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Myths of Feminine Mystery Retreat, Smoky Mountains Tennessee

Myths of Feminine Mystery Retreat, Smoky Mountains Tennessee
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Seven Springs Yoga Shala

Breathe in the autumn air of these Tennessee Smoky Mountains as we circle in honor of feminine mystery. Reconnect with your sacred inner knowing. Explore the many facets of your feminine nature. Dare to be all of them.

During this women’s retreat, we’ll renew our self-trust, explore our depths, honor our expression and validate our embodied intuition. We’ll wake to meditation and yoga, express through writing and movement, and gather for stories around flames.

 We’ll immerse in the magic and mystery of myths, focusing on the messages and insights they hold for us as women. We’ll heed the call to honor the wisdom we carry within our stories and voices and bodies, and between each other.

Event Page: www.thestorytellerwithin.com/september2019

Myths of Feminine Mystery Women's Retreat

RETREAT HIGHLIGHTS

  • Inspiring location with panoramic mountain views

  • Daily meditation & yoga practice

  • Daily self-exploratory writing circles

  • Evening ceremonial sacred storytelling sessions

  • Scenic outdoor yoga pavilion  

  • 3 delicious organic vegetarian meals/day

  • 5 nights shared stay in charming yurts or furnished glamping

  • Guided tour of on-site fauna

  • Breaks for relaxing, walking, therapies and exploration

  • Intimate Women's Gathering: Maximum of 10 participants

Opening Ceremony Seven Springs

RETREAT INTENTION

What if our yearnings pull in opposite directions? What if our lives move in cycles and seasons, not only in linear time? What if one long-held desire wanes, while another arises from nowhere? What if we need to get lost and wander? What if integrity means allowing your truth to change and flow with you? What if we run to and away, and still, towards our center?

Myths hold a hidden power: they gift us maps, keys, mirrors, legends and paths back to ourselves. They reflect the multitudes within us. They reveal insight into our deepest longings, greatest conflicts and vivid life energies. 

Myths give universal context to our most personal experiences. They open us to allowing life to flow through us, to recognize the sacred beauty of each moment, and to embrace the feminine mystery of regeneration.

As we weave these stories with our own experience, we glean a vaster sense of ourselves and our sacred feminine nature. When we look through the window of a myth, we see both beyond ourselves and deeper within.

Women's Storytelling Circle

In this women's retreat you will:

  • Gather with a powerful circle of women in rawness, vulnerability and expression.

  • Reconnect with your body and intuition through meditation, yoga and movement.

  • Experience the sacred rite of sharing stories between women around flames.

  • Explore core tensions and themes that carry through our relationships with ourselves, others and our lives.

  • Discover your truths moment to moment by connecting to your own voice.

  • Rekindle urges within yourself that are aching to be heard and witnessed.

  • Reclaim the power in the multitudes and regeneration that is inherent in feminine nature.

  • Remember your vastness and the magic that unfolds when women circle together.

Yurts at Seven Springs

LOCATION & VENUE:

In the Foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, and amidst one of the world's most ecologically diverse regions, Seven Springs Holistic Retreat Center boasts seven natural springs on 126 acres of private land, providing the spaciousness to reconnect with nature. 

 Seven Springs offers charming shared yurts with comfortable beds, inspiring mountain views, nature walks and delicious Ayurvedic vegetarian meals amidst soul-nourishing landscapes.  

Inspired by the natural abundance all around, Seven Springs seeks to foster holistic sustenance for the individual and the community.

Seven Springs features an open air yoga pavilion built with local forest cedar that offers panoramic morning views of the Chillhowee mountains. The ground offer stunning hill perches, creekside spots, and gorgeous nature walks, with a resident master naturalist/ ecologist to provide a guided tour. Massage treatments from resident therapists are available in an outdoor massage pavilion.

Seven Springs Retreat Center

ACCOMMODATION:

Retreat guests have the accommodation options of shared yurt, (2-4 people), private yurt or private glamping.

Shared Yurts: Yurts are well-fashioned shared yurts of 2 to 4 people. Each yurt is furnished with comfortable beds and bedding, electricity and lights, blankets, tables and dressers. Yurts are the closest accommodation to the bathrooms.

Private Yurts: Each yurt is furnished with comfortable beds and bedding, electricity and lights, blankets, tables and dressers. Yurts are the closest accommodation to the bathrooms.

Private Glamping: You may also stay in a private glamping tent. Each large tent is set on a wooden platform and is furnished with comfortable beds and bedding and solar lights. The tents are located in a cool space amongst the trees. 

Shared bathrooms on the property offer two hot showers, two water-saving flushing toilets, and running water. 

Mats, props, cushions, and blankets for chilly mornings or evenings will be provided.

The center is close to many natural attractions to further explore before or after the retreat.

Myths of Feminine Mystery Retreat

SAMPLE DAILY FLOW

Guests may arrive to Seven Springs on Thursday (check in is 3pm) to relax and settle in. After dinner, we will open our circle.

Our daily flow will begin on Friday. 

Sept 26th: 

3:00 pm Check-In

6:30- 7:30 pm Dinner

7:45 pm - Opening Circle & Storytelling Circle

Sept 27th - 30th:

7:30 am: Wake-up

8:00 - 9:30 am: Medi & Yoga

9:30 - 10:15 am: Breakfast

10:45 am - 1:00 pm: Exploratory Circle 

1:00 - 3:30 pm: Lunch & Break

3:30 - 6:30 pm: Exploratory Circle 

6:30 - 7:30 pm: Dinner

7:45 pm: Storytelling Circle 

Oct 1st: 

7:30 am - Wake-up

8:00 am - 9:30am: Medi & Yoga

9:30 - 10:15am: Breakfast

10:15am - 11:15pm: Integration Circle & Close

11:15 - 12:45: Optional Relaxation

12:45-1:30 pm: Final Lunch 

We will finish by 11:15 am on Tuesday, and you have the option to linger and enjoy the beauty of Seven Springs as well as lunch, if you choose.

Meditation and yoga will be held in the outdoor yoga pavilion, and we also have an indoor space available. Our sacred circles will rotate between outdoor and indoor spaces. Delicious ayurvedic meals will be served in the fresh autumn air.

You will have many opportunities to relax or walk in nature during our breaks. We will offer an afternoon excursion during the event.

Myths of Feminine Mystery Women's Retreat

MORE ABOUT RETREAT PROGRAM

Gather to listen. Open to reveal.​

In this retreat, you will reconnect with your body through meditation, yoga and movement. You will gather by candlelight and fire with other women to listen to the stories that offer rich insight into our inner lives.

You will circle for self-exploratory writing circles to thread these insights through to your own experience in the here and now.  We’ll heed the call to honor the wisdom we carry within our stories and voices and bodies, and between each other.

Partner Yoga at Retreat

Connect to your body through yoga.

With daily guided meditation and yoga, you will listen in for the innate guidance that is found in your body and breath. The body holds the truth of our physical and sensual experience, and is the home of our deepest intuitions.

As we listen to the guidance of our body, as we align ourselves more closely to the sensations of our inner knowing, our intuition attunes and expands..

Fire Circle

Immerse in the magic of myths. 

Each evening, we’ll gather for oral storytelling around candles and flames. We’ll wrap ourselves in blankets, get cozy, and listen to mythical stories of the Greek goddesses. Each goddess story hints at the energies and tensions and struggles we experience in our lives.

Each goddess herself is an archetype that exists in all women. Her struggles and her powers and her yearnings reflect our own, and can provide guidance for navigating them.
We’ll immerse in the magic of theses myths, focusing on the messages and rich insights they hold for us as women. Myths gift us maps, keys, mirrors, legends and paths back to ourselves.  They reflect the multitudes within us, the different facets of our Feminine nature, including parts we may have lost or forsaken along the way.

Myths bring universal context to our most personal experiences. They open us to allowing life to flow through us, to recognize the sacred beauty of each moment, and to embrace the feminine mystery of regeneration. When we look through the window of a myth, we see both beyond ourselves and deeper within.

Open and explore through raw expression.

 Each day, we’ll gather for self-exploratory writing in the crisp autumn air. We’ll bring the tensions stirred up by the goddess myths into daylight and thread them through to our own experience.  As we weave these stories with our own, we glean a vaster sense of ourselves and our sacred feminine nature.  

Tensions we may explore through writing and sharing include our experience of cycles of loss and renewal (Demeter), our hunger to share in relationship while honoring our whole selves (Juno), our pulls towards and away from devotion to sacred fires within (Vesta), or the fear of lowering our shields and masks to be both vulnerable and strong (Athena). 

Writing will serve as a channel to reveal insight, allow vulnerability and bring forth what is calling to be heard from within. The women's circle provides a loving and open space to reveal your heart, connect to your feelings, discover your truths, unravel your truths, and journey deeper into intimacy and mystery.

Be held in sacred space.

We renew our wise and wild feminine energy when we heed the call to gather in sacred space with women.  We will bring in ritual and beauty to honor this intention.

Through sharing, we hold the mirror of inspiration and compassion for one another. We remember the magic that unfolds when women circle together.

Partner Yoga, Seven SpringsNearby:

If you have time before or after the retreat, there are many beautiful opportunities to soak up more of the surroundings, and go on some wonderful hikes... Located less than 25 miles from Seven Springs is the entrance to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and a host of trail opportunities. 

EVENT PAGE
https://www.thestorytellerwithin.com/september2019

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FACILITATION

Melanie Champagne, myth-teller and astrologist (Collective Astrology), and Aimee Hansen, creator of Storyteller Within Retreats, will co-facilitate this women's retreat.

 

Labyrinth at Seven Springs

FAQs

What are my transportation/parking options for getting to and from the event?

By Air:

The closest airport is Knoxville International Airport (TYS). The airport is actually located in Alcoa and only 25 minutes from Seven Springs. We can arrange transportation services to pick you up from this airport, a $10 charge.

You may also consider flying into the Atlanta International Airport and taking the bus or renting a car to drive to Seven Springs. The Atlanta airport is about a three hour drive. 

By Car:

Please see the address below for the GPS location. We will provide additional instructions to ensure you arrive at the front entrance.

Seven Springs Retreat

120 Sweet Hollow Way

Maryville, TN 37803

U.S.A

How can I contact the organizer with any questions?

Yes, please do! You can find more information at the website and also get in touch with Aimee with any q's.

Website: www.thestorytellerwithin.com

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What's the refund policy?

Deposit to reserve your space: $450. The balance is required 30 days prior to the retreat start date. Payment is accepted via checking account (US)*, credit card (2.9% added fee)*, Paypal (4.5% added fee) or via bank wire transfer (US or international). If you cancel before 60 days in advance of the retreat start date: 50% of the deposit is refunded. If you cancel 60-31 days in advance of the retreat start date: no refund of the deposit is provided. Unless your spot can be filled within contract, and then 50% of the deposit is refunded. If you cancel within 30 days of the retreat start date: No refund on payment is provided. No refund is provided if you miss the event or part of it for any reason. Storyteller Within reserves the right to cancel any program at any time. Retreats have final confirmation on or before 30 days out. If an event is cancelled, you will be fully refunded your retreat fees. Exception: Storyteller Within is not liable for events beyond all control - such as natural disasters, political upheaval, or other such unexpected circumstances - that would necessitate cancellation of the event.

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