Cath and Andrea met at university in 1990 where Andrea was studying Pharmacy and Cath was studying Psychology. They immediately sensed a strong connection and have remained close friends ever since.
After leaving university Andrea followed a very successful career in the pharmaceutical industry whilst Cath became a hypnotherapist and teacher. In the following years, Cath learned about the nature of the mind through some extremely interesting experiences in her hypnotherapy practice. Meanwhile, Andrea had a near-death experience that changed the direction of her life, and she began learning about meditation and the value of listening inwardly.
In 2009, their journey and investigation into the mind began to accelerate when, together, they began to explore the connection with the mind more deeply through hypnosis. In these hugely exciting, early days, Cath took the role of hypnotizing Andrea and asking questions of the voice that spoke through her, whilst in trance. Over the months and years that followed, Andrea honed her ability, through discernment, to hear this inner voice accurately and now her channel flows freely and fluently. During further studies of the mind connections through hypnotherapy and counselling practice, which both Cath and Andrea continued in professionally and for interest it became apparent that the universal mind — the deep connections of life that flows between us all and further into the beyond — is not only available through the focus of attention but it opens up into the deeper wisdoms of the Self. From inner-wisdom to universal awareness, the other universal platforms that exist are communicating through the etheric into our daily lives, often without recognition.
With other like-minded individuals, Andrea set up a well-being centre which began to build a community of people wishing to explore the mind, Self and healing. With focused attention it became apparent that deep seated past issues within peoples lives could be brought to the surface and transformed through the power of forgiveness and further, beyond, into the love of Self that requires no forgiveness, for all is known. The work between Cath and Andrea, thier clients and personal studies and reflections become apparent as a life long commitment to the greater good, for humanity and for the inspirational Self-mind that is within us all to be realised.
In 2015 Cath and Andrea spent much time in Turkey to work on a book they were creating together. Whilst there they visited the ancient sites of Ephesus, Priene and Miletus and whilst meditating and connecting at these sites, they discovered further the amazing connection with past lives, Mother Mary and the ancient philosophical wisdoms of the area. The information and channelling about the past lives lived in these ancient times, and the nature of reality, that came through was not only mind-blowing - it was also fantastic fun! It was at this point that Andrea and Cath had the shared dream of running retreats in Turkey.
With that in mind, the time spent between then and now, has been developing the connections and ability to offer such guided retreats of inspirational Self-journeying. The reality of life in the higher states of conciousness revealing who we really are and the truth of life in the eternal leads us to examine more closely nature and our role upon this planet. The main priority being to lift in vibrational capacity to ensure full enjoyment of life and the transformational journey of the planet to allow that for all. In this, connections with our neighbouring planets and the alignement of the universal platforms becomes the compass through which Earth and our species as humanity can align with love and light for the entire. Releasing fears of the mind that are born from conditioned past and perceptions of the gross world and its limiting beliefs as constructed experience for our realisation. Realising yourself into the Divine Mind Experience allows you to enjoy living and allows the exploration of life to be easy and fun filled.
So it is with much excitement and anticipation of fun and further enlightening times ahead, that they are now offering these retreats to share this amazing experience of connection and Self-discovery to others.
If you would like to join us on this adventure then book your place and be ready for some fun, connection and a deep dive into the knowledge and wisdom held in the shared platform of higher states of conciousness. As our journey increases in speed towards conclusion of the question ‘Who Am I?’ we enjoy life together as a caring community of human beings every day more and more.
Over the years of my professional life I have studied the effects of pharmaceutical medicines and also the placebo effect, both of which are interesting and great insights into our mind and body connections. As a result of this study, and a near death experience, I delved deeper into the mind body connections and looked more holistically at our diverse experiential mind for health and wellbeing. This led me to explore our origin as non-physical beings. Insight poured into my life through working with Catherine and with this focus of attention, life transformed. Awesome experiences led me to inspire myself to realise that loving life and being in joy and gratitude is within us when we are aligned with our inner truth.
To begin with gratitude for life every singe day and to enjoy life in every way is not something that people are born into, its a choice, a life long choice with more rewards than could possibly be imagined. To live life to the full no matter what is being experienced is not only a gift but a life transforming stage of awakening from which there is no return. Once liberated in the mind, the results are self fulfilling and contagious.
This is my philosophy for every day living and I hope to engage with those who are enjoying life every day even more. The numbers are increasing, and I’d really love for us, along with everyone else who has chosen alignment with inner truth, to make this a wonderfully contagious offering to the world.
When I was a teenager, I met a friend and mentor who began to open my mind to alternate explanations of life, health and well-being, from the ones being taught in schools and other mainstream sources. I was, however, very interested in science, and skeptical of ideas until I had heard good supporting evidence for those ideas.
When I first became a hypnotherapist, I would only use strategies that fit with the accepted models of biology and psychology. In the first few years of practice, I had good results, but as time went on, I came to realise that I was thinking less and ‘listening’ more. I had started to trust intuition. The sessions became effortless, and transformation came faster and deeper.
Another thing that happened was that client responses made me question the orthodox explanation of who we truly are, and I was beginning to see the first clues of how we manifest our lives.
I was always careful to not lead with my questions. I wanted to know that what I was witnessing was real. By the time I started working with Andrea, I had many questions I wanted answers to. Until then I had only used hypnosis for therapeutic purposes and did not want to use clients' time to satisfy my own curiosity.
Working with Andrea and her amazing channelling ability has been an amazing and fascinating experience that has transformed my understanding of who we are and how to make the most of this experience of life. As the skeptic, I have now exhausted all doubt that we are a non-physical being having an experience of a physical world. I have learned the power of letting go of fear, living without judgement, and loving unconditionally. I still have room for more growth and learning. There is always more experience to be had but I have learned to embrace it all. After all, how much fun would a rollercoaster be without the ups and the downs? Besides, I know that I have a universe within that is supporting and guiding me through it all. All there is to do, is to allow it.
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