Next Retreat Monday, May 14th, 2012
Our Program Runs in Tandem with Conventional Medical Treatment
The treatment is divided into units of 10-day healing incubation retreats. Each unit consists of nutrition and gourmet cooking lessons for an individualized diet, individual dreamwork, meditation, therapeutic yoga, art, aquatic therapy, creative writing, and dream theater, (a healing modality based on enacting dreams under the guidance of a professional theater director). A variety of elective integrative therapies such as acupuncture, massage and chiropractic will be offered. Each unit will have a central focus on dream incubation-for over one thousand years the primary medical modality of classical antiquity at the root of Western medicine. Dream incubation gives a dreamer access to forms of embodied intelligence far removed from our habitual consciousness, which are seen to correspond to the endogenous healing response present in every living system.
As a whole, our program is geared towards enhancing the innate ability of the body to heal itself. In the same way that conventional medicine attempts to eradicate illness, sanctuary medicine is designed to promote health. Based on the understanding that a combination of both works better than each individually, it has been the original principle of Western medicine that the eradication of illness and the promotion of health need to work in tandem.
At the end of each 10-day module a sustainable individualized health program will be designed by our medical team, including the optimal uses of conventional as well as integrative medical modalities. Each 10-day module can be taken individually or as part of a programmatic series of healing retreats connected by private individualized treatment.
Program Dates for 2012: February 13-23, 2012; May 14-24, 2012
and Oct. 15-25, 2012
