Healing with Nature

Register Here – https://rmerc.org/events/healing-with-nature/?occurrence=2025-06-05

Nature is a container and support for healing. When we are with nature it allows us to feel more at ease, to feel relaxed, to feel a sense of safety, well-being and connection. All of these experiences are antidotes to the support of healing trauma

This nature meditation retreat is designed to support you exploring how nature-based mindfulness and somatic healing practices can transform challenging or traumatic experiences that may be affecting your life.

Often our inner ecosystems have become disrupted, dys-regulated and are out of balance after we experience trauma and this unhealed trauma can create difficulty in living fully in our life. When we begin to have practices that support us to heal these inner ecosystems, we can find health and wholeness in our lives again.

Nature, mindfulness and somatic healing themselves are respective ecosystems for us to learn to connect to, allowing us to resolve and transform trauma. Mindfulness in nature is the doorway to becoming aware, reducing our reactivity and learning to feel compassion, kindness and acceptance of our experiences. Somatic healing in nature helps us to reinhabit the body in a way that feels safe and restores balance to our brain, body, psyche and relationships. And nature is the container for this support in healing.

Nature’s impulse is to thrive, to adapt, to be resilient and heal. We are made of nature. We have this capacity to. By weaving together these ecosystems of healing into our inner ecosystems we can establish the same capacity to heal, adapt, become more resilient and resolve our experiences of trauma.

From a place of resilience, resolve and deeper connection to our true nature we can move more deeply into a relationship of care for the Earth. The opportunity to know and deepen our reciprocal connection with the Earth can allow us to engage and participate with the healing of this Earth and all life.

Through this retreat, at times in silence, and in community connection; we will explore how nature-based practices, our relational connection to the natural world, and related somatic experiencing practices can support healing and transformation of challenging or traumatic experiences.

You will have the opportunity to rest, relax and reflect, be led on nature meditations, reflective journaling exercises, and beautiful hikes, while strengthening your skills to integrate the insights of healing you experience to take into your everyday life.

Daily Schedule
6am – Wake up bell
6:30 – Meditation
7:15 – Breakfast
8:30 – Morning program
12:00 – Lunch
12:30-2pm – Free time
2:00 – Afternoon program
5:00 – Dinner
6:00 – Evening program
8:30-9:00 – Ready for bed/sleep