Three days ago, I received an e-mail from a Tai-Chi teacher, obviously written in a state of doubt and despair. Having stumbled over my website, she realized that she could intellectually understand every word but felt unable to connect with the reality behind them. In her struggle for survival she must have lost the connection to her own heart and now felt abandoned in deep sadness and painful longing.
My first intuition was to offer her a session when I would be in Zürich next week, but she insisted that she had to come to Autigny (our home in the french part of Switzerland) for a 5-day individual retreat: Becoming who we really are” . My agenda being full for the following weeks, I could only offer her a five-day-period starting today by sacrificing my week-end. Inspite of my wife’s protest and my own need for the well-planned pause, I felt that I needed to change plans and accommodate her. And so she arrived yesterday in the late afternoon. [Read more…]