It’s a question I’ve been sitting with more intentionally lately.

When people ask me what I do and I say, “I guide retreats,” I often receive a curious — or blank — look. And I get it. Not everyone lives in the same world of language, healing, or “alternatives” that many of us move through daily.

And just because something is familiar to me, or to my closest friends and community, doesn’t mean it should be familiar to everyone else.
It’s a good reminder: to not assume, to not judge, and to stay open.

So I want to try to answer this question honestly:


What is a retreat?

A retreat is a conscious stepping away from your everyday life
— not to disconnect, but to reconnect.

To press pause on the noise, on the schedules, on the stories you carry about who you should be.

It’s a space held with care, where you are invited to simply be.

To listen inward.

To soften the doing and sink into being.

To meet yourself — beyond your roles, your routines, and your conditioning.

In my retreats, we do this through the body.
 Through breath, movement, silence, inquiry, nature, ritual, and presence.


We don’t seek to fix ourselves, but to remember ourselves — gently, honestly, slowly.

It’s not always easy. 

But it’s real.

A retreat is a return.

To your body.

To your truth.

To the parts of you that have been waiting patiently for your attention.

So no, a retreat isn’t just a getaway.
 It’s a brave, beautiful decision to come back to yourself — even just for a few days.

And from that return, something always shifts.
 Not because you were changed, but because you finally remembered who you are.

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