A year-long journey to resilience, rhythm & reconnection
Resilience Begins in Rhythm
Our Rhythms Retreats Series offers four seasonal mini retreats designed to help your body remember what safety and calm feel like through movement, breath, and community.
Why Resilience Begins in Rhythm
Your body was made for rhythm. Just like the seasons shift from rest to growth to fullness to release, your nervous system is designed to cycle between activation and recovery.
But modern life pulls us out of those patterns, and when we ignore our natural ebb and flow, the nervous system gets stuck in vigilance, depletion, or overwhelm.
Living in rhythm isn’t just poetic. It’s physiological.
When you align your inner rhythm with nature’s seasonal rhythm, you teach your body how to:
- Regulate energy more naturally
- Recover before burnout
- Feel grounded instead of rushed
- Trust your own timing again
Each Rhythms Retreat is a guided practice in remembering what safety, calm, and resilience feel like… and giving your body a predictable cycle it can rely on.
They’re an intentional pause to res{e}t and reconnect with your own rhythm and the rhythm of the world around you.
Rhythm creates resilience.
Repetition makes it real.
Reflections from Past Retreats
“This is magic. It creates real connection and gives you a sense of calm that helps you come back to yourself.”
~ Jacki
“This is a safe place to reset and connect with a supportive community.”
~ Kelli
“A lovely way to let go for an evening and reconnect with a quieter mind. A little movement, a little art, a little reflection, and a wonderful time to connect with supportive people.”
~ Megan
What You’ll Experience in the Rhythms Retreat Series
Each retreat becomes an anchor point in your year, a predictable moment to reset, reconnect, and remember your body’s natural rhythm.
Awakening into Action Spring Retreat — March 21, 2026
A gentle emergence from winter. You’ll awaken your energy, clear mental clutter, and reconnect with the sense of possibility that lives inside you.
What to Expect:
- Community connection
- Gentle, yet invigorating yoga practice – accessible to all levels
- Sound Healing
- Brunch
- Self-reflection
- Space to create a plan for putting Winter’s intentions into action
- Activities to realign with your inner wisdom and the wisdom of Spring’s balance
Time:
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
Location:
Dan-D Farms
1978 112th Place
Knoxville, IA 50138
Solstice Celebration of Rhythms Retreat — June 20, 2026
🔥Summer Fire: Kindling & Connecting with Your Sacred Rage
Summer carries a fire energy… and so do you.
This is an invitation to stop ignoring or managing that fire and start letting it move through you.
In this retreat, we’ll journey through the season of the solstice together — opening in community, moving through somatic and active practices outdoors and building to the heart of the work: Sacred Rage.
You’ve already begun to emerge.
You felt what was possible when you slowed down, listened inward, and trusted what was already within you.
Now it’s time to meet the fire.
The anger you’ve tucked away. The resistance you’ve called a personality trait. The masks you’ve worn so long you forgot they were masks.
Because underneath all of it isn’t a problem to fix, it’s fuel. And it’s yours.
What to expect:
- 🍫 Cacao ceremony to open the container and arrive together
- 🌳 Somatic and active movement practices outdoors
- 🔥 Teaching and embodied exploration of Sacred Rage
- 🎭 Mask work: uncovering what you show the world and what lives underneath
- 💥 A ritual release… breaking open what no longer serves you
- 🌕 Small group witnessing and heart-centered connection
- ✨ Closing anointing ceremony and fire pit gathering
What’s left is yours to keep… including a piece of your own gold.
Time:
4:00 – 8:00 PM CT
Location:
Pawsome Acres
1020 Nevada St.
Knoxville, IA 50138
Harvest Rhythms Retreat — September 26, 2025
Step away from the hustle of back-to-school season and into a slower, harvest rhythm. This evening retreat blends somatic movement, breathwork, sound healing, and reflective practices to help you notice what this year has grown in you, and gently release what’s ready to go.
Leave feeling lighter, more present, and ready to carry the best of this year forward into the season ahead.
What to Expect:
🌾 Grounding movement and breathwork to arrive fully present
🕯️ A guided presence practice, exploring connection through partnered witnessing
🎶 Sound healing to support deep rest and release
🍂 Reflection on how this year’s growth has rippled into your relationships and life
🔥 An intentional release ritual, making space for forgiveness
🤝 Small-group connection and compassionate witnessing
🍎 A charcuterie table and seasonal cider to nourish you
✨ A closing gratitude ritual to honor what’s been harvested
Time:
4:00 – 7:30 PM CT
Location:
Rural Knoxville, IA, address upon registering
Winter Solstice Candlelight Yoga Rhythms Retreat — December 18, 2026
“Take the time to reconnect with yourself, nurture yourself, and reflect.”
~ Monica
“An evening of openness, clarity, community, and acceptance.”
~ Jill
“I have a friend who could really help you feel less overwhelmed. I think you should come with me to a retreat.”
~ Brianna
Rhythm Reconnection Bundle Opening Circle Bonus
The Opening Circle is a short, two-day window at the start of registration for those who feel ready to step in and commit to the year ahead.
It’s a way of honoring those who choose to begin with intention and move with the rhythm from the very start.
Because these bundles are thoughtfully curated and prepared in limited quantities, they are reserved for a small number of participants during this initial window.
Reconnection Foundations
Each participant who joins during the Opening Circle (by 11:59 PM CDT Monday, February 2, 2026) will receive:
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- Custom seasonal pottery piece at each retreat
- Custom curated seasonal tea at each retreat
- Custom curated seasonal body or room spray at each retreat
- Eye pillow with removable cover (one for the year)
Seasonal Nourishment Supports
Along with the Reconnection Foundations, those who join during the Opening Circle will also receive rotating seasonal nourishment gifts aligned with each retreat theme.
Many of the included in the Rhythm Reconnection Bundle and Seasonal Nourisment Supports are from local farmers and artisans.
Seasonal Nourishment Supports will be available for purchase for the full year or single retreats after the Opening Circle Bonus closes.
Spring
- Seed packets
- Jar of local honey
- Grounding Breath Practice guide
Summer
- Blue Gate Farm organic cooking or finishing salt blend
- Two Electrolyte packets
- Mini s’more kit
Harvest*
- Organic Blue Gate Farm popcorn kernels
- Handmade reusable microwave popcorn bag
Winter*
- Bath soaking salts
- Vegan hot chocolate
*Supports are subject to change depending on availability from producer.
Choose Your Rhythm
Whether you’re ready to commit to a full year of seasonal support or want to begin with a single retreat, you’re invited to choose the path that fits where you are right now.
Rhythms Retreat Series Bundle
Best value • Best Momentum- Spring • Summer • Harvest • Winter
- Expand your window of tolerance for stress — gradually and sustainably.
- Learn to trust your innate rhythm instead of world-imposed urgency.
- Stop starting over… One decision now, support all year
- Reduce decision fatigue around self-care and reflection.
- End the year feeling integrated instead of depleted.
- Pay over time option is $150 for 4 months.
Single Seasonal Retreats
Start with the season you need most- Choose Spring, Summer, Harvest, or Winter
- Meet the season you’re in — physically, emotionally, energetically
- 3-4-hour immersive reset for your nervous system, always including mindful movement, breath work, & reconnection
- Practical tools you can carry into daily life
- Support during a full or transitional season
- Return again when another season calls
- Register for 1 or more retreats as your schedule allows
Why committing to the full year works
Resilience isn’t built in one moment. It’s built through continually facing stress and reconnecting with yourself amidst it… practicing through repetition how you want it to respond in chaos.
By returning to rhythm at consistent points throughout the year, your nervous system learns to settle faster, respond with more steadiness, and recover more fully when life gets chaotic.
Each retreat builds on the last. You stop starting over, create a habit around spiritual self-growth and care, and learn to trust your own rhythm instead of the pace the world sets for you.
You end the year feeling integrated – not depleted.
Why one retreat may be the right fit
Sometimes what’s needed most is a single, well-timed pause.
Choosing one seasonal retreat allows you to meet yourself exactly where you are — without committing beyond what feels supportive right now.
This option is ideal if you’re new to this work, navigating a full season of life, or want to experience a retreat before deciding on a longer rhythm.
You can always add another season later.
“When you take time for yourself, it’s rewarding in ways you don’t expect.
This is a place where you can experience things in your own way without judgment.
Movement, breathing, reflection, and community all come together to help calm your body and mind.”
~ Leah