Beyond Words: Poetry and Music as Passion, Prayer and Practice with Kim Rosen and Jami Sieber February 21, 2012

A 9 day retreat with
Kim Rosen and Jami Sieber
on the Big Island of Hawaii
February 21- March 1, 2012
In these retreats we immerse ourselves in the poems we love and the poems we write. They become our teachers, healers and companions. We invite the magic that unfurls as poetry intertwines with music. In addition there are sessions of breathwork, chanting and movement. We enter silence together and alone. There is ample free time to mingle with the island life that surrounds us: the bay full of dolphins, the waves breaking open on black lava rock, the coral reef, and the sacred land threaded with the burial caves of the ancestors. The retreat culminates in a "mysterium": an exploration beyond ordinary words that spans poetry and music, night and day, sound and silence, waking and sleeping, aloneness and communion...