Natalie P. 11/2024. "I am happy with my experience exactly as it is and was." I liked "slowing down" and "prepping food/cooking without words!! I think we made great meal combos! I will try it at home!" What worked for me was "the little book (at the center) Awakening Loving Kindness, my teacher and the great food." This was my 1st time and "I would like to return" and "will tell my friends." Upon return, "I would like to try to walk the rail trail with another person in silence." Overall rating 5 stars.
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established in 2019
"The earth has Music for those who listen." ---George Santayana
Interested ? Email me at: DrCMazzeo@gmail.com
Negative experiences create stress (emotional, physical, mental consc/sub/unconscious reactions). Stress creates an onset to a chain of reactions. I refer to this stress response as “stress bugs” - neuro-physiological chemical changes that occur in the body. Stress attacks us (our mind/body/spirit) on every level and we become symptomatic. Following a difficult experience, we give “stress bugs” (emotional and mental reactions to events) power unconsciously depending on our insights, story and interpretation of the event.
We embed and repeat certain thoughts or feelings and become neuro-chemically “stuck.” We need to identify and develop ways to let it go, and ‘re-wire.’
Sitting in nature
Hiking, clean air, lung cleansing - go at your own pace - push at times and gentle other moments.
Healing mending gentle movement, chanting, stretching, deep sleep, hot soaking bath, hiking. Learning what your body needs and how to listen and heal. “Never enough time” to do what is best for us. This is counter-cultural to a fast paced caffeine - culture that distracts us from our true selves and creates multiple symptoms.
Learning how to be awake -lucid dreaming- in the dream state can be a powerful experience that can offer deep levels of healing (psychological/spiritual). Dreams reach the deep areas of your sub and unconscious mind. A potential cryptic code of information to realize, learn from and alter. You can discover how to harness the “awake self” in the dream state and add this skill to your tool bank.
About Me: I am a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with over 27 years of experience. I have been in private practice for 20 years (see vitae). *Although I am a psychologist, I am not acting as a psychologist during these retreats. My practice is separate and contains a different role then when I am running retreats (please see Terms & Conditions section).
I have various interests from mycology to astronomy and much in-between. Recent studies have included observational learning about bird communication systems and weather patterns. I am known to enjoy an impromptu great snowy winter sleigh ride or floating in (our disappearing) clean waters in the summer. I live the retreat and am in silent centering contemplation often.
My interest in dreams began as a child. I have been recording and conducting my personal dream work for over 30 years. I attended silent Jungian dream retreats offered through my university. I found these retreats to be powerfully transformative and have incorporated them into my daily life and practice. Additionally, I have been involved with dance, sports and movement since childhood, beginning a yoga and meditative practice as a teenager. I hold firmly to the mind-body-spirit collective approach of emotional healing and wellbeing. I am very excited to be able to share these retreats with you and tailor the retreat to your personal needs.
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Brief Bio
Education/Work/Professional Development:
Private Practice, NY - 2002-Present
Astor Family Services, Court Evaluations -2009
Dream Group, Center for Symbolic Studies, NY - 2002-2007/2023
SUNY New Paltz Staff Psychologist -2000-2003
Metropolitan Institute for training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, NYC - 1999
Notre Dame University, Internship - 1997
Retreats International, Meditating the Dream, IN - 1997
Doctorate of Philosophy, California School of Professional Psychology - 1997. Eco-Systemic Child/Family, Psychodynamic and Organizational Behavior concentrations.
Scholarship, Rediscovering Justice Conference. Explored the topic of Justice from various religious perspectives. Speakers from universities, the religious community, and Nobel Peace Prize winners, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Betty Williams. Wrote an essay to be published in a book about the conference. Essay was also placed in a time-capsule at Grace Cathedral to be opened in 50 years. CA - 1995
Jungian Dream Analysis Retreat, CA -1994- 1997
SUNY New Paltz, BA, Exchange student in Puebla Mexico -1990
(for an extended curriculum vitae see page below)
We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those who can’t speak for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish and trees.1 – Qwatsinas (Hereditary Chief Edward Moody), Nuxalk Nation
Birds - I became interested in local bird social systems and communications as they are messengers of the lower sky and immediate environment. Tree and brush dwellers always in the here and now, referencing the sun and weather patterns with complex social systems of interconnectedness among the various species and with humans.
