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This weekend at the Omega women’s leadership gathering was exactly what my heart (and leadership) needed—rest, care, connection, and most of all, joy.

JUNE 5–7

Find Your Life Path & Purpose

DAN MILLMAN Tuition $405 ($365 Members)

Self-knowledge and life purpose reside at the core of Dan Millman’s peaceful warrior teachings.

Through talks, sharing with partners, and experiential practices, discover how Dan learned the Life Purpose System, the key strengths and challenges of each life path, how oracles function (and how this system differs), the hidden dynamics of your relationships, and more.

Distilling decades of practical wisdom, Dan shares 12 courses in the school of daily life and how to make wiser decisions about your career and relationships.

Prepare for a quantum leap in insight—the seeds planted will continue to bear fruit for years to come, improving the quality and enjoyment of your time here on Earth.

Dan Millman is a former world champion athlete, university gymnastics coach, martial arts instructor, professor, and author of 18 books, published in 29 languages.

JUNE 5–7

The Jaguar Path

A Journey Through the Incan Medicine Wheel

STACEY GIBBONS Tuition $340 ($305 Members)

Experience a profound journey of personal transformation rooted in Q’ero shamanism and Andean cosmology. Guided by the wisdom of the four directions and their power animals— serpent, jaguar, hummingbird, and condor—you release the past, reclaim your energy, and awaken a heart-centered path forward.

Through soul retrieval, drum healing, cord-cutting, and Jaguar Somatic Yoga, you clear energetic blockages and shift deeply held patterns. Each practice becomes a portal to healing, embodiment, and renewal.

The journey culminates in an AYNI Despacho Fire Ceremony—a sacred Andean ritual in which you honor your growth and realign with gratitude, balance, and sacred reciprocity with Pachamama, the earth.

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.

JUNE 5–7

Aging Backwards for All Ages

MIRANDA ESMONDE-WHITE AND MASTER TRAINER TEAM

Tuition $495 ($445 Members)

This workshop is for people of all ages, body types, and fitness levels who want to learn how to maintain or regain a healthy, pain-free body. Join Miranda Esmonde-White, along with her team of master Essentrics® trainers, for a weekend of education and sciencebased workouts that leave you feeling younger, healthier, and ready to live a pain-free, vibrant life.

Essentrics is a program of stretching and strengthening which several published scientific studies have shown can reduce pain, make you stronger, and help you feel younger. Essentrics offers zero-impact dynamic workouts that rebalance your body’s range of motion through combined smooth, full-body, easy-tofollow movements that stimulate your body’s natural healing mechanisms.

Miranda Esmonde-White, creator of the Essentrics® fitness technique and the PBS fitness show Classical Stretch, is a leading educator and best-selling author.

JUNE 5–7

Autism Spirit

How to Create a Deep Spiritual Connection With Your

Autistic Loved One

RAUN K. KAUFMAN AND KATE C. WILDE Tuition $405 ($365 Members)

Often, we focus on planning, problem-solving, and “fixing” some aspect of our autistic loved one(s). But your loved one is a spiritual being—and so are you!

In this nonjudgmental environment, tap into the parts of yourself most capable of being present, accepting, loving, and connected to your loved one.

Learn how to:

Use the five Autism Love Languages to connect Release pent-up fears, frustrations, and resentment

Use the five Natural Laws of Autism to understand why your loved one behaves as they do.

As you witness your loved one’s magnificence, you begin to let go of some of the problem-solving and develop a spiritual connection.

Raun K. Kaufman, who was diagnosed with profound (non-speaking) autism as a child, is an international lecturer, author, and graduate of Brown University with a degree in biomedical ethics.

Kate C. Wilde is the author of three autism books, a columnist for Exceptional Needs Today, and together with Raun K. Kaufman developed the Safe To Connect autism approach, the Safety Within You approach, and the concept of the Neuro-Crash.

JUNE 5–7

The Wisdom of Reiki Conference

Tuition $405 ($365 Members) PT

Whether you are new to Reiki or a Reiki master, embark on a profound healing journey that empowers you through experiential teaching. During this weekend intensive, you:

• Receive the Psychic Reiki empowerment to unlock new dimensions of Reiki energy

• Learn how Reiki enhances intuitive communication, deepens trust with animals, and supports us through grief and transition

• Explore energetic anatomy through a powerful group healing

• Discover the power of channeling Reiki through Ayurvedic marma points

• Become immersed in a Reiki sound healing

• Practice giving and receiving a group Reiki session

You also explore the concepts of World Peace Reiki and receive a Holy Fire Reiki group healing from the founder.

JUNE 5–7

Super Qi Weekend Energy Flow for Healing, Happiness & Creative Resilience

MICHAEL J. GELB, KEN COHEN, AND ROBERT PENG Tuition $425 ($380 Members)

This workshop is a living demonstration of the creative flow of qi—the vital energy of life—and how it can improve health and vitality, increase resilience and creativity, and promote overall wellbeing. You experience simple, elegant movements, guided visualizations, breathing exercises, and powerful group healing sessions complemented by informal dialogue and question-and-answer sessions.

Whether you are just starting to explore qigong or tai chi, or have been practicing for years, this weekend supercharges your sense of buoyancy, aliveness, and enthusiasm.

The practices require no equipment and can be done by anyone in any physical condition. No previous experience is necessary.

Michael J. Gelb is author of Creativity on Demand and How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

Ken Cohen, MA, is a renowned master of qigong and tai chi.

Robert Peng, author of The Master Key, is the founder of Elixir Light Qigong.

William Lee Rand is founder and president of the International Center for Reiki Training (ICRT), publisher of Reiki News, and developer of the Karuna Reiki® system of healing.

Brett Bevell is a Reiki master and author of several books, including Psychic Reiki, The Wizard’s Guide to Energy Healing, and Healing Racism Within

Michèle E. Denis, MA, RYT-500, is founder of the Westcoast Reiki Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, and an Usui and Karuna Reiki® Master teacher.

Phyllicia Victoria is a sweat yoga instructor, wellness influencer, and sound-bath facilitator based in New Jersey and New York City.

Lorraine Goldbloom is a teacher of VortexHealing® Divine Energy Healing. Pam Allen-LeBlanc is a Reiki master teacher and assistant director of the International Center for Reiki Training.

JUNE 5–7

Heal Divides, Restore Connection Become Bridgebuilders in a Divided World

ANU GUPTA

Tuition $500 ($450 Members)

In a time of heartbreaking division, polarization, and violence, this workshop offers a path to healing—beginning with ourselves. Drawing from the book Breaking Bias by Anu Gupta, we explore how ancient Buddhist wisdom and modern neuroscience converge to help us understand and transform the mind virus of separation.

Through guided practices, reflection, and community dialogue, you learn to identify the root causes of bias and discover your primary identity not as the labels that divide us, but as human beings worthy of belonging. Through sitting and embodied practices, contemplative exercises, and heartfelt conversations, you develop practical skills for bridging divides within yourself and in the world around you.

Anu Gupta is an award-winning speaker, author, lawyer, meditation expert, and founder of Be More with Anu.

JUNE 5–7

Finding Your Courage Igniting Ambition & Authentic Voice

AMINA ALTAI AND NITIKA CHOPRA Tuition $505 ($455 Members)

OMEGA CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING PROGRAM

JUNE 5–7

Seasons of Need

Regenerating Ourselves & Our Planet

SUZE SHANER-BRODAX AND SARAH DEWITT

Tuition $475 ($425 Members) LE

Seasons of Need™ is designed for “caring (over)achievers” seeking to restore their vital energy and reconnect to their natural rhythms. Our modern ways of living and working have left us disconnected from each other, the natural world, and our own aliveness. Leaders in caring professions— health care, community care, and planetary care—are particularly vulnerable and in need of individual and collective healing. Through rhythms of experiential activity, individual reflection, and group discussion, participants learn regenerative practices they can integrate for long-term resilience and personal sustainability. This interactive workshop features gentle indoor and outdoor activities and is appropriate for anyone interested in self-care and connection with the natural world.

Rev. Suze Shaner-Brodax is an executive coach and leadership consultant, interfaith/ interspiritual minister, yoga teacher, artist, and writer.

Sarah DeWitt is a leadership coach and consultant, forest-bathing guide, and regenerative practitioner.

Learn to break through self-doubt and step into authentic self-expression with Amina AlTai and Nitika Chopra.

Explore how to cultivate courage, clarity, and a joyful relationship with ambition through a blend of coaching, body-based practices, journaling, and group dialogue. This transformative experience offers a supportive space to reconnect with your voice and ambition while learning practical tools to move past internal barriers and express yourself with confidence. Leave

JUNE 7–12

Super Qi Creative Empowerment

Manifest Your Dreams

MICHAEL J. GELB Tuition $550 ($495 Members)

Join Michael J. Gelb to learn Super Qi empowerment practices and apply this creative energy to manifest your most important creative project.

Whether it’s writing your book, choreographing or composing, preparing for a TED talk, drawing or painting, monetizing your invention, or starting a new business or nonprofit, Michael guides you to cultivate your creative energy and your understanding and application of the elements, phases, and tools of the process to manifest your greatest dreams and aspirations.

new skills for courageous self-expression, and practices to pursue goals with purpose

fullest expression and bring your ambition

is an executive coach and author who dedicated to uplifting chronic illness communities

Participants learn energy cultivation practices, such as movement, breathing, and visualization exercises. You leave with a core energy cultivation practice you can do on your own to turn your creativity into a reality.

Michael J. Gelb is an author, innovator, and a teacher of the Alexander Technique.

JUNE 7–12

The Journey Inward

Frequency, Neuroscience & Longevity

Tuition $555 ($500 Members)

Recalibrate your nervous system, sharpen mental clarity, and reconnect with your body’s natural intelligence through sound, frequency, and conscious practice.

This 5-day retreat joins Maejor’s Frequency School with world-class doctors, neuroscientists, and wellness leaders for a journey where intentional sound meets modern neuroscience, embodied movement, and personal growth. You experience deeply resonant sound experiences using frequencies designed to regulate the nervous system, release emotional blockages, and restore inner balance— paired with compelling education on how frequency impacts the brain and body, including how neuroplasticity allows us to rewire stress patterns and support long-term healing.

No experience needed—these practices are designed to meet you exactly where you are.

JUNE 7–12

Visual Storytelling

A Comic Book Workshop for Grown-Ups

CHRIS O’NEAL

Tuition $450 ($405 Members) LE

Are you interested in comics, graphic novels, cartoons, and other forms of sequential art?

Maejor, a cofounder of Frequency School, is a singer, songwriter, and multiplatinum, Grammy-nominated producer.

Martina Fuchs is an international business journalist, music executive, and Guinness World Records holder.

Brandon Lee is a business consultant with nearly two decades of experience driving strategic growth and innovative initiatives across diverse industries.

Kingsley M, a cofounder of the Frequency School, is a business consultant, entrepreneur, mental health author, wellness advocate, and wellness experience curator.

Annabelle Manalo-Morgan, PhD, is a neuroscientist, educator, author, and mother of five.

Concetta Tomaino, cofounder of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function, is internationally known for her research in the clinical applications of music and neurologic rehabilitation.

Jonathan Rosenthal, MD, a long-time student of yoga in the lineage of Sri Dharma Mittra, is a neurologist and clinical neurophysiologist.

Manail Anis Ahmed is an AI, emerging technology, and society expert combining her background to create impactful educational experiences for global audiences.

Want to share your story in a creative way? Whether this is your first time making a comic book, or you want to refine your craft, let’s work together to translate our stories into comics.

Using a combination of researched storytelling techniques and artistic experiments, we explore what makes the art of the comic book unique. After reviewing the technical basics needed to create a professional comic book, you are encouraged to stretch yourself creatively.

Each student works on their own comic book and the class shares their printed creations, which you also take home.

Chris O’Neal is an artist who works in a range of media, from comics and painting to website design.

realization? Teja Anand brings direct experience, irrefutable clarity, and love to these questions, resulting in the instant, irrevocable realization that there is only being, and the profound fundamental shift in perception that sets the illusory self free. The workshop is open to all. We inquire, meditate, dance, and realize, and you leave transformed.

Teja Anand is an author and an awakened meditation and selfrealization guide.

JUNE 7–12

Awakening the Creative The Painting Experience

STEWART CUBLEY AND MATT BELAY

Tuition $620 ($555 Members) LE

Artistic freedom is the right to create without being pressured to perform, produce, or succeed. Whether you are a veteran painter or are picking up a paintbrush for the first time, the experience is about creative process and free expression, rather than technique or expertise.

In a respectful and nurturing studio environment, you receive individual attention and gentle guidance to:

• Discover a creative voice entirely your own

• Trust your intuitive perception

• Follow your own authentic energy

• Explore process painting as a path to spiritual awakening

There are no critiques of the work. This workshop interests people from a variety of disciplines, including art, education, counseling, social change, and meditative practices.

Another session of Awakening the Creative is available October 4-9. See page 96.

Stewart Cubley is the founder of the Institute for Art & Living and coauthor of Life, Paint & Passion

Matt Belay is a senior facilitator with the Painting Experience and has been supporting people’s creative process for more than 20 years.

JUNE 7–12

Tap Into Miracles, Love & Abundance

Connect With Your True Potential & Inner Wisdom KATE WINCH Tuition $600 ($540 Members)

This nourishing, soulful retreat, designed for all who identify as women, helps you reconnect with your magic, gain clarity, and create a life you love in all areas—peaceful, joyful, and deeply aligned. Come back home to yourself and strengthen your connection with the divine.

Through Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) tapping, hypnotherapy, movement inspired by the spiritual dance method Qoya, writing, and more, you dissolve the emotional and energetic clutter you’ve been carrying. Together, we release anger, guilt, shame, and other blocks that have been dimming your radiance so you can tap into peace. You learn to:

• Open yourself to a new level of love and abundance

• Tap into your creativity, pleasure, and joy

• Shine and succeed

Kate Winch is a transformational teacher, EFT expert, intuitive, hypnotherapist, and dance teacher inspired by Qoya and more.

OMEGA WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP CENTER PROGRAM

JUNE 7–12

Rewiring Women Over 50 Evaluate & Re-Create Your Life

LESLIE TRAUB Tuition $550 ($495 Members) LE

Join Leslie Traub to explore personal and collective conditioning and uncover patterns that, if left unexamined, can shape our futures in limiting ways. Release outdated beliefs and identities—professional, maternal, creative, or caretaking—to reveal your true essence and nurture it into being.

Designed for all who identify as women, this workshop is largely experiential, using creative processes, dyads, inquiry, somatic release, and other small-group processes as we:

• Create rituals to honor time’s passage and share stories that shaped you

• Identify your core belief systems

• Explore the “protector,” a part of us that inadvertently keeps us from our aspirations

Finally, we explore neuroplasticity and rewiring, and learn a simple rewiring practice of fully engaging the senses.

This intensive program, while not therapy, has a therapeutic dimension and is best suited for those with prior experience in personal development, coaching, or counseling.

Leslie Traub has been leading transformational personal and spiritual development programs for more than 40 years.

JUNE 12–14

First & Second Degree Reiki Training

BRETT BEVELL  Tuition $350 ($315 Members) PT

Reiki is one of the most popular and widely recognized forms of energy healing. Founded by Japanese mystic Mikao Usui, Reiki translates as “divine life force.” When properly applied, Reiki maintains health and well-being and can unveil our deepest spiritual nature.

In this training, we receive initiations for first- and seconddegree Reiki using a sacred process called attunement. For many, simply being attuned to Reiki is life-changing as it raises our overall energy vibration.

With compassion and humor, Brett Bevell guides us in learning Reiki techniques for self-treatment and teaches us how to perform healing sessions on others. We learn how to engage sacred Reiki symbols and send treatments distantly.

$18 materials fee; include when you register.

Brett Bevell is a Reiki master, poet and author, performance artist, and featured healer on the Mindvalley app.

JUNE 12–14

The Spirit Encounter Beyond

the Last Breath

SUSAN GRAU Tuition $530 ($475 Members)

Step into a realm where the veil dissolves and spirit reveals itself in this weekend immersion into the world of spirit, connection, discovery, and encounters with the beyond.

Join Susan Grau for a transformational retreat where death is revealed not as an ending, but as a threshold to a greater reality. In this powerful experience, you explore mediumship, psychometry, near-death wisdom, forensic mediumship, and interactive spirit communication.

Through teachings, experiential practices, and shared spirit encounters, you come to see the afterlife not as a distant belief, but rather as a living, breathing presence that surrounds us always.

JUNE 12–14

Getting the Love You Want  A Spiritual Path for Couples

HARVILLE HENDRIX AND HELEN LAKELLY HUNT

Tuition $415 ($370 Members) per person

Leave with a deeper understanding of the afterlife and the tools to strengthen your personal intuition.

Susan Grau is an international best-selling author and intuitive medium bridging spirit, healing, and hope.

JUNE 12–14

Lyme Rx & Pyramid Breathwork

A 3-Day Immersion Into the 4-Stage Recovery Process

ALAYNA BELLQUIST AND JOHANN URB Tuition $440 ($395 Members)

In this deeply restorative, science-informed, and nature-forward workshop, you are guided through the 4-Stage Recovery Process, a practical and empowering roadmap for those navigating Lyme disease and coinfections, chronic illness, long-term stress, and persistent nervous-system dysregulation.

Together, Alayna Bellquist and Johann Urb create a grounded, compassionate, and transformative experience that blends science, somatics, breath, nature’s intelligence, emotional repair, nervous-system regulation, and a structured recovery design. This workshop is for those with persistent conditions who have struggled to feel well despite years of searching for answers. You leave with clarity, a renewed sense of inner power, and conviction supported by a structure that makes healing not just possible, but probable.

Alayna Bellquist is the creator of the Resilient: By Nature™ Workshop and the Lyme Rx Forum™.

Johann Urb is a world-renowned spiritual teacher, coach, and creator of The Pyramid Breath Method®️.

The Getting the Love You Want Workshop, based on Imago Relationship Therapy, gives couples the concepts and skills they need to cocreate a safe relationship, experience and sustain deep connection, and experience joyful aliveness. Using the Imago Process, couples transform their unconscious relationship to a conscious partnership to create their dream relationship. In the process of becoming connected to each other, partners experience connecting to a larger reality, which makes intimate partnership a spiritual path.

Together with your partner, you learn a new way to talk, how to remove negativity, and practice daily connecting behaviors to activate the innate healing powers of intimate partnership. $50 per person materials fee; include when you register. This workshop is also offered Sept. 18-20. See page 88.

Harville Hendrix, PhD, and Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD, are coauthors of three New York Times best sellers and cocreators of Imago Relationship Therapy.

JUNE 12–14

Get Healthy With Sound Tuning Forks & Voice for Vibrant Health

EILEEN MCKUSICK Tuition $380 ($340 Members)

Discover a new and empowering lens through which to view your life and your health with Eileen McKusick.

Eileen shares easy and accessible techniques in the fields of therapeutic sound, electric health, and the human biofield for working with the body’s electrical system to reduce stress, improve focus, and increase energy.

Through lecture and hands-on practice, you:

• Learn to use a variety of tuning forks and your voice to improve health and well-being for yourself and others

• Gain a new view or deepen your knowledge of health as electrical and sonic rather than chemical and mechanical

• Build a skill set of simple exercises that don’t take long but have big impact

Eileen McKusick is the originator of the sound therapy method Biofield Tuning and author of the best-selling books Tuning the Human Biofield and Electric Body, Electric Health

Beyond the Family Blueprint Transform

Family Rejection Into Sacred Purpose

NICK WERBER Tuition $405 ($365 Members)

Many who grow up as the black sheep of their family, the scapegoat, or misfit carry invisible burdens: shame, guilt, and the feeling of never belonging anywhere. This retreat offers a compassionate space to understand those experiences better and release their hold.

Through discussion, guided embodiment, parts work, and family constellations practices, we explore how family dynamics shape identity and how these painful roles can be unlearned.

By cultivating inner belonging—a way of meeting yourself with presence and compassion, and sharing space with others who get it—you transform rejection into tenderness and purpose.

This retreat is designed for anyone seeking to live beyond their family’s blueprint and come home to themselves.

Nick Werber is a writer and somatic educator helping family outsiders transform shame into inner belonging.

JUNE 12–14

Radical Remission 10 Healing Factors to Change Your Life

KARLA MANS GIROUX, CORINNE LEMAL FAZA, AND KELLY A. TURNER Tuition $425 ($380 Members)

Dr. Kelly A. Turner will participate via livestream.

Thousands of people have overcome cancer against tremendous odds. In this workshop, you learn how they did it. Based on the book Radical Remission, learn the 10 healing factors that survivors have in common.

You learn to:

Empower your healing

Strengthen your immune system by radically changing your diet

Find a practitioner to guide you in choosing herbs and supplements

Make physical activity a daily habit

Release suppressed emotions held in your body

You also identify your strongest reasons for living, deepen your spiritual connection, and increase positive emotions in your day-to-day life. Leave the workshop with an action plan to implement right away. All are welcome.

Workshop ends Sunday at 5:00 p.m.

Karla Mans Giroux is managing director of the Radical Remission Project, cohost of the Stories That Heal podcast, a holistic cancer health coach, and a Radical Remission survivor.

Corinne Lemal Faza , MPH, CHES, is director of the nonprofit Sari Asher Center for Integrative Cancer Care and a certified Radical Remission health coach.

Kelly A. Turner, PhD, is the New York Times bestselling author of Radical Remission and Radical Hope, now in more than 23 languages.

JUNE 12–14

Inner Mastery, Outer Impact How Your Five Core Energies Hold the Key to Success

MENTORA INSTITUTE Tuition $405 ($365 Members)

Are you looking to harness the ability to lead with wisdom?

Join Mentora Institute’s dynamic workshop and discover the Inner Mastery, Outer Impact leadership framework. Grounded in Dr. Hitendra Wadhwa’s book, Inner Mastery, Outer Impact, and 15 years of research at Columbia University, this experience reveals how true leadership is about leading from your core to bring out the best in yourself and others in the pursuit of a common purpose.

Engage in interactive lectures, discussions, role-playing, and case studies, and learn how to achieve performance breakthroughs in the flow of work, whether creating a win-win outcome, influencing skeptics, or building trust. Mentora’s model focuses on five energies that help activate your inner core: Purpose, Wisdom, Growth, Love, and Self-realization.

Mentora, founded by Dr. Hitendra Wadhwa, offers an intuitive, personalized path to grow character, pursue success in life and leadership, and bring positive change in the world.

JUNE 12–14

The Source of Freedom In the Temple of Light

ALEXANDRA MARQUARDT Tuition $405 ($365 Members)

Unwind social and spiritual concepts, trauma and pain, and plunge into a heartwarming, healing inner experience, free from methodology or technique and intuitive by nature.

Guided by Alexandra Marquardt, learn where freedom rests in your body and focus on how to distill the most potent form of your Self into expression. Experience your inner Source through cutting-edge lectures, guided meditations, and healings.

This experience offers you the ground to stand on, so that you may continue to pursue your talents from a place of freedom, love, stability, and health. At the end of each class, there is time for integration and grounding to help you continue the work.

Alexandra Marquardt is an internationally recognized teacher and a fourth generational healer through her matriarchal lineage.

Yin Yoga & Storytelling The Path of Integration

BIFF MITHOEFER AND ERIC ARCHER

Tuition $390 ($350 Members)

Yin Yoga and storytelling both present embodied experiences that can be supportive of integrating modern therapeutic approaches.

Whether through body meditation, psychology, education, or public service, the meeting place of the body and stories presents an invitation to look deeply into how we may meet a changing world and integrate our own journey within it.

During this immersive retreat with Biff Mithoefer and Eric Archer, you:

• Develop practical and theoretical approaches to incorporating storytelling, Yin Yoga, and somatic explorations into your own work or teaching

• Access personal teaching stories from your own life

• Deepen your inquiry into the body through Yin Yoga, personalized anatomy, reflections, and live music

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OMEGA CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING PROGRAM

JUNE 14–19

Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop

Tuition $1,300 ($1,200 Members) LE

Join a community of writers, improve your craft, and reimagine how you think about nature.

Guided by award-winning instructors, the Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop provides an intimate space to connect with writers, artists, and editors; spark creativity; and deepen your relationship with place.

Whether your passion is nonfiction, fiction, or poetry, this 5-day creative laboratory is for anyone seeking to reflect their environments through their work. Sessions on intensive craft practice, faculty and student readings, and panels on publishing are featured.

Each participant receives individualized feedback and time with faculty and Orion editors. Literary agents and editors stop by and offer advice on bringing your work out in the publishing world.

Workshop begins Sunday at 7:30 p.m. This program, by application only, requires submitting a writing sample and cover letter. To apply, visit https://www.orionmagazine.org/omega/

Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams is a writer and teacher of English at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

Erica Berry is a writer and teacher whose essays appear in The Guardian, the New York Times, and more.

Michael Kleber-Diggs is a poet, essayist, and literary critic whose debut poetry collection, Worldly Things, won the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. Isle McElroy is the author of The Atmospherians, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and People Collide, which was named a best book of 2023 by Vogue and the New York Times critics.

Maria Pinto is an author and educator who teaches for the literary nonprofit GrubStreet.

Roger Reeves is an award-winning author of poetry and a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Texas at Austin.

who has worked in publishing for more than 10

JUNE 14–19

Regenerating Joy Poetry as a Practice for Difficult Times

ROSEMERRY WAHTOLA TROMMER

AND JAMES CREWS

Tuition $525 ($470 Members)

How do we stay awake to the braided nature of our emotional body and our creative self? How do we invite the weave of grief and joy, despair and daily delight onto the page as a practice for staying open in challenging times?

Join Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and James Crews in a generous and safe space, offering generative poems and prompts, and providing the kind of gentle support that allows us to enter the life of expression with bravery and joy. In this retreat, you:

Discover the power of creative writing as a transformative grounding practice

• Develop tools for self-compassion and regenerating joy

• Share your creative process in a nonjudgmental environment

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, author of The Unfolding, is a poet, teacher, speaker, writing facilitator, and cohost of the Emerging Form podcast.

James Crews is the editor of several best-selling anthologies and author of six books of poetry.

JUNE 14–19

The Feldenkrais Method

Accessing Your Neuroplasticity

DAVID ZEMACH-BERSIN Tuition $500 ($450 Members)

Join David Zemach-Bersin for a Feldenkrais workshop and discover how to engage your nervous system’s capacity for healing, learning, and change.

We all develop habitual patterns of thinking, feeling, perceiving, and moving. These patterns are an integration of our psychological, emotional, and sensory-motor development and although some are beneficial, others are not.

Feldenkrais lessons access your natural neuroplastic potential for change—your brain’s built-in ability to create new neural connections. With a gentle combination of functionally relevant movements and curious attention, you learn how to:

JUNE 14–19

Music,

Movement,

Emotions

& Healing Reimagining the Power of Music on Body & Mind

MIRANDA ESMONDE-WHITE AND STEVEN GROSS

Tuition $1,065 ($965 Members)

Discover why integrating specific music, targeted corrections, and movement makes Essentrics® a transformative full-body workout. Join Miranda Esmonde-White and Steven Gross in this 5-day event with multiple sessions:

• Discover the Powerful Connections Between Music, Anatomy & the Brain: Learn some of the latest scientific studies on fascia, music, and movement.

• Advanced Class Design & Teaching Skills: Refine your instruction with class design strategies, precision in cueing, and targeted corrections.

• The Art of Music in Movement: Analyze music and its relationship to the movement of muscles, fascia, and joints.

• Anatomy & Neurology: Deepen your anatomical knowledge with a focus on fascia and neurology.

• The Psychology of Movement: Explore the intricate connection between emotional processes, chronic pain, and healing.

Workshop begins Sunday at 7:00 p.m.

Miranda Esmonde-White, creator of the Essentrics® fitness technique and the PBS fitness show Classical Stretch, is a leading educator and best-selling author.

• Improve your coordination, posture, and flexibility

• Move more easily and reduce unnecessary muscular effort

• Find relief from stress

• Improve the fitness and agility of your brain

David Zemach-Bersin is a renowned senior Feldenkrais teacher with more than 50 years of experience.

Steven Gross is an award-winning Broadway music director and international conductor who also has extensive experience working in academia as a clinician, guest artist, and professor.

JUNE

14–19

Creating a Meaningful Third Act Uncover Your Wholeness, Wisdom & Authenticity

KAREN K. MOON AND DEBRA KRUMHOLZ Tuition $625 ($560 Members) LE

Many women spend their lives satisfying the needs of others. Aging, which can bring challenges, is also an opportunity to move beyond these demands and to make intentional choices that better align with who they are now.

Join Karen K. Moon and Debra Krumholz as they guide you with warmth, humor, and insights to connect with what feels most meaningful for you in this next phase of life.

Utilizing guided meditations, journaling, and group discussions, we reflect on our past, understand our present, and plan for the future. This workshop is for women at midlife and beyond who are seeking more meaning, authenticity, and connection in their third act of life.

Karen K. Moon, LCSW, is a psychotherapist with more than 30 years of experience working with individuals, families, and organizations to cope with grief and trauma.

Debra Krumholz, LMHC, MEd, MPH, has worked as a psychotherapist, educator, group facilitator, and trainer for more than 35 years.

JUNE 19–21

Autism Integration Supporting a Child From the Inside-Out

SUZY MILLER

Tuition $495 ($445 Members)

If you are a parent of a child diagnosed with autism or a professional working with these remarkable individuals, you may be seeking ways to fully support them.

Join us to gain clear insight into how those with autism experience the world vibrationally. Learn techniques to aid in connection, communication, and cocreation with them.

Together, we:

• Realize the most coherent version of yourself, so that a child can show you their most coherent self

• Explore perspectives beyond the mainstream narrative regarding a child’s true capacity

• Discover why this population could be an evolutionary leap for humanity

Learn via lecture, question-and-answer sessions, and energy work to anchor your new awareness into daily life.

JUNE 19–21

Radical Awareness as Survival

Healing From Invalidating & Antagonistic Relationships

RAMANI DURVASULA Tuition $445/395/295 ($355 Members)

Healing from narcissistic and antagonistic relationships requires several components, and an important one is community. Join Dr. Ramani Durvasula in a community of support and learn to turn off the gaslights in your life.

Develop awareness of the dynamics of narcissistic relationships, what they do to us, and how to protect our true selves.

Take a deep dive into your experiences in an invalidating relationship, take the time to reflect on the patterns in the chaos, and get questions answered.

This weekend reminds you that you are not alone. As you come back to yourself, you might also be the one who turns off the gaslight for someone else.

Workshop is by application only. $25 application fee; see eOmega.org for more information.

Dr. Ramani Durvasula (Dr. Ramani) is a clinical psychologist, best-selling author, professor emerita of psychology, and the world’s leading expert on narcissistic relationships.

JUNE 19–21

Finding Freedom in Movement Pain-Free Techniques for Daily Living

POOJA VIRANI Tuition $405 ($365 Members)

Discover an approach to movement that helps you release pain, increase flexibility, and feel more at home in your body. Pain-Free Movement blends yoga, functional fitness, and fascia science to transform everyday movement and restore natural ease. Join Pooja Virani to gain a deeper understanding of your body, how your day-to-day habits affect your ability to move with ease, and how your postural patterns may contribute to aches, injury, or tightness. Yoga teachers learn techniques to evaluate students and identify pain patterns, as well as methods of sequencing asana and pranayama to target muscle imbalances and weaknesses.

Improve your anatomy knowledge, strength, and flexibility in this all-levels program.

Pooja Virani is a Pain-Free Movement specialist and social justice consultant who teaches people how to find freedom within their bodies and works to make yoga spaces more diverse, equitable, and accessible.

JUNE 19–21

The Fifth Season

Creativity in the Second Half of Life

MARK NEPO  Tuition $415 ($370 Members)

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.

As the years go by, the question for each of us becomes more and more real: What does it mean to age?

Now in his seventies, Mark Nepo guides us on an exploration of the second half of life as a turning point—a time of creativity, integration, and transformation that helps us make sense of our experience—what the Chinese call the fifth season.

Sharing poems, stories, and metaphors intended to invite you into a heart space in which you can meet yourself and grow, Mark guides us on a quest to feel ever more deeply as we age, to meet in this inner field of presence, where there’s very little left in the way.

Mark Nepo, author of the New York Times best seller The Book of Awakening, is a spiritual teacher, poet, and storyteller.

JUNE 19–21

Astrology, Consciousness & the Great Shift

Wounds & Remedies in Our Charts

Tuition $395 ($355 Members)

The challenges of evolution confront us with limitations, obstacles, and adversities. As we strive to grow, the risk of wounding is constant. Each planet brings an intention for growth, a risk of hurting, and remedies for healing. During this magical conference, expert voices of modern astrology weave their individual threads of thought into a cosmic tapestry. They share astrological wisdom, and use sound, dream work, and small group conversations to foster understanding and support self-realization.

Whatever your level of astrological knowledge, you emerge from this weekend with a clearer perspective of astrology, how healing can show in our charts, and how to be part of the Great Shift we are experiencing.

JUNE 19–21

The Ancient Art of Pysanky Art as Meditation

JENNY SANTA MARIA

Tuition $405 ($365 Members) LE

Explore the delicate art of pysanky—Ukrainian egg decorating—as a meditative practice that fosters inner stillness.

In this special experience, you delve into the historical and cultural significance of this cherished art form, gain experience working with traditional tools and techniques, and build a foundation for creative exploration. Then, embrace the meditative flow of the process, as you’re guided in zazen meditation and use your breath to steady your hand. Each stroke and pattern becomes an act of intention. The result is more than art—it’s a reflection of the state of mind cultivated in the creative process. These eggs, transformed into intricate heirlooms, become symbols of care and attention.

$25 materials fee; include when you register.

Jenny Santa Maria is a teaching artist and art coach who has guided thousands of people through the creative act of “writing” eggs—a tradition that ranks among the oldest on earth.

Lynn Bell has been an astrologer for more than four decades, with an archetypal, psychological, and spiritual approach to astrology.

Maurice Fernandez is a leading evolutionary astrologer with a worldwide reputation of depth and excellence for his diploma program in astrology, publications, and consulting work.

Merryman Cassels is an astrologer, Akashic Records guide, and dreamwork facilitator who weaves the celestial with the mundane.

Rachel Lang is an astrologer, author, spiritual teacher, and community leader who blends intuition with activism and creativity with public service.

JUNE 19–21

Psychic Intuition

KAREN NOÉ Tuition $385/335/235 ($300 Members)

We are one with everything and everyone, says Karen Noé. In this immersive retreat, she shares a way to access important information intuitively in every area of your life. Throughout the weekend, you learn how to:

• Clear the energy in your aura in order to increase insights

• Quiet your mind to improve clarity

• Raise your vibration to receive guidance

• Receive guidance and signs from those in the celestial realm

Enjoy exercises to test your intuitive abilities. Working with others, you learn to receive intuitive messages in pictures, feel the energy of an individual’s personal objects, sense and see auras, and use a pendulum to receive answers you are looking for.

Karen Noé is a psychic medium, spiritual counselor, healer, and founder of the Angel Quest Center in Waldwick, New Jersey.

JUNE 19–21

Turtle Qigong A Sacred Healing Practice for Longevity

LORELEI CHANG

Tuition $405 ($365 Members)

Join Lorelei Chang for a transformative weekend where sacred movement and ancient wisdom meet in the practice of Turtle Qigong, the first time ever taught at Omega Institute.

Rooted in Daoist longevity traditions, this special qigong practice comes directly from the family lineage of Zhang Qilong, a revered master of taijiquan, Bagua, and internal cultivation, who began sharing this treasured method only in his recent years in the United States.

Through a set of gentle, spiraling movements, subtle breathwork, and profound internal alchemical methods, this practice mirrors the turtle—a symbol of longevity, wisdom, and the water element.

Come experience an authentic, time-tested path to health, vitality, and spiritual presence.

Lorelei Chang is an innovative modern dancer from China known for integrating qigong, dance, Chinese calligraphy, and healing arts into unique works of embodied expression.

Tibetan Art: Beginner to Advanced Drawing & Painting Buddhas of Compassion

CARMEN MENSINK

JUNE 19–21

2-day Retreat: Tuition $455 ($410 Members)

JUNE 21–26

5-day Retreat: Tuition $600 ($540 Members)

JUNE 19–26

7-day Retreat: Tuition $765 ($685 Members)

Draw and paint Buddhas and mandalas in a meditative setting with Carmen Mensink.

Choose the weekend retreat and be introduced to the traditional Tibetan Buddhist scroll paintings. Learn about this tradition and the special place it holds within Tibetan Buddhist philosophy. Then learn how to draw the face of the Buddha and the lotus flower, helped by the grids and proportions that have been passed on for centuries.

Choose the 5-day retreat and learn how to draw or paint the Mandala of the Five Wisdom Buddhas, the manifestations of the enlightened mind. By connecting with these Buddhas—not only through drawing but also contemplation—you invite their transformative energies into your life.

The 2-day retreat is a beautiful introduction for those curious about Tibetan Buddhist Art. If you’ve always wanted to learn how to draw a Tibetan mandala, the 5-day retreat is perfect for you. The 7-day retreat offers the most complete and in-depth experience, with a choice of all the aforementioned subjects.

Carmen Mensink is an internationally renowned painter of thangkas, traditional Tibetan scroll paintings of Buddhas and mandalas, and a founder of the School for Tibetan Buddhist Art.

JUNE 19–21

From Noise to Knowing

Trusting & Living as Your Higher Self

MORY FONTANEZ

Tuition $435 ($390 Members)

This immersive experience invites you to quiet the noise of fear and conditioning so you can hear the clear, steady voice of your higher self. Through guided visualization, embodiment, and interactive tools, you learn how intuition speaks and how to turn up the volume on this knowing part of you. You create a practical roadmap to deepen trust in your inner wisdom and align your choices with purpose and truth. Each practice is designed to reconnect you to joy, expand your sense of inner authority, and open new pathways of clarity in every part of life. You leave with the Unleash Your Intuition workbook to deepen your practice.

Mory Fontanez is an intuitive life and leadership guide, author, and podcast host.

JUNE 21–26

Freedom From Chronic Suffering— Pain,

Fatigue, Symptoms & Anxiety A Mind-Body Approach NICOLE SACHS

There is brain science behind why we are chronically symptomatic, fatigued, and anxious. Understanding the mind-body connection is key to freeing ourselves from the protective mechanism by which the brain and nervous system initiate chronic conditions.

A dysregulated nervous system mistakenly sends pain signals in a chronic “fight or flight” mode. When repressed emotions and stored trauma are allowed to surface safely, the body settles into “rest and repair,” and symptoms stop flaring.

JUNE 21–26

Guided by Nicole Sachs, discover how to invite these repressed feelings to rise, creating a mind-body transformation. Through discussion, group work, meditation, somatic embodiment, and Nicole’s signature JournalSpeak® practice, you establish a foundation for long-lasting wellness. Nicole Sachs, LCSW, is creator of JournalSpeak, a groundbreaking language of wellness. She is author of The Meaning of Truth and the online course Freedom From Chronic Pain.

Ancient Wisdom, Present Freedom Immersing in the Foundations of Mindfulness

WILL KABAT-ZINN Tuition $570 ($510 Members)

Together we explore how mindful awareness—the liberating quality that has been called “the Heart of Buddhist Meditation”—can become naturally and more continuously present in our lives.

Guided by Will Kabat-Zinn, we engage in formal and informal meditation practices, including sitting meditation, walking meditation, standing and lyingdown meditations, and movement-based practices. As mindfulness gains momentum, it allows us to see with penetrating insight into the nature of our own hearts and minds, and to taste the freedom that the Buddha pointed to thousands of years ago.

We immerse ourselves in what are traditionally called the four foundations of mindfulness—mindfulness of body, feelings, mind, and the tendencies of mind that lead to suffering or liberation.

Workshop begins Sunday at 8:00 p.m.

Will Kabat-Zinn is a mindfulness and meditation teacher whose passion is to help people put into practice and experience for themselves the liberating power of mindfulness.

JUNE 21–26

Activating the Bliss Within Nejang—Tibetan Self-Healing Yoga

LEE MIRABAI HARRINGTON Tuition $495 ($445 Members)

Experience the potency of Nejang Yoga, a simple but profound self-healing practice from the traditions of Sowa Rigpa and Tibetan Buddhism that helps to purify afflictions and ailments at the level of the subtle body.

In this profoundly healing retreat, you learn:

• Empty-body meditation, to expand awareness of yourself beyond the physical body

• Vajra chanting to purify your innermost “secret” obstacles of body, speech, and mind

• Ninefold purification breathing, a practice that purifies the three poisons of anger, attachment, and ignorance

Nejang Yoga has been shown to help alleviate depression and anxiety, improve digestion, calm the nervous system, restore balance, cultivate peace, extend your lifespan, and transform the mind.

All ages—including seniors and people with injuries and disabilities—are encouraged to join.  Lee Mirabai Harrington is an ordained mantra and spiritual healer in the Yuthok Nyingthik, a unique spiritual tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.

JUNE 21–26

Taoist Monastic Qigong

Flying Phoenix Qigong Plus Taoist Elixir Method

TERENCE DUNN Tuition $550 ($495 Members)

This rare experience combines two extraordinary systems of Taoist Yoga—creating a unique qigong experience. For the first time, Terence Dunn teaches two authentic Taoist monastic systems of qigong together: the Emei Mountain Flying Phoenix Qigong and Taoist Elixir Method Basic 31 Meditations system.

Master Dunn has combined the two systems because of an accelerative potentiation that he discovered the Basic 31 Meditations system (TTP31) has on Flying Phoenix Qigong’s cultivation.

The health benefits of Tao Tan Pai 31 Meditations include improved circulation, respiration, digestion, metabolism, posture, balance, flexibility, neuromuscular coordination, restful sleep, and effective management of stress. Return home with profound selfawareness and an experience of qigong-mediated self-healing.

Terence Dunn is a master instructor of Chinese martial, yogic, and healing arts with more than 51 years of training.

JUNE 21–26

Total kNowledge Technique

The Field of Angelic Healing

DR. T Tuition $930 ($835 Members)

Step into the field of angelic healing with Total kNowledge Technique™ (TNT), the groundbreaking method that unites science, knowledge, and the energy of angels for deep healing and lasting change.

In this hands-on training, you are guided by Dr. T to access the angelic field to help yourself and others restore harmony to the body, mind, and spirit.

Through engaging group discussions, personalized practices, and guided meditations, you gain practical tools to apply TNT in your life and create lasting change. You leave the training empowered to manifest abundance, perform TNT with ease and accuracy, and direct this healing energy to support others on their transformative journeys.

Dr. T is the creator of Total kNowledge Technique™ (TNT), a healing method that merges science, spirituality, and the energy of angels for transformation on physical, emotional, and spiritual levels.

JUNE

21–26

Embody Your Radiance

A Venusian Solstice Immersion for Women

KATIE TODD AND EMILY TRINKAUS Tuition $580 ($520 Members)

Celebrate the solstice power portal, the time of maximum light, by igniting your feminine radiance. During this immersion, we honor Venus, the feminine principle of receptivity, magnetism, creativity, and fulfillment. You connect more deeply to your body, intuition, desire, and pleasure while making soulful connections with other women.

JUNE 21–26

Peace in the Whirlwind

A Gathering of Sufi Teachings & Friendship

Tuition $510/460/360 ($415 Members)

Through fun, embodied practices—dance, Yin Yoga, art, astrology, writing, and group exercises—you uncover and deepen into your feminine essence. Join us to:

• Be held in a relaxing, loving container

• Learn about Venus in your birth chart

• Receive group energy-healing sessions

• Move your body in fun, easeful, nourishing ways

• Bond with other amazing women

This workshop is appropriate for all women. No previous astrology experience is needed.

Katie Todd is an integrative energy healer and artist sparking others into embodied, soulful living.

Emily Trinkaus is a master astrologer who shares accessible, practical, and inspiring wisdom.

Those who walk the path of Sufism are lovers of reality, ever longing for intimate connection—communion—with the Divine.

At this annual gathering of the Inayatiyya, a Sufi lineage rooted in the teachings of the Indian mystic Hazrat Inayat Khan, we come together to nurture deepening levels of communion—with one another, and with that which lies beyond time and space: the Oneness of all Being.

We explore states of communion through meditative practice, spiritual discourse, friendship, tea, sweets, sacred music, whirling, and zikr—the remembrance of the Divine.

Whether you are new to Sufism or have long walked this path, you are warmly invited to join us.

Pir Zia Inayat Khan, PhD, who carries the Sufi lineage of his grandfather, Hazrat Inayat Khan, is president of the Inayatiyya and founder of Sulūk Academy.

Nizam un Nisa Ayeda Husain, a senior teacher and guide in the Inayatiyya, teaches Sufi meditation, chanting, and philosophy with an emphasis on Rumi’s poetry.

Omid Safi, founder of Illuminated Courses & Tours, is a professor at Duke University specializing in Islamic spirituality and contemporary thought.

Maryam Hasnaa is the creator of New Earth Mystery School and Resonance Apothecary, as well as a student on the Sufi path.

Shams al Haqq Farzad Attar Jafari is classically trained in the practices of sama and whirling, and serves Sufi communities in Canada through Rumi Canada.

Sara Tarana Jobin is a trained opera conductor and musician dedicated to the musical legacy of Hazrat Inayat Khan.

JUNE 26–28 Tuition $525 ($470 Members)

JULY 3–5 Tuition $525 ($470 Members)

Miracles Happen

The Transformative Power of Past-Life Memories

BRIAN WEISS

Past-life regression therapy has gained widespread recognition as a therapeutic model. Brian Weiss, best-selling author of Many Lives, Many Masters and Miracles Happen, is known as the nation’s foremost expert in the field.

Explore the latest in hypnotic past-life regression therapy to find a new level of healing for your body, mind, spirit, and relationships. Using experiential techniques, including hypnotic regression exercises, healing visualizations, meditation, and intuitional and right-brain training, we harness the power of love and understanding to transform our lives.

Dr. Weiss will demonstrate a full past-life regression session. There is ample time for questions and answers.

This workshop is valuable for health-care professionals as well as nonprofessionals who want an in-depth experience of this approach to self-exploration.

Brian Weiss, MD, is chairman emeritus of psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami and the nation’s leading authority on pastlife regression therapy.

arts week

Calling all artists!

Be a part of one of the most creative and community-building weeks of the year— Omega Arts Week. Immerse yourself in your art—photography, writing, music, and more. Mingle with other creative souls during mealtimes and evening events. Share what you’ve created during participant showcases. All are welcome, from the budding to the accomplished artist. Join us as we celebrate and support the creative spirit.

JUNE 28–JULY 3

Writing Life

A Deep Dive Into Your Life & Writing

CHRIS WELLS

Tuition $460 ($415 Members) LE Bring your best idea or writing project and dive deep into a joyful and moving exploration of yourself and your work.

Chris Wells guides you through an evocative series of conversations, deep and reflective questions, and assignments that take you on a passionate journey of self-discovery.

With dynamic writing prompts and creative exercises, his expertise helps you get at what you want to write and decide how to move forward. You write as much as possible over the course of the week and leave with a ton of new writing and a greater sense of yourself as an artist.

Writers of all genres are welcome.

Chris Wells, an Obie Award-winning performer, writer, and community leader, is founding artistic director of The Secret City, a secular church of art.

arts week

JUNE 28–JULY 3

Ukulele Zen

Music, Mindfulness & Creative Play

STU FUCHS Tuition $500 ($450 Members)

The ukulele has surged in popularity in recent years, offering an accessible way to bring music-making into the lives of people around the world.

Whether you're new to the ukulele or have been playing it for years, you deepen your musical journey and have fun with Stu Fuchs. Stu blends mindfulness and breathwork with music-making practice, cultivating joy and relieving stress.

The retreat focuses on:

• Listening deeply to the present moment in order to approach music-making from a more joyful, nonjudgmental, and relaxed perspective

• Nurturing the mind-body connection and cultivating the intuitive musician within you

• Accessing a more relaxed technique so you can enjoy playing for longer

Workshop begins Sunday at 8:00 p.m.

Stu Fuchs is a classical guitarist, ukulele virtuoso, teaching artist, and sound healer who is passionate about sharing the healing benefits of music.

JUNE 28–JULY 3

Journaling on Purpose

An Illustrated Journaling Practice for Self-Discovery

ANNE LEUCK Tuition $475 ($425 Members) LE

Make your journal your favorite place to land each day. In this workshop, you combine simple drawing, expressive lettering, and personal writing to create an illustrated journal that’s part diary, part documentary, and fully your own.

Through guided prompts, hands-on demos, and warm facilitation, you learn to decorate your words, sketch your feelings, and turn daily experiences into personal stories on the page. This playful yet intentional practice helps you clear your mind, quiet self-judgment, and uncover your creative voice.

Over time, your sketchbook becomes a dialogue with yourself—one that deepens gratitude for who you are and the life you’re living.

No art experience required. Open to all levels.

Anne Leuck is an artist and journaling guide, helping people discover creativity, personal growth, and joy.

JUNE 28–JULY 3

The Witness & the Guardian

Sacred Approaches to Documentary Storytelling

AMANDA PISETZNER

Tuition $500 ($450 Members)

Never held a camera? Perfect. This workshop is for you. Learn documentary storytelling as a practice of bearing witness and preserving what matters.

Through lecture, case studies, hands-on exercises, and group activities, you discover storytelling fundamentals, including:

• Finding stories that resonate

• Conducting conscious interviews

authentic expression. Leave with practical storytelling skills, creative confidence, and a deeper understanding of your storytelling self.

• Shaping narratives with dignity and care

Using accessible equipment (your smartphone!), you explore intuitive interviewing techniques, story structure, and how to hold space for

Whether you are drawn to personal narratives, curious about your community, or you simply want to see the world through a new lens—this is your invitation to begin.

Amanda Pisetzner is an Emmy Award-winning storyteller teaching people to harness narrative's power for transformation.

JUNE 28–JULY 3

On the Altar

Creative Response Lab for an Unraveling World

KARISHA LONGAKER AND SORAH NUTTING

Tuition $550 ($495 Members)

In an unraveling world, our senses help keep us grounded and connected. Whether you're new to creative work or an experienced artist, explore how embodied creative practice can open new pathways for personal and collective resilience in this workshop dedicated to our shared well-being.

Together, we build a “living altar”—an evolving, communal space of discovery in which we move, sing, grieve, dream, honor our lineages, seek guidance, draw, write, play, and rest. Sessions begin with a threshold-crossing ritual into this “altar-ed” space, followed by solo, partner, and group explorations. Leave with a deeper sense of inner alignment and a renewed capacity to respond creatively in a world turned upside-down.

Karisha Longaker and Sorah Nutting have been creating music and leading communities in song as the inspirational duo MaMuse for nearly two decades.

arts week

JUNE 28–JULY 3

Fiber Art Workshop Woodland Wool Doodling

MARTHA BELARDO Tuition $470 ($425 Members) LE

This workshop is an opportunity to enter a magical world of creativity, where you daydream, imagine, and craft beautiful felt creatures and keepsakes. No experience is required—you quickly develop skills under the guidance of Martha Belardo. “The tactile activity, sculptural decisions, and design process stimulate the mind and mood in all the best ways,” she says.

During the week, you focus on creating whimsical woodland scenes as you learn to sculpt with wool, including layering textures and color. Using wool fiber grown, processed, and dyed in the Hudson Valley, you fall in love with this forgiving medium, which allows for delightful adjustments as your felt sculptures come to life.

Martha Belardo is a fiber artist living and creating in the Hudson Valley, using local fiber from women farmers, dyers, processors, and hand stitchers across the Northeast.

The Transformative Power of Improv & Humor

Building Skills to Connect, Play & Heal

DON WAISANEN

Tuition $535 ($480 Members)

Unlock your creativity with Don Waisanen in a fun, interactive week of improv and self-discovery that inspires flexibility and joy. This retreat combines the inclusive spirit of improv comedy with insights into how we can build trust, develop superhuman people skills, and heal our world together. Discover a framework of tools from improv and comedy to create the conditions for empathy, understanding, and the development of thriving communities.

Through a series of engaging exercises, discussions, and meaningful practices, you learn to develop new insights and hands-on skills for communication, leadership, and work. You leave with concrete applications for becoming more creative and confident—energized and with a smile on your face.

Don Waisanen, PhD, author of Improv for Democracy and Leadership Standpoints, is a leadership, civic engagement, and strategic communication professor and facilitator.

JUNE 28–JULY 3

Mindful Camera

Photography & Awareness

PAUL SUNDAY Tuition $500 ($450 Members)

Rekindle the reasons we first fell in love with photography: the essence of image creation and thoughtful visual attention. Together, we explore photography as an avenue for cultivating awareness— to gain insight into how the tools of photography can open us up to freedom and clarity.

Through meditation, visual presentations, conversations, and imagemaking, we discover—or reimagine—our photographic practices. Through lecture and meditation sessions, in the classroom and in nature, we explore what happens when the desire to live a life of mindfulness comingles with our love of photography. This workshop is suitable for photographers at all levels. Bring the device of your choice and comfortable walking shoes.

JUNE 28–JULY 3

Writing With Love

Exploring Stories (and Life) With an Open Heart

GRANT FAULKNER Tuition $550 ($495 Members)

Writing with love is more important than any craft tool because being open and heartfelt on the page is how we connect with others, ourselves, and the world.

A good story occurs when an author travels into the depths of vulnerability and opens their soul in search of truths that otherwise go untold.

Join Grant Faulkner and learn what happens when writers share the most difficult parts of their story in service of deeper truths. Learn how the contours of a character can change when viewed through the “lens” of an open heart.

Be prepared to write, read, and discuss stories and poems and explore love from all angles.

Grant Faulkner is cofounder of Memoir Nation, cofounder of 100 Word Story, an executive producer on America’s Next Great Author, and the cohost of the popular podcast, Memoir Nation.