Northern New Mexico Retreat: A Women’s Mindfulness Journey to the Heart of Belonging
A Transformational Journey to the Heart of Belonging, in the Enchanted Forest of Northern New Mexico.
Tend to your wounded heart
Heal your relationship to yourself
Awaken your senses and soothe anxiety
Reclaim your mental real estate
Rest, and welcome yourself to belong in your body
Unlock tension and release chronic patterns of holding
Guided art, movement, and somatic therapies
Ceremony, ritual, and group process
Research-backed mindfulness and guided meditation instruction
Vista Verde Retreat is nestled in the enchanted forest in New Mexico between Taos and Ojo Caliente, on 45 acres of piñon and juniper forest, with several hiking trails, classic adobe architecture, and easy access to Taos, Santa Fe, Ghost Ranch, and hot springs.
Slow down, care for your nervous system, and bring your authentic self back to life. Escape the hustle, drama, and noise of daily life and give yourself the gift of coming home to yourself in safety and connection with other heart-centered women. This retreat is an opportunity to rebuild your relationship with living in your body, reclaim your mental real estate, soothe your heartache, rest your nervous system, and resource yourself with mindfulness, interpersonal connection, and sensory awareness.
During this week together, we’ll cultivate skills for taking refuge in the present moment and embark upon a journey of loving awareness across our lifespan, making space to welcome all of our humanness. Along the way, we’ll invite acknowledgment of our collective wounding, reconnection with our divine feminine, retrieval of the fractured pieces of our souls, and new possibilities for how to relate to belonging in the world. We’ll dance, sing, paint, hike, meditate, write, and play together, as well as take time on our own to deepen into our personal experiences of being human.
Your journey will be facilitated by Dr. Cynthia Garner, certified mindfulness instructor, somatic psychotherapist, and host of the Welcome You Podcast.
Healing begins when you slow down and welcome yourself as you already are, without judgment, right here in the present moment. At the core of relational trauma is a deeply fractured relationship with ourselves. It is in doing the work of repairing this relationship that we can begin to heal this core wound - that of belonging in our own bodies.