Bearing the Unbearable ~ The Wisdom Course Online
Join Karla and Dr. Jo for a profound course to help you bear the unbearable.
When we love deeply, we mourn deeply. Over ten lessons, grief expert and Zen priest Dr. Joanne Cacciatore and Karla Helbert help us navigate our path through grief, showing us a model that allows us to be with our grief and, over time, transform it into compassionate action in the world.
What You’ll Learn
What You’ll Learn
- The Selah grief model, which mindfully guides those who are grieving through three phases: being with grief, surrendering to grief, and doing with grief
- Self-care practices and tools to help you in your grief journey
- Meditation practices and movement exercises for being with your grief
- How to identify grief and its effects cognitively, socially, and somatically
- How to find meaning through doing with your grief: transforming it into compassionate action in the world
"Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured." ~ BKS Iyengar
The MISS Foundation's Compassionate Bereavement Care Yoga Provider Training Certification CBC-Y
This September 12-18, 2019
A seven-day, intensive training program taught by researcher Dr. Joanne Cacciatore and yoga therapist Karla Helbert, LPC at Sedona Mago Retreat Center in beautiful Sedona, Arizona. This course is approved for 30 Continuing Education Units (CEU’s) for grief and clinical training plus 30 contact hours through Yoga Alliance with a registered YACEP.
LEARN MORE or REGISTER HERE
The Compassionate Bereavement Care Certification® program explores and extends current evidence based practices in traumatic grief and is based in a non-medicalized, non-pathologizing, mindfulness-based approach. We teach the art of full presence and compassionate counseling informed by recent science (Cacciatore, 2010; Cacciatore & Flint, 2012; Thielman & Cacciatore, 2013; Cacciatore, Thieleman, Killian, & Tavassoli, in press).
The CBC-Y® program combines the above approach with the science and philosophy of yoga. The training is based the novel, empirically tested mindfulness-based intervention of the ATTEND model—combining attunement, trust and touch, egalitarianism, nuance and death education—merged with Patanjali’s Eight Limbs of Yoga as well as teachings of the multiple branches of yoga including Jnana, Bhakti, Tantra, Karma, Raja, Hatha, and Japa. We will explore how yoga philosophy and science is reflected in the ATTEND model as well as how yogic science, philosophy and the teachings from various branches of yoga provide tools for both practitioner, provider and the bereaved to be with, surrender to, do with, and integrate grief. You will also learn and experience how the teachings and practices of yoga can ideally support clients enduring traumatic stress.
You will discover, through a phenomenological perspective, creativity, ritual, art, service, group and personal practice, the particular efficacy of the various branches of yoga in providing support and psychosocial care to the traumatically bereaved.
The CBC-Y® program combines the above approach with the science and philosophy of yoga. The training is based the novel, empirically tested mindfulness-based intervention of the ATTEND model—combining attunement, trust and touch, egalitarianism, nuance and death education—merged with Patanjali’s Eight Limbs of Yoga as well as teachings of the multiple branches of yoga including Jnana, Bhakti, Tantra, Karma, Raja, Hatha, and Japa. We will explore how yoga philosophy and science is reflected in the ATTEND model as well as how yogic science, philosophy and the teachings from various branches of yoga provide tools for both practitioner, provider and the bereaved to be with, surrender to, do with, and integrate grief. You will also learn and experience how the teachings and practices of yoga can ideally support clients enduring traumatic stress.
You will discover, through a phenomenological perspective, creativity, ritual, art, service, group and personal practice, the particular efficacy of the various branches of yoga in providing support and psychosocial care to the traumatically bereaved.
Click here to visit our Compassionate Bereavement Care-Yoga Provider site to learn more and register
"Give Sorrow Words..."
Explore Grief through Writing, Movement, Meditation & Mandala Creation
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Spend the day honoring your experience in grief, love, loss and remembrance through writing, meditation, movement and mandala creation.
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Saturday October 5 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m
Innerwork Center 213 Roseneath Rd, Richmond, VA 23221
Shakespeare told us,
"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits the o'er wrought heart and bids it break."
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In this day long experiential retreat-style workshop, we will attempt to unknit our broken hearts as we explore grief through writing, easeful movement, meditation and mandala creation.
You'll be guided through exploratory exercises and prompts to bring forth words to express and explore grief.
Meditation and guided visualizations along with easeful movement and mandala creation will support your creative, expressive process, helping to unburden your heart and find ways to make meaning and find your voice in grief.
Workshop is $87.50 for Innerwork members and $175 for all other; includes art supplies
Please bring a notebook, your journal and pens or other favorite writing implements
"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits the o'er wrought heart and bids it break."
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In this day long experiential retreat-style workshop, we will attempt to unknit our broken hearts as we explore grief through writing, easeful movement, meditation and mandala creation.
You'll be guided through exploratory exercises and prompts to bring forth words to express and explore grief.
Meditation and guided visualizations along with easeful movement and mandala creation will support your creative, expressive process, helping to unburden your heart and find ways to make meaning and find your voice in grief.
Workshop is $87.50 for Innerwork members and $175 for all other; includes art supplies
Please bring a notebook, your journal and pens or other favorite writing implements
This workshop is taught by Karla Helbert and Jamie Fueglein
Karla is a licensed counselor, yoga teacher and therapist, award-winning author of Finding Your Own Way to Grieve and Yoga for Grief & Loss, and The Chakras in Grief & Trauma. She is also a bereaved mother. Her life changed after her son died of a brain tumor in 2006. She specializes in working with those affected by traumatic death.
Jamie writes every day. He holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University where he teaches writing. He has taught writing classes for VCU and U of R English departments. He currently teaches fiction writing at Visual Arts Center of Richmond and holds periodic novel writing workshops. He has edited many works of fiction and non-fiction. Jamie is also a bereaved father.
Karla and Jamie are married to each other and live in Richmond VA with their daughter.
They both miss and mourn their son Thelonius daily.
Karla is a licensed counselor, yoga teacher and therapist, award-winning author of Finding Your Own Way to Grieve and Yoga for Grief & Loss, and The Chakras in Grief & Trauma. She is also a bereaved mother. Her life changed after her son died of a brain tumor in 2006. She specializes in working with those affected by traumatic death.
Jamie writes every day. He holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University where he teaches writing. He has taught writing classes for VCU and U of R English departments. He currently teaches fiction writing at Visual Arts Center of Richmond and holds periodic novel writing workshops. He has edited many works of fiction and non-fiction. Jamie is also a bereaved father.
Karla and Jamie are married to each other and live in Richmond VA with their daughter.
They both miss and mourn their son Thelonius daily.
Strengthen Your Container™
Yoga for Grief & Loss~Yoga In Fertility
A Training for Yoga Teachers & Yoga Informed Providers Oct. 18-20, 2019
with Karla Helbert, LPC, C-IAYT, E-RYT
Explore and examine the teachings of yoga as a support in all forms of grief & loss with a special focus on supporting students navigating the pain and loss through the journey of fertility treatment and reproductive loss.
This workshop includes a Yoga for Grief & Loss class Saturday 10/19 3:30-5:00
and a workshop on Yoga In-Fertility on Sunday 10/20 from 1:00-4:00
both open to the public.
Please register here with Kula Heart
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October 18-20 daily from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m
Kula Heart Yoga & Wellness LLC
3400 Bath Pike Ste 201, Bethlehem, PA 18017
Past Retreats & Workshops
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Yoga for Grief and Loss: Strengthen Your Container™
September 13-16 & February 7-10
At Yogaville, Swami Satchidananda Ashram
Buckingham County, Virginia
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE PROGRAM HERE
Q: How do you carry a grief that seems larger than the world?
A: We carry it in a really strong container.
A: We carry it in a really strong container.
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Grief, loss, and trauma are some of the most difficult experiences imaginable and possible. When you have experienced loss so profound there is no “getting over it,” you can learn only how to hold and to carry it.
Join author, psychotherapist, and yogini Karla Helbert at peaceful and pastoral Yogaville for a time of solace and connection in a retreat space of both learning and experience. You will:
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TUITION: $280 includes meals and supplies ACCOMMODATIONS
DATE & TIME DETAILS: Check-in Thursday: 4 pm Check-out Sunday: 2 pm VISIT THE YOGAVILLE WEBSITE HERE TO LEARN MORE OR TO REGISTER |
Testimonials"At the retreat, we could come together without judgement, talk about our children, and learn to be with our grief. Karla, being a bereaved mother, truly understands this journey. She is phenomenal, kind, and caring. She has helped and touched so many. "
— Tami
"Words can’t describe it, but Karla helped me to live in the pain and grief so I can survive, grow, and transform. She made me realize that I can continue my relationship with my son in the endless and deep grief I will always have for him."
— Tamara
"This program] is deep and authentic. It comes from Karla’s personal experience with loss, from her intense study of Raja Yoga, the study of the mind and human behavior, and the foundation of her Integral Yoga teacher training. Such a refreshing, effective and inspiring approach! "
— Nora Vimala Pozzi, E-RYT 500, PRYT, YCat, Director of Integral Yoga® Center of Richmond and Teacher Training, Yoga Therapist/Trainer, Raja Yoga Teacher, and Senior Faculty at Yogaville
— Tami
"Words can’t describe it, but Karla helped me to live in the pain and grief so I can survive, grow, and transform. She made me realize that I can continue my relationship with my son in the endless and deep grief I will always have for him."
— Tamara
"This program] is deep and authentic. It comes from Karla’s personal experience with loss, from her intense study of Raja Yoga, the study of the mind and human behavior, and the foundation of her Integral Yoga teacher training. Such a refreshing, effective and inspiring approach! "
— Nora Vimala Pozzi, E-RYT 500, PRYT, YCat, Director of Integral Yoga® Center of Richmond and Teacher Training, Yoga Therapist/Trainer, Raja Yoga Teacher, and Senior Faculty at Yogaville
Selah: Pause, Reflect, Discover Meaning
Fully Inhabited Grief
An annual contemplative retreat for tramatic bereavement in breathtaking Sedona Arizona
from the MISS Foundation
~Solace by the Sea ~
An Oceanfront Beach Retreat for Bereaved Parents
October 20-23, 2016
The Richmond Virginia Chapter of The MISS Foundation is honored to offer this retreat for bereaved parents. Proceeds above the costs of this retreat will go to the MISS RVA chapter in order to continue to provide these kinds of experiences for bereaved parents and their families in the future.
Solace by the Sea Information for Attendees
I need the sea because it teaches me.
~Pablo Nerada
~Pablo Nerada
The death of a child is trauma and one of the most difficult experiences imaginable and possible. It is traumatic grief. There is no getting over it, only learning how to hold and carry it as it changes shape. How do we learn to carry a grief that seems larger than the world, deeper than the ocean?
Through movement, meditation, journaling, creative writing, expressive arts, and ritual, you will learn and practice ways to better cope and to carry this grief through life.
As we remember and honor our beloved children, we also honor our own individual experiences in this grief.
This seaside Fall retreat will take place oceanfront on the stunning sands of North Carolina's beautiful Outer Banks. Thursday evening through Sunday noon, your stay includes three nights lodging in a luxurious oceanfront beach home in Kill Devil Hills, N.C. All meals will be provided during your stay. This beautiful retreat house is fully appointed with a swimming pool, sauna, hot tub, theater room, and more.
COST FOR THE RETREAT
$500.00 per person for an individual, private room.
$400.00 for a shared room (space is very limited for shared rooms).
$650.00 for a couple, in a private room sharing a bed.
The couples rate is for two participants who will share a Queen or King bed depending on availability at time of registration. "Couples" may include married couples, partners or friends attending the retreat.
All rates include three nights lodging, dinner on Thursday, breakfast, lunch and dinner on Friday and Saturday, and breakfast on Sunday..
Retreat costs also include all instruction and supplies for art projects, rituals and other retreat activities.
Your heart is the size of an ocean...Find yourself in its hidden depths.
~Rumi
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Retreat LocationSatchidananda Yogaville Ashram
108 Yogaville Way Buckingham, VA 23927 See The Yogaville website for directions to the Ashram. |
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