We are all born with a great dream for our lives, a dream that may have been submerged or derailed along the way by family and career realities. After your roots have gone deeply into the world, the second half is time to resurrect this dream. The blossom of your "wild and precious life" is ready to bring forth the fruit of your special creative gifts. By reclaiming your dream, you "lift your heart up to heaven and make all things possible."
The word respect means the willingness to look again. The word challenge
means an invitation to grow again, to move beyond the familiar and the
knowable. We can learn to walk the mystical path with practical feet. We
can open to the mystery, the deep knowing, the luminous, the transcendent.
We can ignite our dreams and our creative fire. The most potent healing
force on this planet is love.
Angeles Arrien is an anthropologist, educator, award-winning author, and corporate consultant who lectures internationally and conducts workshops that bridge cultural anthropology, psychology, and comparative religions. A Basque, she grew up in both rural Spain and contemporary America, eventually learning to take the best of both. She has devoted her life to finding the values held in common by indigenous people, the grandparents of our planet, and integrating their rich wisdom into our contemporary culture. She is founder and president of the Angeles Arrien Foundation for Cross-Cultural Education and Research, a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and author of the Four Fold Way: Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer, and Visionary, and The Nine Muses: A Mythological Path to Creativity. Her work with multi-cultural issues and conflict resolution has been used with the International Human Rights Commission and the World Indigenous Council. and she has received three honorary doctorate degrees in recognition of her work."Retreats offer us the opportunity to renew the deepest parts of our own nature, away from the patterns of daily living. They give us the chance to reconnect with our authentic selves and to drop into the deeper, slower, contemplative rhythms of nature. A retreat can help clarify what the next step in our life's journey may be and reopen our hearts to the great gift of life itself." -- Angeles Arrien