Description
Join us for a nourishing full day retreat at beautiful Meditation Mount in the Ojai Valley led by mother and daughter team Katherine and Taran Collis. They will share their extensive background in meditation, yoga therapy, body literacy, and spiritual counseling to make meaning of these challenging times.
The retreat will focus on understanding the deeper transformative forces at play in the three stages common to most transitional (liminal) experiences: breakdown, break-in, and breakthrough. These threshold markings impact us personally at every level, playing out in our communities, society, and on a planetary scale heralding the embodiment of a new consciousness.
Practices will help build resiliency, inner strength and alignment to what is emerging rather than that which is falling apart. The retreat is suited for people of all ages, particularly those in need of self-care, healing and nourishment within a supported spiritual community. In person and online, participants will experience a mix of presentation, gentle Yoga movement and Capacitar self-healing practices (www.capacitar.org). Participants will leave renewed and reconnected to their source of vitality, vision and a sense of greater purpose.
The Zoom retreat will begin at 10am and end at 3pm. We will break for lunch from noon until 1pm.
Please come prepared with a journal, yoga mat, props, and comfortable clothing.
Online Cost: $50 (recording of the session will be provided)
Program Fees help support the Mount as it reopens from the Thomas Fire and Covid closures.
Taran Collis, C-IAYT, AWC, is a Certified Yoga Therapist , Yoga Teacher Trainer and Ayurveda Wellness Counselor. Taran has studied the latest in physiology, breath and respiratory health, and provides a safe and nourishing environment for all ages even for those with injury. She is currently on faculty for Essential Yoga Therapy Teacher Training. She has helped create yoga programs for several non-profits including La Casa de Maria offering a variety of session topics including yoga nidra, meditation, Capacitar- trauma tools for self-care and crisis, connection to nature through Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy. more info: tarancollis.com
Katherine Collis is a retreat leader, spiritual director, and teacher of spiritual psychology, community, and human development. Over the past 10 years, she helped direct the Center for Spiritual Renewal and lead programs at La Casa de Maria. She is now in private practice and again offering retreats after the Thomas Fire and resulting mudflows of 2018 that closed La Casa de Maria.
Katherine has a long history of involvement with Meditation Mount since 1972. Katherine and her husband Roger lived and worked at the Mount from 1978 - 1980 and this is where Taran was born. Again, they were part of the Mount family from 2008-2011 helping to develop its outreach and programming. It is an honor to once again support this most special Center as a mother/daughter team, teaching the wisdom of the soul and the path of soul awakening and embodiment. '
katherine.collis@gmail.com