2023 RETREAT IN TURKEY WITH JOHN AND TATIANA SHUTTLEWORTH.

THE LOVE OF NATURE AND THE NATURE OF LOVE.

OCTOBER 9TH TO 16TH. DALYAN.

Facilitators: John and Tatiana Shuttleworth, Jill Kettle and Hans Schuldheis.

This workshop is open to all who are interested in exploring their relationships - to the planet, themselves and one another.

VENUE: SPECTRUM RETREAT CENTRE, DALYAN,TURKEY.

For a New Beginning

In out-of-the-way places of the heart,
Where your thoughts never think to wander,
This beginning has been quietly forming,
Waiting until you were ready to emerge.

For a long time it has watched your desire,
Feeling the emptiness growing inside you,
Noticing how you willed yourself on,
Still unable to leave what you had outgrown.

It watched you play with the seduction of safety
And the gray promises that sameness whispered,
Heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent,
Wondered would you always live like this.

Then the delight, when your courage kindled,
And out you stepped onto new ground,
Your eyes young again with energy and dream,
A path of plenitude opening before you.

Though your destination is not yet clear
You can trust the promise of this opening;
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
That is at one with your life's desire.

Awaken your spirit to adventure;
Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk
Soon you will be home in a new rhythm
For your soul senses the world that awaits you.

John O'Donahugh.

We would like to invite you to "awaken your spirit to adventure," and join us on this retreat in the beautiful natural surroundings of Spectrum in Turkey.

We will be mindful of the themes and opportunities that we see individually and collectively emerging in these interesting and challenging times following the restrictions of lockdown.

We will be offering a deeply nourishing, nurturing, and gentle space in which we will be exploring many levels of what might block our true soul hungers, and our potential to take responsibility to live, love, and fully show up in our lives at this time.

We will use nature teachings, rituals, art, movement, dance, and provide space for reflection to enable deep change. Creating a heart space in the group opens to a larger energy field that heals at a soul level, bypassing the ego and it's limited and limiting take on existence.

This workshop will offer all an opportunity to explore in depth what it really means to risk fully opening to love, and to begin to learn to listen to the unique potential for healing, transformation, and growth that your relationship to love holds for you.

We hope that this week proves to be nourishing, fulfilling, relaxing and fun. We will also explore ways to keep the flame of love alive when you return home.

Hans and I will be offering a 24 hour fire ceremony and bodywork for each participant to support the process.

A note on ceremony. It is never charged for although you can make donation if you feel moved. Therefore the price of this retreat is for the workshop with John and Tatiana and our body work contribution. The fire ceremony is offered to support this process but is not part of the paid portion of the retreat.

ABOUT THE FIRE CEREMONY...

Traditional indigenous formats held at their core an individual's relationship with service to life and the purpose of any personal work for growth or healing was the well being of all our relations. In this context relations means family, and all living creatures and our planet. At this time many of us are experiencing the effects of profound disconnection, manifesting in the climate crisis, and in personal physical and psychological suffering. We seek, in offering a traditional fire ceremony, to provide a truly connective experience that supports personal connection with self, other, nature and spirit.

The fire ceremony will support what needs to move on the soul level, offering the potential to heal our ancestral grief and our male and female wounding at a deep level at this much needed time.

As part of the retreat we are offering a dusk until dawn community Sacred fire which we will dedicate to the thriving of all life now and for the generations yet to come and whatever nuance our particular group feels is most important. It originates from the Odawa people of the Great Lakes region. It is a conduit for connecting to our ancestors and the future generations. It is powerful in supporting movement and transforming stuckness, tending grief, honouring transitions and many other things. It is a practical and effective way to find out more about our personal relationship and alignment with Life. These ancient formats create helpful environments in which we can build our own relationships with our purpose and meaning. We activate conditions that support healing and transformation of what might need to move in our lives. We cannot outthink our problems that have generated through our stories, traumas and grief but going into immersive experiences with connection practices can allow us to move into the subcognitive and get back into the flow of Life and spirit. We build community and relationships.

From the earliest times fire has represented a mainstay of our connective journey as humans, nourishing life, informing us how to live in a good and healthy way upon the earth and bringing knowledge and transformation.

The interactive relationship between ourselves and fire has developed over thousands of years and is multi layered. Tending our relationship to fire in healthy ways feels relevant to our lives today, where disconnection is so common and unbalanced ways of relating to the power of fire cause so much devastation to our inner and outer ecology.

"The wisdom it offers can be swift and profound and it is understood that it holds the doorway to all knowledge intended for human beings. What we do with that knowledge is of great importance at this time" (Sal Gencarelle)

For more information about booking this retreat, costs, travel, the accommodation options and the gorgeous surrounds please see John and Tatiana’s website where there is more detailed information including how to book and all sorts of lovely things that will form part of the week.

We hope you feel moved to join us on this adventure. John and Tatiana are rare elders with a wealth of experience and wisdom, humour and compassion.