[RETREAT PROGRAM] 🏝️ Saturday, 1st February 2025 - 'The Other Side of Anxiety'
a project for reclaiming our emotional sovereignty
Happy Sunday fellow humans,
As we count down until the next live retreat in 4 weeks’ time, I thought I would pass by to share the day’s program to give you a more granular look at what it will feel like and what you’ll walk away with.
Retreat Program:
Practical bodywork - we begin the day as always with some body movement that allows us to safely release undischarged nervous system energy (adrenalin and cortisol) that becomes blocked when we are trapped in disorganised states.
Breathwork session 1 - next we experiment with throwing an anchor down to settle our attention in the moment and begin down-regulating the nervous system.
Meditation session 1 - as we enter a more receptive place we will learn to pick up the phone to the wisdom that sits inside of all of us, too often tuned out by our hyper-stimulating world.
Talk ‘Reclaiming our emotional sovereignty’ - I will deliver a talk that is designed to plant the seeds of curiosity surrounding the early social origins of anxiety, the contextual burdens that can make it persistent, and how our protocol we are practising on the day seeks to rescue us from the cyclical outcomes that can be born out of those conditions.
Breathwork session 2 - feeling motivated we will start a more advanced technique that utilises the vagus nerve (think gear stick of the nervous system) to hold ourselves in a down-regulated state.
Meditation session 2 - as our body relaxes, we will also practice turning off the brain's threat detector that pulls us away from caring for ourselves in favour of the ever-changing, never-ending external world.
Breathwork session 3 - the body and mind relaxed, we will utilise a breathwork technique tailored to kick start our ‘fear extinction pathway.’
Meditation session 3 - as our confidence builds, we will explore predictable areas in the body where memories are stored in order to start mapping our internal domain to promote putting down some of the bags we have picked up along the way.
Breathwork session 4 - with the day coming to a close, we will have our final breathwork session that is focused on increasing our ability to integrate our experiences, such as those that we encountered on the day.
Meditation session 4 - finally we will off-ramp by taking a final exploration into how we unconsciously find ourselves in situations of ill care and what we can do to rebuild a type of village that consistently supports our non-negotiables.
Naturally, as the day is designed to be highly supportive of our nervous system and our cognitive limits, there will be plenty of breaks to step away and dip-in / dip-out which will also be a practice in developing a safe container of down-regulation and re-integration of our emotional experiences in the future.
What you’ll walk away with:
A practical set of tools to meet you where you are today, in order to:
Take yourself to calm,
Begin to experiment with turning that state into your new default mode, and
Nurture a sense of curiosity around your experience that brings your emotional sovereignty back home.
A reminder for the exact time and date for where you are in this big wide world:
It will be an immersive 6-hour experience on Saturday, 1st February 2025, running on two different timeslots (i.e. I’ll be doing it live twice; you pick the session most flexible for your time zone):
If that sounds like something that you’d like to be involved in you can register by clicking the appropriate links below:
Wishing you a great start to the week and as always, here’s to your healing 💙,
Jas
https://www.jasfield.com/t/monday-meditation (weekly meditations)
