The Travel Feature: Burnout retreat

So I went for a full week.

I wish I had the time to go for two or three weeks, but I chose to put my phone away.

And I love the fact that the routine is very predictable.

You wake up at 6.30 with singing bowls and meditation and breath work, followed by morning yoga, the hot-cold therapy of the red sauna and the ice bath, then obviously having wonderful vegan wholesome meals.

And of course, free time to do whatever you want, finishing off with yoga again.

It's this opportunity to step into our bodies.

So often we think about therapy.

I think it's really important.

But when you're in burnout, you can't think your way out of it.

You can't rationalize.

Talk therapy can help to a certain extent, but we store so much stress, anxiety and tension in our bodies.

We need to learn how to let go of that.

And I love that, of course, there's offerings of workshops, breath work, yoga, somatic grounding and other healing modalities.

So like you say, it's not just you're going to tell somebody, hey, I feel stressed and it ends there.

There are a whole lot of opportunities.

So can guests come and go as they please or do you need to check the schedule and then block for that time? No, that's what

I love about it.

You can arrive at Vala House along the gun route whenever you want.

Stay for as long as you like.

And every day is predictable.

It's got the same schedule and you can choose what kind of modalities to do in your downtime.

So I chose to do TRE, which is tension and trauma releasing exercises.

And it's simple stretches to activate the involuntary tremor mechanism in the body.

And so as adults, we socialize ourselves to suppress that.

But if you look at animals or children after they go through a stressful event, they very often shake.