ECOTHERAPY RETREATS  

Ecotherapy as “Green” Therapy

Using a “green” approach called Ecotherapy, Dr. Leit helps individuals learn from the wisdom of nature, which teaches us to honor our instinctual knowing, participate in supportive relationships, and view change as inevitable and rejuvenating. Essentially, by helping people honor their innate intelligence and develop the skills to meet the demands of their evolving context, she helps them “adjust their sails” to harness the prevailing forces at work in their lives in order to reach their goals. She provides restorative Ecotherapy retreats in places such as Taos, NM and Sayulita, Mexico in untouched natural environments with cleansing food, deep sleep, and outdoor adventures. Available upon request.

What is Ecotherapy?
Many people intuitively seek time outside—amongst nature--to decompress, by e.g., gardening, golfing, swimming, cycling, running, or hiking. These outdoor activities quiet the mind and help relax the body.  Ecotherapy, which is based on the emerging field of ecopsychology, simply builds on the instinct to seek healing outdoors.  Ecotherapy harnesses the healing power of ‘wild’ places to help individuals find balance, connection, and guidance, by deepening their relationship with the natural world.  A Pulitzer Prize-winning sociobiologist lended theoretical support to this therapeutic approach, asserting that people have ‘biophilia’--an intrinsic biological need to be in contact with nature.  Nature, in biophilic theory, holds the key to health and satisfaction.  Ecotherapy enables participants to strengthen their sense of connectivity and responsibility towards both the environment and their own health, through direct external experiences with nature and transformative therapy.  The combination helps align individuals with their intrinsic, innate intelligence.  Ecotherapy is essentially a “de-frag” function for disconnected, depleted individuals that helps them to reconnect with restorative systems.  The goal of Ecotherapy is to help such individuals return to their daily lives—with stress-management coping strategies grounded in the wisdom of nature.

What are Ecotherapy retreats?
Restorative retreats in untouched natural environments with cleansing food, deep sleep, and outdoor adventures. The best Ecotherapy retreats for individuals and corporate groups are custom-designed, to optimally realign the participants with rejuvenating natural forces, and provide them with personalized strategies to manage the daily stresses of their particular lives.  The four main goals for a successful Ecotherapy retreat should be to: 1) harness ecological wisdom, to release tension and promote sustainable lifestyle patterns; 2) provide participants with opportunities for personal healing and transformation; 3) reawaken a sense of interdependence and provide support for participants (as they learn to work with others in diffusing their sense of isolation); and, 4) on the larger scale, foster a sense of responsibility for the environment. 
Ecotherapy and Ecotherapy retreats are viable, contemporary, green coaching processes that can enable any employee or team of employees to alleviate accrued, debilitating job stress, and re-establish their connection with themselves and the natural world.

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