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The community, the presenters, and the energy were all incredible. I left feeling inspired, grounded, and connected..

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SEPTEMBER 4–7

Voices Together Ecstatic Chant Tuition $475 ($425 Members)

Omega’s Ecstatic Chant weekend is a chance to bring our voices together with some of the Western world’s leading devotional singers, to reunite in community, and to nourish the soul with a rich tradition of musical prayer and meditation.

Known in Sanskrit as kirtan, devotional chanting awakens a longing in the heart for the experience of inner silence, boundless love, and union with the divine. The call-and-response, rhythmic quality of these unifying chants kindles an exhilarating, joyful mood.

Explore a variety of chants, interspersed with rejuvenating sessions of meditation, yoga, and story sharing. Get lost in the music, the power of community, and strengthen your connection to a higher power.

This program ends Monday at noon.

SEPTEMBER 7

Heart Practice of Chanting Bringing Chanting Into the Practice of Living KRISHNA DAS AND NINA RAO Tuition $85 ($75 Members)

Join Krishna Das for this half-day chanting retreat and devotional practice. This is a special opportunity to study with one of the foremost devotional singers in the world.

Explore the spiritual path with group chanting of the Hanuman Chalisas with Nina Rao in the early afternoon. Later in the afternoon, guided by Krishna Das, we revel in call-and-response chanting, stories about Das's beloved guru, Sri Neem Karoli Baba, and discussions about life, with plenty of opportunities for questions and answers.

Sharing his heart through music and chanting is the basis of Krishna Das’s devotional practice, his way of serving the divine within himself and others. In this retreat, we can embark on our own devotional journey with him.

Workshop begins at 2:00 p.m. and ends at 6:30 p.m.

Krishna Das is one of the foremost devotional singers in the world. He has released numerous CDs and is author of Chants of a Lifetime.

Nina Rao, Krishna Das’s assistant, tours with him, and shares teachings and chanting in her own events.

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MAGGIE WHEELER

MELANIE DEMORE

BRUCE NCUBE

LUKE WALLACE

SARA THOMSEN

MEREDITH SCOTT LYNN

SEPTEMBER 7–11

SongFest

Harmony, Joy & Healing Through Song Tuition $545 ($490 Members)

Workshop begins Monday at 7:30 p.m.

Maggie Wheeler is a singer/songwriter and choir director, best known as an actress for her portrayal of the character of Janice on NBC’s hit series Friends.

Melanie DeMore is a Grammy-nominated singer/composer, choral conductor, music director, and vocal activist.

Bruce Ncube is a Zimbabwean musician with more than 15 years of touring and traveling extensively in the UK. Luke Wallace is a folk musician who uses his talent as a songwriter, speaker, and choral arranger to champion environmental causes and inspire positive change.

Sara Thomsen, artistic director and member of Three Altos, is an American singer-songwriter and composer.

Meredith Scott Lynn is an actress, founder of the education company Write Brain Books and longtime drummer for the LA-based Golden Bridge Choir .

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Joining voices not only deepens connections with others, but also within ourselves, releasing that which no longer serves us and bringing in what does.

During this special, 4-night event, you have the opportunity to learn a varied repertoire written and collected by our group of diverse song leaders. Experienced and beginning singers alike are invited to rejoice in songs for these times and songs that have been sung through the ages during times of struggle, resistance, and triumph.

The collective power of song allows us to access our courage, connect deeply with one another, and bring these healing experiences back to our communities. Through the creation of song, harmony, and rhythm, we become inspired, energized, and united with one another.

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Radical Dharma Summer Camp

Discover Your Authentic Voice Through Songwriting

REV. ANGEL KYODO WILLIAMS RŌSHI Tuition $545/495/395 ($445 Members)

No one needs another race training 101 that leaves you feeling as if you have to walk on eggshells.

Radical Dharma Camp leverages a research-backed approach to empower you to confront the most confusing and dehumanizing social system in our history.

This truth-centered space leverages practice, presence, and play to unpack the impact of race and racialization with less fear, shame, and isolation.

Leave better equipped to: • Disarm habit-patterns of domination, white supremacy, and oppression • Disrupt conditions that maintain the status quo • Deconstruct the essential role embodiment plays in collective liberation • Design useful practices and thriving ecosystems Join Rev. angel and make meaningful connections within and across lines of difference.

Workshop begins Friday at 7:00 p.m. and ends Monday at noon.

Rev. angel Kyodo williams Rōshi is a visionary author, maverick spiritual teacher, founder of Transformative Change, and architect of the Healing Race Portal.

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MARY GAUTHIER Tuition $1,015 ($915 Members) LE

Everyone has a story to tell and a unique voice to tell it with. The key is uncovering that voice and learning to express your truth in a way that resonates with others. Join Mary Gauthier to discover the tools, techniques, and confidence needed to create songs that reflect MARY GAUTHIER your authentic self.

Through creative prompts, guided exercises, and open discussions, develop your skills and explore new ways to approach your art. Then, share your work, gain inspiration from Mary’s songwriting journey, receive constructive feedback, and learn from your peers.

Leave with a richer understanding of your voice, new songs in progress, and a renewed sense of inspiration to carry forward.

Workshop begins Tuesday at 9:00 a.m.

Mary Gauthier is a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and author celebrated for her ability to transform deeply personal stories into expressions of resilience, love, and healing.

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SEPTEMBER 4–7

SEPTEMBER 7–11

Opening the Heart Workshop Endorsed by the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation LINDA ARANDA BELLIVEAU, LIZ MAZLISH, AND LEE PERLMAN Tuition $450 ($405 Members) LE

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This workshop is an intensive experience and we do much together which helps open the heart. In this emotionally heightened environment, participants can release feelings in a safe way.

Workshop begins Tuesday at 9:00 a.m.

Linda Aranda Belliveau, M.Ed, has led Opening the Heart Workshops for 42 years, and trains others in the approach, specializing in personal growth and grief support.

Liz Mazlish, MA, has led Opening the Heart Workshops since 1990 and has had a private psychotherapy practice for 32 years.

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Positive change within a compassionate community has been the hallmark of Opening the Heart Workshops™ for almost five decades. Through a unique blend of time-tested exercises, practices, and lectures, you are immersed in a rich heritage and culture of the heart, where it becomes possible to: • Feel more, open to, and express emotions in healthy ways • Experience your wholeness, explore freedom from limiting beliefs, and embrace new, unrevealed parts of yourself • Increase your authenticity, empathy, and trust to cultivate better relationships

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Lee Perlman, PhD, a faculty member at MIT, founded the MIT Educational Justice Institute and has facilitated OTH and other workshops in a variety of settings.

Awakening Your Psychic Abilities

Trust Your Inner Wisdom & Spiritual Guidance LISA CAMPION Tuition $495 ($445 Members)

Everyone is born with intuitive gifts, but most of us were never taught how to LISA CAMPION recognize or develop them. In this experiential workshop, you discover how to access your natural psychic abilities in a safe, grounded way.

Through guided meditation, exercises, and energy practices, you learn to trust your inner guidance, shift into the intuitive “alpha state,” and recognize how psychic information already shows up in your life. We explore connecting with spirit guides, interpreting signs, and maintaining healthy energetic boundaries.

This workshop addresses common fears while providing practical tools for spiritual development. Leave with increased confidence in your abilities and techniques for integrating intuitive awareness into everyday life.

Workshop begins Tuesday at 9:00 a.m.

Lisa Campion is an author, psychic counselor, spiritual teacher, and Reiki Master.

SEPTEMBER 7–11

SEPTEMBER 7–11

Level Up Your Game

Redefine the Feminine in Yoga

Intermediate Pickleball

Mother Goddess Yoga Immersion

FRANCIS COMESANAS

NUBIA TEIXEIRA Tuition $465 ($420 Members)

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The Divine Mother abides within every being as consciousness and love. Her symbols and contributions have been found in every single ancient culture.

In this workshop, Nubia Teixeira teaches a yoga sadhana filled with mother goddess imagery, sacred symbology, and potency.

By experiencing yoga in a way that honors feminine power, you increase self-acceptance, inner strength, and self-love.

Through asana, prayer, pranayama, visualization, and other empowering and nourishing practices, you enliven all the layers of your being. You develop a deep understanding of shaktism (worship of feminine power) and tools to continue your practice.

No yoga experience is required.

This workshop takes place off-site at Hudson Valley Pickleball and Golf Center in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Take your game to the next level with this workshop designed for players ready to move beyond the basics. This workshop blends instruction, drills, FRANCIS COMESANAS and match play to sharpen your skills and build winning strategies. You leave with greater consistency, confidence, and court awareness. You learn: • Effective third-shot drops, drives, and decision-making • Refining dinks and volleys for precision and patience • Mastering the transition zone and resetting under pressure • Court positioning and movement as a doubles team • Constructing points and adjusting strategy mid-game Tuition includes access to Hudson Valley Pickleball and Golf’s top-of-the-line indoor facility. A voucher for lunch breaks between sessions will also be granted to purchase food at the facility.

Workshop begins Tuesday at 9:00 a.m.

Francis Comesanas is a certified instructor through the International Pickleball Teaching Professional Association (IPTPA) and has more than 15 years of experience competing in tournaments and teaching the sport.

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Workshop begins Tuesday at 9:00 a.m.

Nubia Teixeira, E-RYT 500, YACEP, founder of the Bhakti Nova School of Yoga & Dance, is a Brazilian-born yogini.

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SEPTEMBER 11–13

An Illuminated Life

Guided by the Secret Language of the Universe LAURA LYNNE JACKSON Tuition $515 ($465 Members)

WILLIAM LEE RAND

SEPTEMBER 11–13

Harmonizing Oneness A Weekend Ceremony for Peace & Healing Tuition $345 ($310 Members)

STEVE FARRELL

Rooted in the principles of “We Consciousness”—the divine truth that we are all one—this immersive retreat becomes a living transmission of unity.

William Lee Rand is founder and president of The International Center for Reiki Training.

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Steve Farrell is the cofounder and worldwide executive director of the nonprofit Humanity’s Team.

Karen Noé, founder of the Angel Quest Center, is a psychic medium, spiritual counselor, and healer.

Brett Bevell, a Reiki master since 1995, is author of several books, including The Wizard’s Guide to Energy Healing.

Parashakti Skye, a certified yoga instructor, is founder and creator of Dance of Liberation™.

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Jeffrey Avinash Barnes is an interfaith minister, musician, performer, and chef.

Laura Lynne Jackson is an international speaker, teacher, psychic medium, and New York Times best-selling author.

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SEPTEMBER 11–13

Poetry of Transformation A Reading & Writing Weekend MARIE HOWE Tuition $430 ($385 Members)

How can the imagination transform a story we have told ourselves over and over and over? How can we recreate our lives by reimagining the past?

Marie Howe shares some of her own poems and poems by those who have influenced her, such as William Blake, William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, and Rainer Maria Rilke, along with Stanley Kunitz, Carl Philips, Donika Kelly, and more.

Each day, we have time to read and talk. We have MARIE HOWE time to generate writing and time to share it. This is a generative space—comfortable, caring, and uncritical. Let’s look at our old stories in new ways. The weekend is open to everyone.

Marie Howe won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for her book New and Selected Poems and served as the Poet Laureate of New York State from 2012-2014.

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An Illuminated Life is one of Omega’s most popular workshops and will likely have more than 300 participants. Register early to secure your seat and housing.

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In a time when the world calls for healing, experience sacred practices to harmonize peace, unity, and oneness. Through guided experiences awakening the higher self, explore what it means to manifest your soul’s fullest expression. Ignite presence, healing, and divine connection through Reiki, sound, movement, and ancient ceremonial practices. Together, we: • Experience a Holy Fire® Reiki healing • Learn to activate the World Peace Reiki Grid • Immerse ourselves in a sacred world peace ceremony, invoking angels, ancestors, and elemental allies • Deepen our embodiment of peace through spiritual movement

Get ready to embrace your personal "team of light"—God energy, angels, spirit guides, and loved ones who have crossed over—in order to be guided onto your highest and best path in life.

During this retreat with Laura Lynne Jackson, explore how to call in and open up to the angelic realm, meet our spirit guides, connect with our loved LAURA LYNNE JACKSON ones who have crossed to the other side, and ask for specific, tangible signs and guidance.

Together, we practice exercises that awaken and strengthen our intuitive, clairvoyant, clairaudient, clairsentient, claircognizant, and mediumistic abilities. As we connect more deeply, an illuminated path emerges, guiding us to live more vibrant, engaged lives.

SEPTEMBER 13–18

SEPTEMBER 13–18

The Way of Awareness

Connecting With Our Ancestors LINDA YAEL SCHILLER

Integrating Healing Dreamwork & Integrative Practices

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LINDA YAEL SCHILLER AND KIMBERLY MASCARO

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Explore integrative, spiritual, somatic, contemplative, and expressive hands-on modalities for connecting with and honoring our ancestors in this interactive experiential workshop with Linda Yael Schiller and Kimberly Mascaro.

Together, we learn to connect with and offer and receive aid from ancestors KIMBERLY MASCARO while setting healthy boundaries.

Participants acquire skills in making and receiving contact with their loved ones and teachers both through the waking- and sleeping-state continuum. You learn: • The Guided Active Imagination Approach (GAIA) method for nightmare healing • The six shouts or whispers our ancestors may be sending us • How to use altars, tree-of-life journeys, yoga nidra, dreambased spiritual practices, and genograms (family trees) to aid in ancestral work Linda Yael Schiller, MSW, LICSW, is an international speaker on dreamwork, trauma, and integrated embodied spirituality.

Kimberly R. Mascaro, PhD, LMFT, is a holistic psychotherapist, author, visual artist, meditation facilitator, and teacher.

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WILL KABAT-ZINN AND JON KABAT-ZINN Tuition $595 ($535 Members) LE

Mindfulness is often spoken of as “the heart of Buddhist meditation.” However, its essence is universal. As Nyanaponika Thera put it, mindfulness is “the unfailing master key for knowing the mind, and is thus the starting point; the perfect tool for shaping [our relationship to] the mind, and is thus JON KABAT-ZINN the local point; the lofty manifestation of the achieved freedom of the mind, and is thus the culminating point.”

Mindfulness has everything to do with open-hearted attention to the unfolding of experience as it is. In most Asian languages, the word for “mind” and the word for “heart” are the same.

Therefore, we can understand mindfulness better if we simultaneously hear it as heartfulness and cultivate it in that way. During this retreat, we cultivate intimacy with our own experience, letting life itself become the curriculum.

We engage formal and informal practices, including the body scan, guided movement, and sitting and walking meditations.

The applications of mindfulness in the face of the full catastrophe of the human condition, including stress, pain, illness, and our implicit biases are emergent themes.

Workshop begins Sunday at 7:30 p.m.

SEPTEMBER 13–18

Will Kabat-Zinn is a mindfulness and meditation teacher whose passion is to help people wake up to their own deepest nature.

The Neurobiology of Healing

Unlock Powerful Transformation Through Nervous System Mastery CHELSEA HORTON AND SARAH ROT Tuition $550 ($495 Members)

Are you looking to support yourself or clients through anxiety, trauma healing, and nervous-system regulation?

Learn how to make embodied regulation and nervous system flexibility your new default, not just an emergency tool.

Through a combination of education, discussion, guided embodiment practices, collaborative creative exploration, and art making, you discover: • How to recognize nervous system states in real time • Body-based regulation techniques that incorporate movement, creativity, sensation, and nonverbal expression • How to stay present in your body when CHELSEA HORTON experiencing uncomfortable emotions • Nervous-system-informed practices for supporting others • How to attune to someone else’s nervous system nonverbally so you can effectively hold space This workshop benefits professionals who work in service-based fields, yet all are welcome to attend.

Chelsea Horton and Sarah Rot are board-certified dance/movement therapists and cofounders of Healing Embodied.

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Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, is founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and the MBSR Clinic at University of Massachusetts Medical School.

SEPTEMBER 13–27

Become a Qigong Healer

An Intensive 14-Day Professional Training ROBERT PENG Tuition $2,815 ($2,715 Members) LE, PT

This 14-day intensive training introduces you to the qigong energy healing techniques and meditations that qigong master Robert Peng learned from his teacher Xiao Yao, a legendary monk with remarkable healing gifts.

Enhance and empower your innate healing energy and discover how to use both hands-on and remote healing techniques of qigong as you learn: • Qigong theory and practices • Meridian meditations • Yang healing techniques • Yin healing techniques

ROBERT PENG

You return home with self-empowerment exercises to help you improve your healing skills and power, and the ability to conduct a qigong healing session with remarkable effect.

This training is appropriate for nonprofessionals as well as healing professionals. No prior qigong experience required.

Robert Peng, author of The Master Key and the DVD/CD companion series, is a world-renowned qigong master and healer.

OMEGA VETERANS PROGRAM

SEPTEMBER 13–18

SEPTEMBER 13–18

Veterans Yoga Retreat for Men Practices for Comfort & Ease ANNIE OKERLIN AND MIKE KEIGHLEY ANNIE OKERLIN

Tuition $400 ($360 Members) LE

Research shows that yoga and relaxation practices help veterans reintegrate after the challenging experiences of military service.

In this yoga retreat for male veterans, learn techniques to comfort the body, ease the mind, and promote healing.

Guided by Annie Okerlin and Mike Keighley, you practice yoga and learn to modify postures to accommodate physical limitations and ailments—including chronic pain and amputations.

MIKE KEIGHLEY Experience daily iRest sessions, a guided meditation based on yoga nidra and endorsed by the US Army Surgeon General. iRest promotes deep relaxation and acceptance. It helps the nervous system return to a balanced state of well-being, which is necessary to heal unresolved trauma and physical and emotional wounds.

Annie Okerlin, C-IAYT, is a certified yoga instructor in the traditions of Bikram, vinyasa, and power yoga, as well as an iRest yoga nidra instructor.

Mike Keighley is a US Army veteran and the chief yoga officer for Archangel Yoga.

Scientific Strategies for Creating Your Next Healthy Relationship AMY CHAN Tuition $750 ($670 Members)

If you’re longing for real connection but find modern dating exhausting, this retreat is for you.

Whether you feel stuck in repeating patterns, or you’re ready to approach love with fresh eyes, you learn how to AMY CHAN date with clarity and confidence.

This immersive program blends psychology, neuroscience, and practical tools for modern love. Discover how to: • Understand the psychology of attraction, attachment, and communication • Identify and rewire patterns that keep you from the love you want • Strengthen the skills that build trust, intimacy, and resilience Expect experiential exercises, research-backed frameworks for healthy dating, and live coaching that sparks “aha” moments.

Return home with a roadmap to create love that lasts.

Amy Chan is a best-selling author, relationship expert, and founder of Renew Breakup Bootcamp—the world’s first science-based retreat for healing heartbreak—and Renew Dating Bootcamp, where she helps singles date smarter.

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SEPTEMBER 13–18

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Music for Everyone

Creativity, Freedom & Joy DAVID RUDGE AND MARY KNYSH Tuition $500 ($450 Members)

Experience the transformative power of improvisation as a path to mindfulness, presence, and genuine connection with this creative journey, rekindling the childlike wonder of moment-to-moment music-making.

Music for People celebrates the enduring belief that everyone is musical—whether a seasoned performer or someone with no prior experience. Improvisation becomes both a practice of authentic expression and a metaphor for life: listening deeply, responding with courage, bypassing the critical mind to embrace spontaneity, and cocreating something larger than ourselves.

Explore practices through drumming, chanting, rhythmic grooving, singing, and DAVID RUDGE group facilitation in an inspiring space where there are no wrong notes.

Cultivate confidence, creativity, and playfulness that extend beyond music into personal, professional, and community life.

Workshop begins Sunday at 7:30 p.m.

David Rudge conductor/violinist facilitating music improvisation as art, mindfulness, and spontaneous expression.

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Mary Knysh is the director of Music for People's Facilitator Training Program and the founder of Rhythmic Connections.

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An application is required. Scholarships are available to cover all but $75 of the total cost.

Renew Dating Bootcamp

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SEPTEMBER 13–18

Trul Khor Tibetan Yoga

Magical Movements of Body, Breath & Mind ALEJANDRO CHAOUL Tuition $525 ($470 Members)

The distinctive Tibetan practice of yoga known as Trul Khor, or magical movement, incorporates breath practices, awareness, and physical movements.

Trul Khor is “a wonderful support for all spiritual practitioners, not just for those with an interest in physical yogas,” says Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche.

During this workshop, we focus on how these “magical movements” support body-mind-spirit health. By harmonizing the vital breath (lung, prana, or chi) and guiding its flow through physical and energetic dimensions, Trul Khor can aid in clearing long-held blocks in the practitioner’s body, energy, and mind, supporting the spontaneous arising of awareness during formal meditation and in everyday life.

Beginning and experienced students of yoga are welcome.

Alejandro Chaoul, PhD, is the director of Tibetan Yoga Wellbeing and founding director of the Mind Body Spirit Institute at the Jung Center of Houston.

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SEPTEMBER 18–20

Inner Excellence Retreat DON MIGUEL RUIZ JR. AND DON JOSE RUIZ

SEPTEMBER 18–20

Breaking Old Agreements The Toltec Path to Freedom

DON MIGUEL RUIZ JR. AND DON JOSE RUIZ

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For centuries, Toltec shamans of Mexico have passed down their wisdom through the sacred art of storytelling—using myth, metaphor, and lived experience to illuminate the path to personal freedom.

In this immersive workshop, Don Miguel Ruiz Jr. and Don Jose Ruiz guide you into a deeper understanding of how Toltec wisdom applies to modern life, shaping the way we perceive ourselves, our relationships, and the world around us.

Through conversation, reflection, and guided exercises, you learn how to: • Move beyond fear by recognizing its roots • Open your awareness to life’s infinite possibilities • Understand how attachments influence your reality • Redefine your identity, breaking free from imposed narratives that distort your essence Don Miguel Ruiz Jr. is a shaman, a Toltec master of transformation, and a direct descendant of the Toltecs of the Eagle Knight lineage.

Train Your Mind & Heart JIM MURPHY Tuition $525 ($470 Members)

Get the exact same training that NFL football stars, NBA basketball, MLB baseball, and PGA Tour players get, based on the New York Times No.1 bestselling book Inner Excellence.

Guided by Jim Murphy, you: • Learn the three principles, five skills, and nine disciplines of inner excellence • Learn how to master the ego • Learn how to overcome anxiety and fear • Remove mental blocks • Clarify your life purpose

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To reach your potential, you need to access your greatest fears and biggest dreams, understand what your heart deeply wants, and learn how fear and the subconscious mind work— and what it would look like to live your best possible life.

Jim Murphy, author of Inner Excellence, is a former outfielder in the Chicago Cubs organization and performance coach to world-class athletes and leaders.

Don Jose Ruiz is a shaman, a Toltec master of transformation, and the international best-selling author of The Fifth Agreement.

SEPTEMBER 18–20

Spiritual Immersion

SEPTEMBER 18–20

Phoenixes & Angels Mysteries of Astrology’s Eighth & Twelfth Houses CARMEN TURNER-SCHOTT Tuition $380 ($340 Members)

Have you ever felt intuitive, psychic, or had unexplained spiritual experiences? This retreat offers a grounded way to explore those gifts through the lens of astrology’s most transformative houses.

CARMEN TURNER-SCHOTT Join Carmen Turner-Schott to explore the eighth and twelfth houses—gateways to spirituality, psychic abilities, death, rebirth, and deep healing.

Learn how planetary placements and karmic patterns in these houses can shape your soul’s path, and how planetary transits can awaken opportunities for growth and resilience.

Carmen shares practical guidance and self-care strategies for navigating spiritual challenges with clarity and balance.

This weekend retreat is suitable for beginners, seekers, and seasoned astrologers alike.

Carmen Turner-Schott is a best-selling author of 11 astrology books, a practicing clinical social worker, and astrologer with national and international clientele.

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Activate, Empower & Strengthen Your Spiritual Gifts JENNIFER FARMER Tuition $495 ($445 Members)

This weekend is designed to guide you into your spiritual gifts and inner connection. Jennifer Farmer’s teachings, guided by Spirit, unfold intuitively to meet the unique energy, needs, and readiness of each audience—making every session personal, inspired, and deeply healing.

Through guided meditations, partner practice, and group exercises, you learn intuitive sensing, psychic development, and foundational mediumship in a supportive environment. Gain practical tools to strengthen your intuition, develop your unique gifts, and deepen your relationship with Spirit.

Leave feeling renewed, clearer, and spiritually attuned to your purpose and path. Most importantly, you build confidence and self-trust in your intuitive abilities.

All levels welcome; materials provided.

Jennifer Farmer is a psychic medium and spiritual teacher with nearly two decades of experience helping people heal grief and awaken their spiritual gifts.

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KARLA MANS GIROUX

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SEPTEMBER 18–20

Radical Remission 2.0

10 Lifestyle Changes Making an Impact on Cancer LIZ CURRAN, KARLA MANS GIROUX, AND KELLY A. TURNER Tuition $425 ($380 Members)

Kelly A. Turner will participate via livestream.

HELEN LAKELLY HUNT AND HARVILLE HENDRIX

SEPTEMBER 18–20

Getting the Love You Want A Spiritual Path for Couples

HARVILLE HENDRIX AND HELEN LAKELLY HUNT Tuition $415 ($370 Members) per person

Participation in a Radical Remission workshop, whether in person, online, or through the self-paced course, is required prior to enrolling in this advanced program.

Liz Curran is business development director of the Radical Remission Project and a certified Radical Remission health coach, educator, and speaker.

$50 per person materials fee; include when you register. This workshop is also offered June 12-14. See page 23.

Kelly A. Turner, PhD, is the New York Times best-selling author of Radical Remission and Radical Hope, now in 22 languages, which summarize her research into radical remissions.

Harville Hendrix, PhD, and Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD, are coauthors of three New York Times best sellers and cocreators of Imago Relationship Therapy.

SEPTEMBER 18–20

SEPTEMBER 18–20

Reiki Master Training & Certification BRETT BEVELL Tuition $410 ($365 Members) PT

In the sacred tradition of Reiki training, a Reiki master is empowered with the energetic ability to initiate others into the Reiki system of healing. Once that ability is hardwired into our energetic system, it raises our vibration and attracts situations, people, and circumstances in alignment with our soul’s highest BRETT BEVELL purpose.

In this weekend training with Brett Bevell, we are initiated with three master-level symbols and learn how to use these symbols to deepen our own healing practice and initiate others into the Reiki system. We explore advanced Reiki practices that enhance psychic ability as well as techniques that allow one to send Reiki healings to many people simultaneously.

Previous training in Reiki second degree is required.

Brett Bevell is a Reiki master, poet and author, performance artist, and featured healer on the Mindvalley app.

The 1% Practice

Tiny Moments—Lasting Peace BARB SCHMIDT Tuition $415 ($370 Members)

Join Barb Schmidt, aka Peaceful Barb, for a transformative workshop that reveals how 14 mindful minutes a day can interrupt chaos and reconnect you to your center.

In a world of constant noise and pressure, Barb shows you how to uncover the small, practical shifts that build unshakable resilience, restore balance, and strengthen your inner world.

This is not about self-care as a luxury; it’s about self-preservation as a necessity.

Through mindful strategies and powerful insights, you learn how to show up grounded, confident, and fully present.

Give yourself—and everyone who relies on you—the gift of those 14 minutes that transform not just your day, but your life.

Barb Schmidt is a best-selling author, meditation teacher, and speaker with more than 40 years of experience in mindfulness and mental well-being.

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Karla Mans Giroux, managing director of the Radical Remission Project and a holistic cancer health coach and speaker, is a Radical Remission survivor living with stable metastatic breast cancer (MBC).

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The Getting the Love You Want workshop, based on Imago Relationship Therapy, gives couples the concepts and skills they need to cocreate a safe relationship, experience and sustain deep connection, and experience joyful aliveness.

Using the Imago Process, couples transform their unconscious relationship to a conscious partnership to create their dream relationship. In the process of becoming connected to each other, partners experience connecting to a larger reality, which makes intimate partnership a spiritual path.

Together with your partner, you learn a new way to talk, how to remove negativity, and practice daily connecting behaviors to activate the innate healing powers of intimate partnership.

Thousands of people have overcome cancer against tremendous odds. Radical Remission 2.0 is a retreat focused on the embodiment of the 10 healing factors from the book Radical Remission by Dr. Kelly A. Turner. Join Liz Curran and Karla Mans Giroux as they lead you to further develop and deepen holistic lifestyle practices to overcome the odds of a diagnosis.

This retreat utilizes small-group work, experiential activities, and group discussions to help you identify areas in your life that could benefit from a healthy boost.

Through these interactive experiences, you develop clear action steps tailored to your specific goals, empowering you to make meaningful progress on your healing journey.

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SEPTEMBER 18–20

Expressive Writing for Women Write Your Life to Right Your Life KRISTA VERNOFF Tuition $395 ($355 Members)

If you have stories inside you that want to be told but you don’t know how to start, this is the workshop for you. Expressive writing improves mood, mental health, and the immune system. The writing prompts are often the perfect, bite-sized, jumping-off points for larger creative endeavors.

Just by putting pen to paper a little bit every day, you validate your lived KRISTA VERNOFF experience, your feelings, and your right to write. Expressive writing is a healing modality, and it’s not just for writers (but if you are a writer, it will surely deepen your work).

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This workshop is for all who identify as women.

Krista Vernoff is an Emmy-nominated television writer best known for the Golden Globe-winning work on Grey’s Anatomy and the dark comedy Shameless.

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SEPTEMBER 20–25

Veterans Yoga Retreat for Women

Practices for Health & Well-Being ANNIE OKERLIN AND JANEL NORTON Tuition $400 ($360 Members) LE

Gather in community to develop resilience and nourish, strengthen, and heal body and mind.

Guided by Annie Okerlin and Janel Norton, we practice yoga while learning to accommodate physical limitations and ailments, including chronic pain and amputations.

JANEL NORTON Experience daily guided meditations in iRest (Integrative Restoration), a technique endorsed by the US Army Surgeon General. Based on the ancient practice of yoga nidra, iRest promotes deep relaxation and acceptance. It helps the nervous system return to a balanced state of well-being, which helps heal unresolved trauma, as well as physical and emotional wounds.

Leave with skills that help you restore life balance and reintegrate after the challenging experiences of military service.

An application is required. Scholarships are available to cover all but $75 of the total cost.

Annie Okerlin, C-IAYT, is a certified yoga instructor in the traditions of Bikram, vinyasa, and power yoga, as well as an iRest yoga nidra instructor.

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SEPTEMBER 20–25

Fascial Maneuvers for Self-Healing A 5-Day Immersion Reset

DEIDRE FREER, JEANNINE WELTON, AND JENNA CAIN Tuition $765 ($685 Members)

Develop a deeper understanding of fascia, the nervous system, and the body’s natural intelligence on a retreat led by three certified Human Garage fascial maneuver coaches.

Through somatic exploration, breathwork, hydration education, emotional awareness, and intentional movement, you reconnect with your innate ability to self-heal.

Learn how stress, stored tension, beliefs, and environmental factors shape the body—and how simple fascial maneuvers can restore alignment, calm the nervous system, and support emotional release. You also learn to help one another, creating a supportive container for personal transformation.

Whether you are new to fascial maneuvers or seeking to deepen your practice, this program offers an opportunity to reset, realign, and reconnect with yourself.

Deidre Freer is an educator and certified fascial maneuvers coach.

Jeannine Welton is a certified fascial maneuvers coach, energy healing practitioner, and yoga instructor.

Jenna Cain, DPT, is a doctor of physical therapy, integrative wellness coach, and former Division I athlete.

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Janel Norton served in the US Air Force as a combat photojournalist. She is cofounder of Veterans Alternative and owner of Trinity Yoga Studio.

SEPTEMBER 20–25

The Compassionate Writer

Rewilding Your Writer & the Writing Process HEATHER DOYLE FRASER Tuition $515 ($465 Members)

The writing process can be exhilarating and challenging, but it doesn’t have to be tortured—and neither do you. In this immersive workshop, we dispel the misconception of the “tortured writer.”

It’s time to create a new story for us as writers, and it starts with self-compassion and rewilding the writer within you. Join Heather Doyle Fraser and learn to cultivate a deeper relationship of trust with yourself, your content, your reader, and the natural world. Develop a reservoir of compassionate practices that supports you and your voice.

Whether there’s a book in your heart, a draft that’s stuck, or a desire to write more deeply, this workshop meets you where you are.

Heather Doyle Fraser has been working with writers and integrating compassion into the writing process for more than 25 years.

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SEPTEMBER 20–25

Botanical Language

Stories & Symbols of Plants MISSY BATESON Tuition $500 ($450 Members)

Plants have expressed meaning in human culture for centuries—through fragrance, form, and the stories we tell about them. In this workshop, we explore how plants communicate symbolism and what these messages reveal about our own relationships with nature.

MISSY BATESON We spend time foraging thoughtfully on Omega’s campus, observing plant characteristics, and learning about the history and emotional language of flowers. Through guided journaling, flower pressing, and small-scale botanical design, participants experience how creativity and nature awareness support deeper connection and reflection. Each person creates a personalized flower journal with pressed specimens and a botanical art piece that expresses their unique perspective.

All are welcome—no gardening or art experience required.

Missy V. Bateson is a horticulturalist and artist with more than 20 years of hands-on experience working with plants and helping others connect with nature.

SEPTEMBER 20–25

Advance Your Skills in Healing With Animals COLLEEN BENELLI Tuition $1,375 ($1,275 Members) PT

Open to all Reiki lineages, this training requires completion of Animal Reiki I & II and human Reiki Master level training, as well as prior approval from faculty; see eOmega.org for more information.

Colleen Benelli is a Reiki Master teacher and codirector of the ICRT Licensed Reiki Master Teacher program.

SEPTEMBER 20–25

Creating Hope

A Writing & Drawing Retreat JOANNE CASE Tuition $500 ($450 Members)

Discover renewed meaning, inner peace, and creative inspiration in this retreat that focuses on creating a calm oasis away from the distractions of daily life. In this grounded state, images and words flow more naturally onto the page, deepening your connection to yourself and the world.

JOANNE CASE Inspired by artist and writer Frederick Franck, we explore his practice of “seeing/drawing” and writing, a powerful method that reveals the “unspoiled core” of everyone. Mornings focus on drawing nature, still life, and people. Afternoons shift to intuitive writing, inviting your heart to lead the way.

Whether you seek creative renewal or spiritual nourishment, this retreat offers an inspiring path to liberating the artist within.

Joanne Case is an artist, writer, and environmental social worker.

SEPTEMBER 20–25

Unbridled Stories

Restoring Connection in a Mindfulness with Horses + Narrative Healing Retreat JENNIFER COHEN HARPER AND GUEST LISA WEINERT Tuition $850 ($765 Members) LE

Join us for a 5-day restorative retreat that blends Mindfulness with Horses and Narrative Healing to help you release expectations and reconnect with authenticity.

Each day includes time at 13 Hands Equine Rescue, home to more than 200 rescued horses, donkeys, and mules.

As you learn to connect with them, you support your nervous system, build trust, and increase attunement.

Guided by Jennifer Cohen Harper and guest teacher Lisa Weinert, you explore gentle somatic practices, body-based listening, reflective writing, group sharing, and creative prompts that help your inner stories emerge with clarity and compassion. This non-riding retreat offers experiential learning from the ground and is open to all levels of experience.

Workshop begins Sunday at 7:30 p.m.

Jennifer Cohen Harper, founder of Mindfulness with Horses, is a respected Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) provider, mindfulness and yoga educator, and author.

Lisa Weinert is an acclaimed author, editor, and founder of Narrative Healing™, integrating more than 20 years in publishing with traumainformed yoga and clinical social work.

13 Hands Equine Rescue, located near Omega in Clinton Corners, is a nonprofit organization accredited by the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries.

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Deepen your connection to Animal Reiki energy and gain the advanced skills and techniques needed to practice, teach, and share Animal Reiki in this International Center for Reiki Training (ICRT) Master Training. Learn how to conduct sessions and teach both Animal Reiki I & II and the Master level, online or in person.

COLLEEN BENELLI All participants receive the comprehensive Animal Reiki Master Manual, as well as four ignitions, the Animal Reiki Tree of Life symbol, and powerful healing tools to support the vital connection between humans, animals, and the Divine Earth.

This workshop provides hands-on experience, instruction for conducting placements and ignitions, and practical techniques for building your Animal Reiki classes.

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SEPTEMBER 25–27

Hearts Open, Miracles Flow

Awakening to Healing & the Law of Attraction KARENA VIRGINIA Tuition $465 ($420 Members)

Are you ready to step into your power and illuminate your life? Join a transformative weekend dedicated to healing, empowerment, and cocreation.

The veil between heaven and earth is thinning, according to Karena Virginia, creating a powerful opportunity for KARENA VIRGINIA your unique gifts to emerge. This weekend, focus on elevating your frequency to make space for miracles. Through a fusion of modern Kundalini Yoga, sound healing, connection to guardian angels, and generational trauma healing, we activate our radiance so that we attract our deepest desires.

Practice ancestral healing, meditation, and Kundalini Yoga—vigorous at times and presented with options for modification—always focused more on energy than physical rigor.

Everyone is welcome. This will be a highly inclusive, safe, and trauma-informed workshop.

Karena Virginia is a spiritual mentor, author, and high priestess who has helped thousands throughout the world regenerate and heal.

SEPTEMBER 25–27

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Pausing in the Great In-Between

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An Autumn Equinox Retreat to Renew & Reconnect

JILLIAN PRANSKY Tuition $420 ($375 Members)

The days surrounding the autumn equinox are a pinnacle transition for the earth, nature, and humans, too. Join Jillian Pransky to pause during this in-between time, to recalibrate, and open up again to the flow of life— JILLIAN PRANSKY to participate in the process of closing one chapter and starting anew.

Throughout this nourishing weekend in nature and community, you experience: • Mindful slow flow yoga to feel more grounded and open • Restorative yoga to release tension, calm the mind, and embody compassion • Metta meditation to center in the heart and reconnect Return home feeling rested, rooted, and renewed—with a deeper connection to yourself and the world around you.

Jillian Pransky, author of Deep Listening, has taught mindfulness, yoga, and meditation for 30 years—helping people feel at home in their bodies and meet the present moment with greater clarity, choice, and compassion.

SEPTEMBER 25–27

An Encounter With Beauty

SEPTEMBER 25–27

Magical Freedom Weekend ELIZABETH GILBERT Tuition $450 ($405 Members)

Part creativity workshop, part spiritual cocoon, part healing journey, Elizabeth Gilbert's Magical Freedom Weekend incorporates the tools and lessons she has gathered over years of writing, traveling, and growing into a weekend of art, laughter, and enchantment.

Best known for her memoirs Eat, Pray, Love and Big Magic, Liz has inspired people by her own example to live lives that are more creatively, emotionally, and spiritually courageous.

She leads you in a series of explorations that she uses as tools of liberation and expansion—encouraging you to shed the cultural, familial, and emotional burdens that keep you from your magic. Join us and dive into conversations about boundaries, self-kindness, trust, courage, and more.

Magical Freedom Weekend is one of Omega’s most popular workshops and will likely have more than 300 participants. Register early to secure your seat and housing.

Elizabeth Gilbert is the best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love, The Signature of All Things, and City of Girls.

Sacred Geometry as a Guiding Light VANDORN HINNANT Tuition $405 ($365 Members)

Sacred geometry is the symbolic language of nature, life, and consciousness. Engaging with it formally has the potential to awaken a deeper awareness of the energetic subtleties that exist throughout nature and beyond.

Guided by Vandorn Hinnant, enjoy a captivating VANDORN HINNANT introduction to the hand drawing of sacred geometry patterns. Create a portfolio of drawings that reflect some of the symmetries and patterns found in nature. Use a circle-drawing compass to create circles on paper and draw lines using fine-tipped colored markers and ink pens with a straightedge. A number of key foundational geometric patterns will be explored—visual reflections of the organizing principles of creation.

Both beginners and those familiar with the sacred geometry drawing experience are welcome to attend.

Vandorn Hinnant, a sacred geometry scholar and artist with a body of work in public and private art collections, is coauthor of The REST of Euclid: An Ancient Architecture of Arithmetic and the Modern Theory of Number.

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