Sacred Self-Care:Â Oracle
A 3-Day Retreat of Gentle Movement, Guided Journeys and the Simple Pleasure of Making
- Fri-Sat-Sun, November 27-29
- Ninth Wave Arts ~Â 4596 Carp Rd. Carp
- $507.00 ~Â Food, comfort and craft supplies included.
About The Experience
November is a threshold month.Â
The abundance of autumn is giving way to bare branches and earlier darkness. The landscape becomes quieter. We gather things in, light lamps sooner, pull blankets closer, and begin turning our attention toward the interior.
It is a lovely time to spend a weekend making.
In Sacred Self-Care: Oracle, we'll work with tarot and oracle cards not so much for answers, but as creative prompts.
Unexpected combinations of images, words, colours, characters, landscapes, and symbols that can send our hands somewhere they might not have gone on their own.
Across the weekend, we'll build a large intuitive collage, adding and layering imagery as different prompts and experiences invite us back to the worktable. No artistic experience is needed. There is no composition to get right. We are making for the simple pleasure of making — tearing paper, moving things around, following an image because we like it, changing our minds, covering things up, and discovering what happens when we give ourselves enough uninterrupted time to play.
The cards are simply our companions in the process, helping us approach familiar things from unexpected directions.
Around the collage table, November will offer its own forms of care: warm drinks and nourishing food, candlelight, herbs and oils, sound and song, guided journeys, gentle movement, simple ceremony, outdoor wandering, conversation, quiet, and laughter.
We may find ourselves paying more attention to images along the way — the ones on the cards, the ones we choose for our collage, the ones we encounter outdoors, and the ones that linger after a journey or dream.
By Sunday, our worktable will hold the evidence of a weekend spent noticing, choosing, making, and allowing one thing to lead to another.
Oracle is part of the larger Sacred Self-Care series, four seasonal weekend gatherings exploring self-care through making, the senses, and simple ceremony.
We begin Friday evening at 6pm and continue through Sunday at 5pm, going home each evening and returning the following day.
Come prepared to make a beautiful mess.
We'll let November — and the cards — take care of some of the rest.
Food, comfort and craft supplies included.
About the Facilitator
Kristine Karpinski ~Â Guiding body, spirit and creative projects into wellbeing.
Kristine (Kris), hosts a variety of offerings here at Ninth Wave Arts, Sound Nidra, Whispers from the Well, Mystery in Motion, Wellbody Temple Retreats, etc. She is also our lead teacher for the MiddleWorld Mysteries program.
A massage therapist, sound, energy and somatic practitioner, teacher, mentor, creative, she believes our body holds deep bio-intelligence, the map of all knowing, waiting to remember itself.
Registration
Reserve Your Spot
A 3-Day Retreat:
- Friday, November 27, 6-9 PM
- Saturday, November 28, 10 AM - 9 PM
- Sunday, November 29, 10 AM - 5 PM
- Ninth Wave Arts ~ 4596 Carp Rd. Carp
After successful registration, you’ll receive a confirmation email with key details. You can always reach us at [email protected]Â
