Trauma & Relationship Expert
Take your healing to the next level
Deepen Your Trauma Healing in Hudson Valley, NY: Aug 1 – 3, 2023
Combining the breathtaking scenery & energy of the Hudson Valley with my unique, neuroscience-backed methodology to healing trauma – this is bound to be a transformational experience.
Whether you’re currently in the best place of your life, or you’re feeling stuck in your trauma healing process (or both), this retreat will help you accelerate your growth in just a few days.
Many people are struggling to truly heal because their nervous systems are too overloaded and stressed to integrate new shifts within their bodies. This often results in 10-20+ years of therapy, meditation, and self-care practices that do not stick or translate into lasting change.
You’ve made so much progress! That’s an amazing thing in itself that we’ll celebrate on retreat. But you also need to give yourself a real chance to feel it through your entire mind, body and spirit, while learning how to make it LAST, so that this isn’t just another vacation that slips away into a memory of the past.
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Client Testimonials
Kellie
“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.”
Becky
“I felt so loved. I felt so seen and accepted in a group of primarily strangers. It enabled me to see others with love, even those who believed different things and chose different paths in life. This was such a magical and divine experience to feel the interconnectedness of our humanity and care for each other in such a short time.”
The Experience
Leave behind everyday stressors and allow your body to soften into this spacious, serene and luxurious accommodation that supports your nervous system to relax into deeper stages of healing. The breathtaking mountain views of the Hudson Valley provide the perfect backdrop for connecting with yourself and co-attendees, while you experience new challenges and pleasures within your body.
Dance/Movement Therapy Sessions
Neuroscience-backed, movement-based sessions that effectively integrate mind and body, so that you can experience full-body shifts while strengthening your ability to deeply connect with other individuals.
Accommodations
Modern and clean rooms ensures a good night’s sleep and waking energized for your retreat experience.
Sample Itinerary
8:00am: Grab revitalizing refreshments, such as tea, coffee, fruit or freshly baked goods.
9:30am – 11:30am: Gently-paced, soul-fulfilling Integrated DMT/Hiking session with breathtaking mountain scenery. Gently expand your body’s ability to boldly take on new physical and emotional challenges.
12:00pm: Go out on the town for lunch as you connect with co-participants and reflect on new insights gained through your hiking experience. Explore open-hearted communication and vulnerability through these precious interactions.
3:00pm: Neuroscience-backed DMT session with Orit on the outdoor patio, held by the sun’s warmth and the energy of the Hudson Valley’s serene background.
6:30pm: Put your feet up and relax as your personal chef cooks and serves an aromatic, succulent meal that will delight your senses.
After 8pm: Wind-down and Regulate on your comfy bed, stargaze on the patio, or relax on the couches and schmooze with your co-participants.
Exact details and times are subject to change. There’ll also be a Board-Certified Art Therapist with us to enhance the overall experience. More surprises and add-ons currently in progress!
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.
This is why we have our clean, modern, upscale retreat space, so you can truly relax and give yourself a fair chance to embody the shifts you’ve been working to achieve.
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 4-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 (DMT) approach through sessions within the privacy of our retreat property, as well as blended DMT-hiking sessions through the picturesque mountain views of the Hudson Valley.
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 our Integrated DMT/Hiking sessions, 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.
This is why we have our top-quality luxury retreat space, so you can truly relax and give yourself a fair chance to embody the shifts you’ve been working to achieve.
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 8-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 (DMT) approach through sessions within the privacy of our retreat property, as well as blended DMT-hiking sessions to Sedona’s Healing Energy Vortexes.
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 our Integrated DMT/Hiking sessions, 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 is an award-winning Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapist. Orit specializes in helping individuals & couples heal from past trauma and enjoy healthy, satisfying relationships using her unique approach with dance therapy.
For over 14 years, Orit has transformed the lives of more than 5,000 clients from 14 different countries. Her programs and retreats have helped hundreds break free from unhealthy relationship cycles and experience incredible transformations in their love lives. Before starting her business, Orit led thousands of therapy sessions with psychiatric patients who went from feeling suicidal to joyfully dancing and reigniting their desire to live again within less than an hour.
Orit is the founder of the “Mind Your Body” podcast and has been featured in DailyOM, Glam, ThriveGlobal, The Health Science Journal, INSIDER, and more.
ORIT KRUG
– Master of Science in Dance/Movement Therapy
– Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapist
– Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (NY)
Orit Krug is an award-winning Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapist. Orit specializes in helping individuals & couples heal from past trauma and enjoy healthy, satisfying relationships using her unique approach with dance therapy.
For over 14 years, Orit has transformed the lives of more than 5,000 clients from 14 different countries. Her programs and retreats have helped hundreds break free from unhealthy relationship cycles and experience incredible transformations in their love lives. Before starting her business, Orit led thousands of therapy sessions with psychiatric patients who went from feeling suicidal to joyfully dancing and reigniting their desire to live again within less than an hour.
Orit is the founder of the “Mind Your Body” podcast and has been featured in DailyOM, Glam, ThriveGlobal, The Health Science Journal, INSIDER, and more.
