June 27 – 30, 2024 Byron Bay, Australia
(In English)

Retreat Title: Peace, Power and the Shadow

Retreat Description: This four day retreat for Path of Love graduates will bring inquiry, meditation and reflection on our relationship with peace, power and the shadow.
 
Guilt, Fear, Shame, Anger, Rage…the Shadow Side…
 
How often do you minimise, hide, ignore, push away, and/or suppress your unwanted emotions, feelings, and judgements – otherwise known as our shadow or ‘dark side’?
 
By pushing our unwanted thoughts or feelings aside, these emotions become trapped under the surface where they can unconsciously control our actions and thinking. They also take up a tremendous amount of life force which is then not available for us to experience love, joy or creativity.
 
How well can you live, move and connect if you are only half present?
 
In order to make room for more positive experiences we need to consciously feel and accept these unexpressed shadow feelings. Then, we can regain a deeper sense of peace and wellbeing.
 
This teaching retreat will include enquiry, guided meditations, exercises, teachings, movement and burns. We will explore one of the fundamentals of our Path Retreats’ style of work and learn the tools to consciously and in a safe and real way begin to explore, expose and experience these dark places. As we do that, we can begin to reclaim a new approach to life, resulting in a deeper feeling of peace and experience of self love.

For Info & Bookings Contact: [email protected]

 
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Retreat Accommodation:

This retreat is located in the Byron Bay area, and is non-residential. Lunch and refreshments are included.

Nirodha first dove into the human potential movement in 1982. He become involved in group process work in 1991, working extensively with tantra, primal, the man/woman relational field, trauma and attachment, substance abuse and somatic approaches to working with people.

 
Nirodha leads the Path Retreat processes in America as well as his own group workshops and trainings. He holds a Masters Degree in Psychology.

“This work has given me a medium, support, and the inspiration for my personal inner journey. It’s awakened my passion for the healing that is possible, for myself, for each of us, and for this planet.”

An accident in her late teens shook Gita’s identity and created an opening into being. In the wake of this event she gradually abandoned her university studies and trained in the modalities which helped her heal: Bioenergetics (A. Lowen), Biodynamic Massage (G. Boyesen) and Rebirthing (L. Orr). After practicing Zen Buddhism and Sufism for some time, she met Osho in 1983. This meeting was an initiation into a whole different level of inquiry into the human condition and into silence.

Gita’s passion for grasping the correlation of ego personality (our strategies and wounds) and of who we truly are (our nature and essence) led her to further training in Psychic Massage, Counseling, Hypnosis, Voice Dialogue, Osho Meditative Therapies, The Art of Dying, and Essence work. The focus of her in-depth training became Developmental Trauma Healing, Systemic Constellations (B. Hellinger), energy work and meditation (Osho Academy), early and adult attachment (D. Siegel and D. Poole-Heller) and Somatic Experiencing™️ (P. Levine).

Since the early nineties, Gita has been creating and leading conscious touch trainings, primal and tantra intensives and residential retreats for women. She has been mentoring somatic psychotherapists and meditation teachers since the late nineties. Before moving from Germany to Sedona, AZ, in 2005 she co-developed emotional intelligence retreats for Daimler-Chrysler management and taught those for several years.

In her life and work Gita keeps learning how fully embracing what is – hurt and uncertainty as well as the vital and joyful – opens the gate to presence, connection and courage. The trust to risk what was known in order to receive the new has always been a key to a fulfilled life to her.

Abigail is an Integrative Psychotherapist, Supervisor, Constellator, Breath worker and EMDR practitioner in private practice in London/UK and Europe. She is also a passionate Facilitator of the Path of Love.

She has worked in the field of psychology for over 25 years and is passionate about transformation, truth and deep potential. She especially enjoys creatively discovering what lies beneath our conditioning and pre-programmed attitudes to life.

Abigail offers individual, couple and group sessions face to face and online. She has a fascination with trauma/overwhelm in the nervous system and the complexity of the human condition. She enjoys inquiry and compassionately exploring the depth of the essential self. Her background and training in transpersonal psychotherapy means authenticity, vulnerability, passion and the spiritual self and soul inform a lot of how she works with people and how she meets life for her own personal self-discovery.

Prema McKeever is a somatic therapist, group workshop facilitator and educator who combines more than 20 years of experience in Eastern medicine, meditation, emotional release work, and body-mind therapies. Her work is about guiding you in your journey to wholeness and clarity about who you really are.

She specializes in healing shame and trauma, and expanding your capacity for aliveness and connection. She has completed the 3 year Somatic Experiencing® trauma resolution training and is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute). She integrates other forms of somatic therapies including Hakomi (a body-centered system of psychotherapy), BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release, and Focusing into her sessions. She currently offers private session in Vancouver, BC and via Skype, and facilitates groups worldwide.

Prema’s own personal journey of meditation and self-discovery has taken her from the homes of shamans in the jungles of Peru, to Sufi gatherings in Turkey, to the ashrams of India. She is a long-term student of the Diamond Approach and continues to do her own personal healing work. In 2010 she participated in the Path of Love, and knew then that she found the transformational community for which she had been searching. Since that time she has completed many advanced POL workshops and trainings and is part of the facilitation team of the Path of Love process in the United States. In individual sessions and groups, her focus is on releasing the trauma held in our bodies so we can create a healthier, authentic and more passionate life.

In the early 80’s, Sudhir worked as German engineer developing cars. But he felt that there was more to life than money and success and decided to drop his promising career to travel around the world in search for meaning and purpose.

In 1986 he came for his first visit to India where he started his spiritual studies at a yoga Ashram in Kerala. After his yoga teacher certification, he continued to travel and a year later met the Indian Mystic Osho. He stayed at the Osho Commune in Poone for 11 years. There he participated in the Osho counseling course and was invited to work in the commune as a seminar leader.

After years of practice and education in Meditation, Inner Child Therapy, Bioenergetics, Breath Therapy, Group Dynamics, NLP, Hellinger Family Constellation, Stress Management and many more holistic healing techniques, he began to travel around the world to lead courses at personal growth centers in Europe and the US.

In 1995 he was appointed to lead the Mystery School at the Osho Center for Transformation, which was at the time the world’s largest center for personal growth. In his role of faculty director, he was responsible for program design and training for a team of counselors and therapists.

Now 30 years later, Sudhir’s passion continues to be supporting people in their personal transformation, helping them to live their full potential.

In den frühen 80er Jahren arbeitete Sudhir als deutscher Ingenieur an der Entwicklung von Autos. Aber er spürte, dass es im Leben mehr gibt als Geld und Erfolg, und beschloss, seine vielversprechende Karriere aufzugeben, um auf der Suche nach Sinn und Zweck um die Welt zu reisen.

1986 kam er zum ersten Mal nach Indien, wo er seine spirituellen Studien in einem Yoga-Ashram in Kerala begann. Nach seiner Yogalehrer-Zertifizierung reiste er weiter und traf ein Jahr später den indischen Mystiker Osho. Er blieb 11 Jahre lang in der Osho-Kommune in Poone. Dort nahm er an dem Osho-Beratungskurs teil und wurde eingeladen, in der Kommune als Seminarleiter zu arbeiten.

Nach jahrelanger Praxis und Ausbildung in Meditation, Innerer-Kind-Therapie, Bioenergetik, Atemtherapie, Gruppendynamik, NLP, Hellinger-Familienaufstellung, Stressmanagement und vielen weiteren ganzheitlichen Heiltechniken begann er, um die Welt zu reisen, um Kurse in Zentren für persönliches Wachstum in Europa und den USA zu leiten.

1995 wurde er zum Leiter der Mysterienschule am Osho Center for Transformation ernannt, das damals das weltweit größte Zentrum für persönliches Wachstum war. In seiner Rolle als Fakultätsleiter war er für die Programmgestaltung und die Ausbildung eines Teams von Beratern und Therapeuten verantwortlich.

Heute, 30 Jahre später, besteht Sudhirs Leidenschaft weiterhin darin, Menschen bei ihrer persönlichen Transformation zu unterstützen und ihnen zu helfen, ihr volles Potenzial zu leben.

From Germany, Veeto holds an MA in Social Science and is a licensed psychotherapist specialized in working with developmental trauma resolutions. She is a Leader of the Path Retreats processes in Europe, and is trained in:

• NARM™-Healing Developmental Trauma and a NARM™Practitioner since 2019. (Trainer: Laurence Heller, PhD)
• Trainings in Somatic Attachment™ Therapy (Diane Poole Heller, PhD)
• 3-year Training in Somatic Experiencing™ -Traumahealing (Institut for Human Enrichment, Peter Levine, PhD, USA). Trainer: Laurence Heller, Ph.D and Raja Selvam, PhD
• 2- year Training in Systemic Family Constellation Work (Bert Hellinger), and certified by the ‚Deutsche Gesellschaft für Systemaufstellun
• Training in different Humanistic Psychology approaches (Primal Therapy, Breathwork, Encounter, Counselling, Awareness Intensiv)
•  She holds the title ‚Humaniversity Therapist‘ since 1991
• Trained in Osho’s Active and Meditative Therapies

Veeto has been working with people since 1995 and is passionate about sharing her experiences of integrating understandings from both the Eastern and Western approaches to human development.  She leads seminars and offers individual work in Germany.

She has been a disciple of the Indian mystic Osho since 1980 and her own inner search has been her passion since over 40 years.

Veeto kommt aus Deutschland, hat einen MA in Sozialwissenschaften und ist eine zugelassene Psychotherapeutin, die sich auf die Arbeit mit Entwicklungstraumata spezialisiert hat. Sie ist Leiterin der Path Retreats Prozesse in Europa und ist ausgebildet in:

• NARM™-Healing Developmental Trauma und ist seit 2019 NARM™Practitioner. (Ausbilder: Laurence Heller, PhD)
• Ausbildungen in Somatic Attachment™ Therapy (Diane Poole Heller, PhD)
• 3-jährige Ausbildung in Somatic Experiencing™ -Traumahealing (Institut for Human Enrichment, Peter Levine, PhD, USA). Ausbilder: Laurence Heller, Ph.D. und Raja Selvam, PhD
• 2-jährige Ausbildung in Systemischer Familienaufstellungsarbeit (Bert Hellinger), zertifiziert von der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Systemaufstellung
• Ausbildung in verschiedenen Ansätzen der Humanistischen Psychologie (Primal Therapy, Breathwork, Encounter, Counselling, Awareness Intensiv)
•  Seit 1991 trägt sie den Titel ‘Humaniversity Therapist’.
• Ausgebildet in Osho’s aktiven und meditativen Therapien

Veeto arbeitet seit 1995 mit Menschen und teilt leidenschaftlich gerne ihre Erfahrungen mit der Integration von östlichen und westlichen Ansätzen zur menschlichen Entwicklung.  Sie leitet Seminare und bietet Einzelarbeit in Deutschland an.

Sie ist seit 1980 Schülerin des indischen Mystikers Osho und ihre eigene innere Suche ist seit über 40 Jahren ihre Leidenschaft.

Halima Hane is Heilpraktikerin for Psychotherapy with a private practice in Frankfurt, and has been working as a practicing therapist since 1982. With her background knowledge in Primary Therapy, Sexual De-Conditioning, Tantra, Bioenergetics, Somatic Experiencing by Peter Levine and Rebalancing, combined with her understanding and loving approach, she creates a safe and supportive environment for transformation and growth. Halima offers Primal Therapy and Tantra seminars as well as Women’s Groups.

Halima Hane ist Heilpraktikerin für Psychotherapie mit eigener Praxis in Frankfurt und arbeitet seit 1982 als praktizierende Therapeutin. Mit ihrem Hintergrundwissen in Primärtherapie, Sexual De-Conditioning, Tantra, Bioenergetik, Somatic Experiencing nach Peter Levine und Rebalancing, kombiniert mit ihrer verständnisvollen und liebevollen Herangehensweise, schafft sie eine sichere und unterstützende Umgebung für Transformation und Wachstum. Halima bietet Primal Therapy und Tantra-Seminare sowie Frauengruppen an.

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Satyarthi Peloquin has been leading training programs for the last 48 years. He is the creator of the internationally known form of Body Therapy, Holistic Pain Healing, a psychosomatic and deep massage method that releases pain at its roots, and is known as Myofascial Energetic Release.

He  has been leading relationship and men’s groups for 15 years.  For 13 years he has been a leader in the Path of Love and has been deeply involved with Path Retreats for 20 years. He has been trained in Trauma Healing, Co-Dependency, Structural Integration, many forms of bodywork, Family Constellations, Neo Reichian and Hypnosis. He has been a disciple of Osho for over 44 years and has a love for intimacy, honesty and truth.

Satyarthi accepts and loves people and is passionately involved with the Path of Love. He brings talent and friendliness to his work holding a space for deep honesty and heartful exposure. He has been a bodyworker since 1971, is a co-creator of Rebalancing, Trainer, and Author of “Living in Balance” and “Stretches for Rebalancers”.

From Brazil, Shubhaa holds a degree in Psychology, from the University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil, specializing in Gestalt & Relationship Therapy. She is a certified teacher and therapist in Co-Dependency Therapy by the Learning Love Institute, USA. Shubhaa is a Leader in the Path Retreats Processes in Europe and South America.

She is also certified in:

• Trauma Therapy (Somatic Experiencing Institute – Dr Peter Levine)
• Rebirthing (Breath Therapy)
• Encounter Therapy
• Bodywork Therapy (Method – Kusum Modak)
• Brainspotting (Trauma Healing – David Grand)
• TRE (Trauma Release Exercises – Dr. David Berceli)
• Bio-Energetic Therapy

Shubhaa is leading seminars and individual sessions in Europe and Brazil.

Since 1990, Shubhaa has dedicated her life to working with people, sharing her gifts and talents with others who are also longing to develop themselves personally and spiritually.

From the USA, Talib is an educator and clinical therapist specializing in relational and trauma resolutions. He is a Leader of the Path Retreats processes in Europe and South America. He studied Psychology at Arizona State University, USA, Osho Academy in Sedona Arizona, USA, Osho International Pune, India and is deeply inspired by Dr. Dan Segle of the Mindsight Institute in California USA.

He is trained in:

• Relationship Therapy (Learning Love Institute – Dr Thomas Trobe)
• Somatic Attachment Therapy (Dr Diane Poole Heller)
• Trauma Therapy (Somatic Experiencing Institute – Dr Peter Levine)
• Brainspotting (Trauma Healing – David Grand)
• TRE (Trauma Release Exercises – Dr. David Berceli)
• Tantra Therapy – Osho Institute
• Subtle Body Healing – Osho Academy
• Craniosacral Therapy – Osho International
• NeurOptimal – Advanced Brain Training Systems

Talib has been working with people since 1994 and is passionate about sharing his experiences of integrating understandings from both the Eastern and Western approaches to human development. He leads seminars and offers individual work in Europe and Brazil.

Turiya Hanover has extensive experience in leading personal development groups and trainings globally since 1973. Turiya has been trained in: Gestalt, Bioenergetics, Psychodrama, Family Therapy (V. Satir), NLP, Hypnosis, Somatic Experiencing™ (Peter Levine), Ego Psychology, Family Constellation, Enneagram and Astrology.

Turiya’s personal journey into human development started when she did her first encounter workshop in 1970, Germany.

In 1971, Turiya and her husband were part of developing the first German Humanistic Psychology Growth Centre, known as Zist.

The revelation and exploration of this Humanistic Psychology took Turiya by surprise. The internal shift that she experienced was so profound that her, and her husband, set on a new course of human exploration, which lead them to India. There, she discovered a revolutionary form of teaching from a mystic Indian man. Through a synthesis of Meditation and western psychology, she developed a unique approach that brings East and West together.

The sudden, unexpected death of her husband marked a turning point for Turiya. This experience deeply influenced her own personal search and how she works with people today.

Turiya’s work brings essential tools into our daily lives. Through years of experience in working with different cultures and thousands of people worldwide, recognising that same common thread, her work has now evolved around transforming old behavioural patterns and discovering new grounds and dimensions to live and to be.

Through her work arises a deep sense of reconciliation with your being and thus remember your passionate, curious and joyful inner nature.

Turiyas’ other great love is painting.

Since 1983, Rupda has produced a broad range of events and gatherings worldwide. She has been with Path of Love since 2000, is the founder of Divine Meetings, and has lived in Europe, India, USA and Australia. Her passion is in inspiring people to reconnect with themselves and reclaim their joy in life.

“I was born in the late 60’s, a time of radical thinking and revolutionary approaches to human psychology and group therapy. As a child I grew up in a conscious community and was fortunate enough to sit with Osho until he left his body in 1990. Growing up in a conscious community, I had a rare opportunity to partake in a multitude of meditations and workshop retreats. Much of the teachings while sitting with Osho were on human psychology and awareness. This became one of the most illuminating and enriching experiences in my own development growing up, and one that continues to shape my life today… so working with people felt like a natural and intuitive step to being in service to personal development work.”

Rupda has studied Hypnosis Mastery with Stephan Gilligan, Life Mastery with Tony Robbins, NVC with Dorset Campbell-Ross, and is an NLP Practitioner studying under John Grinder. She has earned numerous working with people certifications, has studied the Enneagram & Essence work, is a certified Holistic Counsellor through S.I.A.F. and a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner from Peter Levine’s SE® Institute of Trauma Healing.

Sambhavo is a specialized therapist with a Clinical Master and Ph.D. in Psychology. He was a psychology researcher and teacher at the University of Florence from 1994 till 2000, and is a Path of Love Leader in English, Italian and Spanish.

At a very young age, his passion for human potential and self-discovery drew him to meditation and psychology, where he became familiar with many self-exploration techniques, meditations and therapy approaches such as: Osho Therapy, Strategic Short-Term Therapy, Group Dynamic, Bioenergetic, Sexual Trauma, Primal, Trauma Resolution and Psychodynamic Therapy.

His longing for truth never stops, and he constantly searches and works on himself, experiencing new paths, methods, groups, and self-development processes.

For the past 25 years, Sambhavo has been working with people. He is a full member of the APA (American Psychological Association) and the EFPA (European Federation Psychologists Associations).

Samved has worked in the world of psychotherapy and meditation for more than 25 years. His passion for inner enquiry led him to India and to Osho`s transformational therapies. There he trained extensively with many aspects of therapy including bioenergetics, encounter, rebirthing, primal therapy and counselling. Samved has trained and worked with the Path of Love for 25 years and continues to be inspired by the depth of insight and transformation provided by the Process. He pursues his own enquiry and ongoing training in ego psychology with Diamond Essence. Apart from his work leading Path of Love, Samved works as a private Counsellor/Psychotherapist and runs a facility providing addiction and depression rehabilitation.

Since 1976 Rafia Morgan has been deeply involved with spiritual and personal growth work. After completing his BA in Economics at UC Berkeley he recognized a personal need to move away from social and political action and focus on inner exploration.

In 1978 he met his spiritual master Osho and spent many years in his presence. Over the years he has passionately investigated his own inner world and has thus participated and trained in innumerable spiritual and therapeutic approaches.

Since 1977 he has been conducting workshops and trainings in countries around the world. His background, enthusiasm and commitment to spiritual awakening; his love of people, of life and the discovery of human potential give him vast resources to help people in personal growth work.

For him, the Path of Love is the ‘fastest, deepest vehicle for transformation that I know of’. He says, ‘Nothing else I have experienced addresses so profoundly and directly the existential situation of certain human beings that love and seek the Truth.”

Alima has been working in the field of transformation with herself and others for 40 years. She is passionate about awakening and seeks to embody authenticity and compassion in her life and her work with people.

She has trained in many different modalities and offers individual sessions as a therapist, life coach and spiritual counsellor, specializing in trauma resolution and the search for meaning and self love within personal inner crisis. She works deeply and intuitively with each individual’s needs. She views the Path of Love as an exceptional and rare jewel of authenticity and transformation and has been facilitating, organizing, and presenting the work for over 20 years in Australia, America and worldwide. Alima sees her work and her life as a journey of humility and trust …. a gradual and loving opening toward self-awareness, presence, and conscious action in the world.

Praful shares his love to serve the inner potential and the spiritual growth of human beings with passion, joy, and commitment.

In his work around the world, he creatively integrates his life experiences as a friend, husband, father, traveler, and meditator with multiple therapeutic approaches such as Counseling, Trauma Healing (Somatic Experiencing), Family and Systemic Constellations with Bert Hellinger, Primal Work, Breath Therapy, NLP, Bio-Energetics, and BodyWork.

Praful is also a S.I.A.F. certified Holistic Counselor.

Simon is a London based psychotherapist and father of 5 trained in transpersonal and integrative psychotherapy, and in SE (Somatic Experiencing) trauma therapy. He is accredited by the UKCP (United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy).

“I am passionate about the potential that lives in every human being, and the connection to each other and to the divine that awakens when this potential is realised”.

Avinash brings over 40 years of experience as a meditator and facilitator into his individual sessions, seminars and group work. He is also a successful business entrepreneur, and is committed to supporting and mentoring businesses that can make a positive impact on the world. He is the co-founder of the Osho Leela Center for Transformation in Boulder, Colorado and has experience with a wide range of transpersonal therapies and self-exploration modalities.

He has been trained in:

§ Somatic Trauma Training (Dr.Peter Levine) SEP
§ Osho Counselor Training Program – Certified
§ Landmark Seminar Leader Program
§ Breath Energy Therapy
§ Creative Entrepreneurship
§ NLP
§ De-Hypnotherapy
§ Conscious Counseling
§ Dare Attachment System
§ Primal Therapy
§ Couples Counseling and Conscious Relating
§ Man/Woman Training

Avinash’s work is based on the fundamental truth that we as human beings are at our core, whole, healthy, and well, and that at the same time, we have barriers to our experience of this fact. This foundation offers a unique perspective for working with people through individual sessions, seminars, and workshops offered in America and throughout the world.

He works from a place of self-discovery, honest exposure, and deep inquiry to uncover the essential qualities of who we are at our core. From there healing naturally happens.

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