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SARINA’S VOICE
Holistic Healing, Health & Essence Retreat
Naturopathic Rehabilitation and Treatment for the Mind, Body and Spirit
Dedicated to and in Memory of My Beautiful Baby Girl Sarina Angel, 1/26/86- 10-28-07, Forever 21 -
A Natural Healing Resort Specially Designed
To Help Overcome Emotional and Addiction Challenges
plus Detox Cleansing of Iatrogenic Drugs, SSRI’s and weaning off them.
Suicidal Tendencies - Depression - AntiDepressant/SSRI Addiction
Drug & Alcohol Dependency - Eating Disorders - Anxiety & Panic Attacks
Obsessive/Compulsive Disorder - Coexisting Disorders - Nicotine Addiction
Trauma & Abuse - Sexual Compulsivity - Grief & Loss - Codependency
- 100% DRUG-FREE -
“Meditation not Medication”
RESTORATIVE MENU
Holistic Healing, Herbalism, Homeopathy, Naturopathy, Alternative Medicine
Meditation, Aromatherapy, Flower Essence Therapy, Pure Essential Oils, Sea Minerals
Healing Botanicals, Herbal/Mineral Baths, Nutritional Gene Therapy, Reflexology, Dance
Art Therapy, Music Therapy, Massage Therapy, Body Work Therapy, Chiropractic Therapy Hydrotherapy, Acupuncture, Acupressure, Individual Therapy, Group Therapy, Exercise
Equine Therapy, Hypnotherapy, Eco Therapy, Oriental Medicine, Journaling
Vegetarianism, Fruitarianism, Juicing, Natural/Organic Diet & Lifestyle
Yoga, Tai-Chi, Nia, Chi Kung, Shamanic Dance, Holotropic Breathwork, Ayurvedic, Primordial Sound Meditation
EFT - Emotional Freedom Technique, Nutritional Consultation & Supplementation, Basic Herbal Medicine Training Polarity Therapy, Chakra Balancing, Quantum Touch, Crystal Therapy, Raindrop Therapy, Spiritual Feng Shui Vibrational Healing, Huna, Ear Coning, Ionization Theory, Spa Therapy, Reiki, Shiatsu
Healing Touch, Pranic Healing, Theta Healing, Visualization Therapy
A Holistic Retreat for the Mind, Body and Soul through the Healing Arts
and Sciences. Embark on your Inner Journey by examining and working on the Physical,
Mental, Emotional, Spiritual, and Energetic Dimensions of Individuals.
Immerse yourself in your own power to practice Self
Expression and Self Empowerment
Revitalize your Wellness, Nurture your Essence, Optimize your Health, Nourish your Body
Refresh your Spirit, Soothe your Soul, Invigorate your Senses, Empower your Mind
Elevate your Life Force, Stimulate your Inner Self, Rejuvenate your Energy
Restore your Vigor, Alleviate your Anxiety, Encourage your Determination
Boost your Resilience, Eliminate your Tension, Reconnect With Yourself
Rouse your Stamina, Enliven your Psyche, Deepen your Awareness
Balance your Chi, Relieve your Stress, Replenish your Tranquility
Calm your Core, Cultivate your Vitality, Support your Endurance
Improve your Attitude, Energize your Mood, Heal your Heart
Recapture Your Clarity, Reassure your Resistance
Embellish your Serenity, Awaken Your Intuition
Promote your Harmony, Feel Your Freedom
Renew Your Whole Being
Rediscover Yourself
Embrace Life
Troubled individuals with emotional breakage often can't feel love, safety or confidence, nor do they truly experience meaningful relationships with others. Instead of feeling loved and accepted, those with an emotional breakage often feel empty and alone, causing them to continue their current behaviors, prolonging the cycle. In order to stop the feelings of emptiness and worthlessness, some will turn to prescription drugs, addictive forms of activities or suicide attempts to make the feelings go away. None of these can fill the void and will only act to destroy them even further. During the addiction they cannot typically see or feel the consequences of their actions but know they want it to stop. However, they often do not ask for help because of the shame they feel and because they think they should be able to stop on their own.
The shadow of depression, anxiety, addiction and substance abuse is dark and threatening. Helen Keller said, "Keep your face in the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."
Healing comes from loving ones self and accepting and resolving issues physically, emotionally, spiritually and mentally. Your unique life journey of new found balance can be found without dependence, but independence.
Our Retreat nurtures total honesty in core processing groups. The camaraderie and support that we give to each other when together forms the drum beat and pulse of progressive recovery. It allows for less distraction and less emphasis on the problems in the outside world. The atmosphere is more conducive for rebuilding self esteem and confidence.
Our Holistic Therapies address the mind-body split, helping our clients to integrate, improve energy flow, explore deeper levels of peace within themselves and connectivity with their environment.
We believe the complete health of the mind, body and spirit are essential to recovery. We believe that they will mend more fully in a treatment environment that meets their total physical, emotional and spiritual needs. Sarina’s Voice involves rigorous attention to the entire person, not just the superficial behaviors or routines.
Proper nutrition geared toward a healthy body and unique nutritional needs is essential to successful recovery and sustained recovery. Balanced & optimal nutrition can help provide the body with the energy and fuel that is necessary during the entire process.
Sarina’s Voice is intended as a center for holistic healing. Here clients begin a healing process that builds on an intense sense of community, with mutuality and compassion as vital elements of therapeutic enlightenment. Health - mind, body and spirit are essential to recovery. Without any one, the other two will not be strong enough to achieve and sustain continuing recovery.
Here at Sarina’s Voice, we provide an atmosphere of tranquility while we take you on a journey of discovery, health recovery, education, and self-exploration. We are a body, mind, soul focused retreat and education center, knowledging, respecting and nurturing all aspects of one's being. This retreat is designed to help us get present in our bodies. Focusing on being present allows us to listen to the sweet voice of truth that lives in the heart. These practices can assist and support in the healing and therapy of any individual, regardless of the particular diagnosis or life challenges. These practices help to activate and grow the natural Essence that is already inherent within us and is part of our natural birthright. Human and soulful qualities such as love and compassion, peace and contentment, intention and will, strength and courage, joy and bliss are nourished and enhanced by living these practices. As these qualities grow, professional clinicians and educators can become powerful agents of transformation. Your very presence becomes healing and a balm for the soul.
At Sarina’s Voice we believe that well-being often requires taking time away from daily stresses to learn new ways of being to return to every day life with tools for a healthier lifestyle. Sarina’s Voice is a place for you to focus on a healthy mind, body and soul, a place to enhance your healthy lifestyle and a place for you to rediscover your own Essence.
Explore how to heal through immersion in soulful expression and a revitalized circulation of creative energy in our lives. Learn how to transform inner conflict and pain as sources of creative power. You will discover how to relax self-judgment and make contact with your authentic expression and the beauty that is unique to what you make.
The environment is rich with opportunities to grow spiritually and emotionally, while reclaiming physical health in a holistic and nurturing way. We realize that the setting is as important to becoming healthy and whole as every other element we include in our program, and believe with all our hearts that anyone who comes to Sarina’s Voice will find the Retreat experience they need, and enjoy long term, and even life-long benefits.
ABOUT US
Sarina’s Voice is dedicated to and in Memory of My Beautiful Baby Girl Sarina Angel, Forever 21. Sarina Angel Cuoco, born January 26, 1986 and took her life October 28, 2007; was the victim of Suicide-Causing Anti-Depressants. The “Professionals” that she was seeing to help her, helped kill her instead. Her Therapist who she was seeing 4-5 times a week became too friendly with her so the actual “therapy” ceased more and more each day; although she continued to charge her.
As the Therapy was dissipating, the Therapist brought her mother into the picture, who is a Nurse Practitioner; and who prescribed Sarina an arsenal of six different anti-depressant and anti-anxiety pills within a nine day period of time.
I am Sarina’s mother, Camille Milke, I founded COPES Foundation (Coalition of Parents Enduring Suicide). I have also started a Petition to Abolish Suicide-Causing Anti-Depressants; which will ultimately become “Sarina’s Law”.
I opened Sarina’s Voice because I have committed my life to help those who have Depression and Suicidal Tendencies, who have been prescribed Anti-Depressants and Anti-Anxiety Pills and need to naturally and holistically be weaned off of them and who have emotional and addiction challenges.
As a Mother of Suicide, I want to work with those individuals who may be on the same path and meet the same fate as my Beautiful Baby Girl Sarina Angel, and stop it before it’s too late.
With my loving husband, Brian Milke, by my side; our life’s work will be to make certain we make a difference, save lives and help as many people as possible.
AT SARINA’S VOICE, YOU WILL FIND “THE LABYRINTH”
Welcome to the Magical World of Labyrinths
Universal Symbol of Transformation:
The labyrinth was created in ancient times to represent humankind’s search for the core of divinity. The labyrinth pattern is an archetypal form found all over the world. It dates back thousands of years. No one knows who created the original labyrinth form, but we do know from experience that embedded within each design is a pattern that somehow quiets our deep inner being so we can hear our own wisdom and the wisdom attempting to reach us. Whether walked or traced in sand, the labyrinth pattern is a powerful tool for reflection, invocation, meditation, healing, bringing calm and a deeper knowledge of the Self.
"Unlike a maze whose intent it is to get us lost, the labyrinth is designed to get us found."
Unlike a maze, a labyrinth has one linear path - that starts from the outer edge, moves into the heart or centre, and then back out again. It's a three part process. Through the act of trusting the path, of giving up conscious control of how things should go and being receptive to our inner state, we can be opened up to a whole new world. It seems that through the beautiful flow of their sacred patterns, labyrinths help us ground ourselves. Some people experience a state of timelessness and find this type of surrender particularly relaxing and refreshing.
Sarina’s Voice Labyrinth is designed after the inner five-circuits of the Chartres Cathedral labyrinth in France, built in 1201, one of the most famous labyrinths in the world and the one most replicated. Some interpretations of the circuits surrounding the centre are that they represent the solar system, the centre being the sun, and each circuit a representation of the power or attributes of the surrounding planets. Another is the human body, in particular the chakra system as taught through yoga.
We encourage you to make a daily journey into our labyrinth. Go as often as you like; even just sit somewhere within the meditation gardens and use this time for quiet contemplation or journaling. Allow your natural curiosity to come forth. The labyrinth is a tool for meditation. And meditation is simply the art of ‘focusing your mind’s attention with a calm awareness’. Intention is key. Purity of intention should be in your heart before entering a sacred labyrinth.
The labyrinth can be approached using three methods of meditation. You may simply want to utilize it for a silent meditation – to think nothing at all. Just to experience peace of mind, freedom from the inner voice of chatter. This is a great way to start if it is your first time and it’s also great for balancing and stimulating healing energy. Take some deep breaths and just walk gently and slowly.
Or, you may want to use it for invocation meditation, visualizing a healing for yourself, or say a prayer, for stirring up courage or your inner power. Many people say that this experience was the most powerful in feeling focused and connected.
Or, you may wish to use it for a working meditation or contemplative meditation, for creative uses, for building ideas, problem solving, for getting answers about decisions you are facing, or for figuring out life’s unending mysteries. This experience is very surprising to most. As you sit outside the circle, focus your thoughts on what you want to accomplish. Ask yourself what it is that you would most like to know, most like to have assistance with. Try not to have any preconceived ideas. Prepare yourself. Calm yourself. Empty your mind of chatter, your heart of any anxiety. Start with a few deep breaths, relax and enjoy the simplicity of the experience.
When you feel ready, begin your walk. Taking slow, small and steady steps is a good start. But there are no rules. You may at times just feel like stopping. You may feel like sitting down in the middle of your walk to contemplate something you just discovered or to regroup. You may also feel like leaving and going to sit down outside of the circle again. You may feel like starting over. Again, there are no rules. What you will find is that long after you are done, you will continue to realize even more about the actual experience and all of its subtleties.
If you are doing an invocation meditation, relax and find your silence first, bring up your intention, and begin to express your desire. Keep your intent in the forefront of your mind and heart. That is where you want to persist in your focus. The universe responds to energy, and with energy. Energy attracts energy. Negative attracts negative. Positive attracts positive. The spoken word carries in it your intentions and intention translates into energy – the universal language. So remember, your intent is more important than your actual words. Don’t worry if you feel awkward or stumble at first, or don’t feel like it is flowing well or you are not poetic enough. Modesty is perfectly acceptable. Hint - Humility in your expression is a key to ‘getting connected’. There is no judgment here. The more you meditate or walk the labyrinth, the more confidence you will gain and eventually you will begin to get into a rhythm and eventually you will feel ‘connected’.
Being more connected to your Self, the universal intelligence, life, Mother Nature, humanity, your family and friends can be the outcome. A greater sense of ‘meaningfulness’ can be the outcome. A greater sense of confidence and knowing clearly who you are can be the outcome. A greater sense of appreciation, humility, compassion and gratefulness can be the outcome. And finally, a full life filled with blissful meaning and joy can be the ultimate outcome. After all, joy is really love and perhaps the meaning of life is just that simple. So get started and get re-connected! Ask and you shall receive!
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BENEFACTORS: Camille and Pat Cuoco, Helen Tabor, Keith Moore, Glenna Todovich, James Brent Beach, Debbie Goodger, Glenna Todovich, Elisa Pignato, Carla Moxon, Cheryl Vorderbruggen, Martha LaCross, Terrie C Williams, Ferdinand Fam, Pete and Anne Phillips, Leroy Jacobs, Tonya McHugh, Marie Donadio
