Learn breathwork + somatic parts work to create a grounded, practical toolkit for lasting inner transformation.
Hosts: Ian Stratton, Jonny Miller & Kelly Wilde Miller
Dates: June 25-29, 2025 (Wednesday afternoon — Sunday morning)
Location: Beautiful venue in Nevada City, California
Price: $1750-$2500 (Application-only, sliding scale relative to accommodation & limited to 22 seats)
The Foundations Toolkit
Learn to confidently use these tools and inner work practices so you can take them home and integrate them into your daily life.
🫁 FBR Breathwork — Develop skill in self-guided Facilitated Breath Repatterning (FBR) to support deep emotional processing and nervous system regulation.
🙋♂️ Parts Work — Use Internal Family Systems (IFS) to map, navigate, and compassionately lead the inner landscape of your psyche.
🎻 Somatic Exploration — Build a versatile toolkit of body-based practices to restore harmony between your internal experience and the world around you.
🗣️ Authentic Relating — Strengthen your capacity for honest, embodied expression through powerful relational practices that expand your nervous system’s ability to hold truth and connection.
With these tools in hand, here’s what you can expect to embody...
What You’ll Walk Away With
👀 Deeper Self-Understanding — Clarify core inner truths and strengthen the neural pathways for self-acceptance, trust, and compassion.
🫁 A Regulated, Rejuvenated Body — Daily breathwork, parts work, sauna sessions, and immersion in nature will leave you feeling clear, grounded, and fully resourced.
👋 Soulful Connection — Share this experience with a curated and thoughtful group of exceptional, inwardly curious humans.
What is Facilitated Breath Re-patterning (FBR)?
During FBR group journeys, intentional breathing patterns create shifts in blood chemistry that open access to subconscious material—often the patterns and protections that hold us back or lead to burnout.
Emerging research suggests that certain breath rhythms correlate with buffered emotional responses—but when held in safe and intentional containers, these emotions can be fully felt and integrated.
On the other side, it’s common to experience a deep sense of clarity, connection, and even awe.
Physiologically, FBR brings the body into a state of ‘respiratory alkalosis’—a unique window of heightened neuroplasticity. This means the nervous system changes you experience can stick, reshaping how you relate to stress, emotion, and aliveness.
What is Somatic Parts Work?
Somatic parts work invites you to meet the inner cast of characters that live within you—your protector parts, your inner critic, the exiled child, the fierce defender. These parts aren’t problems to fix, but aspects of you that developed for good reasons.
By combining IFS with body-based awareness, we learn to listen not just to what our parts are saying, but to how they feel in the body: the tightening in the chest, the flutter in the belly, the urge to run or collapse.
As you gently build relationships with your parts through movement, voice, touch, and presence, a powerful shift occurs:
You become the leader of your inner system.
From that place of embodied Self, inner conflict softens. What once felt overwhelming starts to make sense. You move from reactivity to compassion. From fragmentation to wholeness.
This work is deeply restorative, creative, and often surprisingly tender. It's not about fixing yourself—it's about reclaiming the wisdom that was always there.
What to Expect
🫁 3x FBR Breathwork Journeys — Few modalities match the power of collective breathwork for surfacing unconscious material and catalyzing meaningful breakthroughs.
🙋 Embodied Exercises — Through dyads and small group explorations, you'll build a felt sense of connection with your inner parts.
🔥 Daily Sauna x Cold Plunge — Contrast therapy each day to energize your mornings and help you unwind and integrate in the evenings.
🥘 Nourishment & Attunement — Start your day with optional yoga and meditation, enjoy deeply nourishing meals, and soak in the beauty of the Sierra Foothills—with plenty of laughter along the way.
📝 Downtime for Reflection — We won’t over-schedule. Expect generous time for rest, reflection, and meaningful connection.
The Venue: Eudaimonia
Eudaimonia is located above the Yuba River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Expect cool evenings spent cozying up with stargazing, hot tub, sauna and fire pit.
The venue is approx 1.5hr drive from Sacramento International Airport. We will do our best to support carpooling and easy transportation.
Venue Amenities
🛁 Strawbale Bathhouse ~ Enjoy deep soaking tubs, rain showers, bidet toilets, and deluxe vanities in a cozy, hand-built indoor bathhouse.
🔥 Sauna + Spa ~ Scandinavian-style cedar sauna, cold plunges, and filtered clawfoot hot tubs offer daily opportunities to restore and unwind.
🌳 Beautiful Landscape ~ Wander through forest paths, visit the creek, and immerse yourself in the quiet hills under oak trees.
🥗 Healthy Organic Meals ~ There will be delicious, organic meals served 3x day plus snacks and warm teas.
🚶♀️ Important Note on Accessibility — The property is rustic and spread out, with steep gravel and dirt paths between spaces. You’ll need a moderate level of physical fitness to navigate the terrain comfortably. If you have mobility concerns, please reach out before applying.
Sample Daily Flow
🧘 7am – Movement + meditation
🍳 8am – Light breakfast + intentions for the day
🫁 10am – Breathwork journey + parts-work exploration
🥗 1pm — Lunch + free time to rest or connect
🔥 2.30pm — Sauna + ice bath rounds
🫁 3pm — Integration + authentic relating practice
🥘 6pm – Dinner
🏕️ 7.30pm — Free flow of reflection, connection and star-gazing
About Your Facilitators
You’ll be held by a team of three primary facilitators and seven additional support facilitators—creating an intimate, high-touch experience with nearly a 2:1 participant-to-facilitator ratio. This ensures you receive the guidance, presence, and personalized support needed to go deep and feel truly held throughout the retreat.
Ian Stratton
Ian is a teacher, facilitator and transformational coach, leading individuals and groups towards their goals through deeper self-awareness. Utilizing a blend of somatic tools—including Internal Family Systems (IFS), Hakomi, Breathwork, and psychedelics—he specializes in teaching others how to find inner ease and harmony within our busy world.
Jonny Miller
Jonny is a nervous system specialist, trained breathwork facilitator, and host of the Curious Humans Podcast. He leads Nervous System Mastery—a science-backed course designed to help individuals build emotional literacy, deepen resilience, and thrive under pressure. He supports individuals and groups in cultivating greater aliveness through self-regulation and emotional fluidity.
Kelly Wilde Miller
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Kelly is a creative embodiment guide passionate about the intersection of healing, creative expression, authentic relating, and secure attachment. She runs a 6-month embodied mastermind and writes at Wild on Purpose. Her facilitation is intuitive, playful, and rooted in honoring your innate wisdom as a path to creative and personal freedom.
🙏 We’d Love to Welcome You!
If something in you is stirring—curious, hopeful, ready—we’d be honored to welcome you this June.
This retreat isn’t just a pause—it’s a return. A return to your body, your breath, your truth. A space to remember what’s most alive in you, in the company of others doing the same.
You’ll leave not only feeling more resourced and alive—but with a foundational toolkit you can return to for the rest of your life.
If you have any questions not covered here, don’t hesitate to reach out to kelly@wildonpurpose.co
We’d be honored to go on this inner adventure together.
~ Ian, Jonny and Kelly