You spend so much of your life doing.

Planning. Managing. Solving. Remembering. Taking care of what needs to happen next.

For four days, practice something different.

Come move your body. Train your attention. Learn how your brain works. Laugh with other women. Wander through Bisbee. Sit under the stars. And experience what happens when you stop rushing through your life long enough to actually be in it.

Step out of autopilot. Come back to your life.

A four-day Awareness Training + movement retreat for busy women.

Is this retreat for you?

YOU'RE REALLY GOOD AT DOING.

You know how to get shit done.

You keep track of the schedule. Remember what everyone needs. Answer the email. Make the appointment. Solve the problem. Plan the thing. Handle whatever just got added to the list.

You are very often the person everyone can count on.

And you're good at it.

So good, in fact, that doing can become your default setting.

Your body is sitting at dinner, but your brain is already running tomorrow's schedule. You're driving home while mentally answering an email. You're on vacation thinking about what needs to happen when you get back. You're having a conversation while another part of your brain is quietly keeping track of the next three things you need to do.

You're there for everything. But you're not always there.

And somewhere in all that doing, it becomes surprisingly easy to move through a life you worked really hard to build, without actually being present enough to experience it.

Peace in Practice is four days to interrupt that pattern.

Not because your life is broken. Not because you need to escape it. Not because we're going to teach you how to stop being ambitious, capable, productive, or really damn good at getting things done…

But because turning off autopilot long enough to notice the life that's happening while you're busy living it, takes training and practice.

This isn't an escape from your life. It's practice coming back to it.

WHAT IF YOU PRACTICED BEING?

Not becoming a better version of yourself. Not optimizing your morning routine.

Not adding “mindfulness” to the list of things you're supposed to be doing.

Just practicing being where you already are.

For four days, we're creating space to notice what happens when you don't have to immediately move on to the next thing.

• You'll wake up in the mountains of Bisbee and start the morning outside, training your attention before the rest of the world gets a chance to claim it.

• You'll move your body because it feels good to move, not because you're trying to fix it.

• You'll learn why your brain slips into autopilot, why your attention goes where it goes, and how to become more intentional about where you put it.

• You'll have conversations that don't need to be squeezed in.

• You'll wander. Eat good food. Laugh. Rest. Explore Bisbee. Sit outside. And learn a habit you can take home to your real life.

MORNING MEDITATION

We'll begin our mornings outside with guided meditation designed to train one deceptively simple skill: Notice where your attention went. Bring it back to the present moment.

No experience required. No expectation that you'll “clear your mind.” You’ll receive plenty of training and guidance on how to practice. I promise, anyone can do it with the right instruction. Wandering is part of the practice. We're training attention, practicing something our brains don’t do by default.

• You'll practice slowing down enough to notice the things that usually disappear into the background.

  The warmth of your coffee. The feeling of your feet on the ground. The sound of someone laughing. The stars above you while you practice.

And little by little, you'll practice something most of us were never actually taught: how to be present for your own life.

SO, WHAT IS PEACE IN PRACTICE?

Part Awareness Training. Part movement retreat. Part girls' weekend in Bisbee.

Peace in Practice is a four-day immersive retreat designed to help you get out of autopilot and become more present for the life you're already living. We have exclusive use of the entire hotel and all lunches and dinners are provided from local culinary gems.

This isn't four days of sitting silently on a meditation cushion. And it isn't a packed wellness itinerary that somehow leaves you needing a vacation from your retreat.

Instead, we're going to learn, practice, move, rest, laugh, connect and actually have some fun.

THAT'S THE PROMISE OF PEACE IN PRACTICE.

You won't leave with a perfectly calm brain. You won't leave with a life that suddenly has fewer demands. And you definitely won't leave with another complicated wellness routine you're supposed to maintain perfectly. You'll leave with something much more useful:

the ability to notice when you've left the moment, and the tools to come back.

Again. And again. And again.

Because peace isn't something you find when everything finally gets done. It's something you practice while your life is happening.

AWARENESS TRAINING

This is the heart of the retreat.

Through practical, science-informed workshops and guided practices, you'll learn how attention actually works, recognize when your brain has slipped into autopilot, notice the stories and thought patterns shaping your experience, and practice choosing where your attention goes next.

Not so you can control every thought. So you can stop letting every thought control you.

DAILY CARDIO

We'll turn up the music and get out of our heads.

Cardio may include cardio-barre or stair climbing through town; combining energizing movement with an opportunity to practice awareness in a completely different way: noticing your body, your breath, your thoughts and your tendency to immediately judge all of the above. Sometimes the fastest way out of your head is through your body.

These sessions, and all sessions, are completely optional.

EVENING YIN YOGA

At the end of the day, we'll shift gears.

Yin gives us a chance to slow the movement down, stay with sensation and practice being still without immediately needing to change what's happening.

No impressive yoga poses required.

Just you, your body and permission to stop doing for a while.

BODY SCAN UNDER THE STARS

We'll close our evenings outside beneath the Bisbee sky with a guided body scan.

Nothing to accomplish. Nowhere else to be.

Just practicing what we've been working on all day: being in the present moment, being where our feet are.