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Attending a retreat creates change.

When life asks for something new, we honor it with time away from our day to day life, presence, and ritual. Our retreat offerings provide clinical wisdom, energy work, and creative practices to help you recharge.

ATTEND ONE OF OUR RETREATS

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Offerings

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I Am Circle Community

Curated experience for members with exclusive classes, workshops, and merch

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Virtual Retreats & Trainings

A virtual community of like minded indivuduals coming together to learn new holistic techniques

Wellness Retreats

Sound healing, indigenous rituals, and energy balancing techniques to help you feel balanced

From Overwhelmed & Burnt Out → Clear, Balanced, and Thriving

Our retreats are designed to support those feeling overwhelmed and burned out, helping them leave inspired, rested, and rejuvenated through our thoughtfully curated experiences. Each retreat is centered around a unique theme and begins by bringing awareness to your I AM statements. Every participant will also take home a curated I AM box filled with meaningful items to support you on your journey.

Our retreats support individuals seeking peace and reconnection.

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What one retreat participant had to say

Testimonial from a retreat attendee

“That time with you made such a difference to me. I wish every grieving person could get to this place. I still have tears, and sometimes at awkward moments (like last week when a little town band in northern Vermont played Somewhere Out There from the children’s movie An American Tail), but I am so much more settled and peaceful.”

RETREATS

Virtual Cacao Ceremony

Join me for a powerful at-home cacao ceremony where you’ll sip, soften, and step into your highest self. This is going to be a very fun and interactive experience. You will learn about the healing properties of cacao, be taught how to make it, be provided with information on the two different types I like to use, and be brought together with others in community. Date TBA.

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I Am Embracing the Pause

It’s time for middle-aged women to gather together and support one another during this stage in life. This retreat will help you to see the menopause journey in a different way. We are tailoring this event to support your hormones, balance your nervous system, and provide you with tools to enhance your emotional well-being in one transformative experience.

MORE INFO COMING SOON

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Guaranteed Outcomes when you attend:

Clarity

Nervous-system ease

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Practical tools

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A renewed sense of self

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What our retreats include

The components of I AM Retreats

All of April’s retreats incorporate education around the power of our thoughts and words, beginning with awareness of what follows the two words, “I Am.”

This sets the theme for each retreat. Her retreats blend group sharing, hands-on art experiences, energy balancing techniques, and elemental rituals inspired by the Shamans she has studied with. All participants also receive a curated I AM merch box to support their retreat journey.

Photos of Past Retreats

Retreat Photo Journal

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WHAT TO EXPECT

Our retreats are thoughtfully designed to guide you through the heart of your grief, helping you gently shift from the heavy focus on stress to embracing the lighter aspects of life, the people and things you love, and returning back to your true essence.

During your retreat experience, you’ll be supported with a variety of nervous system regulation interventions like rituals, art, meditation, sound healing and energy work.

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We integrate therapeutic, evidence-based methods such as:

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Bilateral stimulation

To support emotional processing

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Image replacement therapy

For shifting difficult thought patterns

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Cognitive behavioral techniques

To help reframe and find relief from intrusive negative thoughts

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To complement these therapies, we weave in holistic healing practices, including:

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Restorative Reiki Energy Balancing Sessions

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Community Rituals

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Guided Meditations

These combined practices are designed to gently place you in a relaxed and receptive state to remind your body what it should feel like more often to live in a body without chronic stress., By the end of the retreat, you will leave with a deeper sense of peace, a renewed connection to yourself, and practical tools to continue your healing journey.

We love holding our retreats in the beautiful Adirondack mountains of NY near Lake George at the Silver Bay YMCA Retreat Center but are always looking for new venues in the upstate NY region.