Dear Friends,
What a magical week that was! I am deeply grateful for meeting you ALL. We have co-created a bundle of energy and I felt it wanted to flow through me most of the time. This strange new sensation kept me awake for 3 out of 4 nights, so I can now add "sleepless in Seattle" to my life experiences. I found myself looking at the moon and stars, smelling the white flowers in the middle of the night, pondering the intelligence behind this mysterious flow. And I thought to myself, what a wonderful world!

Sometimes I felt like a small being, flooded with energetic Niagara Falls, at other times I was the river of energy watching energetic streams joining in, flowing through and branching out again, changed. So, on day 5 my body was tired and confused, but my spirit was in awe of this strange and perception-expanding experience... :-)

My greatest take away from this retreat is a question: When do I allow the energy to flow through me and when do I say “stop, it is time to rest”. I always feel like allowing and that somehow things will be all right, but then at times the energy makes me feel shaky and overwhelmed. So perhaps it is more about working with it and allowing throughout the process and less about giving a permission at the beginning of it? Another question that wants to be asked is: what is it really that makes me tired? Is it the lack of sleep or the resistance to not sleeping?

Journey well, my fellow Travellers. Let us be gentle on ourselves. Slow down each day and provide the space to connect with the newly found presence. Allow a safe passage for your feelings in their full rawness. They do not need to be fixed, transformed or even understood. They just want to be held and lead you to the buried fragments of your soul that long to come back home, to You.

Kim: Heartfelt thanks to you for organizing the event and mostly for your very special, warm, and encouraging presence. It allowed us all to dive deeper into the vulnerability.
Christopher: You rock! I hope you'll join the Openhand community and we'll see you again in person or on a forum.
Open: Big bow to you for being there for us 100%, thank you for bringing such profound alchemy to each moment (how do you even do this?!).

With love.

M.