Healing with Emotions
Navigating the wilderness of the heart
In this day-long retreat, participants will practice relating to everyday emotions in a wise and kind way with gentleness and curiosity. What people often find is by allowing emotions to flow like a river, with kind awareness, emotions that feel burdensome can feel more spacious allowing for inner freedom and wise action.
Participants will experiment with exploring emotions through several mindfulness-based practices and experiments. The tools learned can be a part of a beautiful foundation to coming home to the present moment, cultivating authenticity, seeding moments of inner freedom, developing compassion, understanding the roots of suffering, and cultivating embodied awakening.
Weather permitting, we’ll do these practices in nature with the support of mamma earth. The retreat will be a weaving of education and practices that may support folks in integrating what they learn into their lives.
Meet Your Guide
Laura Adrian is a writer, teacher, retreat facilitator, and nerd. She has an insatiable desire to learn about life and all its facets—from the causes of deep suffering to arising of ever-unfolding beauty. She continues to explore how to be with all of life and how to walk on this earth with wisdom and compassion. Her path has been eclectic and Laura has delved into many modalities, often understanding deep interconnection and synergy between healing paths such as yoga, nature connection, mindfulness meditation, and somatic emotional release. Laura’s offerings are informed by the depth and results she has seen in the laboratory of her own life. She hopes her offerings empower people to be courageous about life and the healing process while bringing a childlike playfulness and curiosity.