FOUNDATIONS OF THRIVING:
Deepening Intimacy + Harmonizing Connection & Power
AN ADVANCED COUPLES EXPERIENTIAL | EMBODIED SKILLS FOR RENEWAL + GROWTH
In Person Retreat
This In-Person Retreat is:
EXCLUSIVE
for participants who have completed the 7-Part Month-Long Online Immersive
JOURNEY-WORK
3 nights 4 days
Hosted in The Berkshires, MA
Mid-January dates TBD
Friday, Day 1
Arrive Friday @5pm for retreat orientation, check ins, intentions, group invocation/ prayer
Dinner
Rest mingle and relax
Saturday, Day 2
Journey Day -
Breakfast
Review of principals and group keystones.
Guided meditation and light Breathwork to launch.
Process 5/6 hours
Movement
Integrate the discoveries of the journey
Closing circle
Dinner
Fireside hangs / free time
Rest
Massages (Add on $)
Sunday, Day 3
Breakfast
Morning meditation guided slow intuitive movement body awareness practice
- AM Integration circle -
Free Time
Enjoy the day! Walks, hikes, lounge, connect with eachother.
Time to privately sit with Roger and/or Antonia or members of our support team - solo or coupled for counsel (sign up sheet with time slots).
Massages (Add on $)
Lunch
Hang time // free time // counsel time
Dinner
Micro Journey
Gong Sound Bath
Intuitive Movement
Group shares
Closing Blessings
Monday, Day 4
Breakfast
Smooth transitions back into the world
$1,444.00 per person
(cost may alter slightly)
A Group Experiential: Peeling back the Layers of the Sacred Relationship Learning Grounds
Our couples experiential approach is informed by Hakomi Therapy, Kessler's survival strategies, A.H Almaas, Gottman, attachment theory, Internal Family Systems, and Gestalt Therapy. It represents a mindful, body-based, experiential, and trauma-framed process modeled on the expectation that external relationship dynamics reflect the internal -- balancing freedom and connection, honoring cycles of differentiation and integration, moving not into fusion but toward the interdependent partnership of two whole and separate individuals.
We can discover true nature through the relationship as a spiritual practice.
In an intimate relationship, life introduces chaos and conflict, it throws curve balls from outside: work, health, world events to inside: deep seated patterns, armors, wounds, traumas, blind spots. And in facing these challenges, we are thrust into the unknown and into deeper questions about ourselves, the relationship and how to live. The shared growth journey of two ever-changing people remains a lifelong process. Facing the waves of life, the relationship is one of our deepest learning grounds. It is a sacred reflection of where we are. It is a catalyst for self-awareness.
Our inner patterns + wounding disturb our ability to connect and remain connected at an intimate level. Seemingly harmless words or actions can trigger a change in states and instant conflict.
In this experiential, we begin with foundational concepts and somatic explorative practices based upon understanding the core 5 survival strategies that exist and manifest in our personalities and deeper layers of seeing and experiencing ourselves in the world.
The understandings of our patterns help us understand the primary and ancestral experiences that inform and influence the lens we perceive the world from and how we interact, relate, react, or respond in relationship to self, other, and the world.
We also learn what engenders compassion and evolution and what blocks it.
As you deepen and progresses, we work with advanced practices and processes that help us bring more compassion and care towards ourselves and our partner into our everyday lives.
We want to learn how to be with each other in a way that will deepen and expand the relationship, give it the freedom, and the opportunity to develop its potential.
Just as our soul can develop, our relationships can develop.
What makes this highly experiential immersive unique?
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Presence meets Depth Psychology Maps | A Life-alterring Shift in Self-Awareness
By identifying our stances (core patterns) and dances (of disconnection + connection) with the support of Kessler’s personality patterns, we will support you in practicing how to more safely and vulnerably clarify + communicate from challenging experiences and emotions. These patterns + defenses form the deep subconscious of the body, sense of connection, sexuality, and emotional life - which are all connected. As light is cast in the shadow, it begins to heal and we will explore new ways of connecting, unlocking experiences deep parts of you have longed for. These core insights are a gift you can’t unsee.
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Compassionate Communication Skills + Self-tracking Skills to Navigate, Support + Contact ourselves and our Partner in the Hardest Moments:
We will consistently practice together the somatic presencing of emotions + sensations + memories real-time. There is a dynamic learning process that happens. This skill of self-tracking opens for you both presence-based communication skills in the hardest moments. The practices will support you in increasing accessibility, vulnerability, openness, de-shaming, decreasing reactivity, and increasing intimate emotional responsiveness. We will also practice with communicating specific needs of your own and your partner’s core pattern, and learn how to truly honor and meet those needs. You will have an opportunity to practice working together in creating supportive impromptu containers for intimate sharing and healing.
“Relationship is a mirror. Every moment the other can be a window that reveals you, exposes you. The closer the relationship, the clearer is the mirror.”
Your Guides Antonia + Roger
As a fellow couple committed to growth, we are passionate about relationships and relationship as a vehicle of growth. We are honored and excited to guide and share the space with you, diving into the deeply rewarding journey of this retreat, the explorations and discoveries, and the real-time intimacy and tracking. We are here to support each couple in their unique experience. We look forward to growing alongside you as the group genius of this living container brings forth healing, empowerment, and gems for us all,
We both have our own private practice and work with couples one-on-one as well as couples therapy. When a couple wants to dive in deeply, we offer an immersive opportunity where we both work them for 1-5 days in a transformative couples retreat.
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Antonia is an intuitive energy healer and guide. She walks through your worlds with you with exceptional safety and security throughout your paradigm shifts, holding you with love, compassion, grace and skill in becoming realized in your Divine expression, supporting you in living through your heart’s intuition, and guideing you towards embodying your innate essence.
Through her trauma informed understanding that nonverbal expression reveals more than our verbal stories can ever tell about the core material that organizes our experiences, she works with the body as a direct route to the unconscious.
Antonia has a profound adeptness and deftness in working with the body, self and soul on all levels, and in the multidimensional field. Through through the wisdom of the body, and setting up experiments in mindfulness, we can an invoke the psychedelic experience without the psychedelics.
Between co-regulation and self regulation, deep full body listening & awareness, Antonia supports your self healing by evoking and midwifing you through your body and soul's natural, healing processes and through re-consolidating formative experiences using the relational space and sometimes, support from others, including comforting touch.
Antonia has been practicing, and facilitating deep meditation journeys for 22 years, using various modalities.
She leads a yearlong immersive training, theRainbowBridges.com to support therapists, healers, bodyworkers, leaders, change agents, guides and facilitators.
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Roger is a somatic therapist, awakening + embodiment guide, and facilitator of transformational journeys. 17 years ago, inspired by an awakening, he committed himself to a lifelong path of rubber-meets-the-road growth and sharing it with others along the way.In his session-work, the transformative power is in the catalyzing field of co-regulated presence. You can start with anything in your life that is alive for you right now. The present moment is the starting place, and looking deeply is the journey. The body and emotions are deeply affected by the shared inquiry process, as the deeper body awakens, purges, heals, and reveals its histories and secrets. Together, he navigates with you in a safe, deep and compassionate process towards naturally emergent discoveries that pivotally change one’s inner-outer experience.
Roger has been practicing + facilitating deep journeys and gatherings for over a decade, using various modalities.
“My process is still unfolding within me. I know it has changed the trajectory of my life. I feel an immense gratitude that I was able to participate in this program.
Antonia’s method of teaching is organic, adept, and with a high level of skill and compassion. The sessions themselves were full of information, tools, and techniques, a high level of density of material. They also were very experiential, with time to practice new techniques with each other and really let the material sink in. There was an expansive nature to the work, where we would learn a lot in sessions and then take it home and let it sink in over time. The cohort was full of supportive, kind, intuitive, beautiful individuals that I am honored to be able to walk with.
Every module I came away with new insights about myself and my place in this greater dance that we are all in together. There were some surprising synchronicities as well. I am more at ease with my being and in how I walk forward in life than ever before. I feel blessed and honored beyond measure to have had the opportunity to be growing and creating together with all of you. <3”
— Kristen
“Roger is a master tracker - among the finest of minds. Yet he’s soft. There’s a patient heart to this man that naturally opens the paths of insight within me. Bountiful kudos are owed to him for facilitating a process that is as disarming and gentle as it is incisive, deep, and clear.”
— Award-winning Film Director Emmett Brennan ('Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective', 'Reflection: A Walk with Water')
