The Château Colombe de B, near Montpellier, in the South of France, which will be the location for our retreat.
WE ARE MOVING THROUGH A GRADUAL BUT RADICAL TRANSFORMATION IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW. UNDERNEATH ALL OF THE CHANGES IS A SEISMIC SHFT IN CONSCIOUSNESS. DO YOU FEEL THIS SHIFT HAPPENING?
Do we know how those changes are impacting us? Have we noticed a shift in our desire to be of service, or to somehow take our place in the changes that we are seeing? Do we feel called to do something? If so, what?
Maybe you’re aware of the changes going on in the world, but instead feel a calling to deepen your personal work, to hold the resonance of who you are and to strengthen that. Maybe you’ve done a lot of work on yourself and you’re asking, what next?
As this seismic shift in consciousness happens at the collective level, we are all being asked to go deeper within and clear the layers to reveal the true self and to live that identity in real time, in practical ways, now. But what does that mean, and how do we access the information about the deeper, soul-identity that we each have, to help us to live authentically in the world?
We are living through an enormous shift in consciousness in the world today. The epoch that put people into hierarchies, deeming some ‘more worthy’ than others, and that made us forget our humanity and who we truly are, is falling away. The epoch of patriarchy/colonialism/capitalism and ‘power over’ and ‘might makes right’ is ending. Now we are each being invited to remember our identity and move into the new epoch with grace and wisdom.
Remembering Who We Are, Reclaiming Our Power
The prejudices of the last epoch are embedded in our cultures and in our subconscious, impacting our relationships with each other and our respect for the earth herself. The prejudices also made us forget who we are and, in so doing, we became subjugated and lost our innate power.
The transition underway is helping to remind us of who we are and of our belonging to each other and the earth and to bring that awareness to the fore. If we step into the consciousness required for this shift, and own it, we will reclaim our innate power, which will help to provide a smoother transition between these epochs.
The main goal of this retreat is for participants to remember their true soul identity and to be enabled to live from that place, in practical ways, and to bring that awareness into the world.
“The week will be an opportunity to unplug, relax and be supported while we do a deep-dive into the true self. Who we are at a soul level is who we have been over many lifetimes. To access this awareness, is to regain our knowing and our innate power.”
To know who we are at a soul-level, and what lives we chose for ourselves, we need to access who we are originally, before we were born, and access our consciousness earned over many lifetimes, not just this one. Our multi-lifetime consciousness is vastly more wise and knowing than our consciousness that accesses this lifetime only. We don’t need to know who we were in those lifetimes, but instead we can access the wisdom gained from those lives and bring that knowing into our lives here and now. Both our original identity and our wisdom earned are contained within us at a soul-level and unpacking that will give us access to that knowing. This deep-dive retreat is about how to do that work.
To Access the Self, Clear the Layers
To understand what we chose for ourselves at this time, means to access our soul-level identity and our map for our soul to navigate. This means to know who we truly are and our purpose and how to get there. To access that, we need to clear our wounds, our identification with the mind and the ego. Once these false layers are cleared, we move into heart-centred awareness and then deeper still into soul-awareness. At this deepest level, we can access who we truly are and stand in our power.
The retreat will be an opportunity to unplug and relax for a week, while being supported in doing a deep-dive into the true self. Who we are at a soul level is who we have been over many lifetimes. To access this awareness, is to regain our knowing and our innate power.
The 17th Century Château sits on its own 10,000 square metres of parkland with many trees, a French garden and a water fountain.
Authentic Power
Being in our power emanates a strength of ‘knowing’ from within that is without judgement or controlling for others. This brings an authentic deep reverence for all of life and an acceptance for all humans with all of our differences. It calls upon us to build a collective belonging for all, with inclusivity and equality to the fore. This collective belonging is our work, as a species, now.
As humans, our nature is to be humane. Bringing this humanity to everyone with radical acceptance is the next step in the rising consciousness of our species. This step is being gifted as an invitation to us all now.
Do you feel called to do this sacred, deep work? Scroll down for a course overview.
The Château has an outdoor swimming pool, an outdoor and an indoor jacuzzi, a sauna, a hammam and a spa.
Course Outline: Key Pieces of Work Covered in the Retreat
The main goal of this retreat is for participants to remember their true soul identity and to be enabled to live from that place, in practical ways, and to bring that awareness into the world. There will be several key pieces to this work. These include:
Healing What Doesn’t Serve:
1. Clearing the False Self: Mind, Ego, Wounds
2. Healing the Mother Wound: Trusting the Feminine
3. Balancing the ‘Masculine-Feminine Self’
Belonging:
4. Connection to Earth for Guidance
5. Connection to Each Other with Empathy: Becoming an Ally
True-Self Consciousness:
6. Body Consciousness: Heart Space, Gut Read
7. Multi-Lifetime Consciousness: Soul Space
8. Living from Soul Consciousness: Owning Our Power
Conclusion:
9. The New Consciousness in the World
“The Retreat will cover:
Healing What Doesn’t Serve, Belonging, True-Self Consciousness, and bringing this New Consciousness into the World.”
Course Overview:
Healing What Doesn’t Serve
1. Clearing the False Self: Mind, Ego, Wounds
Identifying and acknowledging the false layers of self as ‘not us’ enables us to release them and reclaim our power in authentic ways. The mind and our thoughts are not who we are. We will do simple exercises to redirect our attention away from the mental body and into the physical body. Having a disciplined mind, where you control it and not the other way around, is essential if we are to have the mind be quiet, so that we can do our deeper work. The body is divine and has a consciousness of its own. We will learn how to communicate with the body in ways that will open up communication, so that we can ‘hear’ what the body has to say. This is pre-requisite work for accessing the heart-space and the Soul-level consciousness, later in the week.
Consciousness that is merged with ego tends to believe that its identity is wrapped up in whatever can be associated with that person, whether it’s a label, a name, a career or even whatever that person owns. Our true identity is none of these things. These labels belong to a ‘this-lifetime’ consciousness and not a transcended ‘multi-lifetime’ awareness. Identifying the ego in action helps us to disregard what it has to say.
While participants are expected to have completed the majority of their personal work to attend the workshop, we will briefly cover the most effective ways to clear any remaining wounding that participants may be facing. We will practice this healing method, taught to me by my Helping Spirits, so that participants can complete their personal work outside the workshop.
2. Healing the Mother Wound: Trusting the Feminine
We are all masculine and feminine, we all have both. The patriarchal epoch cut us off from the earth mother, all of creation, when it denigrated the feminine. So, too, were we disconnected from the feminine within, the intuitive and self-healing self. And we were disconnected from our reverence for the spirit of creativity itself. To trust in the flow of life, the creative spirit within that guides, to revere the healing muse, was taken from us.
In this part of the workshop, we will step into what the divine feminine is and open ourselves up to it, so that we can reach back into our ancestry to reignite this knowing in our bodies.
“One impact of the prejudices of the last epoch is the imbalance between the masculine and the feminine within each of us. In the indigenous epoch, prior to the patriarchal one, we revered the feminine power to grow life, the earth herself and the wisdom of the Goddess. The patriarchal epoch reduced the feminine to body parts and ravaged the earth for resources, without concern.”
3. Balancing the Masculine-Feminine Imbalance in the Self
One impact of the prejudices of the last epoch is the imbalance between the masculine and the feminine within each of us. In the indigenous epoch, prior to the patriarchal one, we revered the feminine power to grow life, the earth herself and the wisdom of the Goddess. The patriarchal epoch reduced the feminine to body parts and ravaged the earth for resources, without concern.
Within this imbalance, we discovered that ego and physicality combined could create wars and force others to bend to our will. As the Romans came across Europe, desecrating the Druidic communities, they brought the coin to England and capitalism was born. Capitalism, colonialism and patriarchy are all close bedfellows, all believing in the subjugation of ‘other’.
Living through a thousand years (minimum) of patriarchy, causes us to relegate the ‘natural-world wisdom keeper’ in all of us, and to elevate the ‘braun and the logical mind’. Instead of integrating the ‘wisdom keeper’ and the ‘braun and the mind’, we were taught to keep the two apart. The rise of the mind and ego as supreme has disconnected us from the heart and soul-level consciousness. Our disconnect from the earth and her benevolence has made us see the mother as a resource to which we are entitled. We lost our wisdom and connectedness to nature and, as a result, we lost our way. The imbalance in favour of the masculine over the feminine, is in all of us. This resulted in us living in an in-cohesive, dislocated way. We have forgotten how to be in integrated harmony with our own masculine and feminine aspects of ourselves.
We will examine this in detail and do work to bring both aspects of the self back into harmony with each other again. Energetically, understanding these aspects of the self and bringing them back into harmony with one another will eliminate toxic masculinity and bring the wisdom keeper, the reader of maps, back to the fore as the inner guide. This is crucial work that is much needed at this time and will be a key piece of work done in this retreat.
Consciousness of Belonging:
4. Connection to Earth: Belonging and Guidance
One of the key impacts of the last epoch is that we have lost our identification with our earth mother. Our connection with the earth is the energetic imprint that keeps us ‘grounded’ and in flow as we co-create with life. Without this grounding, we experience a sense of isolation, loss and derealisation. Throughout the week, we will step back into right-relationship with the earth in a way that reminds us of our true nature and our belonging to this planet as her dependents. When we are in right-relationship with the earth, we can hear her speak and receive her guidance, and know that we belong, bringing support and connectivity with all of life here.
“When we are in right-relationship with the earth, we can hear her speak and receive her guidance, and know that we belong, bringing support and connectivity with
all of life here.”
5. Connection with Each Other in Empathy: Becoming an Ally
The last epoch had us disengaged from each other in extreme ways, such as to enable war and oppression. In order to disengage from each other, we needed to see others as ‘less than’ and to dis-identify from them. In order to reverse that encoding in our collective, we need to begin to see ourselves in others and become allies for one another, even, and maybe especially, if we are all radically different. The interconnectedness of all things and beings identifies us all as belonging to one another; an ecosystem, that we all need to care for in its entirety. This has already begun to happen in the collective.
In the retreat, we will do energy work to explore what it feels like to be ‘other’ people. When we feel these truths in our bodies, ‘empathy’ opens in us and we are immediately connected with those who are ‘other’, even if we all have nothing in common except that we are all human. The growth potential for this work extends, not just to humans, but to all lifeforms and to the earth herself, offering a deepening of our appreciation and gratitude for, and an identification with, the ecosystem to which we all belong. This work creates and knits the weblike structures that are emerging in consciousness on the planet at this time, that will replace the hierarchies that belonged to the previous epoch.
True-Self Consciousness:
6. Body Consciousness: Heart Space, Gut Read
Having cleared what does not serve, and fully opened up to reconnect with the earth and each other, we now will look at who we truly are. To do this, we must turn our awareness inward. Opening up to who we are begins with with connection to the body, because the body is the container within which the soul resides.
“Opening up to who we are begins with with connection to the body, because the body is the container within which the soul resides.”
The body is divine and is in service to you, but it also a guide and a support. We will begin with the gut consciousness, as it is usually the easiest intuition to read to access our inner knowing. Then we will move to the heart consciousness and see how it compares with the gut, in terms of faculty, compassion, support, etc. In this work we will discover that each organ in the body has a consciousness of its own, each serving a different purpose. Coming into conscious awareness of the role of these two aspects of the self will help us to know ourselves more fully and to gain a strengthening of purpose and meaning in our lives. How can we rely upon them? What wisdom do they carry? How can they support us in this work? We will finish this work wiser about the inherent gifts we have that are needed for guidance on this human-spirit journey.
7. Multi-Lifetime Consciousness: Soul Space
Having built a strong foundation of knowing throughout the week in terms of clearing what does not serve, reconnecting with belonging to each other, the earth, and our bodies, now we will turn inward to connect at a soul consciousness level to discover who we have been and are being from a multi-lifetime, and beyond, perspective.
Opening our awareness to who and what we are is to transcend the physical, mental and emotional human experience. This is the most essential work required of us at this breakthrough moment in human consciousness. We are more than our lives, our bodies and even our relationship to each other and the planet. We are god-creatures, trying to remember our namelessness, our divinity, who we were before we were ever born.
All of this information, and more, resides in the soul, which is located either in behind the heart chakra or above the head in the eighth chakra. Merging with this luminous consciousness gives us the knowing that we crave to answer all of the questions that we have about our true identity, the lives that we have chosen and what our purpose and meaning has been over many lifetimes. Doing this sacred work allows us to step fully into the knowledge of the self as an ‘inter-being’, that is, as a being that belongs to itself and is part of a greater whole, and to access the wisdom and to own the power that resides there.
“Opening our awareness to who and what we are is to transcend the physical, mental and emotional human experience. This is the most essential work required of us at this breakthrough moment in human consciousness.”
Owning this level of awareness of ourselves at this time will serve to guide us into knowing what we have encoded into our Soul Contract, that map of the soul that we co-created with our Council of Elders before each lifetime. The Soul Contract guides us to fulfil the work that we came here to earth to do in each lifetime, but the soul itself carries all of those Contracts over many lifetimes and the soul is the container for all of our wisdom through all of our learned experiences. We do not need to know the details of the lifetimes in the past, we need to know the wisdom we have gained from them, how to navigate our maps going forward and the purpose of the journey.
8. Living from Soul Consciousness: Owning Our Power
At this point in the workshop we will take a decidedly different direction. Instead of simply accessing and communicating with awareness, we will now embody it into our systems as a way of owning that power.
Accessing and drawing down who we are, into the body, allows that awareness to become grounded, or rooted, into the earth. Drawing down that high consciousness into our bodies will increase the Light Quotient in our bodies, but also it will enable us to ‘live’ from that place of power. We will do exercises and take practical steps to embody this consciousness in a way that enables us to function from a very high resonance frequency but in very practical, down to earth, ways.
This work will benefit our personal work in our healing journey, our relationships, our understanding of who and what we are, our knowing about our soul-path and our relationship with our Helping Spirits. But it will also help with our work on, and with, the earth at this time and with all forms of life on this planet and beyond. This work is our inheritance and our right, as humans, and it will bring bliss.
This is the beginning of the work being asked of us to “bring heaven to earth”.
Conclusion:
9. The New Consciousness in the World
Accessing our highest awareness and identity, and owning it in a good way, is the first step to bringing that consciousness into the world.
We are not alone in this work; everyone is being gifted with the invitation to waken from the sleep of ‘less than’ and ‘not enough’. This is not ego work; this is soul work. This is authentic power and true identity work, in the world, guiding and delivering what we need to co-create with Source, as we have been guided to do.
“Accessing our highest awareness and identity, and owning it in a good way, is the first step to bringing that consciousness into the world.”
Stepping into our power in this way sheds everything negative that the patriarchal epoch embedded into us as ‘normal’, and allows us to stand anew.
This work is timely. It is only when we all own our power and carry that fearlessly into the world, that the shackles of the old order will fall away. Empowerment isn’t about anything external to us; it is always about knowing and owning who we truly are. We are being asked to bring that empowerment into the world to weave community, knitting connectivity and togetherness, identifying with one another, with wholeness among us all.
This capacity to live authentically and harmoniously within oneself and within the greater spiritual ecosystem, achieved through healing, self-discovery, and compassionate practices, is our birthright and our purpose at this time.
Do you feel called to this retreat?