Reconnect to Your Essence

A Multi-Sensory Healing Retreat

with Ellen Watson, Elizabeth Wolfson & Bianca Chlds

July 29 - 30, 2023

Santa Barbara, California

This retreat is an opportunity to shape your future through time set aside for embodied presence and engagement with self and others. By joining others in a professionally facilitated exploration of creative, conscious sensory awareness  you begin a path to well-being that is uniquely yours.

What is it that you yearn for and want to activate in your life moving forward?

Through a series of experiential exercises, solo, dyads and triads, we’ll journey through all senses, awakening each one…with time for journaling or mandala making throughout the day. 

Reawakening Your Five Physical Senses:

Visual:  Your sense of sight and insight

Auditory: Your sense of sound and hearing

Olfactory:  Your sense of smell

Kinesthetic or Tactile: Your Sense of Touch

Oral: Your Sense of Taste

Your Three Subtle Senses:

Intuition - Your Gut Feelings

Imagination: Your sense of visual imaging - creating your dreams

Inspiration: Your sense…your ability to open yourself epiphanies…both small and large.

What to Bring:

Mat, pillows and anything to enhance comfortable, grounded seating. Comfortable clothes (dress in layers), refillable water bottle. Journal and favorite pen/s, one item representing each of your 5 physical senses.

Meet Your Facilitators

  • Ellen Watson

    Ellen Watson, a somatic and healing arts educator, is on the faculty of Esalen Institute, Big Sur, and travels globally offering retreats, practitioner certification and teacher training programs. Included in these presence-based, mindfulness practices are: Esalen®Massage, Touching Essence™, The 5Rhythms®, Vibrance™ Sound, Song & Dance, Holotropic Breathwork®, and Plant & Visionary Medicine work. Visit: www.Ellen-Watson.com, for more information.

  • Elizabeth Wolfson, PhD

    Elizabeth Wolfson, PhD, is a licensed psychotherapist who has been facilitating groups and retreats for organizations and in her private practice of psychotherapy for over three decades. In addition to her doctorate in social work, she is Certified in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy and Research (California Institute of Integral Studies) and in Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (Ketamine Training Center), Embodied Leadership, Integrative Somatic-Trauma Therapy. While serving as Vice President of Clinical Services for an international Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy company she facilitated psychedelic-assisted therapy services including developing protocols for preparation and integration groups. Prior to that, she was faculty and Chair of Antioch University Santa Barbara’s Clinical Psychology Graduate Program where she developed programs in Healthy Aging, Somatic Psychotherapy, and Leadership. She previously taught at Columbia University School of Social Work and served as Clinical Director within mental health settings.

    Currently, Dr. Wolfson dedicates her professional expertise to providing psychotherapy services and healing retreats within her private practice in Santa Barbara, while offering consultation to practitioners and companies providing medicine therapies. As a seasoned clinical practitioner and group facilitator, Dr. Wolfson draws from holistic, person-centered, integrative and somatically oriented psychotherapeutic approaches aimed at personal, professional and spiritual empowerment, growth and well-being.

    Visit: http://elizabethwolfson.net/ or https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-wolfson-83738732/

  • Bianca Chlds

    Bianca Childs is an inspiring Esalen® Massage practitioner and licensed Esthetician. She has been deeply influenced by the innovative forms of somatic and healing arts rooted in Esalen studies, Ayurveda, Yoga, Aromatherapy and Sound Healing. Bianca incorporates mindfulness-based modalities that address every aspect of body, mind, spirit & energy into her innovative holistic practice facility in Santa Barbara.

    https://biancachilds.com

Registration Policy

Your spot in the retreat is reserved upon receipt of tuition payment and confirmation of registration. As we are reserving this space exclusively for you, refunds are not available for cancellation. 

We reserve the right to turn anyone away from the group at any point who may not be a good fit for the group (refund provided).

Questions? Please contact:

dr.elizabethwolfson@gmail.com

Pricing & Payment

Tuition

Before July 7, 2023

$900 ( All Inclusive )

After July 7, 2023

$1,200 ( All Inclusive )