The Art of Letting Go
✨ The Art of Letting Go with Nicole Laureen ~ November 28-30
A weekend retreat for release, restoration, and remembrance through fascia, sound, and somatic practice.
“The body keeps the score.”
Everything we’ve ever experienced — even what we can’t consciously remember — lives within the tissues of our body. From our time in the womb to moments we were too overwhelmed to process, the body holds it all.
When we aren’t given the space to fully feel and release an experience, the body stores it away for later. And often, life will repeat itself — drawing in similar situations, not to punish us, but to offer another chance to complete the process. Over time, the unprocessed becomes tension. The tension becomes tight fascia. And the tightness becomes dis-ease.
This retreat is an invitation to slow down and meet your body where it is — to gently listen, feel, and unwind what’s been held for too long.
Together, we will:
- Explore fascial movement and stretching to open the body’s layers
- Engage in conscious breathwork to move emotion and energy
- Receive restorative sound journeys and yoga nidra (two evenings)
- Map the emotions stored in the organs and learn how to clear them
- Practice partner fascial bodywork for deep release
- Reflect and integrate through journalling and time in nature
Throughout the weekend, there will be free time for you to restore in your own way — whether that’s enjoying the sauna and cold plunge, walking through nature, or simply resting and journally in silence.
You’ll also have the option to book a 1:1 fascial bodywork session with Nicole for deeper, personalized release (limited time slots available), or enjoy a restorative aromatherapy massage with Cindy to support your nervous system and gently move stored emotion through the body.
This is not about fixing or forcing — it’s about making space. Space for healing. Space for remembrance. Space for the body to do what it knows how to do when we finally get out of the way.
Come as you are. Leave softer, clearer, and more deeply attuned to what your body has been trying to say all along.
About Your Facilitator
Nicole Laureen is a bodyworker, somatic guide, and intuitive facilitator devoted to helping others reconnect with the innate wisdom of their bodies. With training in fascial release bodywork, somatic awareness, energy work, sound healing, and shamanic studies, she brings a deeply integrative approach to healing.
Nicole’s work weaves together sound, breath, movement, and emotional release into a potent nervous system reset creating space for the body to unwind, the heart to soften, and what’s been held to finally be released. Her sessions are rooted in the understanding that the body remembers what the mind may forget, and that through compassionate awareness and presence, true healing can unfold.
Through her grounded presence and loving facilitation, Nicole invites you into a space of deep listening, restoration, and reconnection, with your body, your breath, and your whole self.
Itinerary
Friday: ARRIVAL + SETTLING IN
- 4:00 PM – Arrival + Tea + Settle into Nature + Opening Circle
- Intros, intention setting, grounding meditation
- 5:30 PM – Nourishing Dinner
- 8:00 PM – Yoga Nidra + Sound Journey
- Guided body scan focused on fascia awareness
- Sound journey to begin the softening process
Saturday: RELEASE
- 8:30 AM – Breakfast
- 9:00 AM – Morning Facsia Movement/Stretch
- 11:30 AM – Freetime + Journalling Time in Nature
- 1:00 PM – Lunch
- 2:30 PM – Partner Facsial Release
- 4:00 PM – Free Time / Optional Sauna + Cold Plunge / Book Bodywork
- 6:30 PM – Dinner
- 8:00 PM – Breath + Sound Journey
Sunday: INTEGRATION + RENEWAL
- 8:30 AM – Breakfast
- 9:00 AM – Gentle Morning Movement
- 10:30 AM – Organ-Emotion Mapping + Freetime
- Exploring what emotions are held in liver, lungs, womb, etc.
- Somatic sound practices to vibrate/release (sounding: “SSS,” “SHH,” “MMMM,” etc.)
- 12:00 PM – Closing Circle
- 1:00 PM – Lunch
- 2:00 PM – Departure
Theme:
Letting go through the fascia — dissolving physical, emotional, and energetic tension stored in the body’s connective tissue. This retreat explores the deep wisdom of the fascia — the connective tissue where unprocessed emotions, stress, and trauma often live. Through movement, sound, breath, and presence, we soften the body’s tension and listen for what it’s been trying to say. This is a weekend of embodied release, nervous system restoration, and coming home to yourself.
Prices Range from $480-$580 (shared/single). Contact bookings@risingspirit.ca or embodiedexpression@gmail.com for more info.
- Payment is due in full upon registering for your spot for the retreat.
- Please note our cancellation policy in the terms & conditions link at the bottom of our website.