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THE TRAIL TO ELDERHOOD

Author • May 26, 2022

MARCH 23, 2022

RETREAT

The Contemporary Elder Retreat


An Interactive and Immersive Event


TAKING THE ELDER TRAIL - EL SENDERO DEL ANCIANO


Inform on expected outcomes if you walk this trail:


Walking this trail brings you to a different state of consciousness, an elder’s consciousness.


Walking this trail extricates you from the already-always social, and familial contexts and concepts about aging.


Walking this trail gives you direct access to your higher wisdom.


Walking this trail has you regard impermanence as daily truth.


Walking this trail allows your gates to open to experiential knowledge, self- discovery, and direct somatic experiences.


Walking this trail enables you to recognize your judgments, assessments, righteousness, and self-critical destructive thinking - and to be able to make different choices.


Walking this trail involves quieting the reactive materialistic, rationalizing, ego-driven mind, that critiques, criticizes, and makes yourself and others wrong.


Walking this trail brings you to a place of peace, grace, equanimity, and a never before realized future for yourself.


Walking this trail stops you from relating to your aging and your mortality as a curse.


Walking this trail causes an ongoing transformation that allows the best of your humanity to continue to blossom as you age.


Walking this trail takes courage to give up your past and who you have considered yourself to be.


• Walking this trail takes real existential courage.


At the end of this trail, you will not be the same person who began. You will be an elder.


This trail is only open to those who are in their 60s and 70s. Those who are anticipating more years of health and relatively prosperous lives. Those who have succeeds, failed, and learned in their lives. Those that are ready for a new beginning.


Location – Red Mountain Resort, Ivins UT Dates – October 9th to the 16th, 2022. Limited to 21 Participants


Tuition – U.S.$5,000 dollars

(Covers Hotel, Meals, Local Transportation, Retreat Supplies, Pre, and Post Interactions – some individual and a few group calls.)


Deposit – U.S. $1,000 dollars (U.S.$400 is Nonrefundable)


Thirty Minute Conversation with Dr. Cooper Prerequisite in order to register.


Sign up for your conversation with Marc here.


See TRAILER for the RETREAT :

The Contemporary Elder Retreat Trailer


Note * - Nature Baths are facilitated outdoor events allowing you to experience an intimacy and more profound relationship with the magnificence of natural surroundings, so it touches your soul.

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