Tallgrass Spiritual Retreat Center
Where Women Find Their Way
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DreamPower©:An Experiential Retreat
August 7-8, 2009
Fee: $70
Facilitator: Mary Jo Grant, MS PhD
Throughout history, dreams have had great influence in many lives and cultures. From earliest times, dreams have guided, illuminated, puzzled and healed. The Bible, Shakespeare and other literature contain many references about the importance and value of dreams. Gandhi dreamed the solution to a standoff with the British during their occupation of India. Lincoln dreamed his death. Einstein and other inventors dreamed solutions to their experiments.
This retreat will give dreamers the skills necessary to tap into the power and wisdom of dreams and to understand how dreams enrich their lives, helping them understand and use the power of their dreams in their personal lives. Specifically, the workshop leader will demonstrate how her waking dreams helped heal her body, mind, and spirit. She has written and published DREAM POWER: Can Our Dreams Make Us Well? Read more at Mary Jo's SterlingHouse website.
This workshop will provide an opportunity to understand how
power-full dreams are meant to be used to bring meaning, direction and richness into everyday life. The Dream Giver blesses us with dreams; we can learn how to accept those blessings by having the tools to use for our own personal dream-work. Bring a dream that you have always wondered about and be open to looking at it in a new way, a way that honors body, mind and spirit..
Friday night will be an evening of relaxation in preparation for dreaming a meaningful dream. Mary Jo will be present on Saturday to do some education about dreamwork, as well as discussing the dreams of participants.
Mary Jo will also be facilitating a day retreat called
Sacred Poetry on July 11, 2009 here at Tallgrass.
Tallgrass Spiritual Retreat Center:
Where Women Find Their Way
1780 Thurman Creek Road
Matfield Green, Kansas 66862
620.753.3465
Rev. Billie Blair, Director
We are meant to midwife dreams for one another.
- Julia Cameron | ||||
Living with self-trust and self-love is a life long process.
- Jennifer Louden | ||||
DREAM POWER © by Mary Jo Davis-Grant
C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D.
Mary Jo is a friend as well as a graduate of Holos University Graduate Seminary. Her book is the culmination of her personal experience of over 500 dreams, which assisted her in recovering from a 7 year bout of chronic pain which had defied all that conventional medicine had to offer. This inspiring book includes 41 of her most powerful dreams. I have often said that 10 dream experts would give you at least 12 interpretations of a given dream. Mary Jo is truly a dream expert whose dream interpretations were transformational!
Interestingly, Mary Jo developed remarkable waking dreams, spontaneous imagery that led her to recovery. I am most grateful to have played a small part in her journey, which began with our Biogenics® training program. Of course, her development of powerful archetypal patterns is itself unique and one of the reasons her work is so important. DREAM POWER is a true story of the benefits of the holistic approach to all illness.
The results of her dream work provide an example of the transformative power of the mind-body-spirit. Indeed she became her own therapist. Now she is continuing as a spiritual inspirational speaker. Her work suggests in-depth Jungian insight, truly guided by her own wise guides. If you have never benefited from your own dreams, I urge you to read this book and use it as a catalyst for your own journey to Individuation. In many respects this is a story of self-therapy at its finest.
I quote just one of her poetic dreams:
“A wise One beckons me off my path. He tells me that he and his friends are helping to build my spiritual house. He says that I may come in the house but that it is not quite finished.
I enter through a door marked Wisdom under an arch called Protection. The floors are Faith covered with Humility. The walls are Pure Intuition covered with Discernment. The roof is woven of Love and Integrity—A large plant grows in the middle of the room. Three large white roses are in bloom. They are Fulfillment, Health and Hope—There is a balcony all around called Vision and Insight.
This image is, I believe, a classic work of the Holy Spirit, and I believe that this building of my spiritual house was crucial and timely in my healing.”
I encourage you to read, enjoy and build your own Spiritual House!
