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California is a state located on the west coast of the United States, bordering the Pacific Ocean. California is the most populous state in the United States bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada (E) and across the Colorado River to Arizona (E), Mexico (S).

Retreat Centers with Scheduled Retreats


30778 Highway 18, Running Springs, CA 92382 Phone Number: (888) 678-6637

www.paliretreat.com

info@palimountain.com
Nestled in the tranquil mountains above Lake Arrowhead, our secluded 74-acre resort is surrounded by 2,000 acres of untouched beauty. At Pali Mountain, guests experience the heart and soul of nature firsthand, from clear sunny blue skies by day, to gorgeous sunsets at dusk ending with spectacular star-filled evenings - the ultimate California retreat.
Our facility comfortably accommodates up to 350 guests in either our Grand or Oak rooms. Guests enjoy the majesty of our mountain surroundings at any of our outdoor meeting areas, each situated in its own beautiful setting.

Our facility also features a swimming pool and outdoor spa, endless hiking and jogging trails, numerous sporting fields and courts, a large pond, and an unparalleled menu of exciting activities to choose from.

"This is by far the best retreat facility we've used over the past 4 years!"

Laguna Beach United Methodist




The Glen Ivy Center

25005 Glen Ivy Road
Corona, CA 92883

http://www.glenivy.org/retreat_center.php

glenivycenter@glenivy.org


The Glen Ivy Center provides a unique opportunity for relaxation, rejuvenation and spiritual renewal.
Situated on 60+ acres adjacent to The Glen Ivy Hot Springs Spa and the Cleveland National Forest, this retreat appeals to both the nature lover and the spa lover.
Click here for upcoming events


"Deer Springs preserves the natural environment. Looking out on the forest and hills is relaxing and causes one to reflect on the beauty of God's creation."
UCI student and Visitor
Situated on 40 lush acres in the majestic mountains of Southern California, bordering the San Bernardino National Forest and only minutes from Lake Arrowhead and Big Bear.
At DeerSprings, we are very pleased to welcome our guests to a lovely retreat center, with a fantastic view and untouched beauty.


People of all ages immerse themselves in the quiet beauty of this natural setting.
With 2 furnished mountain cabins and a large meeting room, our accommodations will comfortably suit all your relaxation, recreation and spiritual needs.

Our Cabins: The Cove comfortably sleeps up to 30 people and Whitney sleeps up to 30 as well.

In all seasons, the view is breathtaking!

Our rates are the best, or we'll meet or beat any price!

Info/Reservations: 714-269-3989

or email us at deerspringsretreat@yahoo.com

More details on our website - www.deersprings.com

Retreat Location: 31675 Highway 330, Running Springs, CA 92382


Sunburst Sanctuary
PO Box 2008, Buellton, California 93427

Phone: 805-736-6528 • Toll free: 888-689-0352

sunburstonline.org

ContactUs@SunburstOnline.org


Sunburst Sanctuary encompasses 4,000 acres of natural beauty, pristine meadows and oak-covered hills. The sanctuary is located approximately 40 miles north of Santa Barbara, on California's Central Coast.

You are invited to transform your life...

Immerse yourself...in a private retreat to heal your body, mind and soul. Refresh your spirit in the abundant peace and quiet of our sanctuary.

Experience...group retreats and workshops throughout the year that offer the Sunburst teachings and tools of meditation along with a variety of creative programs, such as Organic Gardening and Farming, Sustainable Living and Sacred Geometry workshops.


"God is alive, and can be felt, known and seen, face to face, right within you."

—Norman Paulsen


Mary & Joseph Retreat Center
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
310-377-4867 x256

jnowinski@maryjoseph.org
www.maryjoseph.org



Welcome to the Mary & Joseph Retreat Center

Join us for some time away from the daily grind ~ step back from the everyday and view your world from a new perspective. On weekdays and weekends, individuals and groups gather at this center on the hill” for a brief respite from their personal cares and worldly pursuits. They find a peaceful, inspirational environment, conducive to thoughtful exploration of both spiritual and temporal matters. At our center you will experience 8 acres of scenic beauty located on a hilltop in on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. We offer meeting rooms, overnight and dining accommodations.

Attend one of our retreats and workshops
Day Programs, Weekend Retreats, Extended Retreats and Ongoing Programs.

At Mary and Joseph Retreat Center we offer a variety of sponsored retreats. These are organized by our Center and we provide presenters. These include themes that are spiritual/religious in nature such as contemplative and scriptural retreats, personal development workshops and retreats, recovery retreats for 12 Step participants and other topics related to faith growth and transformation."

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Peace Awareness Labyrinth & Gardens is a place where people can be in retreat without leaving the city of Los Angeles. Come and walk the hand-carved stone outdoor labyrinth, find peace and quiet in the meditation garden, or chant the names of God in the Sacred Tones Workshop. Visit our Event Calendar
Peace Awareness Labyrinth and Gardens is conveniently located one block south of the 10 Freeway in Los Angeles, between the Crenshaw and Arlington exits. Call or email us for information and registration for events, tours, walking the Labyrinth, and for further directions. For more information about group programs contact Carol Jones, Program Director


Phone: (323) 737-4055 ext. 124
Email: programs@peacelabyrinth.org

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Mercy Center
Burlingame CA
www.mercy-center.org
email
Telephone (650) 340-7474
Mercy Center is known worldwide for its pioneering work in spiritual direction, Taize prayer and East-West meditation. Other popular programs include Centering Prayer training, Men’s Retreats, programs in Spanish and a monthly Speaker Series.
A complete calendar of our offerings can be found at www.mercy-center.org


El Carmelo Retreat House
P.O. Box 446
Redlands, CA 92373

Telephone: (909) 792-1047
E-mail: ElCarmelo@juno.com


A complete calendar of our offerings can be found at www.elcarmelo.org/schedule.html



Spiritual Meditation Retreats

Center: Amphitheatre of the Redwoods At Pema Osel Ling
Link - www.polmountainretreat.com/
City: Santa Cruz, CA
Telephone: 831 761 6266
Retreat Email: events@polmountainretreat.com

Located on 104 acres of redwoods we offer a place of retreat and renewal with Traditional Tibetan practices. Also available for other events.

Our faciilities are available for weekend and weekday destination weddings. We also have options for one-day weddings.

We host a myriad of group events. Once an event has been hosted at Amphitheatre of the Redwoods At Pema Osel Ling they come back year after year.


Anubhuti Meditation & Retreat Center
820 Bel Marin Keys Blvd
Novato, CA 94949

www.anubhutiretreatcenter.org
anubhuti@bkwsu.org


Anubhuti Meditation and Retreat Center provides an environment of spiritual hospitality. We invite people from all walks of life and of all faiths to explore the inner values and strengths that enable them to lead fulfilling and productive lives. We offer weekend residential retreats, workshops, one day retreats, and weekly classes in spiritual awareness, meditation and the practical application of spirituality.

The Retreat Center sits on top of a hill near the San Francisco Bay. Surrounded by protected open space, water and a nature preserve, it has a full 360° degree view. The vistas create a perfect standpoint to see the inner viewpoints within the self. Accommodation at the retreat center is comprised of shared bedrooms set among landscaped gardens with spectacular views of the Bay, Novato creek and the rolling hills of Marin County.

Anubhuti offers a variety of retreats as well as classes, workshops, and programs . Courses in Meditation are offered as well as a variety of workshops and programs.

Topics include Positive Thinking, Stress Free Living, Self Managing Leadership and Self Esteem. Attending one of these offerings provides an opportunity to spend time in the spiritual and tranquil environment of Anubhuti Meditation and Retreat Center and enjoy hearing from experienced meditation teachers.

All the retreats are led by experienced facilitators and teachers of meditation. They give their time freely to help others see the inner changes which are necessary to cultivate a deeper contentment, and a greater joy, in an often chaotic world. Our retreats offer relevant ways for people to explore and understand their own spirituality.

Each retreat is an opportunity to explore the deepest insights into the true nature of our being, review the purpose of our life, and to learn practical methods to sustain calm and clarity in everyday living. Weekend meditation retreats offer a spiritual oasis, while gatherings of specific professional groups are sensitively designed to explore spiritual values and their application in the workplace.


Anubhuti, meaning “to experience,” is located 25 miles north of San Francisco in Marin County. This meditation and retreat center is operated by the Brahma Kumaris.

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www.expandinglight.org l 800-346-5350

Join us at The Expanding Light, situated within Ananda Village, one of the most successful intentional communities in the world - celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2008. Walk our 700 acres in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Enjoy lovingly prepared vegetarian meals in the company of others on retreat, Expanding Light staff and Village residents.

Learn ancient and effective techniques to expand your own sense of harmony and gain an increased sense of God’s loving presence in your own life. People of all faiths and backgrounds are welcome and respected.

Select from a long list of planned programs and events, or fashion your own personal retreat.


Highlighted Retreats

Peace Awareness Labyrinth & Gardens is a place where people can be in retreat without leaving the city of Los Angeles. Come and walk the hand-carved stone outdoor labyrinth, find peace and quiet in the meditation garden, or chant the names of God in the Sacred Tones Workshop.

Peace Awareness Labyrinth & Gardens
3500 West Adams Boulevard,
Los Angeles, CA 90018

www.peacelabyrinth.org

programs@peacelabyrinth.org

(323) 737-4055 ext. 124


  • Weekly Events
    Tours and Labyrinth Walks
    Enjoy the beautiful gardens, walk the labyrinth to relax and let go.
    Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, 11 AM-3 PM, tours starting at
    11, 12, and 2 PM.
    Sundays, 12-4 PM, tours starting every half hour.


Anubhuti Meditation & Retreat Center
820 Bel Marin Keys Blvd
Novato, CA 94949


Aug 13 -15 2010
Cooking for Peace: The Yoga of Food, A Vegetarian Approach to Eating
The Yoga of Food — A Vegetarian Approach to Eating

Vegetarianism is an essential step towards a better society, and people who take time to consider its advantages will be in the company of such thinkers as: Einstein, Socrates, Plato, Thomas Edison, Ben Franklin, Gandhi, Sir Isaac Newton, and Henry David Thoreau. So join us for a weekend of good cooking, and you may leave as one of the leading thinkers of your generation.

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Aug 27 - 29 2010
Choose, Change and Become: A Story of Transformation
for ages 18 - 34

Looking at change as a natural part of transformation: I am on a journey - like a humble caterpillar moving towards its destiny. Although gradual change may seem slow and the climb demanding, my experience and strength are accumulating. Embrace this change by refreshing your perspective of where you are and where the current of life is taking you. Each reflection will move you a step further in your metamorphosis.

T
his the First West Coast Retreat for the young adults in accordance with the East Coast Youth Retreat at Peace Village, New York. You can find more information about this at http://www.choosechangebecome.blogspot.com/

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Sep 10 - 12 2010- The Healing Power of Love

In modern times, we are encouraged to keep going at all costs - rather than allow much needed, inner healing to take its course. Explore the powers that are the source of our well-being, powers that come from inside the self and are of long term benefit: love, happiness, forgiveness, and silence. Unconditional love opens new and unlimited horizons. Happiness helps us surmount the storms and learn life's lessons. The power of forgiveness allows us to create anew. Silence is simplicity - it creates solutions and is the way to the Divine.

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Sep 24 - 26 2010 - Seven Pathways to Happiness

Happiness is an experience we all certainly desire, seek and aspire to, yet, it is an experience that seems often illusive and a rare commodity in a demanding and often negative world. In our retreat, we will explore how we can make happiness more accessible and a more permanent feature in our lives.

We will reveal the illusions that obstruct my path to happiness and understand how to build my road to happiness with seven basic steps. Through meditation we will learn how to harnesses the deep beauty of the inner self, empowering our self confidence, which helps us make sense of our lives.

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Full Calendar here


Veriditas
101 San Antonio Road
Petaluma, CA 94952

phone: 707-283-0373
contact@veriditas.org
www.veriditas.org


Veriditas Presents

An Urban Pilgrimage: Sole to Soul,
Walking the Labyrinth to Quicken the Spirit

Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
July 30-31, 2010

Followed by Labyrinth Facilitator Training with Lauren Artress and Kay Sandor August 1 - 2,

and

Labyrinth Making, A One-Day Workshop with Robert Ferre

August 3, 2010

The Rev. Dr. Lauren Artress, a leading force in the Labyrinth Movement, leads an 'urban retreat'. Through lecture and discussion, small group sharing, networking over meals and walking the labyrinth, the weekend will provide deep reflection to make space for the divine mystery. Both Friday and Saturday, there will be an enchanting evening labyrinth walk and fellowship dinner.

Included are dinners on Friday and Saturday evenings, and private retreat times for journaling, meditation and spiritual nourishment. Join us in the ancient practice of labyrinth walking.

Reservations are required. For group discounts, call the office at 707-283-0373.

Veriditas is a nonprofit organization with the vision of activating and facilitating the transformation of the human spirit. The work of Veriditas centers around the Labyrinth Experience as a personal practice for healing and growth, a tool for community building, an agent for global peace and a metaphor for life.

For further information, go to www.veriditas.org or call 707-283-0373


www.expandinglight.org l 800-346-5350


First-Timers’ Week and Weekend
2-day weekend
June 4 – 6
July 9 – 11
Sep 3 – 5

5-day week
June 13 – 18
Aug 22 – 27

Designed to introduce newcomers to meditation, yoga, and spiritual community. You’ll be amazed at the variety of things you can learn and experience in just one weekend.


July 9 –-11
Flexibility Past 50: Gentle Yoga for Inner and Outer Strength

Do you feel you’re losing flexibility with age? This is an ideal class for you!
This course will give you the encouragement and training to do yoga postures appropriate for your situation: ones that will help you become more flexible, and be suited to your current constitution.
You will learn:

  • Exercises that can be done in a chair
  • How to modify postures to suit them to your own body, taking into account any injuries, physical weakness, or stiffness you currently have
  • Proper alignment for each of the poses, and ways to improve your alignment in what you are currently doing
  • Exercises especially helpful for the lower back
  • Breathing exercises to improve relaxation and increase endurance.


Learn to meditate
2-day weekend
June 4 – 6
July 23 – 25
Aug 20 – 22

Meditation is recommended everywhere these days for the tremendous benefits it can bring, including:

  • Reducing stress and stress-related problems like high blood pressure and insomnia
  • Mental clarity and calmness
  • Spiritual upliftment

    Whether you have tried to meditate and felt that you couldn’t make it work for you, or you have never really given it a good try – we will help you!

    Here, you will learn a marvelously effective breathing technique to help you concentrate the mind. Your meditation class instructor will help you learn to sit comfortably so that your body doesn’t distract you. You’ll discover how best to establish a daily practice of meditation and to experience its benefits in all aspects of your life.

Complete calendar available here


Welcome to Roxanne Howe-Murphy’s DEEP COACHING

http://deepcoaching.com/

www.deepcoachinginstitute.com

www.deepcoachingservices.com

Contact



Integrating the Art, Science and Consciousness of the Enneagram for Embodied Change

The nine-month Deep Coaching Certification Program
with Roxanne Howe-Murphy, Ed.D.
Classes start September 21


This in-depth and pioneering program provides a cohesive framework for integrating the Enneagram into professional practice. You will penetrate into the experience of each dimension of human consciousness illuminated through the Enneagram, learn powerful models for helping your clients dis-identify with the persistent and unhelpful patterns that have substituted for their true nature and support them in experiencing and sustaining higher levels of awareness, effectiveness and fulfillment.

Each element in this nine-month program builds on learning, integrating and embodying Deep Coaching principles, supports your continuing evolution, and brings together a global community of professionals who are committed to awakening and healing on the planet. Refine your skills, learn tools, and deepen your capacity for courageous and compassionate coaching. Ultimately, it is your own journey with presence that allows you to be with your client in the unknown. This program is both profound and practical.

Founded by Roxanne Howe-Murphy, Ed.D., you’ll also learn from veteran coaches, Enneagram pioneers and Deep Coaching Mentors. Roxanne is the author of Deep Coaching, and the soon-to-be published Deep Living.

For more information, contact linda@deepcoaching.com.

For more information, visit our website: http://www.deepcoachinginstitute.com

CEUs: This program offers ICF Continuing Education Credit for coaches and Continuing Education Credit for MFTs and LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.



Contacts: Barnet Bain at www.barnetbain.com
or Connie Miller at connie @souldrama.com

Web Site


Money Talks But it Can’t Love You Back

Money talks but what is it really saying?
What is your relationship with money? Explore the emotional meaning of money and discover your underlying fears and fantasies preventing you from resolving money issues.
I
Do you:

  • Worry that there won’t be enough?
  • Need to resolve money issues?
  • Worry that money isn’t spiritual enough?
  • Have money disorders, compulsive spending and debting?
  • Let money stop you them from having a rewarding career?
  • Afraid to lose it all?
  • Need money to make you look as though you belong?

This workshop will:

  • look at your relationship with money and help you to identify the unconscious meanings money has for you.
  • help you to obtain a balance between the conscious and unconscious ways of seeing money by helping use to build our spiritual intelligence, it is then that we will have have the ability to dissolve old ways of thinking by putting too much emphasis on material capital, while neglecting the important mental and emotional part of human beings.

Workshop begins at 6 Pm on Friday the 14th and ends at 4 PM on Sunday the 16 of January.

Price is $ 525 for 15 Hours. Ce Hours included.
Non refundable deposit is due Dec. 1, 2010 of $200 to hold your place.
Workshop is limited to the first 20 people

More information available here



You Are the Star!
Presented By: Souldrama®

Souldrama in California
with
Bradley Quick, Promoter and Organizer
Reservations at RadioShow@bradleyquick.com

Location: LA Marriott Burbank Airport
www.marriott.com/bur

Dates: Jan 20th- Jan 23rd 2011


Bradley Quick - author, producer, presenter, transformational expert, motivational speaker and host of the Award Winning Self Discovery Radio Talk Show “The Quick Fix with Bradley Quick” based in Los Angeles.

Bradley’s passion in life is to inspire people to find their own purpose, to embrace positive change, and to have more effective relationships. The individuals in his audiences feel more joy and experience transformation, motivation, insight, love and compassion and then are able to take those attributes into their personal and professional lives. That means clarity, peace of mind, self-discovery and an abundant fulfilling inspiration for all attendees.

For years Mr. Quick’s “Self Discovery” radio talk show has carried a message of positive change, self-discovery, motivation and life enhancement. His celebrity guests included Wayne Dyer, Melody Beattie, John Bradshaw (who endorsed Bradley’s book “The Quick Fix”), Guy Finley, Don Miguel Ruiz and many other transformational specialists.

Bradley was inspired through his experience and amazing transformation of body, mind and spirit, to write and speak about his positive change from mental & physical pain, despair, and hopelessness, to self-discovery, recovery and life enhancement.

For reservations contact Bradley at RadioShow@bradleyquick.com

Price: $1,299 includes:

  • total 20 Hours sessions: Sessions to be held Thurs 6-9pm, Fri 9am-1 & 6-9pm, Sat 9am-1 & 6-9pm, Sun 9am-12
  • Special Night Out
  • Reiki Session with Dorothy Lee Donahue is the founder of Energetic Alchemy and Love and Miracles.
  • 3 nights Hotel Room per night (discounted)

www.burbankgoeshollywood.com/video

More information available here



Souldrama®
Awaken Your Higher Purpose!

March 2 -6, 2011
25 CE Hours
Putting Spirituality into Action Training for MFT's, Treatment Centers, Clinicians, and Interventionists in 12 Step Programs

Location: San Damiano Retreat, CA
http://www.sandamiano.org/


The Soul of Recovery Putting the 12 Steps into Action

Resistance or Relapse?
In twelve-step programs, people heal partly through the telling and sharing of their own stories. It is through the sharing of the trauma and pain and the subsequent healing that people form common bonds that unite them. Then, to get beyond that connection of pain, they need to go further by sharing their soulful moments, their hopes, and their dreams. This requires re-establishing a relationship with their creativity and, through their higher awareness, connecting with others on a spiritual level. This workshop will begin to teach your counselor how the new seven stage group action model of Souldrama® can be applied to the process of recovery. Using action methods offers exciting and effective ways to expand and enliven communication, learning, skill building and self- discovery in groups with those in recovery from substance abuse.

Who can use these techniques?
Substance abuse counselors who are helping clients to move through various stages of recovery
The techniques used here can be used for action interventions in groups, with couples, individuals. As clients move from talking about to exploring their problems in action, opportunities arrive to heal the past and clarify the present and to imagine the future. This experiential workshop will offer your counselors.

More information available here



THE ART OF LIVING YOUR DESTINY!

SoulArts Process with Author/Teacher Ronda LaRue, M.S., D.D.
Ojai, California 93023

www.rondalarue.com
OjaiSoulArts.com

ronda@rondalarue.com

805-746-1657


These powerful life-changing retreat intensives invoke Ronda's revoluationary SoulArts process for tapping into and living by one's own inner wisdom and sacred purpose.

Ronda's unique mentoring stye has become internationally recognized for its amazingly gentle, spontaneous, creativily-engaging, and profound life transforming impact in healing lives and relationships to Life! (See testimonials, videos and articles on this site for more...and then take up the courage to follow that still small voice within that calls you Home in your Self!...


Joshua Tree is a sacred place in the High Desert of California. A jewel for those seeking serenity and connection to the Divine. This sacred land is a place of peace and stillness – a place you can disconnect from the world and find the center of your own beingness. Come reconnect, restore and nourish your Spirit on this land of sweeping mountain vistas, cool desert summer nights and warm days. This location is the perfect environment for balancing mind, body and spirit.



P.O. Box 88898
Los Angeles, CA 90009

healyourhunger.com

Tricia@HealYourHunger.com

310-281-8831





The Glen Ivy Center

25005 Glen Ivy Road
Corona, CA 92883

http://www.glenivy.org/retreat_center.php

glenivycenter@glenivy.org


STILLPOINT
A Personal retreat



Mercy Center
Burlingame CA
www.mercy-center.org
email
Telephone (650) 340-7474

  • Centering Prayer: Training and retreats in the tradition of Fr. Thomas Keating



Michael & Raphaelle Tamura
Seraphim at Mt. Shasta


404 N. Mt. Shasta Blvd. #138
Mt. Shasta, CA 96067
www.michaeltamura.com

contact@michaeltamura.com

To Register: Call our office at (530) 926-2650


Michael and Raphaelle Tamura offer unique psychic and spiritual training in many types of teaching formats, including: TeleSeminars, workshops, All-Day Seminars and Retreats.
Click here for our complete calendar of Events


Seeing Who You Really Are Workshop
with Richard Lang

birgitmarion@yahoo.com

www.headless.org


The Headless Way offers you a practical, user-friendly way to see Who you really are. This method was developed by the philosopher Douglas Harding. At the heart of this approach are the Experiments - awareness exercises that guide your attention directly to your deepest identity.


Mary & Joseph Retreat Center
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
310-377-4867 x256

jnowinski@maryjoseph.org
www.maryjoseph.org



Spiritual Meditation Retreats

Amphitheatre of the Redwoods At Pema Osel Ling
Santa Cruz, CA
www.polmountainretreat.com

events@polmountainretreat.com
831 761 6266


Over the years POL has hosted spiritual retreats of all traditions including Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Sufi, Jewish, Taoist, and others. We also host yoga, meditation, chi gong, women’s spiritual gatherings and other New Age events.


Sunburst Sanctuary
PO Box 2008, Buellton, California 93427

Phone: 805-736-6528 • Toll free: 888-689-0352

sunburstonline.org

ContactUs@SunburstOnline.org



"God is alive, and can be felt, known and seen, face to face, right within you."

—Norman Paulsen


For know, all healing comes from within. And the application of vibrations, of medicinal properties, mechanical applications or massages only attune the vibrations of the body in such measures as to awaken them to the divine within. 1198-2

www.caycegoldengate.com

Retreat and Heal LLC

A Safe Place to Heal

(928) 282-5237

www.retreatandheal.com

info@retreatandheal.com


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