your own original nature
In a nutshell, Ito Thermie is a therapy that works on the natural healing power of living creatures, because living creatures have the power to improve and fix their own bodies and physical bodies by themselves.
So, rather than trying to heal with Ito Thermie, we are trying to support the natural healing power that everyone has, but which is not being demonstrated these days, and ask, “How do you feel? You have your natural life force, don’t you?”
We call out to them, “How about it? That’s what Ito Thermie is all about.
It is a retreat to remember the original ‘you’ that was born into this world and forgotten.
The first time we held this Natsukashi Retreat was in India in 1996. Since then, it has been about 24 or 25 years since then that we have held these retreats in Europe.
For those who have never heard of a “Natsukashi Retreat” before, you may wonder why it is called ‘Natsukashi’.
In English, there are many ways of saying “nostalgic”, such as Coming back to yourself, Going home or Returning to the original “you”, which is usually associated with the word “nostalgia”. But “Natsukashi” is not just about “nostalgia”.
To put it simply, when you were born into this world, the real first (original) “you” was long forgotten.
When you are in the workplace, or in your marriage, it’s fine if you are happy, but when you are facing various situations where you are suffering and in pain, where it is difficult to live, or where you are not happy from the bottom of your heart, you start to think, “Where is my true self ?”
There are very few opportunities to think and feel about this.
At the Natsukashi Retreat, I was able to think, “Yes, that’s right. Natsukashi Retreat is a retreat where people realise that ‘I, he, and that person were all born as this kind of being”.