My nervous system went into rest/digest/relax as soon as we went through the gates. It’s amazing how much of a difference being in a peaceful place facilitates healing. Its beautiful, it’s alive, it’s fun, it’s growing, it’s an adventure.
Going to The Rest offers you a profound opportunity for contemplating and finding resonances with your life, for making shifts or appreciating your life as it is. You leave ready to step more fully into yourself and your life.
If you have any reservations, just do it. Being so far from city civilisation in a natural environment, to be so well looked after, with only yourself to worry about and without needing to attend to your own practical needs, is a huge gift. It creates space to immerse yourself in your own processes, and gives you the privilege of witnessing and supporting others in their process.
Your heart will soften, open and grow.
The spaces between the sessions offered special time to spend with other participants to process, or share experiences, almost in a respectful continuation of the space being held during the sessions. It was also easy to step out of that communal space and go for a walk on the farm, or retreat to your bed.
My expectations were exceeded, not met.
I never anticipated the constellating processes to give so much emotional insight. It’s one thing gaining intellectual or cognitive insight into one’s issues, but very difficult to get such instant and deep emotional revelations in therapy. Incredible and magical.