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PAUSE: A Midwinter Movement Retreat


Retreat with us!

The Christine Center and Certified Open Floor International (OFI) Teachers, Teresa Reid + Cori Hildebrandt, invite you to gather with other like-minded souls during the depths of midwinter - a time of potent pause - to take a break from your everyday routine to listen to your body, sense your inner knowing and tap into currents of inspiration.

This thoughtfully curated, all inclusive retreat is anchored in the teachings of resource-based, mindful movement practices of Open Floor International. From writing to dance, guided movement to time in nature, spacious alone time to co.resting with others, there’s a little something for everyone and every part of your being.

Does the fast pace and demands of modern life leave you feeling exhausted or with little time to give?
Do you long for the space and time to S L O W down?
Would you welcome a weekend of rest, in nature, where meals and activities are taken care of for you?

WHAT’S INCLUDED:

  • 5 curated Open Floor International explorations/sessions: meditation, dance movement, nature, art, writing

  • Time to rest, refresh, and revitalize through solitude and connection 

  • 5 homemade vegetarian meals (Friday dinner through Sunday lunch) made with fresh, local ingredients (GF, vegan, and diary-free diets can be accommodated with notice)

  • A variety of lodging options to meet your comfort

OPTIONS FOR LODGING:

  • Single or shared modern hermitage

  • Single or shared rustic hermitage

  • Single or shared cabin

  • Single or shared guest room in main building

ABOUT YOUR FACILITATORS:

Cori Hildebrandt, MA, LPC, LPCC MN

Coriander Living Collective, Open Floor International Teacher, Certified Brainspotting & EMDR Psychotherapist

Movement is life. Movement helps process and integrate experience. An integrated being is a healthy being. And yet things happen in life that fragment and fracture our whole sense of self. Movement is one of the great ways Cori knows to reclaim parts of self, to process emotions, to gain insight, to connect with spirit, to heal, and to integrate our self towards wholeness of being.

Cori is a non-dancer and Type A by definition! “I spent most of my life shying away from dancing, feeling awkward in my own body and self-conscious. Until I was introduced to conscious dance at a retreat in Sedona. Once I pushed through the discomfort, on the other side I found an expansive sense of freedom, it lit something up in me, that I knew I wanted to share with others.”

She is a socially interested, resourceful professional dedicated to promoting self-sufficiency, awakening awareness and insight, encouraging action, fostering healing, and cultivating satisfaction in the lives of others.


Teresa Reid

Rooted & Rising, Organic Intelligence Coach, Open Floor International Teacher, Dancing Freedom Facilitator, Authentic Movement, SomaYoga

 

As the visionary and steward of Rooted & Rising, Teresa serves individuals and communities by weaving her love of dance, somatic inquiry, earth-based wisdom and whole systems healing into simple yet powerful explorations of embodied emergence. She’s been dancing since she was a child, but it wasn’t until her health declined and life turned upside down that she discovered dance as a healing practice…a spiritual practice. “Within the dance, I encounter myself in new and beautiful ways. It provides the space to both honor my human experience and transcend it…to listen deeply to my own, natural rhythms while abiding in something greater. I trust all beings have this organic intelligence that longs for harmony and coherence, and it is my role to attune, guide and co.create with these rhythms, make space for vitality to arise, and weave threads of integration through curiosity and compassion.”

Earlier Event: January 17
5Rhythms with Ajay Rajani