Spiritual Direction |Energy Healing | Lectures, Retreats & Days of Reflection Spiritual DirectionTricia is a certified Spiritual Director in private practice since 1990. She holds certification in Inner Focus Soul Directed Advanced Energy Healing and, completed a four-year mastery program in energy work. She is also an internationally acclaimed quilter, fiber artist and doll maker. Tricia integrates healing and conscious awareness into her artwork, lectures and healing practice. She serves on the faculty of Sacred Ground Center for Spiritual Direction in St Paul , MN and is a well-known retreat facilitator and speaker dedicated to helping others tap into their power through self-awareness and healing. In her practice, Tricia creates a sacred space for others to access their authentic spiritual nature and create pathways that allow negative patterns to dissolve and release forever. Working within a spiritual framework attuned to the client's values and beliefs, Tricia uses therapeutic dialog, receptive imagery, Focus Touch and transmissions of light to restore and balance the energy fields both in and around the body, mind and spirit. Through Soul Directed Energy Healing and Spiritual Direction Tricia facilitates another's journey in self-discovery, creativity, transformation and healing. What is Spiritual Direction?Spiritual Direction is increasingly sought by people in contemporary society who desire a deeper connection to God and others. It is an invitation to listen and discover the deeper movements in one's life through conscious awareness. Through compassionate listening, reflection and companioning, one is also supported in creating change for a healthier balance and connection with one's True Self, God and others. There is no agenda. Topics may include prayer, images of God, finding the Sacred, questions of faith, concerns about the church, life transitions, relationships with others, fears, worries, grief, joy and celebration. Each person's journey is treated confidentially, professionally and respectfully Benefits from a Spiritual Direction session· Having your life's story witnessed Fee for a one hour Spiritual Direction Session is $65
Energy HealingWhat is Soul Directed Energy Healing?Healing means to make whole, to eliminate discord, to re-member forgotten parts, to walk into freedom, to become creative and celebrate life! Soul Directed Advanced Energy Healing is about taking every part of us into consideration, mind, soul, body, and creating pathways of light and energy, alignment and balance to attune the human energy field. It utilizes both the magnetic energy fields of the earth as well as Divine Source to awaken conscious awareness and take one to the core of any issue. There are many modalities and kinds of energy healing. Most involve therapeutic light touch on or over the body to align and balance the human energy field. Energy Healing restores vigor, strength and vitality, opens creative channels, and can be used as a form of alternative health care for many physical ailments as well as soul work. Benefits from an Energy Healing session· Reduction of stress, increased relaxation, restoration of energy flow Fee for a one hour Energy Session is $80 Lectures, Retreats & Days of ReflectionWeekend and week retreats can be designed to accommodate a group's needs and can include elements of creative play and process as well as designated times for individual healing/spiritual direction sessions for an additional fee. Communing With Francis of Assisi
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Treat yourself to a day of prayer, creative arts and playful self-discovery. Using Franciscan Spirituality and Francis’s connection with nature and animals, we will discover and play with animal totems allowing them to bring forth characteristics and qualities that lead us to even deeper understandings of ourselves and God. Francis’s journey was a journey towards communion. He became one with himself, one with all things and ultimately, one with God. Let this retreat be a time away for you to do the same thing. Commune. Come into communion with yourself, and this beautiful earth. Retreat, relax, receive.
This day of Reflection and Retreat opens the door to the Inner Spirit of Wisdom and lets it speak to us through the medium of Inner Wisdom figures. Through periods of reflection, guided imagery, inspiring talks, beautiful music and the playful prayer of making an Inner Spirit Wrap Doll you will open of channels of creativity and discovery. We will be using the simple materials of bottles, batting, yarn, fabric and found or recycled “treasures” to allow a doll to be created through our hands. The Inner Spirit Figure is made from the African Wrap Doll concept where the maker will just let go and be shown by the emerging doll how to release and give form to the Wisdom Voice born from within. Bring a symbol or article that you would like to incorporate into your Inner Spirit Doll. A feather, leaves, or other natural materials or even a grandmother’s baptismal ring or hanky can be incorporated into this doll. The Inner Spirit Figure that creates itself through your hands will be yours to take home to continue to bring forth the wise voice of your Inner True Self. |
SOUL Retreat
» A two-day retreat
A retreat designed for doll makers, quilters or crafters of any kind. Need time off to doze, relax, laugh and discover? Let a doll make itself through your hands! Begin with the basics of non-intimidating doll making. In between food and naps, retreatants will sew an original S.O.U.L doll from the Quirky Doll collection of Tricia Spitzmueller learning all the secrets of unbreakable seams, quick turn methods, effortless stuffing and fanciful gesture. Tricia will teach you the tricks to successfully paint a doll face, and how to clothe and accessorize your emerging creation in fanciful and kicky ways. Hats, hair, beads and bobbles, shoes and accessories will complete your doll’s personality. Tricia will bring her own collection of QUIRKY DOLLS for inspiration. At the end of the retreat, we will have a naming ceremony and let your dolls “tell their story” to each other. Be ready to come and play dolls! Basic sewing skills and the ability to kick back and laugh are mandatory.
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Journey Inward: Processing Our Interior Landscapes
» A two-day retreat
This Journey Inward retreat is meant to be a gorgeous time to center, relax and explore your inner landscape using cloth and paints as the medium. To be in common space with other explorers accelerates the connection and creates greater energy and flow. This is a non-results orientated retreat that centers on connecting with oneself. Throughout the retreat we will do guided imagery and creativity exercises to move towards greater awakening and awareness. The beginning process will be to loosely paint on cloth, letting the brush and color guide you. The retreat deepens over the course of the weekend to rekindle and connect the natural flow within you. We will begin to make "marks" on our cloth, perhaps embellish it, and even quilt it. I will be there to guide and to support your process. (Size limit of 15. I will bring an assistant if the numbers are larger and will charge $75 extra per student) |
An Introduction to Dream Work and It's Application to Living a Life of Awareness
» One hour or half day lecture
Have you ever had a dream that won't let go of you? Have you ever had a dream where you're flying or running, being chased or looking for a lost item? Are you someone who never has dreams and want to know why or how you can begin? Dreams are like a letter from your best friend. Unreflected upon, they remain like an unread letter. Enjoy this fast pace, informative hour on the dreams and dreamer within you.
*This retreat can also be extended to a full day or weekend with elements of creating sacred tools such as a dream journal and/or dream pillow. Additional periods utilizing dream group process and personal time of reflection would be incorporated. Extended to a weekend, this retreat would emphasize discovery, creating clear channels for dreaming and rest.
An Introduction to Soul Directed Energy Healing
» Two hour/ morning lecture
Look deep into your heart. What do you see? A longing to be free, whole, healed? We all come into this world to accomplish our soul lessons. Energetic healing assists in this process by accessing that place within that has this knowledge both at a cellular level and spiritual level. Come listen as Tricia guides you to a deeper understanding of the amazing potential inside each one of us. The possibilities are limitless and the application profound.
In Introduction to the Enneagram and its application to your group
» Day of Reflection
The Enneagram is a modern tool used to help people discover their inner orientation to the world. Discover a new freedom and ability to begin the transformational process toward integration and wholeness. This day uses humor and levity along with process and reflection to give participants a running start on greater self-understanding. Much like the Myers/Briggs Personality Indicator, the Enneagram is a good tool to use with groups of people who work together. Whether as an individual or a group, this retreat will help you to understand, respect, work with and appreciate innate differences in yourself and other's orientation to the world.
Opening Centers of Creativity
» Day of Reflection
Are you in need of inspiration? Is your spirit begging you to stretch, wake up and become vital? Creativity sometimes gets stuck. In this retreat, Tricia uses her experience in energy and bodywork, spiritual direction, and art to lead you through a day of inspiration and opening. You will be treated to a lively presentation that incorporates new possibilities for creativity, followed by playful exercises both of mind and body. Tricia then takes you through a guided imagery, and reflection and the day concludes with the assembly of a small collage, which celebrates the essence of reawakened joy and creativity within you. Wake up! Renew you inner resources. Open your centers of creativity! Materials fee $10 per person.
*We will need several irons and ironing surfaces as well as tables to work on.
Inner Spirit Wrap Dolls-A Day of Retreat and Reflection
» Day of Reflection
Come and see what is moving and stirring in the depth of your being. This day of reflection and retreat offers an open door to the Inner Spirit of Wisdom dwelling within you. We give it expression and let it speak to us through meditation and creative play. Through the prayer of playing, an Inner Spirit wrap doll emerges. We will be using the simple materials of bottles, batting, yarn, fabric and found or recycled “treasures” to allow a doll to be created through our hands. The Inner Spirit doll is made from the African Wrap Doll concept where the maker lets go and is shown by the emerging doll how to release and give form to the Wisdom Voice born from within. Bring a symbol or article that you would like to incorporate into your Inner Spirit Doll. A feather, leaves, or other natural materials or even a grandmother's baptismal ring or hanky can be incorporated into this doll. The Inner Spirit Figure that creates itself right in front of you through your hands will be yours to take home to continue to bring forth the wise voice of your Inner True Self. Materials Fee: $10
* We will need tables to work on as well as community gathering space
Fees:
Lectures - $400
One Day Workshop - $650
Two Day Retreat - fee by arrangement
Energy Healing Session - $85 | Spiritual Direction Session - $75
* Maximum of 20 students
* Additional students may be added for a fee of $25/student up to 30 students
· Some classes have a materials supply list or a small fee for class materials that Tricia will bring
· All travel expenses will be borne by the organization. These include: mileage when driving (at current government rate) or round trip airfare and bus/limo transportation ($25 each way) to and from Minneapolis/St Paul International Airport, baggage or shipping charges, hotels and meals.
· Flight arrangements will be made by Tricia Spitzmueller or the travel agent of the organization with Tricia's agreement on dates of travel, routes and airline from Minneapolis/St Paul.
· Arrangements will be made by the organization to meet Tricia at the airport location and to transport up to two large suitcases of retreat materials.