It was an awakening unlike any experience I have ever had… profound and truly transformative. What Pete and Derek have created with The Pause is remarkable, and I am deeply grateful for it.
The Pause created an environment that allowed me to get beneath the noise, the obligations, and the ideas I carry to reach the heart of what truly matters. More than simply understanding it intellectually, I was able to physically experience that truth. That was extraordinary.
I came away with a clearer sense of place, a deeper appreciation for presence, and a stronger connection to how I want to live and to the people who matter most to me.
It was an awakening unlike any experience I have ever had… profound and truly transformative. What Pete and Derek have created with The Pause is remarkable, and I am deeply grateful for it.
I come back home feeling lighter, more balanced and deeply connected to myself. Additionally, I feel better equipped with practical strategies to resolve issues and manage daily stress. The Pause was a nourishing and magical experience beyond my expectation!
These last few days at tranquil Cassia Hill has been the perfect balance between activities, contemplation and conversation. It allowed me to disconnect from the noise and focus on myself. It was time to take a Pause.
This time away served as a reminder that one’s journey — my dreams, hopes and emotional well-being — truly matter. Investing this time in myself was not a luxury but an absolute necessity.
I am sincerely grateful to Pete and Derek for creating such a nurturing and safe environment during this time. Their gentle guidance and complete lack of judgement helped the small group open up and gain valuable perspective into our lives. I come back home feeling lighter, more balanced and deeply connected to myself. Additionally, I feel better equipped with practical strategies to resolve issues and manage daily stress.
The Pause was a nourishing and magical experience beyond my expectation!
I came with questions and an open heart. I left with the permission to powerfully choose the life, and the person, I was born to be. I have never experienced a more powerful retreat in my life. If you are considering ‘The Pause,’ stop. Just say YES. You will not regret it.
The Pause is a collection of transformational moments, carefully curated to illuminate who you really are and unlock the authentic life you were meant to live. It is for the eternally curious, those who wear the scars of life honestly, and have the courage to explore what already exists inside them, muted by the noise of everyday life.
There is no homework, tactical blueprint or roadmap to be better or do more. Just four days, unfolding in layers, each delicately peeling back another insight, until the ambiguity you arrived with disappears. What is left is simply you.
I came with questions and an open heart. I left with the permission to powerfully choose the life, and the person, I was born to be. I have never experienced a more powerful retreat in my life.
If you are considering ‘The Pause,’ stop. Just say YES. You will not regret it.
My experience with The Pause has been transformative. The Pause is a gateway to a radical (as in rooted) awareness, one that has been designed to build a sense of agency in joy and pain, success and challenge.
The Pause can only be tentatively described after many weeks have passed from the program. The retreat is natural, comfortable, dense, challenging, as many normal days can be… Yet, the underlying intelligent, detailed and informed therapeutic systems seem to be finely designed and conducted for immediate (and lasting) clarity, and relief. While invited to look inward, we experience nature, beauty and the small group of humans, in a paradisiacal setting in a warm, organic rhythm.
The program unfolds and unveils a profound acknowledgment of our soul and body. Yet the acknowledgement isn’t rational: it’s instead a deeper, holistic awareness and understanding, stemming from multi-sensorial, layered micro and macro experiences. The relief of allowing and favoring a non-rational understanding is immediate. And it stays. It becomes a critical radically human foundation for decision making.
My experience with The Pause has been transformative. The absence of a paternalistic approach, despite the dense concepts, result in a rare human experience. The Pause is a gateway to a radical (as in rooted) awareness, one that has been designed to build a sense of agency in joy and pain, success and challenge.
A life-changing Pause for anyone who wants to recalibrate and make the changes needed to live authentically in the years they have left.