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WHOLENESS RETREATS
2025
Tending to our Longing and Heartache
An Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Nature Connection Retreat
October 12-17 2025
Live your authentic, wholehearted life! Retreat to Hood Canal to connect deeply with yourself in a supportive, relaxing, and reinvigorating community setting. Feel into your self-confidence and courage, practice self compassion, and tend to your longing and heartache. Leave with greater insight and clarity, grounded in a deeper self wisdom.
Hello. Thanks for visiting.
Have you noticed a heartache in you? Do you find yourself longing?
Some people long for companionship, connection, closeness.
Some wonder about what life could have been like if different choices were made.
Some have lost a part of themselves, a loved one, or something special and ache for the return of what was.
This ache in your body, this longing; these are parts of you that are tenaciously asking for your attention.
These parts need your presence, your curiosity, your compassion and in return, they show you your own inner wisdom.
They are guiding you on your way to living wholeheartedly.
This retreat will explore 3 types of longing.
A longing for
connection and closeness
There is a natural need to be seen, understood, valued, and delighted in, even when we are messy. If you have a longing for companionship----whether romantic or friendship, this exploration will help ground you in this reasonable need. Join to heal deeper attachment wounds, feel more self-attached, and more spacious and secure in seeking closeness with others.
A longing for
choices not made
Often the culprit of the mid-life re-evaluation----or more colloquially known as a good ol' fashioned mid-life crisis. This is a beautiful time to take a moment and reflect back on what the younger version of you wanted from life and increase clarity and motivation for what the current version of you wants from your life now. This is an opportunity to make room for the parts of you that didn't get something that is still meaningful to them. Perhaps you didn't have children, but a part of you still wants to be a parent. Perhaps your career did not earn the accolades you were hoping for, and you continue to want recognition. Leave with better understanding about why these things are meaningful to you, grieve changes as needed, and make plans to get the best of your life yet to come.
A longing for
what was
In our precious life, there have been experiences and people that have touched us deeply, imprinted on us something so fulfilling, that in their absence we feel less than whole. Maybe we think we've lost a piece of ourselves. Perhaps you had a business that came to an end? Or a long relationship that ended before you were ready? Maybe an accident or illness has changed your life and you miss a different version of yourself? This exploration is an opportunity to turn towards this longing and heartache, validate, to grieve, and to reintegrate these parts into who you are today.
Don't see what you are having longing and heartache about here?
Let me know! As we continue to do this work, we add to this list. Your longing and heartache exploration is welcome at the retreat.
We will turn inward and
be courageously honest with ourselves.
We will be curious and let inner wisdom unfold.
We will be on our own journeys
and hold space to see, hear, and care for each other.
Let’s resonate together.
To witness our own wholeness—
that is self-care,
self-love,
self-compassion,
self-validation
in action.
It is deep and expansive experience.
You are deep and expansive.
By getting to know your parts, you are witnessing your unique wholeness.
Let’s create a warm and brave environment together—
for ourselves and for each other.
Interested in hearing more?
Give a listen to this podcast!
The Parts of Us That Long:
An IFS Exploration of Longing and Heartache
All Inclusive Package
Valued at $2400
Priority, Accessibility, & discounted rates below
Mid-Summer Special! All Registrations $1950! Ends Aug. 31!
October 12-17, 2025
Plus Pre-Retreat Virtual Meet-Up Sept. 28 &
Post-Retreat Virtual Reintegration Meet-Up Nov. 2
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Pre and post retreat virtual meet-ups
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Lodging and all meals (5 nights, 6 days)
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Welcome bag and gifts
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8 hrs Deep Internal IFS parts work in small groups (5-6 participants)
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10+ hours IFS interactive community experientials (12 participants)
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Daily opportunities for guided movement and nature-connection
*Transportation to and from retreat center not included. Carpool encouraged.
*In collaboration with Hood Canal Adventures!
This retreat includes a 3-hour Kayak Tour!
*We will be the only group on this tour and pace will be accommodated to us, with a priority on accessibility.
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Internal Family Systems Parts Work
With Susan Poznyansky, LICSW
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Daily Creating Healing Circles: IFS small group sculpting (5-6 participants). Each participant will work through their own personal piece of internal work, facilitated by Susan and supported by 4-5 other participants.
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Daily "all group" (12 participants) IFS experientials include IFS meditations, collective connection through social sharing/ speaking for parts or from core-Self. And other interactive IFS activites.
Nature Connection
With Evan "Ash" Young
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Guided opportunities to attune and connect with nature.
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Decompress and settle
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Explore how parts respond to time in the natural world
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Kayak Tour of the Dosewallips Estuary (Hood Canal Adventures)
Movement and Wellness
Susan & Guest Presenters
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Daily morning tai chi
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An evening of Ecstatic dance
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Settling back down w/ a Sound bath
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Labyrinth: walking with openess or intention
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Grief Grove: sit among the trees or share your grief on the "forest grief phone"
Lodging and Food
Sacred Waters Center for Restoration and Retreat
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Stunning views of Olympic Mountains, gardens, and nature trails
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ADA accessible
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Combination shared and single occupancy
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Dinner on arrival night, three meals on full days, breakfast and lunch on departing day.
Complimentary IFS Offering!
Susan is hosting a 1 hour IFS experiential
& Info Sessions!
RSVP below.
IFS for Chronic Illness, Fatigue, Adjusting to Aging, & Disability (2hrs) Fall 2026Multiple DatesSun, Sep 13Virtual link sent upon registration
IFS for Honoring Ourselves in Connection & Closeness (2 hrs) Virtual Drop-In Group Fall 2026Multiple DatesSun, Sep 13link sent upon registration
Payment Plans
Available!
Investment
Mid-Summer Special! All Registrations $1950! Ends Aug. 31!
Priority Pricing for BIPOC Participants $2040 (15% equity rate)
Mid-Summer Special! All Registrations $1950! Ends Aug. 31!
Special Price for First Two Registrations $1950
Mid-Summer Special! All Registrations $1950! Ends Aug. 31!
Early Bird Registration Price until July 15 $2200
Mid-Summer Special! All Registrations $1950! Ends Aug. 31!
Group Registration 2+ Participants Receive 10% Discount $2160
Mid-Summer Special! All Registrations $1950! Ends Aug. 31!
Full Price (after July 15) $2400
Mid-Summer Special! All Registrations $1950! Ends Aug. 31!
Mid-Summer Special! All Registrations $1950! Ends Aug. 31!
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