Somatic Movement Sessions to Heal Physical and Emotional Pain

Brain Re-patterning for Ease and Agility

Reorganize Habits that Keep You from Peace, Contentment and Delight

Practice Guides for Maintaining Your Gains

Integration Time for Self-Reflection and Rejuvenation

Nourishing Organic Meals

Ecological Permaculture Homestead In Wilderness

The Sustainable Body Wilderness Retreat is a beginning journey into the vast potential of well-being through deep personal healing, physical restoration, and creative renewal. Through intentional developmental movement practices, participants will nurture and ignite physical agility, mental acuity, emotional stability, and spiritual connection.

Immersed in the remote womb of nature unadulterated by “getting and spending” where “we lay waste our powers” (William Wordsworth), you will emerge a truer version of yourself. Allowing the necessary and often detrimental adaptations of culture to be gently recognized and discarded at will.

This experience is for anyone desiring to heal from pain and symptoms, a dysregulated nervous system, somatic wounds, or movement restrictions.

Our ability to non-judgmentally observe and experience our physical body, emotional body and spiritual body is the gateway to address physical pain and symptoms and regulate emotional processing. Our young, “adaptive” self learned how to perform for survival. And we have all had moderate amounts of success so that these strategies (being good enough, quiet enough, pretty enough, strong enough, successful enough) have become habituated. We will explore how we can be free from ways of thinking, being and doing that no longer serve us.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO:

• Relieve chronic pain and symptoms or tightness?

• Address stubborn injuries that never quite heal?

• Calm a dysregulated nervous system?

• Upgrade your flexibility and functional capacity?

• Avoid surgery and pharmaceuticals?

• Maintain a healing lifestyle?

Day 1 

The Riches Within: Your Genius Nervous System

Reorganize Movement Patterns That Cause Pain Or Symptoms

Each day we will move through a sequential library of guided movement lessons using bio-mechanical connections based on early childhood development. These lessons help us recognize and reorganize faulty movement patterns adapted to protect us from physical and emotional pain. They are not exercises, based on performance standards, but novel explorations initiated from curiosity. Exploring functional movement in gravity helps us return to sensing our “True Self” vs an “Adaptive Self” organized around surviving vs. thriving.

Day 2

How You Do Life and How You Do It Better

Increase Somatic Awareness to Reduce Stress and Other Health Drags.

As we daily increase our ability to connect with our “True Self”, we can more easily recognize internal and external, conscious and unconscious, nervous system triggers that drive cardio-vascular strain, digestive disruption, immune system sensitivity and mental anguish. 

Day 3

Growing Your Adaptive Child to Be Present with Agency

Update Subconscious Beliefs That Interfere With Physical & Emotional States.

    Discovering our agency over unconscious habitual ways of thinking, being and doing creates an easy outlet to stream innate, unique visions and intentions in satisfying and sustainable ways. 

Day 4

Supporting Your Generative Drive

Meet A Deeper Sense of Self

Once you recognize your innate somatic capacity, resilience, and intelligence, unencumbered by the false narrative of subconscious self-talk, the indomitable spirit of reconciliation and gratitude arise without compulsion. Your deep sense of owning your human potential motivates compassion and altruism.

The retreat location is on a spiritual and health-centered homestead surrounded by an old-growth forest, flowing streams and a diverse thriving ecosystem. Untouched by light pollution, cellphone reception, pesticides, and any of today's common pollutants, you can enjoy clear skies and unbelievable starry nights.

Cortical Field Re-Education (CFR) is based on the work of Moshe Feldenkrais. It is a system of pain and symptom relief. Nascent neural pathways forged as a child for functional movement are distorted through insult and injury. Rediscovering these early movement patterns redirects forces and loads away from overused tissues that “age” or “don’t heal”. CFR also helps you recognize choices and beliefs that keep you trapped in emotional suffering. Reorganizing these out-dated frameworks begins the restoration of function on all levels of consciousness.