A 5-Day Residential Immersive Embodied Play Retreat

For people who are doing “fine”… but know they’re not fully alive.

Reclaim your joy. Restore your vitality. Reconnect to your body, creativity, and the parts of you that went quiet while you were surviving.

This is not about fixing yourself.
It’s about remembering how to inhabit your life again.

→ Join us for 5 days of embodied practice, ritual, play, and deep listening.

If any of this feels familiar, you’re in the right place:

• You function well, but something feels muted or flat
• You move through life on autopilot more than you’d like
• Joy feels distant, fragile, or conditional
• You’ve done “the work,” but it hasn’t reached your body
• You crave depth, play, and meaning, but real, grounded, lived
• You long to feel more present, more expressed, more you

Nothing has gone wrong.

You’ve simply adapted to a world that rewards productivity over presence and coping over aliveness.

This retreat is a place to reverse that adaptation.

This Is Not About Adding More to Your Life

We’re not here to give you another practice, identity, or version of yourself to maintain.

This work is about excavation.

We slow down enough to:

• Move what’s been frozen
• Express what’s been held
• Grieve what was never allowed
• Reclaim what still wants to live through you

This is shamanic in its depth and practical in its integration.

You don’t leave with inspiration alone.
You leave reorganized from the inside out.

THE FOUR QUESTIONS

In many ancestral cultures, when someone felt dispirited or lost, they were asked

When did you stop dancing?
When did you stop singing?
When did you stop being enchanted by stories?
When did you stop finding comfort in silence?

These questions are not symbolic.

They point directly to where life energy gets interrupted, and how it can return.

This retreat is a lived response to those questions, through the body, the collective, and direct experience.

WHAT YOU’LL EXPERIENCE

Over five days, you’ll be immersed in a carefully held, trauma-aware container that includes:

• Movement & Dance – to restore flow, sensation, and expression
• Music & Voice – to reclaim sound as medicine, not performance
• Expressive Art – to let what’s wordless speak
• Therapeutic & Psychosomatic Practices – guided, embodied, grounded
• Grief Work – because unexpressed grief blocks joy
• Play & Ritual – to bring meaning back into the ordinary
• Nature & Silence – as regulation, not escape
• Collective & Relational Spaces – because aliveness is amplified together

Everything is invitational.
Nothing is forced.
Depth arises through safety, not pressure.

WHAT YOU WILL GET

People leave this retreat with:

• A felt sense of aliveness in their body
• Greater emotional range without overwhelm
• Renewed access to joy, creativity, and play
• A deeper trust in their body’s intelligence
• More authentic self-expression in relationships
• Practical rituals and practices that integrate into daily life
• A restored sense of meaning and sacredness in ordinary moments

This isn’t a temporary high.

It changes how you relate to your life.

This retreat is for you if:

• You want to feel more alive, not just “better”
• You’re ready for embodied work, not just insight
• You’re open to emotion, movement, and relational depth
• You value gentleness and honesty
• You want real change that continues after the retreat

This may not be for you if:

• You want constant stimulation or entertainment
• You’re looking for quick fixes or surface-level healing
• You’re unwilling to feel or slow down

GUIDANCE & SAFETY

You will be guided by experienced facilitators and wisdom keepers trained in somatic, therapeutic, expressive, play, and ritual work.

CALL TO ACTION

Life doesn’t disappear suddenly.
It fades through postponement, numbness, and forgetting.

This is an invitation to come back.

To sensation.
To expression.
To joy.
To life, as it’s actually happening.

→ Apply / Register for Dreaming Ourselves Alive

What previous participants are saying:

“I didn’t come to heal something specific. I came because I felt disconnected from my own life.
What surprised me was how gentle and grounded the whole experience was.
I didn’t ‘break open’, I softened.
I left feeling present in my body again, able to feel joy without forcing it.”

Jane— Retreat Participant

“I’ve done therapy, workshops, retreats. This was different.
Nothing was rushed. Nothing was pushed.
For the first time in a long time, I felt safe enough to actually feel.
Grief moved. Joy followed.
It didn’t feel dramatic, it felt true.”

Zac— Retreat Participant

“I realized how much of my life I was living from the neck up.
Through movement, music, and silence, something reconnected.
I’m not ‘fixed,’ but I’m more alive. And that’s changed how I relate to my partner, my work, and myself.”

Liam— Participant

“This wasn’t an escape from real life.
It was a return to it.
I left with simple practices that I actually use, especially when I start to shut down. Life feels more inhabited now.”

Cristina— Participant