Join us for the 2019 Path of Consciousness Conference and Retreat

Guests have the choice of attending the one-day Saturday Conference or the full three-day retreat.

Friday – October 4, 2019

4:00 – 5:45 Guests arrive and unpack

5:30 – 5:40 – Welcome Ceremony (Manresa – 5th Floor)

5:45 – 6:45 Dinner

7:00 – 9:00 Act of Power Workshop – Weam Namou, Facilitator (Manresa – 5th Floor)

Saturday – October 5, 2019

7:30 – 8:00 Sacred Service at the Main Chapel

8:30 – 9:30 Breakfast

9:45 – 9:50 Welcome

9:50 – 11:20 Mother Energy Workshop – Weam Namou (Manresa – 5th Floor)

11:30 – 12:30 Multiple Options: Yoga Workshop, Writing, or Self-Care

Option #1: Yoga Workshop – Sandy Naimou, Facilitator (Cardoner Room – 3rd Floor)

Option #2: Writing – Utilize the beautiful Colombiere Center, both indoors and out, to write with a group to share in the creative process. You may also opt to spend time alone to journal privately. (Monserrat – 5th Floor)

Option #3: Self-Care – Utilizing the skills and wisdom of practitioners for spiritual and/or self-care purposes. (Retreatant Lounge – 4th Floor)

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch

1:45 – 2:45 The Natural Laws of Successful Storytelling: How the Hero Finds Healing on the Journey – Dr. Stan Williams, Facilitator (Manresa – 5th Floor)

3:15 – 4:00 Journaling Around the Wheel – Sonya Julie, Facilitator (Manresa – 5th Floor)

4:15 – 4:45 Multiple Options: Nature Walk, Writing, or Self-Care

Option #1: Guided Nature Walk – Patty Shaw, Facilitator (meet near the lobby on the 3rd floor)

Option #2: Writing – Utilize the beautiful Colombiere Center, both indoors and out, to write with a group to share in the creative process. You may also want to opt to spend time alone to journal privately. (Monserrat – 5th Floor)

Option #3: Self-Care – Utilizing the skills and wisdom of practitioners for spiritual and/or self-care purposes. (Retreatant Lounge – 4th Floor)

5:00 – 5:45 DIY Akashic Wisdom with Patty Shaw: accessing the library of your soul
Visiting your own Akashic Record room is a great way to learn about you! (Manresa – 5th Floor)

5:45 – 6:45 Dinner

7:00 – 9:00 Gong Ceremony in the Chapel

9:30 – ? An outdoor Drumming Fire Ceremony will take place, weather permitting. Please bring a percussion or acoustic instrument if you’d like to take part. There will be a few extra to share.

Sunday – October 6, 2019

7:30 – 8:00 Sacred Service at the Main Chapel

8:30 – 9:30 Breakfast

9:45 – 10:15 Yoga Workshop – Sandy Naimou – (Cardoner – 3rd Floor)

10:30 – 11:00 Guided Meditation for the Creative Soul – Lisa Argo (Cardoner – 3rd Floor)

11:15 – 12:15 GROOVE Dance Workshop – Kate Rundell (Cardoner – 3rd Floor)

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch

1:45 – 2:45 Journaling and the Writing Life Workshop – Weam Namou (Manresa – 5th Floor)

3:00 – 4:15 Multiple Options: Writing, or Self-Care

Option #1: Writing – Utilize the beautiful Colombiere Center, both indoors and out, to write with a group to share in the creative process. You may also opt to spend time alone to journal privately. (Monserrat – 5th Floor)

Option #2: Self-Care – Utilizing the skills and wisdom of practitioners for spiritual and/or self-care purposes. (Retreatant Lounge – 4th Floor)

4:30 Departure

Further details will be announced as they become available.

CLASS DESCRIPTION AND PRESENTERS

Act of Power Ceremony
For our Friday evening session we will hold an Act of Power Workshop, a powerful writing process in which we set our intentions for that which we wish to manifest.

Mother Energy Workshop
Explore the different styles of shamanic energy (Rainbow vs. Nurturing), how to recognize which type you are, and how to use that to manifest personal and professional success.

Journaling and the Writing Life
We will look at how we can use journaling to support us in our writing life as we empower ourselves to be the storytellers of our lives, both personally and professionally.

Weam Namou is an Eric Hoffer award-winning author of 13 books, a speaker, a filmmaker (winner of the IndieFest International Film Award ), and journalist for over 10 years. She serves as an Ambassador for the Authors Guild of America [Detroit Chapter], the nation’s oldest and largest professional organization for writers. She hosts a weekly half hour TV show on Community Media Network in Troy, Michigan. Weam is a certified Reiki Master, Sikkim Guardian, ordained minister, and a graduate of best-selling author Lynn Andrews’ 4-year course of study and training in the sacred healing art. Find her at http://www.WeamNamou.com and http://www.ThePathofConsciousness.com

Yoga Workshop
A combination of movement, longer held Hatha yoga postures, yogic breathing exercises, and chanting to relax and invigorate mind and body. This practice will release layers of physical and mental tension to help us in opening up to a relaxed state of being. In order to sit for long periods of time through the retreat, it’s important to maintain circulation in the body and openness in areas that sitting easily closes off. Whether practicing on a mat or on a chair, this practice will help you ignite and sustain a felt sense of vitality through the weekend. Open and accommodating to all levels. Please bring a yoga mat. There will be a few extra. Blocks and yoga blankets provided.

Sandy Naimou is an E-RYT 200 with Yoga Alliance, holds a B.A. in Psychology and M.L.A. in Women’s and Gender Studies. She has been teaching yoga since 2011, practicing yoga for over 20 years, and writing in personal journals since childhood. She teaches yoga full-time, primarily at General Motors Corporation and is a board member for the Theosophical Society in Detroit. http://www.CreativeEnergyYoga.com

Journaling Around the Wheel
In this guided meditation participants will learn about balancing their energies using the principles of traveling around the shamanic wheel and will be provided a journaling activity for personal exploration.

Sonya Julie has been writing creatively for decades. She has published columns in company newsletters and created freelance content for print and digital publications about health, spirituality, ancient wisdom, lifestyle, travel, adventure, and community. Sonya facilitates workshops, creates jewelry, and is currently writing her memoir, due to be published by the end of 2019. She is the executive administrator for Rochester Writers and loves interacting with the Michigan writing community. She enjoys crafting social media content and marketing for select entities and teaching, sharing, coaching, and encouraging people to find their inspiration. Find her at www.SonyaJulie.com and https://awakeningthecore.com/

Guided Nature Walk
A guided nature walk on the beautiful grounds of the Columbiere Centere. Details to be announced.

DIY Akashic Wisdom with Patty Shaw: accessing the library of your soul
Visiting your own Akashic Record room is a great way to learn about you!

Patty Shaw is the author of the award winning books, Healer’s Almanac – Journey into Health with Wisdom from the 21st Century Goddesses and DIY Akashic Wisdom, access the library of your soul with Jacki Smith. She is co-owner of Coventry Creations, creators of the Original Blessed Herbal Candles, and the Candle Wick Shoppe in Ferndale. She is a Holy Fire Reiki master and spiritual counselor. http://www.HealingWithPattyShaw.com

The Natural Laws of Successful Storytelling: How the Hero Finds Healing on the Journey In his one-hour workshop, Stan will share with us the fundamental traits of all successful story telling that connect with film audiences and novel readers. These traits have everything to do with your hero’s journey of healing from weakness and vice, to strength and virtue. To some these are miracle remedies that through our characters provide mental, spiritual, and physical healing, not just to the characters we create, but also for the writer and the story consumer. You’ll learn about the importance of irony, struggle and conflict, and how we, along with our characters, can only heal ourselves by confronting and over coming conflict. Stan will also reveal to us the six story fundamentals or medicines the writer needs to internalize before even beginning to write. We’ll discover the five critical ingredients of a Log Line that cut through the thicket of the jungle and reveal the path we need to take as a writer, and that our hero must master. And most important to any holistic solution to our lives and to our character’s quest are how values drive action, and how the four ingredients of the moral premise statement will totally eliminate writers block, that illness that we all want to avoid.

Dr. Stan Williams is a veteran filmmaker and storyteller, having worked with dozens of Hollywood writers and producers over the years. His best selling story structure book was published in 2006 by Michale Wiese Books—the Moral Premise: Harnessing Virtue and Vice for Box Office Success. The mainstream films he has consultant on have grossed over a billion dollars at the worldwide box office, for studios such as 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers, and Disney. Most notably he has worked directly with Will Smith on over a dozen projects. Find him at https://www.stanwilliams.com/ and http://moralpremise.blogspot.com/

Deep Insight Gong Meditation
You will be guided on a dynamic sound journey to help you enhance your intuition, creativity and healing. This deeply integrative experience supports your learning and next steps.

Vince Anthony Pitre is a licensed psychotherapist and hypnotherapist. His curiosity and commitment to master the healing process has guided him to study sound healing in Europe and Shamanic healing in the jungle and mountains of Peru. Now in his twenty first year in practice, he provides therapeutic individual and group sessions at his office in Sterling Heights Michigan. Find him at https://www.newoutcomestherapy.com/

GROOVE Dance Workshop
Unite, dance, and be yourself! Nurture your body, mind, heart, and soul in this dynamic and interactive creative group dance experience. Everyone is welcome – all ages, shapes, sizes, demographics, and abilities. No right or left, front or back, you add your own style and you can’t do this wrong! The GROOVE dance floor is a dynamically interactive and creative group dance experience. With great music, your facilitator, Kate Rundell, will UNITE everyone in a simple movement or rhythm, but you get to dance it your own UNIQUE way. While exploring a variety of styles and genres, we encourage you to enjoy and feel good in your body, every step along the way. Learn more about GROOVE at https://theworldgroovemovement.com/the-dancefloor-experience/

Kate Rundell had worked in information technology for over 20 years when she decided to follow her passion and become a Registered Nurse at the age of 51. Some major life changes at the age of 56 forced her to go inward, embrace the pain, and move toward healing. During that time she miraculously stumbled across GROOVE which has a philosophy based on loving oneself without judgment. Kate knew that she wanted to experience this lifestyle and to share it with others. “GROOVE has allowed me to meet such beautiful souls and be a part of their healing journey. Before 2016 I was just going through the motions of my life. Now I am embracing the moments, trying new things, and encouraging others to live their truth.”

Lisa Argo is a second level Reiki practitioner and a student at the Center of Enlightenment Ministry program in Ferndale, MI. She serves the congregation as a certified Medium and Spiritual Healer. Lisa is a web designer, certified in HTML, and Microsoft Office and she’s working on a series of children’s books centered around a group of boys and their growth, both spiritually and emotionally.

Jaya Jaya is a gifted healer and a massage and Cranio Sacral Therapist. Jaya’s Healing Bodywork is her practice in Rochester, Michigan. She will be providing her services during the break-out sessions. She combines various therapies for best results, designing the massage/healing that best suits your needs. http://www.jayasbodywork.com/about.html ($20 for 20 minutes – includes a head, neck, and shoulders massage and healing).