Ether

This 5th element of Ether is not always named individually within the common elements.  It represents Spirituality and Life, it is inherent in them all to a degree, binding them 4 named elements together.

The Raphael Studios has been such a coming together for me also, in one respect. A space where all that I love can be brought together and infused with the Spirit, so that all who interact with us here, cannot help but be positively affected or perhaps challenged to be a better person, a stronger individual and truer to their own nature.

Meditation can be as complicated or as simple as we make it. Here, we run bespoke mediation classes, as well as weave it into our Hatha yoga (Yoga nidra), yin and restorative classes.

 

The psychological Therapy practiced at the Studios, offers a pathway to spiritual, mental and physical healing from trauma.  EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy), is a fully researched, validated therapy for the treatment of PTSD (Post traumatic stress disorder) and other trauma -based psychological disorders. Having treated these disorders with EMDR for more than 20 years, I have evidenced the healing and dramatic post-traumatic growth of people following this treatment, in a way offered by few other trauma treatments. Part of this is frequently a spiritual awakening and growth; as Hemingway wrote ‘The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places’