VSA Nebraska Annual Retreat August 26-29, 2024

2024 Vibrational Sound Therapy Retreat

August 26-29, 2024

Roca, Nebraska USA

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The 2024 VSA Retreat will be at Roca Berry Farm, located just 5 miles or 10 minutes from the Silver Sky Imports warehouse! Roca Berry Farm is owned by the growing Schaefer family who have been harvesting memories since 1980. What started as a small pumpkin and berry farm has grown to a local tourist attraction and must-see entertainment destination for families throughout southeast Nebraska. This retreat will also include optional shopping at the Silver Sky Imports warehouse with nearly 10,000 singing bowls and instruments.

When:  Monday, August 26th to Thursday, August 29st, 2024

Retreat events will take place at Roca Berry Farms.  Participants will be responsible for their own lodging. We will announce our hotel partner soon that will offer discounted room rates, free breakfast, and free parking for our participants. VSA will provide shuttles from the hotel to Roca Berry Farm and the warehouse.  So your own transportation is not needed but you are welcome to drive yourself or others.

Keynote Speakers:  Zacciah Blackburn & Dorothy Stone

Presentation Title:  Sound and Consciousness

   We have two amazing Keynote speakers for this years retreat.  Zacciah Blackburn is the Executive Director of Sunreed Instruments and The Center Of Light, and is one of the most experienced instructors in Therapeutic Sound Healing in the world, involved in the field of healing music, sound and shamanic practices for over 45 years. He is a gifted intuitive, trained in classical healing and shamanic traditions, and sacred sound cultures. He teaches internationally, and practices in Vermont, USA. His work focuses on therapeutic sound, spiritual development, and indigenous earth mysteries. Dorothy Stone is Co-Director at Sunreed Instruments and the Center of Light. Dorothy has been working in the area of health and wellness for over 30 years. Her background includes allopathic medicine, as well as decades in multiple therapeutic modalities, including sound, healing and consciousness.

Sound and Consciousness

Sound healing is one of the fastest growing fields in holistic therapies. It is incorporated more and more in medicine and scientific research, because sound is found to have an incredible effect on well-being, though not fully understood. Perhaps this is because all is vibrational in nature; all is energy in motion. Yet, many in our field overlook the greatest ally of sound. It is human consciousness. Developing clear relation with how and why we use sound, and the outcome we hope to achieve, will enhance our practice remarkably.
Our ancestors around the world have used sound in healing, ritual, and ceremony, in time honored traditions and methods. They held, and still hold (in many traditions) direct understanding of the fundamental nature of life, of resonance, and how to achieve desired outcome, whether it is healing of an individual, communion with that greater than oneself, or journeying into another world to gain insight or revelation. When we incorporate sound with meditative and healing practices, especially those proven effective and transformative within themselves, we heighten the effectiveness of those practices.
What is the outcome we want to achieve, as sound practitioners, sound therapists, or sound healers? What is healing? What is the intention and the nature of the space we hold in our work, and why is it important?
By gaining insight into questions such as these, by clarifying our own state of being, of inner awareness, and our fundamental intention in practice, we enhance the quality of it exponentially. As we learn to incorporate these states of consciousness into our sound work, our work becomes more about intent and awareness than concern over which instrument, pitch, or frequency we choose.
Intent and awareness will drive our practice, and broaden the reach and effective outcome of our work.
Zacciah and Dorothy will demonstrate this through oral teaching and experiential practice with instruments and voice.

More presenters and performers announced soon...

Full schedule below:

Monday, August 26th
2:00pm-4:00pm Warehouse Shopping Tour (Optional at Silver Sky Imports with sign up)
3:00pm Hotel Check in time (Rooms may be available if you arrive early or they can store your luggage while you explore)
6:00pm Opening Dinner provided by VSA.  Feel free to arrive anytime after 3:00pm (Roca Berry Farm)
8:00pm-9:00pm Opening Sound Concert (Roca Berry Farm)

Tuesday, August 27th
6:30am-8:30am Breakfast at hotel included***
9:30am-11:30am Speakers/Activities (Roca Berry Farm)
11:30am-2:30pm Lunch provided by VSA, VST practice (noon-2:00pm), walk/explore, warehouse tour (noon-2:00pm), and social time
2:30pm-5:00pm Speakers/Activities (Roca Berry Farm)
5:00pm-8:00pm Dinner and social time on your own in Downtown Lincoln
8:00pm-9:00pm Sound Concert (Roca Berry Farm)

Wednesday, August 28th
6:30am-8:30am Breakfast at hotel included
9:30am-11:30am Speakers/Activities (Roca Berry Farm)
11:30am-2:30pm Lunch provided by VSA, VST practice (noon-2:00pm), walk/explore, warehouse tour (noon-2:00pm), and social time
2:30pm-5:00pm Speakers/Activities (Roca Berry Farm)
6:00pm-7:00pm Closing Dinner provided by VSA (Roca Berry Farm)
8:00pm-9:00pm Sound Concert (Roca Berry Farm)

Thursday, August 29st
9:00am-11:00am Warehouse Tour (Optional at Silver Sky Imports)

Rate and Booking:
Click here to book your room $129 per night for a studio suite with free breakfast and free parking.   Rate available: 08/25/2024 to 08/30/2024. Last Day to Book: Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Cost:  

$550 per person* (*Prices increase to $600 on May 1 and $650 on June 1) - Includes all retreat activities, transportation (To/From Hotel, Roca Berry Farm, and Silver Sky Imports) and meals (Aug 26 Dinner, August 27 Lunch and Dinner, August 28 Lunch and Dinner.)

To reserve your spot you must put down a $100 deposit. Balance must be paid by June 1, 2024. 

All payments are refundable before June 1, 2024.  After June 1, 2024 there will be no refunds of any payments or deposits. There are no exceptions. You must be paid in full by May 1 to receive the early bird price.  Hotel rooms are not included, use the above link to book your room.

Who:

All VST graduates may attend. The conference itself is not open to those outside the VSA, except for one partner or friend. Every attendee may invite someone but they must pay the normal rates for the retreat.

Activities: 

-This retreat will be a mix of socializing, relaxing, and learning

-Warehouse tour and shopping days.  You will need to sign up for these as we are limiting the number of people per visit. A sign-up sheet will be sent closer to the time of the Retreat.

-Business and promotion ideas

-Hands-on practice with old and new techniques with other practitioners

-Group discussions on techniques, clients, contraindications, and new ideas

-Just like previous years it will be a lot of fun and include plenty of new education

Meals:

Meals included during the retreat:

Monday August 26th - dinner at Roca Berry Farm

Tuesday August 27th - Free breakfast at the hotel if you book through our link. Lunch and Dinner provided by the VSA at Roca Berry Farm

Wednesday August 28th - Free breakfast at the hotel if you book through our link. Lunch and Dinner provided by the VSA at Roca Berry Farm

Thursday August 29th - Free breakfast at the hotel if you book through our link.

Travel:

Air Travel and transportation to the retreat is not included. We would recommend flying into Lincoln (LNK) to take advantage of the free airport shuttle offered by the hotel, but you can also fly into the Omaha airport (OMA) and book your own transportation to Lincoln (60 miles or 75 minutes).

There is a shuttle service you can take from Omaha.  You must reserve this service ahead of time before your arrival date directly with OmaLink.  Please have your flight information handy as they will require this information in order to book your shuttle.

OMALiNK

https://www.omalink.com/

(402) 475-5465 

Uber and Lyft are both also available in Nebraska.

Email or call with questions to VibrationalSound@gmail.com or 402-875-5280