Mairela - A Natural Healing Space
Holistic Healing Holidays to Cleanse your Body, Mind & Soul

These are some case studies of actual holistic healing holidays taken at Mairela (permission to use the material has been given and names have been changed to maintain confidentiality). Although each holistic healing week is individual these studies give some idea of how the week comes together and the basic application of holistic healing to seek the roots of dis-ease rather than treating only the symptoms.

 Case Study 2 Case Study 3 Home Healing

Case Study 1

Bill presented with low energy, tiredness, concentration problems and low cortisol (stress hormone) levels. He had lost inspiration in later life and wanted to consult about reconnecting with himself, integrating his other side (creative) and bringing alignment with his true calling.
Bill, is 55 years old, has a very strong intellect and works well with his mind but has no real connection to his body, he doesn't always notice if he hasn't eaten for a day and he doesn't take physical exercise.

Day 1

We started the day with an exercise to assist Bill get into his body. Just by sitting in a chair closing his eyes and allowing the physical feelings inside the body to be there with no agenda or attachments to how they were but just being aware of how it all felt and gaining experience of the sensations. Bill's mind found it very difficult to allow that, there was resistance via stopping and opening eyes and asking questions. The physical body doesn't ask questions, question asking is a function of the mind.

We moved the session onto the healing table and I started with a basic healing in the legs, there was not much energy flow particularly in the left leg. Around the 1st and 2nd chakra I could feel a blocked libido, the feeling was that it wasn't considered useful or essential. I did lots of clearing of stuck energy from the sacral and the base chakra and then down through the legs to create some flow of energy into the earth to give a sense of grounding. Grounding creates a sense of security and safety which are functions of the lower chakras. As I cleared the first two chakras I could feel something stirring in the solar plexus which is the main seat of the mental energy.

The heart chakra was open and connected to mine, the energy flowed in ok and it felt very nice but there was a slight feeling of emptiness too.
Around the head area I let the energy flow as a very peaceful energy with no intention to clear anything or change anything as I didn't want to engage the mind at this point. I received a very strong vision of Bill's ego as an underground military type base where everything was controlled with surveillance equipment. My guidance was to avoid storming that control base as everything would be driven further underground.
We had intended an inner child healing but I didn't proceed with that as it includes dialogue and it didn't feel appropriate, it felt like the mind had already hijacked it. So I concentrated on flowing more softness into the whole mind/head area. There was a strong connection with divine energy and strong beautiful golden light filled Bill's body. The key word from the healing was softness as that perfectly described the energy of the body as opposed to the sharp/hard edged energy of the ego mind trying to control everything.

Day 2

We started the session with more exercises to get Bill to experience being in his body. Again there was lots of resistance which was not acknowledged, meaning that the mind was totally in control of what was happening. I didn't engage with Bill about this as that would strengthen the attachments to the mind. Bill was now wondering why he was here, his mind wouldn't let him see anything else, it didn't 'know' how to and it was scared to let go. This is a normal experience.

We took the session down onto some cushions on the floor as Bill found it easier to let go of the mind when the body wasn't sitting in a chair. Although Bill felt that he was more relaxed there wasn't much progress with feeling into his body as he was 'feeling' his legs from the outside and unable to describe them other than 'normal' or 'just there'.
As we continued with the exercise of just lying there and letting the experience of feeling how the body feels I could sense lots of anger and hate and bitterness rising in the right leg, most likely tapping into the energy of frustration that Bill was experiencing (but not acknowledged) as he tried to be in his body. However, if you 'try' to be anything, then that intention is coming from your mind and all the time that the mind is present 'trying' to make something happen then there is no room for anything else, in particular there is no room for experiencing the quiet small voice or feeling that we may not easily recognise. I didn't mention the anger feeling and it subsided as Bill relaxed his body and mind.
We finished travelling up the legs taking note of how they felt and then drew attention (soft, light attention like a curiosity as opposed to the sharp focused attention of the ego) to the groin/coccyx/hips area. Where the attention/awareness goes so does the energy and so Bill slowly let the energy in and softened (mentally and physically) and start to trust (when the go mind sees that nothing bad is happening when it lets go of control then it can open up more).

Then I directed Bill's awareness to his hara which I could see was very thick, black and tired. The hara is the centre where we store chi, it gives us our power, it is from this place that martial arts students draw the energy that breaks blocks of concrete. I cleaned it with bright white light which I then took down Bill's legs and into the centre of the earth, this helped to clear the pathways a little and then I asked Bill to do it for himself.

Bill was able to visualise this and feel the energy moving which in turn produced a lot of physical movement in his body. Our bodies will spontaneously do what is needed when we allow it by taking our mind out of the way. After a while the movements subsided a little and I asked Bill to stand and to really feel his feet on the floor, this would give Bill more grounding which in turn would allow him to feel safer and more trusting. I then asked Bill to visualise the light coming into and out of the hara with each breath, drawing it up from the crystalline earth centre on the in breath and letting it fall back down with the out breath. Once Bill was happy with doing that I asked him to change the out breath to spread the soft light around his body, allowing the body to soak it up and be filled with it right down to the cellular level. After a few minutes of filling his body with soft white light I invited Bill to take a walk outside in nature to establish the grounding and allow the new energies of the hara to become embodied.
I then took the healing session onto the couch and was again guided to not engage Bill's mind with any dialoguing healings, therefore I concentrated on clearing stale energy in particular from the abdomen area as the energy there was causing an overwhelming sickness in me (clairsentience). There was also stuck energy in the throat which manifested as a bad taste in my mouth. This usually indicates that something is not being voiced.

Day 3

Rather than get into a confrontation with Bill's ego mind I set out the cushion 'bed' on the floor as opposed to sitting in the chair which seemed to enhance the resistance felt by Bill. We did more practice of 'being in' the body, travelling around and just experiencing how all the different parts were feeling that morning, just being curious with no agenda. This allowed Bill to relax his mind sufficiently so I then took it straight into an inner child healing. Although with the dialogue Bill was still finding it difficult to be 'in' the energy of young Bill I just let that be there. The child Bill (about 2 years old) went to sleep and went straight onto the astral to play with his friends, this is quite normal dream time stuff and it served to remind Bill that he had done that as a child. I brought Bill back after a while of exploring the astral realms and he brought back to awareness the knowledge of how much time he spent on the astral level as a child. I asked if scary stuff had happened there and he said it had but much later. We moved to this later time and brought in the energy of 6-8 years old Bill. There was a shark eating something or swallowing up something but he couldn't/didn't feel frightened by it now. Bill stood and watched it, fascinated and not bothered by what was happening, he said that it felt like just a normal function of life like a leaf falling from a tree even though it was him being consumed. I left him to observe for a while and the feeling didn't change and then I brought him back into the room.

I shared my guidance with Bill that he had stated that he had come to release/unite his inner child and yet when confronted with 'young Bill' being consumed 'adult' Bill was not bothered, he had seen it as a natural function of life. This was very symbolic of the huge disconnect that Bill had in many areas of his life. I invited Bill to go and take a walk out in nature and just let that apparent disconnect state of affairs be there, not to think about it or try to rationalize or intellectualise it but to just let all the states of being be present.

I could see the shark was the mother, the internalised voice of the disapproving parent, which in turn becomes the ego mind. The ego mind is growing stronger and consuming the creative energy of the inner child. The child is there very powerfully as Bill has fantastic creative energies however the ego is also very powerful and takes control of everything which makes Bill very polarised. Healing will come with the softening that opens up Bill's perspective so that both states are there at the same time and with full awareness of what is happening with everything. This is what I would call the higher self, not a self as such but a state where all is encompassed in the whole, it is what we are all aiming for

Day 4

We took the session straight to the cushion bed and I took Bill through a body exercise known as dissolving Chi Kung, which is a little like EFT on the physical body.

There was a lot of tension in the lower back so I placed my hands on the front and back of the sacral chakra to send energy there. This started lots of spontaneous physical movement, I kept reassuring Bill that it was ok and not to fight it and not to let the mind get in the way.

With occasional reassurances by voice and touch Bill let go more and more and followed his body, he followed his own instinctive spontaneous body movements. The more he trusted himself (his physical body) the more he released and the more blockages he released the more he trusted. The movements were very raw, sexual and animalistic as the energy came from the base and the sacral chakras, the energy centres of the raw sexual energy, the libido.

I felt that Bill had just been born and was finally coming into his body. It was very beautiful to watch someone blossom like that, like the opening of the lotus blossom as Bill opened up each part of his body to a new flow of energy.
The last part around the back of the neck and the third eye remained a little tight. This is the last place for the mind to keep a hold so we just left it be, allowed it to be just the way it was without disapproving of it thereby not engaging with it and strengthening the mind's attachments.

Day 5

Today I took the session back to the chair and did some exercises to get Bill to feel into his emotional body. There was fear of the chair and annoyance at having to be in the emotional body but Bill couldn't recognise them as emotions and kept interrupting which was the mind resisting again. I kept encouraging Bill to keep at it, going back after every mind interruption until the frustration of that grew big enough for Bill to recognise the feeling of annoyance. Once the emotional aspect of annoyance was recognised we could allow it to be there and let it grow i.e. let it come more into awareness. I kept encouraging it and took the session onto the floor. Bill was kneeling on a cushion and using another cushion to express the annoyance and anger toward. There was not a huge outward movement of emotion but there had been some movement and expression so the possibility has been ignited. The emotional energy field has been identified, brought back into awareness and felt experientially, albeit very quietly. Bill's trust had grown too as the emotions were allowed to be felt and nothing 'bad' had happened.

We completed a written exercise to show Bill some of the aspects of himself that were hidden in his shadow self, the 'disapproved of' self. These aspects are both the positive and negative aspects that we have disowned in a misinformed bid to make ourselves more acceptable, usually in our early childhood. These parts become forgotten as they lay in the shadow and it is with work like this that we can identify them and start to re-experience them and bring them back into the light so that we may be whole again. Bill could see some insights from the exercise for example his dislike of people who are emotional. At some point in early life Bill has taken on the belief that showing emotion was not approved of and in his bid to be pleasing he stifled his emotions until eventually the blocking of emotions became habitual and unconscious.

I finished the week by doing a spine cleanse as the spine is one of the main channels of energy around the body, I cleansed on the physical and emotional energy levels, balancing the spine and energised the back chakras.

The integration of all aspects of Bill would be achieved by the letting go of the ego mind controls and those controls will be released by the growing trust in the whole of the body in particular the physical and emotional bodies. The mind works by 'doing' and what this mind is doing is grasping everything to keep control but in reality/truth it doesn't need to control. There is nothing to be 'done' by anyone except to let go of control, to surrender. Letting go is not actually doing anything, it is the cessation of 'doing' something.

Bill's view

I came to Mairela having very few earlier experiences with energy healing and even fewer expectations. What I wanted was to connect to my life and path and establish a new base to live from. I felt exhausted and increasingly uninspired. I just brought a few books and some drawing tools. I looked forward to live simply, have a fire going, get my own water and fire up a wood sauna. The five days of healing dug deeper than I expected. During the first days I really had no idea to connect to my body and silently wondered why I was there. I went through the moves with interest. But Sara kept guiding me to the things I didn't notice and slowly my awareness became more sensitive. The fourth day I experienced my body opening up to a new energy that crept up my spine while I 'jumped' stretched and twisted to accommodate it.

Afterwards I felt reborn and energized, I could see and hear clearer. It felt like the ground floor of my existence opened up and a new way of sensing and living became available.

Looking back I was impressed with Sara's professionalism, being able to guide me while I was reluctant to sense the many different mental, emotional and bodily energy processes. Her careful interventions shaped a journey that allowed me not only to experience new energies but also use them as stepping stones for a completely new experience. Once home my wife, friends and colleagues sensed a completely new 'me', deeper, more relaxed and sensitive.

I felt that the week was the reconnection I wanted it to be and that I experienced a more integrated way to live. Sara's image of Mairela is as a place of trust and love allowing development. Sara's work to create the circle of Mairela and uphold its energies certainly provided a cradle for a deep and fundamental growth. Next to the healing sessions the physical work of fetching wood, tending the fire, getting water and firing the wood sauna add to the depth of the experience. I'm deeply grateful and look forward to coming back!

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Case Study 2

Jackie presented with a history of asthma and allergies. She had been abused as a child for a long period but had received counselling for this and felt in control of its effects on her life. She only knew that she would know what she wanted to do when we met and said she would keep an open mind and go with the flow.

Day 1

I started by conducting a basic healing as Jackie hadn't identified any particular problems.
I found that the energy was very much pulled up into the top half of the body indicating a disconnect with the physical and in particular the sexual centres. The base, sacral and solar plexus chakras all felt very cold. I ran some energy and started some energy moving at the base but I proceeded very gentle as the overall feeling was that she didn't want to be in her body as it wasn't safe. I didn't force any energy as growing a sense of trust was more important. I ran lots of energy streamers down from the shoulders to the feet to gently produce a safe space without any feeling of intrusion in the lower chakras.

I could feel myself being sucked into an energy of wanting to fix everything and put things right. I realised that this was Jackie's energy (sometimes we defend against our own pain by looking to help others). I received guidance to give a message to Jackie "you have nothing to prove, just be yourself." I infused the lungs with some gentle pink energy to make them more open/soft/flexible to allowing the life breath in which would allow her life force to be felt with the knowledge that it cannot annihilate her. (Asthma). I also infused the rear aspect of the 3rd eye as many restrictions lay there.

After the healing we discussed various ways of grounding. This was the major thing to concentrate on for now as being grounded helps to bring a sense of self that builds trust and a feeling of safety without which it would be difficult to allow any painful feelings to be felt and expressed.

Day 2

The day started with checking in to see how Jackie felt after the previous day. Jackie said that she didn't really feel anything in her body. Tuning into her energy field I could sense that this was true and yet it was clear that there was a lot of energy there too. As I continued to observe Jackie's energy field I saw a fence between us, a protective wire fence. Following guidance we proceeded immediately into an inner child healing.

During the inner child healing we came across a friend, Chrissie, who protected the young Jackie. Little Jackie told me "he doesn't come when she's here." This was the protection that Jackie had defended herself with as an abused child, as she was too young herself to deal with the pain of what was happening.

The next step of the healing was re-parenting the adult Jackie as the protector of little Jackie (the inner child). We started by thanking her friend Chrissie for protecting her for all these years and saying how grateful she was for her help then explaining to Chrissie that she would take care of little Jackie now and that the protective fence wasn't needed anymore as she (adult Jackie) was able to survive the pain of anything now that she was older, stronger and understood more.

The protective fence was also stopping the positive life force from flowing which was why Jackie couldn't feel much in her body. This was the reason for Jackie knowing that she wanted to come here for help but being unable to express or consciously know what she wanted help with.

Day 3

We started the day with our usual exercise of feeling into the body and exploring the feelings within to build on the trust of knowing the feelings and being able to experience them without fear. We identified an energy in the head that felt like it was squeezing. By using techniques to allow the energy space to do what it wanted to do, following the innate wisdom of the body and the intelligence of universal energy, the energy manifested as Jackie crying and once expressed it lifted.

We moved on to do a sound healing which is a good way to start moving old energy and break down blocks especially as it bypasses the use of words but still allows the intense power of expression.

There was some tribal energy released from the left leg and lots of hate from the right leg. After the right leg was cleared I infused it with pink celestial energy. I then proceeded to reconnected the heart and sacral chakras using toning of the heart sound (AH …as in father). It was very hard to hold the tone as there was very much sadness, this stagnant sad energy made everything feel very tired. The feeling was quite overwhelming to me and so I asked for the Arch angels Zadkiel and Raphael to help shift it.

I could feel anger in the liver with corresponding anxiety in the spleen but there was nothing that seemed ready to move yet.

Note: Some energy blocks can be perceived but if the person is not ready to deal with the particular issue they hold then it serves no purpose to move them. They could be moved by a healer shifting the energy but the underlying belief system would still remain and the blockage would reform. I have removed energetic objects before and then seen them go straight back into the energy field because they were not ready to be released.

Day 4

I started the day with an exercise to reveal held beliefs and explore their influence. The sentence 'men are wankers' was strongly expressed and felt by Jackie. Jackie was shocked with its intensity. We turned the statement around to "people are faithful" because it was the desired state that Jackie wished to focus on. By expressing the desired state it brings to light the resistance and blocks to that desired state. Jackie couldn't say the revised belief and then cried.

We then took this to the healing couch and went back to a time in her early life where she was humiliated by a playground abuser. Allowing the repressed emotional expressions from this experience brought to light the sadness of Jackie losing her mother. She expressed "why did you leave me mum?" Although there was much more deeper energy to be expressed it was a good start for Jackie to know experientially that it is ok to express how you feel, regardless of how hurtful it may seem to the other.

Expressing buried negative emotions towards our parents is difficult and takes time because as children we are totally dependant on our parents and the thought of being disapproved of by them leads to existential terror (literally we feel that if they don't love us we will die). It is by growing a sense of self worth and trust that we reach a point when we are able to lift the terror and express the repressed emotions thereby freeing the flow of energy through our whole being and restoring a healthy energy flow.

Day 5

I gave Jackie an intention line overview, showing her how to set it, and then I did a healing on it, cleaning it up and running energy through it. I was guided to open up her hand chakras and run energy down through the occipital ridge, very similar to a reiki attunement in fact. As I worked I removed several restrictive objects from Jackie's energy field. I followed my guidance feeling that I was preparing to send a huge shining light off into the world. It felt humbling to be there at the beginning of something big.

Although the desire to want to fix others and concentrate on other people's problems was used as a defence mechanism to avoid her own pain it was only a distortion of the powerful, compassionate and loving energy that emanates from Jackie's core. It is the pure flow of this essence that will serve her well as a healer.

Jackie's view

I came to Mairela with an oversense of belonging, almost as though I had some how managed to find my way home, yet, in this life I have never visited Finland. I remember arranging my trip and feeling anxious knowing that I would not return as the same person that left. I even prepared my home by cleaning and clearing every space for the home coming of this new me.

Once I was at Mairela I just knew I had to go with whatever was brought to my attention, I could not ever of imagined the sheer feeling of peace that I felt after each session, but during each session was an array of emotions and I remember feeling quite annoyed that you did not seem to believe me when I said I was feeling 'fine', but I then produced all these things from within during the healing, which was evident I was not fine even though I felt that way.I have come home feeling like all my surroundings are new and fresh, it's like being reborn. I have completed a reiki 1 course, which I had been thinking about doing for the past 5 years and I now feel ready to venture on with my life but by doing it with fresh eyes.

All I can say is 'thank you', you are a true Earth Angel and I will definitely come back and visit Mairela.

J xxx

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Case Study 3

Dean (42) presented with a history of depression and a family history of schizophrenia (mother and brother). His brother had committed suicide when he was 28, after suffering schizophrenia. Dean wanted to try energy work to see what it could offer him although he already had doubts about any advantages.

Day 1

A childhood with a schizophrenic mother had produced similar behaviour patterns in Dean, meaning that his biggest form of defence was to leave his body, for him to not be present and thereby avoid his pain. (This defence was known by Reich as the schizoid defence) To avoid triggering this defence and to establish a feeling of safety, calm ,peace and trust we spent a long time just talking about Dean's past , job, interests and family. The most important objective was to give him a sense of safety and trust. With this in mind I proceeded with a basic general healing to allow Dean to experience being in his body and trusting. I channelled pure pink fluffy love throughout the entire energy field.

Day 2

We started the day with a 30 minute Om meditation. Meditation is a great way to experience the energy and feelings within your body without feeling threatened in any way.

Dean had expressed a desire to understand his mother a little more because the different personalities he experienced during his childhood had made life very confusing.
I started with an inner child healing and Dean was able to see himself as a young boy and the adult Dean was able to communicate with his inner child, to connect with little Dean thus creating a constant source of love. This will allow Dean to give himself the unconditional love that he couldn't get from his mother. (All human parents are unable to sate the unconditional love requirements of their children, no matter how loving and attentive they are) Childhood sadness had been expressed by Dean through some tears, there was a lot of energy movement in his lower jaw (the jaw is a place of enormous physical holding for many of us) but no cathartic release. I would have been surprised if there had been any cathartic release or strong expression as just experiencing and feeling these emotions in his body was a wonderfully big step for Dean.

I then brought Dean's mother's higher self into the room without any dialogue between them. I cleared old stagnant energy from the cord that connects them (we all have energy cords between us and anyone we are in relationship to). I cleaned the cord at both ends and at the middle connection, Dean's relationship with his mum, his mum's relationship with him and the quality of the interactions between them had now been cleansed allowing the distortions to be more easily recognised and understood. A child doesn't have the capacity to intellectualize its mother's moods and therefore forms many beliefs about how unworthy they, the child is. These beliefs then become buried and habitual but once they are brought back into our awareness we can start to dismantle them and build more life affirming ones. I could see Dean's higher self communicating with his mother's higher self through their eyes and at that level there was total understanding.

Day 3

We started the day with my "Connection to Your Inner Temple Mediation" which was very well received. Dean said he was starting to feel more inside his body already.
We then went on to start a past life healing which ended up back into this present life but showed the most useful memories for Dean to relive and understand their significance in his present life.

In his deeply relaxed state Dean relived the memory of himself as a young boy afraid of being in trouble because he hadn't attended school. He was avoiding school because he felt he couldn't express himself enough at school to explain himself. Feeling very misunderstood Dean would go alone to places and feel sad. Then Dean moved to a fairly recent memory when his father collapsed at home and the enormous amount of distress he felt inside but didn't express outwardly. Then Dean moved to the memory of him at the hospital feeling he was too late to get there before his father died and again the enormously distressing feelings inside of him.

Dean then moved to see himself alone in his room with nobody to talk to about what happens in his life, or to share the everyday things.
Dean really misses his brother and sometimes felt that he was there. I could confirm that there was already a good connection between Dean and his brother and guided Dean to trust what he was feeling and communicate with his brother in whatever way suited him.

Note: Connections with our guides and teachers can come in any form, usually the one that suits us best. We could start writing and let whatever comes flow out onto the paper (this can be a little difficult at first but if you let the stilted gobbledegook come out and be written down and just stay with it then like a river washing over new ground it will start to flow more smoothly as you continue, as the blocking rocks and pebbles get washed away). Other ways include hearing their voice, or speaking to them in your head or out loud (not recommended in Sainsburys), or sometimes just seeing images like photographs or movies. I quite often get distinctive smells when my Finnish grandparents are around. Sometimes we just get a feeling about something. There is no right or wrong way and usually the only thing stopping us from feeling the connection is our own lack of trust or belief.

The schizoid defence takes us away from being present and therefore makes it very difficult to connect to people. The desire to connect means that Dean must do the one thing that he defends with; he has to be present in his body. Yet the defence came about because of some very early trauma in his life which will take a lot of work to uncover. Every time Dean comes fully into his body he touches the wound that caused the terror, whether he is aware of it or not. That is why growing the sense of grounding and safety is so important because he cannot allow himself to feel that fear without having grown some sense of trust that he will not be annihilated. The existential terror of an early trauma manifests as a threatened feeling of annihilation (ceasing to exist)

Day 4
We started the day with a guided meditation through the chakras infusing each with their colour and gaining experience of the different feelings and qualities within each one.
Dean was comfortable with joining in with toning the chakras himself which makes the whole experience more powerful. This allowed him to feel more in his body again and he became aware of stuck energy in his throat. We noted the energy and just allowed it to be there, being present and accepted. Sometimes the first step with releasing blockages is to first allow them to be seen or felt rather than hiding them, usually through a misplaced sense of shame or guilt.

We then moved on to do a general healing using a healing CD, Holy Harmony which is a combination of tuning forks of the complete healing codes of the bible and a beautiful choral chant of YHSVH, an ancient name of the Christ. Particular attention was paid to the throat area. Dean's body started to open up more, reacting and opening the flow of energy with a lot of spontaneous movement.

Dean then went for a massage in the afternoon. This would help to smooth out the previously tense muscles and to increase the physical sensations of being in his body.

Day 5
We started the day by rowing over the lake, mooring up on the other side and going up to the ancient hill fort (Linnavuori) there. Up at the top we sat and silently meditated for some time. It was a very beautiful and empowering experience, as being out in nature especially among pine trees surrounded by serene lakes is very grounding and cleansing.

In her book 'Light Emerging' Barbara Brennan states that "The trees in a pine forest pulsate at a rate very similar to a human's auric field. Sitting in such a forest will recharge your field when you need it" Barbara also mentions that "calm lakes have a great soothing effect on us by relaxing the tension or hyperincoherent pulsations in our field caused by the stress of modern living."

I showed Dean a few different techniques to help improve grounding such as the ocean breath (Chi Kung) and a walking meditation. When we employ the schizoid defence (this is not the same as being schizophrenic) we pull our energy up and out of the head as it's deemed not safe to be in the body, therefore physically grounding ourselves and bringing the energy back down to the feet really does help us to step out of that defence. It's beautiful to see that by day 5 Dean looks so different physically, you can really see that he is more present in his body.

We finished the day with a long, intense and deep healing. There was lots of energy flowing into the heart and throat, then I balanced the fields down from the shoulders and did lots of clearing at the back of the 3rd eye. Dean's body and trust had opened up so much that he was able to sink deeper into himself and therefore the healing happened on a deep level.
Note: Sometimes we fall asleep during a healing as some kind of defence or avoidance. At other times we may have no awareness of what happened in a healing but that is because our mind has totally moved out of the way, the ego has dropped all its defences momentarily as we feel a big sense of trust and safety. That is why it is so important to the work at Mairela that the whole place emanates an energy of peace, safety and love.

Dean's view

As you know I am not great at finding the right words to describe things but I wanted to add that I found the week very emotionally rewarding and physically relaxing. I learnt many things and came back feeling much better and different from when I arrived. Hopefully I will return in the not too distant future.

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