A very powerful environment of support and love. The team of volunteers, staff and other participants provided A nurturing environment of healing for all of us. From yoga, daily meditation, holotropic breathwork and a wonderful natural setting in the beauty of Costa Rica this place is awesome! No wonder it's called El Cielo (Heaven)
-K.D.M. 54, M.D., Entrepreneur, Dallas TX Participant, Feb 2024
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I highly recommend this program If you are looking to change your life. The curriculum and the staff are wonderful, patient and caring. I feel I have the tools to rewrite my life and make positive changes for myself and for my loved ones. I have not felt this good about myself for as long as I can remember. Thank you Choose Again!
-T.T. 58 Builder & Developer, Costa Rica Participant, Feb 2024 This program is worth every penny of it. It can't be other than changing my perspective of all the issues I'm carrying with me. The very diverse program touched me to the core in many different ways. It freed something inside of me. In a very practical way, I can cope with my feelings, and don't have to indulge them. El Cielo is surrounded by Love.
-T.O. 57, Musician & Director of Muziek aan Bed, Netherlands, Costa Rica Retreat Participant, Jan-Feb 2024 How does a mother ever get over the loss of a child? Especially a child that takes their own life? When [my son] died I was already practicing Choose Again and I am so incredibly grateful. Sure I took some time with my feelings but was reminded frequently that nothing outside of me can make me happy or sad or take my peace. The 6 Steps to Freedom are a lifesaver and life changing. I have the ability to change my perception anytime I choose to do so.
[...] I forgive myself for ever believing that these things that I believed about myself were true. And I remind myself what IS the Truth about me…I have not lost my innocence, there has never been anything wrong with me. That love doesn’t come from outside of me. That I am a Loving Presence and that is where love IS. Every time I would go over the “story” in my head about what I could have, should have, would have done to prevent this event from happening I would use these 6 steps to change my mind. It works. - Wendy Townsend, Choose Again facilitator Beloved Diederik, I am so grateful for your wonderful book: Choose again, Six Steps to Freedom. Currently I am reading the book.
It is so important that we may become aware of our core beliefs, which determine our live and keep us trapped in separate, dualistic thinking. The way we respond, look into life, has everything to do with what we believe about ourselves. Life only responds to what we send out. Every moment we can make the choice between fear or Love. That is the only choice we have. In order to remember ourselves,God, we will have to bring all beliefs and desires back into the Light. Bless You All! - Thecla de Lange, 2019 I recently returned from a second visit to Choose Again's El Cielo Spiritual Center in Costa Rica. Thank you Diederik Wolsak and team for your dedication to seeing the Truth of who we each are so we may remember it ourselves. And, as we remember, heal our selves and our relationships and know peace and happiness.
- Carla Maria Perez Berlioz, 2022 retreat Choose Again literally saved and helped me transform my life 8 years ago when I did not believe that I had the strength or inner power left to start my life all over again … Again.
I am deeply grateful to them and DIederik Wolsak for lighting the way back to the Truth … and for these powerful daily messages- which I incorporate into every morning start. Thank you! - Suzanne Chapell, 2023 I went to the retreat center in 2018 and returned this year. These last two months in Costa Rica I had the opportunity to work, heal and learn in the Choose Again residency program that I am very grateful I was accepted into.
In my experience I prayed and worked very hard in a program [AA] that I Love and owe my life to, but I was not able to surrender my character defects (my mistaken beliefs). I really could not fathom how to get rid of them or how to live without them. My “not good enough, fear of loss, my belief that I was a victim, guilty and deserving of rejection and punishment “ showed up and had a party with me, if only in my head. The Six Steps have shown me what the belief was for and how to change the stored belief and return to a state of Joy. This (the six steps) is very similar to the other program (AA) - we work the steps. We make a decision, we decide we will go to any length and most importantly - We are worth it! - Y.C.S, 2018, 2022 Choose Again retreat participant and resident The 4-week workshop is coming to a close. I have been experiencing more appreciation for your generosity with each day. This gift has been enormous. Thank you for allowing me to participate in this life-altering experience. Restored Faith, Generating Love, acknowledging choice, and of course, Peace Is what I feel graced with... Thank you once again to all the team… With Eternal Light and Love
For a long time I viewed the world in terms of victims and perpetrators and people in need of my help/fixing. This work of Choose Again has given words to what I sensed inside but could not articulate. When Dawn said that people are crying out "I've forgotten who I am. Can you help me?", the Truth of that pierced me to the core. I no longer see myself as a victim or a fixer and, if I ever do again, I have the tools to recognize the ego's voice and choose, again, to listen to the Loving Self. I finally understand what Diederik says about the Center being there for him. Wow. Fantastic!
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