Primal Therapy Retreat | Magnificently You

“Magnificently You” is a 5-day program, focused on the Childhood Deconditioning process
Facilitator: psychologist and therapist Elitsa Velikova – Piyusha, founder of the Arts & Therapy Institute, Sofia

We all have great desires — abundance, love, health, meaning.
We chase goals, healers, and milestones, hoping that more effort will finally bring peace.

But sometimes, the life we long for can’t be reached by doing more and more of the same.
It comes when we pause, turn inward, and gently meet the parts of us that still live in the past.

Magnificently YOU is a 5-day personal development program designed to help you reconnect with your Inner Child — the tender part of you that still holds both your deepest wounds and your greatest pure potential.

Through the powerful process of Primal Therapy, you’ll uncover and release the early emotional patterns that shaped your beliefs, behaviors, and capacity for love. You’ll reconnect to your raw and authentic self — your essence — and return home to yourself with new clarity, strength, and joy.

We work on three layers – somatic (the traumatic patterns stored in our bodies), emotional, and mental. We work with a sequence of active meditations, movement sessions, regressions, gestalt practices, and creative methods. It is a great way to reset your system, see the models and conditioning that limit your abilities today, and reprogram yourself so more abundance, love, joy, and connection are possible in your life!

In 5 days, you will travel back to your childhood, connect to the moment that shaped who you are today, and get the chance to craft new behaviours and conditioning that will support you in your next steps in life. It is a journey towards your power, independence, and freedom.

–> Are you ready to re-write your childhood story in a way that creates new opportunities in your life today?

We will explore:

🌿 Reconnect with your Inner Child — the emotional core of your being.

💫 Identify patterns you created long ago to feel loved, safe, and accepted — and see how they limit you today.

💧 Release repressed emotions and integrate your body, mind, and heart through Primal Therapy, Gestalt, and Somatic work.

💞 Relearn love and belonging by connecting in a safe, compassionate community. Release yourself from attachments and the need for validation.

🌤️ Reclaim your natural vitality — playfulness, creativity, courage, and joy.

Why go back to childhood?
As children, we learn to adapt in order to survive — to please, to hide, to perform, to stay small or strong so that love continues to flow. We learn to attract attention, to avoid conflicts, and that behaviour X leads to result Y.
Those patterns once kept us safe, but as adults, they quietly limit our happiness and our capacity to love and succeed.

In Magnificently You, we travel back to understand these patterns and reshape them.
When you meet your Inner Child with compassion and presence, you no longer live from the old stories — you live from your truth.

——>>> Here is what this retreat is about:

The connection with the child within us is the foundation of all our relationships in life. Our inner system for interacting with others and the world is built upon the ways we experienced Love in our families as children, what we learned about ourselves, and how our environment shaped us.

During our upbringing – which inevitably involves some disruptions, even with the best intentions from those who care for us – various adaptive behaviors develop, which mark all our subsequent interactions with others. We remain emotionally stuck at the age of the child we once were, unable to respond from the present moment as a mature adult. Most of the time, we live in the past, react from the past, and get stuck in unproductive behaviors.

In this retreat, Elitsa Velikova will share with you the world-renowned process of primal therapy – healing the inner child, through which thousands of people have passed. This process is fundamental and important for anyone who wants to live a fulfilling life!
☀ In this process, we will go back in time, from the age of 12 all the way back to conception, clarifying the learned behaviors and layers of false personalities we acquired in order to adapt to our family environment during those early years.

☀ Old, locked-up emotions that influence our lives as adults will be released, creating a bridge back to our true Self so that it can express itself in new forms of creativity and love. By transforming the issues from each stage of childhood, we reclaim essential core qualities – our natural intelligence, innocence, inspiration, courage, the ability to set healthy boundaries, joy and laughter, the sense of direction in life, love, and more.

☀ We will learn how to discover and support the Child within us so that we can help others – our children, partners, clients.

—–>>>>>What is the “Inner Child”?

The “Inner Child” is a part of our psyche – the part where old painful memories, traumas, and unprocessed emotions remain trapped; but the inner child is also the part of us that carries our full potential, all the qualities of our Essence, all possibilities.

—–>>>>>Why do we do this process?

In this process, we will go back in time, connected from a different perspective, and uncover and heal situations from the past. This will give us the opportunity to make choices in the present moment and respond in a healthier way. We will go back to our childhood, see the burdens we carry, the structure of our personality, and identify what most hinders us from having proper relationships with the world around us.

☀ The healing in this process, aside from realizing what happened in the past, is that we manage to create a new connection between us as adults and the child within us. This allows us to begin taking care of ourselves in a new way and not seek love from the outside. Through this process, we free ourselves from those influences, compromises, and unspoken agreements we unconsciously made as children to survive in certain situations, but which we still follow today, even though they are no longer necessary. This sabotages our relationships, promises, and integrity.

Some topics we will explore:

-How to connect with our inner child, to better understand the roles and conditions it had to adopt to belong
-How to support the child within us and make peace with the past – this lays the foundation for better intimate relationships and opening to love.
-How to free ourselves from dependency on others’ opinions
-How to become parents to ourselves (and better parents to our children)