The Rooted Life Experience

Sun River, Oregon | April 18-21, 2024

A 3-month online experience, a 4-day healing retreat, AND a 6-month coaching group for your whole person.

Story. Body. Soul.

Knowing our story creates a map of where we’ve been so we better know where we’re meant to go. Our stories regulate the way our bodies and minds work together (or don’t). We are designed for harmony so that we can live lives of flourishing and meaning, work through obstacles, and make an impact in our communities. But sometimes living in that harmony can be difficult to achieve.

Everything is connected to everything. Our story is complex and layered. Our body, beautiful and resilient, holds our story. And it is through our story and body that we enter into our communities.

Rooted Life exists to create space for women who seek to better understand the interconnectedness of their story, body, and soul, and how it connects with the stories, bodies, and souls of others. Join women from all seasons and stages of life to discover how your story has:

  • shaped your way of being in the world

  • impacted your physical and mental health

  • created your relational roadmap

Learning to read your story well is sacred work. Hard work. The women we gather are ready to engage all of themselves because they sense they were made for more. More life, more love, more connection, more rest, more freedom, more groundedness, more courage. More is possible.

 

“Exploring my story in community has been one of the most life-changing experiences. It literally changed the way I see myself … and the way I get to show up in the world.”

Quote from past attendee

The details


What will we do?

The Rooted Life Experience is a 3-month online experience + a 4 day in person retreat, + a 6-month coaching group that introduces the holistic healing of your story, body, spirit, and soul. Our workshops & small group sessions with counselors, assessments & activities, as well as outdoor experiences will be the catalyst to engage your story, body, and soul. You can expect to:

  • Understand what it means to live a “rooted” life, grounded in your story and values

  • Understand how your story impacts your physical, mental, emotional, and relational health

  • Understand how childhood wounds (emotional, physical, spiritual) continue to impact and shape your life

    • Notice and name current emotions and communicate them for relational flourishing (shame, guilt, contempt, loneliness, anger, etc)

    • Grow in kindness, compassion, and tuning out your inner critic (fighting against feeling like you’re too much or not enough)

    • Make connections between physical symptoms or diagnoses and your story or significant life events and recognize the barriers to healing (emotional, relational and physical)

    • Understand how the gut, muscles, and heart are intricately connected with the brain and mental health

    • Develop a lifestyle plan to remediate symptoms, improve function, and increase relational satisfaction  

    • Identify and remove toxins (toxic thoughts, toxic relationships, environmental toxins) as a pathway to healing

    • See how your story affects your core values and your core values affect your story

    • Understand why unbecoming may be better than becoming (pulling up and destroying compulsions, habits, or patterns)

    • To determine where you are stuck, in transition, or not taking action

    • How community, connection, and character matter

    • How to engage with people, practicing grace, trust, and vulnerability

    • Grow in naming desire, needs, priorities

    • Understand the role of boundaries and accountability

    • How your circle of influence & growing community contribute to flourishing

Who is it for?

EVERYONE! The Rooted Life Experience is for any woman:

  • Feeling anxious, stuck, depressed, sluggish, stressed, guilty, etc.

  • Struggling with self-loathing, negative self-talk, or compulsive people-pleasing, etc.

  • Experiencing numbness, disassociation, PTSD, or body dysmorphia

  • Longing for meaningful work, deeper relationships, greater creativity, etc

  • Desiring freedom, transformation, rest, or restoration

The Rooted Life Experience

3 months + 4 days + 6 months. Our desire is that through prework and postwork you will have time to engage and process the content before and after the retreat. This will help you begin to embody what you learn, as well as incorporate it into your regular rhythms and routines of your life. After the retreat, we hope you’ll choose to continue on after the three-month experience by joining a Rooted Group (at no additional cost!), where you’ll continue to meet with someone from our team along in a small group coaching experience, to learn, grow, and support one another. 

The prework for February includes a video tutorial, some assessments, and a written story exercise. In the month of March, you’ll be engaging your story during an online Story Workshop. In April, we’ll gather in person for the Rooted Life Retreat at a beautiful home in Sunriver. Then, in the Rooted Groups, you’ll receive coaching, practices & skills, and encouragement for our journey. We promise the investment will be worth it.

February

Guided Online Content
Watch – 3 (short!) Videos
Write – 2 Writing Exercises
Listen – 2 Podcasts
Discover – 2 Assessments

March

1-day Online Story Workshop, March 23

A small group experience to explore the themes in your story.

April

Retreat April 18-21 in Sunriver, Oregon
4 days of learning, laughing, crying, playing, resting, & tending to the parts of us that need healing.

May - October

Rooted Groups - included!

Led by Amy, Crystal, & Karla, you’ll continue your healing journey with the Rooted Life community through a series of topical monthly small group coaching sessions designed to empower your continued care, growth, and transformation.

“This was so helpful In guiding me out of some serious gut issues. I really appreciated that my health issues were addressed from a whole body and mind perspective. I have gained great new habits and feel 100% better. I highly recommend it.”

Quote from past attendee

(founders of Rooted Life)

A note from Amy, Crystal, & Karla

We fully believe each woman has been created for love, purpose, and flourishing. But we live in a world where it can be hard to know, let alone root ourselves in that truth. The Rooted Life Experience was born out of our desire to share the goodness we’ve encountered on our journey—healing, transformation, and deeper connection—with other women. Our hope is to facilitate just such a journey for you by creating space for you to engage your physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental health through the lens of your story.

“For some reasons universal to all, and other reasons specific to just me - I was feeling stuck. My life had come to a complete standstill. I wasn’t sure how to proceed...and some days I lacked the motivation to even dream of another way. Through guidance and wisdom I rediscovered my core values and began to set new life giving goals for myself. I began to move again. I am so grateful and I would highly recommend this to anyone feeling as though they too need some movement in their heart and soul. #fivestars #allthethumbsup”

Quote from past attendee

Schedule while in Sun River

Below is a tentative schedule for each day. We’re eager to set a table for you; amazing location, food, drink, and a community of unique women who find themselves on a similar journey. We intend for our time together to be insightful, encouraging, restful, and even a bit challenging. We hope you leave changed, energized, and ready to step more fully into who you were created to be. We can’t wait to meet you.

Day One

2-5p Arrive at Sun River House

5:00p     Welcome Session

6:00p     Dinner 

7:30p      Story Group Connect

8:30p      Social Time

Day Two

7:00a      Morning Movement

8-9a  Breakfast + Grounding

9a – 12p   Morning Sessions       

12:00p      Lunch

1-2:30p     Afternoon Sessions

2:30p       Break until Dinner (enjoy the area, each other, and rest)

6:00p       Dinner 

7:00p       Evening Session

8:00p       Social Time

Day Three

7:00a Morning Body Movement (calming and awareness) 

8:00a Breakfast

9a-12p Morning Sessions

12:00p Interactive Lunch 

1:30p Group Activity

3:00p. Break until Dinner (enjoy the area, each other, and rest)

6:00p Dinner 

7-8:30p Evening Sessions

Day Four

8:00a Silent Breakfast

9-11am Morning Sessions

12:00p Lunch

1:00p Final session & Sending

2:00p Individual Consultations

3:00p Safe travels

Investment


What your investment includes:

  • 2 months of online content PRIOR to arriving April 18th

  • Story Workshop - online group experience (March 23rd) 

  • Meals – All meals, drinks, & snacks

  • Lodging – Registration includes your choice of a twin bed in a shared room, or a K/Q bed in a private room

  • Outdoor experiences – Facilitated group experiences in beautiful Sunriver

  • Individual Consultation – Dedicated time to debrief and talk through next steps

  • Post-retreat Group Sessions – 6 mo. of group coaching

  • Sessions – Full access to all workshops and activities

  • Resources - A wide array of support, tools and groups

  • Community – You’ll meet & leave with a community of friends

  • Swag from our amazing brand partners

  • Group Photo taken by our Rooted Life photographer

What it does not include:

Airfare and transportation to Sun River is not included.

Registration

for April 18-21, 2024

Full payment and payment plans available. For scholarship information, email us here.