Breathe Retreat: Embracing Your Higher Self

Breathe Retreat: Embracing Your Higher Self is a New Year's wellness retreat at Elohee Retreat Center in Sautee Nacoochee, Georgia, in the North Georgia mountains. It is led by Tori Tatum, LPC and Nina Wolverton, and it takes place in Thanksgiving House, one of the retreat center's lodges. It is made for people who would rather cross into the new year with reflection than with a list of resolutions.

The retreat starts from a simple question: what if you did not enter the new year trying to become someone new? Instead of self-improvement, it offers space to reconnect with who you already are and to listen more closely to who you are becoming. The themes are reflection, release and becoming, and the gathering is framed as a time to set down what no longer serves you before the year turns.

What to Expect

This is a retreat that spans the New Year, so the turn of the calendar is part of the experience. It is held as a small gathering at Thanksgiving House, with time for contemplation and a quiet pace, in place of a crowded holiday celebration. The name points to breathwork and conscious breathing as a thread through the weekend, with the invitation to step toward what the retreat calls your higher self.

Who Leads It

Tori Tatum is a licensed professional counselor (LPC), which brings a grounded, therapeutic perspective to the themes of reflection and release. She co-leads the retreat with Nina Wolverton.

The Setting

Elohee Retreat Center sits in the mountains of North Georgia, in the Sautee Nacoochee area. Thanksgiving House is where this retreat is held, and winter in the hills lends itself to slowing down and looking inward.