The Power of Vision: Developing Our Attunement
Join me on this amazing wellness retreat to experience a coherence of our body, eyes, and heart. As we swim daily with wild, spinner dolphins in Hawaii, a healing or opening process unfolds and we learn how to be in community with each other and these sentient beings.
Our dolphin swims combined with The Berne Method™ and create a context for experiencing essential health and well-being.
The week-long adventure is held on the Big Island of Hawaii with lodging and most meals in a rural retreat environment. Participants have an opportunity to swim with the spinner dolphins daily and integrate those experiences in evening gatherings.
I first became interested in the healing energy of dolphins while studying with Dr. John Upledger, an osteopath who offered advanced craniosacral retreats in the Bahamas with dolphins swimming nearby. The dolphin energy seemed to amplify the benefits of the craniosacral treatments. I was amazed by this interaction. Another inspiration occurred after I studied the dolphin research of Dr. John Lilly.
In 2007, I led my first dolphin swim retreat in the Bimini Islands, where we swam with Atlantic spotted dolphins. I observed profound changes both with myself and with all the participants. I decided to make the dolphin experience a yearly event and changed the location to the Big Island.
Whenever we swim with the spinner dolphins, I observe their eternal smile which makes me smile. Their energy radiates a feeling of love, compassion, and playfulness as they leap out of the water and spin around us. Many times they swim deeply below sending their sonar through us as a way to help release any incoherence, and then they slowly swim to the surface and connect through eye contact and vibration. Their love and joy helps melt any protection we may have around our hearts as we swim together.
As our human pod develops more harmony with each other, the dolphin pods we encounter seem to want to swim with us for a longer time. As we approach the last day of the retreat together, the dolphins surround our boat and invite us to stay in the water with them as long as we can.
The wild dolphins offer us very strong medicine for healing and spiritual expansion. We learn about a level of heart-opening love that we will never forget.
I hope you can join us for this life-changing experience!
Here's a video of dolphins on youtube by freedive101.
"What a wonderful time. It was so full and I'm overjoyed to have been a part of it. I keep thinking about the dolphins, the feel of being in the water with them. I can't wait to go back!"
"I've noticed a lot of changes since my return. Some outside and some inside."
"I'm experiencing a lot more synchronicity and awareness. I've also realized that I have been resisting seeing things in my life for what they are. I'm seeing more clearly now, and setting boundaries that I was afraid to set before. It feels very good to be in a more powerful place!"
"The last day of our retreat we floated with the dolphins and the surf. We melted into the water with our fins and masks and snorkels. The dolphins came and embraced our presence. They played ferociously, spinning diving, devilishly playing in our amidst, entertaining us as we ate lunch aboard the boat. One final swim and we made our final count. All twenty aboard and a dolphin rose, as if choreographed, to leap and spin one final time. As we headed out back across the relentless waves to the dock, a sea turtle floated, turning his head and bright eye up at us."