VIRTUAL RETREAT
Navigating Transitions:
from striving to thriving
January 15, 16 & 17, 2021
FROM
ANXIETY
TO STRENGTH
FROM
UNCERTAINTY
TO JOY
Do you feel out of balance?
Would you like to become healthier, more balanced, and more connected with others? We can help you experience growth as you find strategies that will nurture your body, mind, and spirit.
Learn to navigate life's transitions during this dynamic
virtual retreat experience.
Tired, anxious, or burned out?
Now is the perfect time to learn how you can take control of your life & refresh and re-balance your body, mind, and spirit.
During this virtual retreat, you can take a deep breath as you build emotional resilience and find greater joy in your life.
Get the retreat experience from the comfort of your own home!
The Navigating Transitions Virtual Retreat is an intentionally curated experience that will allow you to grow as you learn and move with experienced and creative practitioners.
We look forward to helping you become more refreshed, healthier & happier.
Register today with the code VibrantHealth
and save $75 until 1/2/2020!
Learning Session Descriptions
All session times are listed in PST. Please adjust to your time zone.
Guided Self-Care Massage
with Alexa Peden, LMT
Friday, 1/15
6:30 pm
Give yourself the gift of your own care-full attention and healing intention. Use the simple tools, such as massage balls, to traverse the terrain of your body, release adhesions and stuck soft tissue, and re-activate the parasympathetic nervous system for deep restoration.
1 hour session
Introduction to Ayurveda
with Karla Cain
Saturday, 1/16
9:30 am
Learn more about your unique constitution in this session led by NAMA Board credentialed Ayurveda Practitioner and Behavioral Change Specialist, Karla Cain. You'll come away with a better understanding of your unique design and how you can become more balanced and find healing through specific foods and lifestyle practices that affect not just the body, but the mental, emotional and spiritual states as well.
2 hour session
The Mind-Thought-Body Connection
with Melanie Murphy, RD
Saturday, 1/16
2:15 pm
There is no separation of our mind and body. Our thoughts and emotions can affect our overall health. Simultaneously, the state of our physical health can impact how happy, positive, and stable we feel. In this session, we will explore the connection between our mind, our thoughts, and our body as it relates to the expression of health and our ability to maintain it throughout our lives. You will learn how each influences the other in an intricate and interwoven web of balance.
2 hour session
Increase Your Resilience by Finding Your Calm
with Sharlyn Green
Saturday, 1/16
6:30 pm
Stress is a feeling we all experience at some point in our lives when we are excited, overwhelmed, or when we experience challenges or transitions. However, stress is more than just an emotion. It is a physical response that takes place in the entire body, from the brain to the internal organs - on a large scale to the cellular level. In this session, you will learn to recognize the signs of stress overload, and you will be empowered with mindful practices that will help you build self-awareness & resilience.
Experience mindful breathing methods to help you beat stress, anxiety, and fear & use your imagination during guided-imagery and Yoga Nidra mindfulness practices.
1.5 hour session
Healing through Ayurveda: The 6 Tastes
with Karla Cain
Sunday, 1/17
9:30 am
In this dynamic session, Karla will talk about the basics of Ayurvedic nutrition and how the 6 Tastes of Ayurveda apply to all foods. You will learn how the qualities of each taste cause balance or imbalance. You'll come away with an understanding of how to eat for your unique constitution (dosha) and you'll learn not just what to eat - but when and how to eat for optimal health and healing.
Come to this session ready to hear how certain foods can function as medicine and witness how the foods you eat may be affecting you at a deeper level.
2 hour session
Ayurveda Cooking Made Easy!
with Karla Cain
Sunday, 1/17
11:30 am
Gain confidence in preparing "food as medicine" on your own plate as we prepare simple Ayurvedic foods together! In this hands-on session, you will experience the joy of cooking simple food that deeply nourishes your body. See a real-life example of what each of the 6 Tastes looks like on your plate. Come away with a medicinal recipe that will detoxify and boost your metabolism.
Turn your kitchen into your Farmacy!
The recipe ingredient list will be sent prior to this session.
1 hour session
Nutrition for Unconditional Joy
with Melanie Murphy, RD
Sunday, 1/17
2:45 pm
We are souls having a human experience. And as a result, we are uniquely limited by the body we inhabit. This experience can either be our greatest ally or our worst enemy. In this session, Melanie will discuss her philosophies about the human experience as it relates to food and nutrition being the foundational pieces of our ability to be happy and obtain unconditional joy throughout our lives. In this session, Melanie will guide you to explore the spiritual and societal components of your ability to find joy in life.
Come away with strategies and practices that will help you find more joy - with ease and simplicity.
2 hour session
Manual Lymphatic Drainage & Facial Massage
with Alexa Peden, LMT
Sunday, 1/17
4:30 pm
Discover truly delectable massage for the powerful tissues of the head, neck, and face Alexa will teach you how to guide the flow of lymph to manage the accumulation of fluid and support a healthy lymphatic system.
30 minute session
Your retreat includes
Personalized
Experience
Participation is limited to give you a personal, intimate, and custom experience.
Enjoy full access to all recorded sessions for 6 full months after the retreat so you can continue to benefit from the experience.
Insightful Presenters
Participate in sessions designed to give you practical, real-life strategies to improve your physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing. Find balance with Ayurveda and learn about the mind/gut connection - Yoga, Pilates, mindfulness, stress management, and guided self-massage sessions are all included!
Special
Gifts
Your gift box is thoughtfully curated specially for you to give you the most relevant and immersive virtual experience possible - including essential oils, skincare products, tools for Ayurveda practice, and more.
Sign up by 1/2/21 to receive this
special gift box!
Meaningful
Connections
Connect to our presenters as they guide you through impactful sessions.
Connect to new strategies, knowledge, and wisdom that will help you learn, move, and experience growth.
Connect with other participants as we walk our journeys together.
More about the Movement Sessions
Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga
with Julia Eda Shemesh
Saturday & Sunday
8:00 am
Vinyasa means the merging of the movement and breath systems of our body. This session will focus on the depth and sound of our breath, while we move through various postures. These sessions are strongly influenced by the Mysore-style Ashtanga yoga practice. All-Levels
75 minute sessions
Pilates
with Devika Wickremesinghe
Saturday & Sunday
1:30 pm
Stabilize the lumbar spine and mobilize your pelvis as you move with Devika through a Pilates practice that teaches you how to breathe effectively. These practical Pilates sessions will help you find more room to breathe, more movement support, and greater expansion around the heart and solar plexus. Experience deep lower abdominal strengthening, hip flexor lengthening, and greater pelvic support. All-Levels
60 minute sessions
Creative Movement for Anxiety and Stress Relief
with Rebecca McCarthy
Saturday
4:30 pm
In this movement session, Rebecca we will guide you through powerful movement designed to create inner focus, allowing you to feel what your body is trying to tell you. Experience relief from anxiety and stress as you practice mindful movement.
30 minutes
Meet Our Team
KARLA CAIN
NAMA Board-Certified Ayurveda Health Counselor & Body Therapist
E-RYT 200/YACEP
Founder - Sattvic Sage Ayurveda & Yoga
Karla's extensive corporate experience in finance led her to experience disconnection, anxiety, imbalance, and illness. Her personal journey to wellness includes a 100-lb. weight loss and a new life filled with abundant health. In 2015, after years of study & having found a true passion for Ayurveda, she consciously left the corporate world to make holistic healing her primary focus. She has studied Yoga, Ayurveda, Meditation, Ayurvedic Herbs, and Panchakarma Therapies in the USA, Italy, and India. Karla has completed countless courses, workshops, and conferences in these Eastern Healing Arts as well as Western Anatomy, Nutrition, and Herbology. She is also a national ACE-Certified Fitness Instructor & Behavior Change Specialist. Karla is passionate about bringing the healing power of Ayurveda to others.
SHARLYN GREEN
Integrative Nutrition Health Coach
Corrective Exercise Specialist
E-RYT 200/YACEP
Founder - Core Connection Wellness
Sharlyn holds a Master's Degree in Management and specializes in stress management strategies and education. Drawing on her fitness & wellness expertise, along with her personal experience with autoimmune disease, she inspires and motivates her clients to a deeper understanding of food and lifestyle choices that work best for them, improving energy, optimizing health, and finding gratitude & happiness. Her practice goes beyond food and exercise, seeking to bring balance to important elements of life such as finding joy and maintaining healthy relationships, as well as career and money. She carefully guides others to make simple, small changes that can cause true transformation.
REBECCA MCCARTHY
Movement Artist
Wellness Educator & Consultant
Certified Lagree Trainer
Rebecca is a professional choreographer and dancer based in Los Angeles, California. Rebecca holds a BFA from California Institute of the Arts and is a Lagree certified instructor with experience in Pilates and other core-based modalities. She specializes in movement-based work and anatomy and continues to be fascinated by the body's potential and possibility for change.
ALEXA PEDEN
Licensed Massage Therapist
Certified Manual Lymph Drainage Therapist
Alexa aims to provide a comforting and empowering presence to participate in your ongoing experience of healing. She enjoys working with individuals from all walks of life and specializes in bringing healing to weekend warriors and athletes of all kinds. In her practice, she creates a space for the nervous system to reset and return to moving joyfully and well.
Alexa also teaches Discoverypoint School of Massage in Seattle and is certified in manual lymphatic drainage. MLD is a gentle and deeply soothing modality used to support healthy lymphatic systems, assist recovery for active bodies, and manage symptoms for those with compromised lymphatic systems.
MELANIE MURPHY
Wholistic and Functional Registered Dietitian Nutritionist &
Mindset Coach
Founder - Wholistic Ritual
Melanie is a wholistic and functional Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Mindset Coach based out of Los Angeles. She holds a Master’s in Nutrition, Healthspan, and Longevity from the University of Southern California. Her private practice, Wholistic Ritual, focuses on uncovering her patients' unique equilibrium by using food and nutrition as the primary healing tool. Melanie specializes in nutrition for longevity and the healthspan. She focuses on uncovering her patient’s unique equilibrium by using food and nutrition as the primary healing tool, utilizing a variety of alternative healing modalities including mindfulness, emotional energy clearing, movement, homeopathic remedies and self-care practices to help her patients achieve unconditional joy.
JULIA EDA SHEMESH
E-RYT 500/YACEP
Certified Pilates Instructor
Movement Artist
Founder - Yalla Yoga
Julia has deeply studied Yoga, dance, meditation, movement therapy, and integral anatomy for over twenty years. She has the highest level of yoga teaching certification via Yoga Alliance, a Pilates Certification, a Doula Certification, a BA in Dance, and she returns to India regularly to deepen her yoga practice. Her wish is to uncover and harness the curiosity and compassion within us, so that we may each continue our journey inward and onward with faith, steadiness and ease.
DEVIKA WICKREMESINGHE
Certified Pilates Instructor
Dance and Movement Artist
Founder - Pilates with Devika
Devika is certified through the Kane School of Core Integration, a program that integrates the Pilates method with sound biomechanical principles and focusing on injury prevention. She has worked with students of all levels and has experience with osteoporosis and degenerative disc disease, scoliosis, chronic neck and back pain, students living with MS, and has certifications in Pre- and Post-Natal Pilates. She believes movement should feel GOOD! Informed by her practice as a dancer and a yogi, Devika aims to give her clients a full-bodied and gratifying movement experience.
Frequently asked questions
Who do I contact for more information about the event?
Please contact wellness@core-connection.net if you have any questions about the Navigating Transitions: from striving to thriving Virtual Retreat. We can't wait to connect with you!
In what time zone is the the Virtual Retreat scheduled to take place?
All session times are scheduled in the Pacific Standard Time Zone. Please adjust times to your own time zone.
What if I have to miss a session?
All of the sessions in this virtual retreat will be recorded. After the retreat, you will be sent a private link so you can review your favorite sessions whenever you'd like! Your access to recorded sessions is active for 6 months after the retreat.
What platform are you using to facilitate the sessions?
We will be using ZOOM for all sessions. Please make sure you have created an account and that you know how to use ZOOM before the start of the event. Prior to the virtual retreat, you will be sent links for each scheduled session.
Can I participate if I have an injury or physical limitation?
Of course! If you are under a doctor's care for a physical condition that would prevent you from exercising, you can choose not to attend those sessions for now. All sessions, including movement sessions, will be recorded and can be viewed by participants for 6 months after the retreat. We ask that you pay attention to how your body feels during all movement, and refrain from moving through pain. When you register and pay for the virtual retreat, you will be asked to read and agree to an Informed Consent and Liabillity Waiver. This document has more information and is available for you to read at checkout. Once you register, you can request a digital copy by contacting wellness@core-connection.net.
What are your refund & cancellation policies?
Refunds - A full refund will be given up to 60 days prior to the Event with written notice. A fifty percent refund shall be issued to Event registrants up to 30 days prior to event if written notice is given. From 0 - 30 days prior to event, no refund will be given, but any credit can be applied to a future event if notice of cancellation is given in writing prior to the originally scheduled event. If no notice is given, and registrant is a "no show" no refund or credit shall be given.