Solo and Group Retreats are presented in themes
Each theme has a specific focus
Enhance your retreat experience with Extras:
Activities at our Healing and Expressive Arts Center

Solo and group retreats are presented in themes, to give context to the experiences we provide.  These are basic templates designed to be enhanced by adding Extras: offerings from our nearby Healing and Expressive Arts Center.  Each person or group has flexibility in choosing Extras to shape their own experience. 

Emergence is a sanctuary for solitude, enhanced by the restorative power of nature and nurturing benefits of geothermal mineral waters.  At our Riverside Retreat and nearby Center, we support your quest for creativity and healing,  your dream and vision for thriving as a human being.  We offer a safe space to be alone, to explore and express your inner world and your potential for growth and transformation.

Soak to your heart’s content, let go, recline, sleep, read, lounge above the river, listen to the wind, watch the birds in flight, do nothing—luxuriate in the quiet solitude of nature.

Unwind in the hot springs, breathe inspiration from Turtleback Mountain, the Rio Grande and open New Mexico sky, awaken your creative spirit, dive into your flow, cultivate your art, feed your heart.

Escape into solitude, calm your spirit in the healing waters, absorb the natural beauty, explore inside, contemplate, meditate, feed your practice, deepen your vision, awaken your soul.

Bring your intention, receive daily therapy, do sound meditations, explore inside, invite your healing process to unfold, soak in the mineral springs, enjoy deep rest and rejuvenation.

Get away, be alone, soak, relax, nurture yourself in nature, receive therapy, explore your thoughts and feelings, process change, heal wounds, find meaning, express yourself, gain clarity and empowerment to move forward.

Disengage from the daily grind, have some alone time, soak in the hot springs, relax your bones, unwind your mind, enjoy relaxing therapy, let go of stress, and if need be, get some work done.

(one to four people)

Our Healing and Expressive Arts Center and Riverside Retreat are fertile ground for building relationships.  Group retreats in the quiet and beauty of nature are combined with restorative therapies and expressive arts to cultivate and enhance connection with ourselves and others.  In that spirit, our two spaces provide an open field for authentic communication. We support the power of self-expression to unite us in honesty, vulnerability and compassion. We embrace the potential for healing that lives within our shadow as well as our light.  Come and share our sanctuary with family, friends and loved ones—connect, create, heal and grow closer together.

Share alone time together, rest and replenish, deepen communication, nurture your relationship, explore creativity, receive healing therapy, soak in the hot springs.

Have a get away, or a reunion.  Do art, sip wine, catch up, soak by the river, chat by the fire, cook, dance, do yoga, have a sound bath or healing session, watch a movie with surround-sound on our big screen.

Bring the family together, enjoy the quiet of nature, soak and relax in the hot springs, share wine by the fire, do art, heal, open up, deepen communication, strengthen love and bonding.

Focus on your healing process, receive daily therapy, do sound meditations, soak in the mineral springs, enjoy deep rest, nurture your soul, cultivate the potential to heal yourself.

Get away, explore your thoughts and feelings, process change with friends and loved ones while soaking in the hot springs or sitting around the fire. Nurture yourself in nature, receive therapy, heal, replenish, gain clarity, envision what’s next.

Feed your creative self, work with your chosen visual arts medium or explore new ones, take breaks by the fire with a glass of wine, soak in your private hot springs,  receive healing therapy, enjoy a sound meditation, dance, do yoga. 

Bring your project or vision to our beautiful natural setting, revitalize and awaken creativity in the healing waters, join forces brainstorming in the Solarium, or pop over to the Emergence Center and create art, record music, choreograph dance or … use your imagination.

We offer you an open canvas at Emergence: the opportunity to design a retreat that provides exactly what you need.  Our Extras are healing and expressive arts modalities to help shape the contours of your experience. These modalities encourage relaxation, rejuvenation, inner exploration, process, play, creativity, authenticity and self-healing. The Extras serve as an additional means for us to support you taking care of yourself.  

Relax in our acoustically-enhanced sound healing and therapy room.  Treatment sessions are tailored to meet your needs.  Read more

Enjoy our comfortable and extremely well-stocked Art Studio. Choose from an abundance of mediums and methods. Read more

Recline and unwind in our Acoustic Room.  Invite the balancing frequencies of our meditative instruments to activate your self-healing potential.   Read more

A short video tale of Chris’ six-year relationship with two captive dolphins unable to return to the wild. Underwater images highlight the story, and its transition into a sound healing meditation.   Read more

Have the Acoustic Room for your group, or all to yourself.  Bring a playlist or use one of ours. Dance your heart out! Let go of your inhibitions, move authentically, fearlessly, foolishly, powerfully. It’s totally private, just you, or you and yours. Crank up our sound system and let your body express the spirit inside you.  Release energy that needs to flow through you.  Heal by dynamic, creative, unfettered expression.

Bring your  musical aspiration: your songs, your voice, your instrument,  or your unrealized desire to sing or play.  Explore, awaken, amplify your voice or musical vision. Hook up to the Acoustic Room’s awesome sound system and let your spirit fly.

Enjoy our big screen and expansive sound in the comfy setting of the Acoustic Room.