Transformational and personal development workshops and retreats in the UK and Italy throughout the year

Retreats and workshops for Couples and Individuals

Living from the Heart consists of a powerful series of transformational and personal development groups and retreats in UK and Italy.

All workshops are complete units taken individually or can be followed as part an ongoing programme which, provide lasting results that expand and unfold over time. All workshops and retreats are suitable for individuals and couples who want to improve all aspects of their relationships.

Living from the Heart Workshops 2010

20th - 21st March 2010

Sexuality Workshop

Personal development, Transformational,workshops, retreats UK, Italy, group therapy, spiritual development, Yoga, Chi Kung, Psychotherapy London, sexuality, relationships, depression, Retreat, meditation

Experience how the gift of your sexuality is your most powerful resource for full self-expression, health, happiness, and harmony. This weekend will explore, sexuality, sexual energy, desire, and pleasure, and our right to feel and express emotions. Embrace your sexuality as a special, and sacred, part of your life. This workshop is open to all regardless of sexual orientation or if you are in a committed relationship or single. Concerns about sex and intimacy are common. This workshop will address sexual issues. Exploring the feelings that arise, including shame that may prevent you from having an enjoyable sexual relationship. Many of our experiences of love, intimacy and sexuality are linked unconsciously to feelings of shame; guilt or fear and we do not always recognise that our thoughts about this prevent us from fully expressing and receiving love. This workshop will introduce ways to help you to develop a healthy sense of sexuality and desire. You will;

• Explore sexuality and desire as an integral part of yourself
• Renew the passion and pleasure in your relationship
• Learn to have more deeply intimate sexual experiences
• Develop a healthy sense of sexuality and desire
• Create loving, endearing kindness in your sexuality
• Explore sexual fear and avoidance and other blocks to healthy sexuality
• Practice Yoga, Chi Kung and Meditation for an awakening and rejuvenation

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Personal development, Transformational, workshops, retreats UK, Italy, group therapy, spiritual development, Yoga, Chi Kung, Psychotherapy London, sexuality, relationships, depression, Retreat, meditation

20th - 27th May 2010

The Retreat in Italy - Awakening the Heart

(Please see Retreat Page for details)

Retreat for Couples and Individuals

The retreat is a journey towards self-knowledge and awareness.  Knowing when to flow, when to initiate, when to hold back, encourages a meaningful use of energy (prana and chi) as a consequence our quality of life improves.

The holistic combination physical activities, creative expression, and psychotherapy create fresh and inspiring opportunities for you to explore how we might transform challenges into opportunities that offer profound personal, professional and spiritual growth. You will,

• Feel clearer about your purpose and direction in life
• Experience deep rest and relaxation from the tranquillity of the surrounding landscape
• Awaken your feelings and sense of adventure, joy and passion
• Experience a healing space designed to awaken and enliven your greatest potential and gifts
• Practice Yoga, Chi Kung and Meditation for an awakening and rejuvenation
• Heal and improve your relationships with others
• Improve your communication skills
• Discover a stronger self awareness and self esteem
• Rest, rejuvenate and renew

Booking Form

Personal development, Transformational, workshops, retreats UK, Italy, group therapy, spiritual

development, Yoga, Chi Kung, Psychotherapy London, sexuality, relationships, depression, Retreat, meditation

10th - 11th July 2010

Relationships Skills

Deepening Relationships and advancing Communication Skills

Conflict in relationships is inevitable. Conflict In itself is not a problem, its how you handle it, either creating more harmony or discord in the relationship. Dealing with conflict, and learning effective communication skills can help you to build more successful and loving relationships.

The workshop will explore effective ways to become aware of these negative patterns replacing more loving ways of being in relationships. Developing the capacity to recognise and accept differences from and similarities to other people. Helping you to understand others and ourselves, Embracing difference leads us to a better understanding of relationships with partners, family, and friends resulting in more open and accepting relationships.

Living our truth as whole beings requires us to live life as a creative act. This weekend will explore how we communicate in relationships and how we express our emotions, exploring our right to speak and hear truth. You will learn skills and techniques to help your relationship thrive focusing on the corner stones of healthy relationships on this workshop you will explore obstacles in relationships and explore ways to transform these.

You will gain from the workshop

• Learn communication and conflict resolution skills
• Develop a shared vision of the relationship you want
• Ways to move on from resentment and hurt
• Increase love and compassion
• Become responsible, shifting from blame to cooperation
• Setting and sustaining healthy boundaries
• How to identify the hidden forces that control your relationship
• Practice Yoga, Chi Kung and Meditation for an awakening and rejuvenation

Booking Form

Personal development, Transformational, workshops, retreats UK, Italy, group therapy, spiritual development, Yoga, Chi Kung, Psychotherapy London, sexuality, relationships, depression, Retreat, medit

23rd - 30th September 2010

The Retreat in Italy - Awakening the Heart

(Please see Retreat Page for details)

Retreat for Couples and Individuals

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The retreat is a journey towards self-knowledge and awareness.  Knowing when to flow, when to initiate, when to hold back, encourages a meaningful use of energy (prana and chi) as a consequence our quality of life improves.

The holistic combination physical activities, creative expression, and psychotherapy create fresh and inspiring opportunities for you to explore how we might transform challenges into opportunities that offer profound personal, professional and spiritual growth. You will,

• Feel clearer about your purpose and direction in life
• Experience deep rest and relaxation from the tranquillity of the surrounding landscape
• Awaken your feelings and sense of adventure, joy and passion
• Experience a healing space designed to awaken and enliven your greatest potential and gifts
• Practice Yoga, Chi Kung and Meditation for an awakening and rejuvenation
• Heal and improve your relationships with others
• Improve your communication skills
• Discover a stronger self awareness and self esteem
• Rest, rejuvenate and renew

Booking Form

18th - 19th September 2010

The Art of Intimacy

Exploring ways of relating

The process of being in a relationship can be a sacred journey, a powerful path of awakening, accelerating our growth. Walking this path can deepen the souls capacity for compassion, and the hearts capacity for embracing love. It can be a catalyst for discovering our true essence, moving us towards wholeness and transformation. When we 'fall in love' our deepest need to be seen and understood is awoken. We can learn to understand loves' cycles of giving and receiving. The closer we come to another, the better we come to know ourselves.

Intimacy is the essence of love and friendship. It is a closeness of sharing and understanding, of knowing and seeing another person and being known and seen by them. Most people don't know how to be, how to accept and embrace what is. The capacity for intimacy requires a certain confidence and trust in others. In this workshop, you will learn how intimacy is a way of expressing the privilege and gift of giving and receiving.

We are not taught how to be in healthy relationships and this can cause pain and suffering. Often the way people deal with pain is to remove the stimulus and blame it on the source. . the other person.
Much of the pain experienced not due to the action of others but on how you see the world. Issues that may surface around intimacy are;

Fear of being abandoned

Fear of being overwhelmed, - engulfed.

Rage about childhood violations,

A desire to be taken care of completely by another person

Hypersensitivity to criticism 

On the weekend you will explore the above themes and

• Learn ways to create the depths of intimacy you desire.
• Learn to develop greater intimacy to enable richer friendships, warmer family dynamics, and depth in your closest relationships. 
• Learn to successfully to communicate your own desires
• Explore power struggles
• Make conscious choices and relationships
• Learn to speak from the heart Express love and appreciation in ways that touch your partner's heart
• Create fun, romance, passion, and intimacy.
• Rediscover the joy and spiritual potential of your relationship

• Powerful communication methods to move from conflict, defensiveness and anger into loving connection
• Mindfulness based practices to create and strengthen intimacy, love and compassion
• Practice Yoga, Chi Kung and Meditation for an awakening and rejuvenation

Booking Form

20th - 21st November 2010

Shadow Work

Embracing the shadow in relationships

Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well meant intentions. (Jung)

When journeying to self-awareness or growing spiritually we encounter the Shadow Self. Hidden from our awareness, the shadow is not part of our conscious self-image. The Shadow represents the unconscious, repressed, undeveloped and denied. These are dark rejected aspects of our being as well as light; there is positive undeveloped potential in the Shadow. It is always with us, and holds so much of our life energy. When the full extent of the shadow is revealed, it can be quite a shock. The weekend will help you to gain insight into the shadow and explore it in depth whilst learning to integrate it in a helpful manner. Love is a powerful force that inevitably brings to the surface the parts of ourselves that we desperately try to keep hidden. Many people blame relationship problems on a lack of love, the other person not ‘being enough’. In truth it is the challenge of being close and loving in a relationship that uncovers the difficulty.  A close relationship is a powerful light, and like any strong light it casts a large shadow. When you stand in the light of a close relationship, you will encounter the shadow.

'The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside as fate. That is to say, when the individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner opposite, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposing halves' (Jung)

• Move towards authenticity and personal power to transform your life
• Alter your self-sabotaging behaviours
• Understand repetitive patterns in relationship that hinder you
• Move towards self-acceptance and knowledge of who you are
• Understand the negative emotions that erupt unexpectedly in daily life
• Transform guilt and shame associated with negative feelings and behaviour
• Recognise your projections that influence your relationships with others
• Explore authentic and direct communication
• Practice Yoga, Chi Kung and Meditation for an awakening and rejuvenation

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Fees for Living from the Heart Workshops:

Saturday Workshop £100

Non - Residential Weekend £180

Residential Weekend Retreat please enquire

If you have not worked with Living From the Heart before you will be required to have a consultation before joining the groups.

All workshops are suitable for both singles and couples whether you are married, engaged, beginning a new relationship, or in a committed partnership (gay or straight), you will learn how to improve and create better relationships.

Living from the Heart uses energy-based transformational psychotherapy combining breath work, energy work, yoga, and meditation. All Weekends are complete in themselves and form part of an ongoing process.

All Weekends are complete units taken individually or can be followed as part an ongoing programme

Payments accepted through Pay pal or Bank transfer, please note fees may apply for this service

Limited Concessions are available on request

For more information about the Retreat in Italy and to book your place, please see the Living from the Heart Retreat page or visit the website.

 To book a place on any of the Workshops or the Retreat please contact Aisha Ali on:

07976 766 008

admin@livingfromtheheart.co.uk

www.livingfromtheheart.co.uk

Living from the Heart run Weekend Workshops & Retreats throughout the year

For Couples and individuals

Our cancellation policy

Cancelling any retreat - including workshops incurs a £50 cancellation fee.

Cancelling a retreat within 15 to 30 days prior to it starting will incur a £100 cancellation fee.

Cancelling a retreat within 14 days prior to it starting will incur loss of the full amount.

As a Therapist, you can benefit from these workshops both for your own personal growth and for your ongoing professional development.

These workshop hours can go towards Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours.