Loss, Grief & Trauma:
The Gift of Full Presence
February 7 & 8
A Training for Helping Professionals
Strengthen Your Container™ with the Chakras:
Re-membering Wholeness
March 5-8, 2020 at Yogaville Satchidananda Ashram
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In this retreat style program, you will:
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Bearing the Unbearable ~ The Wisdom Course Online
Available Now
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.
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Healing From Within:
Annual Easter & Passover Yoga for Healing Symposium
at Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat
April 4-12, 2020 In the Bahamas on Beautiful Paradise Island
The MISS Foundation's
Compassionate Bereavement Care Yoga Provider Training Certification
CBC-Y
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.
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).
Click here to visit our Compassionate Bereavement Care-Yoga Provider site to learn more and register
Selah: Pause, Reflect, Discover Meaning
Fully Inhabited Grief
An annual contemplative retreat for traumatic bereavement in breathtaking Sedona Arizona from the MISS Foundation
Past Retreats & Workshops
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"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
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.
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
~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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