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You are warmly welcomed to Spring Renewal: A Women’s Retreat in Nature celebrating the Spring Equinox at the Common Woods in Lilburn. 

Reset and Revitalize your mind, body, and spirit through embodiment practices and sisterhood circles this spring awakening. 
Immersed in the elements of nature, you will be held, deeply nourished, and restored.

This day retreat includes homemade, organic, vegetarian lunch, snacks, and dinner, tea, guided group practices, a cacao ceremony, and space for personal reflection and community connection.

From the opening ceremony to the river walk and from the healing workshops to the nourishing meals, every moment of Spring Renewal is intentionally crafted to invite you into a prayerful and heart-centered experience among women in the woods as we transition from Winter to Spring.

Here is a look at the flow of the day.

Arrival:  9:30 to 9:45 AM

10:00  Opening Ceremony
Once everyone arrives and is settled in, we will gather in circle around the fire to collectively open the space, come into presence, and share introductions and intentions.

11:00  Hummingbird Flowga and Sound Bath
We begin this intuitive movement practice with gentle breathwork, guided meditation, and yoga asana. We will naturally flow into an ecstatic and playful dance. As we wind down and come into rest, we will be bathed with sounds from singing bowls, rain sticks, flutes, and the forest.

12:30  Vegan Lunch
Chickpea quinoa salad, feta cheese on the side, and warm, creamy carrot ginger soup.

1:00  Authentic relating and River Walk
We will learn about conscious communication skills and then partner with another lady to practice what we have learned as we take a leisurely walk in the forest along the river.

3:00  Herbal Infusions for Wombyn
Learn about supportive herbs for wombyn’s cycles and make your own blend to take home.

4:00  Intentional Silence - River and Forest Exploration
The Common Woods consists of 6 acres of woods along the Yellow River. Walk along our trails, meditate with the sheep, lounge in a hammock, stretch on a platform, journal, or do whatever calls you as we each take time in silence to mindfully listen to our inner knowing.

4:30  Snacks & Herbal Tea
You are welcome to continue your silent practice or join us for snacks and tea. We will have healthy snacks and tea available throughout the day so you will be nourished to sustain the intentional work you are here to do.

5:00  Cacao Ceremony and Water Ritual
Dive into your heart with the uplifting medicine of cacao. We will share our prayers, songs, and hearts in an intimate circle honoring the ways of the wombyn.

7:15 Vegan Dinner
Red lentil sweet potato curry with brown rice and pie.

8:00 Closing Ceremony
We will reflect on our day and offer support to each other as we level up in our life journeys.

9:00 Merry Part, Until we Meet Again!


Camping Friday and/or Saturday night is optional.  Please note your interest when registering and the host will share more details.


SPACE 

The Common Woods in Lilburn, GA
The Common Woods is a beautiful privately owned 6 acre forest oasis along the Yellow River in Lilburn, GA near 78 / Stone Mountain Hwy and Lake Lucerne, only 30 minutes from Atlanta.  The address will be sent to those who register.  Sharon Yun and her family have been tending the land for 10 years.  There are gardens, fruit trees, beehives, chickens, a composting system, a lake with canoe, and mushroom logs.  The forest is easily walkable thanks to our dedicated forest managers, three shetland sheep.  For gathering spaces, we have a Yurt and two fire pits.  There is an outhouse with a composting toilet and outdoor sink.  For more info, check out our Facebook Group and website.

FACILITATORS

Sharon Yun is a mother, wife, homesteader, environmentalist, activist, artist, and administrator for the solar company Alternative Energy Southeast. She draws upon a lifetime of experience with intentional communities, transformational festivals and artist and healing collectives. She creates curated experiences using the power of the healing arts, music, dance, circle, ritual and ceremony to guide others to expand and deepen their relationship with themselves, each other, and the interconnected web of life. She is co-founder of Feminini-tea, a monthly in-person wombyn’s circle at the Common Woods.

Anna del Amor is a Womb Care and Connection Educator, Ceremonialist, Kitchen Herbalist, Songstress, Doula-In-Training, and Eternal Student devoted to remembering and sharing the ways of revillaging a new earth through cyclical living, the plant path, sacred song, and feminine embodiment. She is the founder of WOMB CARE - Wombyn Opening to the Mystery and Beauty of Cyclically Aware Raw Experience, a 9 week immersive journey based in Atlanta, Georgia offered twice a year, Moon Threads Medicine, an apothecary offering cacao blends and locally foraged herbal remedies, and co-founder of Feminini-tea, a monthly in-person wombyn’s circle.

EXCHANGE - Early bird $125, $150

Early Bird Ends February 24, Registration Closes March 11

If you have any questions, you may contact Sharon Yun at 415-439-3416 or email at [email protected]

After registering, you will receive an email with a questionnaire about dietary restrictions and any other considerations we need to know about, as well as a waiver.

In the case of inclement weather, we will reschedule for Sunday, March 24. 

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Please be our Guest at The Common Woods
Our Facebook Page is The Common Woods
https://www.facebook.com/groups/730635354674053
We have a large garden, sheep, chickens, bees, a lake with canoe, composting, mushroom logs, 7 acres of woods, a Yurt, tent platforms, an outdoor kitchen, an outhouse, and soon a pavilion and sauna.  We are located on the Yellow River in Lilburn, GA.  We are building a vibrant healing arts community and invite you to join us. 
We will be adding more offerings and improving our website soon, so stay tuned for campouts, cookouts, Solstice and Equinox events, Dreamwork groups, Compassionate Communication Practice Groups, homesteading, Earth skills classes, and more! 

Right now we have a monthly Women's group that meets on the last Sunday of the month from 5pm-7pm followed by a potluck.  There is more info in a post before this one.  We have tea, we sing, we pray, we meditate, and we commune with each other, offering our support in loving ourselves as we are while growing into the best version of ourselves.

We also offer tea every Sunday from 10am-1pm at Communi-Tea.  I'd love to get to know you better over a cup of tea.  This is my way of creating intentional space to come together in community to get to know each other and have a regular time to meet up and share what is going on in our lives.

If you'd like to be an active participant of our community and have offerings you'd like to share, please get in touch with me.  It is my intention for 2024 to have a full calendar of Earth Skills, healing arts, rituals connected to the Cosmos, Earth, Sun, and the Moon, Red Tent offerings, Right of Passage ceremonies, Community gatherings and events, Communi-Tea every Sunday, Chari-tea music events, kids activities, campouts, and more!  We are just getting started with this community which is only a 20 min drive down 78 from Decatur, yet feels like a respite from city life.  

We also host a monthly gathering called Celebrating Life! on 2nd Saturdays from 7pm-2am.  More info on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/events/655227556049542/655227582716206/
or on Meetup at https://www.meetup.com/psyatlanta/events/296901856/

Blessings,
Sharon, Thomas, and Bodhi Yun
415-439-3416, [email protected]
 

On September 16th we will have a Men's listening circle at the stone circle in the Common Woods.  We will have a small fire and begin around 7 p.m.
The purpose of the gathering is to practice communication.  We will use different methods over time as decided by group process.

For the first listening circle, we will adapt listening methods as used by Unitarians in companioning and clarification methods adapted from Ullman's group dream work method.

There will be an initial round of sharing where each participant will be allowed to share uninterrupted for five minutes.  No interruption, feedback or comments will occur during this first round.

This will be followed by a round of clarification, focusing on one particular share.  Each members can choose whether or not he wants what he has shared to be clarified.  The group will ask questions about what has been shared in order to be certain about what was said and meant.  Special emphasis will be given to identifying and expressing emotions.  Again, no feedback or commentary will occur during this round.

The round of clarification will be followed by an optional feedback round, focusing on one particular share.  Any member can opt out of receiving feedback.  If a member desires feedback, it will be given without any personal reference to the member who asked for feedback.  For example, the other members would say, "I have experienced something similar and this is what I did or said."  Or, "if I experienced something like that, I imagine I would do this or say this."  There would be no use of "you" in the feedback given.

If possible, as time permits, we would have a clarification round and feedback round for each member, if he chooses.

Dear friends, after a break in June, we are looking forward to gathering this coming Saturday!  As long as there is consent, we will try something different for the group share.  We will adapt the Ullman technique from dream work to help structure the group share.  This technique uses active imagination and Jungian amplification to tap into the collective unconscious to help us move from the personal to the communal experience.  Attendees will be encouraged to share experiences for integration, whether it is visionary, emotional, or from dreams.  Feedback will be given using "as if I had that vision", "as if I had that dream", "as if I were experiencing those emotions" instead of directly addressing the person who shared the experience.
For a more detailed description of the Ullman technique, active imagination, and Jungian amplification, please visit the Dream Collective click here.  Again, for the purposes of Celebrating life, we will be sharing visions and emotional experiences, as well as dreams.

You’re invited to experience a vibrational sound journey back into natural bliss and inner balance on Saturday April 8th 2:00-4:00 PM with mantra duo, Radha Rose and Josh Klein at The Common Woods in the yurt - yes, a beautiful, intimate yurt nestled in the forest of Lilburn, GA!

Melt into your “S”elf by the healing powers of Sanskrit mantra chanting & meditation. Guided mantra chant music will be accompanied with instrumental kirtan allies - harmonium and mridangam - to facilitate the awaited return of positive vibrations into your body and soul.

Our musical journey will evolve into an ecstatic kirtan “call-and-response” style that is sure to elevate your spirits and leave you to feel lasting fullness from within.

This experience, this practice, is open to All. Newcomers and mantra practitioners alike.

We introduce new mantra music every month and will provide you with a take-home mantra guide, props, and a refreshing spring cup of chilled tea.

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Register your spot ASAP to guarantee your participation. This event sold out last month; Registration closes April 6th. 

Make your $20-30 sliding scale contribution in the amount of 20, 25 or 30✨through Venmo or Cashapp @theradharose. ✅ Upon registration, you'll be officially on the guest list - hooray!

Event Location:
The Common Woods
4335 Bending River Trail
Lilburn, GA 30047

Arrival time is 2:00 PM. We'll start the event shortly afterwards.

Upon your arrival, walk around the house and follow the signs to a short walking trail which will lead you to our magical forest yurt.🛖  

C'mon and treat your cells!

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CANCELLATION POLICY 
In the event that you have registered and can no longer attend, you must give at least 48 hours notice to receive a credit for a mantra music event at a later time (must be applied within a 3 month period). Within less than 48 hours, contributions are deemed nonrefundable.

In the case of sudden sickness - COVID, flu, etc. - please message the host as soon as you display symptoms.

This is a lovely offering by Anna Martinez.  It is happening on Nov. 27th from 11:30am-2:30pm.
It will be in the woods by the river.  Just walk to the right of the house down the hill and through the gate.  Take the trail to the right for five minutes and you will find us.  Please RSVP with Sharon Yun at 415-439-3416.  Love donations will be gratefully received.

Here is Anna's description of the event:
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You are welcomed to join a cacao ceremony on Sunday, November 27th on the land that the Yun family so lovingly shares with us. 

Cacao, (Theobroma cacao), is a gentle stimulant that works on many levels to help us experience deeper states of love, presence and processing. The cacao we will be sharing is sourced from an indigenous women's collective in Chicacao, Guatemala called Mama Amor.

We come together in circle to connect, share and reflect. There will be praying, singing, guided meditation and space for reflection throughout the ceremony. I am so looking forward to the magic of cocreating with you!

***PLEASE bring your own mug, a water bottle filled with water, instruments, and any sentimental/altar items you may want with you (journal, crystals etc)***
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You are welcomed to bring flowers for the altar.

You can join the Facebook event here: ​https://fb.me/e/56cRm3jHK

Every Sunday we will offer a Cosmic Yum Service led by Missy Shamanatrix Galore from 3-4pm.   She will be beaming in through Zoom and projected onto a screen in our Yurt by the Yellow River.  You can get to the Yurt by going to the right of our house, down the hill, and follow the solar lights for about a 5 minute walk in the woods.  

There will be movement, meditating, singing, and drumming throughout the service which you are invited to participate in if you would like.

Feel free to just hang out in the woods, take a dip in the river, feed the sheep, nap in a hammock, bring a craft activity, or just be with the bees.

Please join us afterwards for Community-Tea Sundays 

Here is Missy's message:
Hi Beautiful! come join together in COSMiC YUM & Activate Our LOVEolution ❤
this Sunday Sweetness series is dedicated to us living the happiness that is our birthright ~ resiliently heart powered in Life!
Sharing music, meditation
+ Crystal Aura FLUFF Activations
channeled from the womb of creation by the incarnation of Shamanatrix Missy Galore
YES! we are GALACTiVATiNG too!! this is an Omni Dimensional Transmission
live on zoom each Sunday 3pm EST ~ and ~ archived on the Cosmic Yum blog at www.missygalore.com/blog


If you are unable to make it to the woods, you can still join on Zoom:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89104372425...
Meeting ID: 891 0437 2425
Passcode: 1111
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