Past Life Regression Workshop Review
Having dabbled with DIY regressions and Guided Meditations for years I made the decision to try it out with an experienced practitioner.
I found the Saturday workshop with Deborah Monshin to be extremely insightful. My husband and I attended the workshop together and due to bad weather only four of us arrived, including Deborah.
The first session in the morning was spent doing some gentle meditation, aura exercises and a mini regression, in which Deborah talked us through some dates on a timeline to see if there were any in particular which we felt drawn to.
While Deborah was talking, every time she mentioned a date I would see a stream of pictures, so fast that it was virtually impossible to try and remember them all to record later on. When she mentioned the Egyptian Period I saw an image flash in my minds eye, I was standing with my arms raised to the sun, fully clad in ritual adornments, with the winged disc of Isis behind my head. The next thing I knew I was seeing it from her perspective, walking up some steps towards a temple door, with two guardians either side of me.
When we finished the first regression, I got up feeling chills all down my arms from behind my shoulders, to the tips of my fingers and down my spine.
The afternoon session lasted a lot longer, giving you time to explore a past life of your choice. I found it a bit difficult lying for over an hour, simply because I am used to meditating sitting in a chair. There were some rather interesting results though. The first image to pop into my head was my feet, clad in brown leather sandals. I was looking down at my feet, and I was standing on a boat. I could see the hem and folds of the long wool robe. As Deborah talked us through different aspects of that life, like where we lived and what kind of a life we had, I felt right at home in this eerie half conscious world with images of places and things that I had once owned.
The experience was one of being immersed in the life of a female hermit, or wise woman, that lived in relative solitude on a sacred isle, teaching children how to read and write, in return for supplies from the village. My life had constituted of a great deal of study, worship, meditation and contemplation, living estranged from society and being cared for by “those across the water”.
My dying thoughts had been to do more with my next life, and never to waste time. I had to laugh at the irony of that, as my husband is constantly telling me that I do far too many things.
There are many theories and conjectures about the authenticity of the information gleaned through this process, as there are with other related subjects like regression hypnosis. Is it real or is the imagination creating imagery to deal with certain issues that are being repressed by the conscious mind? Should it really matter whether the memories that are recovered are real, or could we take whatever we experience in the context of finding something out about our inner nature through analysing the imagery and scenes that we do recover.
The session with Deborah left me feeling like I had recovered the last piece of a jigsaw, with which to complete a puzzle after aeon's of subconsciously searching for that one piece. Regardless of whether or not I recovered actual past life memories, the healing process and the experience itself was deeply profound and emotionally cleansing.
Jade Ashcroft ©2008
