The Spirit of a Man Retreat
A retreat held by my amazing husband Josh Macin which I helped facilitate through loving presence, support, Yoga classes, meditation and breathwork. I was the only woman in a retreat with 14 men.
In this post, I share my reflections that brought me to a deeper realization of the power I hold as a woman.
WOW. I don’t even know where to begin.
The spaces Josh and I create and hold together are something else.
The Spirit of a Man retreat was such an awakening experience for me.
I would like to share with you my thoughts and what this week awakened in me and brought to my soul.
The medicine that I bring to people is way deeper than moving the body, it is an embodiment of the real essence of Yoga.
My medicine is holding loving space for people to release stagnant and negative energy, to face their traumas, to be challenged, to learn how to claim their space and be in their authenticity and integration with their true identity. My offerings help people connect with their heart and connect with their bellies, to speak from the heart and their inner fire rather than with their mind.
My husband and I facilitate people in their awakening journey in the most real, raw, sacred way. There is dancing, screaming, crying, moving, meditating, communication, listening, presence..there is deep infinite love towards each other.
We believe to have a good understanding of ourselves, but do we, really? Many people suffocate and are in pain. When we choose to do the work and we dive deep into the rawness of our being, there is so much dirt that needs to be cleaned to give space for authenticity, openness, trust, unconditional love to come out.
Basically, working on getting rid of the toxicity that is in us all, to find who we really are under all those protective layers that we create because we are afraid of showing up for who we truly are.
Many of us are afraid of showing their darkness, so we hide it.
But if we choose real transformation and spiritual growth, we MUST work on ourselves.
Only in this way will we be able to expand, to excel, to levitate and live a life in balance and harmony with our core values and beliefs.
Three huge realisations I had during this men’s retreat:
1) My devotion as a teacher and healer goes towards helping men understand how to connect deeper with women and with their feminine energy.
Communication and talking from the heart are a huge part of this work.
During this retreat I was the only woman surrounded by 14 men. I held space for each one of them, giving them support, teaching Yoga, breathwork and somatic practices, I gave them motherly and sisterly support, and I worked closely with them to figure out ways to understand the femine energy deeper.
When men learn how to dance with both their masculine and their feminine, when they learn to surrender, when they learn to be themselves without having to constantly show up as tough, primal men, when they enter into a higher connection of their true identity, when they face their shadow and push themselves it means that they are approaching a death, and this death brings to a new birth, to more vitality, light.. They embody their most authentic self, and they live their most authentic life.
When men understand what the femine truly holds for them, they will be able to see women and to be seen by women, and this will go deeper and deeper with time and self-work.When the man gives his whole heart, he becomes the greatest force, because there is nothing a woman wants more than for him to be himself fully, to dissolve his projections and face his own wounds.
2) My devotion as a teacher and a healer goes towards helping women awaken.
My sister, we have a magic within that men do not have and they need from us.
This is called intuition, this is called inner wisdom, this is called Soul Mother.
All women have this power, yet most are not aware of that, and are scared to face their own shadow and work on their wounds, exactly like men do.
This year has been a huge transformation in my spiritual and personal work as a woman. Working on myself and with other incredible women, I have developed such a subtle understanding of women’s behaviour that I am now using as a healing technique to allow women to come back in their body, their heart, their belly, to own their shit and to work with their fears, to become empowered and free, to understand men better and to connect with both their masculine and feminine energy, to grow self awareness, to claim their boundaries, to sense and perceive other people using their inner wisdom, calling upon the Soul Mother within.
I am so thrilled to share my energy with more and more women in this world.
We have to awaken and we must come together because once we are fully embodying ourselves in the most authentic, wild, and loving way, life is going to flow with harmony, things will suddenly start to make sense, you will grow unconditional trust towards yourself and your life, you will feel unique and realise that you actually are an awaken woman.
3) I realised that my relationship is the most profound spiritual work there is.
My love towards you, Josh, goes beyond anything and anyone.
I am devoted to you and I choose to die and be reborn with you a thousand times more.
What we bring as a couple I have never experienced nor seen anywhere else before.
We are burning fire, we love helping others, we are so in-tuned with what we bring out in this world. I love you like I have never ever loved before.
You are the most incredible man in this whole world, and I am so proud of you and to be your wife.
To more retreats together, to more awakenings, to more love and depth. I am all in.
Alice
