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Journey Home

A 6 week course

Currently on hold.

 

  • Are you someone whose life has been impacted by cancer or another life-threatening illness?

  • Are you curious to explore or keen to deepen your understanding of the psycho-spiritual dimensions of health and healing?

  • Would you like to join a small community of like-minded others where you are able to share your experiences, feelings, thoughts, and fears whilst trying supportive techniques together?

  • Are you willing to explore themes on the nature of life, illness and death?

 
 
 

About Journey Home

“A place to feel all the feelings once a week and to explore who we are and why our life and death matters”

- Kris

We have designed this program to be a way of accessing psycho-spiritual support outside of your other medical treatment. We place emphasis on the group itself and draw upon a range of tools and practices to ensure you feel supported, seen and heard during your time with us.

Through exploration of the key themes of our HOME Model we will try different tools and practices related to each theme. We will also be joined by guest speakers and facilitators. You can expect to be guided through:

  • Yoga Nidra

  • Gentle embodiment exercises

  • Exploration of personal myth and meaning-making

  • Music journeys

  • Healing circles

  • Creative and nature-based practices

Whilst we consider this a valuable stand-alone programme, it may also be used as a way of providing additional support for the preparation and integration of an expanded state of consciousness, including legally administered psychedelic therapy.

It is important to highlight that this programme is not group therapy, nor is it a therapeutic treatment. If you are struggling with your diagnosis in a way that is having a negative impact on your life we recommend that you find the support of a counsellor or therapist to help you through this time. Please see Education for more resources and read our disclaimer.

 
 
 

Details

  • Journey Home was created to support those facing life-threatening illness, or those in remission. It is intended to help you deepen into your own unique wisdom whilst providing supportive tools and practices for your daily life.

    At Essence Medicine we want our services to reach and appeal to as many people as possible. We therefore take a non-denominational approach when it comes to psycho-spiritual care. While we accept, respect and welcome people of all religions and faiths, and none, what we are focused on are the elements of psycho-spiritual care that we believe can be applicable to everyone.

  • There will be a two hour live session per week.

    You will also receive:

    • A weekly email with information about the themes we will be exploring and optional exercises to explore on your own

    • Four recorded yoga nidra to use at home whenever you need

    • Connection and community

  • Tuesdays 7 - 9pm

    November 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th

    December 6th

    All on zoom

  • The price for this programme is £250. However, we do not want cost to be a barrier to psycho-spiritual care so we also offer a limited number of low-income places for those who cannot afford the full price. Please get in touch to find out more.

  • We will record the session if you are unable to make it but we will not be able to record the healing circles to maintain confidentiality.

Please note, we are unable to offer medical treatment or advice, nor do we know where you can access psychedelic-assisted therapies other than via upcoming clinical trials. If you would like to apply to join a research trial please get in touch and we can help you navigate the options available. It is illegal to use or work with psychedelics outside of research trials in the UK at present.

 

  • “Journey Home was a gentle, supportive and uplifting experience. It was a wonderful time away from my normal day. I found it to be a place to connect and be able to be so honest and personal."

    Caroline

  • "I would absolutely recommend this course in a heartbeat. Having been diagnosed with secondary breast cancer a year earlier, I was struggling to connect with people who 'got it' when I stumbled across Essence Medicine and their 6 week course. I can say, with all honesty, those 6 weeks were the most fulf!lling and transformative 6 weeks of my life. I found each session to be hugely restorative and healing and the course truly gave me a sense of peace and acceptance that I’d been struggling with beforehand."

    Vicki

  • “It was everything I needed it to be and more. By the end I not only felt more connected to myself but also to all of those around me. If I were to describe the course in three words I would use: Encouraging. Inspiring. Grounding”

    Journey Home Participant

  • " It has been wonderful to experience a shared relatable community and to share explorations into greater meaning, purpose and healing together."

    Journey Home Participant

  • "I didn't want it to end. I have lots of wonderful friends but it's different when you are faced with people who really get it. If you're wondering whether to join the programme, do it."

    Sarah

  • "...discovering that a space where death is discussed actually is joyful, positive, uplifting - this isn't what I expected and really helped in terms of showing me that death doesn't have to be wholly sad."

    Journey Home Participant

  • “This course is wonderful - a very special opportunity each week to join a safe, nurturing space where you are supported to explore some big and ‘diff icult’ issues in a gentle and helpful way. I felt so much better in myself after completing it.”

    Journey Home Participant

  • "An opportunity to dive deep into some areas of your self that may have been hidden... and give them air - f inally, safely, in a warm and supported environment."

    Joanna

  • "Great course to open your mind in a safe protected environment. Lauren and Rosie are wonderful caring human beings who did a great job running the course. Although I am not a tree hugging spiritual person and have quite rigid views on how to live your life and what is ethical, I truly enjoyed the course, it provided a lot of food for thought and I will miss our Monday evening sessions."

    Eleni

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Journey Home Booking & Enquiries

 

To provide us with the necessary information we will need in order to assist you in booking a place on our Journey Home programme please fill in the following short form.

Essence Medicine Retreats

Journey Home

Retreats that explore and restore our relationship with spirit, with our earth and ourselves. We are a team of experienced facilitators from diverse backgrounds, coming together to create safe, accessible and healing space.

Hosted in The U.K.

2022 retreat dates to be announced soon.

Our HOME Model

Our HOME Model provides the framework for us to explore psycho-spiritual and existential themes together. Each week we explore a different theme focused on: Intention, Healing, Oneness, Meaning, Essence and Integration. The tools and practices that we weave through these themes are intended to soothe the nervous system, increase self-compassion, and gently make space for the full spectrum of human emotions. Exploring these themes in a safe, held space can also lead to new insights and understandings.

Our HOME Model draws upon a vast range of tools to help support healing states. Some of the methods used include: visualisation, yoga nidra (a very gentle and safe form of meditative relaxation), breath work, music, the power of group sharing, rituals and ceremonies. 

 

H

Healing

Shifting focus from ‘curing’ to finding peace and wholeness within

O

Oneness

Appreciating your place in the universe by supporting connection to self, to others, and to the wider world

M

Meaning

Finding meaning in the experience whilst also accepting the mystery of life and death

E

Essence

Exploring the notion that our essence may continue beyond our physical form

"Curing a disease of the body is not always an option, but healing from the soul level is always possible"

— Ram Dass