Yearlong Journey 2024-2025 - Drinking from the River of Life

MARK NEPO OFFERS A YEARLONG JOURNEY, 2024-2025

Dear Friends, this is a private link, not made public,
available only to our ongoing group for those of you
who feel called to continue with year five.

 

DRINKING FROM THE RIVER OF LIGHT: THE LIFE OF EXPRESSION

A YEARLONG JOURNEY FOR 2024-2025, GUIDED BY MARK NEPO

Oct 25-27, 2024, March 21-23, 2025, June 13-15, 2025, Oct 10-12, 2025

FRI. 6:00-9:00 P.M., SAT. 9:30-5:30 P.M., SUN. 1:00-4:00 P.M.

Meeting at Peoples Church, 1758 10th St N, Kalamazoo, MI, 49009
Closest Airports: Kalamazoo (15 minutes away) and Grand Rapids (45 minutes away)

CLASS SIZE IS LIMITED TO 18 STUDENTS.

COST: $1950.





 


Those who wake are the students.
Those who stay awake are the teachers.
How we take turns.

Mark will offer a yearlong journey over four weekends, exploring themes from several of his books, but centering on Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression. This journey offers a chance to work with Mark in a smaller group setting as a way to deepen your own path over a year of your life. The aim will be to engender a live and safe space in which we can compare notes on what it means to be alive.

In this time together, we will explore how we are constantly being shaped by life into finer instruments of care and expression. The deeper we go, the more attuned we become and the more we join with everything around us. Regardless of what draws you, inhabiting a personal life of expression is its own reward, by which we strengthen our connections and find our way.

This journey is designed to help you personalize the way you take in life in all its varied mystery. We will explore Basic Human Truths, which describe the ongoing relationship between the forces of life and our human nature. We will also explore how these forces of life shape us, refining how we take in experience and how we turn what we experience into acts of care and expression. We will imagine how we can inhabit a lifelong practice of listening, expressing, and creating. And more deeply, we will examine the rhythms of wakefulness and sensitivity that open before us as we get closer and closer to life. Whether you consider yourself an artist or not, the hope, the goal—for you and me—is to wake up to life through our enlivened practice of expression.


I’m excited to be offering another yearlong journey. Being on journeys like this with you is the blessing of my life as a teacher. Nothing is quite like the space of tenderness and truth that arises when we are comparing notes on being alive. It is my hope that through our time together, you will personalize the practice of being human, so you can live closer to your core. It is my aim, through our company, that you will discover the inner resources and outer skills to stand more deeply in your life and better know your heart. It is my commitment that this journey into authenticity and listening will enhance your ability to integrate who you are with what you do in the world. My goal is that you will leave more whole, with a more enlivened sense of what it means to be a spirit in the world.
—Mark Nepo

Bring a Journal.

 

EVENT: DRINKING FROM THE RIVER OF LIGHT: THE LIFE OF EXPRESSION, A YEARLONG JOURNEY, GUIDED BY MARK NEPO
START: OCT 25, 2024, END: OCT 12, 2025

COST: $1950.

CLASS SIZE IS LIMITED TO 16 STUDENTS.

 

FOUR WEEKENDS

FRI. 6:00-9:00 P.M., SAT. 9:30-5:30 P.M., SUN. 1:00-4:00 P.M.

Oct 25-27, 2024, March 21-23, 2025, June 13-15, 2025, Oct 10-12, 2025





 

CLASS SIZE IS LIMITED TO 16 STUDENTS. 

Meeting at Peoples Church, 1758 10th St N, Kalamazoo, MI, 49009

Closest Airports: Kalamazoo (15 minutes away) and Grand Rapids (45 minutes away)

 

IF THE COURSE IS FULL, PLEASE ADD YOURSELF TO THE WAIT LIST BY EMAILING BROOKE WARNER (brooke@threeintentions.com) AND YOU WILL BE CONTACTED IF SPACE OPENS UP.

CANCELLATION POLICY: NO REFUND WITHIN 90 DAYS OF WHEN THE COURSE BEGINS, AND HALF REFUND IF FOUR MONTHS BEFORE THE COURSE BEGINS.

 

The course does not include lodging or food.

Here’s some information about local places to stay and eat.

 

DETAILS FOR YOUR STAY IN KALAMAZOO

The course does not include lodging or food. Here’s some information about local places to stay and eat.

Closest Place to Stay in Kalamazoo

Holiday Inn Express, 1315 Westgate Dr, Kalamazoo, MI, 1-877-410-6667 (very close to where we will meet)

https://www.ihg.com/holidayinnexpress/hotels/us/en/kalamazoo/azoes/hoteldetail?cm_mmc=YextLocal-_-EX-_-US-_-AZOES

Others Places to Stay in Kalamazoo

https://www.tripadvisor.com/SmartDeals-g42354-Kalamazoo_Kalamazoo_County_Michigan-Hotel-Deals.html

 

Food Places

We will break for 90 minutes Saturday for lunch. Here are some nearby places for breakfast, lunch, coffee and dinner:

Locally owned, near our meeting place:

 

Locally owned, downtown or near downtown:

 

Chains Nearby:

  • Starbucks, 5370 W Main St, Kalamazoo, MI 49009, (269) 276-9819,starbucks.com
  • Biggby, 4560 West Main.
  • Panera 5119 W Main St, Kalamazoo, MI 49009, (269) 342-1222,panerabread.com
  • Applebees, 5330 W Main St, Kalamazoo, MI 49009, (269) 382-4448,applebees.com
  • Hardings Supermarket, 5161 West Main, Kalamazoo, MI, (269) 381-0244.  Good for organic veges and other grocery needs.
  • Meijer’s Supermarket.  This is on the corner of West Main (which is M43) and 9thGrocery store, produce, pharmacy, and like Walmart, but more upscale ( a little) and was born in west Michigan. You know, aspirin, tires, clothes, pots and pans; that sort of thing.

For others, see:

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurants-g42354-Kalamazoo_Kalamazoo_County_Michigan.html

We like Food Dance, Cosmo’s, Oakwood Bistro, Martell’s (nice view of a small pond), Latitude 42 to name a few.

 

Beer and Wine

Kalamazoo is a big craft, micro-brew, etc. beer town.  So many we can’t keep up anymore, but the most famous and oldest is Bell’s Beer. See this website, and pay attention to the Kalamazoo sites. http://www.beeradvocate.com/place/city/43/.

Tiffany’s (different than the breakfast restaurant) is also a good place for wine, cheese, etc.  http://www.aatiffany.com/