Touching the Earth
June 16 - 22 Winter Solstice 2024 - Wangapeka, Aotearoa (NZ)
With Jaime Howell and Juliette McConachy
All the mytho-poets say the same thing —
We must leave the village, enter the forest and return with the gift
Touching the Earth is a guided journey into human wholeness inspired by the work of Bill Plotkin and Joanna Macy.
This is a nature-based retreat to support the journey of soul initiation, inspiration and encouragement to find the unique offering that is yours to make.
A retreat to find, feel and fuel our belonging, confidence, resilience and creativity through deep contact with the world and self as the Wild.
We will explore together through meditation, wilderness wandering, Open Floor movement inquiry, Terra Soma™ Yoga, guided nature reflections, a day of solo wilderness immersion, group singing, soul counsel and dreamwork.
We will aspire to bring together our bodies, hearts and minds with instincts for wisdom in service to The Great Turning.
Turning away from an Industrial Growth society, toward a life sustaining community of/with all beings.
Meet the team
Jaime Howell
Jaime is a trained Wilderness Rites of Passage guide, Work That Reconnects facilitator and experienced teacher of Open Floor movement practice.
He is the founder of the Centre for the Great Turning, inspired by Joanna Macy, Bill Plotkin, Tarchin Hearn and many more. He is a humble apprentice to living in wholeness.
Jaime brings together the awakening arts of meditation, movement, song, mythopoetry, sweat lodge and vision quest.
These powerful initiations can help humans remember their innate sense of belonging to the natural world.
Jaime has a Masters in Education, he is a talented blues guitarist with a passion for singing and songwriting about the path of Soul Initiation in service to the Great Turning.
Juliette McConachy
Juliette is an apprentice to wildness at the meeting point of Tantra, Deep ecology and Somatic psychology.
Juliette is a Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator with a focus on ‘inter-being’ / Remembering the body home into relation with all beings. Widening the felt sense experience of personal health to acknowledge, include and contribute to our social and ecological experience of inter-connection, belonging and response-ability.
Juliette is the founder and director of Awakening Arts
For more about Juliette click here
Wangapeka
Hours
Monday–Friday
10am–6pm
Phone
(555) 555-555