In-Person Retreat September 19th – 21st, 2025
Trauma affects the best of us, and its effects can linger, limiting your ability to live with joy and abundance. Whether it occurred during a single event or repeated trauma, recently or in childhood, it can have lifelong effects: anxiety, depression, chronic health issues, flashbacks, a disconnection from the body, trust and intimacy challenges, or feeling worthless and broken.
Yet, as impossible as it may seem, you can return to wholeness.
Beyond Trauma is a weekend-long retreat designed to support your wellbeing and growth after trauma.
I am so excited to invite you to join me at the amazing Art of Living Retreat Center near Boone North Carolina for my Beyond Trauma Workshop. If you haven’t been there before you are in for a special treat and if you have been there before, you know the gift of healing in the beauty of nature and the amazing healing food they provide that supports you throughout the weekend.
I want to share with you what inspired me to create this Beyond trauma program. I have been a trauma treatment specialist for many years and along the way, I started to notice that much of the language centered around healing from trauma focuses on the problem and the symptoms. Most traditional modalities ask you to look at what is wrong or upsetting or the worst parts of your past. While it is important to tend to the wounds of the past, if these worst parts are the only things you look at, they can become the only thing that you see about yourself. It is like a camera lens that is only taking in one part of the whole picture. We need to broaden this lens; doing so allows you to focus on your existing strengths and build new resources.
I am a body-centered psychologist, EMDR Therapist, and certified yoga teacher, and expert in applied polyvagal theory. In the Beyond Trauma program, we integrate mind-body tools from each of these approaches to help you deeply rooted within your innate resilience while empowering you to unwind the impacts of trauma from your nervous system, body, and mind. When we have an opportunity to gather in person, we tap into the power of community. Having offered this program countless times, I know that you will come away with a greater sense of belonging, enhanced access to a compassionate inner voice, and a stronger connection to your wisest Self,
I hope that you will consider joining us. It will be an honor to be your guide to move Beyond the Trauma of your Past.
Here’s what a previous attendee shared about their retreat experience:
“My name is Shruthi and I’m a clinical therapist working in the suburbs of Chicago. I met [Arielle] at the Art of Living retreat last year. We had a conversation about what to do when it feels like you are up against a wall and don’t know how to jump it. The guidance on that was just what I needed to be kind to myself through my recovery process.
I wanted to write to you to express my gratitude. The work I started to do in that weekend program catapulted me into my biggest transformational year. That was the first time I was able to talk to my inner child and hold her. I was in tears. But the compassion I felt in that room gave me the courage to keep moving forward. Later that year, I finally did the trauma work behind some events of my life, challenged and shifted my core beliefs, and provided myself the freedom to let that little girl feel safe. I am an entirely different person than I was 9 months ago. I am more spiritual and attuned to my needs, and I couldn’t be happier with who I am and my journey… I’m working on starting up my own practice providing the care in trauma work that I see empowers people. I feel guided and working within my best self.
Thank you thank you! Thank you for your heart and the work that you do.”
You are So Much More than your Trauma
What people are saying:
“There were many insights gained from Arielle and this program though the most helpful is having a proven and easy-to-understand post-traumatic growth framework, including specific healing practices, that I can use with myself and my clients navigating grief and loss.”— Kimberley, California
“There was a profound sense of “being held” throughout the course, and a vital sense of community created through Arielle’s wisdom and loving embrace.”— Jaime, South Africa
“I have experienced the feeling of awakening and joy for the first time in many years, after being in what I now know as a state of collapse. The course helped me to couple or balance the feelings of fear and anxiety that hold me back from becoming the person I know I am, with the emotions of safety/excitement necessary to move forward. The neuroscience backing the information in this course was critical for my western brain to understand how the vagus nerve works, and its role in my own personal psychology.— Allison, Washington
Let’s Engage the Journey of Resilience, Hope and Growth Together
I am offering an in-person training, “Beyond Trauma: A Guided Journey of Resilience, Hope and Growth“ at the Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, NC. The retreat, which will run September 19th-21st, 2025, is based upon my award-winning book The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook.
This event has been designed to be available to everyone; it is an all-levels event, open to anyone including those who’ve never done yoga. Any movements offered can also be done seated in a chair. Comfortable clothing is recommended for ease of movement and simply to be as comfortable as possible during training.
In this heart-opening and experiential setting, you’ll:
- Discover how my 6 R’s can help you move past trauma by rewiring your nervous system
- Learn the 5 types of resilience — and how to develop your own method for discovering what’s best for you
- Discover how to access your deep well of spiritual resilience through awareness of your authentic nature
- Explore the vagus nerve and why it’s called the body’s superhighway to health
- Be given simple tools for regulating your nervous system to give you greater control over how you respond
- Be guided through your Hero/Hereoine’s journey with experiential, body-centered tools to foster post-traumatic growth
- Connect with a like-minded community
Beyond Trauma
You’ll discover that accessing your intrinsic wisdom with practical tools can help you feel more connected to yourself and others — and view these traumatic times as a portal leading to unparalleled growth and empowerment.
Join me to discover how you can heal past trauma, be happier and healthier, and live with more purpose and meaning. At the retreat, you’ll be invited to participate in therapeutic journaling and yoga, guided meditations, conscious breathing, and group discussion. As you work through these tools, you may find that you can then help others to free themselves as well.
In this free video, I give you an introduction to the offering, giving you a felt experience for what I teach and how I approach this work. I hope you will consider joining us in Boone, NC, September 19th-21st, 2025, for this transformative event.
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I hope that you will join me.
About Dr. Arielle Schwartz
Arielle Schwartz, PhD, is a psychologist, internationally sought-out teacher, yoga instructor, and leading voice in the healing of PTSD and complex trauma. She is the author of five books, including The Complex PTSD Workbook, EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology, and The Post Traumatic Growth Guidebook.
Dr. Schwartz is an accomplished teacher who guides therapists in the application of EMDR, somatic psychology, parts work therapy, and mindfulness-based interventions for the treatment of trauma and complex PTSD. She guides you through a personal journey of healing in her Sounds True audio program, Trauma Recovery.
She has a depth of understanding, passion, kindness, compassion, joy, and a succinct way of speaking about very complex topics. She is the founder of the Center for Resilience Informed Therapy in Boulder, Colorado where she maintains a private practice providing psychotherapy, supervision, and consultation. Dr. Schwartz believes that that the journey of trauma recovery is an awakening of the spiritual heart.
- The Complex PTSD Workbook: A Mind-Body Approach to Regaining Emotional Control and Becoming Whole (Althea press, 2016)
- EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology: Interventions to Enhance Embodiment in Trauma Treatment (Norton, 2018).
- The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook: Practical Mind-Body Tools to Heal Trauma, Foster Resilience, and Awaken your Potential (Pesi Publications, 2020)
- A Practical Guide to Complex PTSD: Compassionate Strategies for Childhood Trauma (Rockridge Press, 2020)
- The Complex PTSD Treatment Manual: An Integrative Mind-Body Approach to Trauma Recovery (Pesi Publications, 2021)
- Trauma Recovery: A Mind-Body Approach to Becoming Whole (Sounds True, 2021)
- Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma: Applying the Principles of Polyvagal Theory for Self-Discovery, Embodied Healing, and Meaningful Change (Pesi Publications, 2022)
