February 14-16, 2025

The Great Unplugging

A smartphone / internet / dopamine gratification detox retreat

The Transformation:

In a world where we’re all connected, it’s beneficial to unplug every once in a while.

Smartphones have been creating a more anxious, depressed and stressful state of the world. There are lots of benefits to getting away from your phone, being bored and just letting your mind wander, and that’s what you’ll get from this retreat.

This retreat requires you to take a step back from your phone.

You will have two 15 minute periods per day to use your phone how you want: call or text people in your life, watch a video, scroll social media.

This retreat makes you be intentional with your phone use so you can come back to the daily life and have a better phone-life balance. We use yoga, breathing techniques, journaling and though work practices, and art to recenter and relearn who you are without your phone and create a life you love.

After this retreat you will:

  • feel less anxious

  • compare yourself to others less

  • get so much time back in your life

  • love more

  • learn techniques to continue the practice even when you really want to doomscroll

  • learn who you are without your phone in your hand

When you sign up for this retreat, you are choosing to take back control of your life from social media, the internet, gaming, shopping, whatever you tend to depend on to make you feel better.

Come and learn how to feel better naturally.

Refresh your brain, not your feed.

Weekend Agenda:

FRIDAY:

  • 5pm - Introductions / Intro Circle / Intentions for the weekend

    • Tell everyone on your phone you know you’ll be offline for a few days

  • 30 minute Restorative Yoga

  • Nourishing Dinner and discussion

  • Phone check - 15 min

  • Free time

  • Hot tea & bed


SATURDAY:

Wake up phone free (no phone alarm, no scrolling in the morning, nothing).

  • Coffee/tea and journaling (Quiet hours until 9am)

  • Guided meditation / art

  • Breakfast

  • Movement - 30 min restorative yoga and breathing

  • Journaling / thought work practice

  • Lunch

  • Free time

  • Dinner

  • Walk / Tea

  • 2 - phone checks / day for 15 min each - you decide how you use that time

SUNDAY:

Wake up phone free (no phone alarm, no scrolling in the morning, nothing).

  • Coffee/tea and journaling (Quiet hours until 9am.)

  • guided meditation / art / yoga

  • Journaling

  • Breakfast and sharing

  • Free time - Art / activity / reading / connecting with others

FREE TIME ACTIVITIES:

  • Yoga

  • Art & Reading & Writing

  • Watching TV

  • Working out on Peloton

  • Walking / hiking

  • Hot tub

  • Fire pit

Solace

Not a silent retreat, but a phone-free retreat

We have to consciously choose our own health. This world is filled with media and advertising trying to make you feel like you aren’t enough, fast food that make you feel bad in your body, chemicals, bad news, all over the place. You could go crazy if you don’t take a break.

Imagine…

  • free time without notifications dinging you constantly

  • sleep and rest without being interrupted by your phone.

Investment:

Since this is the first retreat of its kind, it is HALF OFF at just $250 for all participants!

HALF OFF: $250 per person

Accommodations:

Deluxe King Suite with private bathroom (Double Occupancy)

King Suite with private bathroom (Double Occupancy)

King Suite with private bathroom (Double Occupancy)

King Suite (2nd floor) with shared bathroom (Double Occupancy)

(4) Queen Bunk Spaces with shared bathroom (4-8 person occupancy)

Unplugging Retreat Interest List

Thank you for your interest in the Great Unplugging Retreat. Registration is now open. Please fill out the form below and I’ll be in touch with next steps. 

Logistics:

Dates: Friday Feb 14- Sunday Feb 16

Location: Private Lakeside Mansion in Wild Rose, WI

Investment: 

  • Normally $525-$775 (depending on accommodation selection).

    • Now only $250 because it’s the first retreat of it’s kind.

  • Deposit: $125 to secure your space

  • Pay in full by February 8 or set up 3-payment plan. Contact us below.

Included: 

  • (2) nights accommodation at our luxury private residence in Wild Rose, WI

  • Guided movement, meditation practice + breathwork practice held in a private yoga space

  • Guided journaling + thought work sessions

  • Evening tea and community sharing in the comfort of our weekend home

  • Retreat veganetarian meals provided by our private caterer (Friday dinner, Saturday- all meals, Sunday breakfast)

  • Time to chill...journal, walk, hot tub, read, rest.

Not Included:

  • Transportation to/from retreat venue

  • Alcoholic beverages

Accommodations:

  • King Suite with private bathroom (Double Occupancy $775pp)

  • King Suite with private bathroom (Double Occupancy $625pp)

  • King Suite with private bathroom (Double Occupancy $625pp)

  • King Suite (2nd floor) with shared bathroom (Double Occupancy $625pp)

  • (4) Queen Bunk Spaces with shared bathroom ($525pp)

Ignore the above pricing! All participants cost $250! You can write which bedroom you’re interested in the form below.

Details:

  • See more info and pictures here.

  • Retreat start: 3pm on Feb 14

  • Retreat end: 12:30pm on Feb 16

This retreat is happening over Valentine's Day weekend, so it's a good opportunity to bring your girlfriend and do a Galentine's retreat! Get away from the doomscrolling, the news, the constant connection to everything happening in the world.

And let's face it, over Valentine's Day, we're all inundated with content about ways to have the best Valentine's date, or that you're living wrong if you're not partnered. Whether you're partnered or not, no one seems to really enjoy this commercialized holiday.

Get away from all that noise and learn to love without expectations.

Registration:

Fill out the form below.

Additional Questions:

melissa.l.brumm@gmail.com