Note: Presentations and workshops can be customized to the length desired, from one to four hours. Some programs can also be fashioned into day long or weekend events. Jan welcomes your inquiries about speaking engagements. Call or email her personally to discuss a customized presentation, rates and scheduling availability. E-mail her directly at jan@awakenedliving.com or call: 231-421-1181.

Reclaiming Our Sacred Selves
What does it take to make every day sacred? It's in the little things we do and the big ideas we hold. It's in establishing a daily spiritual practice. Yet, sometimes it seems that no matter how hard we try, a sacred experience of everyday life eludes us. In a supportive circle, we'll explore the unique challenges we women face in reclaiming our sacred selves, and how we can overcome these challenges, living out of a place of divine fullness.

Awakening the Spirit Within
(Based on the book of the same title)
Have you heard the call to "awaken?" Does an inner voice beckon you to live differently, consciously, from a more authentic place within you? In this workshop, we will explore 10 Keys for Sacred Living—ways of perceiving and living in the world that can provide the foundation for an enlightened, new lifestyle, including daily practices that enliven our spiritual connection.

A Woman’s Spirit:
Nurturing the Divine Feminine Within
Do you long to experience a spirituality that affirms your feminine self? Are you eager to know the feminine face of God? If so, I invite you to join us for a soul stirring evening of connecting to the sacred feminine within all of us. Together we’ll examine our own journeys to a woman-friendly spirituality and explore the journeys of women saints and mystics who have gone before us, searching in their own unique way for a similar experience. Through music, poetry and meditations, we will travel to places of awareness and comfort where the Divine Feminine is honored and nurtured.

Co-Creating Your Life with Spirit
Our lives are truly a blend of individual effort and divine orchestration. In this powerful workshop you will discover how to connect with the sacred spark inside of you and align with Spirit to co-create a brilliant life for yourself. We will explore our intentions, where and how we place our attention, and learn how to anchor ourselves within our divine destiny.

Looking for Love in All the Right Places:
Readying Yourself for Sacred Partnership
Each of us desires a deeply nourishing relationship with a significant other, but are we truly ready to receive one into our lives? We’ll discover what it takes to be “ready for love.” Together we will explore how every intimate relationship can serve as a mirror for our growth, enabling us to move towards the relationship of our dreams.

Believe, Breathe and Be Well:
Spiritual Health for Busy People
As life seems to move more quickly than ever, caring for our spirit is crucial for total well-being. Together we’ll explore soul-refreshing practices to connect more deeply with our inner spirit and the greater Spirit, or God, even when there seems to be no time or energy to do so.

And Now for Your Famous Balancing Act
Deep inside each one of us is the voice of feminine wisdom, a voice that lets us know in many different ways that we might be living out of balance. Join me to discover how you can incorporate a more woman-friendly approach to your life–specifically your body, mind and spirit wellness. Explore how you can live from a place of self-nurturing and compassion which can sustain you during tense and tenuous times.

Stop Rushing and Start Living!
As our day-to-day lives become more frenzied and complex, many of us find we are not truly living our lives; instead our lives are living us. Here, you will learn strategies to create “real moments” in your life. Through releasing the past and not worrying about the future, we gain much more awareness and appreciation in our daily lives. We’ll explore the concept of doing things mindfully with full and present attention and participate in exercises using present centered awareness. By mastering these techniques, one can greatly reduce stress and fully enjoy even the most hectic of days!

Writing to Wellness
A program designed to familiarize those on a healing journey with the process of journal writing, demonstrating how it can enhance and speed the journey to total health and well-being. Geared to assist those individuals faced with health challenges or living with chronic pain, stress or illness, this enlightening presentation will help participants begin a journey through writing, putting them in touch with their body, attitudes and feelings about their health situation, fears, hopes and dreams.

Taking Care of Business and Me
In your day-to-day hectic life, how do you create balance between work, family and personal needs? As busy women, we often try to “do it all” for everyone, yet we may lose ourselves and our sense of well-being in the process. In this workshop designed for professional women, you will learn simple, easy-to-use strategies that can help you reclaim yourself and create a healthy lifestyle - body, mind and spirit. You will still get the job done, yet gain precious time for you and yours!

Coming Home to Ourselves:
A Day or Weekend Retreat for Women
Join us for time away from the constant demands of everyday life. Sink into blissful reflection and explore with like-minded others, what we as women need to be well, at peace with ourselves and our world. Together and through individual self-nurturing time we will “gather the scatterings of our soul,” giving ourselves well deserved time and attention. We will explore practical strategies to Nurture Your Body, Feed Your Mind and Enrich Your Spirit through compassionate listening, laughter, journaling and blessed silence.

Mindfulness Retreat: A Day of Peace & Beauty
A gentle “day away” to restore you—body, mind and spirit. Through silence, meditation and prayer, journaling, connecting with nature and gentle sharing with others, we will settle into a peaceful place within ourselves and experience the beauty and power of the present moment.

Silent Directed Weekend Retreat
“Come ye apart and rest awhile,” is wise advice we have been given throughout the ages from saints and sages of all religious paths. A silent, directed retreat provides us with just that. It is a time to move away from the noise and demands of the everyday world so that we might move into deeper communion with God and our innermost selves. Silence predominates the weekend, giving us ample time to reflect, read, journal, walk, meditate and pray, or simply rest. Communal meals are also taken in silence. Individual spiritual direction is offered throughout the weekend enabling you to speak with another and receive guidance about what you are experiencing and how the Divine might be moving through you during this time.

CLIENT LISTING

Simply put—Jan’s workshops move people. Her gentle warmth creates a feeling of safeness that envelops the participants, allowing them to open to their greatness. Regardless of the topic, Jan approaches each workshop as sacred time spent in community with the Divine.

Jennifer Byron, True North Experiences
Traverse City, MI