7 Day Spiritual Bootcamp: Living in Love

A day in the life:

Imagine starting your day surrounded by the sights, sounds and smells of nature where the only thing on your calendar is to take care of you. Experience a morning routine that involves self-love and a journey into yourself and the ways you want to be. Receive expert guidance in breath work, meditation, yoga, healthy eating and mindfulness.

After the morning practice, nourish yourself with delicious plant-based food, a swim in the pool, a meaningful conversation or even a nap.

The afternoon is for learning and understanding the power of what you are doing on a deeper level than you ever have before. Start to plant the seeds to take some of these new tools home with you so you feel good long after the retreat is over.

As the sun sets we wind down our day with a big family-style dinner, reflections and lots of laughs. Make it a habit to recap your day in gratitude, what went well and what will you start to shift. Our evening practices of sound baths and yoga Nidra will set you up for deep and restful sleep.

This retreat is for you if:

you’re ready to make a shift in your life, whether it is finding more joy in the present moment or something much bigger. We are obsessed with helping people live each day as the best day of their lives.

Changing your environment

The first step in true change is to get out of your “known” by changing your physical environment. By changing your physical environment you are immediately creating new neural pathways and the opportunity to have new experiences by stepping into the unknown. By waking up each day and having the same experiences over and over again, we become conditioned to our external environment and it becomes extremely hard to change.

Changing your habits

In order to create new habits the first step is simply to recognize the ones we have and which ones we would like to change. By stepping out of our day-to-day we get a broad snapshot of our lives and can begin to prune away the thoughts and feelings we want to change, this leads to better decisions and eventually we develop new habits.

Changing your life

Whether you want to just feel a bit better, feel a bit more joy or gratitude in your life, or perhaps you need to fully reset, that change begins with a first step and with knowledge. We pride ourselves on meeting you where you are. We have had people come on our retreats that are of all ages and all races. The have all kinds of different jobs (especially jobs devoted to helping others). They face all kinds of challenges, but they all have one thing in common, they say “yes” to change.

Here’s what we will teach you…

Meditation

The word meditation means to become familiar with. So as you become familiar with the thoughts, behaviors, and emotions of the old self,⁣ you’re retiring that old self. When you have the proper formula and do this enough times, it’ll begin to become familiar to you. We will give you this formula!

We will teach you how to:

• Release – thoughts, emotions, and decisions that no longer serve you
• Manifest – how to draw experiences to you through mindful meditation
• Harness – how to take the feeling of meditation with you after you finish

Breathing techniques

Many people don’t realize that our body’s main system of detoxification and disease prevention is through breathing. Breath also directly affects our central nervous system, brain, and heart health. These practices have been passed down as a way to become more self-aware, heal ourselves and calm our minds.

We will teach you how to use your breath to regulate multiple systems in the body. The yogis call breathing techniques “pranayama” prana is said to be the life force that moves all things and Yama means “to expand” — when we harness that force we become truly unlimited. We will teach you breathing techniques for:

• Energizing – waking up the body and the vital internal functions of the body
• Balancing – bringing us back into homeostasis and a calm, clear state
• Resting – preparing for deep and lucid sleep so you benefit from truly letting go

Movement/Yoga

Learn how to develop a safe and effective moving meditation practice for anybody and any body, a practice that you can take anywhere and do anytime. You will learn to look at yoga as a “work in” not a “work out” – a way to develop more self awareness and something you genuinely love to do from John Quirk, a master yoga teacher with over 1,000 hours of training and thousands of students taught. Whether you are brand new to yoga or an experienced practitioner, there’s plenty to help your yoga practice on this retreat.

Our system emphasizes breath, internal awareness and fun (fun is mandatory). In this way, the practice is therapeutic, healing and something you genuinely enjoy doing. Yoga was created as a system of self awareness to achieve longer meditations and higher levels of consciousness and we honor that in the way we teach. We will teach you:

• Foundations – how to take simple movement patterns and link them together
• Flow – how to link your movements with your breath to turn your practice into moving meditation
• Progression – no matter where you are, we will give you steps and support to advance your practice and maximize your time on your mat

Cold Therapy

Athletes have known about many of the physiological benefits of cold therapy for years, the latest science suggests in addition to muscle recovery we can actually become better at fighting off disease, have decreased cortisol levels (stress hormone) and even burn calories.

Our favorite benefit of the cold however is the difficulty, it’s never easy but it is always rewarding to push yourself outside of your comfort zone. This has a profound effect on the brain and your ability to overcome challenges.

Science

We live in a time where it is not enough to simply know, we want to know the how and why of what we are doing. To be empowered with knowledge is to also believe in what you are doing, this in turn creates even more benefits for the practitioner. We will teach you:

• Neuroscience – what is actually happening in your brain when you breathe, meditate and move with intention
• Psychoneuroimmunology – how our thoughts, feelings and emotions can literally make us sick or healthy. The science of the interaction between psychological processes and the nervous and immune systems.
• Quantum Physics – how energy is literally everywhere and in everything, especially our thoughts and behaviors.