Sacred Grit: Love the Mess, Find the Magic. A Self Love Retreat.

Join facilitators Jason Lyle and Erin Hill for a soulful weekend of restoration, reflection, and reconnection in the healing beauty of the North Georgia mountains.

This co-ed retreat is designed for anyone ready to release the pressure to “fix” themselves and instead learn how to love who they already are—body, mind, and soul. Through yoga, breathwork, meditation, forest bathing, group circles, and guided creative expression, you’ll explore what it means to truly belong to yourself again.

The weekend includes gentle movement practices, nervous system regulation tools, and spacious time in nature, including an optional cold plunge. You’ll be guided with care and authenticity in a space that welcomes both your grit and your softness—where nothing about you needs to be hidden.

At the heart of the retreat is a shared ritual of growth: participants will help build a living centerpiece, and on Sunday, each person will decorate and plant a propagated gift from Erin—something beautiful to take home as a reminder that healing takes root through presence, care, and connection.

This retreat is open to all adults and all experience levels.
Come as you are. Leave with more of who you are.

Schedule:

*This is a sample schedule and is subject to change*

Friday, July 25 – Arrive + Ground

• 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm: Check-in and settle in

Take your time arriving, unpacking, and grounding into your space.

• 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm: Meet & greet + collective planting – Arriving as you are

Ease into the weekend with intentional connection. As you arrive into the retreat circle, you’ll be invited to help create the living centerpiece—a sacred symbol of growth, rootedness, and shared intention. Each plant in the circle is a piece of this community, grown with care by Erin and carried forward by you. No pressure—just presence.. Meet your retreat community in a relaxed circle with light prompts designed to help you arrive fully and authentically. No pressure—just presence.

• 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Dinner
• 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm: Teaching – Finding safety within (with Jason)

Begin your journey by learning how nervous system regulation forms the foundation of self-love. You’ll gain practical tools to calm your system and build trust with your inner world.

• 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm: Practice – Coming home to your body (with Erin & Jason)

Drop into your body with grounding breath work, gentle movement, and guided reflection. This session helps you begin to feel what safety, presence, and acceptance actually feel like.

Saturday, July 26 – Love the Mess

• 7:00 am – 8:00 am: Optional gentle hatha practice

Mindful movement and breath to awaken your body and spirit.

• 8:00 am – 9:00 am: Breakfast
• 9:00 am – 10:00 am: Loving the body and mind (with Erin)

Explore how what you eat, how you move, and how you speak to yourself are all acts of self-respect. Erin will guide you through practical ways to nourish both body and mind.

• 10:15 am – 11:00 am: Loving the soul (with Jason)

Reconnect with the sacred self that has never been broken. Jason will guide reflection and storytelling to help you trust the part of you that already knows the way home.

• 11:00 am – 12:00 pm: Forest bathing (with Erin)

A slow, intentional walk through nature to listen, observe, and let the forest mirror your inner stillness.

• 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm: Lunch
• 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm: Free time – Rest, reflect, hike, massage, or just be

Rest, reflect, hike, get a massage, or simply be. This is part of the work.

• 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm: Embodied resilience – Vinyasa, breath & optional cold plunge

A gentle, all-levels yoga flow followed by breathwork and an optional cold plunge to reset your nervous system and deepen your resilience. This practice meets you where you are—whether you’re stretching, breathing, or simply showing up as you are. to reset your nervous system and deepen your resilience.

• 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Dinner
• 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm: Sacred circle – What’s rising & what comes next (with Erin & Jason)

A community circle to reflect on what’s surfacing and begin shaping what comes next. Share what you’re walking toward, or simply listen and be held.

• 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm: Yin nidra – Seal it in

A deeply restorative practice to integrate the day’s transformation.

Sunday, July 27 – Return with Intention

• 7:00 am – 8:00 am: Optional gentle hatha – Returning to the body
• 8:00 am – 9:00 am: Breakfast
• 9:00 am – 10:30 am: Creative integration & closing circle – Planting the sacred (with Erin & Jason)

Each participant will receive a propagated plant grown with care by Erin, part of a living centerpiece created for the retreat. During this time, you’ll decorate a small pot and plant your gift—a symbol of growth, care, and a seed that began here, with us. We will close in circle together, sharing reflections, gratitude, and what you’re taking with you. No pressure to speak—just presence and belonging.
We gather one last time in shared presence to reflect, honor, and speak our truths. No pressure to share—just gratitude and belonging

• 10:45 am – 11:30 am: Pack & prepare
• 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm: Lunch + Goodbyes
• 1:00 pm – Departure/Check-out

For more information, contact Jason Lyle at jason.lyle@recoveryadventures.org.

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