Where the art of spiritual healing occurs in creative and YOU-nique ways.
JUNE 21-23, 2024
Erica Jo Shaffer of Wildly Crafted Woman is once again weaving with Jennifer Rabenstein of Spiritual Hearts for a...
Wildly Spiritual Crafted Heart filled
Summer Solstice
Join us for a weekend celebrating the Summer Solstice, the longest days of Sunlight of the year! One of our most cherished gatherings, connecting, loving, exploring, healing while we each weave our own strings of magic into the web of the collective.
This year's topic: Doorways
This topic landed solidly, and invites us to explore so many interesting details about Doorways. How can we use this inquiry to explore how we make choices in our own life? Do we dare open the door and see what's behind it? What of creaky hinges or jiggly door handles-why don't we just stop and fix them?? What if the door is locked, and is it with extra chains and protection in place? Do you know where the key is? Peep holes. Door mats. Door bells. What color is your door? Windows or is it solid? Curtain? Start noticing how this topic informs and/or opens thoughts in your daily experiences.
Saturday evening will bring the Mystic Circle DOORWAYS, with Priestess Jennifer Rabenstein and Erica Jo Shaffer. Jennifer and Erica Jo will chat about our topic, and then each participant will add to the wisdom as the talking stick circles the Circle. We will experience both a release and manifest ceremony based on Doorways, and then experience Shamanic Pranayama, adding Priestess Sharon Owens to deeply orchestrate. We will have a different spin due to close by neighborhoods- start practicing your creaky hinge sounds! This is such an interesting focus!
FRIDAY
5 Kentland Retreat Opens
Arrive, set up, settle in, explore...
7 Community Fire Fun
Come together by the fire for live music, sharing sound/music, movement, and connections! Live music kicked off with Beth Baublitz. Followed by time for everyone to share singing, dancing, drumming, or whatever! Bring along a guitar, a drum, a speaker, or anything you may want to join in with!
11 Quiet Time
Lets listen to nature...
SATURDAY
7-8 Morning Yoga
Join Alaina Tobias for a soulfully inspired dynamic flow of spiraling vinyasa yoga as we root to rise this Summer Solstice.
8:30-9:30 Breakfast
Erica Jo Shaffer and Karen Kovacs will be mixing up some delightful food to start your morning off well nourished.
10-1:30 Food Truck
The Sweet Patch will be serving up a delicious assortment of goodness including chicken strips, crispy chicken ranch wraps, salads, sandwiches, fish strips, shrimp, strawberry shortcake sundae, hot fudge brownie sundaes, and more!
10-6 Vendors/Services
A variety of vendors will be set up for shopping along the tree shaded paved path. Others offering services will be scattered about the grounds behind the retreat housing. Since vendors need to enjoy the event too look out for signage in their set up for information about if they stepped away and when they will return!
10:30 Creative Door Wreath Crafting
In honor of the doors we have in front of us, we are going to create wreaths that we can adorn our own doors with. Come gather some inspiration about setting intentions into this project and how to create your wreath. The station to create will be open throughout the day.
Noon Blessing at the Creek
Follow Priestesses, Jennifer Rabenstein & Erica Jo Shaffer, down the meandering path to the creek. Feel their magic weave with the elements to bless you with the energy of the Summer Solstice. Receive the Mother Nature Nurturing vibes of Erica Jo and the Purifying Flow of Jennifer in this blessed moment.
2-3 Ecstatic Dance
Follow Margo Morris to deepen our solstice celebration with an Ecstatic Dance, releasing the past and weaving Mother Earth's energy and rhythm up into our sacred bodies through a somatic journey of freedom, release, and ecstasy. Enjoy a musical landscape designed to take you into high dimensions and deeper self-awareness.
3:30 To Be Determined
We are awaiting the moment to reveal the special offering for this time.
5-7 Community Potluck Dinner
Let us come together to share our intentionally made meals to share and enjoy.
7:15 Arrive for Circle
Settle in for the circle. Bring a chair if you wish to sit, a mat or anything needed to lay down comfortably. Allow yourself to acclimate to the energies pulling in for the evening.
7:30 Circle Begins
Saturday evening will bring the Mystic Circle DOORWAYS, with Priestess Jennifer Rabenstein and Erica Jo Shaffer. Jennifer and Erica Jo will chat about our topic, and then each participant will add to the wisdom as the talking stick circles the Circle. We will experience both a release and manifest ceremony based on Doorways, and then experience Shamanic Pranayama, adding Priestess Sharon Owens to deeply orchestrate. We will have a different spin due to close by neighborhoods- start practicing your creaky hinge sounds! This is such an interesting focus!
11 Quiet Time
Quiet hours are in effect as the circle closes. Bask in swirlling energies of the Full Moon and Summer Solstice.
SUNDAY
8-9 Morning Yoga
Wake yourself up with an easy, all level, flow mat yoga class with Sharon Owens-kabatek. It will end with an extended sound immersion savasana to nourish our roots, and what we are growing from the seeds planted in the spring.
9-10 Breakfast
Erica Jo & Karen Kovac will be at it again in the kitchen to get you what you need after the magic of the weekend.
10:30-11:30 Prayer & Meditative Movement
Finis Join American Szeptucha and Reiki Master Edyta Jacoby for morning prayer with meditative movement. We will practice the embodiment of prayer and the summoning of the Spirit of the Lands and join our voices in resonance with a 'sound circle'. Sound circle is an ancient way to access a wavelength of collective energy that doesn't require any words or experience.
11:30 Pack Up - Clean Up - Look Up
Gather your things, check over the areas you stayed, feel into the the lingering energy, then look up and move on into the season with it all. Departures around noon.
So it has been, so it is, so it shall be...
Kentland Retreat Center
Kentland Retreat Center is situated in Upper Allen Township in South Central Pennsylvania. Kentland is comprised of nearly 19 acres of woodland with access to hiking trails.
The newly renovated center is a breath of fresh air. Those with indoor access (those with admission tickets for bed, camping accommodations, presenters, and volunteers) will get to enjoy a spacious living room to relax, gaze outside, use the restrooms/showers, and more!
Indoor sleeping accommodations.
Beds will be pre-reserved.
Admission Tickets
Fri, Jun 21Kentland RetreatJun 21, 2024, 5:00 PM – Jun 23, 2024, 12:00 PMKentland Retreat , 1024 E Winding Hill Rd, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055, USAFull weekend experience with a bed!
Fri, Jun 21Kentland RetreatJun 21, 2024, 5:00 PM – Jun 23, 2024, 12:00 PMKentland Retreat , 1024 E Winding Hill Rd, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055, USAFull weekend experience with rustic camping!
Fri, Jun 21Kentland RetreatJun 21, 2024, 5:00 PM – Jun 23, 2024, 12:00 PMKentland Retreat , 1024 E Winding Hill Rd, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055, USAStay accommodations for our valued weavers.
Fri, Jun 21Kentland RetreatJun 21, 2024, 5:00 PM – Jun 23, 2024, 12:00 PMKentland Retreat , 1024 E Winding Hill Rd, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055, USAFull weekend experience with no accommodations to stay over.
Fri, Jun 21Kentland RetreatJun 21, 2024, 5:00 PM – Jun 23, 2024, 12:00 PMKentland Retreat , 1024 E Winding Hill Rd, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055, USAEnjoy the weekend experience and for $22 more you can also earn some money!
Sat, Jun 22Kentland RetreatJun 22, 2024, 8:00 AM – 11:00 PMKentland Retreat , 1024 E Winding Hill Rd, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055, USAAccess to all things on Saturday (7am-11pm-ish)
Sat, Jun 22Kentland RetreatJun 22, 2024, 4:00 PM – 11:00 PMKentland Retreat , 1024 E Winding Hill Rd, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055, USAAccess to the Saturday Circle.
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