Corey Martin, founder of Bounce Travels and Innovations and Resilience and David and Augusta Kantra, founders of The Center for CALM® Living (Creating Awareness and Living Mindfully), have teamed up to offer an adventure retreat designed to immerse participants in beauty, connection, and mindfulness.
World-class wineries and breathtaking scenery await you on this adventure retreat. Sonoma County’s ancient redwood groves and dramatic coastal bluffs serve as an amazing landscape for our awe-inspiring hikes. Sonoma’s world-renowned vineyards and exceptional wines are not to be missed as we wine taste with local winemakers in one of California’s most iconic regions.
On this CALM/Bounce Travels retreat, your days will be filled with a soulful blend of scenic hiking, educational insights, and deep, meaningful conversations. You will spend considerable time each day in nature, admiring and reflecting on the unique and impressive panoramas found in Sonoma County, California. You will be accompanied by a community of fellow retreatants led by friendly, supportive, and knowledgeable guides during your retreat.
Each day, your expert facilitators will lead educational, informative, and contemplative sessions inspired by both contemporary and ancient mindfulness teachers, as well as by Parker Palmer’s Center for Courage & Renewal, Brené Brown’s The Daring Way™ programs, and other expert voices in self-examination. Throughout the retreat, we will explore, individually and with one another, the thoughts, stories, habits and conditioning that cloud our vision and keep us living (as James Joyce says) “a short distance from our bodies”. Our time together will help you cultivate tools, techniques, and practices that better serve you in your pursuit of living a more authentic and wholehearted life. These retreat sessions are interactive, fun, and insightful. You’ll work hard, be challenged, and leave feeling empowered to meet life skillfully, kindly and mindfully.
We begin each day with an early morning reflective practice, mindful movement, educational sessions, and a hearty breakfast before setting out on the day’s adventures. We will spend the majority of our days admiring and exploring the impressive panoramas around Sonoma County. Following our time hiking and exploring the natural world and wine tasting, we gather for a communal dinner in the early evening to enjoy some of the delicious food found in that part of the country. Each evening, to further help rejuvenate your mind, body, and soul, you are invited to join in an unstructured social hour with your fellow travelers and guides. No matter your fitness level or resilience experience, you are welcome on this active adventure retreat.
Courage & Renewal facilitator Corey Martin will be joined by David and Augusta Kantra, founders of The Center for CALM® Living (Creating Awareness and Living Mindfully).
If you have additional questions about this trip, please contact Corey Martin at Corey@BounceTravels.com
7:00am – 7:30am: Breakfast at the hotel
7:30am – 11:00am: Daily reflective practice, mindful movement and educational/reflective sessions
11:30am – 3:00pm: Hiking Sonoma’s many wonderful trails and visiting wineries
3:00pm – 5:00pm: More breathtaking adventures, personal reflection or relaxation time
5:30 pm – 7:30pm: Group Dinner
8:00pm – 9:30pm: Process circle, shared reflections, social time. (Massages, intuitive readings, and reiki sessions can be scheduled if you chose to do so.)
Our time spent cultivating joy, meaning, and purpose is through the use of educational sessions, quiet reflection, journaling, daily group reflections, and hiking journeys. We use our experiences and the paths we hike as daily metaphors to develop joy, meaning, and purpose in our lives.
We recommend you arrive in San Francisco, CA, at least one day before the start of the retreat. San Francisco offers iconic vistas, historic neighborhoods, and hip shopping experiences. As you arrive here the day before our retreat starts, you can take in local arts and culture, explore the outdoors, indulge in a unique dining scene, or sit by the pool and relax. Plan to arrive at any time this day. A hotel room will be reserved for you in San Francisco.
We will start our day at our hotel in San Francisco with early morning breakfast. Then its off to our hotel for the week, Cambria Wine Country. We travel via a comfortable passenger van to arrive at our hotel before meeting for our late morning and afternoon educational sessions that are focused on truly arriving and creating the inner and outer space to settle and open. We end the day by enjoying a lovely dinner together.
Tonight we are staying at the Cambria Hotel in Sonoma. Breakfast included.
Morning educational sessions will focus on seeing clearly the habits, distractions and old stories that keep us numb and reactive versus vibrant and response-able. After our morning sessions, we visit Fitch Mountain Park and Francis Ford Coppola Winery. The Fitch Mountain trail is located on the Southern Pomo people’s ancestral homelands. You will have an opportunity to explore a dense forest of trees and be afforded a great view of the valley below. After world of Francis Ford Coppola wines. On-site, you can explore the beautiful grounds, the vast collection of movie memorabilia from Francis Ford Coppola’s prestigious filmmaking career, and even play a game of bocce ball!
Tonight we are staying at the Cambria Hotel in Sonoma. Breakfast included.
Morning sessions will focus on aligning values and action. Coming into that kind of congruence allows you to experience more ease and joy in your life, without having to keep “cleaning up messes.” In order to move into the life we want, we must get clear about what that does and does not entail. After our educational sessions, we hike the well-maintained and relatively easy Kortum Trail where you will get breathtaking views of the Pacific Ocean on this nice walk along the Sonoma coastline. Much of this trail is a double plank wood walkway that goes over wetland and offers sweeping views of the ocean and offshore sea stacks. There are optional side trips down to the beach or up the trailside rock outcroppings.
Tonight we are staying at the Cambria Hotel in Sonoma. Breakfast included.
Morning sessions will help cultivate the practices of self-compassion that are needed to dissolve stuck places and open our ability to deeply connect with ourselves and others. The practices of “letting go” offer us the space to live into new ways of being and doing. Today, our hikes include the Armstrong Redwoods Grove Loop Trail and the Pioneer Nature Trail. Together, they form a 3.5-mile loop that will take you past the park’s oldest redwood, the Colonel Armstrong Tree, estimated to be more than 1,400 years old. Following our hikes, we will adventure to the Korbel Champagne Winery for tastings as we enjoy this California-based brand of bubbly that has been a staple of American celebrations.
Tonight we are staying at the Cambria Hotel in Sonoma. Breakfast included.
Morning sessions will focus on the integration of our week’s work and how to take the practices of Creating Awareness and Living Mindfully (CALM) home. Enlivening our vision for the “Life we want NOW” requires a dedication and commitment to the practices that keep that vision at the forefront. Today’s outdoor time is more relaxed as you can explore the farmer’s market, visit local shops, taste local wines, and enjoy the amenities located around the beautiful Sonoma Plaza. You might also use the free-to-explore block of time to relax at the hotel with a massage, spend time reflecting by the pool or take another hike to a beautiful point overlooking the town of Sonoma.
Tonight we are staying at the Cambria Hotel in Sonoma. Breakfast included.
Morning sessions will continue to hone the skills and capacities to create and sustain the changes you desire so you can live the life you most want NOW. You will leave feeling supported, fulfilled, nurtured, and satisfied. We will arrive back at the San Francisco Airport by noon. Some travelers may choose to fly home later in the day, while others may want to spend more time checking out other parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, such as visiting the Golden Gate Bridge, Lombard Street, or Alcatraz.
DOUBLE OCCUPANCY ROOM =$2699 per person
SINGLE OCCUPANCY ROOM = $3499
RESERVE YOUR SPOT WITH A DEPOSIT=$500
• Transportation from our San Francisco Hotel to Sonoma in by comfy, relaxing passenger van
• 1 night lodging in San Francisco nights lodging in Sonoma
• 5 nights lodging in Sonoma
• 6 breakfasts, 1 dinner
• Snacks and water for the daily drive
• Daily park and trail entrance fees
• Facilitation of resilience topics
• 19 CME/CEUs for healthcare professionals
• Cancellations prior to June 15, 2024 are subject to a $500 cancellation fee
• Non-refundable on or after June 15, 2024.
• If Bounce Travels cancels the trip due to any reason, you have your choice of a refund (minus credit card fees) OR using your entire balance towards another Bounce Travels trip through the following calendar year.
This itinerary may change slightly due to accommodation availability, rain, festivals and spontaneous side trips. This is not an endurance race, nor a competition. Please be respectful of all the different paces and walks of life that come together on this group trip.
Please Note: This itinerary may change slightly due to accommodation availability, rain, festivals and spontaneous side trips. This is not an endurance race, nor a competition. Please be respectful of all the different paces and walks of life that come together on this group trip
Accreditation Statement: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the Minnesota Medical Association and Innovations in Resilience. The Minnesota Medical Association (MMA) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Commercial Support: There is no commercial support for this event.
This activity has been designed to meet the Minnesota Board of Nursing continuing education requirements for 19 hours of credit. However, the nurse is responsible for determining whether this activity meets the requirements for acceptable continuing education.
Individuals representing other professional disciplines may submit course materials to their respective professional associations for 19 hours of continuing education credit.
A commercial interest is any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. The ACCME defines “‘relevant’ financial relationships” as financial relationships in any amount occurring within the past 12 months that create a conflict of interest.
CME Credit: The Minnesota Medical Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 19 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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