Dove V
San Francisco, CA
Since I have been back from the Retreat, there has been a sense of calmness, and yet love and energy is pulsating through my body and soul.
Elaine
Austin, TX
From the practices we did at the Retreat, I am able to stay centered, calm and focused as I move from one activity to another. I find my internal negative thoughts and judgments about my life are diminishing. I feel a connection to my day and marvel at how it flows.
Gina
Lakewood, CO
It is so profound to get quiet inside in order to feel more connected within my heart. This has helped me to hold others more consciously when we are together, and has become an important space that I commit to on a daily basis.
Liz
Denver, CO
I have experienced a much deeper sense of connection, calm, and clarity and the return of lightness, joy, playfulness, and love. What a TREAT!
Most importantly, I have established a deeper connection to God. The Retreat opened new access into my desire to give generously – abundantly – in my work and of myself in all I do.
I have re-engaged with many family members and friends and had incredibly meaningful conversations with them. I’ve been experiencing more ease in maintaining openness and authenticity no matter who I’m with. The exchange of love has felt like an open circuit, just flowing with the current. The ways I would have previously shut down or closed myself off haven’t been present.
Stephanie
Denver, CO
The Retreat helped create an ability within myself to be able to quickly connect to Myself and to God at any time, even when life throws challenges or curveballs.
I can see that my mind is becoming calmer. I seem to get less annoyed with the kids and family members.
I find myself more comfortable with myself in situations that used to cause some anxiety. I have also started meditating with the kids and meditating more than I used to.
Matthew
Boston, MA
This Retreat for me was a sweet, sweet chance to grieve everything that there is to grieve to let out unexpressed feelings of things that I couldn’t get to the root of…There’s a space that’s created by the participants and the staff. It’s kind, it’s loving, it’s fierce when it needs to be. There’s a solid invitation for me that I get to be my full self…Why does that matter? Because I’m a dad.
Suze
Toronto, CA
I’ve been a seeker for a long time and I’ve done a tremendous amount of work teaching transformation. And I just want you to know that there is something so profoundly special and deep and moving here. That you can travel so incredibly far.
Reena
St. Charles, MO
There is a transformational energy that is really at the heart of this work that allows us to connect to our deepest pain and recognize that it’s actually a gift to move through and open up and, essentially help others do the same.
Trudy
Lakewood, CO
I have much bigger awareness of my own strength of character, my own self-love.
Hugh
Dewey, AZ
This Retreat literally cleaned out (and then power-washed) the junk-drawer of my heart. I shed layers of falseness, a lifetime of performances made up to protect me, to please my parents, my teachers, my bosses, to give the impression I’ve got it under control. It was a very new me stepping into a very new life. A life that has an ease about it. Not easy, but a clarity, an uncluttered simplicity, an honesty. It lets me follow my own truth.
This Retreat might be the most precious gift that you can give yourself. The Retreat brought out--in all of us--those core elements of honest realness, pure decency. It did not teach us about love, compassion, considerateness; they have always been inside each of us. But we spend much of our lives keeping them covered! There emerged this feeling, an urge, “there’s another person, how can I make their life just a little better in this moment?” Maybe just simple eye contact with a total stranger and a smile, a sympathetic ear, or a helping hand.
Douglass
Eatonton, GA
I just feel like I've just had this awakening. It's like I woke up and things are so much more clear for me.
Carlos
Edmond, OK
The Heart of the Matter Retreat is really a gift. If you are not afraid to be challenged, you’re welcome to come. You’re getting into an emergency room for souls. You will find yourself, get who you really are and get to what has been in getting in the way.
Amy
Rockledge, FL
This weekend has changed my life forever. It has given me back the person that I felt like I had lost, after becoming a wife and a mother. And in addition to that, it’s given my children a gift, that I could never have given them outside of doing this work.
Ben
San Francisco, CA
The Retreat operates on the assumption that if our true self is given the space and focus to emerge, it will. And for me and my fellow participants, it did.
I have never before witnessed people come into themselves so powerfully and so fully in a few days. Open, loving, aware, and purposeful. People coming into the exquisite beings they were meant to be.
I am a person who believes that peace, love, joy and true fulfillment comes from within. The obstacle for me has always been how to go within. There are so many forces outside of me – products, commercials, TV and radio programs, signs, music, friends, parents, schools – that are relentlessly telling me that fulfillment comes from outside of me. I could feel a longing and knew that I need something else, but I had no way to find it really.
The Retreat sets up an environment where one is given the opportunity to focus within for an extended period of time. The distractions outside of me were taken away, and the direction supported me to access and maintain a state of being that I simply could not access on my own. I had done many workshops and practices before this Retreat, but I had never experienced the best aspects of each of them in such a refined and integrated way.
Mark
Asheville, NC
Before I did the Retreat, I wanted to get away from my mundane routine, and have adventures all over the world. I'd travel to surf and to get into nature. It was one of the very best things life had to offer me, and I did it often and with great pleasure. That was all great, but nothing could hold a candle to the adventure of my lifetime.
With the expert help from Heart of the Matter Retreat, I traveled to the deepest and most profound places I had ever been - inside of myself . I discovered who I truly was and found what was most important to me. I wanted to know what God was; I wanted to know what love was; I wanted a direct experience of who I truly was beyond any masks or facades, ideas, concepts or beliefs. I found all of that and more, and it felt like magic - way beyond anything I had ever experienced. Unlike other journeys to faraway lands, after this initial trip is completed, the experience can just get richer and more fascinating every day from your own home or workplace.
Tara
New York, NY
The Heart of the Matter Transformation Retreat stands out among the many self-exploration workshops I’ve done over the years because of the wonderful container they provide for you to go really deep. They’re experts at creating a loving and safe environment that allows participants to relax and trust the process. I left the Retreat with more freedom and greater self compassion. Much gratitude for the Heart of the Matter.
Michelle
Cocoa Beach, Florida
Allowing is so much easier now. It feels more natural, letting things unfold. Showing up with a full open heart feels really good. Not trying to force outcomes has been liberating. It balances. It creates a calmness. It creates an awareness. It creates a thoughtfulness. It creates the ability to go through my day with ease.
Jennie
Columbus, OH
I feel such a strong connection with myself again and my heart. I feel like my heart has just been broken open and I feel like I’m home again. And I haven’t felt this since I was a child. It’s just been such an honor and blessing to be part of this community that’s incredibly conscious and loving and supportive and the tools that I learned… I found there was a lot there to release and that was incredibly purifying and heart opening.
Tammi
St. Thomas, USVI
The Retreat gave me the opportunity to see the unconscious patterns that were running my life, and make the necessary changes moving forward. Where I was in my life on Friday before the Retreat and where I was on Monday after the Retreat were in such contrast, it was almost laughable that such a change could take place in such a short amount of time. After the Retreat I felt so liberated in my work and personal environment and now am making the necessary changes to continue that liberation into other aspects of my life. Highly recommended!