Our epic adventure begins with quality preparation. We’ll take time to inventory the moments that influenced the way we experience life, in all its goodness and its sufferings, and get a clear sense of where we’re at right now. We’ll lovingly acknowledge the beliefs we carry and the way they may be echoing through our embodiment. Then, turning to face forward into our lives, we’ll boldy envision new possibilities for where we’re heading in life. We’ll gradually catalyze a shift from historians to embodied visionaries within our lives as we learn and practice a variety of tools and techniques intended to support transformation within body, mind, spirit, relations, work, play, intimacy, and creative expressions. Numerous resources will be invoked and cultivated to optimize our well-being amidst the journey.

As we build momentum in changing ourselves and our lives, we will undoubtedly encounter challenges; old beliefs and habits rearing up, doubt and distractions, and limitations to our imaginable field of possibilities. Our in-person Nūma Mystery School retreat will be a sanctuary for you to safely turn inward and consciously engage the roots of those frictions and blockages within your movement toward substantial change. We will attend to the stresses and trauma that have echoed through ancestors and family into your personal life unfolding and we’ll go beyond into the transpersonal. We’ll touch the mystery that lies within and beyond the stories we have carried and find the spark for bringing fresh creative vision and energy to our new stories being revealed. Be prepared for a selection of powerful practices and experiences intended to open us and move us deeply, including working with consciousness-shifting tools.

At the heart of the ancient Mystery Schools lies an invitation… to die before you die. Our journey into our thresholds of transformation and transmutation begins with exploring this invitation and what it is to consciously traverse the threshold of death and rebirth in all dimensions of our being.

The first few weeks of our adventure will be a period of clarification for the tender territory of our beliefs, anticipations, expectations, and resistances around letting go, grieving, and death. And, knowing that we are directly entering territory that can be scary for many people, we will take the time to concurrently foster our healthy resources to support our well-being along the way.

As we approach our in-person Nūma Mystery School water rebirth retreat we turn to death’s partner, birth. Birth is one of the biggest formative factors in each of our lives. The primal moments of conception, gestation, birth, and the first few months of our dawning lives are critical moments of learning that become the foundation for the rest of our lives. Stresses and traumas at this stage land pre-verbally and pre-conceptually for us; they don’t come with a narrative and end up feeling like our fixed character traits. They’re just the way we are, we’ve always been like that. Or so the story goes. But what if that’s not true? What if they can change? One way to transform things at this level is to go back to the womb. Our retreat will be a time to do just that, within the salty waters of Manitou. We will come together in support of each other renegotiating our birth stories and writing new ones. Prepare to discover what it is to be reborn. It may require some form of death, but we can guarantee it won’t be what you anticipate.

When a lot changes, it can take substantial time and reflection and energy to make sense of it all and be with it long enough and consciously enough for it to gain traction within our lives. Our post-retreat online meetings will be an opportunity to bless ourselves with attention and care in support of us living our emerging changes. We will humbly and lovingly reflect on our evolving stories and substantiate the steps that will support us in further realizing them as we move toward closing our three-month long container. It will be a time for honoring the journey taken and acknowledging each other. It will be a time for grieving the consequences of our human lives and the many letting go’s evoked from our journey. It will be a time for celebration, and a time to rest prior to stepping once again into the flow of life. And, it will be a time for gratitude.