PSYCHE-SOMA Holistic Wellness Immersion

with Yasha S. Wagner and all retreat facilitators together

Sound Meditation integrates the interplay of sacred sound and silence, stillness and vibration, washing waves of energy over the soul and psyche to restore and rejuvenate every cell of our being. It can include various world music and native flute journeys, drum songs, didgeridoo, chimes and Tibetan bells or singing bowls, traditional world chants and benevolent incantations invoking sacred names and transmissions from around the world, nature-based sounds like whistles, rattles, and Chakapa leaves, sometimes strings or shrutis and other elements to facilitate the inner journey of the mind and spirit during the meditation as an inward contemplation and regenerative release, harmonizing and balancing the nervous system. This sound meditation practice can be done sitting or lying down and will be the calming integration space sprinkled as a contemplative practice through the retreat. Note: Modern scientific studies have also supported the effectiveness of traditional sound meditations.

with Yasha S. Wagner and InterWorld EcoVillage members

During this retreat we will be introducing some breathwork practices and conscious breathing techniques for activating the subtle body and energy centers, oxygenating the blood and brain, removing blockages and contractions, and opening up the coherent flow of creative energy through our whole psychophysical system. Tapping into the unconscious by bringing awareness to autonomic functions, this practice helps balance and harmonize the nervous system.

Some of the practices we introduce include traditional yogic exercises called the psychophysicals, which combine intention and awareness with nasal breathing and physical movements. These also function as a warm up leading into cold plunge or cold water immersion. Modern science has now confirmed the miraculous power of practices like cold-plunge for a safe, low-cost, and extremely effective way to activate high energy levels and sustained, long-lasting mental clarity, without any deteriorating or negative side-effects.

We may also share some other special breath meditation practices from around the world, based in life long study with diverse global cultures and transmission lineages. For example, we may share walking meditation practices that combine conscious walking and breathing to help participants enjoy and make the most of the contemplative walking trails on our land at the ecovillge.

(drawing and visioning workshop)

This is a very effective and creative opportunity for you to find mind blowing clarity and inspiration to reach for your BIG DREAMS. You will construct a powerful Visioning Mandala using intentional drawing practices, creative visualizations, reflective journaling, musical affirmations, (and so much more!). In tandem, you will develop a clear and actionable plan to manifest your desired future. This is not woo woo. This really works! Beautiful live music will be provided by singer and multi-instrumentalist, James Caran, to support your inspired artistic journey. All drawing levels welcome. All materials provided.

Headlining Dance Set with a Rising Star

Please enjoy this big celebration on day 4 with live music by DJ & producer (+ InterWorld collaborator) Bloomurian... the concert is a part of the core retreat and is also open to the public for general admission.

Embodied Movement Practice rooted in 5 Rhythms and the 360 Emergence

Facilitated by Emerson Jane

The 360 Emergence is much more than ecstatic dance. Rooted in 5rhythms, It is a guided AND self-guided embodiment practice that in my experience brings me DIRECTLY in touch with God/Goddess Source Creation. It’s a container that invites us to dance *even more* consciously with the ego, mind, body, and soul allowing us to move stored energy through the entire system with awareness, in motion, and in community. It allows us to see where we get caught. Caught in the mind and in the body, while with others. It connects us to the orbital fields that run up and long our central channel and in doing so, creates a felt sense of connection with the seen and the unseen. It’s a coming HOME.

This practice is devotion. We dance to become free. We dance to remember who we are, why we’ve come, and how to show up more authentically. There’s direction~we go IN to expand in ALL directions. We become a walking, moving, dancing embodiment of everything and nothing all at the same time. What a gift to remember how to move, how to be in this way.

💫 Moving for connection

💫 Moving for liberation

💫 Moving with the light and the shadow

💫 Moving as prayer

✨Come explore deeper layers of embodiment as Emerson helps guide this somatic practice~ through The 360 Emergence mapping combined with a live DJ journey set to help drop us deeper into the body~ providing connection, expansion, space, and presence.

✨This practice helps liberate stuck energy in the body and allows us to create more space in the nervous system, it challenges us to be with all we are and teaches us to maintain our center while moving in relationship with others.

💫 A revolutionary movement~ steeped in ceremony~ the dance is the medicine.

✨This is a sober space 😘

What to bring:

💫 Water bottle

💫 Comfortable clothes for movement

💫 Journal and pen

💫 Socks or bare feet

💫 Item for the alter if you feel called

💫 Please be mindful of higiene~ we will most likely be sweating and sharing intimate space, so please be showered, deodorant, etc.

with Professional Rolfer and Doctor of Chiropractic Care, Emerson Jane

Integrating Elements of Rolfing and Network Spinal Chripractic with Emerson Jane

Rolfing Structural Integration, founded by Dr. Ida Rolf is a series of 10 myofascial release sessions designed to systematically open up the body through the fascial planes. It’s a type of bodywork that helps unwind stored energy and trauma in the nervous system and fascia, re-aligning your mental, emotional, and physical structure. It creates more space in the nervous system leading to increased energy, and better overall health and vitality. It can help with chronic pain, headaches, increase range of motion, breathing, and flexibility.

Network Spinal is a technique within Chiropractic founded by Dr. Donald Epstein. During a NetworkSpinal entrainment, we dance together in alleviating spinal cord tension by liberating bound energy held in the central nervous system. We do this by utilizing a series of gentle touches at very specific points called spinal gateways. Meeting these spinal gateways through variously attuned contacts, serves as a reminder for your own innate intelligence to do what it knows best ~ self heal! We are simply shining a light on what is already within; amplifying what is already working.

Accessing the nervous system where it is open, energized, and ready to receive, as opposed to stuck or in pain, initiates the system to utilize the energy rich spaces to self-organize. Resulting in greater, more sustainable coherence in the nervous system. This is a deep, embodied remembering into what it feels like to self-regulate at a higher level & with greater efficiency. Increased bandwidth, coherence, & organization in the nervous system equals increased bandwidth, coherence, & organization in your life.

with James Caran and Ishka Lha of JAMeeSHKA

Gather in a safe and creative space to free your voice and unleash your wild heart!

This is not your typical song circle. While we will be singing and incorporating lyrics and melody into many of our practices, we will also be doing a wide variety of unique vocal exercises to boost your confidence and open up your creative channels. Every human has a voice, and you can take it anywhere, so why not learn how to use it to access the full breadth of your aliveness? Singing (and making all kinds of sounds) has incredible healing benefits including reducing anxiety and depression, feeling more joy and empowerment, as well as boosting your immune system and regulating your nervous system (just to name a few). Come prepared to get loose and a little weird. Incredible sound (and fun!) comes in many forms.

Your guides will be internationally celebrated visionary artist and ritualist, Ishka Lha, who is also a well recognized singer and composer through her music project, JAMeeSHKA, together with touring musician James Caran. Ishka grew up in choral groups, theater, and school bands, but the main focal point of her curiosity and passion today alights on the healing power of the voice and its effect on our overall well being (which is hardly emphasized in more formal music education, sadly). Her loving and playful yet very direct facilitation style will help you feel at ease in exploring the full spectrum of expression that your heart is longing for.

based in Jungian Psychology, Neuroscience, InterWorld Wellness innovations

& Yasha S. Wagner's current PhD research

Have you ever wondered what your dreams really mean? Perhaps you find them troubling… or perhaps you’re enchanted by some rare and vivid visionary dreams… or maybe you just wish you could remember them for once!

Dreamwork can help us understand, release, and make peace with the past, it can improve our learning and clarify decision-making in the present, and it can even help us see the future. Dreamwork can connect us with our soul… and with the soul of the world. It can guide us to find our path and calling in life, to live with a sense of purpose and direction. Tending our dreams can magnetize us to successfully fulfill our unique planetary mission, starting from within. Dreams expand our limits as we traverse worlds and dimensions. They provide guidance, hints, and messages directly from the unknowable yet all-knowing part of you: your ‘capital-S Self.’ Shrouded in mystery and hidden in the depths of your being, this collective archetypal dream realm is a mental matrix charged with primordial psychic energies and visionary patterns. Coming into conscious relationship and dialogue with the living forces that move our lives challenges us to create meaning out of suffering, transmute it into opportunities for growth, and enrich our lives with greater insight, harmony, and connection.

This class is influenced by panpsychism, as well as artistic, psychosomatic, mythopoetic, archetypal, & intercultural approaches. It will introduce both the ancient and modern sciences of dreamwork, brainwave states, circadian & binaural dynamics, astral anatomy, dream yoga & lucid living practices (practical integration of dream work with daily life).

(experiential pariticipatory performance)

Be entertained and inspired by a beautiful and eclectic mix of heart-stirring compositions, vocal play, and a touch of improvisation. JAMeeSHKA performs songs and creates soundscapes that combine live instrumentation, real-time analog manipulation, and looping to create a show that sounds more grand than you could imagine only two people producing.

The wilder more theatrical side of JAMeeSHKA weaves extensive musical improvisation and audience interaction into the mix. Imagine their more traditional music concert, but with plenty of invitations to pARTicipate in beautiful, playful, heart-opening exercises that combine movement and sound throughout the entire show that might feel sublimely silly or seriously shamanic in the blink of an eye. A great choice for the more adventurous participatory crowd, to fully unwind and rewild thyself. Like a dream that you never want to (or have to!) wake up from.

Curation by Ishka Lha

Ishka Lha will weave together an incredible selection of visionary artworks she has created (and by other master artists in her field if desired) to inspire and engage, in alignment with the theme of this transformational gathering.

musical duo

JAMeeSHKA is a San Francisco Bay Area grown live music anomaly, weaving an eclectic blend of heart-stirring harmonies, outlandish vocal play, and creative instrumentation into multi-layered compositions and extensive theatrical improvisation. Every JAMeeSHKA show pulses with raw vocal power, positivity, and poetry on a number of subjects ranging from love, desire, and loss to invocations of personal power, devotion, and magic—but more than anything, they're a call to unity. Co-creators, James Caran and Ishka Lha, delight in producing site-specific art and music journeys for private and public events, frequently causing audiences to erupt with fervid laughter, cry with introspective reverence, and dance in ecstatic wonderment.

Visual Artist Bio

Ishka Lha (pronounced ee-shka-la) is an internationally celebrated visionary artist, writer, ritualist, and mentor devoted to helping others to connect more deeply with their mystic heart. She grew up on a ranch nestled atop rolling golden hills in a very rural area in northern California, where the quiet natural beauty of her childhood surroundings inspired endless imaginative play and creativity. She heavily pursued expressive arts studies (art, music, and theater), excelled in math throughout her formative years, and at university, she earned a Professional Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, with an emphasis on natural building and eco-village design. Shortly after graduation, she set sail for the exploration and creation of art as a healing modality; and she has since integrated her dedication to spiritual growth, harmonious design, and community building into a variety of applied formats for many years.

Ishka is part of a growing visionary art movement dedicated to the evolution of consciousness, and approaches her creative process as a spiritual practice. Her art explores and celebrates the natural radiance inherent in all dimensions of life through the use of neo-traditional iconography and mythology, and she is especially interested in what universal archetypes, symbols, and forms have most helpfully guided humankind's passage through time into greater avenues of mutual respect, understanding, and heartfelt livelihood. Her work is primarily featured in private collections, galleries, healing centers, and transformational art and music events and festivals across the globe.

Music Bio

James Caran was the first kid on the block to own a four-track. Before he could read, he could cut a blues album playing all the instruments himself. Today—hand him an obscure and oblong-shaped artifact, tell him it's a musical instrument, and within an hour he'll be playing it proficiently. Next week he'll be recording it to analog tape.

But James doesn't just make great music. He fosters it. He creates the circumstances wherein music happens. And he does so not simply with his own virtuosic skill, but by bringing great musicians together and letting their uniqueness enrich the groundwork he's laid—producing mixes and engineering sound in multiple different formats and environments for and with countless acts the world over. He has collaborated with some fine folks, establishments, and organizations such as The Roots, Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Coldplay, Naturally Seven, Diana Ross, Michael Bublé, Taj Mahal, the Budokan, Arseneo Hall, Jay Leno, Madison Square Garden, New Orleans Jazz Festival, and The White House. And when he’s not throwin’ down for giant arenas, he’s gettin’ down in the dust on such projects and phenomena as Feed The Artists, Living Pulse, Sacred Spaces, Wagonistas, Jimmy Dies of Dysentery, ManiFest Destiny, Monticello, the DoDo, Red Lightning, and The Soundcave.

As a man of many talents—singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, director, sound engineer, technician, teacher, and creator of countless recording studios, stages, and performance venues across every continent on the globe except Antarctica and the North Pole—all these wildly creative hats he wears are possibly boiled down to just three words: Sound Escape Artist.

Bodywork, Guided Ecstatic Dance

Born & raised in Olathe, Kansas, Emerson has a wide array of experience in hands-on work with the human body. Before her Chiropractic education, Emerson completed her 200hr Yoga teacher training and her certification of Rolfing Structural Integration in Boulder, CO. Emerson has knowledge & certifications in Rolfing, Network Spinal, Hormone Balancing, Nutrition, Somato-Respiratory Integration (SRI), Craniosacral therapy, Neuro-Emotional Technique (NET), among many others.

Emerson is passionate about getting people out of their heads and into their bodies. She’s a practicing chiropractor and Rolfer as well as a somatic practitioner, facilitating embodiment through The 360 Emergence. Leading people through journey sets and multi genre mixing lights her heart up! She loves mixing music with African Caribbean and Latin influence, including, but not limited to UK dub, Afrohouse, deep ethereal bass, future garage and various world music.

Emerson’s greatest joy in life is seeing people light up on the dance floor, either dancing out their emotions both alone and with each other, or simply watching when the perfect song makes somebody move and the pure joy it brings to their face.

Beyond Ecstatic Dance

Bloomurian is the electronic music & DJ project of Robin Liepman (Bloom), originally from California, and currently Colorado based. Bloomurian’s style ranges from Folktronica & World Bass to Psychedelic Bass, Organic House, DnB, and beyond, fusing face-melting, heart-opening, soul-awakening multidimensional frequencies.

Bloomurian DJs ecstatic dances, concerts, festivals, and retreats worldwide, weaving original tracks, collaborations, remixes, and tasteful selections, into a rich tapestry of sonic alchemy, always tuning in to the ideal vibe for each particular event and audience. He often plays electric guitar, melodica, flute and his shovel slide-guitar during his sets, and has live instrumentalists and vocalists join him on stage.

Bloomurian reads the energy of the moment and steers the spaceship in the direction most conducive to ecstatic states of awakening and embodied movement medicine. The vibe can get down dark and dirty, light vibrant and uplifting, psychedelic, transformational, and worldly, depending on the frequency of the moment.

You can find all of Bloom’s music and upcoming events here: https://beacons.ai/bloomurian

And Bloomurian DJ Videos here: https://bit.ly/bloomurianvids

Opening Ceremony, Breath and Sound Meditation, Emcee

Yasha S. Wagner is a PhD-researcher and innovator in the field of psychology, community organizer and Founder/President of the InterWorld Institute, a 501(c)3 nonprofit for Inner World Peace and holistic wellness education whose past “Worldchangers” initiatives have included HeartFire Festival events, Sanctorum Ecovillage centers, and more. Yasha is also an initiate of world spiritual traditions and a khalif with the Inayati-Maimuni Order, authorized to facilitate spiritual practices and retreats. He is a certified martial arts instructor in the Cheng Man-ch’ing lineage of T’ai Chi and Qi Gong. As an educator and mentor, Yasha has offered breathwork classes and dreamwork coaching for about a decade. As a multilingual polymath, visionary creative, and emcee, he has traveled around the world since early childhood, studying and sharing diverse cultural traditions and arts.

This retreat is hosted at the InterWorld EcoVillage near Colorado Springs.

An oasis of heart and soul, where the vast Great Plains to the East meet the High Sonoran deserts to the South and the towering Rocky Mountains to the West… Previously known as "Sanctorum," InterWorld EcoVillage is located on 40 acres of sacred valley land in Colorado, due East of the great Tava-kaavi (or “Sun Mountain”), which is an indigenous (Uto-Aztecan) name for the sacred mountain now famously known as Pikes Peak.Our Ecovillage is a creative events venue, holistic healing center, educational campus and spiritual retreat space. The campus provides its own solar power, affordable community housing options, innovative gathering spaces built with upcycled materials, and off-grid water supply sources, as well as garden beds designed for growing organic vegetarian food. We have a community that currently ranges from 7-12 members including families with kids, and are open to applicants for residency on campus.

WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THE RETREAT COST?

Meals and accommodations will be included for the first several sign ups in August. After that, we will reassess capacity and include camping accommodations and meal-plan add-ons and post updates accordingly.

PRICING BREAKDOWN

Coming soon!

Financial Assistance, Work Trade, and Payment Plan Options

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HOW TO REGISTER

Start by submitting your 50% or 100% registration deposit via the ticket link here. We will be in touch with the registration screening form after that.

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