Freedom from Suffering: A Weekend of Healing through Unconditional Self-Love, Mindfulness Meditation & QiGong

August 14th - 16th, 2026

Join international bestselling author and wisdom teacher Blake D. Bauer in the Colorado mountains for a deeply restorative weekend designed to support healing, clarity, and lasting transformation. This retreat offers a practical path into unconditional self-love, mindfulness meditation, and qigong, helping you reconnect with your true self in a safe and supportive setting.

Blake’s approach is centered on one clear promise: by the end of this retreat, you will understand how to love yourself, how to heal, how to train your mind, how to trust yourself, and how to begin changing your life with greater confidence. You will explore why anxiety, overwhelm, depression, self-doubt, addiction, illness, and relationship challenges can be understood as meaningful signals from the body, soul, and subconscious mind—signals asking for love, acceptance, forgiveness, and truth.

Throughout the weekend, Blake will teach seven daily habits that show you how to value yourself, heal trauma stored in the body, align with your true self, reshape your life, and build healthier relationships. You’ll also learn how the way you think and live each day can either contribute to suffering or become an expression of care, healing, and self-respect.

In a culture that often normalizes stress and disconnection, this retreat provides practical tools to slow down, regulate the nervous system, and care for your mental, emotional, and physical health. You’ll receive instruction you can take home with you, along with space to face fears, heal old wounds, and clarify your next personal or professional steps. Set in peaceful natural surroundings, the experience also offers authentic connection and community.

You will be guided through two especially powerful self-healing practices: mindfulness meditation to train the mind and gentle qigong exercises to help release stuck energy, blood, and emotion that may be contributing to unhappiness, illness, or feeling trapped. The retreat is designed to help you stop self-sabotage, release self-rejection, and strengthen your life force energy so you can move forward with clarity and self-respect.

What You Will Learn

• Identify the root causes of depression, anxiety, insecurity, and physical illness
• Transform self-doubt into self-esteem, self-worth, and self-trust
• Practice mindfulness meditation to live more fully in the present
• Address past wounds and trauma stored in the body
• Overcome guilt, shame, and self-rejection
• Forgive yourself and others
• Clarify your direction and deepen into unconditional love and peace within
• Use qigong self-healing exercises and meditation to revitalize your body and health

Arrival: August 14th, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Departure: August 16th, 5:30 PM
Tuition: $444 + 2 nights lodging, combined at checkout
Meals & drinks included — vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options available
Extra nights: available at 50% off

Lodging

Several accommodation options are available during checkout, including off-site arrangements, car camping, tents, dormitories, monk rooms, single and double rooms, and Junior Suites. All options include healthy meals and drinks, with vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free choices.

• Off Land: tuition plus $40/night for meals and use of facilities
• Car Camping: 5 primitive parking spots in the Rigden parking lot, including food and bathhouse access
• Single and Double Tents: 12′ x 14′ tents with twin beds, bookcases, and a hanging clothes rack
• Dormitories: shared rooms for up to 7-8 people, with gender-segregated dorms and shared bathrooms
• Monk Rooms: private indoor rooms with shared bathroom access
• Single and Double Rooms: private rooms with a 3/4 bathroom attached
• Junior Suite: queen-size bed, private bath with bathtub, and sitting area

Some campgrounds were affected by a recent wildfire and the effects may still be visible this summer, though they remain safe to use. Bedding is not provided for tents; please bring twin sheets, a blanket or sleeping bag, a pillow, and towels.