This is my 6th article on what we are going to get up to on our Yoga Retreat: Feel to Heal 21/3 – 23/3/25 . I was never a fan of GROUP anything until I did my first yoga retreat. As a corporate girl, I could happily work in business teams, attend business getaway think- thanks etc but it was always just business. Working in a team and striving to solve common problems and find innovations and pretending to have a jolly good time when actually you just wanted to be home with people you really enjoyed. A group yoga retreat was sooo different. Firstly, everyone was a real human. No one was trying to schmooze upper management. Secondly, everyone was really chill and smiley, no one had a private agenda. And finally, everyone was there because they wanted something out of the retreat that was deeply personal and meaningful to them, so there was a lot of powerful, grounded, honest energy about. I loved my first yoga retreat! So much so, that I now host yoga retreats, and they are one of my most favourite things to do!
There is something magical that happens when a group comes together around similar goals and aspirations and the group commits to a shared vision and purpose. The group vision might be grandiose, the personal visions might be quite simple: some peace and quiet away from a busy family or might be enormous – using the retreat to help overcome a health or relationship challenge or perhaps a crossroads in personal growth. Whatever the goals are, there is an alchemy that occurs as each person’s individual energy contributes to a larger pool of group energy. That shared group energy then returns to the individual and buoys them up, adding power and strength to their process.
So the first principle of transforming anything or healing a negative pattern starts with an honest look at yourself. For the most part we are blind to our issues and self-sabotaging behaviours. That is why we have relationships and families and friends, because they will mirror these issues back to us and if we are willing to acknowledge these things and commit to change, we will grow our consciousness and become more aware, mature, and wise and perhaps start the journey of evolution. The added benefit of groups is that as we develop this group consciousness, we are offered powerful insights from the group, often more powerful than those aha moments we might get as individuals.
But probably the biggest revelation for most people when working with a group around energy healing, is that our issues are often similar to everyone else and that we are not alone. It’s a quite shock to wake up and realise these challenges or patterns of dysfunctional behaviour, which have probably been rehashed over generations within your family are just like the challenges facing generations of that family over there. And if someone else overcame these challenges, then we can as well. The group energy will give you the added impetus of instituting change. Thomas Hubl stated that: By the turning of this wheel, karmic suffering repeats, and trauma is transmitted from one generation to the next—until it finds space and presence and clarity; until it is owned so that it may be healed.
It’s a magical space, a yoga retreat. The energy on retreat is metamorphic and can be used to initiate amazing changes. We are filling fast. So come and join us and harness this group energy to do something extraordinary! Love and namaste Margot