The Great Unplugging

The Transformation:

In a world where we’re all connected, it’s beneficial to unplug every once in a while.

Smartphones have been creating a more anxious, depressed and stressful state of the world. There are lots of benefits to getting away from your phone, being bored and just letting your mind wander, and that’s what you’ll get from this retreat.

This retreat requires you to take a step back from your phone.

You will have two 15 minute periods per day to use your phone how you want: call or text people in your life, watch a video, scroll social media.

This retreat will help you use your phone with intention, so you can come back to the daily life and have a better phone-life balance.

We use nature bathing, meditation & breathing, journaling and thought work practices to recenter and relearn who you are without your phone and create a life you love.

Getting away from your phone won’t just make you feel better, you will see these transformations:

• you’ll have more time in your day to rest, be bored, and live in the moment

• you’ll know what you do and don’t want to do and set better boundaries with love

• you’ll move past the rage baiting of social media and gain more understanding of others

• you’ll save more money and think before buying from targeted ads

• you’ll look your friends and fellow humans in the eye

• you’ll have more meaningful connections

When you sign up for this retreat, you are choosing to take back control of your life from social media, the internet, gaming, shopping, whatever you depend on to make you feel better.

Come and learn how to feel better naturally.

Refresh your brain, not your feed.

Weekend Agenda:

FRIDAY:

• 5pm - Introductions / Intro Circle / Intentions for the weekend

• Nourishing Dinner and discussion

• Phone check - 15 min

  • Tell everyone on your phone you know you’ll be offline for a few days

• Free time

• Hot tea & bed

SATURDAY:

Wake up phone free (no phone alarm, no scrolling in the morning, nothing).

• Coffee/tea and journaling

• Meditation

• Breakfast

• Guided nature walk / exploration

• Journaling / thought work practice

• Lunch

• Rest / read / art / your choice

• Dinner

• Meditative walk

• 2 - phone checks / day for 15 min each - you decide how you use that time

SUNDAY:

Wake up phone free (no phone alarm, no scrolling in the morning, nothing).

• Coffee/tea and journaling

• Guided meditation / art / yoga

• Journaling

• Breakfast and sharing

• Intention to leave with

• Exchange addresses, pen pals, book ideas, etc.

Solace

Not a silent retreat, but a phone-free retreat

We have to consciously choose our own health. This world is filled with media and advertising trying to make you feel like you aren’t enough, fast food that make you feel bad in your body, chemicals, bad news all over the place. You could go crazy if you don’t take a break.

This retreat is simple yet it may be difficult to change the ways you currently live.

You may feel:

• anxiety from being disconnected and not being able to text people you know

• boredom not knowing how to use your time or think without looking at your phone

• discomfort from looking at your own thoughts and feelings

• discomfort while exploring new ways to handle your feelings rather than mask them with your phone

• frustration coming up with something new to do, while not having your phone or a screen to watch tv

• many other things that pop up

If you are willing to feel deeply, gain awareness, think from a new perspective, and understand yourself better, this retreat is for you.

Imagine…

• free time without notifications dinging you constantly

• sleep and rest without being interrupted by your phone

• unplugging from work fully

• learning how to breathe and live without notifications

• having the time to learn how to move through the anxiety

• coming back to your real life with new tools to use to move through your day without the anxiety of always needing to check your phone