- Examine negativity bias in the brain as it pertains to depression.
- Utilize concentration, distancing, naming and thought substitution to change depression producing thoughts.
- Identify how emotional motivation systems of the brain impact emotional distress.
- Utilize therapeutic mindfulness to manage imbalances in emotional motivation systems of the brain.
- Determine how mindfulness protocols activate the affiliation system of the brain.
- Examine the default network of the brain, including placebo and nocebo effect, as it pertains to depression.
- Determine the benefits of including the body in emotional regulation strategies for anxiety treatment.
- Choose clinical skills of breathing, body scan, and body movement for stabilization.
- Utilize mindfulness interventions to dis–identify from a narrative of unworthiness.
- Identify four compassion practices to increase self-acceptance.
- Utilize compassionate interventions for treating the “inner critic” part of self.
- Integrate mindfulness breathing practices into depression treatment.
- Utilize EFT techniques, including tapping points and set– up statements, for affect regulation.
- Determine the five components of EFT used for regulating affect in anxiety.
- Use body awareness to alleviate the physical manifestations of shame.
- Choose mindfulness techniques to address negative thoughts.
- Develop a mindful communications process for conflict resolution.
- Choose mindfulness techniques to reduce the shame of overeating.
- Identify limitations of mindfulness applications as clinical interventions for depression and anxiety.
- Determine limitations of EFT as an emotional regulation skill.
- Utilize mindful yoga movement to reduce emotional distress.
Immerse yourself in the natural beauty of the Sedona Mago Retreat Center near Sedona, Arizona
for 5 interactive days of mindfulness intervention skills-building and personal transformation!
Leave renewed and equipped with the mindfulness skills needed to utilize yoga, meditation, and more
to alleviate your clients’ symptoms of depression and anxiety.
PLUS, earn up to 21 CE Hours AND become a Certified Mindfulness-Informed Professional (CMIP)!*
for 5 interactive days of mindfulness intervention skills-building and personal transformation!
Leave renewed and equipped with the mindfulness skills needed to utilize yoga, meditation, and more
to alleviate your clients’ symptoms of depression and anxiety.
PLUS, earn up to 21 CE Hours AND become a Certified Mindfulness-Informed Professional (CMIP)!*
As clinicians, you know that not all depression and anxiety can be worked through with talk therapy alone.
Tools such as mindfulness and mind-body approaches can be exactly the skills your clients need to make progress in their therapeutic goals, cultivate their happiness, and enrich their daily lives.
This interactive retreat prepares you to integrate the foundations of mindfulness to address negative thoughts of depression, worrying thoughts of anxiety and thoughts that intensify chronic pain.
Join mindfulness expert and certified yoga therapist, Mary NurrieStearns, MSW, LCSW, C–C–IAYT, E–RYT 500, and a group of your colleagues amongst Sedona’s scenic backdrop and learn how to:
- Incorporate breathing practices and meditation, lead simple yoga movements, and utilize Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) with your individual clients and groups
- Integrate foundations of mindfulness interventions for addressing depression and chronic pain
- Utilize body/mind interventions to treat anxiety and calm the nervous system
- Use EFT for emotional regulation, gentle exposure of emotions and to increase self–acceptance
- Guide clients into present moment awareness and teach them to respond to unworthiness with compassion
Highly experiential, you will practice these interventions while you learn their clinical applications.
This retreat is rich in immersive and interactive mindfulness, meditation, yoga, and mind/body treatment approaches. You will follow a balanced schedule of gentle yoga movement, chanting meditation, clinical teachings, art expression, group discussion, and deep rest and learn how these tools can help you AND your clients.
No Yoga or Mindfulness Experience Needed!
Spots are limited and fill up fast! Secure yours today!
Yoga and Meditation Retreat:
Mindfulness and Mind-Body Approaches for Clinical Practice
Mindfulness and Mind-Body Approaches for Clinical Practice
LIVE in Sedona, Arizona: Tuesday, October 22 – Saturday, October 26, 2024
Single Occupancy: $2,799.00
Plus, earn up to 21 CE Hours — included in your tuition. Click here for Credit details
Don't see your state profession listed? Contact us.
Credit hours may vary by board and profession.
Don't see your state profession listed? Contact us.
Credit hours may vary by board and profession.
And there’s more! The Sedona Mago Retreat Center offers an exquisite landscape, waterfalls, garden walks, and healthful pesco-vegetarian cuisine.
Past participants rave about how wonderful it is to stay at Mago…taking time to unwind, rejuvenate and connect with themselves and their community of colleagues…all at this remarkable place. The daily schedule is designed to allow ample personal time to enjoy the beautiful surroundings and amenities.
By the end of this retreat, you will feel transformed on both a personal and professional level – refreshed, revitalized and confidently equipped with new tools and practices to help your clients.
And all of it backed by our 100% satisfaction guarantee so you have nothing to lose.
Are you ready? Register today and see you in Sedona!
Retreat Schedule
All Times Listed in Local Time
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
4:00–5:00 pm
Check-in
5:30–6:30 pm
Dinner
6:30–8:45 pm
Training*
Wednesday, October 23 – Friday, October 25, 2024
6:30–7:00 am
Chanting Meditation
7:00–8:00 am
Breakfast
9:00–11:00 am
Training*
11:00–12:00 pm
Yoga and Yoga Nidra
12:00–1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00–3:00 pm
Relaxation and Restoration
3:00–5:00 pm
Training*
5:00–5:30 pm
Meditation
5:30–6:30 pm
Dinner
6:30–8:45 pm
Training*
Saturday, October 26, 2024
6:30–7:00 am
Chanting Meditation
7:00–8:00 am
Breakfast
8:15–9:15 am
Closing Circle
9:15–12:00 pm
Check-Out
*CE is awarded during these specified times. Licensing boards require full attendance to the entire retreat, including departure day, to receive any credit for the entire retreat. Please plan travel accordingly.
Who Should Attend?
The target audience includes:
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychotherapists
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Behavioral Health Nurses
- Psychologists
- Addiction Counselors
- Mental Health Professionals
Yoga and Meditation Retreat:
Mindfulness and Mind-Body Approaches for Clinical Practice
Mindfulness and Mind-Body Approaches for Clinical Practice
LIVE in Sedona, Arizona: Tuesday, October 22 – Saturday, October 26, 2024
Single Occupancy: $2,799.00
Plus, earn up to 21 CE Hours — included in your tuition. Click here for Credit details
Don't see your state profession listed? Contact us.
Credit hours may vary by board and profession.
Don't see your state profession listed? Contact us.
Credit hours may vary by board and profession.
Retreat Content
Mindfulness Fundamentals
- Definition & components of mindfulness
- Mindfulness as conscious relationship
- Mindfulness & neuroplasticity
- Mindfulness & cultivating beneficial mind states
Brain Perspective
- Evolutionary model of the brain
- Negativity bias of the brain for survival
- Social brain: causes & conditions
- Default network of the brain
- Placebo & nocebo effect
- Emotional centers of the brain–affiliation, threat, drive
- Nervous system responses to perceived stressors
- Basic neuroscience as psychoeducation
Mindfulness Interventions
- Conscious mind/store consciousness - awareness & choices
- Consumption of thoughts & relationship to thoughts
- Sense of identity & mindfulness – you are more than your thoughts
- Concentration, observation, naming, distancing – application of mindfulness components in treating thoughts associated with depression & anxiety
- Mindfulness & brain training to activate affiliation system of the brain
- Specific mindfulness of breathing practices for depression
- Clinical applications of mindfulness of body, emotions & thoughts
- Accessing beneficial ancestor memories
- Mindfulness communications process for conflict & connection
- Breathing practices, present moment awareness & mindful yoga movements to lessen anxious states of physiological arousal
Importance of Body in Emotional Regulation Skills
- Cultivate client resilience - resourcing & safety
- Utilize window of tolerance to monitor level of client distress & impact of mindfulness & EFT interventions
- Practice breathing practices, body scans & body movement to calm & or wake up nervous system
Utilize Emotional Freedom Techniques for Anxiety
- Protocol of EFT (including tapping points and set–up statements) for affect regulation
- Utilize EFT to approach & expose, versus avoid, emotions
- Utilize EFT to identify emotions in the body as physical sensations
- Utilize EFT to increase client self-acceptance
- Five key components of EFT needed for effective use in affect regulation
- Reinforce therapeutic gains with EFT
Respond to Chronic States of Distress with Compassion
- Utilize compassion to approach, versus avoid, experiences of shame
- Psychoeducation on origins of & identification with shame
- Label shame as innocent misunderstanding of identity
- Four compassion practices to increase self–acceptance & decrease self-rejection
- Effects of self-criticism
- Acknowledge inner critic & specific compassion practices for critical parts of self
- Body awareness & movement to alleviate the physical manifestations of shame
- Reinforce therapeutic gains with self-compassion
Applications of Mindfulness and EFT for Addressing Pain & Overeating
- Primary & secondary causes of pain
- Mindfulness techniques for addressing pain
- EFT for pain, muscular tension, & fear–based thoughts
- Danger in me (DIM) and safety in me (SIM) thoughts & choices
- EFT for urge management & shame of overeating, including exposure & self-acceptance
- The effect of self-criticism on urge management & self–compassion for urge management
Mindfulness & Body/Mind Approaches for Clinical Groups
- Teaching mindful breathing & mindful yoga movement
- Learn EFT protocols for group work
- Utilize body-focused approaches to teach present moment awareness, quiet the mind & soothe emotional distress
Research Limitations & Potential Risks
Yoga and Meditation Retreat:
Mindfulness and Mind-Body Approaches for Clinical Practice
Mindfulness and Mind-Body Approaches for Clinical Practice
LIVE in Sedona, Arizona: Tuesday, October 22 – Saturday, October 26, 2024
Single Occupancy: $2,799.00
Plus, earn up to 21 CE Hours — included in your tuition. Click here for Credit details
Don't see your state profession listed? Contact us.
Credit hours may vary by board and profession.
Don't see your state profession listed? Contact us.
Credit hours may vary by board and profession.
Meet Your Retreat Instructors
Mary NurrieStearns, MSW, LCSW, ACEP–EFT, C–C–IAYT, E–RYT 500, is a licensed clinical social worker with four decades of professional experience. She maintains a virtual counseling practice in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Mary has presented seminars to mental health professionals across the USA since 2006. She has trained extensively in clinical Emotional Freedom Techniques and received ACEP certification. She is a certified trauma–informed yoga therapist, has over 1200 hours of yoga teacher training and has taught yoga classes for twenty years. A long–time student of Thich Nhat Hanh, she was ordained into his Order of Inner Being. Mary is also author of numerous articles on psycho–spiritual growth, co–author of Yoga for Anxiety, Yoga for Emotional Trauma, Yoga Mind, Peaceful Mind and co–editor of Soulful Living. She is the author of Healing Anxiety, Depression and Unworthiness: 78 Brain–changing Mindfulness and Yoga Practice (2018). She, and her husband Rick, have conducted retreats on the transformative, mind–body healing practices of yoga, meditation and self–compassion for over twenty years. She credits mindfulness–based practices for significant healing in her own life.
Click here for information about Mary NurrieStearns
Rick NurrieStearns, a seasoned retreat facilitator, has co–led transformation retreats for twenty years. He has been immersed in consciousness studies, meditation and mindfulness practices for more than four decades. For over 20 years he was involved in publishing transformational books and magazines. He was the publisher of Lotus and Personal Transformation magazines, and co–author of the books Soulful Living, Yoga for Anxiety, Yoga for Emotional Trauma and Yoga Mind, Peaceful Mind. He has trained in clinical Emotional Freedom Techniques. He is a mindfulness student of Thich Nhat Hanh and an ordained member the Order of Interbeing. Rick experiences chronic pain, the result of injuries from an airplane crash in 2009, and was diagnosed with a physically debilitating tick–borne disease in 2014. He relies on mindfulness practices for healing and has learned that you can cultivate happiness and inner peace even when you are hurting.
Click here for information about Mary NurrieStearns
Rick NurrieStearns, a seasoned retreat facilitator, has co–led transformation retreats for twenty years. He has been immersed in consciousness studies, meditation and mindfulness practices for more than four decades. For over 20 years he was involved in publishing transformational books and magazines. He was the publisher of Lotus and Personal Transformation magazines, and co–author of the books Soulful Living, Yoga for Anxiety, Yoga for Emotional Trauma and Yoga Mind, Peaceful Mind. He has trained in clinical Emotional Freedom Techniques. He is a mindfulness student of Thich Nhat Hanh and an ordained member the Order of Interbeing. Rick experiences chronic pain, the result of injuries from an airplane crash in 2009, and was diagnosed with a physically debilitating tick–borne disease in 2014. He relies on mindfulness practices for healing and has learned that you can cultivate happiness and inner peace even when you are hurting.
What does Tuition Include?
- Learn to utilize mindfulness & mind-body approaches to address clients’ depression, anxiety, and more
- Education and experiential guidance in yoga, meditation, EFT, & other techniques
- CMIP Certification Application Fee – A $99.99 value!
- Up to 21 CE Hours, CE certificate, & course manual
- Healing vortexes, meditation areas, & labyrinth
- Peaceful lake & trails – surrounded by magnificent red rock mountains
- Healthful pesco-vegetarian cuisine
- Lodging, with private bathrooms, for duration of your stay
Are you ready to step into the life awaiting you as a Certified Mindfulness-Informed Professional (CMIP)?
Elevate your career with a new certification, and walk away from this training with CMIP as a new credential!
Certification Made Simple
Certification Made Simple
In just three easy steps, you will become a Certified Mindfulness-Informed Professional* (CMIP)!
- Step 1: Attend this retreat!
- Step 2: Complete the CE test.
- Step 3: Submit your application to Evergreen Certifications & we’ll cover the cost of your certification fee (a $99.99 value!)*
That's it! No hidden fees, no catch. Just certification made EASY.
*Professional and clinical standards apply.
Click Here to Learn More About CMIP Certification
We partner with Evergreen Certifications to include certification with some of our products. When you purchase such a product, we may disclose your information to Evergreen Certifications for purposes of providing services directly to you or to contact you regarding relevant offers.
*Professional and clinical standards apply.
Click Here to Learn More About CMIP Certification
We partner with Evergreen Certifications to include certification with some of our products. When you purchase such a product, we may disclose your information to Evergreen Certifications for purposes of providing services directly to you or to contact you regarding relevant offers.
If you’re looking for a place to unwind and reconnect with what’s important, what better environment than one of the most beautiful deserts on the planet?
The Sedona Mago Retreat Center is located in Sedona, Arizona, an area long known for natural healing and spiritual awakening. It is surrounded by red monoliths, Native American ruins, and majestic mountains. Experience the beauty, feel the energy, and awaken your spirit.
Retreat Highlights
- Secluded retreat, offering 173 acres
- Private or shared lodging with private bathrooms
- Healthful pesco-vegetarian cuisine (3 meals daily)
- Beautiful lake surrounded by trees, flowers, aromatic herbs, and many wild birds
- Covered patios, meditation areas & labyrinth
- Healing vortexes - experience healing and deep awakening
- Peaceful trails to enjoy nature
- Awe-inspiring sunrises, sunsets and stargazing
- Direct shuttle service available from Phoenix Sky Harbor (additional fees)
Retreat Location
Sedona Mago Retreat
3500 E Bill Gray Road
Sedona, AZ 86336, USA
Phone: (928) 204-3391
Shuttle Services
Shuttle services are available from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport to Sedona Mago. Please contact AZ Shuttle Select (623-200-2849) or Groome Transportation (928-350-8466) for more information and reservations. Note that transit times may take longer than the geographical distance from the airport. Please review the retreat’s schedule above, inquire regarding transit times with the shuttle services, and plan flights/travel accordingly.
Accessibility
Sedona Mago Retreat Center has been mindfully set in nature – the grounds and roads are a mixture of dirt, gravel, and pavement. The general guest areas are spread out over many acres, so getting to and from various points will require walking moderate distances and traversing stairs and hills. If mobility is a concern, please contact the retreat center before registering with PESI.
Non-Participating Retreat Guests
Sedona Mago is an all-inclusive retreat center. All reservations are per individual, not per room. All individuals staying at the retreat center incur a room and board charge whether or not they are participating in the PESI educational training. If you are considering bringing a guest with you who will not be participating in the PESI educational training, please contact PESI at 800-844-8260.
CE Information
Please review the retreat’s credit information by clicking any of the “Click here for CE credit details” links found above.
PLEASE NOTE: Most licensing boards require full attendance to the entire program to receive any credit.
Please review the retreat’s schedule above and plan your travel accordingly to ensure full attendance to the program.
Health and Safety
Attendees’ health and safety is a top priority for PESI & Sedona Mago Retreat Center. For the most up-to-date health and safety guidelines, click here.
All attendees are advised to purchase travel insurance that includes a cancellation for any reason option to protect your travel plans.
If for any reason you are unable to attend, please contact us immediately:
Email: retreatinfo@pesi.com • Phone: 800-844-8260
Please check with your local government to see what advisories are in place before you travel. All flights are subject to the terms and conditions of your airline carrier’s policy travel plans.
Cancellation Policy
From Purchase Date until September 22, 2024: Cancellation results in a full refund less a $100 administrative fee
From September 23, 2024 until October 22, 2024: Cancellation results in a 50% penalty of the total purchase amount
Yoga and Meditation Retreat:
Mindfulness and Mind-Body Approaches for Clinical Practice
Mindfulness and Mind-Body Approaches for Clinical Practice
LIVE in Sedona, Arizona: Tuesday, October 22 – Saturday, October 26, 2024
Single Occupancy: $2,799.00
Plus, earn up to 21 CE Hours — included in your tuition. Click here for Credit details
Don't see your state profession listed? Contact us.
Credit hours may vary by board and profession.
Don't see your state profession listed? Contact us.
Credit hours may vary by board and profession.