook toward life.

      As human beings we are creatures of habit, even if some of those habits can undermine our felt sense of well-being. This retreat will be an opportunity to explore the habits and beliefs that run our lives. We will be working primarily through the body, with each participant receiving three hours of bodywork per day, along with integrative coaching sessions. The massage and bodywork treatments are deeply nourishing and they provide you with access to the truth held within your own body. We provide the safety, skill and professionalism that will make this five day experience one of renewal and transformation.

      During This Retreat You Will Receive:

      Multiple Daily bodywork treatments:

      - Myofascial release

      - Deep Tissue Massage

      - Relaxation Massage

      - Chinese Massage

      - Watsu Aquatic Therapy

      - Acupuncture

      - Life Coaching

      - Yoga Classes

      - Meditation Instruction

      - Regenerative Nutrition

      - Healthy Gourmet  Meals

      - Movement therapy

      - Walks in Nature

      - Quiet Time to Rest and Integrate your Experience

       

       

       

  2. Jun
    18
    Mon

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      Lighten Your Body ….. Lighten Your Life
      5:00 pm – 2:00 pm
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       Are you commited to change in 2012 but don’t know where to begin?

      We live in a culture preoccupied with body image and body weight. Magazines call out at us from the checkout stand offering the next new celebrity diet.

      Imagine instead that  excess body weight  and it’s
      challenging health effects are the product of a uniquely modern human “ecology” of convenience foods, sedentary lifestyles, time pressures and stress. People struggle their whole lives to lose weight and feel good in their bodies. Often, they have tried many approaches, but nothing has been lasting. We invite you to join us for an extraordinary week where you will learn about yourself, your body, and how to create a new path  to achieve your dreams.

      During this week you will:

      (1) Explore your deeper human needs and wake up from the nightmare of myths that people hold in common about their body.

      (2) Engage in powerful self-care with yoga, meditation, massage, watsu, gentle exercise, coaching, astrology and delightful food out of nature’s garden

      (3) Create a sane and healthy map of the future, one in which you lighten your body and lighten your life. 

       


      We provide you with culinary delights that give you just the right mix of protein and organic vegetables grown in our beautiful garden. By eating this way all week you will be removing most of the sugars and carbohydrates from your diet, allowing the liver and pancreas to rest, so that you burn fat while maintaining muscle mass.

      This is more like a hunter and gatherer’s way of eating that has  not only been scientifically validated, but tested through thousands of years of human evolution. This type of food regime it is a great way to reboot digestive functions,  cleanse the GI track, and set the stage for a new body weight equilibrium.

       Over our evolutionary history human beings were always active and moving. Bottom line, a healthy relationship to your body also involves more exercise. First, we will show you how you can use advances in regenerative nutrition to create more energy at the cell level . Exercise then becomes easier to initiate, and easier to maintain. This can be experienced by a person at any level of fitness. Our goal is to help you establish a new metabolic set point where food and exercise and stress release are balanced in a healthy way.

      We will explore together the ways in which  food is used in our culture, and in our families as both a reward and a comfort, seeking to untangle the emotions tied to food from the nourishment it provides.

      You will receive daily bodywork and massage,  helping to release tension and holding patterns that can be locked in the body.  Working through the body in this way not only feels great , but it invites you to inhabit your body in a new way.

      Throughout our week together we will be balancing individual time with time spent in the group. There will be plenty of opportunity to rest, write in your journal, go for walks, or relax in the hot tub. There will also be times when we share our stories together, learn in a group setting and reflect back to each other the kind of nourishment that a learning community can provide.

      We are much more than the food that we eat. And in our culture tremendous life energy gets used up fighting ourselves and our body weight. Our focus instead, will be on supporting you to establish a whole new kind of self care, where everything from the food you eat, to the thoughts you hold, to the way you inhabit your body, contributes to your well-being.

      We will provide you with extraordinary tools and a whole new understanding of what constitutes a healthy you This will enable your body to become the vehicle through which you bring your dreams and aspirations into the life you want to live.

      During this week you will receive:

      - 6 body work treatments

      - Individual coaching sessions everyday

      - Healthy and delicious organic meals

      - Regenerative nutrition

      - Daily yoga and stretching classes

      - An active daily exercise program tailored to your needs

      -  Mindfulness training and meditation instruction

      - Plenty of time to rest, relax and take care of your deeper needs

      -  A retraining system for the body, including an individualized take home plan that fits  your life

       

      Rhetah Kwan  is a innovative facilitator, consultant, and instructor with a strong commitment to health and well-being.  She has studied herbology, massage, Chi Kung, and nutrition in her personal quest for health.  Rhetah struggled for most of her life with health and weight issues, but over the last seven years she has lost 135 pounds, and  at the age of 60 has what her doctor calls “the blood work of a thirty year old” 
      Rhetah is the founder and developer of My Circle of Health, a personal health integration plan, and President of the Portland Chapter of Women of Visionary Influence, a mentoring and leadership organization for women. 

       

      David   believes that when a person becomes whole, they are able to express all the different parts of himself, and that this experience fills our lives with joy, compassion and intelligence. David has been using Astrology for 40 years as a tool to help clients deeper their own self understanding. In addition, he has trained with Byron Katie’s “The Work” and uses this powerful approach to help clients see beyond their self limiting beliefs. For most of his adult life David has been clinically obese. Over the last two years he has lost two hundred pounds, using the protein diet, and has regained his health and his capacity to step into the life he chooses.

      Richard Klein Is a life coach and an aquatic therapist and runs Mountain Waters Retreats. Richard has studied extensively in body-centered psychology and mindfulness based stress reduction. He is an outdoor enthusiast who teaches nature awareness and leads guests on the network of forest trails that surround the Retreat Center. Richard grew up in a family where food was used as a comfort and as a way to self-medicate in the face of emotional pain.