Love is the experience we long for. What would it be like to live from love, rather than trying to find it or receive it from outside us? This retreat explores how the body holds tension and protective patterns that shape our experience of life, and how we can gently return to a more natural sense of connection and aliveness through presence with the body. Guided by Michelle Walker, you’ll engage in embodied awareness, breathwork, and subtle-energy practices inspired by The Energy Codes® to release what’s been held and restore the natural flow of life force.

You’ll spend a few days on the land at Casa Portal, a working farm in mid-coast Maine, moving at a different pace and enjoying the benefit of silence.

Mornings begin softly—time to arrive in the body through simple, guided practices with Michelle. Breath, attention, and subtle awareness becomea way back into yourself, not as something to fix, but something to notice. The silence that we keep allows you inner space to tune into your own rhythm and natural flow. Time in the forest, in the fields, or tea on the porch—letting the work continue without effort. What begins in guided sessions has space to settle and unfold across the land, in movement, in stillness, and in shared quiet moments.

Over time, something begins to soften. The edges you’ve been holding ease, and a quieter, more open way of being starts to come forward.Guided sessions with Michelle are woven lightly into the day—offering practices that bring awareness to the body, to breath, and to the patterns we carry. Not to push or perform, but to gently return to what’s already here.

As the body softens, there’s often a sense of warmth, openness—something many would recognize as love, not as something to find, but something that’s been here beneath the surface.