Mary’s Full Day Classes:

 

One-Day Retreat to foster healing and overall wellbeing:
Becoming Well Within: Reduce Stress and Anxiety and Foster Healing


The pursuit of personal well-being is especially challenging in the midst of crisis. This retreat is for anyone who seeks respite from personal health or economic hardship or finds themselves anxious about the barrage of “bad news” from around the world.  During this daylong retreat, we will create peace in the present moment and provide you with tools for sustaining well-being through difficult times. After learning and experiencing several stress-reduction and healing modalities offered, including healing touch, imagery, meditation,  breathing exercises, visualization, and story-telling, participants will develop a personal self-care plan for use at home and work. 

 

 

Sample One-Day Retreat for Cancer Survivors and Caregivers:
Developing a Strategy for Thriving, not just Surviving, When Our Lives are Touched by Cancer

 

9:00am

Presentation:  Introduction to Mind-Body Skills: How to Manage Stress and Maintain a Strong Immune System

--Discussion of the importance of developing coping tools and techniques for managing the stress and anxiety that affects both survivors and caregivers.
--Short discussion of biofeedback. Participants will be given ‘bio-dots’ to measure stress levels throughout the day
--Meditation and ‘soft belly’ breathing: discussion of the benefits and various types of meditation, including transcendental, mindfulness meditation, “relaxation response”, Centering Prayer,  
--Demonstration of the power of imagery and visualization
--Experiential activities: 5-10 minutes of Mindfulness meditation time
10:30 am Free time to meditate, pray, journal, enjoy amenities of retreat center
12:00pm Lunch
1:00pm Presentation:  The Immune Power Personality
A discussion of research contained in Henry Dreher’s book, Immune Power Personality, concerning traits possessed by people with strong immune systems—all things we can duplicate in our own lives                   
Handout:  Eating for Optimal Health
7:00pm Presentation:  Support Groups to Soul Friendships: The Healing Power of Relationships, with Others and with the Divine
--discuss research demonstrating the importance of expressing our feelings to others and the role of support groups
--explain the concept of “thin places” and soul friendships as a means of sharing stories and receiving spiritual support.
--the importance of prayer and maintaining hope
Exercise: done in triads: after a guided imagery, share stories of spiritual experiences and discuss how doing this impacts our journey towards healing

 

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