Contemplative spaces for slowing down, deepening perception and entering the work through embodied practice, ritual, reflection and direct experience.
Retreats at Healing Institute are immersive spaces for stepping out of ordinary pace and entering a more conscious relationship with experience.
Rooted in Awareness Attunement, each retreat creates conditions for listening more deeply to the body, softening habitual perception, and exploring the relationship between awareness, emotion, nature, ritual and everyday life.
These spaces are not designed as escape, but as a return: to presence, to sensation, to relationship, to the intelligence of lived experience.
The Retreat Field
A retreat is a temporary field of practice.
Within that field, the usual structures of time, productivity and identity can soften. There is more space to notice what is present, what has been moving quietly beneath the surface and how the body carries experience.
Through meditation, embodied inquiry, ritual, movement, reflection, dialogue, rest and time in nature, retreats support a deeper attunement to the way life is being perceived and lived.
What Retreats May Include
Contemplative practice and meditation
Embodied inquiry and somatic awareness
Ritual and symbolic practice
Emotional integration and reflection
Energy awareness and subtle-body practice
Movement, breath and stillness
Nature-based practice
Group dialogue and relational presence
Journaling, creative inquiry and integration
Who Retreats Are For
Retreats are for people who feel called to slow down and listen more deeply.
They may support those moving through transition, creative threshold, grief, uncertainty, inner change or a desire to reconnect with the body and the deeper movement of life.
They are also for practitioners, facilitators, teachers, leaders and people already engaged in inner work who want to enter a more embodied and contemplative field of practice.
Upcoming Retreats & Immersions
No Retreats Currently Open
There are no retreats currently open for registration.
New retreat spaces are being shaped in alignment with the evolving direction of Healing Institute.
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Past Retreat Fields
Healing Institute retreats have taken different forms over the years, from yoga and meditation immersions to contemplative gatherings, embodied practice spaces and retreat experiences rooted in nature, ritual and shared inquiry.
Healing Academy Retreat
An immersive retreat held as part of the Healing Academy program, focused on embodiment, contemplative practice, relational presence, community integration, silence and direct experience.
Meet The Goddess
shift away from feminine spirituality branding toward: ritual, symbolic practice, contemplative embodiment, and direct experience
Participant Reflections
It was a beautiful experience to see how our processes, as a group, moved us — how we supported each other, grew, changed, complemented and reflected one another. Huge thanks for guiding us, holding the space, the clear explanations, patience, discipline, gentleness, understanding, honesty, support and love we received while creating a new image of ourselves.
Pauli creates a space where a person can come face to face with themselves — with their potential and their shadow. It is not always easy. There are places in us that we are reluctant to look into, and moments when we prefer to look away from our own mistakes, fears and doubts. Pauli is there as a guide and companion who says: look, understand and move on.
From the very first moments, I felt surrounded by warmth and unconditional acceptance, which allowed me to open my heart and mind to what was ready to happen. Pauli guided me through the process of self-discovery with extraordinary empathy and gentleness. It taught me that every obstacle is an opportunity to develop and deepen my spiritual awareness.
Enter A Retreat Space
Explore future immersions and pathways for entering Awareness Attunement through direct experience.
For a deeper, year-long commitment to contemplative practice, explore the Healing Academy.