At Okeechobee Music Festival, we’ll use the power of sound, movement, and community to embody a deep sense of love, belonging, and purpose.
Through neuroscience-backed somatic healing, you’ll integrate everything you’ve already learned, so that it resonates fully in your body.
If the idea of healing among 30,000 people scares you, then let this fear be an invitation to surrender into your deepest healing yet.
With my close guidance, you’ll move through this experience feeling safe, held, and profoundly free in your skin again.
Already feeling the full-body yes? Start your application here.
At Okeechobee Music Festival, we’ll use the power of sound, movement, and community to embody a deep sense of love, belonging, and purpose.
Through guided somatic healing and medicine work, you’ll integrate everything you’ve already healed, so that it resonates fully in your body.
If the idea of healing among 30,000 people scares you, then let this fear be an invitation to surrender into your deepest healing yet.
With my close guidance, you’ll move through this experience feeling safe, held, and profoundly free in your skin again.
Already feeling the full-body yes? Start your application here.
Client Reviews
“I finally feel at home in my body.”
“To feel so gently accepted by this group of women, who are all so different from me, gave me a new sense of faith that others can see me and accept me. It was liberating to feel safe moving my body and expressing myself freely.
I searched for so long to feel at home in my bones, and this retreat was a turning point. I now feel confident and empowered to take up space, whereas before I was constantly anxious and stayed small.” – Kim
“I spent years in therapy without ever feeling better.”
“I was told by multiple therapists I was ‘unhealable’ and spent years in therapy without change. For the first time, at Orit’s retreats, I released trauma and experienced real love and acceptance with a group of strangers. It left me speechless.
Now I trust myself with my emotions and feel safe being fully me. I’ve already done three retreats, and I’ll be back again.” – Jen
“I thought I was too much. Now I know I’m not.”
“I’ve believed my whole life that I’m too much, so I stayed small so people wouldn’t leave. On retreat, I showed up without masking, and was met with real acceptance. That alone changed something in me. Loving me isn’t as hard as I thought.” – Kirra
The Experience
Revel in the rare beauty of Okeechobee’s lush landscapes, shimmering waters, and breathtaking sunsets. With an electrifying lineup, immersive art, and three days of pure magic under the stars, this is your invitation to dance, release, and come home to yourself.
Somatic Dance/Movement Therapy Sessions
At our private sanctuary at camp – and out on the festival grounds – you’ll join neuroscience-backed, movement-based sessions that help you come home to your body. You’ll build true capacity to stay open, connected, and vulnerable with others, even within the pockets of anxiety and stimulation that can come with the festival environment.
Lodging
We’ll be tucked into the Mellow Camping area, a calm, low-noise pocket inside the festival campgrounds. It’s close enough to the entrance that you can slip back to camp whenever your body needs a break, yet private enough for real rest, reset, and deep somatic work during the day.
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Client Reviews
“For the first time, I felt truly safe in my body.”
“I’ve been in survival mode since birth. This retreat helped me feel truly relaxed and safe for the first time in my life. I had done all the therapy, and I was honestly scared this wouldn’t work—but I can now say I’m moving through the world with more calm, and I’m deeply grateful for the impact it’s having on my everyday life.” – Avery
“I learned it was safe to take up space.”
“As I began to move more freely at the retreat, I learned that it was safe to take up more space. I felt more confident to express myself in different ways for the first time since childhood. Doing this movement in front of others and being accepted is a very freeing feeling and created a feeling of empowerment within me. Seeing others accept my movement helped me to accept myself. This is a feeling I now carry in my body wherever I go.” – Kellie
“I experienced connection deeper than words.”
“The highlight of the retreat for me was connecting with other women on a deeper level through movement. It was a connection beyond words – more profound than anything I’d ever experienced with anyone else before. As a result, I found a deeper connection with myself, discovered safety in my body, and returned home more attuned to my own needs.” – Marie
How This Works
Your retreat experience will include Orit Krug’s 5 essential components to healing trauma in a way that lasts:
1. Safety
If your nervous system does not feel safe and comfortable in your environment, then healing cannot happen. Your body would keep draining all its resources to stay in over-protection mode while your “high-functioning learning brain” remains shut off and unable to learn anything new.
That’s why we carefully vet everyone who applies, provide a clean and calming retreat space, and guide you closely through the festival experience. This creates an environment for you to truly surrender and give yourself a real chance to embody the shifts you’ve been working toward.
2. Relationships
You can learn all the trauma-related information through books, online courses and podcasts, but if you’re not activating your social engagement system in the brain & body, then you’re not rewiring (Stephen Porges, The Polyvagal Theory).
The 6-person maximum on this retreat is intentional. We will have an intimate experience where you can feel safe and be guided by Board-Certified Therapists to take risks in relationships with your co-participants.
3. Body and Movement
Brain imaging and research shows that the traditional approaches of talking, mindset work, and other cognitive approaches don’t access implicit trauma memories that are stored in the non-verbal brain and body (Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps The Score).
Some people have felt incredible progress with less traditional modalities such as EMDR and hypnotherapy. Others have felt even worse. Nevertheless, they still don’t include a specific movement approach that breaks trauma-driven patterns from the physical body (Bruce Perry, Neurosequential Model).
You’ll experience my neuroscience-backed Dance/Movement Therapy approach through sessions within the privacy of our retreat property, as well as on the music festival grounds.
4. Individualized Intervention
There’s an endless amount of information and guidance through meditation, yoga, and nervous system regulation “hacks.” While these can be helpful as daily habits, they are often used as blanket prescriptions that aren’t individualized to meet the complex needs of your Window Of Tolerance, which is necessary for lasting healing (Dan Siegel, UCLA – Psychiatry).
During your retreat, you’ll connect to your body so deeply and authentically, that you will learn customized self-care techniques that work specifically for you, even within the group experience. This is not something that anyone (including myself) could possibly predict for you, until moving with you and witnessing how your body responds to different healing interventions. We will pinpoint this together so you can bring it home and keep embodying the next best version of you.
5. Real-World Integration
It’s one thing to experience transformation in the safety of a therapy session. It’s a whole different story once you truly integrate these aha-moments and shifts, out in the real world. This is one of the reasons why so many people experience healing within the privacy of a session with their therapist, but then they don’t see it translate once they step back into work or their real-life relationships.
During the music festival, you’ll be guided to apply and integrate your healing out in the world, amongst other people, and through situations that require real-world decisions. This will give you the confidence and experience to follow through on life-changing shifts that often get left behind in the 4 walls of the therapy room.
How This Works
Your retreat experience will include Orit Krug’s 5 essential components to healing past traumas:
1. Safety
If your nervous system does not feel safe and comfortable in your environment, then healing cannot happen. Your body would keep draining all its resources to stay in over-protection mode while your “high-functioning learning brain” remains shut off and unable to learn anything new.
That’s why we carefully vet everyone who applies, provide a clean and calming retreat space, and guide you closely through the festival experience. This creates an environment for you to truly surrender and give yourself a real chance to embody the shifts you’ve been working toward.
2. Relationships
You can learn all the trauma-related information through books, online courses and podcasts, but if you’re not activating your social engagement system in the brain & body, then you’re not rewiring (Stephen Porges, The Polyvagal Theory).
The 6-person maximum in our group is intentional. Within the larger festival community, you’ll have a safe circle of women where you’ll be guided by Board-Certified Therapists to take risks, connect authentically, and practice new ways of relating – with the freedom to explore at your own pace.
3. Body and Movement
Brain imaging and research shows that the traditional approaches of talking, mindset work, and other cognitive approaches don’t access implicit trauma memories that are stored in the non-verbal brain and body (Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps The Score).
Some people have felt incredible progress with less traditional modalities such as EMDR and hypnotherapy. Others have felt even worse. Nevertheless, they still don’t include a specific movement approach that breaks trauma-driven patterns from the physical body (Bruce Perry, Neurosequential Model).
You’ll experience my neuroscience-backed Dance/Movement Therapy approach through sessions within the privacy of our retreat property, as well as on the music festival grounds.
4. Individualized Intervention
There’s an endless amount of information and guidance through meditation, yoga, and nervous system regulation “hacks.” While these can be helpful as daily habits, they are often used as blanket prescriptions that aren’t individualized to meet the complex needs of your Window Of Tolerance, which is necessary for lasting healing (Dan Siegel, UCLA – Psychiatry).
During your retreat, you’ll connect to your body so deeply and authentically, that you will learn customized self-care techniques that work specifically for you, even within the group experience. This is not something that anyone (including myself) could possibly predict for you, until moving with you and witnessing how your body responds to different movement interventions. We will pinpoint this together so you can bring it home and keep embodying the next best version of you.
5. Real-World Integration
It’s one thing to experience transformation in the safety of a therapy session. It’s a whole different story once you truly integrate these aha-moments and shifts, out in the real world. This is one of the reasons why so many people experience healing within the privacy of a session with their therapist, but then they don’t see it translate once they step back into work or their real-life relationships.
During the music festival, you’ll be guided to apply and integrate your healing out in the world, amongst other people, and through situations that require real-world decisions. This will give you the confidence and experience to follow through on life-changing shifts that often get left behind in the 4 walls of the therapy room.
What Clients Have Said:
“My nervous system is calmer and I don’t overreact like I used to. I’m more confident and assertive instead of being stuck in my head and worrying about every little thing. I didn’t think it was possible for me to heal, now I know I can.” – Nancy
“I have a Master’s in Counseling and nothing has been more effective than integrating movement into my healing. I don’t know how it works, and I don’t care to know how it works, I just know that it does work.” – Carol
“After 20+ years of energy work and mindset work to heal my trauma, this work clicked everything into place. My marriage has been restored.” – Jessica
What Clients Have Said:
“My nervous system is calmer and I don’t overreact like I used to. I’m more confident and assertive instead of being stuck in my head and worrying about every little thing. I didn’t think it was possible for me to heal, now I know I can.” – Nancy
“I have a Master’s in Counseling and nothing has been more effective than integrating movement into my healing. I don’t know how it works, and I don’t care to know how it works, I just know that it does work.” – Carol
“After 20+ years of energy work and mindset work to heal my trauma, this work clicked everything into place. My marriage has been restored.” – Jessica
ORIT KRUG
Master of Science in Dance/Movement Therapy
Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapist
Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (NY)
Orit Krug leads transformative retreats for people who are done understanding their patterns—and ready to actually change them.
With over 15 years as a Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapist, she has guided 5,000+ people from 20+ countries through profound emotional and relational change. She now focuses exclusively on retreats, where people often experience shifts in days that they’ve been trying to embody for years.
Her approach integrates somatic practice, nervous system regulation, and relational connection—supporting participants to notice protective patterns as they arise, stay present with them, and shift how they respond in real time.
Orit is also the founder of the “Mind Your Body” podcast and has been featured in DailyOM, Glam, Thrive Global, The Health Science Journal, INSIDER, and more.
SASHA MALCOLM
Master of Science in Art Therapy
Board-Certified Art Therapist
Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (NY)
Sasha Malcolm MS, ART-BC, LCAT is a Board-Certified Art Therapist and Licensed Creative Arts Therapist. Sasha has worked with over 10,000 clients over the last 12 years, primarily helping them access trauma through art-based interventions when traditional therapies have not been enough. Sasha is incredibly talented at holding safe and sacred spaces for people to process past wounds and become the most expressed, free, and authentic version of themselves.
ORIT KRUG
– Master of Science in Dance/Movement Therapy
– Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapist
– Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (NY)
Orit Krug leads transformative retreats for people who are done understanding their patterns—and ready to actually change them.
With over 15 years as a Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapist, she has guided 5,000+ people from 20+ countries through profound emotional and relational change. She now focuses exclusively on retreats, where people often experience shifts in days that they’ve been trying to embody for years.
Her approach integrates somatic practice, nervous system regulation, and relational connection—supporting participants to notice protective patterns as they arise, stay present with them, and shift how they respond in real time.
Orit is also the founder of the “Mind Your Body” podcast and has been featured in DailyOM, Glam, Thrive Global, The Health Science Journal, INSIDER, and more.
SASHA MALCOLM
– Master of Science in Art Therapy
– Board-Certified Art Therapist
– Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (NY)
Sasha Malcolm MS, ART-BC, LCAT is a Board-Certified Art Therapist and Licensed Creative Arts Therapist. Sasha has worked with over 10,000 clients over the last 12 years, primarily helping them access trauma through art-based interventions when traditional therapies have not been enough. Sasha is incredibly talented at holding safe and sacred spaces for people to process past wounds and become the most expressed, free, and authentic version of themselves.