Reconnect with Your Vision Healer Rejuvenation Take time out from your practice during which you attend to your needs. (You probably tell your clients to do it—now it's your turn!) Time in Silence and Nature Healer Rejuvenation Retreats take place in locations with plenty of access to beauty and nature and time for stillness, reflection, self-healing. Explore Healing in Multi-Handed Teams Take advantage of a unique opportunity to work with a small team of healers. Learn simple, effective, non-forcing, non-modality-bound strategies for physical, emotional and energetic release. Take Your Individual Practice to a New Level Learn principles which apply to your healing work, regardless of your style or modality Healer Rejuvenation Retreats are held in beautiful natural surroundings with accommodations for participants which provide an opportunity for retreat and reflection without the distractions of daily life. Each day will begin with meditative energy practices. Jim Gilkeson has over 25 years of teaching experience. He is the author of A Pilgrim in Your Body: Energy Healing and Spiritual Process and Energy Healing: A Pathway to Inner Growth, which the "Father of bio-feedback," Elmer Green, Ph.D., called "the best book I've seen on this subject." His background in meditation and spiritual practice and his love for experiential learning have made him keenly attentive to the developmental and initiatory dimensions of bodywork and energy healing. His teaching style is warm, personal and fun, reflecting his passion for inspiring participants to find their unique qualities and callings, as well as for teaching solid principles and practices of energy healing. You can now purchase Jim's books and CDs online. Click here to go to bookstore. © 2011 Jim Gilkeson. All rights reserved. Drawing ©copyright by Aimee Eldridge. All rights reserved. LINKING POLICY: Permission is granted to link to this energy healing website. However, material on this website may not be mirrored without the express written permission of Jim Gilkeson.

Retreat   Decision made in earnest arrangements made appropriate place, open space in the appointment book, gather provisions, finally alone, it starts.   Outer resistance behind me, I turn within. But now the dwellers on my inner thresholds make their presence known, there all the time, but now we do battle. My body hurts, craves stimulation, I'm frustrated. I'm bored. I want light, but my heart is closed. I'm depressed. My practice is empty. I decide to pray forever for something . . . what? A hammer! Something to crack the hard nut of my symptoms, my misery, my stupidity. I sleep, dream, wake, rise, move through days of silence. Inner turmoil becomes thin, a veil between me and . . . stillness. I listen, Stillness listens to me. Nature's sound does not clash with that deepening sense. I enter. Senses elongate, they braid together. I move now with wind. I touch air that touches all surfaces of all creatures. My prayer echoes from the hills; my invocation opens all gates, heals all wounds. Time starts again. I am ready.   -JG