MAKE SHIFT HAPPEN

Empowering Retreats for Extraordinary Women

If you’re a dynamic woman who can’t seem to breakthrough the troubling effects of past experiences, but you’re ready to stand in your light, in your purpose, and in your power–then join us in the exotic rainforest of Costa Rica for this unforgettable opportunity to make that shift. Imagine waking up refreshed, hearing the nearby river, birds and maybe even monkeys! An uplifting energy fills your whole being as it soaks in the high vibrations of the mountains and magnificent trees around you. It’s the start of a new day, you are feeling ease within your body, and your mind is clear as you excitedly share with your new friends about a future possibility you now have clarity on. As the morning yoga begins, you slowly exhale and you realize, at last, you’re free.

You won’t believe the difference our individualized approach based on intensive one-on-one sessions with the most highly trained, solution-focused and heart-centered mind and body professionals. Due to past events or many events you may have put an incredible amount of energy and effort into countless counseling sessions, books or programs that haven’t brought you to where you know you can be. The emotional intensity continues and often can’t stop thinking about that troubling thing, it may have begun to show itself in physical symptoms such as fatigue, trouble sleeping, digestive issues, and aches and pains. This retreat was created to provide a complete shift in mind and body, from the root cause on a neurophysiological level. You will instantaneously experience a shift in how you are feeling in thinking during your time in Costa Rica, and the freedom, joy and peace that is created will last long after you get home.

This unmissable retreat experience is specially designed for you to wake up and restore you to being YOU, and alleviate the emotional weight so that your true self can expand. Let the world see it and feel it, while you elevate others in the process. As the most highly trained Rapid Resolution Therapy (RRT) professionals, we come with the RRT mindset and do not believe on going into the pain of the past, the solution is not in the past, we are intending to cause immediate shifts forward. Please join only if you are open-minded to the creation of new possibilities. If you are not interested in outdoor adventures, new and different mind and body alternatives, want to stay in “the story” of what happened, or would like to just spend the week hanging out on the beach, this retreat IS NOT for you.

There is something about the magical energy in Costa Rica that will provide you with complete mind and body transformations while building life-long friendships. We intend that you have a powerful experience not only in Costa Rica, but that the transformational effects last long-after getting back home. Each aspect of the retreat is precisely created to alleviate and clear automatic responses within the mind and body and restore it to its natural and optimal state.

Rapid Resolution Therapy

Rapid Resolution Therapy (RRT) is a pragmatic and experiential approach derived from science and philosophy. RRT shifts the way the mind processes information so that improvements in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are natural and automatic. During experiences that causes a huge emotional impact, the brain and body isn’t biologically wired to process information immediately and fully. It gets stuck on the subconscious level, or within the limbic system, where emotions are generated. The emotional response continues to show up even though those experiences are no longer happening. RRT gently and painlessly reaches that deeper level so there is no longer an emotional or physiological responds to events that are no longer happening. It is a fast and effective treatment for many of life’s challenges, instantaneously creating clarity, freedom, power, and illumination of you to shine.

We have the top RRT practitioners out of the Institute for Rapid Resolution Therapy at this retreat.

http://www.rapidresolutiontherapy.com

Rapid Resolution Therapy

Rapid Resolution Therapy (RRT) is a pragmatic and experiential approach derived from science and philosophy. RRT shifts the way the mind processes information so that improvements in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are natural and automatic. During experiences that causes a huge emotional impact, the brain and body isn’t biologically wired to process information immediately and fully. It gets stuck on the subconscious level, or within the limbic system, where emotions are generated. The emotional response continues to show up even though those experiences are no longer happening. RRT gently and painlessly reaches that deeper level so there is no longer an emotional or physiological responds to events that are no longer happening. It is a fast and effective treatment for many of life’s challenges, instantaneously creating clarity, freedom, power, and illumination of you to shine.

We have the top RRT practitioners out of the Institute for Rapid Resolution Therapy at this retreat.

http://www.rapidresolutiontherapy.com

Equine Therapy with Horse & Soul Connections

You will become part of the herd for a day for a profound, heart opening, soul moving, transformational experience. The day will start with an intention and heart opening meditation to prepare you for the experiential activities with the horses. You will meet each horse and begin to create a profound face to face, heart to heart connection in their sacred space. Activities will include lying on a massage table amongst the herd and receive magical energetic healing from the horses. Walking the Spiral with your chosen horse to release what is no longer of value to you, meditate together in the middle, and walk out with new intentions. Your horse will provide feedback and raise your vibrations. It may also include an Emotional Challenge Course with your horse, getting through emotional obstacles to connect with your true self. Throughout the day we will meet for reflection and invite ideas on how to integrate the experience into your daily life. We will end the day with a gentle yoga with the horses. No horse experience is necessary, just openness and a desire to closely connect with these remarkable beings.

Equine Therapy with Horse & Soul Connections

You will become part of the herd for a day for a profound, heart opening, soul moving, transformational experience. The day will start with an intention and heart opening meditation to prepare you for the experiential activities with the horses. You will meet each horse and begin to create a profound face to face, heart to heart connection in their sacred space. Activities will include lying on a massage table amongst the herd and receive magical energetic healing from the horses. Walking the Spiral with your chosen horse to release what is no longer of value to you, meditate together in the middle, and walk out with new intentions. Your horse will provide feedback and raise your vibrations. It may also include an Emotional Challenge Course with your horse, getting through emotional obstacles to connect with your true self. Throughout the day we will meet for reflection and invite ideas on how to integrate the experience into your daily life. We will end the day with a gentle yoga with the horses. No horse experience is necessary, just openness and a desire to closely connect with these remarkable beings.

Slow Flow Yoga

This slow and gentle yoga has been specifically designed by Kendra to bring attunement with the mind and body. The breath is a powerful force in causing shifts. The practice will emphasis breath work to regulate the body and release stress at the cellular level. It also integrates intentional, slow movements guided by the breath to improve body alignment and central nervous system wellness, the origin of thoughts and emotions. Each class will be themed with an intention to facilitate internal and external shifts. Sound bowls will also be integrated to shift dis-ease within the body towards its natural vibrational state. On the day we spend at the ranch, our yoga practice will be supported in the company of the horses.

Slow Flow Yoga

This slow and gentle yoga has been specifically designed by Kendra to bring attunement with the mind and body. The breath is a powerful force in causing shifts. The practice will emphasis breath work to regulate the body and release stress at the cellular level. It also integrates intentional, slow movements guided by the breath to improve body alignment and central nervous system wellness, the origin of thoughts and emotions. Each class will be themed with an intention to facilitate internal and external shifts. Sound bowls will also be integrated to shift dis-ease within the body towards its natural vibrational state. On the day we spend at the ranch, our yoga practice will be supported in the company of the horses.

Traditional Chinese Medicine & Feng La Acupuncture

An oriental holistic therapy designed to align the physical, emotional, energetic, mental/emotional and spiritual levels. The combination of treatments are intended to be preventive, restorative and regenerative to guide the body back to optimal functioning while providing mental clarity. A single technique or a combination of techniques may be used depending on what the body requires at the time to accelerate the body’s natural recovery process. Your Traditional Chinese Medicine session may include techniques such as Feng La acupuncture, moxibustion, cupping, acupressure, auriculotherapy, reflexology, Rolfing, and chiropractic adjustments. Each treatment will be personalized to what will serve you best. This treatment is something that must be experienced and not described. It will be unlike anything you’ve ever experienced anywhere else!

Traditional Chinese Medicine & Feng La Acupuncture

An oriental holistic therapy designed to align the physical, emotional, energetic, mental/emotional and spiritual levels. The combination of treatments are intended to be preventive, restorative and regenerative to guide the body back to optimal functioning while providing mental clarity. A single technique or a combination of techniques may be used depending on what the body requires at the time to accelerate the body’s natural recovery process. Your Traditional Chinese Medicine session may include techniques such as Feng La acupuncture, moxibustion, cupping, acupressure, auriculotherapy, reflexology, Rolfing, and chiropractic adjustments. Each treatment will be personalized to what will serve you best. This treatment is something that must be experienced and not described. It will be unlike anything you’ve ever experienced anywhere else!

Energy and Bodywork

The sessions will be personally designed with an integration of modalities based on what your energy and body requires at the time. An assessment will be conducted to evaluate which will facilitate the utmost restoration for you on a physical and energetic level. This unique therapy may include verbal clearings throughout the session to bring up and move stuck or blocked energy within the mind and body. Your sessions may consist of Myofascial Release in the connective tissue to restore movement, soft tissue release, Neuromuscular Therapy, Reflexology, Reiki and other energy work to include Access Consciousness Body Processes, which clears away blocked or stored energies within the body. All treatments will be personalized to what will serve you best. This is not your typical bodywork session, it is potent and will cause major shifts!

Energy and Bodywork

The sessions will be personally designed with an integration of modalities based on what your energy and body requires at the time. An assessment will be conducted to evaluate which will facilitate the utmost restoration for you on a physical and energetic level. This unique therapy may include verbal clearings throughout the session to bring up and move stuck or blocked energy within the mind and body. Your sessions may consist of Myofascial Release in the connective tissue to restore movement, soft tissue release, Neuromuscular Therapy, Reflexology, Reiki and other energy work to include Access Consciousness Body Processes, which clears away blocked or stored energies within the body. All treatments will be personalized to what will serve you best. This is not your typical bodywork session, it is potent and will cause major shifts!

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Meet The Team

We are a highly trained team of professionals providing mind and body transformation. We believe that you are extraordinary and despite what happened, we honor you for having come this far.

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Kendra Simpkins, MSW, LCSW

Rapid Resolution Therapy Master Practitioner, Trauma-Informed Yoga Instructor
Kim Austin

Kim Austin, LPC

Rapid Resolution Therapy Master Practitioner
Heather

Heather Reynolds, LPC

Rapid Resolution Therapy Master Practitioner
Hanzel

Hanzel Claro

Chinese Medicine Practitioner and Acupuncturist
Jessie

Jessie Reese, LMT

Massage Therapist, Energy and Holistic Bodyworker
Marsha and Mark

Marsha & Mark Friedman, LCSW

Equine Therapist Horses – The True Connectors and Teachers

How We Are Different

Make Shift Happen specifically treats the underlying issues that cause emotional disturbance and negative thought patterns. We believe that these issues are rooted within the physiology of the body and from neurological wiring. We strongly believe that each woman is not wounded but is whole, indivisible, unbreakable and that they have everything they need already within them. As we understand how troubling experiences affect the mind and body on a deeper biological level, it is our top priority to regulate the body and create rewiring of emotional states so that inner power can be accessed. Those who join us receive one-on-one holistic treatments that cannot be found at any other retreats. It’s not about understanding at an intellectual level, it’s about shifting on an emotional level and releasing stored responses in the body.

The Venue

Hotel Villas Lapas is tucked down into a valley within the rainforest. It is known worldwide for bird-watching as much of the exotic Costa Rican wildlife flourishes in the area. We will stay in our own private retreat area across the river walkway, where we will have our own private area for personal expansion. You will have your own spacious room with one comfortable king sized bed and walk-in shower. Accommodations are not luxury, but comfortable and perfect to have your personal space for renewal. Free WiFi is available, but we invite you to do a digital detox to optimize your time here. We will dine in an open-air area over looking the river. Foods will be local Costa Rican flare, expect lots of local fruits, beans and rice, salad, meats and eggs, but we will also have vegetarian options. We intend on making this the best, most life-changing and raw experience as possible. With that being our main focus and not luxuries we may be accustomed to outside of Costa Rica, please know we may not be able to accommodate all special requests.

Flights:

Arrive into the San Jose Airport (SJO) on Sunday July 21st before 4pm, if possible, so we can pick you up and you can get settled in before dinner. We Recommend you depart July 28th,  after breakfast, but you may only be able to find an early morning flight (please fly only in and out of SJO). We’ll have two airport pick-ups on July 21st, and if you are not arriving in time to be on those transports, we can help you arrange your own taxi to the hotel (at your cost). The same applies to going home. We will let you know your pickup time from the airport and departure time going home once we have everyone’s flight information. Our local guide and driver, Hanzel, will be outside the airport waiting for you. After you pick up your baggage and walk through the doors from the rental cars, he will be standing there with a sign that will have your name. If you would like to stay later for some exploring on your own – we can give some suggestions to help you design something fabulous as well as make sure that you actually end up in Costa Rica at the right time and in the right place!

What’s Included:

  • Your own private spacious room.
  • 2 – 2 hour Rapid Resolution Therapy (RRT) sessions with one of the top rated RRT practitioners in the U.S.
  • 2 – 1 hour coaching sessions after the retreat so you can continue even more transformation after getting back home.
  • 2 – 1 hour sessions with a powerful integrative body worker that will release anything stuck or blocked within the body. Set in one of our private “treehouse” spa suites as you enjoy your session next to the soothing sounds of the flowing river.
  • 1 – 90 min. session of Chinese Medicine where an experienced holistic practitioner will tailor a session specifically to your needs, which may include (invasive) acupuncture, cupping, Rolfing, and chiropractic adjustments. Set in the private “treehouse” spa suites where you will enjoy your Chinese Medicine experience outside next to the river.
  • 6 days of morning yoga, doing a slow gentle flow, riverside under the rainforest canopy.
  • 1 Day of Equine Therapy where we will join the horses, and begin creating a personal connection to these magnificent beings. The horses will lead you deeper into your true self, connect you to your intuitive knowing and illuminate your path.
  • An interactive curative foods workshop with fresh local fare. We will learn to use the power of foods to shift our biochemistry and transform emotions. Taught by our local holistic health practitioner. Expect this to not be your typical tourist meal but more of a delicious experience together.
  • A day of service, up close and personal, with Costa Rican wildlife. It’s important to give back to the local communities and environments that we visit, so there will be a day of volunteer work at the local wildlife rescue. We will do a restoration project and take care of sloths and monkeys that can not be released back into the wild. We cannot handle the wildlife, but yes, we will be up close and personal with sloths!
  • Evenings will end with Yoga Nidra, meditations or other activity to wind down from the days events.
  • Plenty of personal time to recharge, enjoy one of the hotels several pools, or walk along the river that flows through the hotel.
  • A mountain hike to one of the top beaches in the world just before sunset for our farewell celebration.
  • Spend the last evening dancing the night away to a local Costa Rican band who will be at our retreat location.
  • Transportation to and from San Jose Airport (SJO) airport
  • A bag of free sensational goodies that you will love.
  • A pre-trip preparation call

What’s Not Included:

  • Your roundtrip airfare from home.
  • One dinner is not included.
  • Other non-included items such as souvenir shopping, personal phones calls, extra services, taxis, laundry, and activities outside of the agenda.
  • Personal, medical or trip cancellation insurance.

What You'll Take Home (bennies!)

  • You will SHIFT into more space and clarity so that greater power and possibilities will be available to you.
  • Your most challenging and troubling issue will SHIFT into a thing of the past and no longer come to mind.
  • As things that are no longer of value get released, your body will SHIFT into feeling at ease, lighter, more energized.
  • A complete SHIFT in emotional states and perspectives, and your past experiences that were once depleting SHIFT into power and strength.
  • As you SHIFT, realign and expand, your life and the world will no longer be viewed the same again.
  • A SHIFT to access your untouchable confidence for you to make an even greater impact on the world.
  • SHIFT into a new community of extraordinary women for a lifetime.
  • Exciting free gifts to SHIFT your at home routine.
  • At home coaching sessions to MAKE SHIFT HAPPEN and let the world see your light and the greatness of YOU.

I am ready for this!

Download my favorite meditations!

Set Intentions, Not Resolutions. A resolution is a set point of view that restricts you to what’s within that. An intention puts you in forward motion for other possibilities to show up. Just intending on it, you’re already on the way. Where ever the mind goes, the energy flows…. One of my favorite meditations on creating intentions, so you are on the way to what’s intended in 2019!

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