Elsebråne Retreat Center in Elsebråne, Asarum, Blekinge, Sweden! – Holistic hospital and organic orchard in one!
We live in a maybe 400 years old farm near in Blekinge.The main building is a log cabin, seven meters high, painted yellow, in oak planks, built in 1844. The farm has 52 000 m2 of land, two hectares are forest and three hectares is therapy garden / orchard and organic garden. The farm has a small car, a sailing boat (catamaran – Hobie 16), an old tractor, a kayak and mountain bikes …
Nature is a great healing power and a marvelous natural reserve Langasjönäs is our neighbor! We live in the middle of the woods, in an absolutely wonderful nature, near a 550-meter bathing lake, where the water in summer is 22-27 degrees. The climate on the farm is Russian continental climate, with icy winters and wonderfully warm summers. There is a public sauna in the middle of the nature reserve. We often walk the marked routes – and tour the ski slope on cross-country skis in the winter, which almost always gives a lot of snow.
Thanks to a great partnership with Boi Jensen and “De gamle Sorter”, and the National Fruit Collection in UK, the farm has more than 200 different varieties of fruit.
What happens at the retreat center? There are two groups of people who come here with two different purposes. One group is mostly young people who wants to be close to nature and learn about organic farming. The other group is people who wants to heal their life and develop as persons.
The therapy
The therapy consists of courses, individual therapy and group therapy: The courses in personal development are about finding your true self and understanding life. Individual therapy focuses on self-exploration/self-inquiry to find out who we truly are and what is preventing us from being ourselves fully.
In the group therapy we learn from each other because all people are basically built the same way – and because it is much easier to see and understand others than to see and understand one self. — The therapy is holistic mind-body medicine. It is based on extensive research in holistic medicine (search “Clinical holistic medicine”on www.pubmed.gov) and on Joav Merrick and Søren Ventegodt textbook series on Evidence based holistic mind-body medicine in six volumes:
1 Ventegodt S, Merrick J. Textbook on Evidence-Based Holistic Mind-Body Medicine: Basic Philosophy and Ethics of TraditionalHippocratic Medicine. New York: Nova Science, 2012. 2 Ventegodt S, Merrick J. Textbook on Evidence-Based Holistic Mind-Body Medicine: Basic Principles of Healing in TraditionalHippocratic Medicine. New York: Nova Science, 2012. 3 Ventegodt S, Merrick J. Textbook on Evidence-Based Holistic Mind-Body Medicine: Healing the mind in TraditionalHippocratic Medicine. New York: Nova Science, 2012. 4 Ventegodt S, Merrick J. Textbook on Evidence-Based Holistic Mind-Body Medicine: Holistic Practice of TraditionalHippocratic Medicine. New York: Nova Science, 2013. 5 Ventegodt S, Merrick J. Textbook on Evidence-Based Holistic Mind-Body Medicine: Research, Philosophy, Economy andPolitics of Traditional Hippocratic Medicine. New York: Nova Science, 2013. 6 Ventegodt S, Merrick J. Textbook on Evidence-Based Holistic Mind-Body Medicine: Sexology and Traditional HippocraticMedicine. New York: Nova Science, 2013. Legal are handled by the firm Quality of Life ApS, based in Copenhagen. All patients are first patients at the clinic in Copenhagen, after which they may be patients at retreat center.
