THE JOURNEY

Four rich days of movement towards health and restoration. Each day is sequential, building to an apex of agility and ease.

• Brain Re-patterning for physical HEALING AND AGILITY

• Reorganize Habits that Keep You from Peace, Contentment and Delight

• mindfulness for the body and the mind

• Integration Time for Self-Reflection and Rejuvenation

Trail’s End Healing Retreat is a beginning journey into the vastness and 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 looking to begin healing from pain and symptoms, a dysregulated nervous system, somatic wounds, or movement restrictions to your athletic or functional performance.

Are you interested in:

• relieving chronic pain and symptoms or tightness?

• addressing stubborn injuries that never quite heal?

• calming a dysregulated nervous system?

• upgrading your flexibility and functional capacity?

• avoiding surgery and pharmaceuticals?

• maintaining a healing lifestyle?

A Quick Introduction Video For You

Day 1 

• WELCOME SUNSET FEASt (5:45pm)

We will gather lakeside at sunset to feast on fabulous, nutritious food and meet our fellow-students.

• DECOMPRESSION SESSION (7:15 PM)

After a warm welcome, we will transition to our first session that will guide you to an Alpha brainwave state. The Alpha State is tied to achieving the highly desirable “flow state”, characterized by effortless engagement, heightened performance, and a sense of timelessness.

• REST IN HOMEY LUXURY (9:00 Pm)

Return to your luxury bedding and spacious rooms for a full and good night’s rest in the quiet of the forest.

Day 2 and Day 3

• BEGIN THE JOURNEY FOR MORE EASE AND FUNCTION (9:30-12:00)

We will move through a sequential library of guided movement lessons using bio-mechanical connections accessed in healthy human 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” organized around thriving vs an “Adaptive Self” organized around surviving.

• PERSONAL INTEGRATION TIME (12:00-4:00)

Enjoy a satisfying lunch and take some time to integrate your learning from the morning. Explore the property, swim, boat or simply find a secret retreat corner.

• continue the journey of self-exploration (4:00-6:00)

Return and continue exploring easing and re-vitalizing movements. In this afternoon session, you will begin to understand how your beliefs affect your use of your body. As we daily increase our ability to sense and 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, as well as orthopedic pain.

• evening meal (6:00-7:30)

Another beautiful sunset meal to spend with your friends or in solitude.

• FINAL REST SESSION (7:30-8:30)

More brainwave transition work to settle you into an evening of peace and connection.

Day 4

• how you do life and how you can do better (9:30 - 1:00)

A cohesive integration day to bring together your physical and emotional learning. You will be given access to tools from each lesson to maintain your gains in movement and equanamity.

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.