Long Term Recovery Work

Weekend Retreats

Weekend residential retreats are the mainstay at Miksau. Living in this serene environment without distraction from home or work responsibilities allows attentiveness to the work you have come to do. Since personal transformation involves the whole person, the retreats address physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and relational dimensions, including one’s relation to nature and to the world. Taking time to be attentive to and align these aspects of ourselves allows us to move on, to “be the change” we would like to see happen in the world around us.Your investment purchases meals, accommodation and professional facilitation.

Shalom Retreats™

Shalom Retreat™ is an intensive and liberating growth experience. The aim of the Shalom process, complemented by Bioenergetic techniques, is to empower us to be more awake, loving, and alert to life. Loving is an art and the skills of loving can be learned. First we need to release old armoring that has prevented us from feeling free. Then our capacity for joy, self-expression, creativity, passion, spontaneity, and authenticity increases.

To deepen our experience we create a sacred and intentionally loving community, founded on our recognition of another's right to think and feel as he/she does, seeing and hearing another, and being fully present. When progressing on the spiritual journey, a Shalom Retreat offers a portal into deeper spiritual resources and collective knowledge of the invisible realms. In an atmosphere of mutual acceptance and respect, all paths are honored and all wisdom you bring is welcomed. Since these are intense personal spiritual growth experiences, an interview (or letter from your therapist if you’re in therapy) is required before acceptance into the retreat.

Aukje has been a participant in Shalom Retreats at Shalom Mountain (NY) since 1981, and has been mentored and commissioned by its founder Gerald Jud. Details on Shalom process and techniques as well as endorsement from her mentor and participants are available on request.

Dreaming the Earth’s Dream

Humanity is part of the earths’ dream. Yet the human species behaves as though it has a dream separate from earth. Alienated from peculiar earth values we do business and industry in a way that has exacerbated the disconnection.

This retreat is about learning to dream earth’s dream. It is not about saving earth, it is about saving us. It is not about environmentalism, but about our human self connecting with soul and with earth.

The goals and methodology of the weekend include:

1. healing our disconnection through bioenergetics and other body-mind modalities; enjoying the sensual earthy aspects of being human
2. meditation, gazing and communing with nature to see beauty, richness and perfection
3. connecting with each other by recognizing and celebrating our divinity in each other.

Bring layered clothing, journals, and other media you use for creative expression and a drum if you have one. You will be offered nutritious, diet-sensitive meals, professional facilitation, comfortable accommodation and time for solace.

Miksau is situated on beautiful, lakeshore land buffered by bush so that your experience is truly an immersion. This is an invitation to surrender to a most sensual and spiritual experience.

Journal Writing Process Skills

Writing can be an integral part of healing and meeting life’s challenges with grace. This weekend retreat provides skills, tools and techniques to aid that process. With the help of guided imagery, solitude and attention to your own situation, you will be able to establish a writing project that works for you. Journals with tools and process questions will be supplied. Wear comfortable clothing and come prepared for an experience that both deepens your sense of self and opens you up to a wonderful newness in you.

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Peace Retreat

Our desire for peace does not necessarily give us peace. Political activism is not for everyone. If fear promotes conflict, then our desire to “be the change” we want to see happen in the world, draws us to seek an inner resolution of our own fears.

This live-in weekend retreat allows for a unique attentiveness to our collective needs for solace, congruency and inner peace, with serene surroundings, We will:

• enjoy time for solace
• study sacred activism and those who live peace with vigilance
• practice body-mind exercises to clear our channels
• learn processing tools to find balanced states of compassion, and
• enhance skills in meditation and journalling to promote change in our inner and outer environment.

“A Spiritual Warrior is someone who addresses and enters the pain of the inner battle in order to heal the rift between self and soul” awk

Please bring journals and wear comfortable clothing. You will be offered a unique live-in experience that allows a focus on your inner work, time for solitude, nutritious, diet-sensitive meals, and comfortable accommodation.

Registration Information

For inquiries and more detailed information contact Aukje at 780-623-2097, or email her at .

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