Sacred Passages
An 8-Day Journey Through Soul Transition and Death Preparation
A Comprehensive Training Program for Facilitators and Seekers
Program Overview: The Sacred Journey of Conscious Completion
This eight-day intensive journey invites participants into the profound territory of soul preparation, death consciousness, and sacred completion. Our work together honors the understanding that preparing for life's ultimate transition transforms not only our relationship with mortality, but awakens us to live with greater presence, authenticity, and love.
Through carefully crafted experiences combining guided meditation, therapeutic dialogue, somatic awareness, and meaningful practice, participants will explore their deepest fears and highest aspirations around the mystery of death and what lies beyond.
- Program Overview:
- Transform fear of death into curiosity and acceptance.
- Develop tools for navigating end-of-life transitions with grace.
- Integrate unresolved aspects of personal history.
- Cultivate inner allies and spiritual resources.
- Create personalized practices for ongoing soul preparation.
- Build capacity to support others in their dying process.
- Who This Serves:
- Those experiencing anxiety tied to the concept of death.
- Individuals facing their own mortality through illness or aging.
- Family members supporting dying loved ones.
- Healthcare providers, hospice workers, hypnotherapists.
- Spiritual seekers exploring consciousness and transition.
- Therapists and counselors working with grief and loss.
Specific Daily Topics:
Day 1: Sacred Threshold - The Dress Rehearsal for Dying
Day 2: Soul Archaeology - Retrieving Childhood Wisdom and Wounded Parts
Day 3: Gathering Your Council - Building Alliances for the Journey
Day 4: The Sacred Trial - Facing Unfinished Business with Courage
Day 5: The Transformation Doorway - Embracing Change and Letting Go
Day 6: Pain as Teacher - Preparing for Suffering with Grace
Day 7: The Medicine Wheel - Personal Practice for Sacred Living
Day 8: Sacred Completion - Integration and Continuing the Journey
Last Journey: 31 July - 06 August 2025
Get in touch to find out when the next Journey is
Turning Point: A Sacred Journey of Transformation
What Turning Point Offers
Turning Point emerges from our deep understanding that authentic transformation requires both courage and sanctuary—a protected space where your soul's wisdom can unfold naturally, supported by experienced guides who honor the mysterious intelligence of your healing journey.
This intensive residential program creates sacred space for:
- Those seeking to break free from patterns that no longer serve their highest expression
- Individuals ready to heal deep wounds with compassion and skill
- Souls called to reconnect with their authentic essence and life purpose
- Anyone committed to nourishing the wolf of light within their being
Over ten transformative days, you'll work intimately with our dedicated therapeutic team, each session carefully crafted to meet you exactly where you are while gently guiding you toward where your soul longs to go.
Your Unique Path: Individually Designed Transformation
We recognize that each soul's journey follows its own mysterious blueprint. Rather than offering a standardized program, we co-create your experience based on what your inner wisdom reveals as most needed for your particular moment of becoming.
Your personalized journey may include:
Consciousness Exploration Through Transpersonal Hypnotherapy
Accessing the deeper layers of your psyche where both wounds and wisdom reside, allowing your subconscious mind to guide the healing process with its own innate intelligence.
Soul Story Integration Through Past Life Regression
Exploring the rich tapestry of your soul's journey across time, discovering how ancient experiences inform present patterns and possibilities.
Shadow Alchemy and Integration Work
Meeting the disowned aspects of yourself with compassion, transforming what has been hidden into sources of authentic power and wholeness.
Life Between Lives Exploration
Connecting with your soul's deeper purpose and the loving guidance that transcends ordinary consciousness, gaining clarity about your unique contribution to the world.
Active Dreaming and Imagination Journeys
Engaging the creative wisdom of your unconscious through guided explorations, dream re-entry, and ancestral connections that reveal hidden resources.
Genetic and Ancestral Wisdom Access
Discovering the healing potential and wisdom encoded within your lineage, transforming inherited patterns into sources of strength.
The Transformation Game
A powerful tool for revealing unconscious patterns and creating conscious frameworks for living with greater authenticity and purpose.
Beyond the Retreat: Integration and Continued Support
We understand that authentic transformation extends far beyond any single intensive experience. The real work often begins when you return to your daily life, carrying new awareness into familiar patterns and relationships.
Our commitment to your ongoing journey includes:
- Regular check-in sessions to support integration of insights and experiences
- Customized exercises and practices designed specifically for your continued growth
- Adjustments to your post-retreat plan as your understanding deepens
- Recommendations for additional therapeutic support when beneficial
- The option to return for a second Turning Point experience, deepening and completing your transformation
Many participants find that attending one Turning Point followed by a return visit several months later creates the most profound and lasting change.
The Foundation: Decades of Collaborative Wisdom
Since Verziere Sanctum's founding, our Turning Point programs have evolved organically through decades of dedicated service to individual and collective healing.
Our approach emerges from:
Therapeutic Collaboration: Years of working in partnership with skilled therapists from diverse modalities, creating a rich tapestry of healing approaches.
Continuous Learning: Regular supervision and feedback processes that ensure our work remains grounded, ethical, and effective.
Personal Practice: Our therapeutic team maintains their own healing journeys, understanding that authentic service requires ongoing personal development.
Inclusive Welcome: We honor that even healers need healing, welcoming therapeutic professionals who seek retreat and renewal alongside individuals from all walks of life.
Your Invitation: Choosing Which Wolf to Feed
At this moment, you stand at a crossroads. Behind you lies everything familiar—the patterns, relationships, and ways of being that have brought you to this point. Ahead lies the mysterious territory of your unlived life, waiting for your conscious engagement.
Turning Point offers you the rare gift of dedicated time and skilled support for this sacred transition. Whether you join one of our scheduled retreats or collaborate with us to design a completely personalized program, you'll discover what becomes possible when you choose to nourish the light within your being.
Consider This Invitation If:
- You sense that significant change is both necessary and possible in your life
- You're ready to address patterns or wounds that have limited your full expression
- You feel called to discover and live from your authentic purpose
- You're prepared to invest deeply in your own transformation and healing
- You're seeking not just insights, but lasting change in how you experience yourself and your world
Next turning point: September 2025
Healing the Wounded healer
Remember: Even therapists need Therapy
Brave Birds Fly Thru the Fog
After years of being there for others, wounded healers need their own space and time to work on their own issues.
This is the journey from being the wounded healer to living the potent medicine you give to others for yourself.
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We will explore your shadows along with the mythical archetypal story of Chiron as the wounded healer and your own personal story to allow, open, and create more: connection, confidence, self-worth in unlocking creativity, belonging to your tribe, healing family dynamics, aligning emotional stability, and balance for more security in personal and professional relationships.
We will work with Shadow alchemy, which is about pulling everything out and even more from one particular experience to understand how the shadow archetypes are operating within us and condition us to repeat the same experiences over and over.
Feelings and thoughts, lead to other feelings, thoughts, belief systems, and patterns that the client is not willing or could not see or feel or become aware of fully. Committing to seeing fully this shadow allows the process to unfold and get to the bottom of the reality behind it.
Once everything from that specific experience has been explored, the therapist assists the client with honing in on the specific archetypes and personalised phrases, feelings, and belief systems. In Shadow Alchemy, telling and explaining the story of the experience takes a secondary role, to seeing and realising the shadow patterns and mechanisms that we are operating in.
This sojourn will consist sessions ranging from exploring who we are via Shadow work, active Imagination, Active Dreaming , Regression work. And Life Between Life sessions. This highly Individualized process is a journey from being the wounded healer to living the potent medicine we give to others for ourselves...
March 1st - 9th, 2025
Turning Point Healing
A Turning Point can become a time of decisive change. It’s when things cannot go on as before and you seek to discover how to guide your way.
What is it?
Turning Point Residential Healing Retreat, is an intensive program created to help people who have chosen to change their lives, transform, heal, and move forward. It is open to anyone who has these desires, wishes, and commitments.
Individualized Programs
As each of us are following an individual path, so too do our therapeutic and healing methods vary according to what you need. The focus is that you receive what you need. Each Turning Point program is different for each person.
What to expect
Support, Unconditional witnessing, mentoring, steps to feel your own inner wisdom and connect to your own inner compass to guide yourself.
Optional daily group meditations begin your day here to ground yourself and closing meditations facilitate the time and energy to allow yourself a moment of integration and inner peace.
Time alone to Integrate and Time together with other Participants.
Location
Set in Tuscany between the mountains and the sea one can walk on the beach, in the forest, or in the town centre just a few minutes away. The Sanctum sits within a garden of fruit and olive trees and also has a meditation hut, and a small creek on the grounds for walks or contemplation.
Nourishing body and spirit
Ayurvedic massages will be arranged from a centre we have been collaborating with for over nine years. For those who prefer not to have a massage there is also reflexology and reiki, or other options to consider that help integrate mind and body such as Tai chi, Qi Gong or Yoga. What's most important is that you can work with what feels comfortable at the rhythm that suits you.
Follow up
We create a regular and consistent form of post Turning Point check-ins as well as exercises and sessions that reinforce your ability to follow the next steps you planned and when necessary we help you to adjust them accordingly. In some situations we may recommend continued therapies and exercises. Best results come from attending one Turning Point and a few months later returning to create a complete transformation.
Background
Since the founding of Verziere Sanctum, the Turning Point Retreats have unfolded organically with a constant focus on personal development in small groups and individuals in order to provide people with the attention and support they require.
Our program is based upon many decades of working with clients and with collaborating with other therapists.
The insights developed from these experiences have led us to thoughtfully combine several methods in practice along with daily debriefing among the therapists to gain a broader perspective in order to create deeper, more profound ways of transformation and develop the next active steps in one's life journey.
Supervision and Feedback
Another important baseline for our program came from years of working on supervised weekends with therapists and volunteers collaborating together for five to seven day periods. Our therapists would work in pairs with one observing and the other facilitating. Between supervision and debrief discussions individual methodologies evolved with the support and collaboration of the observing and participating therapists and their supervisors. This also often included the feedback of the volunteer as well.
Remember even therapists need therapy. Our own therapists continue working with their own personal development both for themselves as growing beings and to be better therapists. Therefore we welcome therapists who need a retreat or respite in order to integrate all they are experiencing.
It is also possible to organise an Individual Turning Point:
working with our therapists in pairs, creating a unique program for yourself that is residential.
Transformation game
The Transformation Game is a board game created by the Findhorn Foundation.
Imagine a game that works with memory and bringing to conscious mind unconscious patterns. A game that helps you to connect to your true Self, to gain insight into what is truly going on in your life, to realise how to transform the things that are holding you back, challenging, or frustrating you, and to discover potential solutions that work for you.
To begin you discuss and refine what your intention really is.
Then you activate a connection with the game .
After you work with confirming your intention
and then
you roll for your cards which are placed in your unconscious envelope
As the game unfolds you work with memory and discovering resources that you had forgotten, understanding more about past memories and through gaining a broader perspective you find your strengths and insights from within.
While you progress through the levels you learn more about yourself until by the end of the game you are ready to create your next steps and feel inspired to follow them.
The cards are a fundamental part in guiding the process, there are six kinds:
• The Angel cards: Higher energy and archetype wisdom.
• Insights: Represent ideas and ways of moving forward.
• Setbacks: A way of looking into a problem or situation.
• Awareness: Tokens with single words which reflect back a player's growing consciousness and progress in the game.
• Universal Feedback: Cards which mirror the universe in relation to the individual player. It is amazing to experience feedback in the game and work with it, emulating how to cope with feedback in life. It helps you understand another point of view.
• Blessings: Tokens to help you move up faster and clear away pain.
Active Imagination,Memory and Metaphor
Ever wanted to create a record that makes sense of your own journey and write about your own Thesis
Discover your root of your individual archetypes, bring in supportive memory and metaphors in Storytelling: You can become the Hero of your own life, using via active imagination and regression memory to create a perspective within a document that helps you understand and become who who you really want to be..
Find your myth and become the hero of your own life..
Writing to discover the meaning of your journey as a story within you
This workshops Includes:
--Hypnosis sessions to go deeper into remembering and understanding your own story
- Active imagination exploring scenes and geographies
- Following clues by meandering in your mind...
- Small exclusive groups
- Individualized mentoring support and feedback for personal development
- Daily debriefing
- Gaining perspective while listening to how other stories overlap your experiences
- Exchanges in support, feedback, and continuity
- Defining your personal Archetypes and the inner Myths, you have been living by
- Bring to conscious mind unconscious belief systems.
Regression for Regressionists:
Exchange week for personal development and research with support among other regression therapists
When we are working with clients we often find a divine inspiration. Yet at times we also can feel the echoes of our own stories calling from deep within. Regression for Regressionists is about following that call....working on ourselves makes us better therapists and enhances our connection to our souls.
Set within a small exclusive group we set up exchanges and combination sessions so we can explore what is happening within ourselves and follow and listen to our personal development and life callings.
Maximum Participants of 5 only
October 5th - 12th, 2025
Active Dreaming & Active Imagination
Workshop for Dreaming
Active Dream Travel
Re entering the portals of your dreams to explore and find out more. Dream trackers alongside.Transformation of nightmares or confused dreams
Meandering in your mind
Broader Exploration of the unconscious agenda, lesson plans, intentions