If you are willing to put the work in and face your pain, I'd recommend Matthew (Meinck) any time, to any one. So, thank you Matthew for helping me.

8th Jan 2013

I write this letter in support of Matthew Meinck. Matthew’s approach to healing is unique, unlike any other I have experienced.

I first sought his help for chronic back pain a year ago. 12 years prior I had been diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis, a debilitating and long-term condition that involves chronic inflammation of the joints between the spinal bones, and the joints between the spine and pelvis. For the last three years I was prescribed on a daily bases anti-inflammatories and fortnightly injections of TNF-blocking medications, none of which seemed to have much effect. Prior to taking the prescription drugs I had sought continually the help of doctors, physio-therapists, chiropractors, naturopaths, an osteopath and anybody and anything else I could think of – all to no avail. Life was painful.

When I first met Matthew, he gave me a massage, linking different tensions in my body to certain experiences I had had in my life. The extraordinary thing about this was, he was correct. Matthew suggested that by releasing the tension in the body, the physical/emotional pain would eventually heal itself. Matthew then encouraged me to discontinue with the prescription medication and instead to seek the help of his friend, a natural therapist. I have now made significant changes to my diet, attended several meditation retreats and continue to see Matthew for support. His approach is unique in that he encourages you to face your pain, to feel whatever it is inside. He has a rare ability to help draw out the pain, helping to release the tension in the muscles and cells, allowing the body to heal itself naturally, without any medical intervention whatsoever. 

The meditation retreats are silent retreats. Here you learn to take on the responsibility of healing yourself. Matthew suggests that the source of all human confusion and unhappiness is a displaced sense of ourselves, that the mind is seen as an entity separate from the human body. Most of the day is spent in silent meditation, feeling whatever it feels to be oneself. This in turn allows for gradual re-integration of body and mind. As a newcomer to this approach, I can’t say it was easy. It was challenging and sometimes outright confronting, feeling the continuous pain that was me, especially as in the past I had done everything in my power to avoid the pain. However, the healing effects of the meditation were enormous. It would be an exaggeration to say that I am now healed, but 12 months on, I am able to live life without drugs and am physically/mentally active. If you are willing to put the work in and face your pain, I'd recommend Matthew any time, to any one. So, thank you Matthew for helping me. 

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Matthews integrity and unwavering support for people who wanted to find the truth within themselves.

20th Sept 2013

Just wanted to share a glimpse of what I have experienced and understood on retreats run by Matthew Meinck.

The apparent simplicity of the process which Matthew has developed and evolved through over 30 years of running meditation retreats, has revealed to me an understanding of myself I was grossly unaware of.

I have sat on many retreats over the past 12 years and each one is so unique, giving me a fundamental understanding of how to deal with what is happening within me and in my life.

Matthew's knowing of how necessary it is for us as human beings to just sit still and allow ourselves to feel the immediate sense of our being, as we are in the moment without trying to create a better, calmer, happier or whatever modification we might think is a more desirable state to be in, is from wholeness because the understanding comes directly from the natural intelligence of the body.

You might think, that's easy I can do that myself! Well, that may be true as a physical act of just sitting, but it's the profound and subtle way in which Matthew explains what is actually happening within the body and the nature of thought (our habitual thinking) that is vital to being able to stay still and allow the state, whether it be distress, pain, numbness, calmness etc to just be as it is, long enough to see what is really trying to show itself.

So without understanding how our thinking operates and what is required to be able to stay with what is going on for me, I can so easily convince myself it's too hard, painful or force myself to keep still.
What's happening in that moment is I may be caught up in my thoughts, being reactive to the state I'm in, but at the same time still being able to keep sitting still. There is no right or wrong here, it's just the process of discovering what is happening in the nature of thought.

Believe me it is by no means easy to keep still when the urge is so strong to move away from what it feels to be in that state.

But as Matthew keeps explaining,  the body will not and cannot harm itself just being in this stillness. Although the thoughts arising will seem extremely convincing that it will, in an attempt to avoid what is being felt. I have not seen anyone harmed, in fact the opposite is true.

It is a monumental flaw in the human being that we give THOUGHT and all its structures and institutions we have built from it ie. religion, science, technology and any belief system so much of importance, only to avoid the only real sense of ourselves in being the living organism directly experiencing the moment and responding, is all that is required to function naturally.

We have such a habitual tendency to describe everything we see, hear, touch etc that we lose the direct contact with it, just as it is.

It is so vast, to relate what is experienced while sitting still in this way and being guided and challenged by Matthew to get the thinking out of the foreground, which usually consumes our attention, but keep bringing it back to the sensations in the body as it is.

There is so much more to be said for what this process has brought to light in my life and the many lives I have seen transformed, by Matthews integrity and unwavering support for people who wanted to find the truth within themselves.


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Matthew (Meinck) has been instrumental in getting me to see for myself that it is my responsibility alone to take care of myself and see that my actions have consequences.

31st March 2013

Matthew (Meinck) has been instrumental in getting me to see for myself that it is my responsibility alone to take care of myself and see that my actions have consequences.

This is no small thing and no one else in the medical field or health care profession have ever had the sensitivity and professional approach to get me to see.

Matthew offers the most effective cutting edge services in the healing and well being industry today, by far.

With his counselling  it is up to the individual how far they can go to the depths of their own unique potential. Matthew has never pressured me but on the contrary has gently encouraged me.
I consider myself fortunate that I participated and received so much in the last WA retreat.

Now by doing daily meditation and keeping my life as simple as possible I once again naturally smile and laugh at times.

I  urge others whom are genuinely interested in truly healing their lives or those whom have already benefitted from Matthew’s services to come forward and express their support for Matthew.

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No euphoria just relief and a respect for what it took from both Matthew and myself to get to this point and keep going.

21st Jan 2013

Having regular deep tissue massages with Matthew and attending his meditation retreats have changed my life.

It is difficult to express the subtle but profound changes that take place working with him but I wanted to put pen to paper to give it a go because I realized today that the peace that I am able to feel  now is not only in stark contrast to the way I have lived my life for the last 40 years but a thing I often thought wasn’t possible .

One of the benefits of the retreat environment is that it gives you time to really slow down and when you feel a high level of anxiety in your body on a daily basis at first this seems a stupid if not terrifying thing to do because obviously you feel it more. It has taken some doing but because of the slowing down I can live my life now with the freedom to have anxiety there or bliss and everything in between. The problem was never that I had the anxiety or other difficult feelings, it was that I didn’t want to feel them.

I only realized it when a comment Matthew made on a recent retreat that struck a cord with me as they often do and it was something to the effect of “that it is not that parts of what we feel that are bad it is weather or not it is all of you” Which I noticed is how I am able to live now. To live with all that I am and feel even if I don’t always like it I can accept it.

My only goal along the way was to be able to live with myself. It just took hard work and patience from both of us for me to stay with myself long enough to accept how I was/am. Today I realized I can.

This may sound a trivial thing to some but to people who have lived with the anxiety, confusion, depression and often terror on a daily basis even after all the medications and therapies I could find to try to help, it is like being let out of a straight jacket.
There is no euphoria just relief and a respect for what it took from both Matthew and myself to get to this point and keep going.

I knew when I first met Matthew that I was meeting someone unlike anyone I’d met before, someone that was real and whole. This powerful mix frightened me because I had a sense straight away that the truth in him had already connected with the damage in me and would be able to heal it but also what it was going to take on my part to get past my terror. I had no idea that it would take his personal sacrifice as well, I can only be grateful that he continued the journey with me.

Matthew’s approach to healing is constantly evolving and as I watch others like myself start the process with him I am excited to watch them start new lives just like I did.

What I have described is just one positive effect that Matthew has had on my life this man is truly a profound healer and I hope that for as long as he wants to continue that there are other people who are eager to receive what he has to offer.

He helped me to discover the truth about myself and the world around me.

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