Sunday June 10th 2012 - Sunday June 17th 2012 Self Healing Workshop Week - All The Tools required to redirect Your Self, Your Life

Sunday July 8th 2012 - Sunday July 15th 2012 Creativity Workshop - Unleash Your Inner Potential to be Awesome

Sunday August 5th 2012 - Sunday August 12th 2012 Drama Workshop Week - Fairytale Rescue Your Self from the Highest Tower!

Sunday September 9th 2012 - Sunday 16th September 2012 to be announced

Do you suffer chronic illness, repeating destructive life patterns, excessive reactions, a feeling that something or someone is controlling your life?

We all have times in our lives when it seems that each time we take what we believe to be a step to the right we find ourselves one pace to the left instead!!

We leave our old job and within weeks of being in our new job we recognise we are in exactly the same situation again.

Our relationships always seem to attract the same kind of partner.

And so on and so on……

Either we are not in control of our destiny and there is some cosmic force having a laugh at our expense

OR

We are in control of our lives but there is a strong hidden aspect running an agenda that we are completely unaware of. This is the more promising option as in this case we have the ability to change it!

If we could get in tune with this powerful but unseen aspect and begin singing the same song at the same time, image what we could achieve together!

If we could communicate with our subconscious and recognise what it was trying to achieve, we could make an informed (and conscious) choice based on current circumstances about the relevancy of the goal. For example: one of the first basic desires to please our mother so that she gives us food and protection is no longer relevant to our lives when we are 40 years old and have children of our own and a good job etc.

We could redirect all the energy no longer expended seeking our mother's approval into our current dreams and desires.

We could free up all the energy currently lost in dancing our two steps first to the right and then to the left, as we run constantly in conflict with our hidden inner desires, getting us nowhere except for exhausted and frustrated!!

We could become our own guardians, recognising our deepest fears and stepping in to be the loving presence that holds us when we are afraid.

We become the parent holding the frightened child who has been living a nightmare all alone in the dark.

The dark and the light can communicate and come together under one roof so to speak.

That one overarching presence of unity is YOU!

This step takes us closer to Who We Really Are!

Sometimes we are more afraid of experiencing Who We Really Are than we are of our previous pain and frustration, we fear that we will lose ourselves and become unrecognisable even to ourselves. This is a perfectly normal reaction but take heart that recognising Who We Really Are doesn't change us but instead grows us like an expanding balloon.

We expand in all directions (up, down, left, right, front, back, body, mind, soul, spirit, energy, consciousness, awareness, intuition etc.), whilst retaining all our old aspects.

Like climbing up to the top of a hill to look down on a town (bigger perspective, higher self) whilst maintaining one foot in the town square we gain a better (as in further seeing and therefore more useful and encompassing) perspective on how things fit together and the relative size of each part.

When we view the landscape of our lives from a higher perspective it's much easier to spot patterns (both destructive and constructive) and much easier to get perspective on our traumas and dramas. For example: if we are stood exclusively in a heaving, angry mob in the market square of our town our life/consciousness/awareness/outlook/perspective is 100% occupied with struggle, suffocation, despair, anger and fear. But when we are expanded so that our conscious awareness occupies a larger area there is still an aspect of us in the heaving angry mob but there is also a calm, safe presence outside of the square. A calm presence that can guide us to the exit and can calm our fears.

The events of our lives don't change, we are not magicians or gods changing the make up of the world around us instead we change our own minds and visions by recognising more of the true reality we live in. We begin to see the bigger picture.

This Self Healing Retreat teaches tools we can all use to expand our perspective. Tools which anyone can learn to use.

No special skills are required because all we are doing is learning or relearning or remembering to use a muscle we haven't used for such a long time we have forgotten we had it!

If you exercise your arm muscles for just 10 minutes a day for a few weeks you quickly notice strength, power and flexibility growing and the same holds true for learning and practising awareness expansion.

There is a dormant force laying untapped within us. We stumble through life looking for more meaning, searching new careers, bigger houses, shinier cars, better outfits, more elegant lifestyles and perfect images. And yet we can never quite satisfy or feed that elusive itch or vague feeling that something is missing. "What have we created this lifetime for?" asks the inner voice.

Are we merely doomed to create a world to live within and that's it! What is that missing piece we mourn and yearn for? Our creativity, our Artistic Essence has been stolen, kidnapped, crushed and ignored for such a long time it is difficult to even image a life wherein we might allow Our Self to be creative.

We couldn't imagine getting up each morning without spending time to dress or wash or eat but the thought of creativity being an Essential (of Our Essence) part of our day seems ludicrous, such is the extent to which our Natural Essence of Creativity has been buried under logic and reason. Logic and Reason have their part to play in our lives but without being balanced by Creativity they become destructive rather than constructive.

The Essence of the Pine Tree is the Masculine strength and solidity, whilst the Essence of the Birch Tree is the Feminine grace and flexibility. Each tree embodies both energies because without flexibilty the solid and strong Pine would break in the wind and without strength and solidity the Birch would flail uselessly on the ground.

Without the presence and balance of our Creative Aspect we become as the Pine Tree which snaps off in the wind despite its strength and size.

This workshop week explores the reasons for dampening our natural Creativity but mostly offers the opportunity to indulge Your Self in some creative pursuits under the inspiration guidance of Suvi Autio who has guided many workshops in Finland, in particular with ceramic work.

The Intention of the week is to release Your Own Innate Creativity by understanding the reasons and circumstances which caused it to be quashed in the first place, as well as providing an encouraging environment to allow our creativity to flow forth once more. Handicraft activities including paper mache, mosaic work, paper making and book making. No experience required.

Price £250 per person

Fairytale Rescue Your Self from the Highest Tower!

Let loose your inner fairytale! Dragons, Princes, Princesses, fairies, goblins, witches, elves, unicorns.........

We are so used to fulfilling set roles (Mother, Father, Teacher, Student, Boss, Child, Lover, Partner etc.) and images that are dictated, albeit subconsciously, by society that we act out our lives like zombies or robots, whilst our powerfully unique creative passions snooze away like some Sleeping Beauty waiting to be rescued by a Prince Charming.

Well here's a news flash!

Prince Charming doesn't exist and if you lay around waiting for someone else to awaken you from Your Self Induced Slumber or to cut through Your Defences of thorns, towers and fire breathing dragons then you are in for a long (never ending) and disappointing wait!!

But take heart, there is a person who can help you with any problem and any solution.

Take a look in the mirror.

"Mirror, mirror on the wall,

Who's the One to take care of All?"

And then say "hello" to your very own hero!

You created these defences and barriers, You put Your Self to sleep and You did all this for some very good reasons which you have now completely forgotten about and are no longer relevant to your current life!

All of these defences were designed to keep You safe but now they are no longer appropriate to Who You Really Are.

Now is the time to let them go by understanding where they came from and then changing your mind about having them.

Now is the time to stand up and recognise Your own Inner strength and Power.

The same amazing power which created all those defences can be set free to create the fairytale landscape of Your choice.

Who needs defences when instead you can create your very own fairytale kingdom?

This workshop week will give insights into why we create the defences we do, how to dismantle them and how to build your dreams and Live Happily Ever After

Price £275 per person

Program includes:

No previous experience is required

The programs are created such that guests participating in the workshop during the morning assist around the farm in the afternoon, therefore guests must be enthusiastic and not afraid of getting dirty! If you don't want to participate in farm work then please look at Self Healing workshop weeks at Mairela Holistic Retreat instead.

Traditional sauna

Airport transfer available

Full board (breakfast, lunch & dinner) Guests are asked to help out with meal times.

Campfire

Maximum 10 places

Accommodation is shared in the main house. There are twin and single rooms, washing and toilet facilities are shared. There is a small supplement (£30) if you wish to guarantee a single room. All bedding is provided.

Flights from London Heathrow to Helsinki via Blue1

Flights from London Gatwick and Edinburgh to Helsinki via Norwegian.com

Your retreat healer is Sara Gardner, an experienced healer and author of "Thoughts From My Gift of Cancer"

Price: from £250 per person (inc. accom, full board, use of sauna, attunement, farm working & all group sessions)!!!

Get a 10% early bird discount if you book your place more than 3 months in advance! Save £25!

For further information or to book a place

Call me (Sara) on 00358 408 404807

Or text me on 00358 408 404807 

Or send an email to Sara (please remember to add me to your safe contacts list otherwise your reply may be filtered out, I always reply to every enquiry with 24 hours)

Anyone wishing to put together their own group of 8 or more for a self healing workshop week such as this receives a whopping 15% discount for the whole group!! That's £37.50 per person!!! Subject to availability

It is possible to come early or stay on at Toivo Biodynamic Farm after your Retreat week for extra nights as a volunteer on the farm (full time) or for an additional £15 per night, subject to availability. This gives guests extra flexibility with flight times and prices.

Workshops are available to anyone with basic English language skills.

"Wow! What a perfect holiday and to think I was worried about coming on holiday on my own! Thank you, thank you for holding my hand in this marvellous, special and fantabulous place and allowing me to be me and deal with process and let go of lots of stuff. You're all fab and even as I leave I can't wait to return."

Tina (teacher)