No matter where you stand or which continent you live on, we are living through a time of major changes. In moments like these, when things can feel highly charged and unpredictable, and when we are so divided that even friends and family don’t seem to speak the same language anymore, Path of Love has something very unique to offer.

We’ve now been working across the globe for 30 years at Path Retreats and are offering a trauma-informed and deeply liberating process which goes way beyond therapy. Path of Love is about moving from separation to connection...connection to self, to other human beings, and to life itself.

So what actually happens at Path of Love? In this work, we inquire into and share with others who we are, what matters to us and what we long for. We also expose what we call “our shadow’ - the things that we don’t want to see, or own, in ourselves.

The alchemy of Path of Love lies in freeing the vital energies that are locked in our secrets and survival patterns. This all happens inside a skillfully held container of presence. Being witnessed and witnessing others in deep and honest self-inquiries invites human connection and trust.

Path of Love also works through sensing and feeling through the heart. You will harvest somatically, in a felt sense, the powerful energies that fuel survival reactions like fight, flight and freeze. When we habitually react with fear or anger, we find ourselves in stuck, hardened states - like withdrawal and collapse, outrage, righteousness, or even hatred. In Path of Love, we address these feeling states in the body, meaning we give our bodies - which hold all the tension - space to release the emotional charge, allowing the system to breathe and lightening the burden. In Path of Love, we are able to tap back into our life force and into the power and sensitivity that lies underneath our locked-up emotional states.

Path of Love offers a space where who you are has a place and where all are welcome. Path of Love is the process of unlocking and sharing yourself through the intelligence of your body. It helps you to realign yourself with what you know in your gut and your heart to be true, and with who you are, in your essence.

Our participants report experiencing a sense of relief, a sense of wholeness, and of being on solid ground again. From that place, they naturally experience a dissolution of isolation and conflict.

In Path of Love, we open to a profoundly human experience that we've all had at moments in life - when we loved, when we repaired a rupture with a loved one, or when we worked through an inner conflict and landed in clarity and ease.

The work of Path of Love is to return to these essential truths, where there is grace, where there is beauty, where there is trust, and where there is love. On that level, we actually are not separate. We are intrinsically connected.

In this work and community, I have the privilege of asking myself every day: What does have meaning to me?  Who am I? Who do I want to be today?

Written by Gita Wagner, Path of Love Leader