Events

Hosted Workshops & Programs at EarthRise

EarthRise hosts a wide variety of multi-day workshops and programs oriented around personal development. These retreats are produced by leaders in their various fields of study, and often have open enrollment.

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  Weekend Workshop

  The Women's Visionary Congress

  • Jun 14, 2013 – Jun 16, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  The Women's Visionary Congress (WVC) is a gathering of visionary women healers, scholars, activists, and artists who study consciousness and altered states. The WVC supports the transfer of knowledge among women who apply the insights of their research and spiritual path. more...

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  Retreat

  Advanced Training for MBCT and MBSR Teachers

  Embodying Mindful Presence and Investigating Mindful Inquiry

  Presenters

  Susan Woods, LICSW, Char Wilkins, LCSW

  • Jun 9, 2013 – Jun 14, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  The heart of this training program focuses on developing skills that strengthen an embodied mindful presence, mindful inquiry, and examines the theme, rationale, intention, and practice skills for each of the eight MBCT and MBSR sessions. This advanced training is for MBCT and MBSR teachers who wish to deepen their understanding. more...

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  Weekend Workshop

  Harnessing the Tornados of Change in Your Life

  Presenter

  Jean Houston, PhD

  • Jun 7, 2013 – Jun 9, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  You’ll learn new practices that can be used to guide your tornadoes of change and collaborate with the powers that call you into a deeper, higher, more profound way of thinking, feeling, and being. more...

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  Workshop

  Laughing Heart Yoga

  Unwind by Nature

  Presenters

  Jean Marie Hays, Debra McKnight Higgins

  • May 19, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  Take a break from the hectic pace of your life and join us for a soul-nourishing day of luxurious yoga, deep relaxation, and communion with nature. Enjoy walking the labyrinth or permaculture gardens, hiking through the pristine native live oak woodlands, soaking in the mineral hot tub, or sitting in quiet contemplation. more...

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  Retreat

  Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC)

  Presenters

  Kristin Neff, PhD, Christopher Germer, PhD

  • May 12, 2013 – May 17, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  Mindful Self Compassion (MSC) is an intensive training retreat version of an empirically-supported 8-week program designed to cultivate the skill of self-compassion. Based on groundbreaking research by Kristin Neff and integrated with the clinical perspective of Christopher Germer, participants learn to respond to difficult emotions with kindness and understanding. more...

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  Workshop

  Meet 'The Iceman'

  Wim Hof Method Basic Course

  Presenter

  Wim Hof

  • Apr 27, 2013 – Apr 28, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  Wim Hof is world-renown for astonishing feats in the extremes of nature and hold 20 world records. Come be inspired by a unique idividual and learn his method for Mind-Body-Nature connection, wellness, peak performance, and his 'unusual' mind-body control. more...

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  Workshop

  Women’s Courage Circle

  Presenter

  Aninha Livingstone

  • Apr 20, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  This day long retreat is steeped in soul-centered and nature-based practices, for women ready to embody their unique gifts in the world. more...

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  Retreat

  Beyond Words

  Poetry and Music as a Portal to Awakening

  Presenters

  Kim Rosen, MFA, Jami Sieber

  • Apr 12, 2013 – Apr 14, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  Join Kim Rosen and musical alchemist Jami Sieber to pioneer the frontiers of consciousness and creativity that unfold through the transformative power of beauty, poetry, music, writing, community, nature, movement, and profound silence. more...

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  Workshop

  iRest Yoga Nidra

  Level I Training

  Presenter

  Richard Miller, PhD

  • Apr 8, 2013 – Apr 12, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  This Level I training is designed to provide you with the basic principles, history, theory, practice, and delivery of iRest that will allow you to incorporate the simple 10-step iRest protocol into your personal life, professional teaching, or clinical practice. more...

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  Weekend Workshop

  Weekend of Outstanding Women

  Where are your photos now?

  Presenter

  Felicia Schonborn

  • Mar 1, 2013 – Mar 3, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  We all have photos of family, trips, and special events in draws, on computers, and phones. Let's get them into your life. more...

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  Weekend Workshop

  Dynamic Neural Retraining System Program

  Presenter

  Annie Hopper

  • Mar 1, 2013 – Mar 3, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  Recover from chemical sensitivities, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, electric hypersensitivity syndrome, and anxiety through re-wiring the brain. The step-by-step techniques used are based on neuroplasticity therapy, which re-wires the limbic system in the brain to build more functional neural pathways that corrects the associated maladapted stress response, normalizes sensory perception, and decreases symptoms of illness. more...

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  Retreat

  Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)

  Presenters

  Zindel Segal, PhD, Steven Hickman, PsyD, Sarah Bowen, PhD

  • Feb 17, 2013 – Feb 22, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  Led by senior therapists, mindfulness teachers and retreat leaders, this training emphasizes the importance of the clinician’s own meditation practice and self-inquiry. Through role-play, simulated classroom, and patient-practitioner encounters, it explores the actual application of mindfulness practices in working with clients. more...

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  Retreat

  February "Ease of Being" Retreat

  Presenter

  Richard Miller, PhD

  • Feb 7, 2013 – Feb 10, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  During our time together at this silent retreat, we will engage in sitting and moving meditation, bodysensing, breathsensing, silence, and intimate and spirited dialogue, all of which support your awakening into your innate nonseparateness with all of life. The practices that we engage evoke and support psychological integration as well as spiritual awakening to your true nature. more...

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  Workshop

  Embodied Practitioner Certification

  Level One

  Presenter

  MetaIntegral Academy

  • Jan 21, 2013 – Jan 25, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  The Embodied Practitioner Certification: Level 1 is the first year of a three-year program that provides a complete training in professionally and skillfully applying integral principles from an embodied place. more...

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  Retreat

  Mindfulness Based Childbirth and Parenting (MBCP)

  • Jan 13, 2013 – Jan 19, 2013
  • Petaluma, CA

  Mindfulness Based Childbirth and Parenting (MBCP) offers parents-to-be the opportunity to use the remarkably transformative time of pregnancy and childbirth to learn the life-skill of mindfulness for working with the stress, pain, and fear that are a normal part of this profound journey into the unknown and to have these skills in place for parenting mindfully from the moment of birth. more...

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  Retreat

  The Holographic Butterfly

  Regenesis and Transformation

  Presenter

  Jean Houston, PhD

  • Dec 6, 2012 – Dec 10, 2012
  • Petaluma, CA

  Join us for this sacred retreat of regeneration, ceremony, and transformation. Enter the weekend as humbly as the caterpillar enters the chrysalis, then once inside experience the initiation into a world of unpredictable growth, contagious joy, and life-changing possibilities. more...

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  Special Event

  Evening Benefit Concert for EarthRise

  New Equations Foundation

  Presenter

  Siv Roland

  Sponsor

  New Equations Foundation

  • Dec 5, 2012
  • Petaluma, CA

  We invite you to join us for a concert to celebrate the many years that the Institute of Noetic Sciences has been bringing humanity an awareness of the greatness and beauty of the universe. This is a benefit for EarthRise.

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  Workshop

  Women's Courage Circle

  Presenter

  Aninha Esperanza Livingstone, PhD

  • Nov 10, 2012
  • Petaluma, CA

  Women's Courage Circles offer a sacred container in which to explore your calling and obstacles, such as fear and self-doubt, that make it difficult to take risks in the world. Together we gather in circle with other women, spend time on the land, and engage in transformative ritual.

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  Weekend Workshop

  Lightworkers Healing Method

  Level One – The Foundation

  Presenter

  Lynn McGonagill

  • Nov 3, 2012 – Nov 4, 2012
  • Petaluma, CA

  Do you want to be who your soul wants you to be and help others do the same? You can learn to channel Divine healing; it is a teachable, learnable skill, not a gift. more...

  Topics:

  Health and Healing, Subtle Energies
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  Retreat

  The Calling

  Creating a New Self, Evolving a New Humanity, and The Form Reality Practice™

  Presenter

  Bernie Prior

  • Oct 30, 2012 – Nov 4, 2012
  • Petaluma, CA

  Over 5 extraordinary days, learn The Form Reality Practice™, a powerful instrument of Self-Transformation, Self-Mastery, and Self-Creation. The Form Reality Practice “holds the walk” of the evolving individual. It is an instrument of the Authentic Self.