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Retreats with Camille Maurine

Life is challenging. Even the good stuff is intense. We all need deep inner resources so that we can respond creatively to whatever comes our way. Below are descriptions of "Wild Serenity" and the "Women's Creativity Spa". Immersing yourself in one of these inspiring, rejuvenating retreats may be just the ticket. Please join us.

"WILD SERENITY" - Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, February 12-17, 2006

A Meditation and Movement Retreat with Camille Maurine and Dr. Lorin Roche

WILD SERENITY is a radically liberating, deeply revitalizing week of meditation, movement, and energy practices. We will explore the interplay between meditation and expression – the way that contact with the soul inspires dynamic engagement with the outer world, which in turn contributes to a rich inner life.

Meditation can be defined as paying attention to the current of life and love flowing through us and riding it inward to our essence. This is an instinctive ability, a way of accessing inner wisdom, and we all can do it. In this workshop, we will alternate sitting and moving meditations that awaken the senses, soften the heart, and stretch the muscles of the mind. Through body awareness, sound, and breath, you will gently and gradually let more life force stream through you.

In this approach, you learn to embrace the fullness of your nature – vastness and vulnerability, sensuality and surging power. You will discover that what might seem like obstacles – raw emotions, restlessness, desire – are actually gateways into vitality, renewal, and creativity.

Living and loving fully takes courage, and all the inner resources one can muster. Drawing on three decades of teaching and 23 years of relationship, authors Maurine and Roche share their experience with humor and compassion. If you’ve given up on meditation, or are ready to take your practice to a new level; if you want to tap into more joy and inspiration; if you long for more intimacy with yourself and others, then perhaps it’s time for Wild Serenity.

Recommended reading: Maurine and Roche, Meditation 24/7 and Meditation Secrets for Women; Roche, Breath Taking and Meditation Made Easy.

CAMILLE MAURINE and LORIN ROCHE, Ph.D. are the authors of MEDITATION 24/7, the new book and CD ensemble. This wife/husband team also wrote the top-selling MEDITATION SECRETS FOR WOMEN. Dr. Roche's other books are MEDITATION MADE EASY, BREATH TAKING and WHOLE BODY MEDITATIONS. Camille is a performing artist, trained in dance and the healing arts. She is the creator of Moving Theater. Lorin is one of the most highly experienced meditation teachers in the United States. Since 1968, he has worked with educational institutions, athletic teams, hospitals, the military, the homeless, and creative professionals.

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WOMEN'S CREATIVITY SPA - Santa Barbara, CA, May 20-26, 2006

With Authors Camille Maurine and Jennifer Louden

Where Your Great Passion Meets the World's Great Need

Camille and author/coach Jennifer Louden are offering another creativity retreat at beautiful Laurel Springs Ranch in the mountains overlooking Santa Barbara and the ocean. We had such a blast teaching together with a mighty group of women this past March, that we are all eager to go at it again next year. Exhilarating, empowering, and FUN!

Every artistic soul (and what woman isn't one?) needs a period of sacred renewal often, no matter how prolific and fulfilling your daily creative life may be. The forces of love and life are always flowing through you, and they need tending. Take a week to remember, refresh, and rededicate yourself to your inner flow, and by doing so, to the world in need of your talents.

This retreat is about plumbing new depths, going to the next level, opening up and letting more love gush through.

It's a place to spread out past where you have ever gone before, to give yourself wild space, to live in a nourishing and supportive atmosphere.

It's a sanctuary for deep listening, for allowing life to speak to you and through you.

It's a community of women gestating and birthing the quality of life we all desire.

The secret to creativity – and health, and joy – is learning to cooperate with this inner flow - not controlling, but consciously engaging with its energy and movement. We will tune ourselves to the creative rhythms of nature that pulse within us, surging through our blood and breath.

We will ride the waves of emotion and inspiration that move us closer to the heart of life.

We will bring awareness to thoughts, feelings, inner images – no matter how strange, tender, or dark – and discover their revelations, following their pathways into deeper engagement with our gifts and the world.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
• Any woman yearning to bring her gifts into the world with greater courage, clarity, energy, and focus
• Any woman working on a creative project (what project isn't creative: business, book, one-woman show, art, family life? It all matters!)
• Any woman in need of refueling
• Any woman craving new vision for her purpose
• Any woman who enjoys being in a circle of like-minded women

For registration, go to Jennifer's site: http://comfortqueen.com/creativityspa.html. Please also contact Camille: cm@camillemaurine.com

"I am unable to put into words the overall value of this retreat. At this moment, the days exceeded by far any expectations I could ever have dreamed of for this retreat!" ~ Suzanna S.

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If you would like Camille to come to your area for a retreat, performance, or workshop, contact us and we will get creative together about making that happen.

Camille Maurine

Lorin Roche, Ph.D

camille@camillemaurine.com

lorin@lorinroche.com

P.O. Box 9325

Marina del Rey, California 90295

310 821-0620