Moon OVER THE MOUNTAINS

Women's Empowerment RetreatS

How do you want to enter the next phase of your life?

You can increase the expression of your empowered spirit in yourself and in the world. Learn to gather, release, expand, connect to energies in yourself, in nature and in relationships, to strengthen the physical, emotional, and spiritual body. 

Do you want to take charge of your health? We will teach you simple, yet powerful, tools Tai Chi, Rejuvenation and Longevity Qigong, Energy Gathering Qigong. Feel nourishment and healing using Sweat Lodge and Journeys.

Approach with an open heart, create a sacred space, invite help, journey with intent for finding and expressing inner strength, creative energy, connection to higher guidance and help, and expression of empowerment.

•  Workshop Agenda
•  Registration (email: mail@susanamatthews.com for registration details)

•  Workshop Location

•  Tai Chi Philosophy and  Women's Empowerment

•  Tai Chi and Women's Health

Workshop Agenda

(Workshop agenda subject to change depending on guest presenters)

Saturday

8:30 a.m.- Session 1 · Energy Gathering and Blood Circulation Qigong
Self empowerment through self-healing techniques for many women's health issues, breasts, bones, hormones.
10:30 a.m. - Session 2 · Harmony in a Group

Advanced practitioners will help you feel more energy and connect to rhythms and patterns of energy movement. The energy of love that connects us all.

12:30 p.m. - Lovely Veggie Soup for Lunch

1:30 p.m.- Meditation on Value 

2:00 - Session 3 · Physical Power, Strength Training

Biomechanics of rooting, full-body integration and connectivity and the biomechanics of spiraling bones.
4:00- 4:30 p.m.  - Session 4 · Drum Journey uses the beat of the drum, the heartbeat of the mother earth to enter an altered state through which the individual has access to their guides and personal or cosmic information. Thirty minutes drumming. Ending with some personal journaling time. 

Sunday

8:30 a.m.- Session 5 · Gathering Nature's Energies 

Womb Meditation, Empowered Walking

10:30 a.m. - Session 6 · People and Plant Energy
12:30 p.m. - Pot Luck Lunch

1:30 p.m. - Session 7 · Advanced Biomechanics and Yin Force Power Stretch, Waist Connection, Testing

3:00 p.m. - Session 8 · Expansion of Self and Creative Power in Sword Play, hiking, cross country skiing or a creative project (depends on weather.) 

Bring out the Spiritual Warrior. Sarah, an advanced student, said this after learning a new broadsword form, "I’d go so far as to say every woman should have a sword and swing it around, it feels so great." 

4:30 p.m. Integration

Optional Evening Hours: More Pot Luck, Sweat Lodge, Fire

Cost

$195.00 for two days (subject to revision). 

Please Bring 

Please bring a vegetarian dish or drink to share on Sunday. 

A favorite cup or mug 

water

2 Blankets, to sit on and to wrap up in. Bring a big towel if you choose to sweat.

Flashlight

Journal

Shoes for walking in the woods.

Small pack, water bottle, hat and gloves, warm pants for early am and late pm.

We are intending for spirit to give us great weather. You can expect 50-55°F in the early morning but quickly warming when the sun hits. Midday is warm and beautiful.

Location 

Walking With Lions Preserve and Retreat in Southwestern Colorado. Details can be obtained be emailing mail@susanamatthews.com. 

© 2002 Susan A. Matthews