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Retreat Recap: Yoga & Flowers
Yoga & Flowers Blog Post
On a sun-soaked, mid-September Saturday, we had the joy of hosting our very first Wild Sanctuary Retreat. A Mini Yoga & Contemplation Retreat, Yoga & Flowers, at Nash Creek Farms—and what a beautiful beginning it was!
We gathered early at the flower farm, the air still carrying the sweetness of late summer and the fields abundant and alive with the most beautiful dahlias you’ve ever seen. There were butterflies galore, and the funniest ‘drunk on nectar’ bees passed out on the petals.
Our yoga practice unfolded beneath the generous shade of a magnolia tree, its branches arching like an ancient guardian above us. Moving and breathing together in that open space reminded us how deeply connected we are to the rhythms of the seasons and the gift of creation.
Late Summer Prayer.
Unnameable God, you are too eternal to truly know, too expansive to wholly love. And yet we feel you with us in every moment. This intuition is our invitation to a faith that sets us free…
The Wild.
The title of the document typed up in Google Drive read, in all caps, “FUTURE PLANNING/DREAMING”.
Self-descriptive, the document held within it ideas of what Wild Sanctuary could become. Headings to clarify our messaging of ‘who we are’, ‘what we do’, and ‘why we do it’, flowed from the top of the page until two headings appeared— ‘DESIRES’ and ‘BIG DREAMING’.
Let’s Celebrate!
There are countless reasons to celebrate; birthdays and anniversaries, graduating from school, welcoming a new baby into the world, calling a new place home, and all sorts of personal accomplishments. A common thread for celebration is walking over a threshold, and spending a little sweet, sacred time in the liminal space where the cycle of completion meets the new beginning.