WE DREAM OF LOVE: A CREATIVE DREAMWORK RETREAT
SATURDAY DECEMBER 28th – MONDAY DECEMBER 30th
ALL YOU NEED INSTITUTE in LUMBERTON MS
When you enter your interior realms, what do you find there? A flight of fancy, a touch of wonder? Or does the space leave you with a shudder, echoing ancestral wounds? Is it a space you want to dwell in, or does even just a moment’s dip leave you in a spin, aching for an escape?
As the material well-being of the web of life continues to wane on our shared earth, it can be tempting to abandon our inner sanctum. Perhaps we feel this is the moral choice, thinking it better to stay focused on all that we must do to mitigate the harm to life that surrounds us. More often we just scroll dumbfounded; unable to act due the staggering weight of our sense of importance and responsibility.
And yet, our dreams keep calling. We know that it is the forces that would rather us stay outwardly focused, dispersed in our energies, constantly predicting and reacting to unknowable futures while ignoring the depths of our hearts and cries of our spirits; that keep the world of our dreams from being birthed in the material realm.
Our intent for this weekend is to be with our dreams, our creativity, and our imaginations knowing they have the power to bring us into the presence of unconditional love.
One of the ways that we can access our dreams is by dreaming while we are awake, through creative process. We will be making art with our dreams as collaborators, letting our analytic minds rest while we invite the wisdom of our intuition. The creative work is accessible to all—no prior experience needed. Just as we are all natural dreamers, we are also all born with the creative impulse, one that has the power to remind us that we are always connected to the creative force of the universe, the very same force that brings us our dreams.
So let’s gather together in gratitude to the earth, share our dreams, and tune into our inner wisdom and creativity, all with the intention to clear our paths of anything that keeps us from love.
All kinds of love, whatever you long for, is welcome; relational, platonic, sexual, love of nature, of art, of crafts, caregiving, parenting, building, curating, sharing, uplifting. We want more of all of it and much more we can’t imagine. We need the love you ache for. And we deeply trust that our dreams can and want to lead us to love, the kind of love that has the power to transform all things. The only way we can get there is together. Will you join us?
ABOUT YOUR FACILITATORS
Kezia Vida has been engaged in an active dream practice, working and tending to her own dreams and the dreams of others since 2009. She is a founding member of the Natural Dreamwork community, where she teaches dreamwork practitioners in training. She recently completed a thesis as part of her Master’s in Counseling on Dreamwork in Clinical Practice through ecopsychology, multicultural, and social justice lenses. Kezia is deeply passionate about the possibility for engagement with dreams to help us reorient to our inner lives in a way that perpetuates growth, healing, and transformation within and without and is the author of a dreamwork journal to assist in this process called The Dreaming I.
Kim is a queer anti-Zionist Jewish artist, parent, painter, doodler, parade-lover, partner, dreamer, honorer of ancestors and devotee of the Great Mystery at the center of everything. As a collaborator of the radical Jewish lunar-based planner Dreaming the World to Come, kim has spent a lot of time thinking about what it means to dream our way into a beautiful and life-giving future. They are a trained facilitator of the Jewish Studio Process (through the Jewish Studio Project), a ritually-held methodology through which we can enter into deep personal and collective spiritual inquiry and strengthen our connection to the world and ourselves.
ABOUT THE SPACE
All You Need Institute is a 111 acre nature-based retreat and education center located 80 mi north of New Orleans, LA in the piney woods and sandhills of ancestral Chahta (Choctaw) lands. The land and accommodations were built with the intention of creating a space where we can live as closely and with minimal harm to the earth. The land offers reliable fiber wifi, 4+ miles of hiking trails, well water, and hot showers. Sleeping accommodations range from climate controlled cabins to glamping tents to primitive camping. If you have any questions at all about the accommodations, email info@allyouneedinstitute.com.
Saturday December 28 2024
Arrival by 3pm (MSY 90 min; can arrange rides; Biloxi/Gulfport 60 min)
5:30 land/group orientation
6:15 Dinner
7:30 Opening Circle / What is a dream? What is love?
Sunday December 29 2024
8 meditation/movement
9 breakfast
10 – 12 Dream Share / Creative Process
1 Lunch
3:30-5:30 Dream Share / Creative Process
6:30 Dinner
7:30-9: 1:1 time
Monday December 30 2024
6:45 Sunrise Hike (Optional)
8:30 Breakfast
9 Closing Circle
Depart after 12
Folks are welcome to stay another night if you like ❤️
SCHEDULE
COST
The cost for this retreat is sliding scale $185-315 Please refer to these guidelines if you are unsure where you fit on the sliding scale. We have two work trade positions available. Please email keziavida.k@gmail.com to learn more if you’re interested.
ACCESSIBILITY
We are committed to the principles of disability justice and want to do whatever is needed to make this experience worthwhile and accessible to you. Please let us know your needs so we can brainstorm how to accommodate. We are both mothers and are open facilitating childcare as well.
THE EARTH
The land that you will be living on during the retreat is our beloved host, companion, and guide. We will gather in gratitude and respect for all that the ecosystem here offers us. We will work to be mindful of our impacts on the land as we revel in all the support it provides.
FOOD / SLEEPING
We will serve plant-based meals that include at least one vegetarian protein, and meat will also be served. We can accommodate special diets/allergies, just let us know. If you aren’t comfortable tent camping, we have glamping (cots) and cabin options (full size beds) available at an additional cost. We also have full camping gear set up for rent.
We Dream of Love Registration
if you are interested in a work trade position, please email info@allyouneedinstitute.com before filling out this form.