E-Motion Feelgood Retreat Lipno

Take some time for yourself, join us with Dorothe for this unique experience!

Our nervous system is wired to keep us alive, especially in adverse circumstances.
Without knowing and with almost no awareness thereof, we all create a persona (separate from our true self) we present to the world to keep our little selves safe. We organize our thinking, feeling, and behaviours in ways that worked for us decades ago, and with every repetition of these patterns and with the ‘successes of survival, we strengthen these neurological pathways. Our nervous system, our emotionality and even our bodies physically get shaped by our experiences and our patterns of survival. All this doesn’t happen on the level of the thinking mind but much deeper, in our autonomous nervous system and the older parts of our brain.

Gradually, our healthy instincts are disturbed. Instead of mobilizing energy, expressing, acting and dealing with situations and then re-regulating to end the stress response. Very often we get stuck in suppressed energy, emotions, a state of mobilization. Stuck in fight/flight/heal or freeze. We are unable to move healthily and fluidly between different states. Without recovery, our nervous system becomes stuck and reacts to incoming stressors with an excessive fight/flight/heal/freeze response.

Shame is often used as a coping strategy to dampen down our emotions. Although shame and a strong inner critic may inhibit some energy and emotions, it also shuts off all the healthy and appropriate emotions and energies that have a similar flavour. Suppressing anger for example also robs us from life force, healthy boundaries, power, strength, purpose, mastery. It can get us stuck in apathy, flatness, burn-out and depression.

Exercising and training our nervous system and the body mind to unlearn automatic responses like shut-down, freeze, dissociation, shame, suppression, denial, projection and opening to an authentic flow of energy and emotionality heals your nervous system and body mind and helps re-calibrate your complete system.

What you can expect:

• We will review and deepen our knowledge about the nervous system, which is the biggest victim of trauma, we will talk about trauma cycles, the vicious circle of trauma and healing. About the difference between shock trauma and developmental trauma and what happens to the body and nervous system.
• We will look at the effects of trauma and trauma healing.
• You will get to know different personalities from the point of view of physicality, breathing, energy, use of life force, body, thinking, feeling as well as from the point of view of patterns and preferences of the nervous system and we will talk about what helps them in deeper processing and relaxation. You will begin to be aware of the different states of your nervous system and the system of your surroundings, you will discover how you can effectively regulate yourself and others.
• We will notice the differences in the response patterns we see in ourselves and others and explore various therapeutic interventions in the form of touch and movement. We will become more aware of physical signals and micro-movements of muscles and talk about how we can use this in processing trauma.
• We try different re-regulation techniques and 'teach' our nervous system to respond in a different way before our trauma response takes effect.
• We will dive even deeper into the importance of touch and movement in processing trauma.
• You will experience "floating", a unique technique of buoyancy in the pool with support, thanks to which you will experience relaxation, rebirth, letting go of emotions in a very effective and simple way.
• Every day you will have space to relax in the sauna world, the pool, the beautiful nature of Lipno, massages, specialized individual therapies with Dorothe and the therapeutic team, or in conversations with like-minded people.

We focus on processing trauma in the same way for everyone: we maintain a balance between processing our own experience and helping the other person.