Just Be
A Workshop/Mini-Retreat for Therapists
This is an invitation to simply sit and be what you are - pure presence, pure awareness, peace, and wellbeing.
We could call this a self-care workshop, but that implies that there are two: a self that needs to be cared for and the one who is doing the caring. |
EMBODIMENT AS ULTIMATE SELF-CARE
A Workshop/Mini-Retreat for Therapists
Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021
Rain Date: Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021 9:30am-4:30pm Heaven On Earth Farm Pickens, SC 6 CEUS (for LPC, LMFT, and general social work) |
This is an outdoor event, but social distancing WILL BE STRICTLY OBSERVED. Please bring your masks for use when closer contact might be unavoidable.
Lunch is on your own. You are encouraged to bring a picnic. Like all outdoor events at Heaven On Earth Farm, this one is subject to last-minute cancellation or rescheduling in the event of extreme weather or poor site conditions. In light of COVID-19, we will have to cancel if there's a likelihood of rain. Rain date is Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021. There is a port o' john on the premises. Pre-registration is required by Wednesday, Oct. 20th.
There will be NO REFUNDS given after 6:00pm, Oct. 20th unless workshop is cancelled or rescheduled due to weather. Cost is $120.00 and includes your certificate. |
A Note From Shelly
I'm so excited to announce this new workshop! |
This unique opportunity, offered for a limited time, is less like therapy, and more like a mini-retreat, self-realization, moving-beyond-preconceived-notions-and-limitations personal growth experience.
You will step out of the known, but limited, world of intellectual understanding, and surrender to a deeper knowing - one that arises when you reconnect with your instinctual, more primal, nature-connected self, and experience a greater truth that wants to move through and express itself as you. |
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Now I know what it means to be happy. I thought I knew where it was and how to get to it, but it's really different from what I thought.
I thought I knew what the problem was and what I needed to overcome to fix it, but I was wrong. The answer came so clearly and as I stood next to Sonny and cried, it was like my insides reorganized and I saw the truth and felt such peace.
. . . What really amazed me the most, however, was the first-hand healing that occurred for me through my participation with a Body Centered Exercise with you, and with being in the ring with your beautiful horses. I was able to release sadness that I really didn’t even know I held. I know exactly where I held it too. For YEARS I have had left low back and hip pain. Last night, when I got back from the workshop and was getting ready for bed, I went to take my usual Tylenol to ease up my pain so I can sleep, when I suddenly realized that I no longer had the pain! The pain is still gone this morning and I wanted to let you know and to say thank you. - DB.
Equine-Assisted Personal Growth: A Body-Centered Approach, May 2017
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Pasture BathingRescheduled For Sunday, October 25th, 2020
11:00am - 1:00pm Heaven On Earth Farm Pickens, SC Cost: $45 ($10 extra for 3 CEUS) Preregistration is required by Thursday, Oct. 22nd |
Experience the healing power of nature firsthand with these . . .
2 Mini Healing Retreats For Therapists Saturday, Oct. 24th Friday, Oct. 30th (Feel free to attend one or both!) both from 10am-1pm Heaven On Earth Farm Pickens, SC 3 CEUS each Cost: $65.00 (plus $10.00 certificate fee) |
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Day Of The Dead
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"Roundtable" Discussion: Breathing, the Felt Sense, and Adding Somatic Approaches To Your Practice.5 Last-Minute CEUS For Counselors and Therapists!
This small group setting offers a unique opportunity to receive some customized learning and instruction, ask questions, and get some practical help in incorporating body-informed approaches into your practice.
You may have the opportunity to experience body-informed approaches for stress relief firsthand for yourself, role-play one of your clients, and get tips for applying these techniques in challenging situations. Space is limited to 6 participants. |
For Therapists (LPC, LMFT, and general Social Work hours)
Beyond Talk Therapy:
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Emotions are made up of energy - so are thoughts and beliefs. Energy is stored in the bodymind and must be accessed and released via the bodymind. Great horse "whisperers" know that working with a horse's flight instinct, is more effective than trying to control or subdue it. Drawing from their example, we will learn how to release negative energy - negative emotions - from the bodymind, by learning how to partner with them versus trying to manage them. This workshop is experiential. You will learn how to use and practice these tools for yourself, before attempting to use them with clients. These tools will also help you stay balanced and centered and take on less "stuff" from your clients. Please note: We will not necessarily be working with horses. This workshop is designed to help you learn how to work with negative emotions in any context. Also please note that this is an outdoor event and is subject to last-minute rescheduling in case of severe weather. Lunch is on your own.
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This workshop is being offered for the staff and volunteers at Wild Hearts Equine Therapy Center.
Date: Friday, June 21
Cost: $90.00
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(Please note: This is an outdoor event. Please dress casually and appropriately. Workshops are subject to last-minute rescheduling in case of severe weather. There's a port-o-john on the premises).
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For Therapists (LPC, LMFT, and general Social Work hours)
Beyond the Story: Somatic Approaches To Healing Sexual Abuse and Other TraumaPhysical self-awareness is the first step in releasing the tyranny of the past. Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD Saturday, June 29, 2019
9:30am - 4:30pm Heaven On Earth Farm, Pickens, SC Cost: $90.00 (Lunch on your own) 6 CEUS
Pre-registration required by Wednesday, June 26th.
No refunds given after that time, unless workshop is rescheduled due to severe weather. |
Releasing Resistance From the BodymindSaturday, July 20, 2019 9:30am - 4:30pm Heaven On Earth Farm, Pickens, SC Cost: $90.00 (6 CEUS available for LPCs and LMFTs) Lunch is on your own. |
Pre-registration required on or before Wednesday, July 17th.
(No refunds are given after that time, unless workshop has to be rescheduled due to severe weather). |
Healing With Horses
Saturday, November 10, 2018
9:30am-4:30pm Heaven On Earth Farm, Pickens, SC Cost $75.00 (6CEUS available for LPCs and LMFTs) A light vegetarian lunch will be provided.
Bring your tired, hurt, and world-weary selves to a day of healing and peace with the horses.
You don’t have to talk about “it,” you don’t’ have to do anything at all.
The horses will do it for you. They know what to do. All that’s required is a willingness to be present and a little bit open and Shelly will help you with that part. Bring your intention for the day – what you’d like to shift, let go of, or feel more peaceful about. In the morning, you’ll be guided in gentle grounding and heart opening exercises, before engaging in one-on-one interaction with the horses. During lunch, you will have time to rest by the creek, lie in the grass, write in your journal. and explore the property if you wish. After lunch, our group will mingle with the “herd on the hill” and feel what it means to be more horselike, - what it means to be fully grounded and present, what it means to flow from beingness versus ego, and how to trust and move from the promptings of the felt sense. |
(Please note: This is an outdoor event. Please dress casually and appropriately. Workshops are subject to last-minute rescheduling in case of severe weather. There's a port-o-john on the premises).
Pre-registration required by Thursday, November 8th.
No refunds given after that time, unless workshop is rescheduled due to severe weather. |
. . . What really amazed me the most, however, was the first-hand healing that occurred for me through my participation with a Body Centered Exercise with you, and with being in the ring with your beautiful horses. I was able to release sadness that I really didn’t even know I held. I know exactly where I held it too. For YEARS I have had left low back and hip pain. Last night, when I got back from the workshop and was getting ready for bed, I went to take my usual Tylenol to ease up my pain so I can sleep, when I suddenly realized that I no longer had the pain! The pain is still gone this morning and I wanted to let you know and to say thank you. - DB.
Equine-Assisted Personal Growth: A Body-Centered Approach, May 2017
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Healing the Feminine Soul: A Fully Embodied Meditation Retreat
Saturday, June 23, 2018
10:00am-4:00pm Heaven On Earth Farm, Pickens, SC Cost: $75.00 (5 CEUS for LPC's and LMFT's) (A healthy lunch will be provided).
While the masculine longs for the freedom of "no-mind" - the kind that's found post-ejaculation or in his man-cave, the feminine longs for love.
If you find that meditation is often challenging, frustrating, or less than compelling, it may be that your feminine nature is hungry for a full-bodied spiritual experience. A quiet mind is great, but a quiet mind disconnected from the body might leave you wanting more. As a woman you are made to allow love into your body, to nurture that love, and to give it out through your body. It's a circular, felt-expeience. When this longing goes unrecognized or unfulfilled, it can sometimes show up in our relationship with food, as depression, or as physical symptoms. When you can reconnect with your body and open yourself to the present moment, you allow the peace and well-being that's always present to flow through you - in a way that's fulfilling and satisfying. With a combination of guided exercises and time on your own in nature, this retreat/workshop experience will assist you in doing just that. |
(Please note: This is an outdoor event. Please dress casually and appropriately. Workshops are subject to last-minute cancellation in case of severe weather. There's a port-o-john on the premises).
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Gut Knowing: Accessing the body's wisdom - for guidance, clarity, and healing.
Saturday, July 21st
9:30am-1:00pm Heaven On Earth Farm, Pickens, SC Cost: $75.00 3.5 CEUS for counselors and therapists "I feel it in my heart."
"I know it in my bones." "I had a gut-feeling." We have these expressions in our language because we instinctively know that intuitive impressions and Divine Guidance, come to us through the bodymind - not so much from the thinking brain. After all, when was the last time you heard someone say, "I felt it in my frontal cortex."?
The body doesn't lie. Beneath the chatter of the thinking brain and our ego-identification with it, lie the suppressed emotions and limiting beliefs stored in the bodymind. Deeper still, lies the wisdom, peace, and wellbeing that is the truth of who you are. Please consider attending this valuable opportunity to learn how to access your gut (literally) and its guidance, clarity, and peace. |
(Please note: This is an outdoor event. Please dress casually and appropriately. Workshops are subject to last-minute cancellation in case of severe weather. There's a port-o-john on the premises).
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Quick Links
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864/933-8000
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1233 Pickens, S.C. |