Rediscover Simple Pleasures

What if slowing down was the most radical thing you could do? There is a way of moving through life that the French understand intuitively. It's unhurried, sensory, and rooted in the pleasure of small things: the morning light through the window, a meal that deserves your full attention, or the particular satisfaction of doing nothing, beautifully.

Most of us have forgotten how to live this way. We've been running for so long on adrenaline, productivity, and obligation that our nervous systems have come to mistake urgency for aliveness—and our work has followed suit, faster and more relentless than ever. But rest is not laziness, slowness is not failure, and the life and work you actually want may be closer than you think. It simply requires that you stop long enough to feel it.

In this immersive weekend retreat, author, Level 3 Certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) Practitioner, and women's spiritual leadership mentor Sara Avant Stover draws on her own profound life reorientation—relocating from the United States to the south of France and returning to a slower, more sensory way of being—to guide you into a genuine experience of your own version of joie de vivre. Not as a concept, but as something you can feel in your body before you leave.

Through a carefully tended weave of women's embodiment practices, meditation, IFS-informed inner inquiry, sensory practices, journaling, and a sacred women's circle, this weekend offers your nervous system something it may be desperate for: real rest, real beauty, and real permission to receive both.

You will leave with:

• A more rested nervous system—not just relaxed, but reset
• A new relationship with slowness, pleasure, and ease as a spiritual practice—in both your life and your work
• IFS tools for working with the parts of you that resist rest, equate worth with productivity, or feel guilty for wanting more
• Simple, sensory daily practices that bring the spirit of l'art de vivre home and into your work with you

This retreat is for women who are tired of being tired—and ready to remember what it feels like to be at home in, and inspired by, their own lives.

Recommended Reading: Sara Avant Stover, The Way of the Happy Woman, The Book of SHE, and Handbook for the Heartbroken