The Deep Unwind

A self-led retreat you can begin whenever you're ready

Four sessions of guided inner work to help you come home to yourself, from the comfort and safety of your own home, on your own time. Plus, ongoing monthly Integration Circle Support calls.

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Across four sessions, we'll do something most people don't make time for. We'll look honestly at the version of yourself you've had to become, the one who manages, performs, keeps it all together, and trace it back to where it began.

With curiosity, we will seek to understand it. And then, with care, we will begin the work of coming back to the self underneath.

You choose the pace. Many people keep the sessions close together, with two sessions on each day of a weekend or one session across four evenings.

Session 1: The Split

Understanding the authentic self and the strategic self you learned to become.

Session 2: Your Protectors

Where the strategic self came from, and why it made perfect sense.

Session 3: The Inner Child

Meeting the part that needed protecting, with compassion and warmth.

Session 4: Coming Home

Reparenting, integration, and finding your way back to yourself in daily life.

There is a kind of exhaustion that sleep doesn't touch.

A heaviness underneath the capable, keep-it-all-together version of you that shows up every day. The one who answers the emails, holds the family together, manages everyone's feelings, and quietly puts themself last.

Something in you is asking for more than another week of "getting through it." Something is asking for real rest. For a space where you don't have to manage anything or anyone.

The Deep Unwind is that calm and safe space for this rest, and it's brought directly to you.

Your home is an advantage.

Many people actually go deeper in their own environment when the nervous system recognizes safety in familiar surroundings. No travel stress. No unfamiliar bed. Just you, your space, and the time you set aside for yourself.

Your own sanctuary

Set up your retreat space exactly the way you need it. Bring your blanket, your lighting, your corner of the world. No adjusting to someone else's environment.

No logistics or travel stress

No flights, hotels, or excess expenses. You have already arrived in your space settled. No need to adapt to an unfamiliar environment.

Deeper nervous system access

Your nervous system relaxes more readily in familiar surroundings. The somatic work lands differently, and often more profoundly, when your body feels at home.

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This might be for you if...

You feel like the version of yourself you show the world isn't quite the whole truth of who you are
You hold everything together while feeling like you are falling apart inside
You understand your patterns intellectually but can't get the change to land in your body
You've been meaning to slow down, and you keep putting it off because someone else always needs something first
You've tried therapy, the books, the apps, and something is still stuck
You want to do something meaningful for yourself but need it to be accessible
You're ready for work that reaches the place where the patterns actually live

How the Work is Guided In Each Session

Each session opens with a teaching, then moves into a myofascial release practice and a guided meditation, and closes with journaling prompts to help you take in what came up.

Gentle Myofascial Release to move stored tension from the body and build your awareness of your sensations

Guided Meditation & Hypnosis to drop below the thinking mind into the body, emotions, & subconscious

Somatic Body-Based Practices that bring insight out of your head and into your felt experience, where lasting change actually begins.

Self-Inquiry & Reflection Guided journaling that opens space for genuine insight.

Everything you need and nothing to manage.

Pre-retreat preparation content: Available immediately at registration, including a myofascial release video and a guided meditation to help you arrive before your first session.
Four full retreat sessions: Each one includes a teaching, a myofascial release practice, a guided meditation, and journaling prompts, with Sara guiding you through every step.
Lifetime access: Return to any practice, any session, any moment, whenever you need it.
Live group Integration Circle: Gather with Sara and other participants to bring what emerged forward and ask what you're sitting with.
$347, one-time payment, with lifetime access, continued integration call support.

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What Participants Shared

"I am changed because of the time we spent together at the Deep Unwind. The dynamics of the Protectors gave me valuable insight into how and why I move the way I do in the world. Understanding the process of how the mind splits and works to protect us from pain was really insightful for me. I have never heard it put in the logical steps."

K.L.

"The retreat was just what I needed. I received so much insight about how my childhood has shaped my adult life. You are the only person who has shown slides, or screen formats for what you are saying, and I really enjoy that. I feel it helps me to connect with the message more."

A.W.

"I came into the retreat with a lot of intellectual knowledge but having a lot of trouble getting that information into the body. I feel the meditations in the retreat were really helpful with that. The information you presented was well laid out and made perfect sense and the meditations and myofascial work were both awesome."

A.L.

Your Guide: Sara Raymond

Sara's work sits at the intersection of nervous system science and compassionate self-inquiry. She has guided people out of exhaustion, people-pleasing, and chronic self-doubt, and into a genuine relationship with themselves.

She is the author of You Are Not Broken and the founder of The Mindful Movement, where her voice has reached over 1 million subscribers on YouTube.

Sara is a hypnotherapist and trauma-informed somatic coach, and a Pilates and yoga teacher.

The Deep Unwind began as an in-person retreat. Participants called it one of the most impactful weekends of their lives. This is that experience, brought home to you. If you would love to join Sara in person, you can find upcoming dates on the in-person retreat page.

I created The Deep Unwind because I know what it's like to use busyness as a way of staying on the surface of your own life, and I know what a held space can give you that nothing else reaches. I want to offer that to you from wherever you are, whenever you are ready, with no logistics standing between you and the rest you have been putting off. I would be honored to hold this with you.