Invigorating relationships through the Art & Practice of mindfulness,
couples yoga, psychotherapy, adventure, dance, tantra, passion and presence
An Integral Relationships Bali Retreat
September 2-7th 2016
With facilitators
Nic Morrey, Diana Anderson, Daniel White, Aladdin Jones,
Carla van Laar, Ostii Ananda & Tania van Megchelen
If you’re in a relationship, you understand the struggle to sustain the excitement and desire for love. When intensity fades and sex life is on the decline, it’s easy to fall into routines or source aliveness elsewhere. Many couples long for enlivenment and more intimacy, more of a journey shared together, yet develop patterned ways of relating that undermine the very aliveness that they seek. This retreat will allow you to heal old wounds that have held you back from loving and being loved fully.
The sacred art of relating is a training which helps individuals turn toward connection. Even for the most experienced relaters, and with years of couples therapy behind you, to further deepen your relationship requires testing new holding containers such as in the way this retreat will hold you both within an intimate small group structure over a whole week.
Working as a group, a couple as well as you individually, you will discover new tools to support healthy and happy relating that are applicable in your everyday life whilst enjoying an immersion in a tropical paradise and delicious getaway. Through the holding, expertise and support from these 7 unique facilitators, this is an opportunity for you to reach your highest potential of relating to others. Whether as a couple or individually you will both be guided through practical, holistic, diverse and creative dimensions via the SAVE relationships module; the core foundation for the retreat.
The sacred art of relating is a training which helps individuals turn toward connection. Even for the most experienced relaters, and with years of couples therapy behind you, to further deepen your relationship requires testing new holding containers such as in the way this retreat will hold you both within an intimate small group structure over a whole week.
Working as a group, a couple as well as you individually, you will discover new tools to support healthy and happy relating that are applicable in your everyday life whilst enjoying an immersion in a tropical paradise and delicious getaway. Through the holding, expertise and support from these 7 unique facilitators, this is an opportunity for you to reach your highest potential of relating to others. Whether as a couple or individually you will both be guided through practical, holistic, diverse and creative dimensions via the SAVE relationships module; the core foundation for the retreat.
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Our retreats are for couples of all orientations who are:
· In a loving relationship, but have little or no sex · Stuck in power struggles, hurt and resentment · Adjusting to physical changes due to aging, disability or stress · Just beginning their relationship, but eager to build a solid foundation · Dedicated to restoring, renewing or deepening their sexual relationship |
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Discover:
Your temperament Effective couples dialogue A deepening of Loving Kindness How to unravel shame and deepen your humility How to use art and dance to strengthen relationship Who from the past, is affecting your present relationship The science of attraction via the SAVE relationships inventory Practical tools to create a loving and fulfilling relationship Meditation, breath work & the mind/body connection The purpose of romantic love and how it goes wrong Who distances and who persues and when Balinese culture and relationship to land Your attachment style Couples yoga Self care Tantra |
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Investment: $2499 (1 couple) .
New Early bird price $1999 per couple if paid before 14th May 2016.
Cost includes breakfast, 5 nights accommodation (2nd-6th), pool, WiFi, workshop manual/SAVE inventory, transport within retreat times, massage, 3 couples therapy sessions on retreat (optional) with one of the 7 retreat therapists & dinner on the first & last evening.
Cost also includes 1 couples therapy/preparation session before the retreat with Nic at Autumn retreat: 129 Miller St Thornbury Melbourne Australia. Contact 0432 066 880. For couples outside of Melbourne, Australia, this initial session can be done in Ubud on the 1st September.
Airfares not included.
Payment is fully refundable before 1st July. -$300 after 1st July.
It is recommended you both wind in and out of the retreat. If you would like to organise further accommodation at Melati Cottages, the following dates are possible: 1st, 7th & 8th September. Just email me (Nic) asap so I can organise a discounted retreat cost for you. [email protected]
The retreat is limited to 10 couples.
New Early bird price $1999 per couple if paid before 14th May 2016.
Cost includes breakfast, 5 nights accommodation (2nd-6th), pool, WiFi, workshop manual/SAVE inventory, transport within retreat times, massage, 3 couples therapy sessions on retreat (optional) with one of the 7 retreat therapists & dinner on the first & last evening.
Cost also includes 1 couples therapy/preparation session before the retreat with Nic at Autumn retreat: 129 Miller St Thornbury Melbourne Australia. Contact 0432 066 880. For couples outside of Melbourne, Australia, this initial session can be done in Ubud on the 1st September.
Airfares not included.
Payment is fully refundable before 1st July. -$300 after 1st July.
It is recommended you both wind in and out of the retreat. If you would like to organise further accommodation at Melati Cottages, the following dates are possible: 1st, 7th & 8th September. Just email me (Nic) asap so I can organise a discounted retreat cost for you. [email protected]
The retreat is limited to 10 couples.
Venue:
Melati Cottages, Penestanan, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
Timetable:
Couples retreat 2-7 September:
Friday 2nd September
Professional Development:
Therapists and their partners are encouraged to be a part of this retreat. This retreat offers 30 PD points for professionals who have couples therapy as their learning objective.
You are likely aware that by being a couples therapist does not necessarily mean your own relationship is free from issues. Relating as a therapist in your own relationship is boring, anxiety provoking, frustrating and generally inappropriate, especially if one of you have this supposed skill set whilst the other does not. You will discover new tools to support healthy and happy relating that are applicable in your everyday life, for you both and secondarily your clients.
Melati Cottages, Penestanan, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
Timetable:
Couples retreat 2-7 September:
Friday 2nd September
- 1.00pm - 8.00pm Welcome session & dinner
- 7am start time with couples yoga for beginners!
- 2-3 hour lunch breaks!
- 6 hour days finishing approx 5:30pm each day!
Professional Development:
Therapists and their partners are encouraged to be a part of this retreat. This retreat offers 30 PD points for professionals who have couples therapy as their learning objective.
You are likely aware that by being a couples therapist does not necessarily mean your own relationship is free from issues. Relating as a therapist in your own relationship is boring, anxiety provoking, frustrating and generally inappropriate, especially if one of you have this supposed skill set whilst the other does not. You will discover new tools to support healthy and happy relating that are applicable in your everyday life, for you both and secondarily your clients.
Registration and Payment:
Regisration and enrolment via email
[email protected]
Cheque: Payable to Nicholas Morrey
Post to: Autumn Retreat
129 Miller Street Thornbury 3071 Victoria Australia
or
Electronic Transfer
N.Morrey & J.Liddy
BSB: 638 120 Account: 8010072
Please include your surname &
code BR in the reference field
For further enquires contact
Nic Morrey Ph: 0432 066 880
This year's retreat themes...
This year's retreat invites you to explore the themes of Passion, Safety, Reactivity and Metagenealogy. When exploring intimacy, the key issues to emerge are safety and trust. What levels of passion and playfulness are maintained in your relationship? If these qualities are not there from the beginning, they need to be discovered and embraced for greater depths of safety and trust to emerge between the two of you. Passion and energy need to be cultivated and channelled. Beware: if you don't, your needs will either be repressed or fulfilled with others, both of which dull your energy as a couple.
A non-negotiable of being in relationship is to study your own reactivity. This includes facing childhood wounds as well as taking a further step back into genealogical patterns which made you who you are.
We have capacity to curb the influences from our ancestry and change embedded neural pathways and temperament.
Many of us try to change our partner and others to think like we do - and this is as close as most people get in the attempt to feel more fulfilled in partnership. It doesn’t work. An antidote to our reactivity and anxiety is engaging ourselves with all of our relational parts. Join our group of experienced facilitators to identify our disconnected parts which require reintegration for a rich and rewarding journey into connection with your partner.
Spend a week together in lush tropical Ubud, Bali. Eat great food, have regular massage, meet other great couples, be blessed as a couple by a high priestess, experience partner yoga, explore the sensuality of tantra with your partner, swim every day and be supported through the terrain of healthy relating.
We hope you can join us.
A non-negotiable of being in relationship is to study your own reactivity. This includes facing childhood wounds as well as taking a further step back into genealogical patterns which made you who you are.
We have capacity to curb the influences from our ancestry and change embedded neural pathways and temperament.
Many of us try to change our partner and others to think like we do - and this is as close as most people get in the attempt to feel more fulfilled in partnership. It doesn’t work. An antidote to our reactivity and anxiety is engaging ourselves with all of our relational parts. Join our group of experienced facilitators to identify our disconnected parts which require reintegration for a rich and rewarding journey into connection with your partner.
Spend a week together in lush tropical Ubud, Bali. Eat great food, have regular massage, meet other great couples, be blessed as a couple by a high priestess, experience partner yoga, explore the sensuality of tantra with your partner, swim every day and be supported through the terrain of healthy relating.
We hope you can join us.
Inventories...
Before arrival, please complete the SAVE Relationships Inventory & the Tree of Life Relationships Inventory by clicking on the boxes below and bring your print out of results. This temperament sorter and set of action plans will help you with the weeks exercises.....Thanks
Nic Morrey
Psychologist, (BSS Hons; MPsych Child & Family; M.A.P.S) Musician, Yoga & Zen practitioner, has over 15 years experience in the Community Health sector & for the last 6 years working privately in Melbourne helping couples heal. Nic has been travelling to Bali for a number of years running professional development programs ‘The Psychology of Spirituality’ and ‘The Sacred Art of Relating’. His teaching style is influenced by his experiences in Hakomi, Insight Meditation, Mondo Zen, The Diamond Approach, Integral Psychotherapy, Imago & PACT (psycho-neurobiological approach to couples therapy).
Nic is also the Victorian Convener for the Australian Psychological Society’s Transpersonal Psychology Interest Group and author of the Save relationships module which will be available on retreat and be used to unravel your temperament, the purpose of romantic love, how romantic love goes wrong, the science of attraction, how to deepen intimacy, identify exit strategies and learn effective couples dialogue. http://www.integralpsychology.org/
Nic is also the Victorian Convener for the Australian Psychological Society’s Transpersonal Psychology Interest Group and author of the Save relationships module which will be available on retreat and be used to unravel your temperament, the purpose of romantic love, how romantic love goes wrong, the science of attraction, how to deepen intimacy, identify exit strategies and learn effective couples dialogue. http://www.integralpsychology.org/
Diana Anderson
is a highly experienced clinician with over 35 years counselling, consulting and training expertise. Her career has spanned management positions in the public and private sector, and work within her own private practice.
She is a qualified Couples Counsellor, specialising in Imago Relationship Therapy, as well as a trained Sex Therapist, Family Therapist and Group Facilitator. Her areas of expertise include childhood trauma and attachment issues, including childhood sexual abuse, and subsequent relationship and addiction issues.
She is passionate about her work and loves to support people to learn the skills that assist them to grow, change and lead more fulfilling lives. Diana is a dynamic, outgoing person who works respectfully and compassionately. She currently works full time in private practice in Melbourne.
She is a qualified Couples Counsellor, specialising in Imago Relationship Therapy, as well as a trained Sex Therapist, Family Therapist and Group Facilitator. Her areas of expertise include childhood trauma and attachment issues, including childhood sexual abuse, and subsequent relationship and addiction issues.
She is passionate about her work and loves to support people to learn the skills that assist them to grow, change and lead more fulfilling lives. Diana is a dynamic, outgoing person who works respectfully and compassionately. She currently works full time in private practice in Melbourne.
Aladdin Jones
Psychotherapist & Facilitator
Hakomi (Mindfulness-based Somatic Approach)
Ecotherapy / Family Therapy / Living Systems
Qualifications
M.ed. (Ecopsychology) Certified Hakomi Therapist (CHT). Certified Hakomi Teacher.
Adv. Dip Buddhist Psychotherapy & Counseling, Dip. Integrated Psychology, P.G.C. Male Family Violence Facilitation, Cert. Whole Person Facilitation, Cert 4 Workplace Assessment & Training. Cert. Permaculture Design, Dip Biodynamic Hort & Ecology.
Additional Training in: Non Violent Communication (NVC) Restorative Justice Mediation, Right Use of Power, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Creative Therapies (Clay, Drawing, Writing, Music)
“I am passionate about a whole-person, embodied and emergent way of being and working with others. I have a particular interest in a collaborative, restorative, attuned and compassionate approach in which to generate our capacity for relationship based on authenticity, mindfulness, and co-creative life-energy. My approach in therapy reflects this and draws on nature as the ground of being and ourselves as living systems.” Hakomi (who am I in relationship to the many realms) is a mindfulness-based somatic psycotherapy with principles of non-violence, unity, organicity, mindbody holism and mindfulness.
Over the past 20 years Aladdin has worked in a number of roles within the social services sector as well as environmental restoration, community development and education including; an integrated health centre, family therapy centre, facilitation training, wilderness therapy, communication and parenting workshops, and mens work.
Aladdin currently co-teaches on the Hakomi Psychotherapy professional training in Perth, offers workshops in Hakomi in Melbourne, works part-time for Eastern Health as a therapist and mens stopping violence group facilitator, as well as running a small private practice for individuals and couples in Melbourne. He has had a 20 year interest and practice in the Buddhist tradition of Zen and mindfulness, is a musician of world music and loves to spend time gardening and in places of wilderness. Aladdin has two daughters with his wife Tess, and lives in the country side of the Yarra Valley on a 50 acre Biodynamic & permaculture inspired farm.
http://www.aladdinjones.com/
Hakomi (Mindfulness-based Somatic Approach)
Ecotherapy / Family Therapy / Living Systems
Qualifications
M.ed. (Ecopsychology) Certified Hakomi Therapist (CHT). Certified Hakomi Teacher.
Adv. Dip Buddhist Psychotherapy & Counseling, Dip. Integrated Psychology, P.G.C. Male Family Violence Facilitation, Cert. Whole Person Facilitation, Cert 4 Workplace Assessment & Training. Cert. Permaculture Design, Dip Biodynamic Hort & Ecology.
Additional Training in: Non Violent Communication (NVC) Restorative Justice Mediation, Right Use of Power, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Creative Therapies (Clay, Drawing, Writing, Music)
“I am passionate about a whole-person, embodied and emergent way of being and working with others. I have a particular interest in a collaborative, restorative, attuned and compassionate approach in which to generate our capacity for relationship based on authenticity, mindfulness, and co-creative life-energy. My approach in therapy reflects this and draws on nature as the ground of being and ourselves as living systems.” Hakomi (who am I in relationship to the many realms) is a mindfulness-based somatic psycotherapy with principles of non-violence, unity, organicity, mindbody holism and mindfulness.
Over the past 20 years Aladdin has worked in a number of roles within the social services sector as well as environmental restoration, community development and education including; an integrated health centre, family therapy centre, facilitation training, wilderness therapy, communication and parenting workshops, and mens work.
Aladdin currently co-teaches on the Hakomi Psychotherapy professional training in Perth, offers workshops in Hakomi in Melbourne, works part-time for Eastern Health as a therapist and mens stopping violence group facilitator, as well as running a small private practice for individuals and couples in Melbourne. He has had a 20 year interest and practice in the Buddhist tradition of Zen and mindfulness, is a musician of world music and loves to spend time gardening and in places of wilderness. Aladdin has two daughters with his wife Tess, and lives in the country side of the Yarra Valley on a 50 acre Biodynamic & permaculture inspired farm.
http://www.aladdinjones.com/
Daniel White
Daniel has been running a thriving counselling practice serving the expat community in Hong Kong. As a relationship specialist he challenges and guides his clients with fierceness, humility and humour to build and sustain successful and fulfilling relationships; starting with oneself.
Daniel will help you identify your attachment style and find you a way forward. In our early relationships we unconsciously create an operating system of how to function based on whatever we had to deal with in our family system. Whether we like it or not, we are all programmed to experience relationships in a particular way based on our early primarily relationships: how we were related to and what was modelled to us as children. These emotional habits are hard-wired into our brains and nervous systems without us realising and they dramatically impact how we relate as adults. They include a whole set of beliefs about ourselves and the world that we are mostly unaware are actually running our lives. Most of us go through life still using our childhood operating system, even though they’re obsolete.
Daniel has been a mental health practitioner since 2002. Daniel will take you through a pick of the most effective and up to date relationship exercises based on his wealth of training experiences. Training includes
MA Transpersonal Counselling Psychology –Naropa University (Boulder, CO)
Advanced Transformational Coaching and Leadership Training Program - (San Fransisco, CA)
Certified Gestalt Therapist (CGT) – Boulder Psychotherapy Institute, (Boulder, CO)
Certificate in Group Psychotherapy – Boulder Psychotherapy Institute, (Boulder, CO)
Certificate in PACT couple therapy – PACT Institute (Los Angeles CA)
Advanced Certificate in Emotional Focused Couple Therapy – OCFI- Ottawa Family and Couples Institute (Ottawa, Canada)
Certified EMDR Practitioner EMDR institute (Jerusalem, Israel)
http://www.integratedway.com/couples/
Daniel will help you identify your attachment style and find you a way forward. In our early relationships we unconsciously create an operating system of how to function based on whatever we had to deal with in our family system. Whether we like it or not, we are all programmed to experience relationships in a particular way based on our early primarily relationships: how we were related to and what was modelled to us as children. These emotional habits are hard-wired into our brains and nervous systems without us realising and they dramatically impact how we relate as adults. They include a whole set of beliefs about ourselves and the world that we are mostly unaware are actually running our lives. Most of us go through life still using our childhood operating system, even though they’re obsolete.
Daniel has been a mental health practitioner since 2002. Daniel will take you through a pick of the most effective and up to date relationship exercises based on his wealth of training experiences. Training includes
MA Transpersonal Counselling Psychology –Naropa University (Boulder, CO)
Advanced Transformational Coaching and Leadership Training Program - (San Fransisco, CA)
Certified Gestalt Therapist (CGT) – Boulder Psychotherapy Institute, (Boulder, CO)
Certificate in Group Psychotherapy – Boulder Psychotherapy Institute, (Boulder, CO)
Certificate in PACT couple therapy – PACT Institute (Los Angeles CA)
Advanced Certificate in Emotional Focused Couple Therapy – OCFI- Ottawa Family and Couples Institute (Ottawa, Canada)
Certified EMDR Practitioner EMDR institute (Jerusalem, Israel)
http://www.integratedway.com/couples/
Carla van Laar
Master of Creative Arts Therapy and Doctoral candidate, is a painter and arts therapist. She is currently the Director of ‘aHa Studio’, an independent arts space in Brunswick Melbourne, where she provides sessions for individuals, small group supervision, runs professional development training workshops, and hosts exhibitions and life drawing classes. Carla is Senior Advisor with the Art2Healing project and works with women in Nepal as a facilitator addressing the problem of sex trafficking and responding to the impacts of recent earthquakes. She is also employed as a consultant therapist working with clients of the Department of Human Services and VincentCare.
An educator in Arts Therapy, Carla has taught extensively at post-graduate levels at MIECAT and RMIT, has been an invited international guest lecturer at Whitecliff University in Auckland, researcher for Victoria University and headed the art therapy faculty in the vocational training sector.
Like many people who choose to work in a healing field, Carla’s life experience and personal journey led to her immersion in the field of art therapy, arts for health and well-being, and healing arts. For the past 25 years, Carla has worked in the fields of disability, grief and loss, youth justice, sexual abuse, mental health, homelessness, personal development and education. She has worked to clinical, consultant and senior management positions in these fields.
She has been an invited presenter at numerous conferences nationally and abroad, and is respected as a leader in Australia’s Arts Therapy community. Her publications include the book, “Bereaved Mother’s Heart”, “Chill Skills” and co-authored chapters in “Healing the Inner City Child” and “Knowing Differently”.
Carla’s interest in the arts for interpersonal and intergenerational healing flows from her work with perpetrators and survivors of sexual abuse, respect for Aboriginal culture and stolen generations in Australia, involvement in eco-awareness communities and emergent themes in her current Doctoral research project, “Seeing Her Stories”.
Carla is passionate about the power of collaboration, imagination, the arts, nature connection and action methods as facilitators of well-being, empowerment and growth for individuals, groups and social action.
http://carlavanlaar.wix.com/aha-studio
An educator in Arts Therapy, Carla has taught extensively at post-graduate levels at MIECAT and RMIT, has been an invited international guest lecturer at Whitecliff University in Auckland, researcher for Victoria University and headed the art therapy faculty in the vocational training sector.
Like many people who choose to work in a healing field, Carla’s life experience and personal journey led to her immersion in the field of art therapy, arts for health and well-being, and healing arts. For the past 25 years, Carla has worked in the fields of disability, grief and loss, youth justice, sexual abuse, mental health, homelessness, personal development and education. She has worked to clinical, consultant and senior management positions in these fields.
She has been an invited presenter at numerous conferences nationally and abroad, and is respected as a leader in Australia’s Arts Therapy community. Her publications include the book, “Bereaved Mother’s Heart”, “Chill Skills” and co-authored chapters in “Healing the Inner City Child” and “Knowing Differently”.
Carla’s interest in the arts for interpersonal and intergenerational healing flows from her work with perpetrators and survivors of sexual abuse, respect for Aboriginal culture and stolen generations in Australia, involvement in eco-awareness communities and emergent themes in her current Doctoral research project, “Seeing Her Stories”.
Carla is passionate about the power of collaboration, imagination, the arts, nature connection and action methods as facilitators of well-being, empowerment and growth for individuals, groups and social action.
http://carlavanlaar.wix.com/aha-studio
Ostii Ananda
A yoga teacher and bodyworker, with years of exploration in tantra, sacred sexuality, massage, shamanism and dance, Ostii is deeply committed to a path of full authentic expression, both within ourselves and in relationship.
One of the organisers of Dancing Ground Festival, Ostii is also the founder of Pulse Brunswick, a centre for expression and connection practices and the home of his sunrise yoga classes.
The cornerstone of Ostii’s life practice is breath, sound and movement, which he has come to know as the doorways to emotional freedom and truth, and yoga as a practice available in every moment, rather than just on the mat.
He loves spending time pottering in the garden, retrofitting caravans and is kept very entertained by the antics of his beautiful nine year old son. Ostii’s greatest wish is to see everybody thrive, waking every morning happy to be alive and excited by the adventure of existence.
One of the organisers of Dancing Ground Festival, Ostii is also the founder of Pulse Brunswick, a centre for expression and connection practices and the home of his sunrise yoga classes.
The cornerstone of Ostii’s life practice is breath, sound and movement, which he has come to know as the doorways to emotional freedom and truth, and yoga as a practice available in every moment, rather than just on the mat.
He loves spending time pottering in the garden, retrofitting caravans and is kept very entertained by the antics of his beautiful nine year old son. Ostii’s greatest wish is to see everybody thrive, waking every morning happy to be alive and excited by the adventure of existence.
Dr Tania van Megchelen
Clinical Psychologist (B. Sc (Psych.) Hons., M. Psych (child and family), D. Psych (clinical), MAPS), Tania is enthusiastic about health, innovation and collaboration. With over 15 years experince in the field, Tania is dedicated to promoting wellness with her clients. She works dynamically with the techniques and theories of Psychoanalysis, Lacan, Mindell, Beck’s Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Ellis’s Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT), Shapiro’s Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Art therapy. She is a caring, dedicated and client focused practitioner.
She has presented and convened at National and International conferences, cited and acknowledged in several published books including the International best seller ‘Not Knowing. The Art of Turning Uncertainty into Possibility’ by D’ Souza and Renner (2014), and authored and illustrated a book titled ‘The Day the Ocean Ran Away’ developed to assist emotional language, resilience, and mindfulness.
Tania will provide couples with a purpose written paper and presentation about Shame and the Genesis of Relationship Breakdown. The program interaction will be creative and experiential. http://www.drtaniavanmegchelen.com/home.html
She has presented and convened at National and International conferences, cited and acknowledged in several published books including the International best seller ‘Not Knowing. The Art of Turning Uncertainty into Possibility’ by D’ Souza and Renner (2014), and authored and illustrated a book titled ‘The Day the Ocean Ran Away’ developed to assist emotional language, resilience, and mindfulness.
Tania will provide couples with a purpose written paper and presentation about Shame and the Genesis of Relationship Breakdown. The program interaction will be creative and experiential. http://www.drtaniavanmegchelen.com/home.html
Comments from the 2015 couples retreat
What others have said about past retreats
I'm now less in my head and more in my body. Mindfulness has been a massive take away message, including pain in yoga- to allow it to come, to accept it, to not be afraid of the pain, to be patient and come home to myself and remember to love myself.
Nick
I'll take away so much more self awareness about my body and how it moves, and being exposed to all the different ways to be with myself e.g. via the mask work. I have had many aha moments. It's been great.
Olivia
The key thing I'll take away is to allow myself to get into a vulnerable state, and in combination with the integral practice I was taken out of my comfort zone which brought many insights about my need to control things.
Antionette
I just love relating to the people this retreat attracts. I am becoming better at saying yes and no and things that I do and dont want to do. it feels awkward sometimes to confront stuff like that; t drop being nice
Sallyann
I've discovered how to use my energizer more and also how to use my body more and help my clients become more grounded I will also take away the effects of the healing I received.
Sally
I have ploughed through a swamp and come out the other side to a fresh water lake
Vana
It was challenging in a good way
Clair
I'll be taking home a new found family. It's like discovering your tribe. Members of your tribe coming together and thats important to me. The save relationships inventory has given me great insight into how I relate to others. It's gven me a whole new modality to work with when counselling couples.
Paul
This retreat has opened me up to another big chapter in my life
Carla
"I loved the people, the setting and the openness. I'll be telling my friends and colleagues about this"
Anthony
"Others can see I've transformed. it was a great opportunity to leave Australia and my comfort zone"
Meryl
"I had a gorgeous time with all these wonderful people and I have to come back again...so get here...be here...and don't miss out"
Sally-ann
"I loved being taken out of my comfort zone, and the content and the context and how the retreat has opened all my chakras"
Meredith
"A great opportunity to learn with likeminded people in the beautiful environment which was open, sharing, relaxing and energizing all at the same time"
Margaret
"It's been wonderful, oh the dancing, every day has been extroadinary. What a great amount of energy put into this retreat. I'm looking forward to getting into the tree of life work and receive the facilitators passions. WOW are we lucky"
Jo
"It's been a wonderful experience to join likeminded professionals in amazing ways doing body work, intellectual work and emotional work"
Carol
"I loved the mix of people from the more spiritual approach in combination with the psychological approach and I loved the great discussions we had. The setting and the relaxed environment was really condusive to learning. I mostly enjoyed the mask workshop and visiting Anom the mask maker and the 5Rhythms"
Lisa
"I just loved meeting likeminded people and putting myself in a group dynamic and observing myself in other people who mirror me".
Sakajawea
"A really transformational journey and I was able to connect back to myself and journey with other people who are in the same vibration as myself who are able to mirror me and it was empowering. I found a lot of strength and really looked at parts of myself I would like to work with and enhance and harness these qualities. I got a good look at an aspect of myself that maybe I wouldn't have seen before. I'm fully empowered"
James
"I really enjoyed the openness, the beautiful people, the sharing, the safety provided for us to go out of our comfort zones which has really developed trust"
Pippa
"Wow the people in this retreat have been great. What a beautiful place to hold a retreat. So much creative energy. "
Tanya
"The retreat has broadened my horizons and given me a whole lot of of ideas to implement back in my work setting, and beautiful surroundings in which to emerse myself in different ways of thinking and to work with really intelligent capable people"
Leanne
"I'm discovering things I wouldn't have expected"
Tania
- I am finally healing intergenerational wounds...
- This taste of couples work has given me a taste for more...
- I got the holding and support I needed to cover this sacred and scary ground...
- This was an incredible opportunity to deepen our understanding of our relationship, the sacred other and with the world...
- What an opportunity for growth...
- Thank you for the sensitivity, flexibility and safety provided by the facilitators...
- I got the support I needed to deepen our relationship...
- I would recommend everything about this couples retreat. The yoga, the creative arts, the environment, the food etc...
- So good to be able to deepen my capacity to connect...
- I loved exploring my emotions, connections and transgenerational issues...
- I have really opened up to dialogue, leading to better acceptance, empathy, compassion and connection to my partner. The retreat was well structured, really interesting and helpful with the SAVE inventory both personally and professionally. It was a fabulous location, simply delicious food, I felt very safe, particularly welcomed and very nurtured. Loved the facilitators with a great balance of head, heart and body...
- I got connected. I now have a greater connection to myself and to others
- A very different approach that helped me identify myself and how that impacts on my relationship
- I got what I came for. More connection and love.
What others have said about past retreats
I'm now less in my head and more in my body. Mindfulness has been a massive take away message, including pain in yoga- to allow it to come, to accept it, to not be afraid of the pain, to be patient and come home to myself and remember to love myself.
Nick
I'll take away so much more self awareness about my body and how it moves, and being exposed to all the different ways to be with myself e.g. via the mask work. I have had many aha moments. It's been great.
Olivia
The key thing I'll take away is to allow myself to get into a vulnerable state, and in combination with the integral practice I was taken out of my comfort zone which brought many insights about my need to control things.
Antionette
I just love relating to the people this retreat attracts. I am becoming better at saying yes and no and things that I do and dont want to do. it feels awkward sometimes to confront stuff like that; t drop being nice
Sallyann
I've discovered how to use my energizer more and also how to use my body more and help my clients become more grounded I will also take away the effects of the healing I received.
Sally
I have ploughed through a swamp and come out the other side to a fresh water lake
Vana
It was challenging in a good way
Clair
I'll be taking home a new found family. It's like discovering your tribe. Members of your tribe coming together and thats important to me. The save relationships inventory has given me great insight into how I relate to others. It's gven me a whole new modality to work with when counselling couples.
Paul
This retreat has opened me up to another big chapter in my life
Carla
"I loved the people, the setting and the openness. I'll be telling my friends and colleagues about this"
Anthony
"Others can see I've transformed. it was a great opportunity to leave Australia and my comfort zone"
Meryl
"I had a gorgeous time with all these wonderful people and I have to come back again...so get here...be here...and don't miss out"
Sally-ann
"I loved being taken out of my comfort zone, and the content and the context and how the retreat has opened all my chakras"
Meredith
"A great opportunity to learn with likeminded people in the beautiful environment which was open, sharing, relaxing and energizing all at the same time"
Margaret
"It's been wonderful, oh the dancing, every day has been extroadinary. What a great amount of energy put into this retreat. I'm looking forward to getting into the tree of life work and receive the facilitators passions. WOW are we lucky"
Jo
"It's been a wonderful experience to join likeminded professionals in amazing ways doing body work, intellectual work and emotional work"
Carol
"I loved the mix of people from the more spiritual approach in combination with the psychological approach and I loved the great discussions we had. The setting and the relaxed environment was really condusive to learning. I mostly enjoyed the mask workshop and visiting Anom the mask maker and the 5Rhythms"
Lisa
"I just loved meeting likeminded people and putting myself in a group dynamic and observing myself in other people who mirror me".
Sakajawea
"A really transformational journey and I was able to connect back to myself and journey with other people who are in the same vibration as myself who are able to mirror me and it was empowering. I found a lot of strength and really looked at parts of myself I would like to work with and enhance and harness these qualities. I got a good look at an aspect of myself that maybe I wouldn't have seen before. I'm fully empowered"
James
"I really enjoyed the openness, the beautiful people, the sharing, the safety provided for us to go out of our comfort zones which has really developed trust"
Pippa
"Wow the people in this retreat have been great. What a beautiful place to hold a retreat. So much creative energy. "
Tanya
"The retreat has broadened my horizons and given me a whole lot of of ideas to implement back in my work setting, and beautiful surroundings in which to emerse myself in different ways of thinking and to work with really intelligent capable people"
Leanne
"I'm discovering things I wouldn't have expected"
Tania