What is your relationship with pleasure?
Pleasure is a sensation that connects us to the goodness and vitality of being alive. Yet so many of us have been conditioned to think of pleasure as “Something we get away with.”
When you establish a healthy relationship with pleasure, you tap into a limitless well of energy.
But when your relationship with pleasure is entangled with feelings of guilt or shame you block the goodness available to you. You may even end up unconsciously seeking pleasure in unhealthy ways.
Maybe you find yourself
Self-sabotaging your moments of joy because the feeling is uncomfortable or unfamiliar
Focusing on everything going wrong in your life instead of what feels good
Seeking relief through overconsumption or micro-addictions
By consciously increasing your ability to receive pleasure allows you to take in feelings of contentment and happiness.
It expands your capacity to feel sensation, inviting you to reconnect with your body and previously numbed emotions. You begin to consciously engage with pleasure as a way of living more freely!
It will help you release the grip of addictions and unconscious coping patterns - the shadow side of pleasure.
Here at the Vitalist Institute, we have a unique approach to helping you release your resistance and reclaim your ability to experience pleasure.
Our process involves
Here’s what happens when you unlock your capacity to feel pleasure…
✨When you open up your body's ability to feel deeply, you can more easily create moments of ease, pleasure, and joy.
✨As you release trauma from your past, you are able to create new space for good, beautiful, and loving connections with yourself and others.
✨As you learn to sit in the discomfort, instead of numbing, you can view your patterns and behaviors of self-sabotage as a roadmap back to yourself and a compass to creating the internal state you want to live in.
This retreat is about expanding your ability to feel pleasure and explore what brings you joy.
Here’s what we’ll cover in this 1 day retreat...
Explore
You’ll start by exploring how you shut down. Through embodied journaling, you’ll work to uncover your patterns and habits that keep you from believing you deserve pleasure.
Expand
Finding and expanding your zone of pleasure - Using specifically selected somatic exercises you’ll work to find your capacity for pleasure. Since we grow on the edges of our comfort zone, we will explore where you cap off pleasure what arises if you go beyond your limit. We will explore how many of us use self-sabotage to bring ourselves back down into our comfort zone when we are starting to feel “too good.”
Reclaim
Reclaiming your pleasure - using our favorite breathwork techniques through an embodied breathwork ceremony you’ll access a non-ordinary state in order to reconnect to your capacity to feel goodness and to release the physical, emotional, or spiritual blocks preventing you from pleasure.
What people are saying…
“New insight into what I truly need is leading me down the pather to heal and grow.”
“I feel such a shift in my self-awareness to my needs and feelings. This new insight into what I truly need is leading me down the path to heal and grow. I’m so surprised at the fact that I’m actually improving!
The community and support of everyone have been so valuable. Everyone here shows up with the goal of knowing themselves on a deeper level.”
-Tom Z.
“I have greater joy, far greater than I could even imagine.”
“I feel more my true self and who I was intended to be! I have greater joy, far greater than I could even imagine. The resources of the breathwork and bioenergetics have been so valuable to me”
-Heidi C.
“I am conscious and aware of the patterns and habits keeping me stuck in life.”
“I’m so surprised at how much more conscious and aware I am of the patterns and habits that keep me stuck in differing in my life. My marriage has improved! I think all couples should do this together.
I love the flexibility, responsiveness, and transparency of the leadership team and the ease and comfort of the community.
This is truly a group of people dedicated to healing!”
-Matt C.
All the details
Date: Friday, February 11th, 2022
Time: 8:30 Am - 6:00 PM
All-Inclusive Cost: $229
(Early Bird price is $199, register by January 28th)
Location: Lowell, MI
Questions: Email support@vitalistinst.com
Optional: We will be creating community and integration time for those who would like to stay later and enjoy the sauna, hot tub, and cold tubs until 9 PM.
“I’m surprised how fast things can change when I give myself permission to let go”
“I feel so much more empowered, centered, worthy, and healthy. I’m surprised how fast things can change when I give myself permission to let go. The abundant amount of tools I’ve received in order to help self-regulate is amazing. This is hard work. It’s intense. But worth it.”
-Lucas D.
Join the Vitalist Institute team for this one-day breathwork retreat aimed at helping you compassionately observe the way you hold your emotions at arm’s length as well as somatically working to feel pleasure, experience joy, and find connection once again.
If you’re ready to begin the work of awakening more deeply to joy and your vital life energy, we invite you to sign up for this upcoming retreat.
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While we understand that gathering in person and doing breathwork together is too much risk for some people, we have decided to offer this event to those who feel in need and/or ready for the human connection that this event provides.
The majority of activities will take place indoors in a nearly 1,600 square foot room.
Here is our request from each participant...
If you have ANY cold or flu-like symptoms please get a Covid test and be sure the results are negative BEFORE coming to the retreat.
If you recently had any cold or flu-like symptoms but did not get a test to rule out Covid, please make sure you are symptom free (without the use of fever reducing medications) for at least 7 days before coming to the event.
Please take as much personal responsibility as you can in regards to self care, sleep, and supplementation the days leading up to, during, and after the event to help boost your immune system.
If you test positive for Covid anytime within 14 days after the event, we request that you let Micah or Leah know.
We will have a waiver present for each person to sign.
Thank you for your diligence, transparency and commitment to co-creating a safe container.
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*Space is limited. If you need to cancel, please contact us as soon as possible, as there is often a waitlist. Cancellations will be refunded with a $50 processing fee, if you notify us in writing prior to 14 days before the event. Within 14 days of the event, refunds will not be given due to health reasons, weather, or winter road conditions, unless your space is able to be filled (minus $50 processing fee). Please plan accordingly.
*Should our event be full, please do not hesitate to join our waitlist by emailing support@viatlistinst.com Please include your phone number, as we will notify you as soon as any cancellation occurs.
*Concerning COVID-19: While we understand that gathering in person and doing breathwork together is too much risk for some people, we have decided to offer this event to those who feel in need and/or ready for human connection. We do not recommend this event for people who feel at high risk or high concern at this time. Please our policies below before signing up for this event.
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Pregnancy, severe asthma, severe heart disease, unmedicated high blood pressure, mental illness, epilepsy and/or history of seizures, acute physical injuries, severe or unregulated diabetes
*If you are not sure if breathwork is right for you, please reach out to us for a conversation.
*Everything shared during the sessions and throughout the weekend is confidential.
*No photos will be taken without participants' consent.
If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to us at support@vitalistinst.com