Tending Our Hearts for the Holidays

We are entering the darkest part of the year and while there’s much to be grateful for at the holidays, so often it’s a time that can bring up the greatest emotional challenges. We all have experienced great loss and there’s little space in our culture to process our grief. We can create the space we need to heal and grow through our grieving if we can learn from the wisdom in our bodies and our hearts. 

Our hearts can bring us together and help us to navigate the darker times if we are able to tend to them with care. Join in this half day retreat to tend your heart along with your body, mind and soul with others. We will practice honoring our grief as the wisdom of connection that enables us to be with others amidst feeling the loss of what we love.

You’ll go home with tools that you can take into your daily life amidst whatever challenges you are facing as well as a heart healing ritual kit to support your own  practice. 

This spacious and nourishing afternoon retreat will include guided embodied meditation, journaling, gentle sound healing, sharing tools to tend our hearts with daily practice, and a tea ceremony with organic heart healing herbs.

Flow of Our Afternoon (subject to change):

1pm Arriving and welcoming ourselves
1:30pm Grief tending as a daily practice
2pm Somatic meditation practice
2:30 Tea ceremony
3:00 Sound healing
3:30 Journaling
4:00 Sharing in reflection
4:30 Connecting and closing 

Location: Yoga Roots Petoskey
444 Mitchell St., Petoskey, MI

Park on the street and enter in the back through the alley.

Guidelines: You are invited to take care of yourself and honor your body’s needs in the space. All verbal guidance is an offering to invite deeper personal exploration and discovery while in community. Feel free to reach out to Hilary with any questions at hilaryjlake@gmail.com.

Self Investment:
$100-$160 Sliding Scale, choose from one of the three options below
Includes heart healing ritual kit, simple snacks and tea ceremony
If you’re not able to afford this price there is the option for work study and a scholarship. Reach out to Hilary via email at hilaryjlake@gmail.com to learn more.