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Gentle Awakening: Spring Yoga Retreat

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53 Mill Street, Westfield, MA 01085
Date
April 17 - 19, 2026

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Awaken your spirit with a spring yoga retreat designed to refresh your body, calm your mind, and renew your soul. As the earth stirs back to life, this retreat invites you to embrace the season of growth and new beginnings by nurturing your own inner awakening.

Through gentle yet mindful yoga practices that ease tension and center your awareness, you will cultivate clarity, release stagnation, and invite a sense of lightness and balance into your life.

The retreat also focuses on emotional renewal, encouraging healing from old burdens and fostering joy, hope, and emotional ease. Your heart will open wider, blooming alongside the season’s fresh energy.

All are welcome to experience this calming retreat, regardless of previous yoga experience. Skilled instructor Sally Barber from the Westfield Yoga Center offers compassionate guidance and thoughtful modifications to suit every body and ability, ensuring a safe and nurturing practice for all.

Balanced times of shared connection and quiet reflection will guide you through a journey of gentle awakening, all set within the peaceful and natural surroundings of the Genesis Center.

Join us this spring to bloom into vitality, cultivating a renewed sense of light and peace in body, mind, and heart.

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Location icon Genesis Spiritual Center, 53 Mill Street, Westfield, MA 01085

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4.91 out of 5.0 average rating

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Upgrading the Heart: Living Beyond the Egoic Operating System
My experience was one of quiet peace, and unwinding from my busy life. At the same time, I felt an inner excitement to be learning new techniques to contemplative living. The grounds and spaces were quieting, and pleasant. Everyone's quiet friendliness made me feel confident, and accepted. I made friends, and felt refreshed by being around unique people, but with common passion.
Thank you.

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A heart-expanding experience
I recently attended Father Bill Sheehan's Upgrading the Heart: Living Beyond the Ego Operating System at Genesis. It was such an expansive experience that it's hard to believe I was only there for 43 hours. It felt like 4 or 5 days! Father Bill is such an amazing priest. He has been doing and teaching Centering Prayer for decades, and there is no one like him! He is so knowledgable, compassionate, articulate, and humorous. This workshop brought me closer to myself and to God than I would have believed possible in just a weekend.
As always, Genesis provided a warm (literally and figuratively!), comfortable, welcoming and supportive space as the backdrop for our learning to take place. Jen's meals were delicious, nutritious and plentiful. The staff were welcoming, kind and helpful.
I have already signed up for Father Bill's return workshop in December.

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Enneagram for the Inward Journey
This was an excellent retreat and a very spiritual experience. Genesis is a place of peace and transformation.

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Wonderful way to begin the new year!
The program directors were skilled, compassionate and prayerful. The support group creating the ambiance created a meaningful setting each day. As always, the Jen and her food preparations were nutritious and delicious,
The hospitality and accommodations were warm and welcoming.

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Sarah’s Advent zoom retreat
It was very effective. The book, speaker and activities brought me to contemplate and connect with God’s voice throughout the Advent season. I look forward to the Lenten journey being offered. Thank you

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