Whole Body Healing Retreats

This retreat offers our families opportunities for meaningful experiences, learning tools, and engaging in adventures, challenges, and fun activities. Teachers Becky Obray and Angela Melzer are motivated to develop something that aids in coming together as a family, and as a community. Numerous people have expressed a desire to attend a retreat, but they often feel torn between personal meaning making and a family vacation. We aim to create an experience that combines both, eliminating the need to choose. With a curriculum of mindfulness meditation, nervous system regulation tools, yoga practice and Ayurvedic principles, this retreat has all the components for learning and still will offer plenty of time for exploring, relaxing and playing. Learn more and sign up for the retreat.  

Retreat Highlights

Overview of the basic retreat curriculum includes the following (all activities are optional to attend):

• Meditation instruction and group practice
• Learn stress management tools from a mindfulness and nervous system standpoint
• Yoga classes for adults and kids alike
• Ayurvedic practices that the whole family can use
• Cacao Ceremony

  Overview of the Activities that are all included:

• Rainforest hikes, Waterfall hikes
• River Rafting two days/option to hike
• Learn about rainforest conservation
• Tubing the River/paddleboarding
• Relax in waterfall pools that feel like a fairyland
• Adventurous 8 Zip lines course

Meet Your Retreat Leaders

 

Angela Melzer LCSW, OT, SEP

Angela is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who practices as a psychotherapist, and owns an integrative health clinic in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. You can view her clinic and bio at emeraldintegrativehealth.com Angela brings together years of experience teaching and practicing meditation, somatic therapy, mindfulness, nervous system healing and self-exploration. Angela will be offering her extensive knowledge in meditation, somatic therapy, and neuroscience. All of this supporting you in deepening a connection with yourself and wisdom within during retreat while incorporating play and community.    

Becky Obray

Becky’s background in Exercise Science gave her the education necessary to begin a deeper teaching practice of Pilates and Yoga. With a passion and understanding of mind, body and spirit, and her subsequent studies at Kripalu, she opened her own business; Sole Balance Ayurveda LLC.  She currently practices as an Ayurvedic Practitioner, Ayurvedic Yoga Guide and Functional Pilates Instructor. Becky’s heart lies in the choice to authentically live and breathe a holistic, wellness lifestyle.  She loves learning and teaching through the ancient lens of Yoga and Ayurveda.  She believes the imbalances of the body, mind, emotions and spirit are our personal callings to find truth and consciousness in our lives.