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—Katrien (Katie) Cogan Inagh, County Clare, Ireland “

Omega is a place that has been so pivotal in my learning and growth since I first went on a whim in 2019.

JULY 5–10

Living in Wisdom

A Guided Journey Into Self-Mastery & Authentic Living

DEVI BROWN Tuition $395 ($355 Members)

Healing grief and embracing joy are integral parts of the human experience. Meditation, journaling, breathwork, and affirmations help us expand awareness and align with our higher selves.

Discover transformative tools and practices to release limiting beliefs, cultivate boundaries, and embody healing with Devi Brown as she weaves together spirituality, psychology, and ancient wisdom traditions.  Through experiential practices, group discussions, partner activities, and sensory engagement, you:

• Expand self-awareness and alignment with your authentic purpose

• Enhance emotional resilience and self-trust

• Deepen connection to your intuition and inner wisdom Return home with customized tools and practices to navigate grief, joy, and daily challenges—empowered to cultivate joy, set boundaries, and live in integrity.

Devi Brown is a wellness educator and creative advisor, host of the Deeply Well podcast, and founder of Devi Brown Well-Being.

JULY 5–10

Zero Balancing Engaging the Fabric of Consciousness Through Touch

MICHELE DOUCETTE

Tuition $695 ($625 Members)

Zero Balancing (ZB) is a leading-edge, body-mind transformational touch therapy that clarifies the body-mind interface, creating relaxation, comfort, mobility, resilience, self-awareness, grounding, and expansion. Through theory, discussion, hands-on practice, and touch feedback, participants learn to improve whole-person well-being (body, mind, and spirit) by providing structural therapy and energy medicine simultaneously. Through guided conscious touch skills, students learn to release dysfunctional subconscious skeletal tension patterns. Learning a full body ZB protocol allows many health-care professionals to elevate their practices immediately.

Participants learn how to use therapeutic touch and skeletal engagement to promote deeply relaxed, expanded states of consciousness and how to witness, monitor, and respond to a client during a ZB session.

Michele Doucette is a chiropractor who has been practicing Zero Balancing for more than 30 years.

JULY 5–10

Qigong Empowerments

ROBERT PENG Tuition $505 ($455 Members)

As a boy in China, Robert Peng apprenticed under the legendary Buddhist monk Xiao Yao, who trained him in the martial and healing arts. As part of his training, Peng spent 100 days meditating and fasting in a dark, underground chamber.

Afterward, Robert discovered he had developed extraordinary spiritual powers, including the ability to discharge energy that felt like a powerful electric current. Now, he offers a distillation of his training in Qigong Empowerments.

Robert reveals the fundamentals of qigong to awaken, empower, and integrate important energy centers that regulate your wisdom, love, and vitality, including hologram palm to empower dantians, breathing empowerments, four golden wheels movement, and lotus meditation.

Robert Peng , author of The Master Key and the DVD/CD companion series, is a world-renowned qigong master and healer.

JULY 5–10

Vagal Toning for Vibrant Health

Awaken Your Inner Healer

ARIELLE SCHWARTZ Tuition $500 ($450 Members)

Vagal toning is a gentle, effective treatment that adds stimulation to the vagus nerve pathway through breath, sound, eye-movements, self-applied touch, and gentle yoga movements that help you come into balance.

Grounded within the principles of polyvagal theory and traumainformed care, the work of vagal toning creates optimal balance between parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system actions.

Once you learn to self-regulate your nervous system, you can boost your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health. Vagal toning can also provide relief from symptoms such as chronic pain, inflammation, PTSD, anxiety, and stress sensitivity.

As you strengthen the vagus nerve pathway, you foster self-compassion and begin to awaken your inner healer.

Arielle Schwartz, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, Kripalu yoga teacher, founder of the Center for Resilience Informed Therapy, and author of Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga.

JULY 5–10

The Undefended Heart

A Metta Retreat for Cultivating Lovingkindness

DEVON HASE AND NICO HASE

Tuition $500 ($450 Members)

What would it feel like to meet yourself and others with unconditional kindness—to let down the walls around your heart and discover the strength that lives in tenderness?

Engage in daily guided metta meditation during this immersion, and cultivate lovingkindness beginning with yourself and gradually extending goodwill toward loved ones, neutral people, difficult people, and all beings everywhere.

Learn to work skillfully with the obstacles that arise in metta practice—including self-judgment, anger, grief, and the fear of vulnerability. Through daily dharma talks, discover how an undefended heart is not a naive or unprotected heart, but rather one that meets life with strength, wisdom, and radical acceptance. This retreat follows the Vipassana tradition of silent practice—we maintain noble silence throughout most of the day, with opportunities to speak during Q&A and small group discussions.

Devon and Nico Hase serve as guiding teachers of the online dharma community Refuge of Belonging and teach at the Insight Meditation Society, Spirit Rock, and other centers.

JULY 5–10

The How & Why of Memoir Writing

ADA CALHOUN Tuition $500 ($450 Members)

Dig into your memoir writing skills with Ada Calhoun and learn to interweave the personal and the universal in a work of art that lets readers in on a new way of being human in the world.

Discover how to develop the themes of your memoir and make significant progress on telling your story. Each day we read and discuss one another’s work, as well as the work of important memoirists. We take part in writing exercises, explore characters, narrative arcs, and style, and talk practically about the editorial and proposal process. This class is a supportive place to develop ideas and get a lot of writing done.

Ada Calhoun is author of the 2025 novel Crush as well as four critically acclaimed works of nonfiction: Also a Poet, Why We Can’t Sleep, Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give, and St. Marks Is Dead

JULY 5–10

Is This My Life?

Using Family Constellations to Release Ancestral Entanglements

SUZI TUCKER Tuition $575 ($515 Members)

The philosophy of Family Constellations reveals the streams of difficult connection that move under the surface of life—the entanglements, loyalties, and patterns, says Suzi Tucker. In releasing the burdens of previous generations, we become more available to ourselves, freer to forge a fresh path into the future rather than live in service to the past.

In this experiential retreat, Suzi guides participants as they establish their families of origin and the lineages in which they are nested. You learn to:

• Release inherited resentment and regret

• Establish a deeper wellspring of resources

• Develop an action plan that is possible

• Take your place in the present and prepare better for the future

Suzi Tucker is a writer and innovative Family Constellations facilitator and teacher.

JULY 5–10

Become a Medium & Healer for the Deceased

TINA M. ZION Tuition $500 ($450 Members)

Join an immersive experience with Tina M. Zion and become an accurate medium who clearly communicates with the deceased and the living to resolve conflicts that have remained a heavy burden for both of them.

Not all deceased people cross over into the light, according to Tina. Some are troubled, confused, or deeply emotional. Many spirit people are here on Earth and are not aware they have died. Spirit people who have died with unresolved issues or heavy emotions are often locked into certain moments in time.

Learn how to heal these troubled relationships so the living and the deceased can move forward in their advancement as eternal souls.

Tina M. Zion, author of Become a Medical Intuitive and Healing Ghosts, Haunted Places, and Nonhuman Beings, is an acclaimed intuitive medium, a registered nurse, and an expert in medical intuition.

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OMEGA WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP CENTER PROGRAM

JULY 5–10

Women's Leadership Intensive Alumnae Reunion

Reconnect, Reflect & Recalibrate

Tuition $325/275/175 ($245 Members)

If you are among the more than 400 women who have taken the Omega Women's Leadership Intensive over the past decade, we invite you to join this retreat to reconnect, reflect, and recalibrate! In this weeklong sanctuary, you have the opportunity to look back on your leadership journey and gain insight and inspiration for the work ahead in the company of other alumnae.

Alumnae Vivian Williams-Kurutz and Sarah Urech cohost daily circles for reflection and contemplative and creative practice, alongside opportunities for participant-led offerings. This retreat features a special reflective session that will be joined remotely via livestream by Mallika Dutt, Carla Goldstein, Leslie Salmon Jones, and Sharon Salzberg. #DoPowerDifferently

JULY

10–12

Tai Chi Easy  For Vitality & Health

VINCE SAUTER AND CHARLESSA THATCHER

Tuition $385 ($345 Members)

Help yourself manage stress and pain, reduce anxiety, improve sleep, balance, and stamina with Tai Chi Easy™. This method uses slow and careful movement to strengthen the body’s own healing forces and is medically proven to support disease prevention, reduce stress, and accelerate healing.

Guided by Vince Sauter and Charlessa Thatcher, you blend easy-to-learn medical qigong techniques with tai chi exercises and learn techniques that the ancient healers knew:

Open to past attendees of the Omega Women’s Leadership Intensive. Workshop begins Sunday at 6:00 p.m. Vivian Williams-Kurutz is executive director of Harlem Wellness Center.

Sarah Urech , is senior strategist of the Omega Women’s Leadership Center.

Mallika Dutt is founder of INTER-CONNECTED.

Carla Goldstein is president and CEO of Omega Institute.

Leslie Salmon Jones is cofounder of Afro Flow Yoga.

Sharon Salzberg is a meditation instructor and best-selling author.

JULY 10–12

• Simple movements to enhance lymphatic flow, stay flexible, and strengthen weak muscles and joints

• Self-massage to reduce joint and muscle pain and boost the immune system

• Meditation and visualization for clear, focused thoughts

The Body of Belonging

An Exploration of Community & Connection

RAHSHAANA GREEN Tuition $430 ($385 Members)

Explore how somatic awareness can nurture kinship, acceptance, and community while uncovering the aspects of connection that resonate most with you in this weekend retreat with Rahshaana Green.

Through gentle yoga-inspired movement, breathwork, sound, and meditation, we engage in self-inquiry practices within a group setting. Together, we create a safe and brave space to experiment with accessing a sense of belonging. Drawing from ancient and Indigenous wisdom, we work toward dismantling the individualistic ways of being that contribute to our growing sense of separateness.

• Breathwork to reduce stress and regulate the nervous system

These practices are adaptable to any level of ability, and can be done while sitting, standing, or even while lying down.

Vince Sauter is a senior teacher of Tai Chi Easy™ and a certified Tai Chi Qigong Shibashi instructor.

Charlessa Thatcher, LMSW, is a Tai Chi Easy™ senior trainer and a certified Holden QiGong Instructor.

JULY 10–17

Alchemical Awakening Mystery School

Truth Unveiled

ELUÑA NOELLE Tuition $900/850/750 ($765 Members)

Allow your body, heart, mind, and spirit to come together in collective healing, awakening, and coactivation in this 7-day mystery school with Eluña Noelle.

Explore alchemy, stories, mind-body practices, somatic sensing, psychic unfolding, communal sharing, breathwork, ceremonies, and magic. Learn and hone the alchemical process of transmutation, supported and amplified in conscious group practice.

The week includes personal and group practices, ceremonies, and lectures to learn how to tune more deeply into the subtle within you and beyond you.

We learn to build skillfulness in advocating for belonging by centering and nourishing connection and community to realize the resilience that comes with healthy interdependence.

Rahshaana Green is a multidisciplinary wellness consultant who combines science, yoga, and building human connection to help people heal.

Connect to new parts of yourself, others, and the Earth through practices that empower the spirit and body, quiet the mind, and heal the individual, collective, and ancestral nervous systems.

Eluña Noelle is a student of the universe, an Akashic channeler, and a psychospiritual healer and teacher.

JULY 10–12

Camp Bliss

A Women’s Rejuvenation Retreat

Tuition $340 ($305 Members)

Escape the hustle of everyday life and immerse yourself in Camp Bliss, a cathartic weekend designed to refresh your spirit and reconnect with your inner joy.

Set against Omega’s serene backdrop, this retreat offers an imaginative blend of relaxation, creativity, reflection, and sisterhood. From the moment you arrive, you are welcomed into a supportive circle of like-minded women, where you can set intentions, indulge in soothing sound baths, and enjoy activities such as a mandala cookie-decorating class or a DIY aromatherapy blends workshop.

Whether you're seeking deep relaxation, meaningful connections, or playful adventures, Camp Bliss offers an unforgettable journey of rejuvenation and renewal.

Veronica Domingo is the director of programs at Omega Institute and a group exercise fitness instructor for the Capital District YMCA branches in the Hudson Valley.

Katie Down, LCAT, MT-BC, is a licensed creative arts therapist, board-certified music therapist, and sound healing practitioner.

Fru Molnar is the founder of Forest Baths, a lifelong student of the forest, and a certified forest therapy guide.

Libby Vlasic, an aromatherapist, herbalist, and organic skincare formulator, combines extensive training and a passion for nature’s healing power.

JULY 10–12

Sacred Pages

Writing as a Path to Knowing

BRIANNA WIEST

Tuition $430 ($385 Members)

Nina Shengold is an author whose books include Reservoir Year: A Walker's Book of Days and the novel Clearcut

Amanda Ludington is a cookie artist, teacher, and baker specializing in creative cookie-decorating workshops.

Missy V. Bateson is a horticulturalist and artist with more than 20 years of experience working with plants and helping others connect with nature.

Padme dedicates herself to the creative flow in the healing arts of painting, yoga, meditation, and travel.

There is a voice within you that already knows. It lives beneath the noise of the world and the layers of who you were taught to be.

In this weekend of deep writing and self-inquiry, we turn inward—using language not to perform, but to uncover. Through guided prompts, intuitive exercises, group reflection, and sacred stillness, explore the stories you carry, the truths that ache to be spoken, and the quiet wisdom that’s been waiting for your attention. This is not only a class for writers. It is a class for rememberers. For seekers.

For those who feel a stirring to return to themselves.

Brianna Wiest is the best-selling author of 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think, The Mountain Is You, The Pivot Year, and Great Callings

JULY 10–12

Rising From the Flames A Yoga Retreat to Reclaim Your Resilience

MELISSA SPAMER Tuition $410 ($365 Members)

After surviving incredible suffering, how do we continue forward? During this retreat we contemplate how to offer ourselves mercy following the depths of suffering. We explore grace, vulnerability, grief, and authentic joy. Sometimes our darkest hours remain hidden, and yet those are the very chapters of our life that provide fertile ground for our ever-expanding wisdom.

During this weekend, you’re invited into compassionate self-inquiry, taught threads of yoga philosophy, and guided in meditation, breathwork, and trauma-informed hatha yoga practices to reclaim your resilience.

This is a refuge to welcome your whole self into your life to be shared with the world as a powerful light that has risen from the flames.

Expect moderately paced yoga asana practices, both active/strengthening and restorative/Yin Yoga. All levels are welcome.

Melissa Spamer is a yoga teacher, bodyworker, Ayurvedic practitioner and holds a master’s degree in counseling psychology and a graduate certificate in holistic healthcare.

JULY 10–12

Everyday Intuition Tools to Learn to Trust Your Inner Voice

ELIZABETH GREENWOOD

Tuition $430 ($385 Members)

So often, we get strong feelings that want to push us in a certain direction. But in our noise-filled world, it can be challenging to pinpoint where these inclinations come from. We wonder: Are we putting fear and habitual patterns in the driver’s seat? Or are we opening up to inner wisdom?

This workshop gives you tools to disentangle anxiety from intuition, and practice simple ways to develop and refine your personal intuitive language for clearer decisionmaking and enhanced creativity. The weekend is for anyone who wants to better learn and understand their personal intuitive language and offers ways to practice through guided meditation, journaling, and somatic exercises.

JULY 10–12

Is This My Story to Tell?

Beginning & Sustaining a Lifelong Storytelling Practice

JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL Tuition $425 ($380 Members)

In an age of digital distraction and self-branding, John Cameron Mitchell invites you to rediscover the heart of creative storytelling. Explore how to move beyond autobiography and reconnect with imagination, play, and authentic voice.

Through writing exercises, improv games, and the Surrealist “exquisite corpse” collaboration, John guides you to unlock unexpected inspiration and collective creativity, and write from intuition rather than expectation. Together, we witness his creative process firsthand—from raw drafts to refined scripts—offering insights into how story, character, and emotion intertwine. This immersive workshop offers a transformative toolkit for lifelong storytelling rooted in authentic expression and creative joy. All levels of storytellers, beginning or experienced, are welcome.

John Cameron Mitchell is an award-winning actor, playwright, screenwriter, singer, songwriter, producer, and director.

JULY

10–12

Shamanic Sleep

Yoga Nidra & Dream Incubation

STACEY GIBBONS

Tuition $345 ($310 Members)

Journey into the ancient art of healing through dreams, weaving together yoga nidra, shamanic journeying, and the dream incubation rites of Epidauros, a hero of ancient Greece. For centuries, seekers entered the abaton—a sacred sleep chamber—to meet the profound healing god Asklepios in their dreams and receive visions. Through the five sacred stages—preparation, purification, catharsis, incubation, and integration—you are lovingly guided by the energies of goddesses Hygieia, Aphrodite, and Psyche, culminating in a dream ceremony to meet Asklepios himself. Somatic yoga deepens the integration, using movement to clear energetic blocks and embody insights received in the dream space. This is more than rest—it’s soul restoration through divine dreaming.

JULY 10–12

Nature as

Spiritual Teacher

Return to Your Wildness

MARYAM HASNAA

Tuition $405 ($365 Members)

Across various traditions, nature has been held in deep reverence. Many mystics, medicine people, and now neuroscientists say that a return to the wild is necessary, both personally and collectively.

In this workshop, you:

• Discuss the crisis of the current nature deficit

• Learn practices for returning to nature in an honorable way

• Explore sustainability from a mystical perspective

• Examine roadmaps provided by various spiritual lineages and traditions

Allowing nature to be your spiritual teacher this weekend, you’re guided through meditation practices that cultivate reconnection with the natural world, repair your sacred relationship to nature, and transform the way you live in harmony with your own divine nature.

Maryam Hasnaa is an intuitive, channel, energy healer, and creator of New Earth Mystery School and Resonance Apothecary.

Stacey Gibbons is a lead teacher for the Jaguar Path School of Modern Shamanism and the Science of Healing and has taught yoga, Reiki, and shamanism since the 1990s.

VALORIA WALKER NICOLE HEIDBREDER

JULY 12–17

End-of-Life Doula Training

VALORIA WALKER AND NICOLE HEIDBREDER

Tuition $995 ($895 Members) PT

End-of-life doulas provide personalized, compassionate support to individuals, families, and their circles of care as they encounter and navigate death, loss, and mortality. An end-of-life doula imparts psychosocial, emotional, spiritual, and practical care to empower dignity throughout the dying process.

Learn the International End-of-Life Doula Association (INELDA) doula approach and the principles of honoring the autonomy of the dying person and the dying process.

Through lectures, exercises, and individual exploration, you discover:

• History of doula care, scope practice, and code of ethics

• Self-awareness and full-self listening

• Supporting the autonomy of those you support

• Physiological death and loss experience

• End-of-life planning, rituals, and meaning-making

• Reprocessing the death

A certificate of completion is awarded at the end of the training. Nursing contact hours are available. Faculty is independently offering CE credits; see eOmega.org for information. A 4-day program is also available Oct 22-25; see page 106.

Valoria Walker holds a master’s degree in management of aging services.

Nicole Heidbreder is an End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium certified hospice nurse, and a Johns Hopkins School of Nursing clinical educator.

JULY 12–17

Holotropic Breathwork

Sacred Geometry & the Healing Nature of Mandalas

LAURANE MCGLYNN, GEOFF FITZPATRICK, AND SARAH HIRIGOYEN

Tuition $660 ($595 Members)

Join Dr. Laurane McGlynn, Sarah Hirigoyen, and Geoff Fitzpatrick and experience the healing potential and therapeutic benefits of Holotropic Breathwork®. Together, in this immersive workshop, we learn about sacred geometry and participate in the creation of a group sand mandala.

JULY 12–17

Fearless Watercolors

JAN GUARINO

Tuition $495 ($445 Members) LE

Watercolors have a reputation for being difficult. However, watercolors can give you something that other media can’t—they do a great deal of the work for you. You need to know how to control and give up control all at the same time.

Join Jan Guarino to explore one of the important aspects of this medium—the element of surprise when you get out of the way and allow the paint to move in water.

As you find ease in your body, mind, and soul, you learn to:

• Understand how watercolors will behave

• Control brush strokes

• Understand color theory to avoid muddy results with the color wheel.

• Create unique textures Workshop begins Sunday at 7:00 p.m. is an artist, educator, author, and graduate of the Fashion Institute of

Holotropic Breathwork is an experiential breathing process that allows for self-exploration and healing. With eyes closed and lying on a mat, each person uses their own breath and the music in the room to enter an expanded state of consciousness, activating the natural, inner-healing potential of the breather.

This work aids in supporting inner exploration, self-discovery, working with anxiety and depression, connection to self and others, and spiritual awareness.

Workshop begins Sunday at 7:30 p.m.

Laurane McGlynn is a clinical psychologist who integrates mind/body medicine, mindfulness, meditation, and Holotropic Breathwork to support healing and transformation.

JULY 12–17

Embody Peace With Food A Revolutionary Holistic Approach

LISA SCHLOSBERG, CYNTHIA SANTIAGOBORBON, AND CAROLINE LEE DEWEY

Tuition $465 ($420 Members)

Geoff Fitzpatrick is a certified Holotropic Breathwork facilitator and guest teacher with Grof Transpersonal Training. is a Holotropic Breathwork facilitator and psychotherapist.

“Disordered” eating—whether overeating, undereating, or chronic dieting—is not the problem, but a valid attempt to feel safe and manage stress in a disconnected mind-body-soul system.

This retreat guides you in returning home to yourself through a trauma-informed, heart-centered approach. Learn to feel your feelings, meet your needs, and create safety within your body while reconnecting with your intuition and stabilizing around food naturally. Each day blends psychoeducation, hands-on workshops, somatic and mindfulness practices, and in-depth Q&A sessions to explore the science, psychology, and spirituality of eating. Leave feeling grounded, empowered, and free—safe in your skin and able to nourish your life with love, intention, and ease.

Lisa Schlosberg, LMSW, HHC, CPT, RYT, is a trauma-informed integrative nutrition and health coach, certified personal trainer, podcaster, and founder of Out of the Cave, LLC.

is chief executive officer and founder of My Holistic Wellness, where she provides holistic psychotherapy, coaching, wellness, and professional development

Caroline Lee Dewey, MSW, is a spiritual teacher, somatic facilitator, and mind-body healing guide who helps people cultivate inner harmony, awaken their purpose, and create a life they truly love.

JULY 12–17

Writing for Shame Resilience

Turning Shame Into Your Superpower

MELISSA PETRO

Tuition $480 ($430 Members)

What if your greatest vulnerability could become your greatest strength? In this writing workshop, you explore how shame impacts your life and learn practical tools to cultivate courage and self-compassion. Through guided writing prompts, group discussion, and mindfulness exercises, you uncover the beliefs that hold you back and practice new ways of relating to yourself and others.

Drawing on the wisdom shared in Melissa Petro’s book, Shame on You, this program offers a supportive environment for honest reflection and authentic connection. Learn how to identify and understand your personal shame triggers, explore how shame functions in our culture, and develop tools to transform shame into resilience, authenticity, and connection.

Melissa Petro is an author and an educator whose work explores shame resilience, authenticity, and the power of storytelling to help people transform shame into strength.

JULY 12–17

Mind Magick How Thoughts Become Reality

MITCH HOROWITZ

Tuition $575 ($515 Members)

Is remaking reality as close as your thoughts? Join Mitch Horowitz for an immersion into the history and practice of the principle that thoughts are causative.

Mind-power philosophy, popularly called manifesting—or selecting by Mitch—is among humanity’s most cherished metaphysical ideals. Does it work?

Discover the possibilities in a philosophical and practical journey where Mitch explores the history of mind metaphysics, insights from parapsychology and contemporary science, and more.

Mitch helps us develop our personal toolkit, including:

• Contemplative and meditative exercises, methods incorporating mind, emotion, and body in selecting a goal or event

• Techniques in retrocausality (backwards causation)

• Fre sh means of approaching blockages, to determine methods that work best for you Participants at every level of experience will feel at home.

Mitch Horowitz is one of today’s most literate voices of esoterica, mysticism, and the occult, and a PEN Award-winning historian.

JULY 12–17

Kickstart Your Writing Process Excavating the Story Within

RUTHIE ACKERMAN Tuition $500 ($450 Members)

Joan Didion wrote, “we are well-advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be,” and in this writing workshop, we do just that. We excavate our lives, digging into our past to better understand how it shapes who we are today.

Whether you are new to writing or have a manuscript to bring, magic happens under Ruthie Ackerman’s guidance.  Through generative exercises, readings, and writing, we unlock our creative brains and dig into the mess and muck at the heart of our stories. We leave with the nuts and bolts of a draft in place and the building blocks for a sustainable writing flow once at home.

Ruthie Ackerman is a best-selling book coach and developmental editor who has worked with hundreds of writers to turn their ideas into narrative gold.

JULY 12–17

The Audacity to Be You Learn to Love Your Horrible, Rotten Self

BRAD REEDY Tuition $530 ($475 Members)

Discovering our self requires us to let go of all that others have told us we should be. This is our life’s work, and it’s the key that unlocks the door to the understanding of the dilemmas we face.

Join Brad Reedy for an experiential retreat designed to help you identify your authentic self through guided meditation, art therapy, role-playing, and more.

Throughout the week, your sense of consciousness shifts from confusion into clarity, away from shame and toward self-compassion. You gain understanding about the thinking patterns that created these issues and experience fully the person you sacrificed through habits of seeking attention and acceptance.

Brad Reedy, PhD, is founder and chief clinical officer of the Finding You Therapy Program and host of the Finding You podcast.

JULY 12–17

IFS as a Spiritual Path

Unblending & Unburdening

ANN SINKO AND STEPH HANSON

Tuition $790/740/640 ($665 Members)  LE, PT

Engaging in Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy can open us up to a spiritual path of understanding ourselves and others. Join this community of IFS practitioners and immerse yourself in studying your parts.

During this 5-day intensive, you:

• Awaken your spirituality by attending to the blocks to your authentic knowing, self-expression, and connection to your guidance and ancestors

• Learn how to identify, address, and unburden legacy and cultural burdens that impede your ability to experience life more fully

• Develop skills to work with polarizations, grief, and fear that thwart your connections to self-energy

This workshop includes meditations, lectures, experiential practices, demonstrations, and collective unburdenings. Your creativity is engaged through drawing, writing, and movement.

This retreat is open to IFS Level 1 trained individuals. Faculty is independently offering IFS CEs; see eOmega.org for more information.

JULY 17–19

Effortless Mindfulness Embodied

LOCH KELLY AND PAIGE KELLY Tuition $395 ($355 Members)

Learn the next stage of mindfulness—an advanced, yet simple approach—in this workshop taught by Loch Kelly and Paige Kelly.

Effortless Mindfulness is a way to shift out of our chattering mind and into an already awake consciousness that is embodied and open-hearted. Learn how combining it with Internal Family Systems psychology helps you to live a life of love and freedom. You learn how to:

• Shift your awareness immediately by doing “micromeditations,” or small glimpses with your eyes closed or open

• Overcome some of the common emotional obstacles by recognizing your parts with IFS meditations

• Find doorways and tools of awareness to access freedom, love, and flow in daily life

Loch Kelly is the creator of Mindful Glimpses app, an author, psychotherapist, and meditation teacher.

Paige Kelly is a meditation teacher and an experienced IFS psychotherapist.

JULY

17–19

Rewild Your Mind

Shamanism, Magick & the Power of Your True Nature

JONATHAN HAMMOND

Tuition $475/425/325 ($380 Members)

Quantum physics tells us that “our thoughts create reality.” This means that negative dynamics in our lives are born in the mind. But there is an ancient and enlightened mind that we can learn to adopt for ourselves, that is the creative gateway to new realities.

In this provocative workshop, you learn the nature-based psychology of the shamans and the natural alchemists—a specific way of seeing the world that opens you to personal power, supernatural connection, energetic attunement, and more.

We weave Indigenous wisdom, magickal practice, modern psychology, ecological knowledge, Goddess spirituality, and sexual polarity to usher in a new, wild consciousness that can change the world.

Jonathan Hammond is an author, spiritual teacher, and transpersonal counselor who teaches shamanism, energy healing, magick, and spiritual psychology.

JULY

17–24

AttachmentFocused EMDR Basic Training: Parts I & II  A 7-Day Professional Training

LAUREL PARNELL

Tuition $1,325 ($1,225 Members) LE, PT Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a powerful therapeutic method for healing trauma-based problems. It stresses the importance of creating safety for the client, it recognizes the therapeutic relationship as its foundation, and it respects the complexity and diversity of clients.

This training teaches modifications of the standard EMDR protocol and extensive resourcing for stabilization and ego strengthening, which helps repair attachment traumas and developmental deficits. The need to be flexible and adapt treatment according to cultural and individual needs is emphasized.

In a supportive environment, learn how to integrate AF-EMDR into clinical practice through lectures, hands-on practice, and demonstrations. Learn firsthand the power of AF-EMDR transformative therapy.

$40 materials fee; include when you register. Faculty is independently offering CE credits; see eOmega.org for more information.

Laurel Parnell, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, director of the Parnell Institute for EMDR, and author of A Therapist’s Guide to EMDR

JULY 17–19

Messages of Hope Connecting With Loved Ones & Guides

Across the Veil

SUZANNE GIESEMANN

Tuition $410 ($365 Members)

We all have a natural ability to connect with those who exist beyond this physical dimension. Discover your own innate gifts and how to develop your spiritual skills with Suzanne Giesemann.

Combining evidential stories, theory, and practical exercises, you learn how to personally make connections with any aspect of higher consciousness— including loved ones who have passed and your own team of unseen helpers.

As a bonus, you experience the palpable energy and wisdom shared in a special session with Suzanne’s guide, Sanaya. You return home with the heightened ability to experience the love, joy, and messages of hope that your team in spirit brings.

Suzanne Giesemann, MA, is a spiritual teacher, best-selling author, and former U.S. Navy commander, recognized on the Watkins’ list of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People.

OMEGA YOGA SERVICE PROGRAM

JULY 17–19

Beyond Survival Mode

Yoga for Trauma Recovery

LEA BENDER

Tuition $460/410/310 ($365 Members)

Trauma doesn’t just live in our memories—it settles into our muscles, disrupts our breathing, and keeps our nervous system on high alert, says Lea Bender. Join her and discover simple yet powerful tools from yoga to reclaim your sense of safety, calm, and inner strength.

You learn time-tested practices that aid you when your body holds tension or when your mind won't quiet, emerging with practical strategies for maintaining greater peace in daily life.

Together, we explore:

• Breathwork techniques that calm anxiety within minutes

• Yoga nidra for profound restorative rest

• The eight limbs of yoga as a complete wellness system

• Yoga sutra teachings for mental clarity and peaceful relationships

Lea Bender is an experienced trauma-informed yoga teacher working in recovery centers and jails.

JULY 17–19

Healing Childhood PTSD Learn to Re-Regulate & Change Your Life

ANNA RUNKLE Tuition $525 ($470 Members)

What if you could break free from trauma-driven patterns and embrace a life rooted in clarity, connection, and fulfillment?

In this immersive retreat, Anna Runkle guides you through her popular Crappy Childhood Fairy method. You learn simple yet powerful principles and techniques to calm emotional triggers, regulate your nervous system, and transform the self-defeating behaviors that have held you back.

Within a nurturing in-person setting, you engage in empowering practices, gain actionable insights, and build a supportive community to carry your healing forward with strength and purpose.

You leave with simple techniques to use every day to regulate your emotions, increase physical energy, and sharpen mental focus.

Anna Runkle, best known as The Crappy Childhood Fairy, is the creator of popular coaching programs that provide practical tools for adults to heal dysregulation.

JULY 17–19

Meditation & Modern Life

A Zen Meditation Retreat

DAN ZIGMOND

Tuition $425 ($380 Members)

When was the last time you gave something your undivided attention? Nearly 2,500 years ago, Buddha worried we had become distracted—and that was long before smartphones. Now, our days are filled with distractions that promise happiness while mostly delivering busyness and frustration.

Join Dan Zigmond to disconnect, slow down, and meditate together. We learn the ancient Zen practice of bringing our full awareness to what is now.

Our time together follows a gentle schedule of sitting meditation, brief lectures, and group discussion, all while exploring the process and practice of mindful living. You leave prepared to bring meditation into your life and mindfulness to your work and home.

Dan Zigmond is a writer, technologist, and Zen teacher who has been practicing meditation for more than 30 years.

Through Ritual & Symbol

Tuition $480 ($430 Members)

Discover the Tarot as a living language of magic and personal change. In this experiential workshop with four renowned tarot teachers, you explore symbolic images, rituals, and stories that engage imagination and will to open new possibilities. Enter a living relationship with the archetypes and your own deep psyche, where creative insight and authentic action can arise. Move beyond interpretation into direct cocreation with the cards, awakening intuition and a felt connection to the larger mystery. Open to all levels, this workshop offers a rare opportunity to learn, practice, and awaken your potential in community with leading voices of tarot tradition.

Mary K. Greer is a scholar, teacher, professional tarot consultant, and author of 11 books.

Charles Harrington is a tarot teacher and author of the guidebooks to the Murder of Crows Tarot, Ferenc Pinter Tarot, and Tarot V Barbara Moore is author of a number of books on tarot, including Tarot for Beginners and Tarot of the Hidden Realm

Nancy Antenucci is a seasoned tarot reader, author, and a teacher of visionary strategies.

JULY 19–24

Awake, Aware, Alive

The Wisdom of the Tarot Reading With New Decks for a New Era

MARY K. GREER, CAROLYN CUSHING, AND ELLEN LORENZI-PRINCE Tuition $480 ($430 Members)

Join three celebrated tarot teachers for a creative, hands-on journey into today’s tarot art and reading methods. Explore how the explosion of new decks across cultures and social media opens fresh ways to read, reflect, and imagine the cards. Through guided exercises and intuitive, spiritual practice, you learn to deepen your interpretation of the pictures, expand your personal style, and even play with crafting images of your own. You gain:

• A fresh understanding of the cards

• Engaging new spreads and processes that are enjoyable and profound

• The profound experience of the cards revealing your story

This workshop is open to all levels. Bring your curiosity, your favorite decks, and personal tarot imagery.

Mary K. Greer is an independent scholar, writer, teacher, and professional tarot consultant.

Carolyn Cushing is a tarot practitioner, poet, and seeker of justice.

Ellen Lorenzi-Prince is the creator of the decks Tarot of the Crone, Dark Goddess Tarot, and Minoan Tarot

Meditation, Movement & the Art of Living Well

BERYL BENDER Tuition $515 ($465 Members)

Experience the transformative power of a conscious mindfulness practice. Discover how meditation can awaken your well-being and bring greater awareness and balance to every moment. As Beryl reminds us, once you learn to meditate, everything becomes meditation.

Each day of the retreat offers morning meditation, yoga asana, mindful walking, connecting, and eating, and the vital support of a like-minded community.

Beryl brings us the ancient techniques that have guided thousands of students toward greater awareness, health and happiness. Whether you’re new to meditation or returning to practice, this course rekindles your passion for practice and inspires you to live with more awareness, energy, and ease—no matter what life brings.

Workshop begins Sunday at 8:00 p.m.

JULY 19–24

Bridges Beyond Worlds

Telepathy, Autism & Consciousness Integration Practices

SUZY MILLER

Tuition $1,095 ($995 Members)

Are you a parent of a child diagnosed with autism, or a professional working with these remarkable individuals? If you know there is more to autism than meets the eye, this is your invitation to listen deeper, to feel wider, and to communicate beyond words.

Suzy Miller supports you with practical strategies to:

• Unders tand how this population functions, why they are here, and what they require for integration

• Recognize telepathic communication and why it is natural for those diagnosed with autism

• Create a stable, coherent energetic field for connection

JULY 19–24

Join us in this invitation to expand your awareness, refine your resonance, and become a coherent presence that honors the gifts these individuals bring.

Suzy Miller is a former pediatric speech language pathologist turned multidimensional communicator, author, visionary speaker, and integration specialist who has been featured on the Telepathy Tapes podcast.

Hands of Light 5-Day Immersion Into Brennan Healing Skills

PRISCILLA BRIGHT

Tuition $470 ($425 Members)

Enter into a supportive community as you deepen your natural healing gifts in this hands-on training guided by Priscilla Bright.

Based on Dr. Barbara Brennan’s best-selling book Hands of Light, you connect with your intuitive healing wisdom and hands-on healing abilities as you learn how to:

• Give an impactful full-body energy healing

• Expand your intuitive energy-sensing abilities

• Strengthen the healer's chakras

• Practice useful energy self-care, including healthy boundaries

Brennan Healing Science is one of the most comprehensive approaches to energy healing and human transformation. This training is of value to both beginners and experienced healers, and participants should be generally healthy physically and emotionally.

Priscilla Bright, MA, is an international teacher and energy healer, and the former dean of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing.

JULY 19–24

Undoing Aloneness for Therapists

Learn the Art of Tending to Yourself

JULIANE TAYLOR SHORE

Tuition $495 ($445 Members)

Let’s gather as therapists, coaches, and healers to learn the art of tending to ourselves in a kinder way.

This is a supportive retreat for helping professionals, offering you space for discoveries about how you care for yourself and how you might find opportunities to do it better.

We examine your relationships to power, self, “of-courseness,” and not-knowing to see how they might be informing your work. We dive deeply into these relationships and interweave inner boundary work, as well.

Leave this workshop feeling deeply connected to yourself and more in touch with ways to greet yourself with kindness both during your client work and in the rest of your life.

Juliane Taylor Shore is a therapist, author, teacher, and mom who is creating spaces where people can move into more self-compassion, self-trust, empowerment, and integrity.

JULY 19–24

Spanish Language Immersion for Beginners

DIANA ZUCKERMAN AND ARIÁN GUTIÉRREZ ZUCKERMAN

Tuition $550/500/400 ($450 Members)

Immerse yourself in the language and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world. Taught exclusively in Spanish, this workshop provides a natural approach to focus on communication and improve at your own pace.

Diana Zuckerman and Arián Gutiérrez Zuckerman draw from 30 years of experience cultivating Spanish knowledge. They create real-life situations in a comfortable, engaging environment, including meals together to inspire you to use your Spanish and continue the immersion.

Through a variety of participatory activities, including authentic conversations, music, and interactions with native speakers, you develop a level of fluency with ease. As you tap into your creative self, you gain confidence to become a successful communicator.

Diana Zuckerman, a certified Spanish instructor, has 30 years of academic experience teaching in Spain and the US.

Arián Gutiérrez Zuckerman is bilingual, grew up in Spain, and owns a restaurant in Peru called Something Special Cusco.

JULY 19–24

Beyond Duality

OMEGA CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING PROGRAM

JULY 24–26

Experience Regeneration

Micro-Festival Rooted in Nature, Wisdom & Joy

SCHUYLER GRANT AND MORE

Tuition $495 ($445 Members)

If you’re yearning to find out more about what you can do to live closer to the rhythms of nature, how to make the most of the backyard or rooftop at your fingertips, or looking to get your hands into the wonders of the soil to awaken your own alignment, this gathering is for you.

This immersive micro-festival brings together some of the leading voices in sustainability, science, Indigenous and generational wisdom, somatic practice, and the arts to explore how personal, cultural, and ecological renewal are inseparable. Come be a part of the “delicious dirty work” of shifting culture toward a more circular, conscious, and sustainable way of living.

Schuyler Grant is a world-renowned yoga teacher and cofounder of Experience Regeneration.

Healing Wisdom & Ceremony for Greater Health & Well-Being

ERIKA GAGNON Tuition $255 ($230 Members) LE

You are your greatest healer and greatest medicine. This is your opportunity to examine that truth, while sharing healing wisdom, practices, and ceremonies.

Join Erika Gagnon on a sacred journey to look beyond the false duality of a divided self to discover how to live in harmony and balance with ourselves, others, and the world around us.

How can we honor the gifts and heal the wounds that we have inherited from our ancestors? How can we identify social, cultural, and historical energies influencing our lives in order to heal and realign our body, mind, spirit, and soul?

We explore all of this and discuss the importance of ceremonies, sacred altars, and medicinal plants.

Erika does not receive any payment from Omega. Erika embraces the tradition of the gift economy and reciprocity, so her compensation will be self-determined by each attendee. At the end of the workshop, participants can offer a donation amount that reflects their feeling of gratitude, value, and desire to support Erika and her ongoing work.

Erika Gagnon is a ceremonial leader, wisdom keeper, and healer who works with Indigenous elders from North and South America.

JULY 24–26

Navigating What’s Next Thriving in the Second Half of Life

KAR I CARDINALE, BE N KATT, AND DEREK GEHL

Tuition $425 ($380 Members)

Midlife changes everything. Careers shift, relationships evolve, and familiar roles fall away, inviting both uncertainty and new possibility. How do you find your path forward when the map you’ve been following no longer fits? How do you shape the years ahead so that living longer also means living better?

Join the MEA (Modern Elder Academy) team for a deep-dive exploration of what it means to thrive in your fifties, sixties, seventies, and beyond. Through experiential activities and discussion, you learn to navigate life’s transitions with courage and curiosity, discover what healthy longevity looks like, create your own purpose-driven vitality roadmap, and leave with science-based tools to bring that vision to life.

Kari Cardinale is a social entrepreneur with expertise in the longevity industry and private consulting.

Ben Katt , author of The Way Home, is a meditation teacher, spiritual coach, and storyteller.

Derek Gehl , CEO of Modern Elder Academy (MEA), is a serial entrepreneur, speaker, and author.

JULY 24–26

Reiki Secrets Healing Certification Program

LLYN ROBERTS AND NADINE MAJANO

Tuition $360 ($325 Members) PT

Join us for a transformative journey that blends the practice of Reiki with awareness approaches. This certification opens your heart, expands your energetic awareness, and strengthens your capacity as a conduit for the healing forces of nature and spirit.

Deepen your Reiki practice through powerful transmissions, guided meditations, and hands-on knowledge. Learn how to:

JULY 24–26

The MotherDaughter Bond A Weekend of Connection & Joy

MARCI WOLFF OBER AND COURTNEY JESSICA OBER

Tuition $435 ($390 Members) per person

Step away from the busyness of daily life and immerse yourself in a joyful, transformative weekend. This retreat is designed for mothers and daughters (ages 16 and older) to laugh, move, and grow together through shared experiences that deepen connection and build understanding.

• Prac tice the golden triad of attention, presence, and awareness

• Bring the healing power of nature and the elements into your practice

• Apply 10 Reiki Secrets©, practical methods that expand intuition and hand sensitivity

Whether you are an experienced Reiki practitioner or completely new to the practice, this training makes the intelligent field of Reiki a living, accessible reality.

Llyn Roberts, MA , is the author of Speaking with Nature, Shamanic Reiki, Walking through Darkness, and a celebrated teacher of healing and shamanism.

Nadine Majano, MEd, is a traditional Reiki master and core faculty with Shamanic Reiki Worldwide.

JULY 24–26

Create Your Own Table

Discovering Your Purpose

HEATHER DOLLAND TAMAM

Tuition $410 ($365 Members)

Be guided through a powerful process of rediscovering your purpose and designing a life aligned with your authentic self.

Inspired by her book Create Your Own Table: A Guide to Discovering Your Purpose, Heather Dolland Tamam blends reflection, writing, storytelling, and group connection to help you move from questioning to clarity and from clarity to confident action.

Through guided exercises and Heather’s Four Pillars Framework, you uncover your “why,” release limiting beliefs, and create a personal purpose blueprint to navigate your next chapter with confidence.

Leave with renewed self-awareness, practical tools for transformation, and the courage to create your own table— wherever life is inviting you to begin again.

Heather Dolland Tamam , founder of Doltam Creative Solutions, is an author, speaker, and coach dedicated to helping individuals rediscover their purpose and design lives rooted in authenticity.

We practice yoga and meditation, reflect on the strength of our matriarchal lines, and envision the future with intention— cocreating traditions rooted in mutual appreciation and love.

Mother-daughter relationships run deep and are often layered with generational complexity. This retreat offers a supportive space to strengthen the positive aspects of your bond while gently releasing what no longer serves you, making space for the intentional relationship you both desire and deserve.

Marci Wolff Ober is a licensed marriage and family therapist with more than 30 years of far-reaching mental health experience.

Courtney Jessica Ober is a practicing school social worker and yoga and meditation teacher whose passionate approach to life stems from overcoming personal challenges and emerging transformed.

OMEGA YOGA SERVICE PROGRAM

JULY 24–26

Create Mindful Movement Classes for People With Parkinson’s A Professional Training

CHAR GROSSMAN Tuition $385 ($345 Members) PT

Parkinson's disease affects the lives of an estimated 1.1 million people in the US. Discover how to guide mind–body classes that bring comfort, confidence, and support to people with Parkinson’s, when you join this uplifting YogaReach® Mindful Movement training with Char Grossman.

Through engaging discussions, interactive lectures, and hands-on practice—including breathwork, adaptive asana, and mindfulness—you:

• Gain deeper insight into Parkinson’s and its challenges

• Explore neuroplasticity tools that foster resilience and well-being

• Learn adaptive yoga and movement techniques you can apply right away

• Build confidence with safety and injury-prevention strategies

YogaReach® Mindful Movement is an evidence-informed program proven to enhance motor function, neuroplasticity, and quality of life.

Char Grossman, C-IAYT, RYT-500, is an educational psychologist, certified yoga therapist, and founder and director of YogaReach®.

JULY 24–26

Connecting to Better Vision & Optimal Eye Health

MARC GROSSMAN AND DANIEL ORLANSKY Tuition $400 ($360 Members)

Discover natural and effective ways to relieve eye strain and enhance your vision.

This program, based on Marc Grossman’s book, Natural Eye Care, integrates the art and science of expanding your vision, as well as its practical and spiritual aspects. Together, we explore Eastern and Western practices to relax your eyes and reduce visual stress.

Learn five principles for better vision that rejuvenate the eyes—and experience Chinese eye massage techniques using acupressure points to support visual health.

Whether you want to ease eye fatigue, strengthen your sight, or enjoy clearer vision, this workshop offers practical tools to nurture your eyes and create a sense of ease and focus.

Marc Grossman, OD, LAc , is an innovator, leader, and practitioner in integrative eye care.

Daniel Orlansky, MA, E-RYT 500, is the director of Boston University’s Yoga Teacher Training and a member of the Association of Vision Educators.

OMEGA CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING PROGRAM

JULY 24–26

Foraging School

Learn to Identify, Harvest & Enjoy Wild Foods

ROBIN GREENFIELD

Tuition $405 ($365 Members)

Food and medicine grow freely all around us. This is your opportunity to learn how to identify, harvest, and enjoy this abundance!

We explore Omega’s campus with plant walks, learning 30+ edible and medicinal plants, and participating in hands-on workshops covering harvesting, processing, and preservation. You learn how to avoid toxic “lookalikes,” timing the harvest, and foraging ethics, including sustainability and safe urban foraging.

Robin shares his deep relationship with our plant relatives, drawing from his experience of foraging all of his food for a full year. Tips for drying, freezing, canning, and storage help you step confidently into a more Earth-connected lifestyle.

Return home inspired to make foraging part of your life.

Robin Greenfield is a servant to Earth, humanity, and the plants and animals we share our home with.

JULY 24–26

Learn Your Pet’s Secret Language

Soul Level Animal Communication

DANIELLE MACKINNON Tuition $355 ($320 Members)

Ever wonder what your cat is thinking when she stares intently at the wall, or why your dog is pacing inexplicably? Animals are brimming with wisdom, but the language barrier keeps us apart.

Learn Danielle MacKinnon's Soul Level Animal Communication® method and unlock your inner animal whisperer. Awaken your intuition and decode your pet's subtle cues, build a deeper bond, and finally understand what your furry friend needs.

For this workshop, Danielle is offering a bonus experience: Connect with Omega's wild residents! Gain intuitive insights and fully experience the interconnectedness of all living beings. No prior experience needed.

Danielle MacKinnon is a nationally recognized animal communicator, best-selling author, and creator of Soul Level Animal Communication.

familyweek

How to Register: Adults choose one workshop. Kids choose one camp. Adults with children too young for a camp can register for a R&R Getaway Retreat. Call 1.800.944.1001 to register.

Adult Workshops: Adult workshops meet Monday through Wednesday from 9:30 a.m.-noon and 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. On Thursday afternoons, adults can take time off to relax, visit Omega's Wellness Center, or enjoy informal classes led by workshop teachers and special guests. In the evening, everyone gathers for family entertainment.

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Leave behind the daily hustle and immerse yourselves in quality family time—filled with laughter, new friendships, and lasting memories, all while surrounded by Omega's beautiful 250-acre campus.

Kids and Teens Camps: Kids meet every morning from 9:00 a.m.-noon and afternoons from 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Omega has a 10:00 p.m. noise curfew and all children and teens are expected to be with their families after 11:00 p.m. Regis t ration: Camps fill quickly; register early. If you don't have children, you may still participate in Family Week, but be advised that services and schedules are geared for children and families.

Schedules and registration information differ this week from other weeks at Omega.

Enneagram Gateways to Awareness & Self-Transformation

RUSS HUDSON Tuition $595 ($535 Members)

The nine Enneagram personality types are based on the three primary centers of intelligence: thinking, emotion, and instinct. Distortions or blockages in these centers lead to a loss of connection with our essential nature. Gaining a clear understanding of personality patterns and egoic distortions helps us open to a deeper reality of spirit.

We learn to recognize the ways in which all nine Enneagram types play out in our own personalities and gain psychological insight into their inner workings. Conversational instruction is combined with group meditations, small-group work, seated physical movements, and music in order to fully integrate the richness of the Enneagram material into our daily work and relationships.

This workshop meets for three additional hours on Thursday afternoon.

Russ Hudson is a best-selling author, cofounder of The Enneagram Institute, and codeveloper of the scientific Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator (RHETI) personality test.

Family Week continues

adult workshops

JULY 26–31

Pickleball Skills, Drills & Play

FRANCIS COMESANAS Tuition $440 ($395 Members) LE

Discover why pickleball has become the fastest-growing sport in the US. Easy to learn, fun, and energizing, pickleball supports physical fitness, community connection, and mindful play.

Join Francis Comesanas on the court and practice essential pickleball skills and drills. Explore how incorporating mindfulness, setting realistic goals, and fostering a positive mindset can enhance

JULY 26–31

the mental and emotional experience of playing pickleball—making it not just a sport, but also a fun way to build skills, stay active, and support personal growth.

This workshop is appropriate for those new to the game as well as beginner and intermediate levels, including tennis players who want to learn a new racquet sport.

Yoga & Mindful Movement

A Recharge & Reset Retreat

PILIN ANICE  Tuition $425 ($380 Members)

Join Pilin Anice for a breath-centered, rhythmic yoga practice that flows in sequences to stretch and strengthen the body, reduce stress, and activate joy.

In addition to movement meditation, Pilin guides you to soothe your nervous system with pranayama, Ayurveda, and restorative practices that encourage self-inquiry, body awareness, and mindfulness. With live drumming and music, the class becomes a moving meditation, a dance party, and an inner journey all rolled into one healing experience.

Return home with a toolkit of self-care practices to support your well-being long term. The workshop is for all levels.

Pilin Anice is a yoga, dance, and meditation instructor, and health coach.

is a certified instructor through the International Pickleball Teaching Professional Association (IPTPA) and has more than 15 years of experience competing in tournaments and teaching the sport.

Songs of Joy & Healing for the Times

Experience the deep, healing power of the voice as we learn and sing ancient and contemporary songs of joy and healing. Together, we embark on a vocal journey to investigate the vibrational power of song. From chants and spirituals to protest and original music, we sing open the doors to a

Learn songs by call-and-response, a technique accessible to beginners and experienced singers alike. Magic happens when we are bathed in the vibrations of beautiful songs and combined voices. Singing this way relieves tension and creates a sense of well-being that resonates in our bodies far beyond the moment.

Maggie Wheeler is an actor, singer, songwriter, and codirector of the Golden Bridge Community Choir in Hollywood.

Karisha Longaker has been traveling, performing, and leading communities in song as part of the folk duo MaMuse for nearly two decades.

JULY 26–31

What's Your Story?

Personal Stories Told Live

CHRISTINA THYSSEN AND CAITLIN LANGSTAFF

Tuition $425 ($380 Members)

Everyone has a story. When people share something real from their lives—joy, heartbreak, confusion, redemption—we all recognize pieces of ourselves.

Storytelling restores connection and belonging in a world that too often keeps us apart.

This storytelling workshop blends individual exploration with collective creativity.

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JULY 26–31

Making Faerie Houses

Faerie Houses, Ancestral Masks & Nature Crowns

MELISSA HEWITT AND MIRABAI TRENT Tuition $420 ($375 Members)

In this playful and soulful workshop, we create faerie houses—enchanting homes for the invisible dwellers of the forest—using natural materials and imaginative techniques. We also craft ancestral masks and nature crowns that explore and honor the cycles of life, death, and renewal.

We spend time in the woods and fields, gathering treasures to add to our creations, opening the senses, journaling, and connecting deeply with nature, imagination, and community, all leading to a faerie-inspired procession that adds to the magic of Family Week.

Return home with a faerie house and other creations, renewed inspiration, and a deeper connection to nature and self.

Melissa Hewitt and Mirabai Trent are local New York artists and cofounders of Circle Creative Collective, bringing decades of experience in traditional craft, ritual, storytelling, and community building.

Through techniques drawn from oral storytelling, memoir writing, and performance tools—including body and voice work, breath awareness, and improvisational theater games—participants identify meaningful personal experiences, uncover the very richest parts of the story, and then shape, tell, and ultimately perform it with authenticity and confidence at a story-sharing event.

All are welcome: beginners, seasoned writers, performers, and anyone curious about the transformative power of story.

Christina Thyssen and Caitlin Langstaff are cofounders of On the Fly Story Slam, writers, story coaches, and teachers with extensive experience in acting and directing.

Family Week continues

kids camps

Kids camps are open only to children accompanied by a parent enrolled in a workshop.

For kids ages 3-5

JULY 26–31

Little Light Play Camp

JANICE ZITO Tuition $210 LE

Let your child’s imagination soar in Little Light Play Camp as they join in creative expression, play, and mindfulness. This camp, for children ages 3 through 5 (must be potty trained), is led by Janice Zito. The program is focused on joyful play, nature exploration, musical expression, creative arts, and childcentered mindfulness.

Janice Zito is a Montessori elementary school teacher and a health and fitness instructor.

For kids ages 6-12

JULY 26–31

Little Forest People

KESSE HUMPHREYS AND THE RANGER STAFF Tuition $295 LE

The woods surrounding Omega are filled with magical groves, fun, fantasy, and little newts. The Rangers are looking for campers to help create woodland structures and fairy houses, and drum, sing, climb fallen trees, and cook up a hearty batch of bread-on-a-stick and s’mores. Half the program is spent in the Omega woods; the other half is spent boating, spotting painted turtles, and exploring the natural (and supernatural) wonders of Omega’s Long Pond Lake.

The Ranger Staff, including Kesse Humphreys, artist and educator, is a team with extensive experience running youth programs that nurture and challenge children in safe environments.

For kids ages 8-13

JULY 26–31

Sports of All Sorts

ELLEN RILEY AND KINO CALDERON Tuition $350

This multisport camp—for boys and girls of all skill levels—is led by veteran Family Week coaches Ellen and Kino. Many sports and games are played, including basketball, flag football, kickball, and Wiffle ball. The emphasis is on fun, skills, fitness, injury prevention, teamwork, and mental focus. Campers enjoy stories from the big leagues, music, prizes, friendly competition, and opportunities to dive deeper into particular games and sports in breakout sessions. $20 materials fee; include when you register.

Ellen Riley is a veteran of the Omega basketball camp for grownups, taught by NBA coach Phil Jackson and CBA coach Charley Rosen. Kino Calderon is a certified personal trainer who specializes in strength and conditioning, and has coached and refereed youth sports for 10+ years.

For kids age 13-14

JULY 26–31

Sports of All Sorts Junior Coaching

ELLEN RILEY AND KINO CALDERON Tuition $350 LE

The Junior Coaching program provides a unique opportunity for motivated 13- and 14-year-olds to step into a leadership role while staying actively engaged in the sports they love. Limited spots are available for young leaders who are ready to learn the fundamentals of coaching, teamwork, and mentorship from a new perspective. This program is designed to:

• Mentor and inspire young athletes through hands-on coaching experiences

• Build confidence in leadership roles both on and off the field

• Develop valuable life skills such as communication, responsibility, and problem-solving

$20 materials fee; include when you register.

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kids age 8-14

JULY 26–31

Stop-Motion Animation Stories Create Your Own Adventure Movie

LAURA BELLMONT Tuition $360 LE

Join Laura Bellmont for a week of hands-on, stop-motion animation and art-making fun.

Students in this integrated tech-and-art workshop imagine unique adventure stories and bring them to life using the filmmaking technique of stop-motion animation.

Working in small groups, young filmmakers learn to use the professional-grade software

Dragonframe and film their work using DSLR cameras and Mac laptops. Together, we record voiceovers, do Foley work (sound effect recording), and even animate the students themselves during a pixilation exercise.

Finished films are edited together for a screening for the Omega community.

Participants receive a link to the film, which may be used to view, post, and share with friends and family.

For kids ages 12-18

JULY 26–31

The Wayfinder Experience A Role-Playing Adventure for Teens

JOSHUA SMITH AND WAYFINDER STAFF Tuition $375 LE

The Wayfinder Experience is a live-action role-playing camp that combines improvisational theater, athletics, and play to give teens a safe environment to build community. Activities include theater games, capture the flag, and “play-safe” swordplay, all building toward the centerpiece of the week: the Adventure Game, an immersive adventure similar to popular fantasy books and movies, played out on the Omega campus over two days. Donning costumes and equipped with foam weapons, campers play characters whose choices determine how the story plays out.

Through playing different roles and forging supportive relationships, participants are given a chance to try on new parts of themselves, developing confidence and self-esteem that last far beyond the workshop’s end.

$25 materials fee; include when you register.

Joshua Smith is a social worker who specializes in using rap, R&B, and pop music to help teens reflect on their experiences and gain insight into their emotions.

For young adults ages 19-25

JULY 26–31

The Wayfinder Experience Apprenticeship Academy

REBECCA BOWE-KINGSTON Tuition $375 ($335 Members)

The WFE Apprenticeship Academy is an opportunity for young adults to step up into leadership. Apprentices learn teaching skills and serve supportive roles in workshop facilitation and the creation of the Adventure Game, culminating in a training certificate of completion.

The program is held in tandem with the camp and is for anyone who has ever considered teaching, working with young people, or simply loves the Wayfinder Experience.

Rebecca Bowe-Kingston, DSW, LCSW, is a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and adjunct professor who has been a theater teacher for the Wayfinder Experience for more than a decade.