Through meditation, tarot, and reflective writing, we will explore what this emergent season has to offer each us and how we can be ready to embrace and harness what it has to offer. As we move toward winter, we are invited to turn inward. To locate what centers us and what we can center upon, what it is we can only see in the dark.

We will spend the day in brilliant community with people united in a shared purpose: to engage more deeply with the incredible gift that is our lives, and in that way move more powerfully through a world that so badly needs us here, needs us loving ourselves and each other, needs us capable and awake and alive. No experience with meditation, tarot, or writing required! We’ll walk you through it every step of the way.

You can expect:
* guided meditations
* tarot discovery
* reflective writing 
* delicious, professionally prepared lunch
* space for rest and connection with self and others

Through MEDITATION, we’ll quiet our minds and expand our field of thought.
Through TAROT, we’ll draw on intuition to explore our vast and vibrant possibilities.
Through REFLECTIVE WRITING, we’ll use playful inquiry to get beneath the surface and shake the dust off our imaginations.

Come wonder with us. Your life deserves it.

LOCATION: Five Point Holistic Health, 2866 N Milwaukee Ave. (Logan Square)
DATE: Saturday November 23
TIMING: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

PRICING

Fee includes lunch, all-day tea service, and all WONDER•ING activities. We are pleased to offer a sliding scale structure:
* $250 full contribution
* $175 base cost
* $100 supplemented contribution

Questions? Email marty@vitalcoachings.com.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT WONDER•ING RETREATS:

“I’d never done anything like this before and I was worried going into it about whether I’d be able to meditate or get anything out of tarot. But the guidance was so kind and inviting that I walked away totally changed, in such amazing ways.”

“The location was magic, the balance of silence, guidance, and free time was excellent, food was superb, facilitators were awesome, and the combination of individuals who participated was really special.”

”This retreat is time to reset and reconnect with yourself. It's a dedicated time and space to be with your thoughts and to also help guide you back to them. There is lots of room to take what you need and to leave what you don't. Space to heal/grow and to imagine what that healing/growing can look like.”

“A respite from the daily obligations, a chance to put down your phone and connect with yourself, an invitation to reflect and appreciate yourself and the vibrant world around us.”

“Just absolutely magic. Everything I needed but didn’t know I needed.”

Lindsey Dorr-Niro is a transdisciplinary artist and educator. She received her MFA from The Yale School of Art and BFA from The University of Wisconsin-Madison, and currently teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has studied and practiced within the Gelugpa school of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism since 2009 and taught meditation since completing her 300-hour yoga teacher training with the Yoga Studies Institute in 2011. Her meditation studies include work with the Diamond Mountain, Tara Mandala, and DharmaOcean lineages. Her focus is on somatically embodied practice, with trainings cultivated through Awakening the Body, Awakening the Heart, and The Somatic Practice of Pure Awareness. She is currently studying with Ralph De La Rosa, whose work bridges Tibetan Buddhist meditation/mindfulness practice with Internal Family Systems, attachment theory, and somatic experiencing to address and heal trauma. 

Marty McConnell provides vital coaching and consulting services to people and organizations, supporting them in being planful, proactive, and powerful in building the lives and worlds they envision. She is the author of when they say you can’t go home again, what they mean is you were never there, winner of the 2017 Michael Waters Poetry Prize; her first full-length collection, wine for a shotgun, received the Silver Medal in the Independent Publishers Awards, and was a finalist for both the Audre Lorde Award and Lambda Literary Awards. She is the author Gathering Voices: Creating a Community-Based Poetry Workshop (Yes Yes Books, 2018), and the co-creator and co-editor of underbelly, a web site focused on the art and magic of poetry revision. In her work with organizations, groups, and individuals, she utilizes an inquiry-based approach grounded in curiosity, a somatic approach to intuition, and an unshakeable belief that the answers we seek lie within our brilliant ultimate selves.

Learn more about Lindsey here and here, and more about Marty here and here.