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Bonhays Meditation & Retreats:: Energy Work

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor touched but are felt in the heart." Helen Keller

What do you mean by energy work?

The subtle realms in all their beauty, permeate, sustain and inform our physical world. The wonders of imagination, healing, intuition, creative inspiration, and perhaps all that we experience as sacred are woven into this great mystery.  Energy work is a way of working with your body and the energy within and surrounding it with your awareness as a profound and effective method of self healing as well as naturally taking us into deeper states of awareness.

How do you work with energy?

We practice meditation practices that use the subtle anatomy structure and our thoughts purposefully, to allow our awareness to deepen.  We work with energy streams within and surrounding the body, the chakras, aura structure, sound and light.  We aim to do this in a grounded, non-flakey way!  Understanding the reality of our sensitivity, unfolds gradually through meditation and subtle body awareness exercises. Each person is encouraged to value and examine their own experience, so that understanding about ourselves is truly 'felt', not a fantasy, or dependant on some external authority structure. The questions and experiences that inevitably arise as we do this, are seen as precious teachers in finding our own truth, and releasing ourselves from constricting emotional habits.

Why work this way?

To open the heart!  Perhaps it's one of the truest signposts of spiritual development.  The opening into ourselves needs to be appropriate to the particular make-up of the western mind.  Yes we know we need to be open and awake in the present moment, a deep truth, and yet often we need to address and care for the emotional area more than is traditionally associated with many Eastern practices.  The work with meditation, and particularly the energywork, enables the release of inhibitive emotional blockages allowing the opening into greater depth and kindness and the wonder of the present moment. 

To learn this energy and healing work will never follow a solely formal, theoretical or scientific pattern. It is our appreciation of our own experiences, the use of intuition whilst strengthening inner authority, the gradual means to differentiate between emotional interference and true insight, that increasingly we learn to rely upon, trust and express our understanding of energy and spirituality from a lived, worked and authentic position.  

We hope you will join us on this journey of discovery.