Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Paul Gauguin 1897–1898
Sometimes it can be helpful to step out of our daily routines and immerse ourselves within a creative space. Lots of us so need rest. Deeply. Life can be full to the brim, busy and so often overwhelming as equally as it it wonderful. Taking time out, or time in, as I see it allows us to create the necessary conditions in which to orient again to the questions that keep calling us. In essence a retreat is a time to deepen, still, and listen to the personal threads of your own enquiry, and to attend to what matters to you with support and space of the retreat conditions. I will be alongside you to offer ways of reflecting on, and moving with the questions that are close to your heart.
A pertinent question for many seems to be around what gives us meaning. In some way this is a never ending unsolvable question that is often felt inside us first as a kind of longing, often unnameable at first. We feel the rise of this question in times of loss, stagnation, transition, or a death of some kind. Sometimes we experience a kind of lostness, a depression, or a surge in vitality, as something within us is moving us toward a change of some kind. While this may be welcome, it may not always be easy. So having time to be held in our enquiry can be helpful to slowly find our way. The retreat may not be about finding answers as such, but in having time with the questions, and those so often need space and time. The retreat is a moment in which to lean in to the creative encounter, in order to gain trust, clarity, or a remembering of an ordinary courage to go on seeking.
The retreat centres around studio time and movement sessions both indoor and outdoor.It includes
Somatic Experiencing sessions, Arts Therapy, Movement and Bodywork. All sessions are supported by writing, drawing and time out in nature.I also offer online individual creative enquiry sessions.
I offer 2 day retreats running from Friday arrival 6pm evening- Sunday Afternoon finishing at 3pm Cost range from £250 per day.
For more info and booking contact: caitomos@me.com
I offer a free online info session for initial enquiries.
Cai Tomos HCPC/ MBACP Integrative Psychotherapist/Somatic Experiencing Practitioner Cranio-Sacral Therapy Trainee.
My name is Cai and I am a Welsh artist. I go by the pronouns he/him. My work, in its essence, is about movement, in all its forms. I tend to move between different art forms that reflect different aspects of my practice, but at the core, I’m interested in the imagination and its relationship to our bodies. I believe in transformation. The extraordinary and everyday ordinary transformations that the arts can support us with. In a way I’m interested in what makes us feel alive. My work involves being with others and looking for that aliveness in whatever small or large way it shows up. I have worked in care homes, theatres, psychiatric hospitals, living rooms of peoples’ houses, street corners. I work one-to-one with people in hospital beds, by work, I mean, we find ways of being together where curiosity has the space to emerge as it wants to.
