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RETURN TO SELF
A workshop that takes you on an adventurous and insightful journey within yourself.
You are invited to an immersive experiential workshop which will pleasantly surprise you with its evocative combination of body awareness and metaphoric exercises, artwork, drama, dialogue, journaling, meditative practices, individual and group activities.
Your life is the most precious gift you have and your life’s experiences happens, not outside of you, but in your body. Through the workshop, you will gain a new sensitivity to your body’s voices and, thus, facilitate an increased intimacy with your life and yourself. You will attain clarity about yourself, the life you are leading and the relationships you are having. You will appreciate what stands in your way of who you want to be.
The workshop will focus on helping participants shift from living in the realms of concepts, ideology, conditioning and running commentaries in the mind to experiencing the wisdom of the body.
“Intelligence is present everywhere in our bodies… and our own inner intelligence is far superior to any we can try to substitute from the outside.” – Deepak Chopra
WORKSHOP OUTCOMES
The workshop has been designed to open doorways to your psyche and take you on a therapeutic, insightful, transforming and creative journey through which you will:
- Liberate yourself from limiting lifelong patterns and widen your horizon in terms of possibilities
- Become aware of the beliefs you have about your body and how these can alienate it, influence your behaviours and affect your relationships
- Surprise yourself at the courage you will display to go beyond your physical and psychological edges
- Release the child within you to discover, express, play and be joyous
- Get clarity about what truly suits you and what needs are imperative for you
- Transform your self-concepts and experience greater self-worth
- Fully inhabit your body and use its intimations as your guide and friend.
Come! Embark on an exhilarating and liberating journey from estrangement to integration. Journey beyond who you currently are and claim your expansive self. Take delight in a self that is more alive, powerful and wise in a workshop ambiance of adventure, new challenges, camaraderie and joy.
PARTICIPANTS’ EXPERIENCES
“The workshop led me, challenged me to connect with myself through my body. It was a continual learning process that will spill over into my life. I have done the workshop before. This time it was different with other revelations. I would certainly do it again.”
– Nauseer Hamid
“A new me has come alive. I now have the discipline and power to lead an energetic life. The workshop shook me out of the routine complacency to experience the here and now. It opened up the doors and windows that did not exist before. I am walking out of the workshop as a single entity rather than being split. Thank you for unifying me. I love the current that is running through me.”
– Deepti
“I felt myself ridding myself first of my notions, then my inhibitions, and finally my life long patterns of perception and practice, that had so insidiously crept up on me that I had begun to believe they were me. With every passing segment of the workshop, a new door opened. Either in isolation or with a partner or as a group, we were pushed inexorably to a new level of self-awareness, a refreshed sensibility and another state of being. I realised I was being drawn out of myself. I also realised I would be best served if I let go. For strangely, I did feel safe to do so.”
– Aporup
LOGISTICS
Thursday 11th May to Sunday 14th May 2023
| Days | Timings |
|---|---|
| Thursday | 5.00pm to 7.30pm |
| Friday | 9.00am to 7.00pm |
| Saturday | 9.00am to 7.00pm |
| Sunday | 9.00am to 6.00pm |