We offer events, classes and therapies rooted in lived experience and deep practice. Each of us brings a unique workflow; one refined through devotion, discipline and years of focused work in our chosen field. Between us, you’ll find support across somatic healing, emotional integration, trauma resolution, nervous system repair, energy work, relational therapy, physical health, and more.
Our aim is your evolution: to help you uncover what it means to be fully human—and, over time, what it means to become coherent. The ethos of all of our events is “Come as you are, take what you need & give what you can“.
Basic activities like walking briskly, breathing fresh air and sharing thoughts and feelings are extremely powerful for self-regulation, and also massively overlooked by our culture because we have lost our way, discarded all of the wisdom of the past and replaced it with fast food, dopamine loops and performative living for others rather than for ourselves.
No matter the time of year, nature is always just around the corner waiting for us to immerse ourselves – and we are very lucky to have the beautiful Forest of Dean to soak up all of our emotional charge whenever we want to let something go. Come along to walk and talk with us. It can be about emotions, it can be about health, it can be about anything – provided that it is authentic and relevant to being human (this is not the place for masks or performance). If you have the courage to drop the mask and be real, you are welcome. If you just want to see what someone else dropping the mask looks like, you are welcome too. If you want to learn how to be authentic, you are welcome – and finally, if you are already happily authentic then you are very welcome!
We meet at Speech House Woods carpark at 10am on a Sunday and just start wandering through the trees. No set route, no set time, but usually it’s about 10km and takes about 2 hours. The challenges we all face are not unique, and often what’s good for the goose is also good for the gander so you might get some benefit just from coming along and listening. As a group, our focus is on the areas we all have in common – our core human needs – and our mission is to understand and spread the truth about what makes us tick on a fundamental level, and how we can maximise our experience for the best life possible.
Walks are led by Thom, who has a background in real wellbeing and personal transformation. He’s walked the path away from the mental and emotional mess of modern culture that many are only just waking up to—and now he’s here to guide you out of your comfort zone and into the forest. We are joined by some of our other therapists, healers and members from time to time depending on their own availability, so you never know who you might get to talk to 🙂
Join AONOS Lab at Flaxley Schoolrooms for a hypnogogic journey of light and sound that takes you deeply into yourself using a high frequency strobe light and high quality sound system. Light therapy is a powerful therapeutic tool that can entrain the brain to deep states of meditation and relaxation, without you needing to have any prior skills or knowledge of this area.
The soundtrack is carefully crafted using binaural beats, specific tones, and frequencies all layered under beautiful electronic music, chants, drones and singing bowls that is in perfect sync with the light and locked in to the tempo of your brainwaves. The result is entraining your whole energy field into a deep, pure state of altered consciousness. Think of it like a rave for your soul!
We start by getting you into a calm Alpha brainwave state, then we go down into Delta to fully relax the body before the light takes us on a journey into the Theta realms and, finally, we ground ourselves back in the physical reality with movement to create Beta waves, and sharing of our experiences.
Everyone has different effects. Some see colours, some have visions, others just feel more coherent and relaxed afterwards. These sessions are at the cutting edge of the intersection of spirituality and technology, and have proven to be extremely powerful and transformative so, if you’re tired of the same old gong-bath yoga-class cacao-sipping spiritual grifters, come join us for a truly authentic altered states experience.
7.00 Arrival & setup
7.15 Breathwork
7.30 Yoga Nidra
7.45 Theta-gamma light session
8.30 Movement & sharing circle
9.00 Finish
Come as you are,
Take what you need,
Give what you can…
Facilitators have decades of experience of group work, altered states, trauma recovery and personal growth and development. You are in safe hands, and since you will be lying down for over an hour you need to bring a little comfort zone with you. A yoga or camping mat, pillow and blanket are going to be essential for your enjoyment of the event.
Unfortunately due to a lack of solid research and guidance on the subject we are unable to host anyone who suffers from epilepsy or any other neurological condition that requires ongoing medication due to the potential of strobe lighting to induce seizures. This event and its organisers have no intention to diagnose or treat any specific medical condition.
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