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The Nexus Way
SUSTAINABLE BODY WILDERNESS RETREAT
April 2026
Somatic Movement Sessions to Heal Physical and Emotional Pain
Brain Re-patterning for Ease and Agility
Reorganize Habits that Keep You from Peace, Contentment and Delight
Practice Guides for Maintaining Your Gains
Integration Time for Self-Reflection and Rejuvenation
Nourishing Organic Meals
Ecological Permaculture Homestead in the Wilderness of Northern California
LEVEL 1 INTRODUCTORY RETREAT
FOUR RICH DAYS OF MOVEMENT TOWARDS HEALTH AND RESTORATION. EACH DAY IS SEQUENTIAL, BUILDING TO AN APEX OF AGILITY AND EASE.
Melissa Krikorian
Founder of Nexus Physical Therapy,
CFR practitioner
RETREAT MISSION
The Sustainable Body Wilderness Retreat is a beginning journey into the vast potential of well-being through deep personal healing, physical restoration, and creative renewal. Through intentional developmental movement practices, participants will nurture and ignite physical agility, mental acuity, emotional stability, and spiritual connection.
The retreat location is on a spiritual and health-centered homestead surrounded by an old-growth forest, flowing streams and a diverse thriving ecosystem. Untouched by light pollution, cellphone reception, pesticides, and any of today's common pollutants, you can enjoy clear skies and unbelievable starry nights.
Immersed in the remote womb of nature unadulterated by “getting and spending” where “we lay waste our powers” (William Wordsworth), you will emerge a truer version of yourself. Allowing the necessary and often detrimental adaptations of culture to be gently recognized and discarded at will.
RETREAT PURPOSE
You will begin to heal physical and emotional pain finding more peace, contentment and delight utilizing your genius nervous system. Each workshop session you will learn, move, feel, and connect. Specific neuroscience and physiology will support novel movement explorations to reorganize brain patterning.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO:
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Relieve chronic pain and symptoms or tightness?
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Address stubborn injuries that never quite heal?
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Calm a dysregulated nervous system?
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Upgrade your flexibility and functional capacity?
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Avoid surgery and pharmaceuticals?
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Maintain a healing lifestyle?
RETREAT AGENDA
Day 1:
THE RICHES WITHIN: YOUR GENIUS NERVOUS SYSTEM
Reorganize Movement Patterns That Cause Pain Or Symptoms
Each day we will move through a sequential library of guided movement lessons using bio-mechanical connections based on early childhood development. These lessons help us recognize and reorganize faulty movement patterns adapted to protect us from physical and emotional pain. They are not exercises, based on performance standards, but novel explorations initiated from curiosity. Exploring functional movement in gravity helps us return to sensing our “True Self” vs an “Adaptive Self” organized around surviving vs. thriving.
BONUS ACTIVITIES
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Sun Bathing
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Hiking
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Pristine outdoor showers
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Bird & wildlife viewing
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Natural clay sauna (Depending on fire season)
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Farm activities & assisting with homestead
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Reading, journaling, and meditating in nature
