Last 2011 Australia Retreat

Posted on November 27, 2011 by admin

I’m heading to Argentina and then Brasil on December 19th, and I’ll be a bit sad to go, but before I do, we’re hosting one more weekend retreat on the weekend of December 9-11.

From the evening of Friday, December 9th to the evening of Sunday, December 11th, we’ll be hosting another retreat at Rachael’s place.  This one is also called To Honor A Loved One, and it’s for anyone who has been experiencing conflict, distance or suffering with someone special in your life.  It’s quite similar to the When Truth Meets Desire retreat.  Read the 2-page brochure here, and feel free to pass it on!

To register, please call Rachael at 66515544.  And add your name to the guest list on Facebook, here.  Thank you!

Below is a comment from a young Brasilian woman who attended this same retreat in Brasil earlier this year:

(translated from Portuguese)
I became to know meditation and conscious breathing Rebirthing work few years ago and had amazing spiritual experiences, starting in my life the path of self-knowledge. But after a lot of work, still something was very confused in my mind in my relationship with the male figure. I never wanted to work on my relationship with my dad because I still felt insecure about that, and I thought that I was already growing for sure and I was healing there too.

I knew there was a lot of heartache, which began from childhood and worsened during adolescence, and the difficult divorce of my parents, when I took my mother’s side. I felt that despite my deep love for my father, I could not bring that love to our relationship or express it. It always seemed that the pain, resentment and sadness were bigger than the feeling of affection and admiration. Inside myself, I was suffering because of that, but was feeling unable to change it.

I allowed Michael Skye to support me, as I felt from him the safety and lovingness to support me to take a step which has always been difficult – to work on the figure of my father in front of others. And this was a step higher than I thought. Now I feel stronger, safer and most beloved not only because I can express my affection without the weight of resentment but also because I can receive all the love that was always there for me. Suddenly within me all the feelings that blocked the possibility of feeling the blessing and happiness of my relationship fell apart. The feeling I have is freedom and courage to be myself, understanding who is the other and confidence to open my heart to give and receive love.

J.B., Florianopolis, Brasil

 

 

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Retreat Announcement: To Honor A Loved One

Posted on November 12, 2011 by admin

From the evening of Friday, November 25th to the evening of Sunday, November 27th, we’ll be hosting another retreat at Rachael’s place.  This one is called To Honor A Loved One, and it’s for anyone who has been experiencing conflict, distance or suffering with someone special in your life.  Read the brochure here.

To register, please call Rachael at 66515544.  Thank you!

Below is a comment from a young Brasilian woman who attended this same retreat in Brasil earlier this year:

(translated from Portuguese)
I became to know meditation and conscious breathing Rebirthing work few years ago and had amazing spiritual experiences, starting in my life the path of self-knowledge. But after a lot of work, still something was very confused in my mind in my relationship with the male figure. I never wanted to work on my relationship with my dad because I still felt insecure about that, and I thought that I was already growing for sure and I was healing there too.

I knew there was a lot of heartache, which began from childhood and worsened during adolescence, and the difficult divorce of my parents, when I took my mother’s side. I felt that despite my deep love for my father, I could not bring that love to our relationship or express it. It always seemed that the pain, resentment and sadness were bigger than the feeling of affection and admiration. Inside myself, I was suffering because of that, but was feeling unable to change it.

I allowed Michael Skye to support me, as I felt from him the safety and lovingness to support me to take a step which has always been difficult – to work on the figure of my father in front of others. And this was a step higher than I thought. Now I feel stronger, safer and most beloved not only because I can express my affection without the weight of resentment but also because I can receive all the love that was always there for me. Suddenly within me all the feelings that blocked the possibility of feeling the blessing and happiness of my relationship fell apart. The feeling I have is freedom and courage to be myself, understanding who is the other and confidence to open my heart to give and receive love.

J.B., Florianopolis, Brasil

 

 

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Anouk’s Experience of iStand Australia 2010

Posted on November 12, 2011 by admin

Anouk from the Netherlands attended the VisionForce iStand in Australia, January 2010 with her husband.

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Andrew’s Story: Honoring My Father

Posted on December 15, 2010 by admin

I’d like to share a little story with you. It is about my father and me and our relationship. My father is old-school, medical doctor, academic, Left brain (rational) man. Since I started to activate the Right side of my brain (in my early 30′s), open and follow my heart…… we drifted apart. He was so judgmental of me and my actions. This felt so not good. So, I decided I would minimize our contact and try to imagine that he wasn’t here anymore. Easy enough as he had suffered multiple severe diseases over the last decade: heavy stroke, cancer (stomach out), open heart surgery, etc. Still this approach it didn’t sit right with me. It meant not feeling my father and I couldn’t do it.

I wanted to have a nice and loving relationship with him. My reason told me this wasn’t possible, as did my sister… just accept him as he is: “judgmental, grumpy, disapproving, etc”

In comes the Honor Window (HW).

I did an HW for my dad all by myself in June this year. In July and August we went to Netherlands (where my dad lives) and I grabbed the first possibility to be with my dad alone and I spoke to him like we had learnt from Michael at our iStand. What happened was sheer magic.  My dad couldn’t believe where I was coming from, he was expecting hostility, resentment, frustration etc. None of that, he got understanding, love, honesty, honor! We both spent the rest of the afternoon with Anouk and our kids and things were just great. We laughed, we had fun, we spoke openly, like… like we hadn’t done for a loooooong time.

This marked the beginning of our renewed relationship. Now we skype every few weeks and it is just great. There is respect, love, joy. So when I skyped him for his birthday earlier this month, he said that me skyping him made his day. Wow, how far had we come.

So, I guess, this is my way of saying thank you to you Michael.

Andrew M.D. Troostwijk MBA

PS. One of my friends had his wife for 30 years leave him. Sitting by a beautiful lake (Zaca Lake) I did an HW with him in October when she had already been gone for 6 months. This took 20 minutes. He very much wanted her back….. she was his goddess. They’re both in their late 70′s and he wanted to be with her till the end of days. Anyway, within a month they got back together again and he is very grateful to me for the HW session we had. This stuff is very powerful.

 

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