Any retreat facilitator or consciousness leader worth their salt will know the massive relevance of the right space, and place, as backdrop and container for their work. Those energetically attuned, even more so, as they will FEEL it.
It's been 12 years since I've first set foot in Temenos Retreat Centre. Since then I've been back every year, mostly twice a year, occasionally 3 times.
Apart from my first visit, only 2 others have been NOT as facilitator of a retreat. The retreats have changed shape over the years, deepening in experience, lightening in effort. Every single one of them were immensely rewarding in their own unique way, both for myself, and I believe, for participants.
But the golden thread remains: this incredible space. Yes, it is a garden. Exquisitely, serenely beautiful gardens.
It is also a sanctuary, a refuse, a piece of heaven.
It awakens, it energises, it activates.
It sings, it hums, and it whispers.
It dispels, clears, and removes.
And ultimately it soothes, heals, and holds.
I'm so grateful for a place like this in which to weave magic. The earth here is literally a co-creator, and an indispensable partner in my facilitation.
And of course, the incredible humans that have become like family, not forgetting the pets - the hairy and the feathered ones!
People ask me why I travel from KZN to this place.
This is why. And why I will keep on doing it, for as long as I can.
Enjoy the visual delight!
Celeste Du Toit
@liveyourtruth_with_celeste