Meet the Rest of the Team.
Sarah Clodius and Daniel Orth have been apprenticing under the guidance of Deborah Jacobson of Path to Transcendence since 2018. In becoming Breathwork Facilitators, they have gone deeper into their own healing journeys, along with being given excellent guidance on how to facilitate the healing of others. They each bring a different element of experience to their work, which provides a wider range of support for our retreat participants.
Retreat Activities
This is a special retreat experience centered around meeting with your Shadow Self and learning how to integrate them into your life. What is extremely unique about this opportunity to do shadow work, is the chance to utilize guided visualization and altered states of consciousness, artwork, poetry, mask-making, dance, and group work to reveal and integrate the Shadow.
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For a better understanding of the Breathwork process go here.
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Continue reading to learn more about the Shadow, its importance within psychospiritual healing, and for further retreat details.
The Shadow
As human beings in all cultures, we are only allowed to express a limited, socially acceptable portion of the total Self. What happens to the other vital, energetic parts of ourselves that may not have been acceptable in our family, community, or culture?
Those parts of ourselves go underground and become….The Shadow.
The Shadow is the unaccepted, despised, and unacknowledged part of ourselves that is repressed and unavailable to our conscious mind. Our Shadow is projected outwards onto others who thereby come to represent for us all that is dark and unpleasant.
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As the shadow has an elusive nature, we are not aware when we are projecting it onto others. It is helpful to understand that we have both a personal and a collective shadow. This means our projections can belong to us alone, and we can project as an entire group acting as our culture, religion, or family.
What people may not understand is the Shadow is morally neutral. While one person may find it difficult to express anger, domination or lust, another may find it equally difficult to express sensitivity, gentleness or compassion.
But, the Shadow will find a way out eventually...
Whenever tired or stressed the Shadow will abruptly emerge and we are left shocked by what we expressed in that moment…that’s our Shadow!
We may then feel ashamed and embarrassed, but once acknowledged and accepted, the Shadow becomes a vital force in our lives!
Our intention in hosting this retreat is to help you to better recognize your Shadow, and learn to accept, embrace, and love it.
The Shadow Self is just waiting for you to bring it into the light of consciousness and discover its value!
The Retreat Location
This is an in-town retreat in a private residence in Broomfield, Colorado.
We provide the retreat space, water, tea, and healthy snacks for the weekend. We ask participants to bring a water bottle, their lunch, and pillows/blankets for the breathwork journey. We have extra pillows and blankets and if it is not possible to bring your lunch, we can provide lunch options upon request.
If you are coming in from out of town and require lodging, here is a link for nearby hotels.
Weekend Schedule
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Friday
Saturday
Sunday
9:00 am - 6:30 pm.
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Welcome
Introduction to the Shadow
The Wizard of Oz
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Lunch Break
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Guided Imagery: Meeting the Shadow
Mask Application Ritual
Closing Meditation
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9:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Breathwork Journey
Soul Art/Mandalas
Mask Making Pt 1​
Lunch Break
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Mask Making Pt. 2
Group Process
​Archetypal Connections to Revealing the Shadow
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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The Shadow Dance
The Philosopher's Stone
Poetry
Lunch Break
Guided Imagery: Integrating the Shadow
Costume Preparation
Presentation of the Shadow
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BENEFITS TO JOINING OUR RETREAT
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Develop Conscious Awareness of Your Shadow
Most people have little to no awareness of their shadow selves, because of its elusive nature. So its expression can come out in unconscious ways that are shocking to oneself and others. In cultivating a relationship with your Shadow, you will learn how to recognize it, the emotions and triggers connected to it, and better understand where it came from in the first place. You can then learn how to allow it to speak or come out in ways that are acceptable to you. This is a practice and this retreat is a profound opportunity to begin!
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Receive Guidance from Skilled, Compassionate Professionals.
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Deborah, Sarah, and Daniel combined have over 50 years of experience in guiding their clients in altered states, mind/body/spirit healing, and deep transformational work. They are compassionate facilitators who put their full focus into your growth, healing and purpose. They have experience in doing their own healing work, and practice transparency and vulnerability to help you as the participant relate to the process. We are all in this together!
Witness the Results in your Personal
& Professional Relationships
In cultivating a relationship with your Shadow, you learn how to recognize and better manage the projections that you unfairly put onto others, and vise versa - you can better recognize when others are throwing their projections onto you. Instead of seeing others as projections of the side of yourself that you don't like, or being seen that way by someone else, we can learn to see people for who they really are. This can help to build stronger, honest relationships and set loving boundaries.
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Discover & Reclaim Hidden Talents
& Energetic Gifts that Lie Dormant
The Shadow self is morally neutral. This can mean that what has been repressed isn't always your negative traits. Light, power, creativity, and talent can be repressed too. In accepting your shadow you may access a deeper well of energetic self-expression, power, and confidence than you have ever known!
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Cultivate Self Acceptance
How many of us are operating from a place of self-loathing, insecurity, and judgment, without consciously understanding where it comes from or how to change it? Accepting your Shadow means learning how to love every aspect of yourself, which can lead to higher levels of compassion, self-love, forgiveness, peace, and harmony within.
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Heal the Wounded Inner Child
While what resides within our Shadow doesn't always come from intense trauma, it certainly can contain those experiences if they were part of your childhood. For those whose shadow is associated with trauma, this can help you to work through it and embrace the part(s) of yourself that have been made to feel unloved, unwanted, or ashamed. It can also help you to release trapped, suppressed and overwhelming energy that you may have been carrying around for so long.
Cost of Retreat
Early Bird Registration Pricing through October 25th:
1 Person: $400.00
2 Persons: $375.00 each
**(Sign up with a friend and both will receive up to $75.00 off the full price!)​
Full Price After October 25th:
1 Person: $450.00
2 Persons: $425.00 (each)
(Sign up with a friend and both will receive $25.00 discount!)
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**Registration Closes at midnight November 6th!!
Fill out this form to register and/or contact us with questions!
**Note: If signing up with another person(s), all parties will need to register separately below.