So grateful for this experience.

I have never denied than I'm a sceptic, with a lot of conditioning from mainstream dogma and socalled science. Some of the philosophy of Openhand is difficult to accept, maybe a lot of denial going on. However I cannot deny the experience going on on these retreats, which is quite unique. Being able to go so deep, confronting the abyss of my own psyche, my own shadow, with a lot of projections going on, still feeling only love for everybody else on the retreat, this is quite unheard of actually. Very fascinating and inspiring.

Big thanks to you, Open, for being the powerful catalyst that you are. You are the only teacher/guide or whatever, I have met that I cannot sense so much as a whiff of judgement in. You are the real deal, with so many pitfalls going around.

I have tried several traditions and philosophies, and gone to a lot of different retreats, yoga, qi-gong, mindfulness, but the Openhand approach is something special. In particular the total non-judgement I feel from Open, the facilitators and all the participants is quite unique. This makes it so obvious when I am facing my own reflections.

My inner deamons, entities, autonomous complexes (Jung) or whatever one wants to call them are quite furious now, however they're loosing power over me, and I suspect over everybody else attending. They can rage and huff and puff as much as they like, I feel in my heart I am on the right path.

Looking forward to new Openhand-retreats in the future.

Personally I'm longing for more of an Integration- retreat in the future, not doing so much deep work, but just connecting with the rest of the Openhand family. Maybe a big event somewhere in the world with live concerts by for example Jont and Tina Malia? :D

Big thanks to everybody. So inspiring to see the light in you all overpowering the darkness. Special thanks to Alex and Sascha for the great lunch we had the last day in Chester right after the retreat.

Nils