The Anxiety Relief Retreat Workbook

Download your printable copy of your retreat workbook here. It contains a checklist of retreat tools, suggested retreat itineraries for busy schedules, space for you to complete your journaling exercises, and more!

New Student Profile Link

If you didn't complete your New Student Profile via the link in your retreat welcome email, now's the time! In this simple warm-up exercise, you will put your anxiety journey into your own words. Plus, the info you share here can help me create content that will benefit you, specifically, in the future. If you have already completed the survey, great! Then mark this lesson as complete and keep going!

5 Secrets to a Soothing Retreat

You deserve to get the very MOST out of The Anxiety Relief Retreat. Inside this video, you will learn the five tips, tricks, and subtle moves that will help you have the most soothing experience possible.

Welcome to The Anxiety Relief Retreat – Orientation Video

Don't skip this one! This important video covers key details about the course and some important "housekeeping" items.

The Amazing Human Brain

This fundamental lesson highlights three amazing features of the human brain (your brain!) and lays a foundation for how each of these features plays a role in how we experience and manage anxiety. Also included in this lesson is a shortlist of brain-rewiring activities that can help lower your baseline anxiety level.

An Anxious Moment

In this lesson, we enlist the help of a millions-of-years-ago ancestor to we explore what, exactly, happens in the mind and body during and after an anxious moment. We’ll pinpoint the mismatch between modern-day anxiety triggers and ancient responses and identify three ways we can better balance the trigger-response relationship.

Yoga Flow - Making it Through a Moment

This yoga flow is designed to offer the anxious body and mind three things it needs most to manage the uneasiness and discomfort of an anxious moment: grounding, a restoration of emotional balance, and a sense of cooling.

Meditation – The Mountain

Find out how to “drop out” of a mental tempest and rediscover your footing in the present moment in our first meditation, The Mountain. This lesson also features a suggestion for non-seated meditation.

Journaling Session Intro – Stream of Consciousness w/ Thought Sauce

This lesson serves as an introduction to Stream of Consciousness Journaling with Thought Sauce. Together, these techniques offer an exercise in acknowledging – and cooling - our thoughts and emotions such that we can "see" them and manage them with more clarity.

A Free Time Recommendation

It’s time for a break! This short lesson offers some general guidelines for spending some time between sessions as well as a specific exercise that just might change the way you see the world around you.

Yoga Flow - The Recovery Flow

Our second yoga flow, The Recovery Flow, serves to signal to the physical body that an anxious moment has passed and that it is safe to recover.

Journaling Session Intro – The Soft Eyes Method

In this journaling activity, we learn how to use a concept that typically works against us to work FOR us in anxious moment. The Soft Eyes Method is a technique that uses story-telling to explore the multiple options for viewing an anxious moment.

Meditation – Loving Kindness

Practice the art of cultivating feelings of self-acceptance, self-compassion, and self-appreciation with Loving Kindness Meditation. This lesson also features a suggestion for non-seated meditation.

Quick Coping Techniques for Anxiety Relief

Discover three, in-the-moment coping techniques that can help you “be” with your anxiety until your parasympathetic nervous system begins to kick in naturally. Simple and discreet, each of these three exercises can be done anytime, anyplace.

The Anxiety Reducing Week

Of all of the exercises in The Anxiety Relief Retreat, this one just might be the most important.

The Anxiety Relief Retreat Wrap-up: See You Next Time!

Inside this lesson, you will find the two most important takeaways from The Anxiety Relief Retreat and learn how your yoga, meditation and mindfulness practices can be used to transform other areas of your life! (Wink, wink. It’s not “goodbye”, it’s “see you soon”!)

[OPTIONAL] Quick Calm Exercise

Need a breather ASAP? The Quick Calm Exercise will help you find a more calm, cool headspace so that you can move forward with the retreat with a clear mind and open heart.

[OPTIONAL] The Basics of Yoga

Practitioners from beginners to advanced will benefit from this lesson featuring both general and asana-specific modification options for taking the edge off - or leaning into several of the asanas in our two retreat flows. This lesson also highlights key safety and alignment cues for injuries and considerations for pregnancy.

[OPTIONAL] The Basics of Mindfulness Meditation

In this short, sweet lesson, you’ll find out what meditation is, what it isn’t, and why over 700 medical centers and clinics now offer mindfulness meditation programming as a form of treatment. You’ll will also learn how meditation can be used to disrupt the default anxious mind response to stimuli.