Spiritual Seasons
Neolithic and Bronze Age people of Crete organized spiritual ceremonies according to seasonal and celestial events, such as the solstices and equinoxes.
Robinette Kennedy has identified how to experience trance poses from prehistoric Crete in a way that reunites personal instincts with nature’s seasonal cadence.
Performing visionary trance poses in this way realigns the body/mind with Earth’s larger energies. Most participants experience this as a powerful way to integrate personal and spiritual purpose.
Join us on this spiritual journey through the seasons.
Autumn, September 22–December 21
Returning to Earth
As the days shorten, first frosts signal the darkness to come. Our ritual task is to gather together all that we’ve harvested and look critically at the fruits of our labors. Autumn trance poses help to clarify the nature of what we’ve truly created in our lives. What must we keep or give away as we prepare to accept the stillness of winter?
With clearer vision, we descend into the ground of our being, where we learn again and again lessons of grieving and compassion.
See Events for upcoming Autumn retreats.
Winter, December 22–March 21
A Passion for Mourning
The restorative essence of winter calls for trance visions that support the body’s ability to be nourished at the deepest level while resting in winter’s cold, still, darkness.
During winter trance retreats, participants experience poses that guide us through the chaos of the unknown as we gestate for a spring rebirth.
Spring, March 22–June 21
Standing Your Spiritual Ground
The sun’s increasing warmth illuminates an array of possibilities and a new spiritual task: learning to dance with spring’s wildly expansive energies. Through guidance received during trance, the way is made clear. We learn how to re-emerge gradually from the darkness (lifelong or current) and dance winter visions into being.
Summer, June 22–September 21
Flying Lessons
At the center of the year’s cycle is summer’s radiant heart of self-expression and creativity. Summer trance poses encourage empowerment and the uninhibited immersion into joy, abundance and celebration of our deepest selves.
See Events for upcoming Summer retreats.