Facing Your Shadows by Sonia Samtani

A 2.5‑Day Immersive Retreat on the Five Core Wounds

Beneath our personality, coping strategies, and life achievements live the unseen forces that shape our reality. The wounds of abandonment, rejection, betrayal, injustice, and humiliation are not flaws within us. They are protective imprints formed in moments when love felt uncertain, safety felt fragile, or belonging felt threatened.

These core wounds influence our behaviour in how we attach, protect ourselves, respond to conflict, love, and lead. They shape our triggers, fears, defenses, and the masks we unconsciously wear to survive.

Facing Your Shadows is an intimate 2.5‑day journey into these hidden layers of self.

With a grounded yet deeply spiritual approach, this retreat invites you to move beyond intellectual understanding and into embodied awareness. You will understand the concepts and apply them to yourself through reflective exercises, guided meditations, constellation-style inquiry, and release work, gently uncovering the patterns that have been running beneath your relationships, career, self-worth, and emotional world.

Rather than fixing or fighting these wounds, you will learn to meet them with compassion, turning your shame into understanding and protection into presence*, and pain into power.*

Across the retreat, we will explore:

•⁠ ⁠How each core wound was formed and the “mask” it created
•⁠ ⁠The unconscious survival strategies shaping your relationships and choices
•⁠ ⁠Patterns of attachment, control, withdrawal, perfectionism, or over-giving
•⁠ ⁠Emotional triggers that repeat in partnerships, family, and leadership
•⁠ ⁠Guided inner child and shadow integration processes
•⁠ ⁠Safe release work to create space for a more authentic self to emerge

As shadows are brought into awareness, they soften. As healing begins, the masks loosen and the true self emerges. The intention is that by the end of the retreat, you will be able to step into greater authenticity, inner security, conscious relationships, and empowered self-expression.