Retreat Overview

Imagine a week in the Caribbean where the biggest decision you make is whether to read by the pool or take a walk along the coast. Where dinner is beautiful and plant-based and unhurried. Where the people around the table are curious, engaged, and genuinely interesting. And where, almost without noticing, you leave knowing yourself a little better than when you arrived.

We invite you to join us for a week of turning inward so that your truest self can come outward. St. Croix grounds you in a lush, warm place with slow mornings and salt air in the green hush where the rainforest meets the sea. Let the island hold you as you find ease to carry into everyday life and in relationship with others. This journey begins inward: on the mat, in movement, through breath and stillness, in relationship with self, in the scraps of a journal  —  settling into what wants to grow.

$300 Founding Early Bird through October 1st or first six registrations.

Use Discount Code "GROW300" at checkout. The savings are applied to your final payment.

During this weeklong retreat, the daily rhythm will unfold with mornings of still and moving meditation in an open space, afternoons relaxing by the water at the beach or pool, rounded off with a daily yoga practice, and evenings with a mix of casual, intentional conversation and music. All shared meals are organic, plant-based, and prepared on site. You will be invited to spend one afternoon on a remote beach and another in the town of Christiansted. The goal is to find the island pace in your own way.

Morning Meditation & Journaling

Each day offers guided meditation, creating space to settle the nervous system and arrive fully in the present moment. Throughout the week, participants will experience a variety of meditation practices including breath awareness, guided meditation, mantra, walking meditation, and loving-kindness (metta). There are multiple pathways into stillness and self-awareness.

Late Morning Practice

Late mornings are devoted to exploring the day's theme through experiential practices centered on voice, communication, and self-awareness. These sessions offer reflective exercises that invite participants to notice, practice, and gently experiment with new ways of listening and speaking.

Throughout the week, participants explore the principles of observation before interpretation, identifying feelings and needs, speaking with authenticity, and listening with presence and compassion.

Free Time

Afternoons intentionally include generous periods of unstructured time. Whether resting in a hammock, walking the beach, swimming in the sea, reading, coloring, journaling, or simply doing nothing at all, participants are encouraged to honor what their bodies and hearts most need.

This spaciousness is an essential part of the retreat, allowing insights to settle naturally rather than rushing from one activity to the next.

Late Afternoon Yoga Practice

Each afternoon concludes with a nourishing yoga practice designed to support the emotional rhythm of the day. Practices include slow flow, yin, and restorative yoga, thoughtfully sequenced to complement the retreat experience and regulate the nervous system.

Rather than striving or exertion, these sessions invite participants to soften, breathe, and reconnect with themselves through mindful movement.

All yoga practices are accessible to a wide range of experience levels, and modifications are offered throughout.

Evening Gathering

Evenings provide an opportunity to gather in community and gently integrate the day's theme and experiences with simple teachings. Building on the practices explored earlier in the day, we come together through reflective conversation, deep listening, and shared experience—sometimes in pairs or small groups and sometimes as a full circle. These gatherings offer a chance to let the day's insights settle, to hear and be heard, and to experience what can emerge when we bring greater presence and intention into relationship.

As throughout the retreat, sharing is always an invitation. You are welcome to participate in whatever way feels right for you.

Evenings at Feather Leaf

From there, follow the evening wherever it takes you. Some evenings may naturally unfold into conversation under the stars, music on the porch, a quiet walk, a spontaneous dance party, or simply early rest.

As with every aspect of the retreat, participation is always an invitation, never an obligation.

Amy Dillard

Amy came to yoga the way she came to everything that matters to her - through language and the body's relationship to power. She has spent her career studying legal rhetoric - how we speak, who gets heard, and what the body says before a word gets uttered. She is completing 500 hours of yoga teacher training with Matece Skow where the questions that animated her in the classroom and courtroom - about voice, presence, and finding your ground - have found a new home on the mat.

Lisa-Marie Napoli
Lisa-Marie found her way to yoga almost 40 years ago as a source of refuge and inner discovery. Her career focuses on conflict management, education, and relationship building. She supports others in the art of holding space for better discourse to take root. She is completing 500 hours of yoga teacher training with Matece Skow and brings to the mat the same attention she brings to hard conversation: a belief that presence, awareness, and curiosity let a truer voice come forward for mutual understanding. 

Matece Skow

Matece came to yoga more than 25 years ago as a way of listening inward and learning to live with greater honesty, courage, and care. As the founder of Nourishing Heart Yoga, she has spent her career creating spaces where people can slow down, reconnect with themselves, and become curious about what is ready to emerge. A teacher, massage therapist, and international retreat leader, Matece brings an embodied understanding of how the nervous system, the stories we carry, and the wisdom of the heart shape our capacity for growth. She approaches the mat as a place to listen deeply to the body, to one another, and to what wants to grow.

Meet Feather Leaf Inn

Tucked into the lush landscape of St. Croix, Feather Leaf Inn is a peaceful, plant-based eco-retreat where the natural world is woven into every part of the experience. Set on a historic seaside estate, Feather Leaf offers sweeping ocean views, tropical gardens, thoughtfully restored accommodations, and nourishing meals prepared with ingredients grown in its own food forest and sourced from the island.

More than a beautiful place to stay, Feather Leaf is rooted in environmental stewardship, sustainability, and a deep respect for the land and sea. Its serene surroundings invite you to slow down, breathe more deeply, and listen for what is stirring beneath the surface. It is the perfect setting to step away from the demands of everyday life, reconnect with yourself and others, and make space for what wants to grow.

✈️ Feather Leaf Inn is a short 30 minutes drive from Henry E Rohlnson Airport (STX). 

American Airlines is the main carrier to St. Croix, though you can find flights on other carriers.

Roundtrip transfers from the airport are included at no additional charge.

Transporation on arrival and departure day will be made according to the flight schedule of our participants. We will do our best to keep your wait at the airport to a minimum!

All prices listed are per person.

•If you are traveling with friends, please write in the comments section of your checkout whom you would like to room with.

*If you are booking the King bed in either the Ocean House or the Sea View Suite, please book at the "Standard Queen" rate and note in the comments section of your checkout which suite you would like. 

•If you are traveling alone, we are happy to pair you in a shared accommodation.

** Cancellation Policy**

If you wish to cancel the retreat you must notify Facilitator in writing. The deposit is non-refundable.  If you cancel before November 1, 2026, you will get a full refund of payments made less the deposit.  If you cancel after November 1, 2026 you will get half a refund less the deposit.  There are no refunds for cancellations after January 1, 2027, in which case the full retreat cost is non-refundable, but it is transferable to another person you recruit to take your place.  

Retreat to be paid in full by January 14, 2027.