What happens in a Past Life Regression?

Are you curious about past life regression? Have you ever been called to or connected with certain lands or people and wondered if you’ve lived there before? Does your energy settle easily in some places and not in others, but you can’t quite put your finger on why?

Past life regression is a way to explore your potential connections to lives before this one. It’s like a guided meditation where a therapist helps you relax and tap into memories from past lives. These memories can be from any time or place and can give you powerful insights into your current life’s problems and challenges.

What happens in a Past Life Regression Session?

A typical session starts with you getting comfy. Here are a few things that can help with that:

• Make sure you wear something you can relax in for a couple of hours and feel cosy, as your temperature might drop. A bit like what happens in a yoga nidra. 
• Don’t drink any caffeine or alcohol for around 24 hours beforehand.
• Keep your day spacious; make time to land in the space and have time to let the session integrate afterwards.
• Drink plenty of water.
• Have a journal and pen nearby, you may like to capture some notes on your experience afterwards.

For a 1:1 session, your therapist will have asked you to complete a series of questions to help them create the most supportive journey for you. These questions go deep into lots of different aspects of life, which may seem unrelated but they all help them to understand your goals and fears better. This ensures that you have a safe space to explore, and helps them recognise characters and themes as they come up in the regression, enabling a more powerful experience. 

For a group session you will probably have a common goal or intention to explore, your therapist will probably check in with the group and see what’s top of mind for the collective too.

How does past life regression work?

The therapist may use different techniques to guide you in and through a past life regression journey.

• Hypnotherapy, visualisation, breathing exercises, and positive affirmations to help you completely relax and guide you into the experience
• Once you’re relaxed, your therapist will ask questions to help you access past-life memories in a safe and detached way.

If it’s a 1:1 session, you may dialogue with the therapist, in group sessions, you will experience it all in the comfort of your mind. In both journeys, you might see images, smell scents, hear sounds, or even feel physical sensations. You might also experience emotions connected to the past life memories. Your therapist will be there to guide you through it all and help you navigate what’s coming up.

Sometimes it might be necessary to resolve issues or patterns in this life before exploring past lives. Your therapist will make the call on this depending on your verbal and physical reactions to the cues and questions as they come up. Some patterns are deep rooted and require a series of sessions to unearth.

Your therapist will pay very close attention to your responses as you journey through your past life. Ensuring you are safe and stay within the boundaries of the agreed intentions for the session. These would have been agreed up front in a session intake form or interview.

Once navigating the life your therapist may take you through healing processes to help resolve and release energy and patterns from that experience or life. Your experience may include things like:

• Soul retrieval – gathering the fragments soul energy from a past life or past events to help you in this one. We exchange energy fragments with every person we come across and over time you may need to reset and gather that energy back
• Inner child healing – Comforting younger versions of you that experienced challenging events or emotions
• Body therapy – Releasing tension in the body may be part of your healing process (always with permission first)
• Spirit guides – Some clients identify spirit or soul guides that they work with already, others may make themselves known as part of the healing process. These may be called upon to support your progression through the soul lessons.

Will I remember a past life regression? What if I say something funny?

Everyone experiences past life regression differently, even if listening to the same guided regression repeatedly, you will have a different experience of it depending your energetic state, tiredness, intentions or experience that day. You may drift in and out of conscious awareness on your journey, it’s common to remember some parts of it and have no conscious recollection of others. You may or may not remember the details of exactly what happens, with who or where, but the emotional resonance might feel strong. Some people see very clearly, others feel, smell and hear it. 

All experiences are valid and real to you in their special way. Some end with a clear lesson and story, while others open up new possibilities to explore or reflect on. So you may wish to book a series of sessions if you have a deeper-rooted habit or emotional pattern to release.

Your therapist will guide you through completion and healing at the end of each session so you can explore any themes that come up. You may explore lessons, look at things from a different perspective or send healing or messages to people or guides from that life.

It’s important to remember that the experience unfolds exactly as it needs to, there is no wrong way to do it. Your therapist is unlikely to be shocked by what comes up; they will have travelled many lives before as a way-shower!  They are experienced professionals, with supportive supervisors and peers. A lot of clients remark how they share things they have never shared before, past life regression at La Dolce Vita is a judgement free zone. So it’s safe to let it all out.

What can past life regression help with?

Past life regression can offer a wide variety of benefits, like:

• Understanding your current issues better. Past life regression can help you see where your current problems come from and find new ways to deal with or release them.
• Healing emotional baggage. Past life regression can help you heal emotional wounds that might be rooted in past lives or experiences.
• Discovering hidden talents. You might uncover talents and power from past lives that you’ve forgotten about.
• Reconnect with your ancestors. You are here due to the power, resilience and wisdom of your ancestors. Tap into their advice, experience and journeys.
• Reconnect with your soul’s journey. Past life regression can help you understand your soul’s journey, or purpose and see how your past lives have shaped who you are today.
• Revisit things from earlier in this life in a detached and safe way. releasing their physical or emotional hold over you.
• Dissolve fears and phobias particularly those for which you have no known origin, but have a sense they are rooted elsewhere.
• Release emotional or physical pain often with no known cause.
• Break self destructive patterns and relationship cycles.
• Reduce anxiety and feelings of being stuck or directionless.
• Explore roots of recurring dreams or visions.

What are the risks of Past Life Regression therapy?

Past life regression is not for everyone, it’s important to note that there are some contra indicators for regression therapy. Specifically the following contra indicators may rule out past life regression for clients:

Serious mental health issues that may require heavy medication such as:

• Psychosis
• Bipolar disorder
• Dissociative Identity Disorder
• Clinical Depression
• Schizophrenia
• Anorexia nervosa
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• People living with epilepsy of a history of seizures may be not be suitable candidates for past life regression.

In addition:

• People living with substance abuse or addiction may be adversely affected by reliving triggers for these behaviours in past lives.
• People with sensitive health issues who may not be able to experience intense emotional or physical experiences safely like those with pacemakers or pregnant women.

If you are unsure about whether or not past life regression is for you it’s important to ask questions, a qualified past life regression therapist will be happy to answer any questions you have.

Self care is important after a past life regression, clients may feel tired and experience a lightness to their energy. I would encourage a gentle couple of days following a session. Your practitioner may share a grounding meditation for you to listen to in the days following to help you stay in balance. 

If you do decide it is for you, it’s important to be open-minded and curious about the experience. The more open you are about your intentions and experience, the more you will get out of it. 

If you’re interested in exploring your past lives, a qualified and experienced therapist will as a lot of questions up front. It’s important to share as much relevant information as you can to help make your journey safer and more impactful. Your past life regression practitioner won’t necessarily use all the information you provide in your session, but it’s all helpful context to help navigate your journey and identify characters or patterns as they come up.

Who can benefit from past life regression?

Curious, open hearted souls who are already on a journey of self discovery and healing often find themselves called to past life regression. Common factors for past life regression clients are:

• Belief in reincarnation – Not a pre requisite, but many clients have an existing belief that they have lived many lives before and are curious to see what they can learn to empower themselves in this on
• Existing spiritual practice – Many clients have personal spiritual beliefs and practices that embody a belief in the evolution of their souls path through healing and exploration of past patterns
• Readiness to explore deep emotions and patterns – Many clients have explored other holistic or healing therapies, they are self aware and reflective. They may even be practitioners of other healing modalities or therapies themselves.
• Curiosity – Some clients have none of the above but just have a strong inclination to try it, a clear intention and an openness to the outcome.

How long does past life regression take?

It depends on how deeply rooted your issue is, most initial past life regression sessions take around 2 hours, sometimes up to 2.5 hours. Following sessions may be shorter, but I like to book in 2 hours to be sure we have enough time. Please allow some space around your appointment for the experience to settle, and so you have the mental and energetic space to relax into it.

How much does past life regression cost in London?

Currently there are two ways to explore past life regression in London with La Dolce Vita.