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Crying is not the sound of sadness. Crying is the sound of healing.
Event date:
- February 20 - 28, 2025
- Time: 17:30 - 20:30
- Brașov, Romania

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Laughter, Tears and Silence is a method based on the work of the Indian Mystic Osho, who originally discovered the power of sustained, genuine, laughter as a gateway to access un-healed hurt and trauma that many of us live with. In 1989, He asked Leela Itzler, the coordinator of his therapy group centre (which was at the time the largest growth and therapy centre in the world), to create a twenty-one day retreat. This process became known as ‘The Mystic Rose Meditative Therapy’
In 2011, Leela’s son, Marc Itzler began to assist her running the process all around the world.
Over time, it became apparent to Marc that most people living modern lives, are unable to participate in an event requiring a commitment of over three weeks.
He began experimenting with shorter versions of the method, culminating in this nine-day, non residential event. In this shorter format, each stage lasts for just three days instead of seven, allowing for people who have family and work commitments to also experience the benefits of this unique and life-changing method.
LTS combines the Eastern practice of Meditation with Western methods of trauma and emotional pain release, to create a dynamic, and active therapeutic process.
It harnesses the healing power of the most primal, and natural human responses that we have always used to communicate our needs from birth, long before we begin to form an identity, language, or thoughts. They are, laughing, and crying.
– Trapped and helpless in any area of your life?
– Suffering from a lack of self worth or confidence to make important decisions?
– Finding it difficult to say no and set healthy boundaries?
– Struggling with addiction or habits that are detrimental to your physical and mental health?
– Feeling unable to express yourself freely, and ask for what you need to thrive?
– Lacking motivation, or experience a sense of hopelessness?
– Feeling that your life has no real purpose or meaning beyond a daily routine?
– Feeling cut off from your sexuality, experiencing self loathing about your body?
– Missing intimacy and connection with partner, family or friends?
– Feeling the need to release sadness, anger and hurt, but feel that you have to be strong and stable for those around you?
It became apparent over time that most people leading modern lives could not attend an event that required a commitment of more than three weeks.
This was when Marc began experimenting with shorter versions of the method, culminating in this nine-day non-residential group, which he now runs with his partner, Florenta Simion, also a trained Meditative Therapy facilitator and psychologist.
In this shorter format, each stage lasts just three days instead of seven, allowing even those with family and work commitments to experience the benefits of this unique and life-transforming method.
Using ONLY these uniquely human expressions, we can bypass the conscious mind and reach into parts of the brain and body where much of our repressed trauma and unprocessed pain is stored, all without the need for speech or cognitive effort. Once the process has been introduced with a clear explanation and guidance is given on how best to approach each stage, there will be no talking at all during each daily three-hour session.
In this supportive group environment, we finally feel able to reconnect with ourselves as innocent, joyful and childlike beings. This re-connection to our true nature allows us to access the contained pain and sadness that we have carried all our lives. We go to where we feel safe, knowing we will not be judged or shamed.
Thursday, February 20 – Friday, February 28, 2025
Time: 17:30 – 20:30
This is a non-residential group that runs for nine consecutive evenings. Participants meet at the same time and place each evening for sessions.
Each session lasts three hours.
Participants are asked to commit to the entire nine days, as each person’s contribution to the dynamic power of the group is essential to the process.
In the first stage, we laugh for three hours per day, for no reason at all. We begin with laughter because it generates a huge wave of energy through the body, loosening blocked up emotions and inhibition.
Laughter also frees us from our seriousness, our fear, and our judgmental, critical mind. This phase acts a doorway to the deeper levels of hidden and repressed pain, and it also builds a strong bond between participants, creating the trusting and compassionate space needed to move in to the next phase of the process.
In this second stage, also for three uninterrupted hours, we allow our tears to flow. Feeling safe and held in the group collective, we are able to connect to our sadness and pain in a new and more conscious way. We welcome and accept it.
Deep and uninhibited crying becomes the most liberating experience, as we literally cry out the pain, frustration, and hurt that we have carried for our whole lives.
The final stage is silent meditation. The three hour sessions are broken down into three forty-five minute sittings, interspersed with fifteen minute intervals to move our bodies, hydrate or use the bathroom.
This stage allows us to settle after the previous stages and gives us time to integrate the new state that has arisen in us from doing the process.
Permission to be happy, permission to be crazy, permission to be you.
Marc Itzler is an experienced group facilitator, writer and speaker on all aspects of personal development, inner well-being, and effective communication, In 2012 Marc trained as a facilitator of Meditative Therapies and over the past twelve years, has gone on to qualify as one of only six senior trainers / facilitators in the world.
Florența Simon is a psychologist, individual group psychotherapist in training (psychodrama method), facilitator in meditative therapies, founder and vice-president of HERA Foundation – for emotional health and initiator of AFECT, the only emotional health festival in Romania.
Until November 20
Until January 20
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I lived most of my life in either some form of disconnect or with an impending sense of doom that I later learned was very close to a generalized anxiety disorder. None of which have stopped me from being super productive, “successful” in a societally accepted way and hyperrational. Only later did I find out that my brain and the way I explained and “understood” everything so well was also a coping mechanism that prevented me from feeling unresolved pain and letting life in. And then I started going to therapy. Started meditating, getting more in touch with my body. And finally understood that truer understanding is more of the body and of the emotions. So, when Marc and Florenta spoke about the LTS program to me for the first time, I said “yes” immediately. First of all, because I had the chance to witness them as individuals.
They were present, actually listened to others, connected with each other and in their own development processes. They were attuned. And then I trusted that whatever came from them, I would be safe and it would have an effect. The part that spoke to me most about LTS was it bypassing the cognitive processes. And, man, did it! It would take me a while to explain what happened, but then again, I am trying not to analyze the life out of the process either. Si I am just sticking with this one example. Some dam broke loose after last week. And during couple’s therapy I had a huge breakthrough, because I finally allowed myself to be vulnerable in a way I hadn’t been before. And I am pretty sure it also came as a consequence of what we worked on together. And this, in turn, helped my partner step into his masculine, protector role in which he doesn’t usually get to be, because it is difficult for me to let anyone take care of me.
It was the first time when I stepped into my emotions with close to 0 resistance. I knew it would release me. And it did. My true hope is that as many people as possible benefit from this program.
Thank you, Marc and Flo, for making this happen in Romania!
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