Embark on a personal adventure and development course to help yourself rediscover the joy of being.

If the moments of true joy you are experiencing in your life are fleeting, professionally, personally or both, now is the time to examine realigning how you live your life.

The "Free the Spirit Retreat" is an 8-day personal growth adventure into being truly alive.

The retreat will not only help you rediscover and reclaim a joyous life but will also equip you with all the tools you will ever need to permanently claim the life you want to enjoy.

Based on the best selling book "Unbound", by American author Dorien Israel, live what you learn in an exhilarating rediscovery of self and spirit.

Free your spirit to soar effortlessly. Be what you want to be and experience personal transformation in the spiritual and material planes.

Eight day fully residential retreat on the island of Koh Samui, Thailand.

Retreat Dates in 2002/3

UBSOO1 Saturday 5 October - Saturday 12 October 2002

UBS002 Saturday 1 March - Saturday 8 March 2003

Retreat participants will need to arrive in Koh Samui, Thailand before noon on the first day of the retreat.

Eight days on the beautiful tropical island of Koh Samui staying in beachside bungalows.

Each day Dorien, who lives her truth in Samui, will guide you through the rediscovery of being using the "Unbound" materials and gentle exercises for mind and spirit.

You will create the reality you deserve and unfold your truth.

"You are bound by the unified creative force that is the movement behind all life and called by you as Source. ...you may choose to be unbound by all the restrictions and limitations that have, in the past, encumbered your mind, your body and your spirit." - Dorien Israel - Unbound

During eight days of transformation you will...

• Discover positive change for permanent growth.
  
  
• Overcome your fear of fear.
  
  
• Learn what is sabotaging your life and break the pattern.
  
  
• Empower yourself to know what you know, to be who you are and to have what you want.

"Transformation is not radical nor revolutionary - it is subtle and gentle and it rests within your mind all the time." Unbound.

Joyously rediscover life, explore yourself and your surroundings. This journey will unveil the tools for you to create a sustainable, loving and fulfilling life.

The location for this retreat, is a very special place. Sparkling in the tropical waters of the Gulf of Thailand, Koh Samui is a small island with a big heart and a peace and beauty which will warmly welcome you.

The retreat accommodation will vary but it will always be on the beach so that you can enjoy the peaceful energy of the land and ocean, a whisper away from a swim, sunbake or time out to just sit and be.

Our retreat bungalows are simple and clean, nestling in tropical beachside settings, with everything that you need to rediscover the enjoyment of life to the fullest.

Living on the beach is certainly one
of life's pleasures.

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Dining
The retreat includes breakfast and dinner and will be taken at the retreat or in small nearby restaurants. Lunches are not included but are inexpesinve and there are a variety of options nearby.

Dinners will feature predominantly Thai food (without the hot chilli) and will be served family style around a common table. Living and being is an essential ingredient to the retreat.

Access/Getting There
The retreat is held on the Island of Koh Samui in Thailand. Bangkok Airways flies direct to Koh Samui several times each day from Bangkok and also from Singapore. You may also fly to the Thai mainland town of Surat Thani with Thai Airways and catch the ferry across to the Island.

A very wide variety of international airlines provide a regular daily service to Bangkok from many countries and inexpensive fares are often available from many different departure points.

Inner Journeys will be pleased to assist you with flight routing recommendations to best suit your individual requirements.

Australian Dollars A$2,400.00 or approx US$1,250.00 per person travelling with a friend sharing a double room. (A$165.00 or approx US$86.00 single room supplement per person for single attendees)

All payments are to be made in the Australian Dollar equivelent as advised at the time of payment.

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Retreat Facilitator

Dorien Israel

Dorien Israel is a healthy, happy and wholly alive 54 year old woman.  And the mother of a beautiful, conscious and self loving 23 year old daughter. She is a channel, an author, dancer and sharer of the dream.

Seventeen years ago Dorien experienced a near death experience that presented her with the gift of being able to access direct guidance from the ascended realm and in 1984 she began to conduct classes based on the book she wrote as a result of her experiences, Unbound. The Unbound material lead to her and her husband working and living in Asia; Hong Kong, and Japan.

Returning to the United States in 1993 she found herself in a state of severe alienation; unable to relate to the masculine western culture of consumerism, nor to the co-opted new age community.  Suffering from what was diagnosed as a clinical depression, a condition that more than eight million women currently experience and Dorien started her "anti depressant days"

This medication allowed Dorien to function, but she continued to feel a growing sense of separation;  between her evolving spiritual self and that of the excess ego driven world which surrounded her.

During this time she received revelation in the form of her second book Tao Passages: The Way Home.   Its supreme sense of simplicity, sufficiency and serenity gave her the strength necessary to make the tough conscious choices of faith over fear.

In 1997 Dorien returned to Asia to live in Thailand leaving behind a consuming complexity which nearly cost her her sanity.  She now lives a life that is congruent with who SHE IS and what she knows to be so.  A life that is real rather than virtual.  A life in harmony with the nature of reality, fully focused in present time awareness. 

Dorien believes that the Way she is living can be translated and transplanted back to your homeland and that you and she can find The Way Home Together.

A little more background on Dorien for those who insist:

• Author of - "Unbound": Spiritual Guide for Mastery of the Material World, "Tao Passages": The Way Home, " The Way to The One I Am".
• Reiki Master.
• Meditation teacher (10 years).
• Kundalini, Hatha yoga teacher (20 years).
• Qi Gong teacher (10 years).
• Aerobics teacher (10 years).
• Retired teacher, doer, over-achiever turned Sharer, Be-here, and Be-Leaver. 

The Truth that is yours is not some stagnant, unchanging body of information known thousands of years ago and frozen for all time. It is instead a truth that is being revealed to you during each glorious moment of your life; a wisdom that shall be found only in your willingness to embrace fully each day of life that is yours—moment by moment.

Life is a living canvas; it cannot be made to your orders, planned, executed, or contained. Instead it is continuous, ongoing, dynamic, fragile in its appearance, but resilient and irrepressible in its reality.