The Art Of Being - Weekend Retreat

Where: Inverness, Florida
When: October 29–November 1
 
The Art of Being
 
An Exhale Retreat for Rest, Presence & What’s Next
 
A restorative, embodied weekend for leaders, space-holders, and heart-led  souls ready to put down the weight of what they carry, return to themselves, and meet what’s next from a place of fullness.
 
You are allowed to exhale.
 
There comes a moment when more effort is not the answer.
 
When you are moving quickly through a life you deeply care about...holding the vision, tending to people, making decisions, creating the work, carrying responsibility...and somewhere within it all, longing for a moment to simply be.
 
Not to facilitate.
Not to pour from yourself.
Not to have the answer.
 
Just to be held.
 
The Art of Being is an intimate retreat for the soul who has been holding so much and is ready to make space for themself.
 
A space to soften the urgency. To quiet the mental noise. To reconnect with your body, breath, and the present moment. To remember that rest is not something you have to earn.
This is not simply a weekend to slow down your schedule. It is an invitation to slow down internally, to return to the pace of your own body, let your nervous system settle, and hear what is true beneath the noise.
 
Maybe you are the one people turn toward.
 
You hold the vision. You listen deeply. You make the decisions.
You lead the team, family, community, movement, or room.
 
You know presence matters. You may already have practices that support you. Yet knowing what you need and giving yourself space to truly receive it can be two very different things.
 
This retreat is an opportunity to set down the roles for a while, not because your work does not matter, but because the person carrying the vision matters, too.
 
Here, you do not need to lead the conversation, make anyone comfortable, hold the emotional temperature of the room, or make your rest productive.
 
You get to arrive as a whole human being.
You get to receive.
 
A Weekend to Rest, Return, Release & Renew
 
The Art of Being is a carefully curated experience of embodied rest, intentional reflection, meaningful connection, and spaciousness.
 
Over the weekend, you’ll be invited into a gentler rhythm, one that honors your body, gives your mind room to breathe, and creates space for what is quietly asking to emerge within you.
 
Every offering is an invitation. Participate fully, rest deeply, take time alone, connect with others, or follow your own internal rhythm. Your only job is to listen to yourself.
 
REST — Give your nervous system space to soften through unhurried mornings, quiet moments, nourishing practices, and time that is not asking anything of you.
 
RETURN — Come back to your body, breath, inner knowing, and the parts of yourself that become harder to access when life feels full.
 
RELEASE — Honor what feels complete. Put down expectations, roles, stories, responsibilities, and pressure that are no longer yours to carry.
 
RENEW — Through rest and presence, create the conditions for your next season to reveal itself naturally.
 
What You’ll Experience
Daily yoga or Qi-Gong
Daily Brunch & Dinner (light snacks in between)
Guided meditation and nervous-system-softening practices
Tea ceremonies and intentional ritual
Journaling, reflection, and integration
Time for stillness, nature, wandering, naps, and receiving
Meaningful conversation with other heart-led souls
A seasonal ritual to honor what you are releasing and welcome what is emerging
 
You are not coming to do more.
You are coming to remember another way of being.
Rest Is Part of the Work
 
Your presence is part of your power. Your softness is not separate from your strength. Your relationship with yourself shapes everything you create, lead, and offer.
 
When you are resourced, connected, and internally spacious, you have greater access to intuition, creativity, discernment, and capacity.
 
You are not here to become less devoted.
You are here to become sustainably devoted.
 
We will gather over Halloween weekend, a natural threshold in the year: a time to reflect, let go, and make space for what is ready to emerge.
 
If you are standing at the edge of a chapter, ready to honor the person you have been and welcome the person you are becoming, this space is for you.
 
Your Invitation is to come exactly as you are.
 
Come tired. Come hopeful. Come uncertain. Come in a season of becoming. Come if you have been holding it all together. Come if you have forgotten what it feels like to let someone else hold the container.
 
You do not have to have it all figured out before you arrive.
You only have to be willing to give yourself the space to breathe.
 
The Art of Being is your invitation to pause, soften, and return to yourself...from the inside out.
 
Early Bird Investment (Until Sept 20th)
Private Sleep Shed: $1,800 (One Left)
Private Yurt, One Person: $1,800 (One Left)
Private Yurt, Two People: $2,400 (Sold Out)
Double Yurt: $1,550 per person  (One Spot Left)
Triple Room: $1,550 per person
Dorm Room: $1,500 per person