Iona Curative Week

Healing Site Iona – Curative Week

Recharging in elementally strong nature
Inspiration for what is needed today and in our lives
Strengthening connections

A one-week retreat
to recover from illness, stress, burn out and to find ones way back into the present

When?

24th to 31st July 2022

Who is it with?

Charlot Buschgens (MA eurythmy therapist) and Renatus Derbidge (Dr. rer. medic.) are supporting your individual process to convalescence, deal with a crisis or the search for new impulses in life.

Part of the process will be Iona as a place of inspiration, Mull, as a place of intense life forces, Staffa as an ancient site of initiation and the group as a safe place to articulate ones situation and to be heard.
You take from the offered program as much as you need. Experiences in nature will reflect on your situation and can be deepened in the evening sessions.
A gentle weaving between individual retreat and group activities, nature and a homely accommodation in beautiful surroundings as well as the rich spiritual background of the Scottish western isles stimulate to find a new balance between perceiving the new and initiative.

Minimum 4, maximum 8 participants in 3 holiday-apartments.

The Program

After breakfast at your accommodation we start together at 9 a.m. with activating speech exercises and softly awakening eurythmy.

During the week we will have three day trips to healing places and historically significant sites of initiation:

Iona, the holy island of the Celts and Celtic Christians with a presence of soft and mild transforming quality.
Staffa, the island of the «natural basalt cathedral» the druid initiation cave «Fingals Cave».
The stone circle of Lochbuie and impressive standing stones - ancient role models of being upright and for a hierarchy-free social order.

Excursions include observation exercises.

The days without a day trip can be used to explore the beautiful surroundings on your own or to simply rest and to use the time for a session of eurythmy therapy.

In the evenings at 19:30 the whole group meets for a seminar and reflection circle. You will learn more about the spiritual background of Iona, Staffa and the Western Mysteries. We will also reflect the days events. We will be using the community building method "reversed cult" (Umgekehrter Kultus from Rudolf Steiner).

At the end of the week we will have an "Inspiration walk" on Iona including a harvesting session with the group.
This is a very powerful and satisfying presencing method that helps to incorporate the new into the daily life.

Accommodation

Part of the curative week is the possibility to always retreat to your holiday accommodation that is situated on site at Leob. We offer 3 holiday accommodations, all self catering and fully equipped. Here you can choose from different settings: A single room in a shared holiday house, a double room in a shared house or exclusive use of a holiday flat just for yourself or you and your partner. Please visit the the sub-pages of this website for details about the holiday houses.

How much?

£680
Plus accommodation of £120 (twin room), £200 (single room) or £400 (exclusive use of a 2 people holiday flat).

What is included?

Full board (organic, vegetarian)
2x sessions of eurythmy therapy (individual).
Eurythmy and speech formation in the group in the mornings.
Seminar and reflection sessions in the evenings.
3 day trips (including all expenses like ferry rides etc. except food).
Inpirational walk on Iona with introduction, guidance and harvesting session afterwards.

Not included: travel expenses to Leob and afterwards. Insurances if required. Accommodation costs depend on the category you choose.

How do I register?

Please email renatus@knowyourself.land

A 50% non-refundable deposit secures your booking. The remaining 50% needs to be paid 6 weeks prior to the beginning of the curative week. If we need to cancel a curative week you will be fully refunded.

FAQ

If you need further information - also about how to get to Leob etc. please don`t hesitate to send an email to: renatus@knowyourself.land

Facilitators:

Charlot Buschgens
(M. A: Eurythmy Therapist)

Charlot Buschgens taught at the eurythmy training in Berlin, until she moved to the Isle of Mull in 2018. She has been involved in varies artistic eurythmy projects in Stourbridge, UK and in Germany (“Märchenensemble” Stuttgart) with many performances around the world. She did a MA in Eurythmy Therapy. Which included work in a clinic for pain and cancer patients. Her master`s thesis was about a case study in eurythmy cancer therapy. Her therapeutic approach is to help harmonise imbalances, to become centred and grounded within the own body and self. She specialised in accompanying people with cancer diagnosis in all stages in an individualist way.

She lives on the Isle of Mull on a small croft near Fionnphort from where one can take the ferry to the beautiful little sister island Iona. She experiences Mull as a rough and true place to face reality. Nothing remains unseen, everything in one’s own life and biography comes to the surface to be recognized and if needed transformed. Wild and beautiful landscapes in always changing weather help to face and encounter these. Whereas the soft and hilly landscape of Iona, always surrounded by the deep blue of the sea rather transmits a feeling of divine connection, a strong sense of unconditional love, peace, and acceptance.

Charlot is Dutch and mother of two daughters.

Renatus Derbidge
(Dr. rer medic.)

Renatus Derbidge worked as a biologist for 10 years at the natural science section at the Goetheanum in Switzerland, mainly occupied with a research project about the healing plant mistletoe. He finished a PhD about this topic in 2018 at University of Witten/Herdecke0 and moved to the Isle of Mull after that. He exchanged a desk and computer with a garden and the wilderness of the Scottish highlands.

After his biology, geography and philosophy studies at Freie Universität Berlin, he worked as a high school teacher for 5 years.
He now continues this thread by being a lecturer at the Steiner school teachers seminar in Stuttgart (Freie Hochschule Stuttgart) and by facilitating workshops about Goethean nature observation.

He was trained at «AmWort» as a speech formation artists and also attended the speech formation therapy training for two years. He enjoyed a dip into eurythmy as well by attending the two-years training "EBA" (Basis-Eurythmie-Ausbildung) with Tanja Baumgartner.

Since 2016 he is organizing and facilitating the «Summer School Iona and Isle of Mull» at Leob (www.knowyourself.land/iona-summer-school). Since that time his interests are focused on the "Western Mysteries" and the historic and spiritual background of Iona and the Megalithic world.

Healing Site Iona ­­– Curative Week