Ignite your authentic self. Return to the divine knowing of your innermost intuition and illuminate your path of alignment. Join Alexa Shackelford of Breathing Back to You and Alex Ballew of Secret River Sounds as they guide you through an immersive breathwork and sound experience. We will be combining the healing modalities of conscious breath, primal release and vibrational sound to bring you back to YOU.
Your Guides
Alexa Shackelford is a Certified Breathwork Facilitator, Sound Practitioner, and Founder of Breathing Back to You. With over a thousand hours of facilitation experience, Alexa weaves together breath, sound, and energy work, creating a safe container from which people can heal from past trauma and align with their highest potential. Everything she shares has grown out of her own healing journey, allowing her to provide compassionate wisdom for her community. Alexa is passionate about guiding others back home to their own sacred truth, because she knows that's where we find the peace we all deeply desire.
Alexa Shackelford
Alex Ballew
Alex Ballew is a Sound Bath Facilitator, Breathwork Teacher, Gong expert and Founder of Secret River Sounds. He is on a mission to use vibrational sound therapy and breathwork to help people find connection with themselves and others. He wants to bring joy, authenticity, unity and hope into everything he does. Secret River Sounds is spreading healing vibrations in the name of wellness, empowerment and love.
This retreat experience is designed to create a safe container for you to come alive and tap into your primal being. It’s a place to be wild. A place to heal. An opportunity to howl, to scream, to laugh, to cry. With the power of breath we can remove trauma that’s been stored in the body. Through vibrational sound we can tap into deep stillness. We’ll embark on a journey of multiple breathwork sessions and sound baths. We’ll burn what no longer serves us with a fire release ceremony. We’ll feel into medicinal movement with ecstatic dance, and we’ll savor the sacred plant medicine of cacao.
Thursday, 11/7:
4pm - 6pm: Arrival and settle in
6pm - 7pm: Dinner
7:30pm - 8pm: Opening Circle
8pm - 9:15pm: Sound Bath with Alex
Friday, 11/8:
7:30am - 8:45am: Yoga (all levels) with special guest teacher Alexis Avery
9am - 10am: Breakfast (eat light)
11:30am - 1:00pm: Transformational Breathwork with Alexa
1:00pm - 2:00pm: Lunch
2:00pm - 5:00pm: Free time to hike, get massage, reiki, chill.
5:00pm - 5:45pm: Dynamic Breathwork with Alex
6:00pm - 7pm: Dinner
7:30pm - 9pm: Dual Sound Bath with Alexa and Alex
Saturday, 11/9:
9am - 10am: Breakfast
10am - 1pm: Free Time to hike, get massage, reiki, chill.
1pm - 2pm: Lunch
3:30pm - 5:30pm: Primal Breathwork and Sound Bath with Alexa and Alex
6:00pm - 7:00pm: Dinner
7:30pm - 9pm: Fire Circle and Release Ceremony
Sunday, 11/10:
8am - 9am: Breakfast
9:30am - 10am: Embodied Breathwork with Alexa
10am - 11am: Ecstatic Dance with Alexa
11:00am - 11:30am: Closing Sound Bath with Alex
11:30am - 12:30pm: Closing Circle and Cacao
1pm - 2pm: Lunch
2pm: Departure
Heartwood Retreat Center is nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains just an hour and half north of Atlanta. This wholesome mountain getaway ensures a memorable experience and includes:
A beautiful indoor and outdoor studio for gathering.
Delicious meals cooked with intention (and ability to adjust to dietary restrictions).
A living space ideal for connection and community.
An infrared suana and jacuzzi.
Hiking trails and a reflection pond.
Additional wellness services like Thai Yoga Bodywork, EFT tapping and Reiki.
84 Eagle’s Pass Blue Ridge, GA 30513
The Deadline to sign up is 11:59pm on Monday, 11/4/24.
Private King Room: SOLD OUT
Private Queen Room: SOLD OUT
Shared Rooms (per person):
Due to the complex nature of curating retreats, the policy of this offering if you cancel is NO REFUNDS. You are welcomed to sell your spot to someone else with advanced coordination with retreat hosts.
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