Retreats
Santa Barbara Healing Sanctuary
Santa Barbara Healing Sanctuary
an integrative health retreat
focused on the healing potential of dreaming
with Cheri Clampett
Monday, February 13th, through Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 - This retreat is full!
Monday, April 23rd, through Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
Sunday, July 15th, though Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
Tuesday, October 2nd, through Friday, October 12th, 2012
Tuesday, November 27th, thought Friday, December 7th, 2012
For full information and registration details, visit the Santa Barbara Healing Sanctuary's website
Conventional wisdom has it that sleep is a central element in the deeper healing process. Working in concert with conventional medical treatment, we offer effective integrative therapies. The Santa Barbara Healing Sanctuary focuses on the healing potential of dreaming amplified through the arts. This makes the Santa Barbara Healing Sanctuary unique in the world, employing our 24-hour creative mind. Dreaming embodies intelligence we are not aware of while awake. This unconscious intelligence, which can have various effects on the neuro-immune system, can be brought to awareness. While at the Santa Barbara Healing Sanctuary, participants may achieve this awareness and enhance their own endogenous healing systems. Dreams are channeled into our awakened state through embodied dream tending, and dream-based reflective writing, body work, visual art, music, yoga, dreamtheater and other modalities
Based upon a large body of scientific evidence regarding innate resilience, it has been demonstrated that imagination can trigger the endogenous healing system, stimulating the body to heal itself. Dreaming is a primary form of this creative imagination. Other scientific studies show dreaming to be involved in learning. This is vitally important at the Sanctuary where people are given the opportunity to learn new life styles; adaptive behavior, enhanced during the work with dreams, is essential when a person is called upon to adapt to the challenging realities of stress or the trauma of illness. It has long been known that attention to dreaming enhances our sense of direction, which frequently gets lost during periods of traumatic stress.The SBH Sanctuary is currently doing research on the hypothesis that therapies based on waking consciousness (conventional medicine in combination with integrative medicine and nutrition education) can be significantly enhanced by including consciousness available during sleep.