Most retreats promise escape.
Few prepare the body for presence.
Without somatic orientation, people arrive collapsed, dissociated, or performative. They leave with memories, not integration.
Arrival is a physiological event.
When the nervous system is unprepared, even beauty becomes stimulation. When the body is regulated, experience becomes instruction.
True restoration is not about leaving life.
It is about expanding it without fragmentation.
Retreats do not work because of location.
They work when the body is trained to receive.