Celebrate Women: Flourishing with Aging with Susan Weber and Lynn Motley– G24100302
“The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” Eleanor Roosevelt.
As we age often our enthusiasm for growth, hope and renewal wanes as life and the aging process offers up losses and challenges of many kinds for ourselves and loved ones. And we live in a culture that too often ignores the wisdom of aging and glorifies youth.
This week will focus on coming together in community and camaraderie with other women to share and acknowledge our joys, sorrows, grief, and challenges. Together we will explore how our lives may be changing, whether through retirement, children leaving home, caring for aging parents, and our own aging process.
Hopefully we will learn and experience new ways of approaching this chapter of our lives; to move forward with hope and courage and perhaps acquire new skills to energize, heal, accept and even flourish with grace and intention, this “new stretch.”
Our time together will include thought provoking and inspired readings/poetry, journaling, moving our bodies with yoga and dance, guided visualizations, meditation, hikes/walks in nature, a labyrinth, art projects and ritual that express and mark this joyous and challenging time, and possibly a visit to local hot springs.
The only thing necessary to bring is a journal (5×7 minimum), and willingness to be open to the experience. Through sharing, we can learn, grow, and celebrate together as we navigate this part of our life’s amazing journey!
Instructors
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Lynn MotleyAs a licensed clinical social worker, registered yoga teacher, and SoulCollage® facilitator, I am dedicated to supporting others in finding wholeness and well-being. My private psychotherapy practice embraces the Internal Family Systems (IFS) modality, providing a framework for self-understanding, self-compassion, and integration. Additionally, I offer couples counseling, movement/yoga, embodied learning, and the healing/creative arts, including mixed media and SoulCollage®.
I am thrilled to co-facilitate the “Celebrating Women: Flourishing as We Age” retreat at Ghost Ranch, a setting I believe to be a perfect container for our gathering. This powerful healing environment offers an ideal space for our participants to engage in self-exploration, creativity, and authentic connection.
My goal is to create a safe and meaningful experience for all participants, fostering self-discovery, reflection, and shared growth. I believe in the power of the human journey as a transformational force that helps individuals access their personal power.
Personal Life:
I live in Lexington, KY, with my husband, and we have two adult children and a grandson. In my free time, I enjoy hiking, practicing mixed media arts, doing yoga, foraging, making natural shrubs, and dancing.My life is a powerful canvas for exploration, and I deeply believe in the transformative power of our human journey. I am open to the richness and surprises life offers, constantly seeking to understand and find meaning in our experiences.As a licensed clinical social worker, registered yoga teacher, and SoulCollage® facilitator, I am dedicated to supporting others in finding wholeness and well-being. My private psychotherapy practice embraces the Internal Family Systems (IFS) modality, providing a framework for self-understanding, self-compassion, and integration. Additionally, I offer couples counseling, movement/yoga, embodied learning, and the healing/creative arts, including mixed media and SoulCollage®.
I am thrilled to co-facilitate the “Celebrating Women: Flourishing as We Age” retreat at Ghost Ranch, a setting I believe to be a perfect container for our gathering. This powerful healing environment offers an ideal space for our participants to engage in self-exploration, creativity, and authentic connection.
My goal is to create a safe and meaningful experience for all participants, fostering self-discovery, reflection, and shared growth. I believe in the power of the human journey as a transformational force that helps individuals access their personal power.
Personal Life:
I live in Lexington, KY, with my husband, and we have two adult children and a grandson. In my free time, I enjoy hiking, practicing mixed media arts, doing yoga, foraging, making natural shrubs, and dancing.My life is a powerful canvas for exploration, and I deeply believe in the transformative power of our human journey. I am open to the richness and surprises life offers, constantly seeking to understand and find meaning in our experiences.
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Susan WeberIn the late 80’s, I traveled to the SW to study the healing arts in Santa Fe after a ten year career in social work, in N Michigan. Falling in love with the mountains, mesas, and wide open spaces, allowed my spirit to soar and led me in a new direction for my own healing and new career as a massage therapist. I had been practicing yoga and studied to become a teacher a few years later, then moving to the Abiquiu area on the Chama River in the mid 90’s, put Ghost Ranch on my radar. I helped start the massage and wellness program there in 1997, eventually adding yoga classes, guided hikes, teaching a course for Jan term, and then my own week-long workshops. This all adds up to a total of 23 years of involvement at Ghost Ranch I am happy and proud to say!