Open Your Heart
A MEDICINE RETREAT FOR SOUL ALCHEMY
a colaboration between Awakening Connections Sanctuary and Expanding.Love
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​Imagine a shift in paradigm: away from conditioned living and towards your most authentic and expansive self - a personal and collective evolution.
Together, we break our hearts wide open and come home to ourselves. Over the course of 3 days and 3 nights, we will come together to create positive change in your body, mind, and spirit. Reconnect with your inner knowing and your deepest soul desires. Learn to make incremental and sustainable shifts in your psycho-emotional state, raising your vibrational frequency, and anchoring these changes in your body.
Our souls chose this life to expand
What makes this retreat special?
For so many of us the journey of coming home to ourselves has been frought with reactivity, trauma, unconscious behavior, and challenge.
The truth is, we never learned how to live empowered, authentic-to-us lives. We learned societal norms passed down culturaly. We adapted to childhoods where our caregivers were not emotionally mature or present with us, or worse, where our physical and emotional safety were at risk. And so we developed maladaptive coping strategies to deal with the lack of nurture and protection we needed to feel safe to explore this world with open hearts.
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"You hold the key to changing your reality"
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It is in the balance between conscious (and unconscious) creation and deep trust that we find our authentic selves, our deepest wisdom, and the life that was meant for us all along.
We hold a profound truth within us: we are the creators of our own reality. Our thoughts, beliefs, and choices shape the reality we live in each day. This doesn't mean controlling every outcome - it means relearning how we respond and what we put our energy towards, rather than being at the whim of our conditioned reactivity.
At the same time, there is undeniable magic in surrender. While we shape our path, we must also trust the unfolding of our human experience. When we resist, we suffer; when we surrender, we allow life to move through us with grace.
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We invite you on a spiritual-emotional journey of self-discovery, healing, and personal power, safely guided and supported by your facilitators.
The Power of a Collective Experience
A group experience fosters a sense of belonging and permission to open up and be real. Come join us for transformative workshops, embodied practices, guided medicine journeys and shared meals.
What to expect
The golden thread throughout this retreat is: bringing more of your authentic self online. Therefore we create an environment that encourages vulnerable, open, and honest experiences. Your openness and realness invites your neighbors to let go of their armor, as well.
Our interactive workshops and group practices invite you into total surrender of your day-to-day protective walls. We guide you safely into shadow-work to unconver hidden beliefs. And through somatic practices, medicine-work, nervous system regulation, and subsconscious rewiring exercises, we invite you into a state of expansion. It is up to you to lean in with courage. ​
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Sacred Plant Medicine in a shared group setting. This is a sacred and devotional container for expansion. You may come up against your internal blocks, you may have an experience of total bliss. Either way, we are here for you. Some are more potent than others - contact us for more detail.
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Embodiment Practices and Breathwork to bring us into the present moment and into our bodies. The body keeps the score, and we are here to change the old paradigm into more of our true essence.
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Kava Ceremony and opening and closing meditations to get us into the present moment and into a heart-open state.
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Shadow Work and an exploration into the depths of our old belief systems and unconscious, reactive behavior. 95-99% of our behavior is unconscious programming - we are here to help change that and empower you to be the person you are meant to be. ​
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Practical and Sustainable Growth Strategies that support your becoming. Unlearn old patterns, and learn new habits. All it takes is practice, commitment, courage, and a vision. We lay the foundation for that, too.
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Breakthroughs and Nervous System Management Techniques that help you digest and metabolize fear and pain into a state of clarity, positivity, and personal autonomy. Maturing emotionally is key to our spiritual evolution. When you leave at the end of the retreat, we want you to feel empowered to apply what you have learned to your daily life.
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Organic Nourishments are provided throughout the day, including breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. What you put in your body matters on a physiological, neural, and nervous system level.
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Rest and Personal Time are important for digestion and integration of this soul-intensive retreat. While most of the time will be spent in connection to others, downtime will also be available for you to replenish yourself.
What's included?
Your guides
Brandy and Welmer have been co-facilitating journeys and retreats for several years, and we are honored to once again bring you this colaboration. Our unique approaches compliment each other well, and together we strive to create a safe and supportive environment for your personal development and soul evolution.
Who is this retreat for?
This retreat is for those who feel called to deep healing, self-discovery, and spiritual expansion. It’s for individuals with a growth mindset—open to learning, evolving, and approaching life differently. True transformation requires radical self-accountability and a willingness to meet yourself fully, without resistance.
"A heart-centered way to life"
Here, we shift the paradigm from pushing for change to allowing it to unfold—releasing the need for control and surrendering to the wisdom of the process. If you're ready to let go of limiting patterns, cultivate inner peace, and step into a more authentic, heart-centered way of living, this retreat offers a sacred space for profound transformation.
This is for you if you are:
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an HSP, empath, or someone who feels a lot
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a survivor of trauma, neglect, abuse
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open to learning and growing
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willing to see your shadows
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willing to take radical accountability
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willing to lean into your fear and pain
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willing to do the inner work
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willing to accept a positive reality can be created
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willing to have deep compassion, acceptance, and patience for yourself and others
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willing to shift your inner paradigms, and challenge outher paradigms
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willing to laugh, cry, dance, move, connect
This is NOT for you if you are:
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stuck in "know it all" attitude
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not ready to look inward
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​unwilling to break your addiction to familiar patterns, thinking, and doing
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unwilling to face your (very understandable) addiction to your emotional state
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unwilling to receive or ask for support
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not actually wanting to change
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want to blame your circumstances, your feelings on things or people outside of yourself
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looking for a quick fix​
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expect this to resolve all of your suffering
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​wanting to go back to your old life
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of the a "man-up" mentality​
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unwilling to challenge conditioning
Transform
Together
Learn to open yourself to life, digest difficult emotions, and move through life with grace and beauty.
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Experience what it means to be accepted and celebrated in a group of humans on similar paths.
What you'll learn
When you leave the retreat, you will be empowered to move through life with more intention, trusting yourself and the unfolding more deeply.
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You'll learn about and practice:
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why you operate the way you operate and how to implement lasting change
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Nervous system management practices
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Somatic and polyvagal exercises to help you move from Fight, Flight, or Freeze into homeostatis
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How to be with your emotions effectively, rather than reacting to them in the familiar ways
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How to cultivate deep compassion, patience, and love for Self and others
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Discover the parts of your psyche that have been neglected, and how to reparent these younger parts so they may feel safe to grow up
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How to be in your body and connect to your intuition
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How to take small incremental steps towards the new you that are sustainable and lasting
Retreat Registration
Choose your payment option below. ​​​​​​​
​​​​​​​The scaled pricing offers three options rather than one fixed price. This structure makes it possible for more people to access the retreat.
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We aim to make this retreat accessible to people of all income levels. Your enrollment in the Generous option makes it possible to add scholoraships for those with limited financial resources.
​​​To secure your spot and make a payment select one of the options. Upon registration and payment, you will receive a welcome email with details on how to access the Participant Portal for helpful preparation instructions and further information.
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A $500 portion of your payment is non-refundable. Read retreat terms and conditions. ​
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Is travel included?No. Travel and airfare are not included. Make your travel plans sooner rather than later. We recommend you book your travel with a refund option through the travel ageny directy. We do not reimburse any expenses for canceled retreat registrations.
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Is accommodation included?No. There are a range of hotels, airbnb's, lakeside properties, and affordable options available in the area. Book your accommodation sooner rather than later. We recommend you book your accommodation with a refund option through the lodging ageny directy. We do not reimburse any expenses for canceled retreat registrations.
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Can I get a refund if I can't make it?No. We understand sometimes shit happens and you can't make it. We are happy to apply your balance to a future event of equal or greater value. You forfeit your $500 non-refundable deposit.
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Can I get a refund for accommodation and travel expenses if I have to cancel my trip?No. We do not reimburse any travel or lodging expenses of any kind. We recommend you book your travel and accommodation with a refund option directly through the agency. We do not reimburse any expenses for canceled retreat registrations.
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What medicine will you be serving?We operate under the protection of the Awakening Connections Sanctuary 508 faith-based organization and its applicable laws and regulations. Please contact us for information about the medicine.
Questions
about medicine, facilitators, etc
Retreat location: Kemp TX
5pm Thurday May 22 - 3pm Sunday May 25
Text Brandy: (469) 525-6700
Text Welmer: (303) 710-9233