The Gratitude Vietnam Retreat Venue Blog

Dear Friends, We’ve had a fabulous week of meeting with like-minded people in the Hoi-An Community, whether in person or online! Having enjoyed a thoroughly geeky conversation about the polyvagal theory, somatic healing and gratitude as a practice (not an attitude!), we’d like to share with you our ‘top picks’ of books we will keep in our wellness library at the villa that explain the body-mind connection 1. The Body Keeps the Score: Mind Brain and Body in the Transformation

A year ago, I was rushing headlong to the end of a two year contract. I had signed the contract to save for a new life, start a business and leave the safety of the institution of education I had been happily ensconced in since starting school at the age of five. These two years felt like a life-sentence, yet when they had passed, it felt as though the time had run away in a flash! The impact of this perplexingly contextual perception of time during this period has stayed