A Weekend Workshop for Women

Race Brook Lodge
Sheffield, Massachusetts

The earth is being depleted, and often we feel depleted along with her. It is difficult to access our inner lives in a culture so relentlessly and technologically driven. This workshop will allow you to work with your body, soul, and spirit to bring energy up from your own ground, so that you can return renewed to your encounters with the world.

In the majestic beauty of the Berkshire Mountains, we will draw upon the mythical roots of "The Handless Maiden" fairy tale to inform our work. It is the story of a woman's journey from dismemberment, through hope, to regeneration. Gathering together as a circle of women, we will weave the themes of the tale into a tapestry that has personal meaning for each of us. Silent meditation, music and movement, art, dreams, poetry, mask work, and the natural environment will reveal to us the threads of our stories that have brought us this far, and will enhance our commitment to our selves, our lives, and our planet.

This is the fifth in our series of workshops dedicated to adventure, discovery and renewal. Past workshop participants have shared such enthusiasm for our two-day workshops that we have decided to offer a three-day retreat, a true sabbatical from your daily life, which will enable you to withdraw from the world and journey inward to the deepest levels of healing and transformation.

Come join us!

It is a vital time for women.

The world needs our voices.

We must find and hold fast to our center, and enter into dialogue with our heart.

To dance in the present-day chaos we must have a center.

We invite you to join us in the dance!

Faculty

Jean Esther, MSW LICSW, has been a practicing psychotherapist for over 26 years with a specialty in early childhood trauma. She has practiced vipassana (insight) meditation since 1982 and currently teaches media- tion at the Insight Meditation Center of Pioneer Valley in Western Massa- chusetts, and at the Insight Medita- tion Society in Barre, Massachusetts. Jean has been training with Jungian analayst Marion Woodman since 1989. Integrated into her work is her prior training in physical theater.

Polly H. Howells, L.C.S.W., has been a psychotherapist in private practice since 1976. She has trained with many psychoanalytic and Jungian practitioners over the years. She graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Russian History and Literature. She has been active in the movements for peace and social justice for over forty years, and is at present particularly passionate about the deteriorating environment, hav ing spent time last summer with an indigenous tribe in the Ecuadorian Rainforest. Email address: Phows@aol.com

Janice Stieber Rous is the creator of Body Dialogue, is the creator of Body Dialogue, an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the body and the mind. She teaches yoga and breathing coordination, and has been a certified instructor in the Alexander Technique since 1979. She has a degree from Sarah Lawrence College. Email address: bodydialogue@gmail.com

Recently she has been a choreographer and dancer with the Center for Contemporary Dance in Orlando, Florida. At present she lives in Israel half the year and is bringing this bodysoul work there.

All three teachers have completed the BodySoulRhythms™ Leadership Training Program with Jungian Analyst Marion Woodman, movement specialist Mary Hamilton, and voice coach Anne Skinner.

Workshop Fees

Workshop fees, including room, board and gourmet meals:

Tuition: $500.00

Accommodations at beautiful Race Brook Lodge, in Sheffield, Massachusetts, for 4 nights, 3 1/2 days:

Single room $592 ($148/night)
Double room $453 ($113/night)
Triple room $384 ($96/night)

Breakfast, lunch, dinner and all tax and service charges included!

To register, please download and print the Workshop Brochure [pdf file], complete the form inside, and send it, with a $300.00 deposit check, to Polly H. Howells, at 475 Fourteenth Street, Brooklyn, New York 11215. Deposits are refundable until April 1, 2008

For More Information

Email Janice at bodydialogue@gmail.com,
or Polly at Phows@aol.com.

Visit us online at www.bodydialogues.com