Nature Based Therapy

❄️ Join Us for a Winter Wellbeing Gathering 🌿

Feeling the need to slow down, reconnect and recharge this winter?

Come and explore the 8 Dimensions of Wellbeing through reflective activities, practical tools, nature-based practices, meaningful conversations, and community connection.

📍 Anglesea Community House
📅 Sunday 23 August
⏰ 10:00am – 4:00pm
💚 $25 per person
👥 Limited to 8 places

This is a pilot program through the Nature Based Therapy Foundation, designed to support community-based wellbeing in an accessible and meaningful way.

If you’ve ever thought:
✨ “Our community needs something like this.”
✨ “This would be great for our staff, volunteers, carers or clients.”
✨ “I’d love to bring this to my organisation.”

I’d love to hear from you.

📧 Contact Kit Kline: [email protected]

Let’s nourish, connect, reflect and thrive — together. 🌱

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🌙 REM Sleep, Dreams & the Spirit Realm: A Reflection Through My EMDR Training ✨

For thousands of years, people across cultures have believed that dreams are more than random mental activity. Dreams have been viewed as places of wisdom, healing, guidance, and connection—sometimes even as gateways to the spirit realm. 🌿🦋

As someone currently training in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing), I have become increasingly fascinated by the relationship between dreaming, memory processing, healing, and spirituality. 🧠💚

Science tells us that REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep is the stage of sleep most associated with vivid dreaming. During REM sleep, the brain processes emotions, integrates memories, and supports psychological healing. 🌙💭

Interestingly, some researchers have suggested that EMDR may engage natural processing mechanisms that share similarities with what occurs during REM sleep. Through bilateral stimulation, EMDR helps the brain process experiences that may have become “stuck” following trauma or overwhelming life events. 🔄✨

Yet there is another dimension to this conversation.

Across spiritual traditions, dreams have long been understood as potential sources of guidance, symbolic wisdom, ancestral connection, and encounters with realities beyond ordinary waking consciousness. 🌌🕊️🌳

While science can measure brain activity, eye movements, and sleep cycles, there is currently no scientific instrument capable of objectively measuring whether someone has connected with a spiritual realm, received guidance from an ancestor, or experienced something sacred during a dream. 🔬