The Best is Yet to Come Walking the El Camino Trail of your Life April 28- May 1, 2016 Retreat at beautiful Wolfeboro Inn with Meredith Young Sowers Find what you ve learned, how you ve grown and what miracles lie ahead. Dear Stillpoint Friend, The El Camino Trail is an actual experience that more and more people are having. Today, hundreds of thousands (more than 200,000 in 2014 alone) pilgrims of one kind or another venture out each year from their front doorsteps or from popular starting points across Europe, to make their way to Santiago de Compostela. (The church is where St. James s bones are purported to be buried.) Most pilgrims travel by foot, some by bicycle, and a few travel as some of their medieval counterparts did, on horseback or by donkey. In addition to those undertaking a religious pilgrimage, many are hikers who walk the route for other reasons: travel, sport, or simply the challenge of weeks of walking in a foreign land. Also, many consider the experience a spiritual adventure to remove oneself from the bustle of modern life. It serves as a retreat for many modern "pilgrims".
Your Own Pilgrimage of Awakening Imagine that you are setting out on such a spiritual pilgrimage to discover more about yourself and your life. Just like the El Camino Trail adventure, this 4-day Stillpoint retreat will be a time away from the busyness of everyday life. Expect that something will awaken within you that has been buried or never before discovered or acknowledged that will enhance your life, your belief in yourself, and the knowing that the best of your life is yet to come. You ll gain valuable new insights as you explore: What is your life really meant to be about? When you return to your life, how will you be different? What can change? How will you see things? How often we look over our shoulder and wonder whether the good or the bad will come again. Often we fear that the discouragements, losses and failures will repeat themselves in the future. Perhaps we attributed these old struggles to bad luck, signing up for a tough life, or just having been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Our Perspective Determines How We Welcome Change It is much easier to remember and call to mind the struggle rather than the joy, the pain more than the happiness, the loss more than the gain. Certainly we can t control the flow of our lives. Yet we can make a big difference on what comes to us and how we welcome it or at least accept and learn from it. Too many times we pass over the great joys and delights in life as if we re not supposed to appreciate ourselves and what we ve accomplished large or small.
As you take time in this retreat to reflect on your life from a fresh perspective, you ll distill the positive learning and leave behind what no longer serves your ever-awakening spirit. Life will look different because you will be changed through spiritual inquiry to reclaim what is good and lasting for your soul. Take the Best from Every Experience Your pilgrimage will also help you find and reclaim the positive of what you ve learned from your life experiences. In the process you become more seasoned with how life really is and the best ways to face it without losing yourself in the process. Consider, for example, when you were heart-broken over a relationship, a job loss, a health crisis what did you learn about your own stamina, healing abilities, letting go and forgiveness aptitude? Do you like yourself more or less now? The positive memories can be just as easily resurrected as the negative ones. The difference is that one is debilitating and takes away from our joy while the other gives us hope, renewed belief in the possibilities of life. The Seven Stations of Your Spiritual Pilgrimage In our time together you ll journey through seven different experiences each one asking you to take another look at yourself and your life not in judgment but in fullhearted awareness. You ll discover and take something significant from each of seven stations on your pilgrimage. Then, as you reconstruct a renewed picture of your life, you ll gain greater clarity on how to sense future potential pitfalls before getting lost in them, and ways to reinforce your belief in yourself and your chosen direction for this lifetime.
You ll begin with a pilgrim s passport and end with a Ceremony of Celebration Synthesis Who are you God and who am I? And how are we the same? Reflection How do I talk to Spirit And what do I learn by softening into my deep knowing? Partnership/Friendship Who is meant to be with me on this journey? What have I learned from those who have fallen away? Who awaits me? Integration Can I forgive myself? Can I truly care for myself in sickness and in health till death leads me across the great river to the next adventure? Alignment What have I come to contribute to the world? Where can I find it? Rejuvenation What brings joy into my life? Where in nature will I find my replenishment? Nourishment What fills me? Can I allow it in putting aside my thoughts of deserve-ability? This workshop-retreat is for those who intuitively know the value of undertaking a spiritual pilgrimage but are not drawn to walking 600+ miles across difficult terrain to realize moments of enlightenment. Instead, you ll travel with Meredith through seven stations seven experiences that open your heart and mind to the greatest possibilities for your future by building on what you have learned and seeing a larger vision for your life. You ll put aside perceived limitations, replace negative thoughts with more positive ones, and leave the emotional merry-go-round to travel in spiritual mode. Upon completion of your pilgrimage, you ll have no doubts that the best is yet to come!
We ve chosen the beautiful historic Wolfeboro Inn on Lake Winnipesauke in New Hampshire as the place to ease our weary minds and allow our spirits to soar. www.wolfeboroinn.com This 4-star Inn offers wonderful food, comfortable sleeping rooms, and many extra amenities. Important Note: In order to make this an intimate and delightful experience, the class size is limited to just 30 participants. So register before March 30 to hold your seat and save $200 off the tuition. To Register Call or email Lu in our Stillpoint office: 9:30 am 5:30 pm EST Mon-Tue-Wed Tel# 603-756-9281 x1001# Email: ljaillet@stillpoint.org Registration Fee $250 (due at time of registration to guarantee your seat non-refundable) Tuition Inner Circle Members Early Registration (before Mar 30) $595 Late Registration (after Mar 30) $695 All other participants Early Registration $795 Late Registration $845 Not an Inner Circle Member, join before you register at www.stillpoint.org Room & Board Double Occupancy $470 Single Occupancy $625 (3 nights lodging, 9 meals, 6 snacks) Payment Options Single payment Due on or before March 30 (Tuition plus Room & Board after registration fee) Three payments First payment 1/3 of balance due February 22 Second payment 1/3 due March 14 Last payment 1/3 due April 11