Benefits of the retreat:

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• You will gain the power and wisdom to gently guide yourself back to regulation rather than feeling like there is an internal volcano of energy and emotion that you have no control over.
   

• Tap into your body's wisdom and the messengers (emotions and sensations) and cultivate autonomic awareness. Your sensations and emotions guide your healthy and wise decisions in your own best interest.
   

• You can use all the beautiful life force and power TODAY when your body and nervous system stop trying to deal with a threat from your past.

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• Learn bottom-up regulation - coming from the bottom, the body, not from the top, the mind - and reset your nervous system.
   

• Use your body to discharge old stress activation.
   

• The survival brain learns new ways to respond to stressors. It can stop responding as it did from times of chronic and traumatic stress from your past, and respond to what’s happening today.

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Suppressing your emotions increases nervous system dysregulation. It can lead to chronic shut-down, freeze and even burn-out.
 

Regulating doesn’t mean you will never have any feelings or never feel frustrated, sad or scared. It means you can include and hold these powerful feelings and even befriend them.

This is how you integrate the stress responses from earlier years. And this is how the residue of past trauma is integrated and you return to wholeness, health, security, bliss and freedom.

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How will you feel after the retreat:
 

• You start living the life you envy yourself for!
   

• You stop being a puppet on the strings of your trauma. You will reconnect to the body and find oneness, love, security and freedom.
   

• Your mind will be still and finally your body can be happy and healthy 

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What you can expect:
 

• You recap and learn in more depth about the nervous system as the biggest victim of trauma. What are trauma cycles, the trauma vortex and the healing vortex. What is the difference between shock trauma and developmental trauma and what happens to the body, mind and the nervous system.
   

• You look at trauma effects and trauma recovery
   

• You get to know different personalities with regards to their physicality, breathing, energy, use of life force, use of body, thinking, feeling and patterns, and preferences in the nervous system. You become increasingly aware of the states of the nervous system in yourselves and others and explore how to regulate yourselves and others in and outside processing.
   

• You practice different techniques of re-regulating and ‘teaching’ your nervous system to react differently before your trauma response kicks in.

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• You dive more deeply into the importance of connection, touch and movement in processing trauma.
   

• You experience floating with human support as a unique way of resetting, re-birth and new beginnings.
   

• You will have free time every day to visit the sauna, steam bath, whirlpool, nature, massage therapists or hang out with like-minded souls.

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