Tallgrass Spiritual Retreat Center:
Where Women Find their Way
1780 Thurman Creek Road
Matfield Green, Kansas 66862
620.753.3465
Rev. Billie Blair, Director
Tallgrass Spiritual Retreat Center
Where Women Find Their Way
2008 Lenten Day Away: A Series
Offered on Wednesdays through Lent,
beginning February 6
Come to one, come to some, come to them all!
For more information, click on the retreat titles
Wed 9:30am - 3:30pm Fee: $36, includes lunch
Facilitator: Rev. Billie Blair
What do you need to prove and/or improve your love to yourself? Discover ways to affirm your love for yourself. Teach yourself that you will be there in sickness and in health, in good times and bad. You deserve it and you're worth it!
Wed 9:30am - 3:30pm Fee: $55, includes lunch & supplies
Facilitator: Rev. Billie Blair
Create a tool for self-awareness and self-care. Each woman
will take home her own personally created "Sacred Self"
image, a clay-colored cloth doll - covered with symbols of
life and living.
Wed 9:30am - 3:30pm
Fee: $40, plus tax (includes lunch)
Fee: $40, plus tax (includes lunch)Facilitator: Rev. Billie Blair
An interactive, creative experience for women wanting toknow more about themselves, using the process of SoulCollage. This day is for those who are familiar with thisprocess and for those new to the experience. Please bringscissors and a glue stickWed 9:30am - 3:30pmFee: $36, includes lunch
Fee: $36, includes lunchFacilitator: Rev. Billie Blair
There is power in the unsent letter. We can get in touch with thoughts and feelings at a deeper level when they are uncensored. Bring a journal, notebook or your fanciest stationary to write out your unfinished business with parents, siblings, friends and more.
Wed 9:30am-3:30pm Fee: $36, includes lunch
Facilitator: Rev. Billie Blair
Walking the labyrinth is a form of prayer. It is a journey inward and then back out. This is a time toquiet one’s mind and consciously be receptive to God. One might enter the labyrinth with a question and beopen to looking at the issue from more than oneperspective. Some folks repeat a prayer, giving the mind something specific to think about while walking. There is no right or wrong way to walk the labyrinth. A variety of ways to walk the labyrinth will be offered.
March 12, 2008 VI - Mandalas:A Lenten Experience of Color
Wed 9:30am - 3:30pmFee: $36, includes lunch
Fee: $36, includes lunchFacilitator: Rev. Billie Blair
Spend a day experiencing how color is a vital expression of who we are and how it impacts our personality. The coloring of mandalas has been described as a peaceful and relaxing tool to release the mind and energize the soul. Every part of how we decorate the mandala (color, shape, pattern) is an expression of who we are as human beings. Please bring colored pencils.
Wed 9:30am - 3:30pm Fee: $36, includes lunch
Fee: $36, includes lunchFacilitator: Rev. Billie Blair
The president prepares a state of the union address.
Where is our routine assessment of what matters most -
the state of our souls? This day away offers time, space
and a process to ask yourself, "How am I doing?" and
wait, intuitively, for the answer.
March 21, 2008 Good Friday: Preparing for Joy!
A Lenten Day of JournalingFri 9:3-am-3:30pmFee: $36, includes lunch
Fee: $36, includes lunchFacilitator: Rev. Billie Blair
It's Friday, but Sunday's a Comin'! Take time to journal with others (there's power in writing alongside others). It's time to deal with unresolved issues, loss, and grief. Courageously assess the tough stuff of life and look toward the joy of an Easter resurrection! Bring your journal and a favorite writing instrument.
Sun - Before Sunrise (time will be listed here closer to Easter)
This is for those folks (women and men) who wish to begin Easter morning with a look to the eastern sunrise on the tallgrass prairie. A light breakfast (including hot coffee) will be available for a free-will offering. Lent - a season of 40 days, not counting Sundays, during which Christians prepare for the joy of Easter morning.
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