Retreats
Regenerative Activism Retreat
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RThe Inner Resilience Network (IRN) is thrilled to invite you on an experiential adventure to regenerate your heart and soul in nature. This retreat will also be an opportunity for you to experience self-care and support with your fellow change-makers and activists
This program is intended to support us in cultivating the personal resilience needed for a more nourishing and life sustaining culture that is able to better navigate stressors - and guide us towards authentic purpose, essential self-care and collaborative leadership.
Together we will learn how to discover and integrate the untapped resources, depths and potential of our innate human wholeness. We will also learn how to listen to and integrate our deeper self towards transforming our lives.
This retreat features supported solo time in wilderness, writing time, powerful practices and sharing, all with the intention of opening to different ways of knowing and receiving insight for ourselves and our life.
Daily schedule: We’ll explore the landscape of our psyche through daily practices, including meditation, solo exercises in nature, group dialogue, movement, journaling, and deep imagery work. We will also have spaciousness for group and individual needs as they arise, including open time. Evening will have campfires, inviting creative expression. We will also have an optional hot springs visit.
Basic Daily schedule(except first and last day):
NOTE: you will have the option to have more or less solo time based on your needs
8am meditation and dream journaling
Open yoga, movement skill share
9am Breakfast
10am Opening circle,
Deeper intelligence listening practice
Dialogue/reflection or solo time
1pm Lunch
2pm Circle,
Nature-based insight practice
Optional dialogue and reflection, journaling, walking/sitting practice or open time
6pm Dinner
8pm Fire circle
Dream seeding practice before bed
Your facilitator/host: Jul Bystrova is the co-founder of the IRN, a teacher and practitioner in the Healing Arts for 30 yrs, an organizer and an activist for Climate Justice and Community Healing. She is also a longtime outdoor enthusiast and is a trained Wilderness First Responder.
Invitation
Because we want to support YOU in your work, we are making this retreat available at less than half the cost of a regular program. We feel its vital for activists such as yourself to have places to regenerate. It is our intention to hold a deep and transformative space that will help you feel renewed and inspired.
You are invited to this event if you are doing change-making work and have an interest in the inner dimension of what you do, knowing how much that sustains your outer work and effectiveness.
Due to COVID, we have reduced the size of this retreat by half.--these spaces will fill up quickly, so please do register now!
Costs
Reduced Registration/Tuition fee: $200-$400 Sliding Scale
Camping space: $100 for the week
Total cost: $300-$500 sliding scale
All extra funds go towards IRN admin costs and scholarships
Feel free to inquire about work trades and additional scholarships on top of this already discounted program.
Food and park entry fee ($30) is not included in the fee.
Some extra camping equipment is available by reservation
Location
We are excited to be holding this retreat at the spectacular desert wilderness of Joshua Tree National Monument in Southern CA. The time of year we will be there is ideal for the desert.
Transportation: We will be encouraging carpools, and will be offering pick-ups from transport (by arrangement)
Flights, Trains and Buses all go to Palm Springs, CA. We will have specific pick-up times for those coming into Palm Springs.
COVID PRECAUTIONS AND UPDATES: The perfect kind of gathering during COVID times: outdoors and lots of space/fresh air! We will be adhering to the current State mandate for Covid-19 precautions regarding gatherings. This event is all outdoors and will promote social distancing.
email julbystrova@gmail.com or call 707-321-0644 to register directly and to if you have any questions
OR, just register now through Eventbrite
Would you like to sponsor someone else to go?
Donate to the IRN retreat
Support our Scholarship Fund
We encourage you to invite your community to support you or others that deserve some regenerating time. They can donate to you directly, or use our scholarship fund if they prefer a tax-deduction. All donations will be for hard working activists who can't afford to attend. Activists of color will have priority, but all are encouraged to apply.
If your friends donate to the fund for your sake, make sure they mention your name. If you are coming and can offer extra support for others, or if you believe in what we are doing and want to support even if you can’t come, thank you!!
All donations are tax-deductible. If you donate through this link, you will be emailed a receipt with our EIN for your records.
Scholarship Donation Link
If you want to send a check, you will receive a receipt through the mail.
Mail to: ISI/Eo-Mega 101 Brookwood Ave, Suite 204, Santa Rosa CA 95404
This program is intended to support us in cultivating the personal resilience needed for a more nourishing and life sustaining culture that is able to better navigate stressors - and guide us towards authentic purpose, essential self-care and collaborative leadership.
Together we will learn how to discover and integrate the untapped resources, depths and potential of our innate human wholeness. We will also learn how to listen to and integrate our deeper self towards transforming our lives.
This retreat features supported solo time in wilderness, writing time, powerful practices and sharing, all with the intention of opening to different ways of knowing and receiving insight for ourselves and our life.
Daily schedule: We’ll explore the landscape of our psyche through daily practices, including meditation, solo exercises in nature, group dialogue, movement, journaling, and deep imagery work. We will also have spaciousness for group and individual needs as they arise, including open time. Evening will have campfires, inviting creative expression. We will also have an optional hot springs visit.
Basic Daily schedule(except first and last day):
NOTE: you will have the option to have more or less solo time based on your needs
8am meditation and dream journaling
Open yoga, movement skill share
9am Breakfast
10am Opening circle,
Deeper intelligence listening practice
Dialogue/reflection or solo time
1pm Lunch
2pm Circle,
Nature-based insight practice
Optional dialogue and reflection, journaling, walking/sitting practice or open time
6pm Dinner
8pm Fire circle
Dream seeding practice before bed
Your facilitator/host: Jul Bystrova is the co-founder of the IRN, a teacher and practitioner in the Healing Arts for 30 yrs, an organizer and an activist for Climate Justice and Community Healing. She is also a longtime outdoor enthusiast and is a trained Wilderness First Responder.
Invitation
Because we want to support YOU in your work, we are making this retreat available at less than half the cost of a regular program. We feel its vital for activists such as yourself to have places to regenerate. It is our intention to hold a deep and transformative space that will help you feel renewed and inspired.
You are invited to this event if you are doing change-making work and have an interest in the inner dimension of what you do, knowing how much that sustains your outer work and effectiveness.
Due to COVID, we have reduced the size of this retreat by half.--these spaces will fill up quickly, so please do register now!
Costs
Reduced Registration/Tuition fee: $200-$400 Sliding Scale
Camping space: $100 for the week
Total cost: $300-$500 sliding scale
All extra funds go towards IRN admin costs and scholarships
Feel free to inquire about work trades and additional scholarships on top of this already discounted program.
Food and park entry fee ($30) is not included in the fee.
Some extra camping equipment is available by reservation
Location
We are excited to be holding this retreat at the spectacular desert wilderness of Joshua Tree National Monument in Southern CA. The time of year we will be there is ideal for the desert.
Transportation: We will be encouraging carpools, and will be offering pick-ups from transport (by arrangement)
Flights, Trains and Buses all go to Palm Springs, CA. We will have specific pick-up times for those coming into Palm Springs.
COVID PRECAUTIONS AND UPDATES: The perfect kind of gathering during COVID times: outdoors and lots of space/fresh air! We will be adhering to the current State mandate for Covid-19 precautions regarding gatherings. This event is all outdoors and will promote social distancing.
email julbystrova@gmail.com or call 707-321-0644 to register directly and to if you have any questions
OR, just register now through Eventbrite
Would you like to sponsor someone else to go?
Donate to the IRN retreat
Support our Scholarship Fund
We encourage you to invite your community to support you or others that deserve some regenerating time. They can donate to you directly, or use our scholarship fund if they prefer a tax-deduction. All donations will be for hard working activists who can't afford to attend. Activists of color will have priority, but all are encouraged to apply.
If your friends donate to the fund for your sake, make sure they mention your name. If you are coming and can offer extra support for others, or if you believe in what we are doing and want to support even if you can’t come, thank you!!
All donations are tax-deductible. If you donate through this link, you will be emailed a receipt with our EIN for your records.
Scholarship Donation Link
If you want to send a check, you will receive a receipt through the mail.
Mail to: ISI/Eo-Mega 101 Brookwood Ave, Suite 204, Santa Rosa CA 95404