From Surviving to Thriving: A Nervous System Rebalancing Retreat

Reclaim Your Peace & Power--Move from Surviving to Thriving

Join us for a transformative half-day retreat designed to help you reconnect with your soul-self. Through guided meditation, light movement, sound healing, and yoga nidra, you’ll release stuck energy, restore balance to your nervous system, and find deep relaxation. Let go of stress, trauma, and grief, and step forward into a renewed sense of peace, clarity, and resilience. Embrace your healing journey—your best self is waiting.

Trauma, stress, and grief can leave us feeling overwhelmed, often pushing us into survival mode. We do what we must to get through each day, but in doing so, we can lose touch with the essence of who we are. The longer we remain in this survival state, the harder it becomes to show up as our best selves. We may become irritable, disconnected, or even apathetic, while our emotional responses—anger, sadness, or frustration—become more intense. Over time, the daily routine may mask the deeper sense of ourselves, and we might lose connection with our soul.

In moments like these, it can take a guide to help us find our way back to ourselves.

This half-day workshop offers a supportive space for healing and reconnection. Through guided meditation & movement, sound healing, and yoga nidra, participants will have the opportunity to release the stuck energies that keep them locked in survival mode. Sound healing will use the power of vibrations to soothe and rebalance the body’s energy, while yoga nidra—a deep, restorative practice—will guide you into a state of profound relaxation and renewal.

These practices are not only transformative for the mind and spirit but are also deeply nourishing for the nervous system. By engaging in these healing modalities, participants will activate the parasympathetic nervous system, helping to shift from a state of fight-or-flight into deep rest and rejuvenation. The calming effects of sound healing and the restorative power of yoga nidra help reduce stress, lower cortisol levels, and promote a sense of inner calm and balance. This, in turn, supports the body’s natural ability to heal, recover, and reconnect with its inner sense of safety and peace.

Here, we won’t aim to return to who you were, but to move forward to who you’ve become—a person who has experienced, healed, and transformed.

The retreat is designed to help restore balance to the energetic patterns disrupted by intense emotions. Together, we will cultivate self-supportive practices that empower us to move forward with greater resilience. By the end of the session, participants will leave with tools and techniques to self-regulate, helping them navigate the complex emotional and energetic landscapes of life with more peace, clarity, and nervous system resilience.

Please arrive by 12:30 to settle in, ground, have a cuppa tea

1-1:30 Introductions

1:30-3 Meditation - clearing chakras and feeling into the heart. Opening to self love and Non-Judgmental acceptance of self.

3-3:15-Break

3:15-3:45 Activity - Learning to stretch your wings

3:45-4-Break

4-4:15 Intro to the Sound portion

4:15-4:30 Yoga Nidra

4:30-5:45 Sound bath

5:45-6:15 Closing

6:30 Dinner -- plant based, grounding nourishment provided for you

Heather Wright is a Massage, Energy and Shamanic Healing Practitioner with over 16 years of experience in the healing arts. She owns Soul Body Connection in Asheville. Her heart centered guided imagery meditations are designed to support participants in balancing their energy. With the use of breath and movement, we will open space for the natural flow of emotional, spiritual, and physical healing. 

You can learn more about Heather and her work at https://www.soulbodyconnection.net/

Dawn Sagonias is a Sound Healing Practitioner, Yoga Nidra facilitator, and has been in the field of Well-Being for 25 years, with massage therapy, energy work, sound healing, yoga, meditation, and hospitality. She runs the Inner Wolf Retreat Space and the Sound Nest, two sound healing studios in the Asheville area. Her sound healing sessions focus on relaxing the brain to the theta brainwave state for the whole hour of sound, and supports physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual support. She has facilitated sound healing sessions since 2015, including leading a weekly grief support sound healing for 4 years, and her sessions have helped many people integrate life’s plot twists. You can learn more about Dawn and her work at www.soundofanewdawn.com and www.innerwolfretreatspace.com