Winter: Season of Hibernation & Introspection
The Land Lies Fallow: A Winter 'Four-Week Private Retreat'
February 1 to 28, 2010
Facilitator: Rockhaven Team
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For the Love of Earth: 2nd Annual Rockhaven Fundraiser
February 6 (6:00 pm to 9:00 pm)
Venue: Nerinx High School Cafeteria
Cost: $10.00 ($15.00 at the door)
Join us for a scrumptious organic "red and green" meal (spaghetti and salad greens). Share an evening with good friends and meet new ones, make manifest your support of Rockhaven's mission and show your appreciation for Earth and the whole community of beings. There will also be a Silent Auction, 50/50 Drawing, and live music.
Call Rockhaven (636-375-3159) for tickets or buy them online through Paypal
Meditation Sunday
February 14, 28 (1:30 pm to 3:30 pm)
Facilitator: Carol Robinson
Cost: Dana (free-will donation)
This meditation practice is mainly centered around the Shambala meditation where we calm and focus the mind by bringing sustained awareness. Awakening and opening, we discover the world to be naturally sacred--pure and full of beauty. Though the teachings are rooted in the Shambala tradition, our practice is essentially non-religious and open to practitioners of any tradition. We practice together in order to cultivate peace and compassion into our daily lives.
Spring: Season of Rebirth and New Beginnings
Walking Into Our Inner Wilderness: A Lenten Weekend Retreat
March 5 to 6 (Friday, 6pm to Saturday, 5pm)
Cost: $125.00 (fee includes overnight accommodation and meals)
Facilitator: Maco Cassetta,cnd and Diza Velasco
Introduction to Permaculture
March 19-21 (Friday 6:30 to 9:00pm) (Saturday 9:30am to 5:00pm) (Sunday 9:30 to 11:30pm)
Facilitator: Beth Blissman
Cost: $125.00 (covers all materilas and meals) $110.00 (Register by February 15)
Saturday-only option avaiable for $70.00
This workshop provides an opportunity to engage in the act of working with Mother Nature--creating an ecosystem by putting together communities of plants that work together, building and maintaining healthy soil, conserving water naturally, creating habitat for animals alongside your garden, and being able to eat your bounty, too. Through interactive discussion and activities, we will delve into the theory, ethics and principles of permacuture (permanent agriculture). This weekend will focus on the providing individuals with practical tools for moving from social change to positive, creative ways for ecosocial transformation. Participants will be given supporting materials based on the day's presentations and will also have access to an extensive web-based examples and links. Flyer
Saturday schedule includes (optional) Spring Equinox celebration.
Please make separate reservation for overnight accommodations.
Spring Equinox Celebration
March 20, Saturday (6:00 pm to 8:00 pm)
Cost: Donation (with potluck supper)
Spring Botanizing
March 27, Saturday (9:00 am to 11:30 am)
Facilitator: Marty Vogt
Cost: Donation.
Explore the plant life of Rockhaven in Spring! Identify the common (and not so common) plants found in the Big River (Jefferson County) watershed area. Bring a magnifying/field glass, notepad and water bottle. We'll have a potluck lunch after the botanizing experience.
Rebirthing Oneself: A Month-Long Personal Spring Renewal
April 1 to 30, 2010
Facilitator: Rockhaven Team
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Holy Week Triduum Celebration
Holy Thursday (April 1)
Good Friday (April 2)
Easter Celebration (April 3)
Cost: Donation (Saturday includes a potluck feast)
Join the Rockhaven community in celebrating Holy Week's most sacred days. The rituals commemorate Jesus' pashcal story in the context of the New Story - our sacred common story of origin. All events start at 6:00pm. Please bring a dish to share for the Easter potluck dinner (Saturday event).
Praying the Path of Spring: A Medicine Wheel Gathering
April 10, Saturday (2:00pm to 5:00pm)
Facilitator: Gail Prichard and Diza Velasco
Cost: Donation.
A Native American ceremony, learn how the Medicine Wheel can be a practical tool for creating harmony among all creatures, personal growth and a means to honor and celebrate the changing seasons. Bring food to share at the potluck feast after the ceremony.
Rockhaven Trivia Night
April 17, Saturday (6:30 to 10:00pm)
Venue: St. Pius V Church (3310 South Grand Blvd. 63118)
Cost: $120/table (8 persons/table) or $15.00/person.
If you are interested in attending and need to be hooked up with a table, please let us know!
It's simply Trivia... we're putting the FUN in fundraising!
Join us for a night of fun and games - Mulligans, Dead or Alive, Heads or Tails, Fact or Crap, 50/50 Drawing, gift baskets raffle and many groovy attendance prizes. There will be prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and LAST place teams. Soda and snacks will be provided. No alcohol will be sold but feel free to bring your own. Space is limited and tables will sell out quickly, reserve your table today!
The Science of Food and Art of Eating
April 24, Saturday (9:00am to 3:00pm)
Cost: $75.00
More information soon.
May-Day Bonfire
May 1, Saturday (5:00apm to 11:00pm)
Cost: $10.00 (Please make advance reservations if you plan to stay overnight.)
Summer: Season of Growth and Maturity
Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream!
A gathering to commemorate the 1st year anniversary of Thomas Berry's death
June 5, Saturday (9:30 pm to 3:30 pm)
Venue: Maria Center (School Sisters of Notre Dame Motherhouse: 320 East Ripa Avenue, St. Louis, 63125)
Cost: $25.00. Please bring a "no-waste lunch"
Experience an inspiring exploration into the links between humanity's most critical concerns. Together we'll go on a journey of planetary inquiry and what's possible for the future. This symposium combines leading edge information through live presentation and facilitation, video clips, and group interaction. You will come away with new and deeper levels of both awareness and readiness for effective action, with a profound sense of hope and purpose - a "blessed unrest." This symposium is part of a rapidly expanding global initiative--nearly 70,000 people in 40 countries on six continents have participated so far!
This event is co-sponsored by St. Joseph's Woods and the Mission Effectiveness Office of the School Sisters of Notre Dame.
Summer Solstice: Celebrating the Sacred Fire and the Green Earth
June 19, Saturday (6:00 pm to 8:00 pm)
Cost: Donation. Bring a dish to share.
As the coolness of spring shifts to the brilliant heat of summer, we come together again to mark the longer days and celebrate the magic of the fire that sustains us and Earth, our Mother. The long days and warm weather are vital for long hours on the fields and gardens, for young animals to grow strong and for crops to begin to ripen.
Medicine Wheel: Praying the Path of Summer
July 3, Saturday (2:00 pm to 5:00 pm)
Facilitator: Gail Prichard and Diza Velasco
Cost: Donation.
A Native American ceremony, learn how the Medicine Wheel can be a practical tool for creating harmony among all creatures, personal growth and a means to honor and celebrate the changing seasons. Bring food to share at the potluck feast after the ceremony.
Ecology, Cosmology and Self: An Ecozoic Retreat Experience
July 9-10, Friday (7:00 pm) to Saturday (4:30 pm)
Facilitator: Diza Velasco
Cost: $75.00 (includes lunch)
The Universe Story is celebrated as our common creation story. As you reconnect with the story of your origin, you're invited to creatively engage in the coming of the Ecozoic Age, answer the prophetic call to deep ecological conversion, and learn ways to live sustainably. Join us and take part in the radical shift taking place in our understanding of the nature of the Universe and our human place in it.
Sexuality, Intimacy and Friendship
July 16-18, Friday (7:00 pm) to Sunday 11:30 am
Facilitator: Maco Cassetta, cnd
Cost: $135.00 (includes Saturday lunch)
To live is to be in relationship. This workshop looks at stages of relationship with emphasis on intimacy needs and behaviors; reviews stages of psycho-sexual development, some pitfalls of delayed development and some ideas for continuing growth. This workshop also addresses gender differences and sexual orientation.
Taste of Rockhaven
July 24-25, Saturday (9:00 am) to Sunday (12:00 pm) Registration starts at 8:30 am
Cost: $25.00 (Saturday only); $50.00 (Saturday and Sunday events plus overnight accommodations)
For those who want to know more about Rockhaven and experience its program offerings, we are hosting a special event to introduce you to Rockhaven's spirit and misson. Come and have a taste of Rockhaven's offerings... workshops, activities, rituals, etc. Meet the Rockhaven staff, volunteers, supporters and friends.
Summer Botanizing
July 31, Saturday (9:00 am to 11:30 am)
Facilitator: Marty Vogt
Explore the plant life at Rockhaven in summer! Identify the common plants found in the Big River (Jefferson County) watershed area. Bring your water bottle, magnifying/field glass, camera, and notepad. We'll end with a potluck lunch.
Fall: The Season of Harvest and Color
Sisters' Annual Fall Retreat
September 12-18, Sunday to Saturday
Please call Rockhaven for more information and registration/reservations.
Autumn Equinox
September 18, Saturday (6:00 pm to 8:00 pm)
Cost: Donation. Bring food to share at our harvest feast.
Medicine Wheel: Praying the Path of Autumn
October 9, Saturday (2:00 pm to 5:00 pm)
Facilitator: Gail Prichard and Diza Velasco
Cost: Donation.
A Native American ceremony, learn how the Medicine Wheel can be a practical tool for creating harmony among all creatures, personal growth and a means to honor and celebrate the changing seasons. Bring food to share at the potluck feast after the ceremony.
Hallowed Be the Turning Into Darkness: A Samhain Celebration
October 31, Saturday (6:00 pm to 8:30 pm)
Cost: Donation. Bring a dish to share.
Celebrate All Hollow's Eve, the Celtic "summer's end," and honor our ancestors. Please RSVP: call (636)375-3159 or email Diza. More
Bonfire at Rockhaven: A Fall Fundraiser
November 6, Saturday (5:00 pm to 11:00 pm)
Cost: $10.00 (includes warm drinks, homemade soup, healthy snacks and lots of fun). Please make advance reservations if you plan to stay overnight.
'Tis the season to once again gather around the fire! We will light the fire (the Barn fire pit) a bit before dusk. The fireplace in the Barn will also be lit, so have no fears about the cold. All are welcome to come earlier to walk the land and spend some quiet time.
Meditation Sundays
November 8 and 22 (2:00 pm to 4:00 pm)
Facilitator: Carol Robinson
Cost: Dana (donation)
This meditation practice is mainly centered around the Shambhala meditation where we calm and focus the mind by bringing sustained awareness. Awakening and opening, we discover the world to be naturally sacred--pure and full of beauty. Though the teachings are rooted in the Shambhala tradition, our practice is essentially non-religious and secular and open to practitioners of any tradition. We practice together in order to cultivate peace and compassion into our daily lives.
Rockhaven Volunteers' Thanksgiving Gathering
November 20, Saturday (By Invitation Only)
The Rockhaven Ecozoic community of volunteers, supporters, family and friends gathers for a day of work, play, ritual and a thanksgiving harvest dinner. We celebrate and give thanks for the year's journey at Rockhaven! More
Winter: Season of Hibernation & Introspection
Celebrating the Sacred Fire: A Winter Solstice Gathering
December 18, Saturday (5:00 pm to 7:00 pm)
Cost: free-will donation. Bring a dish to share for the potluck supper.
Once again, the season turns... winter is here! Celebrate the longest night (for us living in the northern hemisphere). From now till the summer solstice, the sun reaches its rays for a few moments longer everyday. In this celebration, we will honor the SUN-source of energy and life-with the blessing of the Winter Fire. More info
