certified facilitator of the work of byron katie
two-day personal intensive
are you called to dive deeply into an area of your life?
personal retreat:
Retreat is an opportunity to bow out of our daily life and responsibilities and shift down into a deeper part of ourselves. This deeper part is always there, but is often half hidden, or fully hidden by the cares of the world. So much can be seen on retreat. If you are called to a time-out for deeper looking - I welcome you.
A personal intensive is a way to give the necessary time and space needed to soften unconscious ways of seeing. In a Two-Day Personal Intensive the container of time and space are sincerely offered to an area of your life. In this container deep and lasting transformation has the chance to arise.
We will hold the container of retreat together. I will be with you on your journey for these two days, and hold the space and time for healing to occur. I use a combination of The Work, meditation, and energy and sound healing to gently be with whatever we find
"It's delicious to be on the receiving end of Evangeline's work. Her presence is the sweetest, simplest, purest thing. In a safe container, she creates expansive spaciousness for going deep.”
~ Ithaca
“You touch with kind and powerful words the ordinary pain of everyday and extra heavy days alike.”
~ Danby
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The Structure of Personal Retreat.
We meet for 3 or 4 hour long sessions per day, with time alone in between for you to integrate and deepen into what you are experiencing.
The retreats generally begin with an evening meditation session, and then continues for 2 full days. Light on the Hill Retreat Center is fairly flexible, and you can usually plan to spend an extra day or two on your own if you want more time to integrate your experience.
We each stay in one of the Retreat Cottages, and I come to you during the arranged 1:1 sessions. The timing of the sessions is set up by discussing what best supports you.
in the words of a recent personal retreat participant:
“The retreat facilitated by Evangeline at Light on the Hill was one of the most special experiences of my life thus far. I hold it very near and dear to my heart, and whenever I think back on it, I am filled with warmth and gratitude.
My time spent there was allocated between sessions with Evangeline and solo time in the cabin & out in nature. Both were equally healing and transformative. The time with Evangeline was spent going deep into thoughts and traumas that have haunted me for most of my life. In that time and space, I was able to say things out loud that I’ve never been able to speak about with anyone. The compassion she had towards my innermost deep, dark secrets was unparalleled. The weight I felt lifted off my shoulders after each session provided me with a sense of ease & lightness that I was able to bring home with me. In addition to this, she facilitated very soothing silent meditation sessions during which I felt so safe and able to just let go.
The grounds at Light on the Hill complimented my time with Evangeline perfectly. I wandered around like a kid in a candy store, just in awe of the beauty and stillness surrounding me. Back at my cabin, I enjoyed the process of lighting fires in the wood burning stove and the calming energy of just sitting quietly in nature.
Evangeline’s presence, understanding, warmth and stillness helped me in ways that I will be forever grateful for. I recommend this experience to everyone, especially if you’re feeling called to nature and stillness.”
~Melissa, NYC
The container of Retreat:
Retreat is an ancient method to facilitate deep inward growth and insight. There are time tested guidelines of retreat that are used to create a container that the soul intuitively recognizes as a call to awaken. Here are some of these guidelines.
Time is spent in meditation, walking, dancing, journaling, singing, chanting, and prayer.
All distractions are left at home - electronic devices, books, music, communicating with the outside world, email, texting, social media, and work.
Time is taken to put all affairs in order before you go on retreat so that you do not need to communicate with anyone while away. You can provide people with my contact and I will receive communication from them and pass it on to you.
I trust absolutely in stillness and silence, and love to abide in that quiet, open, listening place where the deepest answers and truth are revealed. I invite you there, and I hold the intention of creating a space where this deep listening is facilitated.
— Evangeline
Light on the hill retreat center.
Located in Van Etten NY, Light on the Hill is a place brimming with spiritual energy. Enjoy access to 236 acres of woods, streams, walking paths, two labyrinths, Stillpoint Sanctuary, and hilltop vistas.
https://lightonthehill.org
"Evangeline offers us a profound link between the body and the mind by creating a space for both to be voiced and healed. That intimate, safe space invites the acknowledging of our confusion and grief, then its letting go, empowering a loving embrace of the abandoned parts of us."
— Ithaca