Step Away, Reconnect, & Rediscover Yourself
In the rush of daily life, it is easy to lose touch with yourself.
Our retreats offer a space to pause, reflect, and recharge—whether you are seeking personal growth, deep healing, or simply time to nourish your body and mind.
Designed for women in transition, seekers of balance, and those ready for transformation, our retreats blend mindfulness, movement, healing practices, and community support to create a truly immersive experience.
Explore my upcoming workshops and retreats below:
UPCOMING EVENTS
A weekend of rest, nourishment, intention & healing hosted by Shannon Chawla and Molly Knott.
EVENT DETAILS
Dates: Saturday, March 13 and Sunday, March 14, 2027
Location: Portland, Oregon.
Venue: Paxton Yoga Center SW Macadam Ave
ABOUT THIS EVENT
What if Self-care and mindfulness wasn’t something you did, but something you lived?
What if your body wasn't the enemy?
Chronic pain can quietly shrink our world - stealing energy, confidence, and hope. This retreat is an invitation to gently expand it again. Together, we'll explore new ways to understand pain, move with more ease, and reconnect with a sense of possibility you may not have felt in a long time.
Living with chronic pain can feel isolating, but it doesn't have to. This transformative weekend was created to help you discover new ways to understand your pain, reconnect with your body, and leave feeling genuinely hopeful about your future.
This is not about pushing through or forcing healing. It's about finding ease, possibility, and community - with support from practitioners who truly get it.
THE WEEKEND INCLUDES
Gentle, mindful movement practices tailored for bodies experiencing pain
Breath exercises to tap into the body's natural relaxation response
Mindfulness-based strategies for coping with discomfort and fatigue
Interactive skill-building workshops with evidence-informed tools you can use at home
A warm, supportive community of people who truly understand
A nourishing lunch on both days of the retreat
Space to feel hopeful, empowered, and at home in your body againCome rest. Come breathe. Come back to you.
You will leave having the skills to navigate and shift your pain response and with the ability to continue your progression supported.
Practice recordings for you to download use on your own after the retreat
Whether you’re new to self -care and mindfulness or already on your journey, this experience will expand your awareness, cultivate deeper presence, and invite playfulness into the practice of shifting chronic pain, which is a journey not a destination.
You will leave feeling nourished and whole, with a more grounded sense of self and relaxation — mindfully and abundantly connected to a circle of people growing in strength and ease.
Are you ready to experience self-care and mindfulness around chronic pain in an entirely new way?
MEET YOUR HOSTS
Shannon Chawla, LAc, has been practicing acupuncture for 26 years and is a provider who is dedicated to guiding others toward greater presence, balance, and ease. Combining expertise in holistic wellness and embodied mindfulness. The retreat was created to have a unique experience to help you align your mind, body, and health to reduce pain and increase well being.
Molly Knott is a certified meditation teacher and registered yoga teacher specializing in chronic pain and pelvic floor health. Blending modern pain science and the ancient wisdom of yoga, her programs offer an empowering, embodied approach to navigating the challenges of persistent pain and - most importantly - finding. You can learn more about Molly Knott here.
You've Been Managing Your Pain. It's Time to Change Your Relationship With It.
A 6-week guided container for people ready to move from surviving chronic pain to understanding it, working with it, and reclaiming their life around it.
EVENT DETAILS
Commencing: Wednesday September 23
Time: 12-1:15pm PST
Location: Online / Virtual
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You've read the books. Tried the stretches. Maybe you've even had some relief that didn't stick.
You know your pain intimately — its patterns, its triggers, the days it lets you live and the days it doesn't. What you haven't had is a guide who understands both the physiology of chronic pain and the deeper layer underneath it — the nervous system patterns, the stored emotion, the identity that quietly reshapes itself around pain over time. That's what this collective is for.
WHAT THIS IS
The Pain Pathways Collective is a 6-week live, small-group container rooted in 30 years of clinical experience — grounded in the science of pain and its biological, psychological, and social dimensions, alongside the deeper layer underneath it all: nervous system patterns, stored emotion, and the identity that quietly reshapes itself around pain over time.
This isn't a class. It's a guided path.
WHAT WE’LL WALK THROUGH TOGETHER
Week 1 — Understanding Your Pain Pathways: Why pain persists long after tissue has healed. You'll learn to recognize your own unique pain pattern — how it shows up, what feeds it, and what it's asking for — as the foundation for everything that follows.
Week 2 — Nervous System Regulation: Practical tools to shift your body out of alarm and into safety — the foundation everything else builds on.
Week 3 — Movement as Medicine: Gentle, pain-informed movement that rebuilds trust with your body instead of triggering fear of re-injury.
Week 4 — The Emotional Layer: Where stored emotion lives in the body, and how to work with it rather than around it.
Week 5 — Building Your Personal Protocol: You'll leave this week with a written, individualized daily practice — built for your body, your pain, your life.
Week 6 — Integration & Sustaining Change: How to carry this forward. What comes next. A closing ritual to mark what's shifted.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
6 live 75-minute sessions, Wednesdays 12:00–1:15pm PST (small group, so you're seen — not lost in a crowd)
Full access to the accompanying course, which we'll move through together module by module, covering the science of pain and its biological, psychological, and social dimensions
A short worksheet or protocol after each session
A brief guided practice recording tied to each week's theme
Private Voxer group thread for support and accountability between calls
Recordings of every session if you can't attend live
A personalized closing protocol document to keep and return to
This collective is intentionally small. Limited places available for this founding cohort.
Many participants use HSA/FSA funds toward this program, as it is guided by a licensed acupuncturist. Eligibility depends on your individual plan — check with your HSA/FSA administrator before enrolling if this matters to your decision.
Each retreat is a carefully curated experience, blending ancient healing traditions with modern self-care practices, ensuring that you leave feeling grounded, empowered, and deeply restored.
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Why Join a Retreat?
A retreat is more than just a break from routine—it is an opportunity to step away from distractions, reconnect with yourself, and cultivate lasting transformation. These immersive experiences provide a dedicated space for reflection, healing, and renewal, allowing you to return to daily life with greater clarity and balance. At Authentic Healing Wellness, our retreats are intentionally designed to help you:
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Reconnect with yourself on a deeper level.
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Release stress, emotional weight, and limiting patterns.
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Cultivate clarity, confidence, and a renewed sense of purpose.
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Experience holistic healing through guided practices, movement, and meditation.
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Build meaningful connections with a like-minded community.