Give yourself a weekend to renew and rejuvenate your body and spirit.
New Life Transformations, a Holistic Healing Center and Bed and Breakfast in Downtown Johnstown, is holding its First Annual Women’s Spiritual Retreat Friday, March 30th at 7pm.
At 7pm the weekend will begin with a welcome mixer and then the wonderful Rachel Allen will open the weekend with a group chant to begin the process of restoring, reviving and a relaxing weekend. Attendees will settle into their rooms and then they are invited to cuddle up with a bowl of popcorn and your favorite beverage to watch a spiritual and inspiring movie or create their own personal Mala (traditional prayer beads similar to a rosary).
After a good evenings rest a breakfast of coffee, tea, fresh fruits, breads, cereals and juices will be served to nurish our bodies and prepare our souls for the days events. After this you will be invited to join together with friends for an insightful Labyrinth Walk or take a yoga class at the center with Emily Ross, one, or both or none at all.
Some of Saturday and Sunday classes and workshops will include:
Other stimulating activities include: sunrise meditation with Devlan, creating a mala (prayer beads), a drum circle, womens self defense class, a class on the healing properties of crystals, and many opportunities for Reiki, a hands on massage, rock massages and Mani Pedi’s and facials from Maggie Kelly (massage) and Cuts N Stuff (mani pedi's and facials).
Additional fees: Dinner out Saturday night as a group (Chinese). Massage: $10 for 15 minutes, $20 for 30 minutes, add $5 for Hot Rock Massage. Manicure and Pedicures. Facials. Saturday afternoon bizarre with arts and crafts and merchandise from local shops and artists.
Retreat fee: $90.00 (full weekend) includes - lodging (dorm style) breakfast, lunch, snacks, beverages, classes, workshops, meditations, yoga, drum circle, chanting, angel reading, women’s self defense class, astrology discussion, zumba and an event T-shirt and swag bag. $45.00 non-refundable deposit required to secure your spot upon registration. Please register early this event has limited capacity and will sell out quickly. Register online to assure your place.|
Friday March 30, 2012 |
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Welcome Reception and Opening Ceremony with Rachel Allen Living Room |
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Saturday March 31, 2012 |
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8:00 |
10:00 |
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Breakfast Dining Room |
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8:00 |
9:00 |
Labyrinth Walk St Marks Church |
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9:00 |
10:10 |
Energizing Yoga with Emily Ross Basement |
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10:10 |
10:30 |
Break |
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10:30 |
11:40 |
Intro to Reiki and How it changed My Life Nancy Compton Living Room |
Healing Hands – Musical Sign Language Stacey Mohanty Sitting Room |
Massage by Maggie Kelly By appointment Only |
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11:40 |
13:00 |
Lunch Dining Room |
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13:00 |
13:45 |
Guided Meditation – Meet Your Guardian Angels Living Room |
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13:45 |
14:00 |
Break |
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14:00 |
17:00 |
Mandalla Workshop Amy DeBuis Dining Room |
Reiki Share Reiki Room – 2nd floor
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Massage by Maggie Kelly By appointment Only
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16:00 |
17:00 |
Astrology & the 12 Houses and How they Affect YOU Devlan Brown Living Room
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Reiki Share Reiki Room – 2nd floor
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Massage by Maggie Kelly By appointment Only
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17:00 |
18:00 |
Communicating with your Angels Nancy Compton Living Room |
Women’s Self Defense Devlan Brown Basement
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Massage by Maggie Kelly By appointment Only
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18:00 |
19:00 |
Drum Circle with Rachel Allen Living Room |
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19:00 |
21:00 |
Dinner at Szechuan Chinese Restaurant – Downtown Johnstown
124 Main Street Johnstown PA |
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21:00 |
22:00 |
Guided Meditation – Explore Past Lives with Nancy Compton Living Room |
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Sunday April 1, 2012 |
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8:00 |
10:00 |
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Breakfast Dining Room |
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8:00 |
9:00 |
Labyrinth Walk St Marks Church
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9:00 |
10:10 |
Healing and Opening Your Chakras Yoga with Emily Ross Basement |
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10:10 |
10:30 |
Break |
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10:30 |
12:00 |
Angel Readings Nancy Compton Sitting Room |
Musical Sign Language Stacey Mohanty Living Room |
Reiki Share Reiki Room 2nd floor |
Massage with Maggie Kelly By appointment only
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12:00 |
13:00 |
Lunch Dining Room |
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12:45 |
13:55 |
Angel Readings Nancy Compton Sitting Room
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Musical Sign Language Stacey Mohanty Living Room |
Women’s Self Defense Devlan Brown Basement
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Massage with Maggie Kelly By appointment only
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13:55 |
14:15 |
Break |
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14:15 |
15:25 |
Healing with Crystals Nancy Compton Living Room |
IChing Readings with Devlan Sitting room
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Reiki Share Reiki Room 2nd floor |
Massage with Maggie By appointment only
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15:25 |
15:45 |
Break |
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15:45 |
16:55 |
Open – Session Title Speakers (Room 1) |
Women’s Self Defense Devlan Brown Basement
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Reiki Share Reiki Room 2nd floor |
Massage with Maggie By appointment Only
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16:55 |
17:30 |
Closing Ceremony – Musical Sign Language Performance of “Beautiful” with Stacey & Group Living Room |
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Rachel Allen Bio
Rachel Allen is a Certified Music Practitioner at Windber Medical Center. She works applying live music at the bedside as a tool for healing with voice and harp with patients in hospital and hospice units. Rachel is also a trained REMO Health Rhythms Group Empowerment Drumming Facilitator and utilizes vibrational medicine with voice, quartz crystal singing bowls and drumming with various groups at WMC. Rachel serves as an Executive Board member of the Music for Healing and Transition Program (www.mhtp.org), an international certification program for therapeutic musicians. Through MHTP and other opportunities, Rachel has studied music and sound healing with David Darling, Fabien Mamien, Ruth Cunnigham, Libana, Silvia Nakkach, Russill Paul and Jim Donovan.
Rachel teaches, presents and performs at the BottleWorks Ethnic Arts Center in Cambria City, Johnstown, Pa and facilitates the monthly drum circle. She is also a founding member of SongWorks, a songwriter’s community and Kulani, a West African Dance and Drum group. Rachel performs regionally as a solo artist and with her son John Bayush. She presents workshops on the Healing Power of Sound incorporating chant, drumming and movement to support healing and empowerment. Rachel was a participating Fellow at the Melodious Accord Institute in Massachusetts with Alice Parker. Rachel has appeared in Calliope Folk Music of Pittsburgh Emerging Legend Concert Series, Johnstown Folk Fest 2006, and opened up for labor singer Anne Feeney and folk artist David Mallet. She released her solo CD Almost There in 2006. Rachel also serves as an instructor in the annual Rhythm Renewal Retreat at St. Francis University.
Rachel is passionate about integrating music as a tool for healing, empowerment, self-expression and to create and foster healthy, joyful communities.
Healing Sounds:
“When I facilitate any type of chant experience, it is yogic based, using sound in the form of humming, toning, tuning and melody to increase space, clear energy centers and connect to self and whatever Source people connect to. The techniques I use are based in Tantric Yoga but along with Sanskrit, I also incorporate chants from Native American, Jewish, Christian and Sufi backgrounds. I use gentle movement with some techniques and circle dances from Native American, Jewish and Sufi traditions. Along with voice, I use a shruti box with a drone which is an instrument from India along with Ting-shaws, my giant Native American Grandmother gathering drum, my harp and sometimes other percussive or pentatonic melodic instruments.”