Would you like to be simple and have the whole world belong to you? Is there a possibility of revamping your life, so you take it breath by breath with equanimity?
We all have times when we are deeply relaxed and in harmony with ourselves and our environment. Beauty or something we enjoy or aspire to catches our attention. Maybe an incredible sunset, walking in nature, or a child chuckling.

So much of the time though we are lost to the realities of our situation. Our attention is taken by confusion, regret, or unfulfilled day-dreams. Rather than rejoicing in the way things are, we project a world that we are never happy in. Then this world claims all our attention and we become a puppet of our unexplored tendencies.

We all know that worrying solves nothing. It is not a worthwhile use of imagination and embroils us in a self-sustaining nightmare of our own making. Life is too mysterious and intense and we hide in patterns of thought supported by our emotions and our postures of breath and body.

Rarely though, do we realise that life is passing us by. Why should any of us accept living in a way that doesn't suit us?

Our mystery schools and religions all have as part of their teachings sitting and walking practices where we engage in silence. Silence brings its own reward. Yet so many people say "I can't be silent".

In silence practice, in meditation or contemplation we actually get to see the workings of the mind. Often it seems horrendous. We see very clearly that our life is of our own making fuelled by our thoughts and emotions over which we have no control.

This ability to be in the moment detached from the play of our life in silence is a hard won skill. It is a question of commanding our attention.
Unfortunately our attention is on being distracted, on talking to ourselves. As we approach a state of alignment with other facets of our being, then we see our self-sabotaging dialogues that create our experience of life.

This inability to connect beyond the scope of our dialogues has been addressed in many cultures. We have the idea of forgiveness, of letting go. Soul-retrieval, the same as recapitulation, is based on the idea that aspects of our energy are lost to us and can be reclaimed.

The energy we need to live an authentic and vital life is already invested in our hurts and confusions, it needs unearthing and redeploying. Incidents, especially from our childhood, and our reaction to them, have configured us in a certain way.

The process of seeing where our energy is invested, considering whether the investment is viable for us still and withdrawing it, to apply to what is current for us, is called recapitulation. The practice was introduced to us by Carlos Castaneda. Yet it is seen in many forms cross-culturally under many names.

Toltec seers realised that our life depends on the free flow of energy. They faced the same dilemma as we do and solved it. 

They discovered techniques to free up energy and make it available. This in turn changed their perception of being alive and the way they lived their lives. For them breath was and is a magical activity. Deeply immersing themselves in the free flow of breath and reviewing the incidents of their life, they were able to bring a new perspective.

This process allowed forgiveness of themselves and those they had come in contact with. They were able to discover caches of energy locked by their reactions and reclaim it. This is a pragmatic way of soul retrieval; it leads to expanded awareness, acceptance and self-love.
It freed perception and allowed them to approach the wonder of being alive in the moment. It allowed them to live their life with detachment, independence and passion.

These techniques have been taught to Ena and Gammadian. For over a decade we have entered into this process and benefited from it. It has moved us to the extent that we have chosen to make it available to others. We are registered teachers of this knowledge through Being Energy®.

On October 1st in Rishikesh, India, we will be entering into a week-long retreat. By the use of sacred shamanic movement, dreaming, recapitulation (soul retrieval) and silence practices, attendees will attain a completely new perspective on their life and be led to enact new strategies to live the life of their choice.

This process is deeply pragmatic. All lives benefit from review and self-observation. If you would live life authentically expressing your life force, do consider what is on offer here.

It is possible for you to reclaim the energy you were born with and use it consciously to re-dream your life. Exercise choice; invest in yourself while the opportunity is here.

I like to share a story with you about recapitulation and dreaming. After meeting and becoming the Energy Body, I began to take a pivotal role in the Castaneda community, putting on workshops with the apprentices of Carlos Castaneda and other bodies and my own workshops all over the world on various topics to do with Toltec Knowledge. Of these the recapitulation retreats became my favourite because of an incredible experience I had.

A large amount of my time was devoted both to Sorcery Passes, Stalking and Dreaming. Still though in my stalking of my childhood I was only finding acrimonious scenes. Me being beaten for what I'd done or hadn't done. I'd constantly run away all my life but at 16 left for good.

I decided to gather a weekly group and make recapitulation our endeavour. Over and over I pulled 

He asked me what was happening, he said "I am ill, something has happened. He'd actually died in a lot of pain from a stroke.. I told him who I was and that he was dead and that he should head toward a thin band of light on the horizon above. I told him I would return.
I also went speedily towards like dawn's light. It was some kind of heaven, but I wasn't taking much notice as I wanted to find my mother. I finally came out into this beautiful serene place. My mother was lying there with her eyes closed, bathed in a luminescence.

She looked so at peace, but I was so pissed at her. I asked her why I'd had to spend so much of my childhood black and blue just because I was energetic and wild? "What made you think you had the right to beat me, often for things my sisters did?" She became awake but had no concern for my feelings.

I became highly irate and changed into a bear. I roared at her. I grabbed her from her repose and tore at her body. I ripped her apart. Yet she reformed into her peaceful repose. Many times I roared and clawed until she was no more but I couldn't destroy her.

She said to me "your concerns are no longer mine, I have made my peace with my actions. I recommend you do the same thing."

"Maybe you have no Earthly concerns but your husband who you swore undying love for is in a terrible state in a realm below. I am not sure how to bring him here." I said.

"It will be done, together we will bring him. Return to where he is and escort him I will lend assistance."

The recapitulation is a technique discovered by the sorcerers of ancient Mexico, to view and relive all the experiences of their lives, to achieve two transformational and pragmatic goals.

Firstly, to become detached and light about their lives, so that they would not lose their individual awareness at death and secondly, to gain perceptual fluidity.

These men saw that at death a force that had lent awareness retrieved it and that men lost their individual awareness in the process. They also saw that this force didn't require the life force of the individual, but his life experience. In man these two had become so entwined that by default man lost both. 

His reply was that if they felt they were unable to do a perfect recapitulation then they should do a shitty one. Those that attempted this practice found immediate and accumulative benefit.

An immediate realisation was the repetitive habitual way they lived their lives that robbed them of the immediacy it had once had, giving them a new-found zest for life. The recapitulation opened a pragmatic way of thinking and a more strategic approach to living life. Old habits disappeared and seemed irrelevant.

We will engage with those aspects of your life that are relevant to you and your concerns, family, relationships, work and prosperity etc. 

All attendees will be individually tutored in a flexible program to deal with specific issues and be assigned individual movements conducive to their development.