Healing our Birth and Early Childhood

Celtic Shaman offer "Healing our Birth and Early Childhood " Residential Weekend Retreats.

These weekends are healing, enlightening and transformational weekends for individuals, as well as offering invaluable learning, experience and tools for parents, health care professionals, midwives, teachers, caregivers, therapists and healers.

Healing the imprints of our Conception, Birth and Early Childhood releases the old stuck patterns that otherwise tend to trip us up again and again in our relationships with ourselves and others. Those who undertake this journey of healing often liken their experience to sobering up. The veils of confusion and denial begin to lift and the world takes on a new level of vitality as their confidence and energy levels rise.

The weekend was a great opportunity to explore previously "sealed in" emotions in a safe environment. Visiting my inner child and confronting her fears was a truly uplifting experience. For several days afterwards friends, even those unaware of my experience, commented that I was "glowing".
Christine Decker, Bath, England '98

We will learn, and experience, that patterns created when our soul first embodied during conception, in utero, during our birth and in those early months and years create the patterns that literally become our life script. These patterns replay continuously throughout our lives and identifying these patterns is extremely liberating and empowering. Bringing to our conscious awareness these initial imprints holds the key to unlocking those stuck places within us and allows us to manifest the script, and to sing the song, of our soul's essence.

Doing this level of self healing also opens our eyes to so much of the pain that our fellow brothers and sisters on the planet carry within them and can bring so much more compassion and understanding.

The workshop will offer the opportunity to discover and bring healing to the initial patterns imprinted through your own conception, birth and early babyhood. Patterns created in our journey of coming in to the world create a blueprint that keeps replaying until we access and change the patterns. This work brings participants in to a positive supportive relationship with their inner child.

When we can look at the world through the eyes of the child, we gain insights about what children really need. Regain the awe and wonder, the freshness and enthusiasm, the delicate sensitivity and softness and the raw passion, power and instincts of the primal self.

Venue: Sharda Retreat Centre, Tuakau, South Auckland

Investment: $350 incl. food and accommodation

Registration: $50 deposit on booking secures place. please send an email stating your reasons to come on the weekend and we will give you the account number or address for the deposit.
Deposit to be paid into 12-3100-0220469-00 Book Early.

Food: Will be vegetarian, wholesome and plentiful

When I was pregnant with my first child, one of the books that made a huge impact on me, both as a counsellor and healer, but also deepened my understanding of the needs of my baby was the famous book by Thomas Verny, M.D. with John Kelly "the Secret Life of the Unborn Child". The book is an amazing collection of both scientific research relating to the baby in utero as well as recalled memories of people during hypnosis and regression. For an excerpt from the book, click here.

Over the years, I have taken hundreds of clients on regressions back to re-membering their experiences of conception, time in utero and birth. Participant's recovered memories inevitably have quite a profound effect upon them and their understanding of the imprints that created their view of themselves and their world.

On the weekend, you will open up the world of the child that you were, to gain wisdom and clarity. Even for those who can't remember their childhood, or carry painful wounds, the desire to be free, to have fun, to laugh and play, the awe and wonder of life is locked inside you and can be opened up to bring freshness, passion and tons of energy back into your life.

How does an awareness of our childhood conditioning affect our interactions with children?

Becoming aware of our early childhood imprints and bringing healing to them gives us so much more essential information to work with in our dealings with our children, the children we teach, care for and generally children we come into contact with in our lives. Healing our relationship with the children in our world truly can heal broken hearts and soften hardened hearts.

To parent, teach or be with children in a way that truly honors the child's soul and is a positive and reparative experience for both, we need to connect back emotionally and energetically with how we, as children, viewed and experienced the world. The deepest way to truly understand the needs of a child is through reconnecting with our own childhood.

Liberating the child that lives within gives you a deeper understanding of the world of the child. When we can perceive the world through the eyes of the child that we were, we automatically gain insights around children's deeper needs. Regain the awe and wonder, the freshness and enthusiasm, the delicate sensitivity and softness and the raw passion, power and instincts of the child self.

For Midwives and Teachers

As parents, caregivers, midwives and teachers, becoming aware of those initial patterns created around our time of coming into the world, invariably sheds insights onto the whole process of babies being brought into the world. For parents and midwives who embark on the healing of their conception, birth and early childhood, this leads them to a deeper understanding of their own internal process around birthing or helping to birth babies. I have witnessed again and again, that when parent's heal their traumas and hurts around giving birth to their child/ren, brings about "miraculously" positive changes to their child, as well as the relationship between them.

Giving our kids the patience and kindness that they need and deserve is only possible when we are putting equal focus on learning to become kinder and more patient with ourselves.

I have experienced in relation to my own childhood traumas, and witnessed with hundreds of clients over the years, that as we reach a certain point on the healing journey, not only do the painful memories loose their charge, but more and more joyful feelings and memories from childhood surface. We literally regain the essence of who we truly are and our soul's gifts and highest potential. It's never too late to have a happy childhood!!