Humpback Rocks in the Blue Ridge Mountains
  • Modular Cabin Private Room with Twin Bed – $495.00
  • Sanctuary Lodge Private with 2 Twin Beds – $555.00
  • Sanctuary Lodge Shared with 2 Twin Beds – $345.00
  • Sanctuary Lodge Queen Bed - For 1 Guest – $555.00
  • Sanctuary Lodge Queen Bed - For Couples – $690.00
  • Maplewood Cottage - For 1-2 Guests – $975.00
  • Maplewood Cottage - For 3-4 Guests – $1,380.00

Date & Time Details: November 30th - December 3rd, 2023

Location: Sanctuary Retreat Center

Address: 2610 Adial Road, Faber, VA, USA

Contact: Tracey J. Moon
traceyjmoon@gmail.com
919-907-0579

Program Price: Begins at $885* early registration + all-inclusive (accommodations, meals + training/retreat). Hold your spot with a $100 deposit. *Early registration price before 10/16.

Traveling to the Sanctuary: Sanctuary does not offer airport shuttles. For a list of transfer services, click here: Traveling to the Sanctuary.

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Breath, Body & Sound Retreat

November 30 - December 3, 2023

A 4-Day Retreat – Breath, Body & Sound
With Tracey J. Moon LMBT and Sharon Nash, MA

mountain path through forest at sanctuary retreat center

“I’ve taken many trainings through the years.  Some courses for knowledge, some for contact hours and others for interest of content.  This breathwork actually breathed new life into me personally and my practice!  For anyone desiring an experience that leaves you wanting more, this is your class.”  Terry Spencer, MSW, LCSW, LMBT, CDP

“Profoundly transformative, peaceful and nourishing. Thank you for offering this life change work.”  G.W., Catonsville, Maryland

Date:  Thursday, November 30 at 3 pm to Sunday, December 3 at 3 pm
NCBTMB CE’s:  18 and open to the public
Price:  Begins at $885 early registration before 10/16 + all-inclusive (accommodations, meals + training/retreat). Hold your spot with a $100 deposit.
Location: Sanctuary Retreat Center, 2610 Adial Rd, Faber (Nelson County), VA

This four day Breath, Body & Sound residential training and retreat is being held at Sanctuary Retreat Center situated in the foothills of the Shendandoah mountains in Nelson County, VA.  Sanctuary Retreat Center is a place created to return to wholeness, presence and peace.  Coupled with hands-on work, breathwork is one of the most effective ways to release tension and stress, reboot the nervous system and feel at home in the body. It’s one of the kindest and most necessary things we can do for ourselves and to teach our clients.

For the training and retreat description: click here

  • On-site Wellbeing Services available (massage and bodywork, energy work, mental/emotional balancing)
  • Meals begin on Thursday at dinner and end Sunday at lunch
  • Woodland trails, comfortable accommodations and plenty of places for solitude
  • Come in a night early starting at $95*, including meals
  • Spacious training schedule to include periods of integration

FAQ’s

Woman lying down doing breathworkWhat is breathwork?
As we navigate this evolving and uncharted world many are left with feelings of grief, loss and distress. Depression and anxiety are at all time high levels. The breathwork and meditative practices in this course work directly with the nervous system and provide skills and tools to find our way through the turbulence of this time.” Tracey J. Moon, LMBT

Many people don’t breathe properly due to stress, exhaustion, anxiety, depression and posture habits yet our breath is essential to living a happy and balanced life.  The breath is the most accurate and instantaneous mirror for how we feel, think and live.  By consciously connecting with the breath we regulate the nervous system and metabolize emotions in a more skillful way.  As we connect with the breath in this inspired way, we move towards more happiness in the heart, ease in the body and pleasure in life. Think of it as a reset to your body, mind and spirit moving more towards optimal mental, physical and spiritual health.  You will learn techniques that are restorative, freeing and enlivening.

The benefits of breathwork can include:  more clarity, reduced anxiety and depression, increased stress-resilience, increased energy, feelings of more ease and flow in life, decreased physical pain, heightened insight, awakened presence, expanded sense of connection with self and others.

“One of, if not the best continuing education experience I’ve had in 20 years. I’ve taken the Ethics course & Breath, Body and Sound and will definitely be back for more. The unwavering presence and support of these instructors is nurturing and very tangible. So grateful to experience this high level of professionalism.”  L. Williamson, FL

DrumWhat is sound healing?
Everything in the universe is in a constant state of vibration, including every bone, tissue, organ and cell in our body. When we are in a state of sound health, all of our body parts are vibrating harmoniously at their optimal or resonant frequency.  When our vibration is not in sync with our optimal frequency we can feel out of sorts, imbalanced and depleted.  Shamanic sound healing can help bring your vibration back into resonance, thus allowing you to enjoy a state of relaxation, reduced anxiety and tension, and a boost to the immune system.

Pathway that goes by modular cabins

What is the price for the 4-day retreat including accommodations and meals?
Pricing is listed below and includes three meals daily beginning with dinner on Thursday and ending with lunch on Sunday.  Single and double accommodations are available.  All rooms have full bathrooms shared with one other room.  Note that our residential retreats usually fill early so please hold your spot with a deposit.

Couple (one queen bed), per person, $885
Double room, per person (two twins), $895
Single, small room (twin bed), $1045
Single, large room (two twin beds), $1150

*early registration price before 10/16

Can I room with someone I know?
Yes. When you register, please let us know you are attending with someone and would like to share a room with them.  If you are coming to the training alone and would like shared accommodations, we will pair you with a same-gender roommate.

Can I come in a day early?
Yes, when you register, you can add additional night(s), checking in on Wednesday, November 29 and/or departing on Monday, December 4.  Three meals daily are included with the extra night(s).  Cost* depends on your accommodations type and is listed below:

Couple, per person $95
Double, per person $100
Small Single, $155
Large Single, per person $175

*early registration price before 10/16

Wood bridge on a forest walking path

Will there be time in the schedule for exploring, hiking, wellbeing services or rest?
Yes, we have deliberately created the retreat schedule so that it allows ample time for to enjoy the woodland trails, schedule a wellness service or or rest.  Before or after the retreat, you may wish to explore the nearby Shenandoah National Park or nearby Charlottesville, VA.  Click here for a full menu of Wellbeing Services at Sanctuary Retreat Center.

What are your COVID policies?
We are not requiring COVID vaccinations or masks for this in-person retreat.  We ask that prior to the retreat, you minimize your exposure to illness as an expression of care for the group.

I’m a massage therapist – can I receive continuing education hours for this retreat?
Yes. Breath, Body & Sound is NCBMTB Approved and massage therapists will receive 18 CE hours. You will receive a certificate of completion at the end of the retreat to submit to your state licensing board or for recertification with the NCBTMB.

What should I bring?
You will receive a welcome email after registering with a list of what to bring.  This email arrives within 24-48 hours of your registration.  If you didn’t receive it, please check your spam box and add the email info@cultivatinginnerstillness.com to your contacts.

ABOUT YOUR TEACHERS

Tracey J. Moon Tracey J. Moon, LMBT
Tracey has a warm down-to-earth presence and a deep intuition that helps her facilitate groups with clarity, spontaneity and loads of inspiration. She believes in the profound intelligence of the body and breath and empowers others to live and work with more awareness, happiness, resilience and hopefulness. It is her own relationship with being vulnerably human and her capacity to deeply listen – along with years of meditation, movement, deep rest and a fierce courage to evolve – that most deeply inform her wide capacity to be a healing presence with others.

Tracey has 20+ years experience as a massage therapist and bodyworker and completed her training at The Body Therapy Institute in North Carolina. She is a former faculty member of The Body Therapy Institute and is a graduate of the Spirit of Learning, a bodyworker teacher-training program. Tracey worked at Duke Integrative Medicine in its early entrepreneurial phase where she built the integrative massage program from inception.

She received her initial training as a breathwork facilitator through Clarity Breathwork in Costa Rica and has completed further training in Biodynamic Breath.  She is a Certified Integrative Reflexologist, has trained extensively with Claire Marie Miller and is now an international teacher in this reflexology modality.  In 2018, she completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training in Rishikesh, India with a focus on asana, pranayama, yoga philosophy, meditation and sound.  She received her professional training in Mind Body Skills through the Center of Mind Body Medicine in Washington, DC in 2009.  Much of her work is influenced by Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program.

Tracey co-facilitates retreats and workshops in the US and internationally with Sharon Nash on the topics of meditation and mindfulness, depression and anxiety, breathwork and sound healing and Integrative Reflexology. They are Approved Providers of Continuing Education by the National Certification Board of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork  (NCBTMB). Their workshops and retreats are open to all.

Sharon NashSharon Nash, M.A.
Sharon brings a unique blend of heart wisdom and strong mind into her work. Her clear, direct facilitation style meshes seamlessly with her dynamic energy, playful exuberance, and attentive presence to create a safe and inviting space in which participants relax and reconnect to their own inner wisdom.  Sharon unselfconsciously shares stories of her own spiritual journey and its challenges to remind participants that they are not alone, and that through collective inner work we can foster a powerful sense of community to support and sustain us.

Sharon has a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Auburn University and a M.A. in Liberal Studies from Duke University.  She has had many incarnations as a teacher since 1990 including as a secondary mathematics teacher in southern Africa, North Carolina, and Guatemala; as a teacher trainer and online educator in North Carolina; and as a co-facilitator of healing retreats and workshops in the US and internationally with Tracey Moon in meditation, breathwork, sound healing, bodywork and reflexology.  Sharon has completed trainings in Integral Education, Non-Violent Communication and Clarity Breathwork.  In 2018, she completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training in Rishikesh, India with a focus on asana, pranayama, yoga philosophy, meditation and sound.  She connects to her own inner wisdom and guidance daily through her intuitive practice of sound healing.