Awakening the Heart - Moving Beyond Medicators
A 2.5-Day Experiential Retreat
Many of us learned to cope with life by numbing, distracting, or avoiding what we feel.
We reach for work, food, substances, scrolling, control, approval, or endless busyness.
These are called medicators.
They helped us survive difficult moments in life.
But eventually the same strategies that once protected us begin to disconnect us from ourselves.
Awakening the Heart: Moving Beyond Medicators is a powerful 2.5-day experiential retreat designed to help you gently explore the ways you numb, avoid, or manage emotional pain, and discover healthier, more authentic ways to live.
Through guided experiences, group process, and embodied practices, you will begin to:
• Recognize the coping patterns shaping your life
• Understand the neuroscience behind numbing and avoidance
• Reconnect with your body and emotional wisdom
• Cultivate compassion for the parts of you that learned to survive
• Discover new ways to regulate and respond to life
This retreat is not about fixing yourself.
It is about awakening awareness and reconnecting with the heart.
What You Will Experience
This retreat blends experiential learning, reflection, and embodied practices to help you reconnect with yourself in meaningful ways.
During the weekend you will experience:
Guided Experiential Exercises
Powerful group activities designed to help you recognize the medicators you rely on and understand the deeper needs beneath them.
Nervous System Education
Learn the neuroscience behind numbing, coping behaviors, and emotional regulation so you can understand your patterns without shame.
Somatic Awareness Practices
Gentle body-based practices that help you reconnect with sensation, presence, and inner awareness.
Group Process & Authentic Conversation
Meaningful dialogue and shared experiences that remind us we are not alone in the struggles we carry.
Reflection & Integration
Time for journaling, contemplation, and integration so insights can become lasting change.
Connection with Self and Others
A supportive environment where honesty, vulnerability, and compassion are welcomed.
Throughout the weekend you will be invited to move from numbing → awareness → connection → choice.
Hosted at the Gate of Zion National Park
Held on sacred land at the edge of Zion National Park, this retreat is intentionally intimate and limited in size.
We are wounded in relationship.
And we heal in relationship.
The Awakening the Heart retreats are designed to create a safe and sacred container where individuals can reconnect with their deepest truth.
This is not a lecture.
This is an experiential retreat designed for real transformation.
Who This Retreat Is For
This retreat is for people who:
• Feel stuck in cycles of avoidance or emotional numbing
• Want deeper self-awareness and emotional freedom
• Are ready to reconnect with their authentic self
• Appreciate experiential learning and meaningful conversation
No prior retreat experience is necessary.
Just bring curiosity, courage, and an open heart.
What You Leave With
Greater emotional regulation
Relational clarity
Renewed purpose
Tools for embodied love
A Heart Commitment you can live
The retreat will include programming such as:
Experiential group process
Somatic healing practices
Breathwork + meditation
Sacred ritual
Nature connection
Deep emotional witnessing
Retreat Schedule
Friday
Registration 3–5
Dinner 5–6
Opening circle 6–9
Saturday
Full day experiential process
Sunday
Integration + closing
Completion at 5pm
Investment
$504 Retreat Rate (lodging not included)
$1008 Retreat + Lodging
$1,512 Retreat + Lodging + Contribute to scholarship support
Payment plans available.
If You Feel the Quiet Yes…
Trust it.
Your heart remembers the way home.
Limited spots. Application required. Payment plans available.