Sensual Zen Retreat
For Women
Big Island of Hawaii
May 17-24 2008
 
Imagine 12 Goddesses
* in an oceanfront villa
* relaxing into beauty
* swimming with wild, playful dolphins
* practicing Sensual Zen Meditations for women
* receiving Pele’s power from the active Volcano
* learning The Work for a sweeter self-image and deeper presence
* cleansing their bodies in natural steam caves
* deeply nourishing each other with Sacred Temple Practices
* undulating in the ocean
* dancing in the sunset
* opening to their true expanded, radiant nature
* being served delicious health food 
 
 
As women we often struggle with multitasking and overbooked schedules, when our true desire is to just be...

Give yourself this retreat to slooow down, breathe with the ocean, gaze at the sunset, feel your heart again with all it’s longing and open to the soft vastness that waits beneath all the doing. Returning to the present moment. Allowing a new, more real, love for yourself and others. The
dolphins help deepen your spiritual practice through their graceful, meditative presence.

With loving clarity Helena Montelius guides into deep, effortless
meditation and share spiritual practices created for women, by women. She is a passionate feminine practitioner, spiritual teacher since 20 years, best selling author and the co-founder of The International Women’s Temple Group Network.

In 2001 she graduated from “The School for
The Work” with Byron Katie.
Ph. (530) 292-3723 www.lookwithin.net

 
THE SEMINAR: We will have daily meditation sessions in the mornings (and other times as well), seminar time with Temple practices and The Work sessions in the afternoons and evenings. Some days will be fieldtrips with meditations and ceremonies at the Volcano, the steam caves and Yoni cave. There will be times of silence to deepen our meditation practice and times of wild dancing, also to deepen our meditation practice!

My deepest awakening occurred when my son died in 2001 and it deeply impacted my meditation practice/teaching. I developed a series of meditations where the feminine heart, deep emotions and natural sensuality are welcome guides into presence, not something to transcend or avoid. The Work, developed by Byron Katie, is a process where
you confront your own mind and take an honest look at the stories and thoughts that shape your life, self-image and ability to live a life based on the inner essence. The Temple practices teaches women new ways to relate and bond with each other, basing our connection not on our limited story or problems but on our deeper, divine feminine essence,
celebrating the gifts we already are, in this moment, without changing anything. 
 
THE DOLPHINS: We will be swimming with pods of wild spinner dolphins, hopefully every morning, if they grace us with their presence. We will head out into the ocean at sunrise (since we will be on mainland time we wake up early anyway) to have some quiet time with the dolphins without a lot of other people. Of course, there are no guaranties
that the dolphins will come to be with us since they are wild, but my “track record” and connection with the dolphins are very good. At all my previous retreats the participants have swam with the dolphins, and oftentimes whales also, almost every day. I have held retreats for 10 years in Hawaii and the Red Sea and have spent many months at a time
with daily dolphin swims. (The whales are not there is May.)

ACCOMODATIONS: Is a bit of a challenge around Kealakekua Bay (The Dolphin Bay) for retreats since all accommodations are geared towards families and couples. We have 4 bedrooms (3 baths+outdoor shower) for 12 women, some are smaller rooms for 2 women and some bigger for 4 women. There are a variety of beds, a king that 2 women perhaps could
share, queens, fulls and some pull-out sofa beds and then some extra futonpads, so I am sure we can work out a solution that meet everyone’s needs. Sometimes women sleep on the lanai to listen to the ocean all night. In the relaxed closeness that naturally occurs during these retreats it kind of feels like a big sleep-over party. I chose this house because
it is right on the ocean in the dolphin bay, it has a hot tub on the ocean’s edge, private garden, end-of-road privacy and is luxuriously beautiful with a big living/gathering room and lanais. You can walk by foot to other swim places, so there will be plenty of space for solitude if needed. If you want a private room, contact us to discuss options,
such as the Kealakekua Bed & Breakfast across the street. To make up for the sleeping situation I’ll include kayaks for everyone in the retreat price!

FOOD: My dear friend and health food guru Todd & Crew will cook healthy, super yummie vegetarian food with some local fish. Meet Todd at: Let us know if you have any special food needs or allergies.

THE DATES: I chose these dates because May is low season and have the least people in the whole year. Airfares are lower. The ocean is warm even at sunrise, the dates are right around the full moon when the dolphins are the most active and close to shore. This year my beloved and I spent a week in May around the full moon and we swam and played every morning with the dolphins and sometimes in the afternoon as well!
PRICE: $1495, includes all teachings with Helena, 2 meditation CDs, all dolphin swims, lodging, all food except one dinner when we go out and eat, all field trips, rental cars, airport pick-up and drop-off (if you arrive and leave on the retreat dates and times)

DO NOT INCLUDE: Airfare, insurance, gas for private trips.

TO RESERVE A SPACE $400 deposit to hold you space, pay on website with a credit card: www.lookwithin.net

Or send a check to Look Within, PO Box 137, North San Juan, CA 95960

Hope to have you join us!  Blissed be, Ani