Women's Healing Retreats
Feel alive again. Be a part of a community that will embrace you with open arms and help you feel supported and understood. You will feel seen, heard and acknowledged for just who you are...
Rediscover your timeless nature and your true essence.
Reclaim your birthright: your feminine power and knowing.
Empower yourself and learn to trust your instincts and insight again...
Join Jennifer and like-minded, kindred spirits on a life-changing journey that can happen overnight or in one week...
A healing retreat.
Recharge, renew and rediscover...
Invite the light in again and say hello to yourself. Say yes to your gifts and the simple pleasures of life.
Jennifer supports the empowerment of women through education and experience, self-discovery and growth,?and provides opportunities by listening and witnessing without judgment.
She Her women's healing retreats invites women to participate in a feminine, centered, non-hierarchical community ?to connect with and celebrate the divine feminine in simple, yet empowering ways.
In every healing retreat she offers, Jennifer creates sacred space and teaches you how to create that same sacred space for yourself which promotes benefits that reach far beyond the individual who participates. By being respectful and holding ourselves capable and accountable, we can live by example and inspire others to do the same.
In Jennifer's women's healing retreats environments, we are presented with a unique opportunity which provides s with the space we need -where we can learn to act with integrity in word and deed, and we become deeply respectful and trusting of the mystery of what it is to be human and female.
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. IT is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves: "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?"
Actually, who are you not to be?
~Marianne Williamson
Yin Yoga: Rediscover Yourself and Reclaim Your Power
Go deep, Open and Energize with Yin Yoga~
Nourish your spirit, rejuvenate your body, and enliven your mind!
Rediscover your natural feminine instincts and wisdom. Reclaim what is yours-the divine feminine-rejoin the sisterhood of knowing and intuition.
Embrace your yin, your own inherent female qualities and let them lead you into balance, equanimity and a new belief in yourself and your unique gifts.
Replenish, revive, balance and restore. Enjoy an introduction to Yin Yoga, with a lively Q&A on the philosophy and health benefits of Yin and then experience the magic for yourself! Join Jennifer and get to know your inner emotional landscape in this deeply calming, profound mind-body workshop.
Yin yoga is a practice of long-held, deeply relaxing "stretching" poses that open and energize the "meridians," or energy pathways of the body, restoring youthful joint mobility as you quietly activate and gather your chi, your prana---your life force.
Whereas the yoga most people are familiar with appropriates the muscles or yang tissues of the body, yin yoga targets the more interior, supportive structures-the "fasciae," literally down to the bone marrow. Yin is every bit as vital as a heating or "yang vinyasa" yoga practice, where one flows from pose to pose, energetically pushing the envelope, concentrating on building muscular strength and stamina. In today's world, Yin Yoga is the soothing balm, the elixir that is so badly needed to help us find balance in our stress-filled, over-scheduled lives.
Yin is a calming, restorative practice that literally helps you to recharge your batteries. Learn poses like the dragonfly, seal and pigeon, all of which are designed to stretch and revitalize the deeper connective tissue in every part of the body, stimulating your meridians which connect to your vital organs and help to restore balance and harmony in your body and mind. This "needle-less" form of acupuncture will leave you feeling calm and energized at the same time. The asanas combined with deep, focused breathing encourage you to tune in and listen to your body and surrender to your feelings rather than trying to push them down or control them. Poses are held between ten breaths and ten minutes, to liberate the body's chronic holding patterns and relieve pain, helping you to recapture some of the ease and freedom of movement you used to have as a child. One of the most potent ways to cultivate the body's subtle energy, Yin enables you to heal yourself, move negative emotions out, prevent injury and find a deep sense of peace in your body, mind and spirit.
All levels welcome~
II. How to Stay Calm During These Challenging Times with Yin Yoga: Find Your Inner Power as you Reduce Stress and Rejuvenate!
In the face of these challenging economic times, we need to be as resourceful and capable as possible. How do we do this? How do we find calm in the midst of chaos? Just as we should be using this new economic climate to assess what is important in our lives and streamline, "trim the fat," we need to do the same within or own beings. Instead of dwelling on the negative and what we lack, let us be grateful for what we have and use this time for cleansing and renewal. We need to move out the old to create space for what is new; we need to clear what is keeping us trapped in the same outmoded, habitual patterns and learn a new dance. We need to learn a new way of being that helps us to access our body's natural healing capabilities and power in order to deal with the challenges that face us with greater equanimity.
Find untapped inner strength and peace of mind with this calming, restorative workshop. Learn the poses that target the meridians of the body that are directly related to stress, frustration, and decision-making; through the practice, by connecting to your breath and giving over to gravity and the state of "effortless effort," create greater reserves to cope with the stresses of everyday and replace frustration with patience and peace of mind. Replenish, revive, balance and recharge. Get to know your inner emotional landscape with this profound mind-body "un-workout." With the Yin practice of long-held, deeply relaxing "stretching" poses that open and energize the "meridians," or energy pathways of the body, we restore youthful joint mobility as we quietly collect and gather chi, our life force and we come to experience a multitude of benefits.
Time records itself in the deeper connective tissue of the body, where traumatic emotional and physically based experiences find a "home." When engaging in a yin practice, it is not at all uncommon to release held emotions that accompanied the original trauma and practitioners can become angry, frustrated or anxious and start to express their powerful emotions either through laughter or tears. This can be both remarkably cathartic and very therapeutic physically; while it may sound unappealing or even frightening, having a release of this kind is incredibly beneficial and unburdening and can help to unlock chronic holding patterns or pain in the body, leaving you with a feeling of deep peace and lightness.
When we are more grounded in the body, the mind and the spirit can be set free. By finding the courage to let go, to surrender the need to control, we discover the unexplored territories of our own interior landscapes, and while what we find may feel new, these treasures, our body-mind potential and capabilities have actually been there all along. Come celebrate yourself while you reduce stress and recharge your inner batteries in this soothing and spirit-liberating workshop!
All levels welcome~
Waking Energy: The Complete Introduction
Join Jennifer and tap into your own fountain of youth! Learn how to cultivate boundless energy and find true peace of mind. Introduce yourself to Waking Energy, the all-new age-defying, immune-boosting, revitalizing synthesis that combines Chi-Gong, the 5 Tibetans and Yin Yoga. Learn the seamless flow ... Enliven and awaken your chi with soothing self-massage and spine mobilization exercises as you learn to access your own energy resources and harness the energy that surrounds you. Then move on to the "Rites of Rejuvenation," the ancient longevity secret from Tibet and gather your energy with long-held, deeply relaxing stretching poses. Energize, harmonize and balance your body's meridian and chakra systems for increased vitality and total well-being.
Waking Energy is all new, powerful mind- body-spirit workout that combines 5,000 years of ancient longevity and health secrets. It is a magical combination of the quiet focused, energetic heaven and earth practice of Chi-Gong (QiGong), the allure and mystique of the 5 Tibetans, elemental movements that mimic the rotation of the earth, stirring and opening the major energy vortexes of the body, activating the chakra system and the nourishing, activating and rejuvenating beauty and simplicity of meridian stretches or Yin Yoga.
When you practice waking and collecting energy exercises, you will actually feel energy awakening within your own body! You will bring energy toward yourself as you harvest and gather chi, your life force--- from the earth, from the trees, the flower, the plants and everything that grows and breathes upon it. You will learn to "harness" the energy of the universe and literally "funnel" it into your own body to activate your body's natural capabilities and reserves to promote healing and balance.
Every moment in a Chi-Gong, 5 Tibetans or Yin session involves deep breathing and total mind-body intention, leading to an ever-deepening awareness of our inner landscape and helping us return to a more natural rhythm. When we are able to find a kind of calm and stillness within, we are able to cultivate something called "defensive chi"-protective energy that boosts our immune systems to defy age and improve our overall health and well-being.
How do you harness the energy of the universe? How can you bring energy toward yourself from earth and the sky? Learn how you can become the fountain and the ultimate source of all of the boundless energy you will ever need to live healthfully and longer, more instinctively and naturally, with less stress and more vitality ... all of the energy you will ever need walk,
think, work, run, reach, bend, garden, make love, play. You will boost your metabolism and super-charge your immune system. The glow of good health and energy will grow beyond your waking energy workouts and continue to grow exponentially.
Enough for you to look hot and incredibly fit to feel cool and confident to empower your body, energize and enliven your mind.
All levels welcome~
How Waking Energy Works: You and Nature-There is No Separation
In this workshop, come to understand that we are microcosmic versions of the planet we inhabit, that there is no separation between us and the air we breathe, the food we eat and the water we drink.
Through an experiential sampling of the Waking Energy components, and a thorough explanation of how Waking Energy works, learn how you can access your body's own energetic resources and harness universal energy to feel closer to yourself and nature.
The meridians, like rivers of energy, ensure proper nurturing of chi or life force throughout your whole being. When you are healthy, the flow of chi proceeds unimpeded, like the water in a free-running river, and energy is well distributed throughout the meridian pathways. When the river, or meridian, is blocked for some reason, the chi is prevented from reaching the specific area it is supposed to nurture. The result is that the cells, tissue or organs in the affected area will suffer. Waking Energy teaches us to tap into the energy that naturally exists in our own bodies and to "harness" the Chi that exists around us, called "universal chi," to literally get the "rivers" flowing again---so that we can strengthen our internal system to fend off the negative, deleterious energies that swirl around us in our environment. In so doing, we cultivate a deepening respect for ourselves and our bodies and learn to live more in tune with nature, raising our consciousness about the world around us and how it deserves our respect and gratitude for sustaining us. In the process of learning to heal ourselves and the incredible life-changing benefits it affords us, we are moved to heal the world around us.
Welcome to Waking Energy!
Your journey to the fountain of youth and boundless energy, reduced stress and peace of mind begins here ...
Waking Energy for Life Balance: The Magical Elixir and Antidote
In this workshop, learn how Waking energy will be your tonic, the magical elixir, the antidote to today's stressful, cell-phoning, multi-tasking "modern" world.
Aside from making you feel great and more enlivened, Waking Energy literally teaches you to tap into the energy that exists in our own bodies and to "harness" the Chi that exists around us, called "universal chi," to boost your immunity and cultivate the inner "power" to feel better, look better and to protect ourselves from the many stressors we have to cope with in our daily lives.
In today's world, with industrial toxins, genetically engineered foods, reduced ozone and mineral depletion in our soils, the surplus of electromagnetic radiation with cell phones, blackberries, and new adjuncts to our ever-expanding technologically dominated world, there are myriad sources of distraction and a real cause for concern. Our excessive multi-tasking, ingestion of caffeine, alcohol and fast foods, and sedentary lifestyles lead to a condition in Chinese medicine called "excess heat," which leads to indigestion, heartburn, headaches and chronic joint conditions such as arthritis and early on-set osteoporosis, heart disease, and the list sadly goes on and on. What we need is "cool." We need modalities that literally help us to leave the world of intense distraction and multi-tasking, stress and heat-producing activities behind. We need to engage in mind-body movement that both heats the body and then cools it. We need balance. We need to learn to live defensively and to find modalities that increase our ability to cultivate a new kind of consciousness and enable us to live more holistically.
This synergistic blend of elements in my new Hot Body Cool Mind and Jennifer Kries DVD series, combines both yang (hot) and yin (cool) segments with workouts that balance and harmonize the body's energy systems, creating strong chi which provides a powerful antidote to the stressful aspects of today's modern world.
Experience a sampling of Waking Energy components after an explanatory lecture, followed by a Q&A session and come to understand the remarkable benefits of Waking Energy for yourself!
The Pilates Transformation
Join Jennifer, 2nd Generation Pilates Master Instructor and immerse yourself in an environment where you will receive superlative training in Joseph Pilates' original and authentic mind-body-spirit method.
On a Pilates retreat, feel more grounded, calmer and more in touch with yourself. You will discover that when you go on a retreat regularly, you can find these qualities manifesting in the rest of your life, and can live more fully your human potential. Going on a retreat gives you the opportunity to share time, and inspiration with like-minded people from all walks of life who are investing their energies in self-improvement and self-discovery in the Pilates mind-body realm.
Give yourself the unique opportunity to focus your energies on every aspect of the Pilates Method. Remove yourself from the distractions of your daily schedule and dedicate yourself to the experience of learning the foundational aspects of the method and increasing your strength and flexibility if you're a beginner, or perfecting your form, honing your skill, and reaching higher heights if you are a more experienced student.
Jennifer's Pilates retreats can be tailored to suit your group and the expertise level of your group, and or can be a multi-level format if your group has a variety of participants with different levels of experience.
The classical Mat work conditioning regime created by Joseph Pilates that builds unmatched core strength and enhances flexibility of body and mind. Learn to workout smarter, rather than harder; sculpt your body with the fewest repetitions and the greatest focus and control. The emphasis on "core muscles" (i.e.. abdominals, back extensors, shoulder stabilizers, and buttocks) can improve posture and reduce back pain. Other benefits range from increased muscle tone and flexibility, deepening of breathing patterns, enhanced body awareness, and increased efficiency of movement. Jennifer will occasionally incorporate the "Pilates Toys"--- Magic Circle, Sculpting Series and PhysioBall in group mat sessions on her retreats for added challenge and variety.
Increase your endorphin production through a boosted momentum and an elevated aerobic capacity. Enliven your spirit and be the artist that sculpts the shape you were intended to have. Achieve a sense of total well-being and self-empowerment. Dedicate your time and effort to the most important person in your life---yourself. Be the architect of your destiny and start with the body you were gifted with your home ---with your body mind and spirit. Create a taller, slimmer, more elegant, more graceful, more capable, more powerful body, greater peace of mind and a light and joyful spirit!
Pilates exercises make people more aware of their bodies. It helps to improve alignment and breathing and increases efficiency of movement. The focus is on the center of the body---the "powerhouse," or the "corset muscles," also known as the stabilizing core muscles of the torso, which support the spine. The beauty of the technique is that you can do it according to your own fitness level and as you gain strength, the challenge increases. Pilates exercises are gentle, progressive, and performed slowly with good postural alignment at all times; challenging enough for the super-fit, yes, but also gentle enough for pregnant women and the elderly.
On a spiritual level, the workout is concerned with the process itself. You learn to focus on the present moment and the movement itself rather than the outcome. This is a workout, a regime similar to yoga that promotes consciousness and facilitates evolution and self-transformation.
The subtle magic of Pilates is that the work grows as you do. You rise to higher and higher levels as your self-awareness and experience deepen. As you gain insight and as your actual physical strength increases, the work refines and redefines itself.
Pilates is a unique, refreshing approach that sees our physical activity as a way to restore total oneness with ourselves and create harmony with our body, mind and spirit; under this notion, exercise becomes the means to experiencing a personal potential greater than the physical skills themselves.
Every movement emanates from the center, which is also our emotional core, and the exercises truly help to "center" you. When you learn the advantage of paying attention to the energy, flow and rhythms in your exercises and see how pushing or forcing is counterproductive, you begin to apply this notion to the rest of your life. When you center your attention in the moment and act in harmony with time, you experience inner peace and fulfillment. By staying in the present, you can do less, yet gain more; paradoxically, you create more personal power and energy enabling you to have a greater influence over the outcome both in your sessions and long after you return home from a transformational Pilates retreat.
Dance of Life
Leave the ordinary behind and walk into the world of the extraordinary.
Enter the world of dance and music and art and recapture your youthful vigor, curiosity, sensuality and abandon. Immerse yourself in the music and the movement, release endorphins, the feel-good juices of the body and the mind and set your spirit free. Tap into your creative center and take pleasure in the multiplicity of ways your amazing body can move! Dive into a daily dose of moving in ways you never have before; expand your horizons as a beginner, or aspiring student, and acquire new, rich and challenging dance vocabulary as a seasoned mover.
Experience a daily training and warm-up session and then lose yourself to the pleasures of organic movement and pulsating rhythms. Learn entire movement phrases and combinations from Jennifer's Contemporary Dance Theatre New York.
Give yourself the gift of one of Jennifer's integrated wellness dance retreats. Take time away from your daily life. Immerse yourself in breath and movement and energy ... Reconnect to yourself and reacquaint yourself with your body's capabilities. Find yourself again and discover something entirely new.
From the basic beginner, to the aspiring dancer, all the way up to the professional, there is an inspiring, empowering dance retreat for everyone.
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