Past Events
Take a look at some of the fantastic events we have had earlier this year. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Open Labyrinth WalkWednesday August 25, 2010
(Please Note: Due to scheduling, the August Open Walk is being held on the fourth Wednesday of the month)
Noon - 6:00pmSpecific benefits that some people have experienced as a result of labyrinth walking include:  answers to, or insights, personal problems or circumstances- a general sense of inner peace or calm
- emotional healing from past abuse or other traumas
- a sense of connection to, or unity with, past generations of pilgrims or family ancestors
- reawakened interest in their specific religious tradition
- greater awareness of their own feminine nature or the feminine principle in nature, often associated with circular shapes and patterns
- stimulation of their imagination and creative powers
- improved ability to manage chronic pain
- faster healing following an injury or surgical procedure
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ August 27-29, 2010 Click here for itinerary. 
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Nature Conservancy’s Climate Change Conference (private event)August 18 - 19, 2010___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Movie: For the Next 7 GenerationsFriday August 13, 2010
7:00 pm 
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DOLPHIN DAYS: A Half Day Summer Camp for Children of the New EarthMonday July 26, 2010 through Friday July 30, 2010
9:00 am – Noon Explore different themes each day!
Activities will include:
Fairy House Building
Mind, Body, Spirit Connection
Dolphin Fun
Drumming and Dancing
Nature Journaling
Animal Tai Chi
Songwriting and Music Making
Campers will have fun with arts and crafts, movement and awareness exercises! For Children Ages 5 – 12
Camp Fee: $65 for entire week includes all materials, snack and beverages. Space is limited!
Call 757-331-1925 to make your reservation! ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Movie: Defending Your LifeFriday, July 23, 2010
7:00 pm 
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday July 21, 2010
Noon - 6:00pm
Each person's walk is a personal experience.
How one walks and what one receives differs with each walk. Some people use the walk for clearing the mind and centering. Others enter with a question or concern. The time in the center can be used for receiving, reflecting, meditating, or praying, as well as discovering our own sacred inner space. What each person receives can be integrated on the walk out. Your walk can be a healing and sometimes very profound experience or it can be just a pleasant walk.
Each time is different.
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Open Labyrinth Walk
Friday, July 9, 2010
7:00 PM to 9:00 PMIn Celebration of Family: Expanding Love & Intimacy
Our deepest desire is to feel loved … to feel heard, and to be in intimate partnership with others. So contrary to what you may be experiencing, family connections actually hold the greatest opportunities for joy and soul growth. So why then do so many beautiful families struggle with conflict, anger, and unfulfilled desires? You may feel as if you’re living with roommates rather than relatives. And the vision of more family playtime, holiday dinners, and meaningful connections, may seem like forgotten dream.
Yet it is possible to experience the love and intimacy we desire! It is possible to live in harmony with those you love and cherish the most. You will discover: - Why things are not working in your family
- How to reignite meaningful family connections
- How to connect heart to heart & expand love and intimacy in the relationships that matter most
Light Body Transformation
Each one of us is born with a unique body signature. Along the way we pick up STUFF that does not belong to us. This causes us to have the shape & health of what we have now.
Through Divine Whisper, like an artist sculpting a masterpiece, we will carve out the body that you desire (in alignment with your soul purpose) and remove all emotional traumas that do not belong. Hence you will be guided to produce the ideal self automatically.
“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained.” ~ Winston Churchill ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Summer Solstice Sunrise and Potluck Pancake BreakfastMonday June 21, 2010
5:40am – 7:30am
(Yes, we said Sun RISE! 5:40 am!) Experience the power and beauty of the sunrise on the Summer Solstice! If you have never seen the sunrise as it graces the coast of the Eastern Shore, now is your chance! Join us as we welcome summer in a wonderfully intentional and unique way! We’ll provide the most delicious, multi-grain pancakes (Elvin-cakes) you have ever eaten! Bring a breakfast dish to share with your fellow morning adventurers! (It’s OK if you show up in PJs!) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________  Saturday June 19, 2010
2:00pm - 4:00pm
The Flip Side of Phragmites
Saturday, June 19, 2010 is a day of Global Earth Exchanges, an international event to bring mindfulness and beauty to the Earth's wounded places. At WHI, we will spend some time mindfully exploring our relationship to the invasive plant, phragmites. Collectively, we will make an act of beauty using phragmites as our art medium. _________________________________________________  Saturday June 19, 2010
7:00pm
WHI will present the movie “Earth”An epic story of adventure, starring some of the most magnificent and courageous creatures alive, awaits you in “earth.” Disneyventure brings you a remarkable story of three animal families on a journey across our planet – polar bears, elephants and humpback whales. Suggested donation $5. Free popcorn. A movie adventure for the whole family! ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Open Labyrinth Walk
Wednesday June 16, 2010
Noon - 6:00pm “It has been one of the pleasures of my life to offer the gift of the labyrinth to others. What is the nature of that gift? It seems to me to encompass a journey to the center of one’s very being. During the walk inward, with its many surprising and disconcerting turns, one is invited to release: release old patterns, worn-out ideas and concepts, debilitating emotional memories, unhappy behaviors. Arriving at the center, the journeyer is asked to experience the recovery of her innate purposeful intelligence, one’s essence. Spend time, if desired, there at the center, the still point, and know that at very deep levels, one is in union with the greatest mystery.” – Jean Houston
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dawn Zurlinden Events
 Exciting News! Many of you are familiar with the Intent Mastery classes we hosted last year with Dawn Zurlinden. We now have an opportunity to provide a onetime workshop with Dawn for anyone interested in personal growth. But due to recent surprise schedule changes this workshop is coming right up - only three weeks away! So, we are getting this info to you as soon as possible. Attend those sessions that fit your situation and experience. This is a tremendous opportunity to "kick it up a notch!" in your spiritual growth.
Space is limited! Reservations must be made by June 1st! Call 757-331-1925 ASAP!
Intent Mastery Reunion
Friday June 11th 7:00 pm
Open only to those students who have previously taken a class with Dawn.
Fee $65 (Overnight accommodation an additional $50) Loving It All - A Spiritual Transformation Playshop
Saturday June 12th 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Open to Everyone - No pre-requirements
How often have you asked yourself how to bring more love to a situation or even to your relationship with yourself? The path to love involves modifying any limited points of view we've developed about events, others, and most significantly, ourselves. In this "playshop" we will use interactive learning techniques and sacred ceremonies to increase awareness, and then modify what keeps us from fully living as the loving beings we really are. We will discover that we truly can Love It All! Bring brown bag lunch or order box lunch. Snacks and beverage provided.
Fee $115 Mitote Ceremony
Saturday Night June 12th 9:00 pm until Sunday June 13th 9:00 amOpen to previous IM students and those who attend the "Loving It All" playshop.
A Mitote is a ceremony that has long been used in the lineage of Don Miguel Ruiz, author of "The Four Agreements". It's a process designed to promote a mental state between being awake and being asleep. This is done, in part, by not allowing full sleep, but also through Intent. This is when the frame of awake perception goes away but consciousness doesn't. Overall, this can help awareness. At its least, the ceremony can be a profound learning experience about resistance. More commonly, it's an experience of release from the conventional frame of the mind. The night is an exercise in surrender, as well as an investment and devotion to personal transformation. Floor mats will be provided. Breakfast included. Fee $95
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Children of the New Earth Family Potluck DinnerSaturday May 22, 2010
5:00 pm Join like-minded families as we reflect on the recent family workshop series and discuss future program possibilities. Preview the Children of the New Earth Slide show! Fun family activities! If you and your family are interested in participating in these events, please call us for more info! ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Open Labyrinth WalkWednesday May 19, 2010
12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
There is no doubt that many people find walking a labyrinth of benefit. Many labyrinths seem to have been specifically built to be used in a spiritual manner. In walking a labyrinth you are experiencing an ancient archetype symbolic of wholeness and life's journey.
Labyrinths can bring a heightened awareness that leads to psychological and spiritual growth. A labyrinth walk is a walking meditation that promotes relaxation and release of stress; it is a way to get in touch with your inner self, and gives you the opportunity to seek answers to your questions. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Saturday May 15, 2010
7:00 pm Based on James Redfield’s best-selling novel, The Celestine Prophecy is a spiritual adventure film chronicling the discovery of ancient scrolls in the rainforests of Peru. The prophecy and its nine key insights, predict a new awakening that redefines human life and provides a glimpse into a new spiritual culture on earth.
$5 Suggested Donation
Free Popcorn
Children’s Movie will be available in the WHI Library Click here for flyer __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ World Labyrinth DaySaturday May 01, 2010
World Healing Institute’s Labyrinth will be open to the public 12:00 noon until 3:00 pmA global event celebrating the labyrinth on the first Saturday in May. World Labyrinth Day is intended as a day that brings people from all over the planet together in celebration of the labyrinth as a symbol, a tool, a passion or a practice. As part of this celebration you are invited to “Walk as One at 1” to help us join the global effort of a rolling wave of labyrinth walking as the earth turns. Walk in our local time zone at 1:00 PM. Visit The Labyrinth Society for great information. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Walking the Labyrinth: The Threefold PathWednesday April 21, 2010
12:00 pm to 6:00 pmWalking in
RELEASING: allow for letting go, quieting the mind, surrender, opening. Be attentive to whatever may come up for you (also called "purgation").
 In center
ILLUMINATION: Stay in center until you are satisfied. You may stand, sit, kneel, or lie down. Be open to receive what is there for you: peace, clarity, awakening, insight, guidance (also called "receiving").
Walking out
UNION: A time for communion, reunion, remembering. Allow yourself to take back into the world whatever experience this labyrinth walk held for you (also called "integrating"). Donations Gladly Accepted
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Friday April 16, 2010
10:00 am and 7:00 pm
A film that combines documentary-style interviews, computer-animated graphics, and a narrative that posits a spiritual connection between quantum physics and consciousness.
Discover the Endless Possibilities of Your Everyday Reality Click here for flyer $5 Suggested Donation __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sustainability and Renewal
Native American Wisdom in Agriculture
Featuring Rose Marie Williams (Navajo) and Jamescita Peshlakai (Navajo)Sunday March 28, 2010
6:30 pmSponsored by
World Healing Institute at Cobb Island Station in cooperation with
The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
The Virginia Indian Heritage Program
University of Virginia Institute for Environmental Negotiation This program will focus on how traditional societies are connected to the Earth through agricultural practice and how Native (in this case Navajo) traditions, values, and beliefs are the basis for practical decisions about the ways food is planted, grown, and harvested.
Ms. Williams and Ms. Peshlakai will speak from their perspectives as Clan Mother and Grandmother about their efforts to reinvigorate and revive Native traditions in northwest Arizona, and about what they consider to be their sacred duty, as Native American women, to pass on traditional values and beliefs through their agricultural practice.
Rose Marie Williams is a Navajo farmer and rancher of the Towering House Clan, born for the Many Goats Clan. She comes from a family with long experience in farming and ranching. She practices dry farming, dry irrigation and natural spring water farming, and grows many crops as well as raising livestock on the Navajo reservation. Among these are blue and yellow corn, maize, watermelons, Crosan melon, Casaba melon, honeydew, Navajo tea, native Navajo Coushaw squash, yellow peaches, apricots, and apples; Black Angus beef and Lincoln Sheep.
Jamescita Peshlakai is a Navajo of the Tangle People Clan, born for the Redhouse Clan. Her maternal grandfathers are of the Bitterwater Clan; paternal grandfathers are of the Cliff Dweller Clan. She was born and raised in the western portion of the Navajo reservation, and is a U.S. Army combat veteran of the Persian Gulf War. Currently, she is Lead Coordinator of the Navajo Nation Traditional Agricultural Outreach program, and has been working with Ms. Williams through an organization called Dine, Inc. to develop new markets for traditionally grown food products.
Refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to the public. Donations gratefully accepted! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Children of the New Earth Family Workshop SeriesEvery Saturday in March
9:00 am - 1:30 pmMarch 6 Lifestyle Tips, Nutrition and Gardening
March 13 - Energy and Healing
March 20 - Nature and Earth Connection
March 27 - Evolved Communicating Join with like-minded families in a spiritual program for today’s children that unites body, mind and spirit through creative activities, imaginative exercises, lifestyle tools and intuitive skill building. Each workshop will demonstrate positive choices and activities that will help your New Earth child thrive!
Registration and Fees
Choose how many workshops your family would like to attend.
Single workshop is $10 per person, with a max of $40 per family.
Attend all four workshops for a reduced price of $35 per person.
Price includes a nutritious lunch that reflects that week’s topic along with healthy, delicious morning snacks.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Children of the New Earth Family Workshop SeriesSession 4: Evolved Communicating
Presented by: Thia BeldenSaturday March 27, 2010
9:00 am - 1:30 pmThis exciting workshop will explore the many aspects of evolved communicating with our higher selves as well as with one another. Thia will educate and demonstrate the use of intuition, heightened awareness, and extra-sensory capabilities that are available to us all. This is a very experiential workshop for parents and children who want to expand their extrasensory and multi-dimensional communication abilities. Participants will learn to “listen within” for divine information and guidance.
Thia Belden is a vibrational energy healer, intuitive, and teacher of “The New Earth Changes.” Her work is a bridge of understanding between vibrational energy medicine, the ancient and the New Age wisdom teachings. She calls her work “Vibrational Alchemy.” Her explorations have taken her around the world many times to study with indigenous healers and spiritual teachers from a wide variety of cultures. She interweaves their teachings with her insights into the transitions that people are experiencing both personally and globally. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Children of the New Earth Family Workshop SeriesSession 3: Nature and Earth Connection
Presented by: Jean Flynn and Annie HessSaturday March 20, 2010
9:00 am - 1:30 pmCome join us in Nature for a celebration of the Earth and her children! Make drums from recycled materials, dance with your Animal totems, and create ceremony in a Medicine Wheel! This workshop will borrow from many Native American traditions as we learn ways to bring balance to our lives and our Earth Mother. We’ll also experience the importance of water through a groundwater demonstration and identify Eastern Shore Native plants and their uses. A delicious and nutritious lunch will be a mini-Thanksgiving!
Jean Flynn is a wildcrafter, healer, artisan and organic gardener who lives close to the Earth on her self-sustainable homestead with her two beautiful boys, husband Terry and their goats, chickens and cats.
Annie Hess is the Center Coordinator for World Healing Institute. Throughout her life she has pursued her interest in mind, body, spirit connections, especially through the cutting edge programs presented by WHI. She lives on site at Cobb Island Station with her husband, Elvin and son, Elan. She brings to this program her knowledge of Medicine Wheels garnered in Sedona, AZ. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sunday March 21, 2010
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmPotluck Dinner – Bring a Dish to Share!
Showing of the Movie: “Messages from Water” with Masaru Emoto
World Water Healing Meditation
Water Enviroscape Demonstration
Lively Activities for the Whole Family!
Enjoy the first day of Spring at beautiful Cobb Island Station!
This event is free and open to the public. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Open Labyrinth Walk: Join the Other Leprechauns in the Labyrinth! March 17, 2010
12:00 pm - 6:00 pmThere is no doubt that many people find walking a labyrinth of benefit. Many labyrinths seem to have been specifically built to be used in a spiritual manner. In walking a labyrinth you are experiencing an ancient archetype symbolic of wholeness and life's journey. Labyrinths can bring a heightened awareness that leads to psychological and spiritual growth. A labyrinth walk is a walking meditation that promotes relaxation and release of stress; it is a way to get in touch with your inner self, and gives you the opportunity to seek answers to your questions. Free and open to the public, donations gladly accepted. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Local Food Film Fest & Exhibit
Sunday March 14, 2014Be inspired about rebuilding our local food system. Engage in conversation with and taste samples from several of the Shore’s local food producers.
Sponsored by two non-profit organizations, Buy Fresh Buy Local and The World Healing Institute. Admission for the entire event is $10 for adults and free for those 18 and younger. Proceeds will benefit Buy Fresh Buy Local. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Children of the New Earth Family Workshop SeriesSession 2: Energy and Healing
Presented by: Sandra Grace Brooks and Dr. Lucille StubbsSaturday March 13, 2010
9:00 am - 1:30 pmThis powerful session will be an opportunity to experience and learn tools and techniques that will help balance, restore, and strengthen you and your child’s energy fields. Learn about the body’s chakra system and its role in our physical, mental and emotional health. Your children will experience and share insights into how to protect and clear their energy. Activities will include a meditation exercise, healing body response techniques and an expressive art session led by art therapist, Dr. Lucille Stubbs and her daughter Kelly. There will be an opportunity to ask specific questions about issues your family is experiencing.
Sandra Grace Brooks of “Awakening Therapies” has been studying energy modalities since 1995 including Medical Intuition, Healing Touch, Reiki Mastery, Breathwork Facilitation and CranioSacral Therapy. Sandra Grace applies methods of quantum healing and energetic clearing work to access causative sources of “dis” ease or “dis” harmony on the subtle bodies often deep-seated and buried under many defense systems including ancestral origins. She has the ability to assist consciousness shifts in clients and change cellular vibration opening them to inherent wisdom, harmonic balance and joy.
Dr. Lucille Stubbs, ATR, LMFT, LPC, and Kelly Stubbs specialize in art therapy and family counseling. Ms. Lucille Stubbs is a Ph.D in natural health, Art Therapist, Licensed Marriage Counselor and Licensed’ Professional Counselor. Kelly Stubbs is a Counselor and Therapist. They are in private practice at Awakening Therapies in Virginia Beach. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Children of the New Earth Family Workshop SeriesSession 1: Lifestyle Tips, Nutrition and Gardening
Presented by: Cary Elliott and Jean FlynnSaturday March 6, 2010
9:00am - 1:30 pmJoin us to learn holistic and natural ways to nurture and guide the Children of the New Earth, as well as organic gardening practices. Through hands on creative activities, we will be learning the importance of caring for our mind, body and spirit with positive affirmations, guided meditations, some short easy highly beneficial yoga practices, a "rainbow" of healthy eating choices, making our own pizzas for lunch, designing and planting a pizza garden while learning about gardening organically, composting and beneficial bugs. Fun for the whole family!
Cary Elliott is a work-from-home, homeschooling mother of two, with a background in massage therapy, holistic healing, natural remedies, organic gardening and multi-media art. She has extensively researched these topics over the past fifteen years and practices them in her own life, with her own family.
Jean Flynn is a wildcrafter, healer, artisan and organic gardener who lives close to the Earth on her self-sustainable homestead with her two beautiful boys, husband Terry and their goats, chickens and cats. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Listening for the New - The First Eastern Shore Women’s Contemplative Retreat with Nina FrostSaturday February 27 at 9:30 am - Sunday February 28, 2010 at 2:00 pmCome and find the quiet center
in the crowded life we lead,
find the room for hope to enter,
find the frame where we are freed:
clear the chaos and the clutter,
clear our eyes, that we can see
all the things that really matter,
be at peace, and simply be. Early spring brings with it an invitation to be still, to take some time to listen to the stirrings in our lives: what is new and unexpected… what is faded or outgrown. This contemplative weekend will give you ample opportunity to listen and discern, in the company of other seekers. Through presentations, reflection, artwork, music, poetry, discussion and silent time, we will look at the many surprising ways sources of new life companion us, challenge us, and show us the way forward.
About the Leaders Nina Frost Close is an experienced retreat leader, spiritual director, the director of Adult Education at Marble Collegiate Church in New York and the co-author of Soul Mapping: An Imaginative Way to Self-Discovery. She lives in Onancock, where her husband is pastor to the Naomi Makemie and Makemie Presbyterian churches.
Nancy Collins is an administrator and career counselor for Old Dominion University. She also teaches student development courses for Eastern Shore Community College. Nancy has an interest in how art helps us to discover ourselves.
Debra Ryon is the leader of the Art & Soul group in Onancock, as well as a facilities engineer for the Navy at Wallops Island.
Registration Rates and Accommodations Limited accommodations are available for overnight lodging. Spaces are also available for retreat participation during Saturday only, or during both Saturday and Sunday. Full weekend, with overnight accommodation, materials and all meals: Double room: $175 Private room: $225 Saturday only, materials & meals through dinner, no overnight accommodation: $50 Saturday & Sunday, materials and meals through dinner, no overnight accommodation: $75 For more information, or to register, call Debbie Ryon 710-4661 or email dryon@verizon.net
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