Cancelled
“Restless? Staying in Relationship with your life”
Whether it’s an itchiness in your body or a quiet whisper that builds to a buzz; all of us feel restless from time to time. The Oxford dictionary defines restlessness as “the inability to rest or relax as a result of anxiety or boredom.” What can we learn from our restless inclinations about how to know when we’re being invited to sit with our discomfort and when it’s time to move on?
Join Jodi Lammiman and Sarah Winstanley for our annual New Year’s Retreat. This year we will focus on learning from our more than human kin about what it looks like to stay. Drawing on examples from plants who root in one place for decades and animals who do not migrate, we will ask what they have to teach about staying with our emotions and relationships? And, what can we learn from the living world about discerning when it's time to leave?
For this year’s retreat, we will be offering both an online day retreat and a separate in person overnight retreat. Participants from each retreat will receive a reflective retreat guide for personal use and the retreats will combine personal reflective practice both in and outdoors, gently guided group meditative & collective practices and lots of time and guidance to listen to what has been surfacing in your body and life experience over the last year.
Online: January 28, 2023
If this cost would prevent you from attending, let’s chat! Please email info@refugiaretreats.com to explore more accessible options with us.
Facilitators:
Jodi Lammiman (she/her) is an eco-spiritual director, community educator and an artist who lives on Treaty 7 territory in Mohkinstsis (Calgary, Alberta). As a co-founder of Refugia Retreats, she facilitates dialogue exploring alternatives to traditionally accepted narratives of wellness culture, productivity culture, and capitalism. These counter-narratives are informed by the natural world and its rhythms of rest, germination, and balance.
Sarah (she/her) is a feminist educator and facilitator who has spent a decade working with girls and women in community organizations. She led the creation of a range of activism programs for girls at the Women's Centre of Calgary, and has also been a Girl Guide leader, an anti-violence organizer, a social action network facilitator; and most recently a policy analyst. She holds her Masters in Social Work from the University of Calgary, which focused on social change programming with youth. She takes a popular education approach to her work and believes that people are the experts in their own lives.