Unwrapping Your Gifts in a Time of Crisis

September 17-20

Cost $280 (Partial Scholarships May be Availible)

Join visionary spiritual activist and acclaimed filmmaker Velcrow Ripper and guest facilitators James O'dea and Sequoya Trueblood on a three day journey into the heart of meaning  of life, in a time of planetary crisis and transformation. Featuring film screenings, deep inner work, experiential excercises, and group interactions, the retreat will move through the three themes of Velcrow’s acclaimed Fierce Light Trilogy of feature documentaries: Scared Sacred, Fierce Light and Evolve Love.

The journey begins with Scared Sacred: Unwrap the Darkness. Reveal the Light.  Dive into your personal and collective shadow, and learn how to transform the poison into the antidote.    Discover the art of transforming every situation in your life, including your inner wounds, into a fuel for your souls growth, using shadow work, and the practice of Tonglen meditation. Breathe in suffering - breathe out compassion.  

The second phase of the retreat will be based on Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action. Unleash the alchemical power of spirituality merged with action, integrating “doing” and “being”, the head and the heart, the inner and the outer.  Discover your own “fierce light”, deepen your connection to your own personal mission, and learn how to be of the highest service, both to your souls growth, to the planet, and the universe.  Learn the deepest answers to the questions: who am I?  Why was I born?  What am I here to do?

Evolve Love: The Meaning IS Life is the final phase of the journey, taking us into a profound exploration of inter-being, of interconnection, of the spiritual path of creating and living in deep, sustaining and healthy community, in mutually sustaining relationships of shared power, breaking from the industrial growth societies models of “power over” to create the seeds of the new, planetary, life sustaining civilization. It taps into the power of evolutionary spirituality - aligning ourselves with the evolutionary impetus that began with the big bang and is now exploding through our creative expressions as living beings.   

Join Velcrow Ripper, and guest facilitators, for three extraordinary days that will transform  your life, while transforming the planet.

To learn more about the work of Velcrow Ripper, please visit: www.velcrowripper.com & www.fiercelight.org

If you are interested in attending the workshop, or learning more, please feel free to join Velcrow on facebook.  Friend “Velcrow Ripper.”

James O'dea is a former president and extended facultyof the Inststitute of Noetic Sciences and former director of Amnesty Internations Washington D.C.

Sequoya Trueblood is a blood member of the Choctaw nation and a traveling Medicine man who works in the Mountains of British Columbia as well as traveled all offer the world holding healing ceremonies.