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The Official Website of  The Fertile Mind - Fertility Enhancing RetreatsSession A | Session B | Session C Session B - "The Fertile Mind" - Spouses Welcome If we remain obsessed with seeds and eggs, we are married to the fertile reproductive valley of the Mysterious Mother, but not to her immeasurable heart and all-knowing mind. - Hua Hu Ching
During this retreat we help the body reduce its stress response, settle down the system, and allow the interrelationship between our external world, the perception in the hypothalamus, its transmission to the pituitary gland and ovaries. We open up the channels of communication throughout the body. Conception is a process of openness and receptivity, yet most of us approach it with fierce, clenched determination, actually preventing its fruition. This retreat focuses on opening up the relationship between the external world and the internal world. We learn how the hormonal response is affected by the things we do, and by the things we don’t do. We teach you to ‘let go’ during the process of ‘trying.’
Lectures include: The Hormonal Response, Opening the Lung Energies With the Breath, Nourishing the Spleen Energies Through Diet and Nutrition, Clearing Our Liver Energies Through Stress Reduction, and Paradigm Shift – Becoming Fertile! Scheduled offerings include Qi Gong, Yoga, Nia, Element Typing – 'Who Am I and How Do I Respond to the World' Diagnosis, Specifics on the TCM diet and associated acupressure along with our famous Group Healing. We will help you to deepen the therapeutic work begun in "The Fertile Body" session and open up your soul to a level of healing - mimicking the “letting go” which occurs when women adopt or give up. We introduce the concept of surrender as we relinquish that which we can’t control. We employ therapeutic laughter, belief restructuring, and connecting the spiritual, nurturing, and protective selves. Learning to be honest with every emotion – past, present and future, are vital in soul healing. In a nutshell, "The Fertile Mind" opens you up to deeper healing than the physical methods employed during "The Fertile Body". This would be considered the psycho-immuno-neuro-endocrinologic level of healing. Your body, mind, and soul are brought to a deeper level of healing. As is the case with every retreat, Dr. Lewis will review your file and make recommendations for treatment (presented and administered by one of our staff licensed acupuncturists) along with a home-based treatment plan which will be sent upon the attendee's return from the retreat. |
Our reproductive systems are far greater than the function of the ovaries themselves. Our fertility depends on factors like how our hormones communicate inside our bodies, and how our tissues respond to them. When we are under stress, either physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually or with the way we live our lives, our bodies do not respond adequately to our reproductive hormones. In fact, as far as our physiology has progressed through evolutionary development, our systems do not want us pregnant when our lifestyle is not congruent with supporting and nourishing a pregnancy. Our reproductive hormones take a back seat to the stress hormones.
Dr. Lewis will take you through the ‘doing’ and ‘interacting’ energies of the spleen, liver, and lung systems of energetics during session B. You will learn to lift, maximize, and calm the imbalances of your own systems through the methods taught in this session. We actually turn up the volume of the approaches which have been employed in "The Fertile Body" session. You will learn to align the energies of your body, mind, emotions, and soul in a manner which is conducive to conception. Most women that attend the retreats need to form new patterns within their body-mind-soul. We have been taught that our doctors will ‘fix’ us. Most women have learned through horrendous grief and suffering that reproductive clinics cannot improve our reproductive functioning. Only you can. Through Dr. Lewis’ diagnosis, she will instruct you on techniques which will allow your entire system to open up to allowing pregnancy. You will begin to form new, healthy, fertile patterns.