Healing with Nature with Rochelle Calvert- G25080501
This nature meditation retreat is designed to support you as you explore how nature-based mindfulness and somatic healing practices can transform challenging or traumatic experiences that may be affecting your life. Often our inner ecosystems become disrupted, dysregulated and out of balance after we experience trauma. This unhealed trauma can create difficulty in living fully into our life. When we begin to practice things that support us, we can find health and wholeness in our lives again. Nature, mindfulness and somatic healing are all respective ecosystems for us to learn to connect to, allowing us to resolve and transform trauma.
Mindfulness in nature is the doorway to becoming aware, reducing our reactivity and helping us feel compassion, kindness and acceptance of our experiences. Somatic healing in nature helps us to re-inhabit the body in a way that feels safe, and restores balance to our brain, body, psyche and relationships. Nature is the container for this support in healing. Nature’s impulse is to thrive, adapt, to be resilient and heal. We are made of nature. We have this capacity too. By weaving together these ecosystems of healing into our inner ecosystems we can establish the same capacity to heal, adapt, become more resilient and resolve our own experiences of trauma.
Through this retreat, at times silently, and in community connection, we will explore how nature-based practices, our relational connection to the natural world, and related somatic experiencing practices can support healing and transformation of challenging or traumatic experiences. You will have the opportunity to rest, relax and reflect, be guided on nature meditations, reflective journaling exercises, take beautiful hikes, all the while strengthening your skills to integrate the insights of healing you experience to take into your everyday life.
Instructor
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Rochelle CalvertRochelle Calvert is a licensed clinical psychologist, ecodharma teacher, mindfulness teacher, and somatic experiencing practitioner. She has a devoted love to share the power and healing potential of mindfulness, somatic awareness and nature to heal trauma and to awaken and heal the Earth. She has studied and taught mindfulness for the past 22 years and knows personally the transformational potential.
Dr. Calvert leads training, courses and retreats in nature-based mindfulness, somatic experiencing and ecodharma. She is the director of the Ecotherapy Program at SouthWestern College and New Earth Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is a mindfulness teacher with the Mindfulness Teaching Institute and Awake In The Wild organization. She has also trained and assisted with Mark Coleman, Awake in the Wild.
To share the love of these healing practices she has published a book Healing with Nature: Mindfulness and Somatic Practices to Heal from Trauma. and leads trainings in Healing with Nature- trauma care practitioner certification see https://drrochellecalvert.com.