Feb 15-18, 2008
Are you yearning for spiritual forms of intimacy and healing that go beyond traditional therapeutic and psychological modalities? Do you long for a deeper, more intimate connection with your partners, family members, or colleagues? Are you drawn to transmute the ancient wounds and reawaken the hidden mysteries of the sacred masculine and feminine?
Step beyond therapy, couple’s work, and women’s and men’s groups. Embark upon a new form of spiritual healing and reconciliation work that blesses and empowers everyone. This unique, experiential workshop has been developed over 15 years of intensive reconciliation work by women and men from diverse cultures across the globe.
Many of us contribute—often unconsciously—to exacerbating the very wounds we yearn to heal. This work provides a unique forum for an open, non-judgmental exploration of gender imbalance that leads to discovering new avenues for mutual healing. Begin to dismantle the patterns and behaviors of our patriarchal heritage and to build a society of harmony and balance.
This process follows an alchemical wisdom. We consciously enter the collective gender wounds and work through them to reach a place of healing, reconciliation, and new awakening. Our methodology weaves together contemplative practices, deep truth-telling in community, experiential breathwork, women’s and men’s circles, and ritual honoring and celebration, including movement, song, and dance. The result is an uplifting experience of healing and forgiveness that rekindles the resplendent communion of masculine and feminine. This workshop is an extra day and costs an extra $85.
Will Keepin and Cynthia Brix. direct the Satyana Institute, which has organized more than 40 intensive reconciliation retreats in five countries. Will and Cynthia are currently leading a training program in gender reconciliation for Members of Parliament and senior religious leaders in South Africa. They also conduct retreats on interfaith mysticism and spiritual service in India and support the Maher project for battered women in India. Will’s background is in environmental science, and his work on global warming influenced government policy in several countries, as profiled in The Cultural Creatives by Ray and Anderson.
Cynthia has been a Unitarian Universalist campus minister. Will and Cynthia co-wrote the forthcoming Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation between Women and Men.Will and Cynthia will be assisted by their longtime friend, colleague, and certified gender reconciliation facilitator Linda Cunningham.
I was deeply moved and changed and am profoundly grateful for the whole experience…. The Satyana vision is unique and uniquely valuable to the world.
— Peter Rutter, MD, Author of Sex in the Forbidden Zone: When Men in Power Betray Women’s Trust
This was the first time I experienced a workshop that truly balances both “teaching” and spiritual components.
— Ela Gandhi, granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi