Enlightening the Unconscious Retreat
Enlightening the Unconscious integrates the refinement and elegance of non-dual tantric teachings with the practical therapeutic tools of modern psychotherapy.
The retreat offers the conditions and tools for deep emotional healing and profound spiritual transformation.
In these 7 days you will:
- Explore tantric meditation and breathwork practices designed to deepen embodiment and your connection with your ‘Self’ in all of its expressions.
- Understand the ways in which psychological pain and trauma can be transformed. Emotional healing then becomes fuel for accelerating spiritual growth.
- Learn to identify, understand and purify ‘energetic blockages’ & ‘limiting beliefs’.
- Explore psychotherapeutic practices with other participants both 1:1 and in small groups.
- Learn to be fully present for the emotional healing and transformation of a partner while learning how to work with yourself.
- Develop healing relationships with discarded and damaged ‘parts’ of your psyche.
- Create profound levels of safety, trust and security within yourself.
- Learn processes for the full integration of the unfinished subconscious psychological material.
“I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, It tastes sweet, does it not?
You have caught me, grief answered,and you have ruined my business.
How can I sell sorrow,when you know it's a blessing?”
- Rumi
The Foundation of This Work is the All-Embracing Love - Your Nature
This retreat lays a foundation for deep transformation with spiritual and energy body practices. These practices foster deep states of embodied presence, lucidity and sensitivity necessary for emotional healing work.
With this foundation, you will learn and explore a series of somatic psychotherapeutic processes that guide you to discover, accept, embrace and finally complete the unfinished emotional processes burried in the subconscious mind, your traumas.
This unique combination of psychotherapeutic techniques on a backdrop of profoundly meaningful and enriching, embodied spiritual teachings, allows you not only to feel better, but to know true freedom.
The journey unfolds in a tightly held container guided by qualified and experienced facilitators.
The Fruit of This Journey is Trust.
Through learning to create safety within yourself, through learning how to hold yourself, you will learn how to trust yourself and trust in life. Trust is the fundamental power of the heart, of pure presence. It is through the radiant and majestic power of the open heart that the life we are living and the person that we are become the journey home.
Bringing Light to the Unconscious Equals Love for Self and Trust In Life.
Learn the alchemical arts energetic sublimation and the transmutation of emotions into profound presence, deep peace and pure power. Awaken to the human that you are, the divinity that you are and the life that you were put here to unfold through your being.
Buddha taught that suffering is the direct consequence of a lack of understanding. In this retreat, you’ll work with spiritual practices and techniques from tantric yoga and modern psychology (see below) to experience a shift in understanding and perspective and a deepening in love.
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Content
Each Morning, Diving into the Body.
We will explore powerful breathwork practices to open up the energy channels of the body and calm the mind (literally shutting off the prefrontal cortex, or rational thinking mind).
Then we will explore the limits of the body and the boundaries between the body and mind. Using a series of Tantric/Somatic meditation practices we will cultivate a profound sense of spaciousness and alive presence in the body.
After Breakfast, the Theory.
There will be discourses and group discussion in which we will gradually unfold to you the theoretical aspects related to:
The nature of suffering and the subconscious mind.
Subtle anatomy of the energetic, emotional and psychological layers of our beings.
Exactly how to understand and relate to our buried subconscious pain.
The power of the heart. The potential to sublimate and transmute pain and suffering into clarity, understanding and love through pure presence.
Self awareness, self acceptance, self love
How all of these aspects fit seamlessly into the vision of non-duality
Theory in Practice
Following this we will make the theory practical. We’ll explore simple group exercises and individual practices that can help to taste and embody the knowledge shared in the discussions.
After Lunch, Practical Therapy
After lunch we will briefly introduce, and then practice at length a series of psychotherapeutic methods. These will be practiced in pairs or in small groups. The intention here is that by the end of the retreat you will be able to do these practices with yourself. Empowering you to become your own therapist.
Evenings, Back to the Body
To round out each day, we will return to the body, grounding and harmonizing the energies/emotions etc. that have been moving during the day. We will explore either subtle energetic or somatic movement practices leading back to stillness, balance and peace.
Schedule
Morning Session 1
08:00 - 09:30 - Morning Practice
09:30 - Breakfast
Morning Session 2
10:30 - 11:30 - Discourse
11:30 - 12:30 - Theory in Practice
13:00 - Lunch
Afternoon Session 1
15:00 - Practical Instruction
15:30 - 18:00 - 1:1/Group Practice
18:30 - Dinner
Evening Session
19:30 - 20:15 - Evening Practice