This 7-day retreat is only open to those who have completed Initiation or an Ongoing Group. It is also a gateway for those who want to take part in our Apprenticeship Programme. It is designed to invite and catalyse you into a new level of awareness, assuming responsibility and commitment to living your life in alignment with your deepest purpose. As we develop, life provides us with the perfect challenges through which we can evolve.

We will work with what we call the 'creation story' you have inherited and lived from whose characters we call 'understudies'. In the theatre, an understudy is a person who learns another's role in order to be able to act as a replacement. On the stage of life, these understudies have taken to performing nearly all the time, while the real stars wait hidden in the wings. They shouldn't be blamed for this; they came into being with the intention of protecting your essence and behind each one, lies a well guarded jewel. However, without your attention, they will continue their performances for your entire lifetime even if it no longer serves your deeper interests. Movement Medicine helps in developing the self-acceptance and clear intention necessary to create the conditions in which the understudies will become visible to you. Once illuminated, you can compassionately and with gratitude for the job each has done, invite them to step aside and make way for the essential self. What is then revealed and how you integrate and embody that is the work of the Phoenix Retreat.