
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
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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.
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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/
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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