🏝️RETREAT: Saturday, 1st February 2025 - 'The Other Side of Anxiety'
a project for reclaiming our emotional sovereignty
Dear friends,
I hope that you are tying a bow on the last pieces of 2024 and getting ready for some well-deserved rest and recuperation with family and friends.
As the year does pass, and a new one dawns on us, naturally questions arise as to what we can do to both set our goals and support ourselves in achieving those goals - to avoid a hamster wheel feeling that can come about when life becomes disorganised.
For those interested in taking a deep dive into deep self-care, I’ll be offering a retreat based on that re-calibration effort in early 2025, centred on the topic of the nervous system and regaining primacy over it as a tool, and not a hurricane we feel like we are a leaf within.
The title is ‘The Other Side of Anxiety: A Project for Reclaiming Our Emotional Sovereignty’ and we will be taking on the big questions such as:
Why does life wash off some people, and stick to others?
Why have my self-care attempts so far not brought about what I wished for?
How can I bring about the change I desire and deserve for myself and my loved ones?
The way we will be doing that is via a practical body-led approach (movement, breathwork, meditation) of restoring wellness via the experimentation of:
Releasing pent-up nervous system energy
Practising down-regulation of our nervous system
Picking up tools that help us to turn those calm states into a trait
In between that, whilst we are in receptive states, we will be having a few talks on where our pathways became corrupt, how that has created cyclical outcomes, and what we can do to break the cycle.
It is a day that sets about encouraging your own exploration of your internal domain, building your skillset and capacity to see clearly where we have exported some of those big ticket items of safety, connection and validation of our authentic experience and go about bringing that back home.
Who is this suited to?
This is beginner-friendly but ultimately designed like a good book to activate inside of you where you are today, noticing what is important, and when that Tetris block falls into place, another one can follow with increasing significance. Those a little further on their journey will find benefit in it being a refresher or targeted solutions that can be used to further develop their practice.
How is it being delivered?
The retreat will be conducted live online to provide the greatest accessibility.
When is it being held?
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):
How to book:
How is this different to other options for my self-care?
There are many options available for us to look after ourselves, and that is a good thing. This is not for everyone and is not designed to be.
Mainstream approaches failed me for 10 years before I was able to gain the support I required to break the cycle. Talk therapy can be difficult when you don’t know what to talk about because you’ve been disconnected from your body/memories for so long. I was prompted into sitting within the truth of the bad decisions I made, without understanding the breeding grounds that made illogical choices logical. That drove me to more poor choices as the weight of my suffering brought on self-soothing.
Alternative approaches failed me for 10 years because I placed all of my expectations on a yoga/breathwork/meditation teacher to resolve all of the disturbance that I brought into the room. It’s like blaming the glass of water the morning after a big night of drinking for our hangover. The water didn’t do it, it was the case of beer.
What this approach recognises is that a drowning person can’t learn to swim. By taking a protocol of body-led, we learn to trust ourselves that we can direct our nervous system and then the body starts to trust us, that it can start to work through some of the items it has been suppressing.
If we do that in reverse, it’s like trying to paint a portrait in the dark; what is relevant won’t be seen because we can’t yet hold ourselves in a receptive state.
Instead of shame-inducing, isolated and symptomatic it is self-directed, socially supported, and scientifically motivated. We aren’t looking to characterize and numb, we are looking to humanize and listen.
Pre-requisites
Aside from a general sense of curiosity, what will support you on the day is:
Stable internet connection
Quiet place free from interruptions
Loose and comfortable clothing
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Background to the project of self-directed healing
To your healing 💙,
Jas
www.jasfield.com - homepage
https://www.jasfield.com/t/monday-meditation - weekly meditations
Hello is there a cost attached to this or is it free to join
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Can I ask whether it will be recorded? I would love to join but I’m travelling that day…