Feb 15-17, 2008
“Work of sight is done. Now do heartwork on the pictures within you.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
In the heart of every problem lies its solution. We spend enormous amounts of time and energy searching for answers outside ourselves, when the answers lie within. Heartwork is a simple, direct, powerful, yet gentle tool that offers fundamental solutions to everyday problems and the more difficult life questions. Heartwork transforms problems into doorways to compassion, insight, and joy.
In the retreat, you will discover what you really, REALLY want – at the deepest level of your being. You will uncover what is in the way of having what you really want in your life, learn to move gently through the internal barriers that prevent you from having it, gain a deep appreciation for what is truly meaningful to your life, and get your priorities straight.
These purposes are accomplished through the progressive mastery of the fundamental Heartwork tools:
• Unwinding – doing spontaneous yoga
• Soft Body Meditation – learning how to open to the wisdom of the body and mind
• Just Listening – learning how to create a safe space to be heard
• Guided Heartwork – discovering the barrier to having what you really, really want.
• Awareness Meditation – learning how to step back inside your mind and see things clearly, without attachments
• Inquiry – using your whole being to see into the source of the barrier to having what you really, really want.
• Relationship Transformers – tools that guarantee a loving, intimate relationship
• Freeze Frame – the tool that helps you apply all the other tools in your daily life.
Periodic talks and discussion will help participants understand the Heartwork process, and their own inner work. Dale’s highly acclaimed book, Heartwork: How To Get What You Really, REALLY Want, will be source material for the retreat, so reading it before you come will enhance your experience.
Dale Goldstein is a psychotherapist, workshop leader, and director of the Heartwork Institute, Inc., in Rochester, NY. Since 1966, Dale has explored the uses of meditative, healing, and psychotherapeutic tools for opening the heart/mind with a number of world-renowned teachers. To learn more, visit www.AwakentheHeart.org.