A Sacred Journey With Grief

February 8–15, 2026 • Chaa Creek, Belize

Come to the jungle. Come to your heart. A grief retreat like no other.

Surrounded by the lush, healing nature of the Belize jungle, this retreat invites you into a sacred chrysalis of rest, reflection, and transformation.
Here, we soften into the grief we carry and emerge with renewed wings.

✨ Michele Bourgeois – LCSW, Conscious Grieving & IADC Practitioner, Microdose Guide
With 30+ years of experience supporting children and adults in therapeutic and educational settings, Michele is trained in Claire Bidwell Smith’s Conscious Grieving framework and in Induced After Death Communication (IADC)—a groundbreaking modality endorsed by scientists to treat grief. She is also trained as a microdose guide. Personally, she loves yoga, hiking, cycling, bird watching, and time in nature. Her roots are in Southwest Louisiana where she was born and raised, and her wings took her to Boulder, CO which has been home since 1998.

✨ Jessica King – Yoga Instructor & Human Design Specialist
A lifelong lover of all things soulful, Jess guides people back into connection with their bodies, breath, and soulprint. She believes true healing happens when we honor both the science of the stars and the wisdom of the earth. Outside of teaching, you’ll find her baking bread, making pasta, hiking with her dog, or watching sunrises. Learn more about Jessica here-- www.jesskingyoga.com

✨ Lisa Hassin – Bilingual Somatic Trauma-Informed LPC & Ceremonialist
With 30 years of counseling experience, Lisa creates safe, soulful group spaces where women can find and express their inner voice. She is also a dancer, potter, world traveler, and mother of two, blending deep presence with creative, nature-based ceremony.

This is for you if:

You’re grieving a loss—recent or long ago—that still lives in your body
You feel called to heal emotionally, spiritually, and somatically
You want to explore alternative forms of expression through art and breath
You’re longing for sacred space to honor your process and be held through it

Inside the Divine Cycle:

🧘 Daily Yoga & Embodied Movement
Restore presence and safety in your body. Breathe deeply, slow down, and create space for what’s ready to be felt.

✨ Human Design – A powerful tool offering a personalized reading to uncover your energy type, life purpose, and pathways to inner alignment.

🌬️ Transformational Breathwork Journeys & Guided Mediation with Daily Themes
Access altered states of healing where suppressed emotions and inner wisdom rise to the surface.

🎨 Expressive Art Therapy
No artistic skill required—just the willingness to let your hands speak when words fall short.

🌌 Induced After-Death Communication (IADC)
A profound modality offering healing, resolution, and potential reconnection with loved ones who have passed.

🌳 Nature Immersion & Integration
Let the Belizean jungle, Macal River, and vibrant wildlife become your co-facilitators—bird watching, canoeing, horseback riding, hiking, swimming, luxury spa treatments and Maya organic farm tour.

What's Included:

7 nights in private or shared cabanas at Chaa Creek Luxury Eco-Lodge
Daily yoga & breathwork to awaken body, calm mind, and reconnect with spirit
One private IADC session with a certified practitioner
Group art workshops & expressive creativity circles
Two daily organic farm-to-table meals prepared by Chaa Creek’s renowned chefs
Personalized Human Design reading for energy type, purpose, and inner alignment
Optional Microdose guideship to enhance your experience

The Connection Between Human Design and Grief, and why it can be so powerful.

Knowing your Human Design is a supportive lens for moving through grief. It gives you both self-understanding and permission to process in your own way, rather than forcing yourself into someone else’s timeline.

Grief doesn’t disappear; it integrates.  It weaves itself into the fabric of your life, altering your perspective, your priorities, and your heart.  Knowing your design helps you grow around grief. Some days, you may walk beside grief quietly, almost forgetting it’s there. Other days, it may walk ahead, leading you into moments of deep remembrance. But in every form, it becomes part of your landscape! It becomes something you navigate, revisit, and even find beauty within, as you continue to live.

Human Design reframes your healing pace as part of your natural energy flow, so you stop comparing your process to others.

Daily themes:

Each day's theme will reflect a stage of metamorphoses, harmonized with the Orientations of the Conscious Grieving Model™.

Sunday: Arrival Day- Orientation Gathering

Monday: The Egg Stage- Entering Your Grief

Tuesday: The Caterpillar Stage- Engaging Your Grief

Wednesday: The Chrysalis Stage- Surrendering to Your Grief

Thursday: The Butterfly Stage- Transforming Your Grief

Friday: Pulling it All Together-- Honoring Your Personal Journey and Supporting Your Path

Saturday: Anchoring Your Intentions Through Ceremony

Sunday: Departure

Retreat Pricing: