Events

 

(space is limited so advance registration is recommended)

Hosted by Great Conjunction

Unplug from the demands of modern life and focus on self-discovery and peace.

• Attend a variety of workshops
• Give yourself permission to trust your intuition.
• Explore and deepen your spiritual connection.
• Connect through meditation, sound, energy, and much more.
• Take the time to wander the grounds, connect with nature, and connect with others who are focused on self-discovery.
• Take advantage of optional private services

This is your retreat!  Participate as much or as little as you wish.  We are here to support you on your physical and spiritual journey.

Your retreat begins Thursday afternoon and continues through Sunday morning.  All programs, meals, and lodging included at the peaceful Villa Maria Education & Spirituality Retreat Center. 

Private and double occupancy rooms available.

What will the retreat entail? 

• All meals are included
• Single* and shared rooms available (*while they last)
• Heated indoor pool
• Labyrinth for quiet contemplation and meditation
• “Getting to know you” around the firepit (weather permitting)
• Morning yoga practices
• Workshops 
• Optional private services** including: (**for an additional fee payable at time of service)
  • Psychic Readings
  • Reiki
  • and more

Meet your hosts:

John Michael Thornton:  Psychic & Medical Intuitive, Author, Lecturer, Co-Founder Great Conjunction Spiritual Center

Cosmo Thornton:  Reiki Master/Teacher, Holistic Life Coach, Author, Lecturer, Co-Founder Great Conjunction Spiritual Center

 

Workshops & Presenters: 

Special Guest Presenter:  

JJ DiGeronimo:  Award-winning Author, Speaker, "Together We Seek" podcast host

  Workshop:   "Raising Your Frequency: Creating More Space for Synchronicities, Whispers, & Opportuities"

  Join JJ as shew explores how mindset, alignment, and personal frequency influence our ability to recognize and trust our inner knowing, aka: intuition. When our lives are filled with pressure, noise, and expectations, the subtle signals of inner guidance can easily be overlooked. But when we create space, sidestep fear, and release the pressure to have everything figured out, our inner knowing becomes much easier to recognize.  

  Through reflection, real-life examples, and practical insights, JJ will share strategies to raise your frequency, creating greater openness to synchronicities, intuitive whispers, and opportunities that are already unfolding around you. Together, we will explore how shifts in our energy, attention, and awareness can illuminate our path ahead.

Drawing from her new book Illuminate Your Gifts and insights from more than 160 conversations with mystics, healers, messengers, and spiritual practitioners on the Together We Seek podcast, JJ offers simple yet practical practices that increase energetic awareness, creating more space for intuitive alignment in daily life.

 

Regina Rivers:  Practitioner, Soul Retrieval Practitioner, Shamanic Soul Extraction, Psychopomp, owner Rivers Healing Arts, LLC

Workshop:  “Journey from the 3^rd Chakra to the 3^rd Eye”

Do you know that the lower three chakras are considered to be mundane chakras, while the upper three are seen as spiritual, or divine chakras?  And that each of the lower three are related to the upper three?

The third chakra, the Solar Plexus, and the Third Eye, the sixth chakra, are related even though each has its individual function?  

During this workshop, and through shamanic journey, you will discover how these two chakras are related and how you can bridge them so that they work well together for extra added clarity.

 

 Donna Bell:  Crystal Healing Practitioner, Spiritualist Minister, Psychic Medium

 Workshop:  “Crystals, Energy, and You: Rediscovering Your Power”

Learn the foundations of energy work, discover how to activate and attune a crystal, and practice forming clear, aligned intentions.  An immersive, hands-on exploration of how crystals can amplify your natural intuitive abilities. 

 We will explore how crystals support your daily and long term goals. How to work with them to gain introspection and inner clarity while using fun, energy-based exercises designed to help you recognize and trust your unique spiritual gifts.

 

 

John Michael Thornton:

Workshop:  "Intuition: The Power of Your 3rd Eye"

Your 3^rd eye is your center of intuition, but it also allows you to perceive the energies that your physical senses miss. When you see auras or feel energy in your hands, it is your 3^rd eye that taps into that energy.  In this class I help people see and feel auric energy for themselves.  

We will begin with an overview of the aura, chakras and color meanings and interpretations.  Exploring the connection to physical and spiritual health, you will develop a vocabulary to describe what you will see and feel during the experiential portion of the program.

During the second part we will use my Seven Steps to Center and Intuition Warm-up to enter a meditative state conducive to seeing and reading auric energy.  Working with a partner and a variety of art supplies we will draw pictures of each other's auras, feel the boundaries of an aura, and play with the energy.  Actually, working with colors and drawing materials takes away some of the self-imposed blocks and frees up your natural creative abilities and gives you a fun and easy way to practice tapping into this part of your intuitive self, the 3^rd eye.

 More workshops being added.

 

Registration:

Registration closes – 9/15/26

$650 - Shared room with Shared Bath (If you and a friend or family member wish to share a room, just drop us a note after registration!)

$700 - Private Room with Private Bath

Cancellations/Refunds:

80% refund until 6/30/26

50% refund until 7/1/26 – 9/1/26

No cancellations/no refunds after 9/1/26

*If you cannot attend and would like to gift your registration to someone else after 9/1, you must provide us with the name of person(s) taking your place by 10/1/26

Where will the retreat be held?

Villa Maria Education & Spirituality Retreat Center

2067 Evergreen Rd.

Villa Maria, PA  16155

Join us for what’s sure to be a fascinating and fun experience and, hopefully, an opportunity for further self-discovery for us all.