UNTANGLE & THRIVE

Reclaim Your Power & Joy

Menla Retreat & Dewa Spa | Phoenicia, NY

This Retreat is Over!!
But you can get join our next retreat.

Join Seeking Sacred Journeys & Angela McKinney, expert in the psychology of habits and healing trauma, for an immersive, women’s workshop. You’ll learn to Untangle the roots of stuckness and develop a roadmap home — to yourself and a life worth living.

“I help women tap into their power, transmute unresolved trauma, and live a life of dynamic, vital connection with the people around them. A life where love is far more important than labels. Where wildness reigns, and you move freely with the wisdom, grace, and strength inherent in your every cell. The only way we are going to make a better world for all of us, is by making a better life for each of us-and that includes you.”

~Angela McKinney

MENLA RETREAT & SPA

The hidden oasis of Menla Retreat and Spa sits next to an enchanting stream in the heart of the Catskill mountains. Seated atop the world’s most ancient meteor impact crater, this secluded valley is held sacred to local Native Americans for its pristine ecosystem and extraordinary spiritual energy, offering the perfect sacred space to untangle and thrive.

Steep yourself in the magic of pristine mountain forests. Explore hiking trails, encounter wildlife, and discover a rich tapestry of wellness and healing experiences including: Untangling sessions, yoga, guided meditation, Tibetan healing therapies, massages, and so much more.

WHAT’S INCLUDED

THE EXPERIENCE

Welcome to your roadmap to realize your best life.

Trauma is the story of what happened to you. But it is also the story of what has not been able to happen to you. For many women, receiving “the good stuff” (love, intimacy, success, visibility, joy, money, support and harmony) can be more confusing and triggering than surviving “the bad stuff.”

Learning to build bodies, minds, and spirits that are safe enough to receive “the good stuff” is where the medicine of healing shows up. Each choice we make to avoid, ignore, hide and stay stuck serves a protective purpose but also keeps our lives small, cut off from joy and an authentic sense of purpose. Untangling will give you courage and a roadmap to untangle the stuck places in your day-to-day life so you can feel safe, grounded, and thrive. It is your roadmap home - to yourself and your best life.

We need healthy interruptions from everyday life to recalibrate energy and restore harmony.

Are you ready to live a life of power, pleasure, and purpose?

Be brave.

Join us in the Catskills for a beautiful retreat.

Welcome to your roadmap to realize your best life.

At this workshop you’ll learn:

• Why we are addicted to “fixing ourselves” and how shifting this response changes the nature of our problems.

• Three transformational, yet untapped methods for empowerment, healing, and genuine happiness.

• How to dive into the places that scare you — and come away feeling freer and more empowered than ever before.

• How to gracefully receive more and more of the ‘good stuff’ which your body, mind and soul are craving.

THE UNTANGLE METHOD

Internationally recognized expert in addiction recovery and habit formation, Angela McKinney author of Untangle: How to Create Big Opportunities Through Small Changes, broadens the scope of life skills to include transforming challenges whenever we encounter them. 

For the past twenty years, Angela has been transforming people's lives, including her own. Her 3-Step mind-body system, The Untangle Method™, combines research in the neurobiology of trauma with a creative approach to improving the quality of our lives.

Angela engineered this method by posing and researching such questions as: How can our fragility become reshaped into resources of resilience? How can we become safe enough to engage our lives from a place of authenticity and help our bodies, minds, and spirits receive successes (both large and small)? How can we negotiate the space between the part of us that is terrified of change and the part of us that is hungry for change to build an integrated, whole system? 

Join Angela and Seeking Sacred Journeys as we unlock our power and learn how-to live-in harmony with the deepest truths of who we are.

MENLA MOUNTAIN RETREAT & DEWA SPA

“Tibet in the Catskills”

A truly unique venue and a project of Tibet House US – the Dalai Lama’s cultural center in North America – Menla is a modern resort and destination spa surrounded by thousands of acres of unspoiled wilderness. Inspired by the ancient Buddhist kingdom of Tibet, Menla strives to keep alive knowledge handed down through the ages.

Sitting at the head of a breathtaking glacial valley, it’s one of the most beautiful parts of the Catskills. Stay in a range of deluxe accommodations or shared cabins set in fragrant woods and gardens with murmuring streams and trails nearby.

For centuries before us, and still today, Menla’s stunning land offers a perfect place for sacred ceremonies, spiritual growth, deep healing, contemplation, and prayer – a sacred site where seekers young and old come to bridge the worlds of humanity, nature, and the divine. The local Native American peoples, including the Esopus and Mahicans, regarded this valley and region, with its enormous first-growth hemlock trees, as especially sacred, a place of the spirits. They never settled here and only used the valley for ceremonial purposes.

The Executive Chef and her team bring a creative flair to dishes that are as delicious as they are nutritious. Menla’s wellness cuisine is centered around healing foods, sourced primarily from the Menla garden and local farms with an eye toward seasonal and organic fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes.

Guests consistently rave about the high quality and memorable tastes of their meals.

Enjoy three delicious meals per day.

You can also get your meals “ to go” and dine in the privacy of your room or al fresco on the deck overlooking Eva’s Pond.

Discover the ancient restorative therapies of Tibet at Dewa, Menla’s world-class healing spa and one of the few places in the West where you can experience the Tibetan KuNye massage. Dewa offers a wide range of Eastern and Western spa treatments featuring, personalized wellbeing massages, Ayurveda, acupuncture, reflexology, herbal baths, energy healing, customized facials, sound therapy,  intuitive readings, as well as saunas and steam rooms to stimulate and detoxify your system.

A breathtaking 4000 square foot haven for healing & wellbeing – experience advanced therapies with ancient roots delivered in dedicated therapy rooms. Dewa also features men’s and women’s steam rooms, infrared & traditional saunas, conventional and rain showers with side jets, soaking tubs for our specialized herbal bath therapies, and a seasonal outdoor pool. Dewa’s selection of treatments and packages will leave you feeling renewed, relaxed, and recharged.

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DAILY SCHEDULE

Friday, July 15th

• 3 - 6 pm Arrival and Check-in

• 6 - 7 pm Dinner

• 7 - 9 pm Welcome Program and Intro

Saturday, July 16th

• 7 - 8 am Morning Yoga (Optional)

• 8 - 9 am Breakfast

• 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Untangle Program

• 12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch

• 1:30 - 4 pm Free Time For Relaxation and Spa

• 4 - 6 pm Untangle Program

• 6 - 7 pm Dinner

• 7 - 9 pm Tibetan Sound Healing Experience

Sunday, July 17th

• 7 - 8 am Morning Yoga (Optional)

• 8 - 9 am Breakfast

• 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Untangle Program

• 12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch

• 1:30 - 4 pm Free Time For Relaxation and Spa

• 4 - 6 pm Untangle Program

• 6 - 7 pm Dinner

• 7 - 9 pm Bonfire

Monday, July 18th

• 7 - 11 am Check-out Of Rooms

• 7 - 8 am Morning Yoga (Optional)

• 8 - 9 am Breakfast

• 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Program

• 12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch and Depart

*Please note that schedule is subject to change. 

Spa Treatments, Sauna Baths, Vibrational Therapies, Breathwork Sessions, Qi Gong and Guided Forest Bathing also available for an additional fee.

Schedule a Discovery Call with Us!

We’re here for you and happy to provide guidance from the very first moment of your journey. We’d love to jump on the phone with you to answer any and all questions! Just click below to schedule a time at your convenience.

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