Walking Each Other Home with Luke Bache I

This retreat brings together my life’s learnings and my hope is that this is a deep participatory co-creation in which we come together collectively and share our wisdom so that these teachings can grow and metamorphosize.

WALKING EACH OTHER HOME

This retreat will focus on practices that help us remember our innate wholeness and our inter-being with each other and the world around us.

We will integrate breathing and meditative processes, yoga, nervous system resilience practices, mindful dialogue, stress management, social field sensing, psychological well- being modalities and traditional ways to re-connect to nature.

As we turn the lens inward and practice these modalities, I have found that life moves from being led from habit, reaction and living in survival mode, to a life of wise choice, connection, purpose and attunement to life within us and all around us.

UNDERSTANDING BREATH AND THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

We will take to explore the importance of the breath in psychological, physical and emotional well-being, the structure and reaction tendencies of the nervous system and how the brain works. We then provide a clear map of how to train the brain and re-shape the nervous system and the breath to respond to life’s challenges in increasingly skilful and effective ways.

SELF-AWARENESS

We take this knowledge inwards into the personal realm. We start to sense and observe; our breathing habits, our nervous system reaction tendencies and our patterns of holding physical tension in the body.

We look and explore questions such as:

How does my breath change during certain activities?

What are my nervous system reaction tendencies under stress?

What do the different branches of the nervous system feel like? Do I tend to get stuck in one part?

How is my focus or adaptability under stress?

With Self Awareness the decision-making part of the brain comes online, and we can assess if these patterns are serving us. If they are not, then we can bring forth practice to help rewire and reshape those brain or nervous system tendencies to more beneficial and skilful ones.

SOMATIC INTELLIGENCE

Our most fundamental response to all of life’s challenges start in the body. We therefore practice body-based practices such as breath, movement, conscious relaxation, sounding, embodying the branches of the nervous system and the art of sensing in.  These practices both allow us to manage and reshape the stress and survival response of the nervous system, help strengthen a felt sense of safety and build up the capability for the brain to stay online under adversity and stress.

When we are at home, rooted and connected to the signals of the body, life moves from reaction and avoidance to aware choice and experiencing its fulness.

CONNECTING TO NATURE

We will go out into the forest and the magical surroundings at Shambala and go through practices that help us connect to power places in nature and ways we can harness nature’s power to help our intuitive response to life.

MINDFUL DIALOGUE

This way of communicating has changed all my relationships profoundly, it has been a gift in my everyday life in the way I can listen to others empathetically, connect to my deeper feelings and needs and express them honestly whilst honouring the other person’s needs.

SENSING INTO THE SPACE

We will embody awareness practices that help us sense into the social field within a group, how to tap into the group consciousness and collective flow states.