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The Art of Looking In presents:

Reset and Reconnect

at our Florida Retreat

Join us as you heal, clear your blocks, gain clarity, and reconnect with your spirit. Reserve your spot today and take the first step toward a transformative experience.

February 26th - March 3rd, 2025

Bradenton, Florida at the Heartwood Yoga Institute

Secure your spot with a deposit

Embark on a profound journey of self-discovery, healing, and re-connection with your higher self/soul/spirit as we merge the power of ketamine-assisted therapy with the ancient wisdom of breathwork and meditation.

Our retreats offer a unique opportunity to reset your nervous system, rejuvenate your spirit, and cultivate a deep sense of inner peace and connection so that you can tap back into your joy, creativity, clarity, and inner freedom.

What We Do Differently

What sets us apart from most is our holistic approach, where science and modern day therapy meets spirituality to create a harmonious blend of modern spiritual practices along with ancient techniques and wisdom. Our experienced facilitators, trained in ketamine therapy, breathwork, and meditation, create a safe and nurturing environment for your personal and spiritual exploration and growth. As opposed to a stark clinical setting, where you experience the medicine by your yourself, the retreat environment is what allows you to go even deeper with the medicine journeys and to be in community, cultivating deep relationships while doing so.

Our retreats are created for individuals that have been on a healing/spiritual journey and are ready to take their growth and inner exploration to a deeper level while being in a safe and loving environment to do so. This particular retreat will focus on resetting and reconnecting. No previous experience with ketamine or other psychedelics is necessary to attend our retreat.

Schedule your free informational call today!

What is ketamine?

Ketamine is a pathway to accessing a non-ordinary state of consciousness that can cause a disruption from the every day unhelpful thoughts and patterns of being.

Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic and is primarily used in emergency rooms for procedures requiring short-term sedation/anesthesia, such as the reduction of fractures and dislocations, as well as in wound repair in uncooperative patients, especially children and can be safely used in a wide age range, beginning at three months. However because of the profound effects that were studied on people who struggled with treatment resistant depression, suicidal thoughts/ideation, and chronic anxiety, it is now being used in a therapeutic setting and is treated by many psychotherapists as a dissociative psychedelic.

Ketamine is one of the most widely used drugs in the world due to its safety profile. As a dissociative psychedelic, it creates a sense of disconnection from one’s ordinary reality. This psychedelic experience is crucial to creating changes in perspectives and moods and allows people to have a bird’s eye view of their life. Research also shows that ketamine has neuroplastic properties, which is the brain’s ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections. We theorize that neuroplastic changes can translate into concrete new thought patterns and behaviors.

This powerful shift in engrained ways of thinking and behavior creates space for exploration from a more accepting place. This curiosity allows us to make positive changes that may otherwise feel overwhelming or out of reach. Ketamine coupled with psychotherapy creates an avenue to access your deeper self so you can realign with what truly matters to you.”

During our retreats, you will embark on a carefully curated program designed to guide you through profound and transformative experiences. Through the skillful use of ketamine, known for its profound therapeutic effects, you will be able to access altered states of consciousness, allowing for deep introspection, emotional release, and enhanced self-awareness. The ketamine is used as an assistance to connect you with your higher self, beyond the ego/analytical mind.

Complementing the ketamine journeys

Our breathwork practices provide powerful tools to integrate and anchor the insights gained during your journeys into your body. The breathwork techniques and sessions we use at our retreats open pathways to release stagnant energy, remove trauma and energetic blocks, promote relaxation, and foster a deeper connection with your body and emotions. Guided meditation sessions bring clarity, focus, and mindfulness, facilitating profound shifts in your perspective and awareness.

We have found that these 3 technologies complement each other in very powerful ways to bring balance and harmony between your mind, body, and spirit, allowing you to live as the fullest, most powerful expression of your unique self. The ketamine provides you an opportunity to move beyond the ego mind providing clarity and connection with a higher perspective, while the breathwork helps you clear your blocks, and reset the nervous system. We also offer powerful integration tools for when you go home so that the experience isn't limited to the retreat.

Because of our own personal journeys of change and transformation, we also believe in the power of community.

While ketamine is mostly being used in clinical settings on an individual bases, we wanted to bring a different approach that we believe is much more effect. Studies have shown that when you bring a group of like-minded individuals together, creating a space of security, safety, and trust, you can create states of energetic coherence within the group that in and of itself creates powerful healing and changes on an emotional, psychological, biological, and spiritual level. By combining the power of coherence within the group, the beautiful medicine, the breathwork, the group exercises, integration circles, and the integration tools offered, you will be provided with every opportunity to experience a life changing 3 days.

We all need to fill our own cup...

Have you ever heard a flight attendant when she goes through her explanation at the beginning of your flight? It is one of my most profound lessons which is you MUST put the oxygen mask yourself first before your child or anyone else. As entrepreneurs, coaches, guides, and healers, and healthcare workers it is even more vitally important we do our own inner work and take care of our energy first and foremost.

Helping others is so fulfilling and yet can be draining in this fast paced busy world. That is why this retreat is focused on resetting yourself, your energy, your nervous system, and reconnecting with your spirit, your passion, your creativity, and your ability to lead and hold space in a very powerful way. And while you don't need to be any of those things to attend this retreat and gain a really powerful experience, we know how important it is for those in the healing space to do so.

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The 4 Pillars of our transformational Retreats

The Medicine

Ketamine is the medicine aspect that we use as a technology to take you on a deep inner journey, beyond the every day ego mind.

The Music

We specifically curate the music playlists used in each medicine journey to take you on a profound inner exploration.

The Breathwork

The breathwork is the tool we use to integrate the ketamine experience into the body so that you create lasting transformation.

The Environment

We carefully select a location for our retreats that embodies nature as that is fundamental for the full transformational experience.

Watch the video below as we answer five of the most commonly asked questions regarding our retreats

Hear what others who have attended our retreats are saying

“It was so beautiful in so many ways. The peace, the trust, the comfort, the love, the fun, the laughter, the breakthroughs. Such a beautiful environment to allow ourselves to let go. It's still resonating with me today. I think of it often. Very moving and life changing. ❤🙏” -S

"I came away with so much awareness and unconditional love and feel changed at the cellular level. It was such a beautiful experience with such a beautiful intimate group of people. 💖🫶💫♾️✨” -A

" The retreat helped me in finding HOME. In all ways. Within myself. Within other amazing people. Within my life. I can’t thank you guys enough. It was amazing and beautiful and I’m beyond blessed we got to share it with SUCH amazing people. 😘😘😘” -S

"There’s a new level of acceptance willingness to just be me, and to accept what is. And it’s growing! So very amazing! Transformational breathwork—thank you Em, Scott, Luna, Lea and everyone else for making this such an amazing journey of a weekend!💕” -K

How to participate

Secure your spot, by paying your $500 deposit below. Because this is an application process, you must then schedule a free pre-screening call to make sure the retreat and group setting is a good fit for you. Click the button below to pay your deposit, and then be sure to check your email for a link to schedule a call. If you don't see it in your inbox, please be sure to check your spam/junk.

Pay your deposit

Check in at the retreat begins at 4:00 PM local time on Wednesday, February 26th.

You will be provided dinner Wednesday evening at 6:00 PM followed by an evening session at 7:30 to go over the details and schedule of the four days we will be together.

Check out is 11:00 AM local time on Monday, March 3rd.

There are numerous transportation options from the major Florida airports to the retreat center that will be emailed out to you upon registration.

Schedule for the retreat

Day One- Resetting

On day one we will start the morning with a ketamine journey. There will be plenty of time after each journey for integration and processing. After lunch, we will have group integration circles and short exercises that help integrate your experience. There will be a breathwork session facilitated by our certified breathwork instructor in the afternoon followed by dinner. Day one will focus on the initiation process.

Day Two-Reconnecting

Day two, we will start the morning with a short meditation followed by a ketamine journey. There will be plenty of time after each journey for integration and processing. After lunch, we will have integration circles and some exercises that help promote deep transformation. There will be a breathwork session in the afternoon followed by dinner and then an evening session TBA. Day two will focus on the transformation process.

Day Three- Integration

Day three, we will start the morning with the deepest ketamine journey of the retreat. There will be plenty of time after each journey for integration and processing. After lunch, we will focus on integration for when you go home from the retreat so that you are prepared. There will be a breathwork session in the afternoon followed by dinner and then an evening session TBA. Day three will focus on the integration process.

MEET THE FACILITATORS

SCOTT SUNDERLAND

A mindset coach, speaker, and author, Scott has been facilitating transformations for his clients through retreats and online programs for over 6 years.

EM HOLLIS

Em is a certified SOMA breath instructor and spiritual teacher, with a focus on trauma healing, and has been helping people heal and transform for over 6 years.

ESPERANZA "LUNA" SANCHEZ

Luna has been working as a emergency medicine doctor in the ER for over 20 years, using ketamine in the ER on her patients for pain relief. After her own healing journey, she believes in using the medicine to help others heal on a deep level.

LEA BRAINERD

A trained Physician Assistant, working with over a thousand clients in ketamine therapy, Lea believes in a holistic, integrated therapeutic approach to physical/mental/spiritual health.

What is included in your investment: 

  • All meals and beverages

  • You will be provided dinner on Wednesday evening, lunch and dinner Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and breakfast on Monday. There are also snacks available through out the day and we can accommodate dietary restriction.

  • All workshop activities

  • Four full days of ketamine journeys, daily breathwork sessions, integration circles, and group exercises and activities that promote coherence, connection,  integration, play, and foster a deep inner connection.

  • Two, post retreat integration calls

  • We offer a weekly integration call for anyone that attends the retreat for two weeks following the retreat to assist with integration upon going home. In addition, you also get access to continued retreat integration calls after every retreat we facilitate, even if you don't attend them.

  • Lodging

  • Four full days and five nights of lodging in a private or shared room that includes your own attached bathroom. The property sits on 7 private acres and boasts an outdoor screened yoga class pavilion, a holistic library, a Chakra Garden, an 11-circuit full-sized labyrinth, a meditation gazebo, a medicine wheel, beautiful lodge, and an elements fire pit.

  • Breathwork 101 Mini Series

  • A self paced online course where you will learn the basics of the breathwork techniques you will do at the retreat and 11 different daily meditations you can use for post retreat integration.

  • Private Telegram Chat

  • We hold a private telegram chat for each retreat so that you can communicate with each other prior to the retreat as well as maintain communication with each other after the retreat.

INVESTMENT

The total investment for your 4-day, 5 night retreat is listed below and must be paid prior to scheduling your medical assessment if you have paid in full. If you paid the deposit, your balance must be paid in full by February 1st.

Your investment includes: all food (vegetarian and vegan options included), beverages, lodging for 5 nights, all workshop activities and a gift bag.

You are responsible for your flights, transportation to the retreat center, medical assessment, and cost of the medicine.

Option 1

$3800-Shared Room

Option 2

$4200- Private Room

Option 3

$4800-King Suite

(Single occupied, or $4200 per person for double occupancy
Get Started

*Registration closes on February 1st!

*Payment options are available upon request.

*THERE WILL BE NO REFUNDS OFFERED AFTER January 1ST. 

If you paid the deposit but have to cancel after January 1st, you will still be responsible to pay the remaining balance on the retreat.

If you have any questions/concerns, please don’t hesitate to reach out to [email protected] and someone will get back to you within 24-48 hours.

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*Please note: Our retreats are conducted by experienced physicians and professionals in a safe and controlled environment. Ketamine-assisted therapy is only available to individuals who meet specific criteria and have been thoroughly screened. The retreats are not intended as a substitute for medical treatment or therapy, and are not meant for individuals suffering from an extreme mental health crisis. We always recommend consulting with your healthcare provider before participating.


*Disclaimer: Ketamine is a controlled substance, and its use should always be conducted legally and responsibly.

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