This past weekend we had the most beautiful silent meditation retreat at Diamond Light. Often people ask me what relevance a silent retreat has to massage therapy training and why we include these types of classes in our program. A meditation retreat can move our attention from the “story” of our lives, which occurs in our minds, to the actual experience of life; the immediacy, joy, passion, sacredness and love that exist in the present moment. As we learn to sift through the chatter of our mind to discover the silent undisturbed Source of Life that we are beneath our thoughts, we develop the ability to meet in this place of stillness with another, and with our presence, evoke the remembrance of the deeper, eternal aspect of themselves. As a result, our massage therapy work is subsequently no longer limited to only the physical, but can catalyze a profound shift in inner experience that becomes the precursor to multidimensional healing.

Tags: massage, massage therapy, meditation, Silent retreat

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