Stress to Strength Retreat: A 5-day Mind-Body Journey

An immersive, science-backed journey to find the roots of your stress and retrain your mind and body to live with greater freedom and alignment

23 - 27 April, 2025 in Ubud, Bali

Limited to 8 seats

Who this is for —

  • High-achieving perfectionists, overworkers, and overthinkers — you’re constantly pushing yourself to the limit, but it’s taking a toll on your mental and physical health.

  • Self-reliant individuals that struggle to trust others — you find it hard to let go and rely on others, leading to isolation and emotional strain.

  • People who notice growing irritability and reactivity toward loved ones and colleagues — your stress levels are affecting your relationships, causing you to act in ways you later regret.

  • Folks who power through pain, tension, insomnia, gut issues, and other physical problems that don't seem to have a medical cause — despite your best efforts, your body is signaling that something deeper needs attention.

What you’ll be leaving Bali with —

  • Greater awareness of your beliefs and thinking patterns, and insight into where they come from and how they influence your life.

  • A deeper understanding of your body’s signals, including how stress manifests and is stored within your body.

  • A renewed connection to your true self, with clarity on your values and life purpose.

  • A release of deeply held stress and tension—mental, emotional, and physical.

  • Practical tools and techniques to manage stress and improve your wellbeing, equipping you to maintain balance and resilience long after the retreat.

You can expect to experience and engage in trauma-informed therapy & coaching (both in group and one-on-one settings), nervous system mapping, inner child work, somatic experiencing, breathwork & yoga, personalized spa treatments, and mindful, nourishing meals, all prepared, led, and facilitated by Amanda and the BeingSattvaa team.

What’s included —

  • 4 restful nights in a private villa at the BeingSattvaa retreat center in Ubud, Bali

  • 3 one-on-one coaching sessions with Amanda (1 pre-, 1 during, 1 post-retreat)

  • 2 hours of spa treatment at the retreat center

  • Daily yoga and breathwork

  • Learning mind-body theory & physiology

  • Group discussions & coaching

  • Nature & creative healing sessions

  • Daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner (including a welcome dinner on the first day and goodbye brunch on the last day)

  • Airport transfers to and from the retreat center

Your investment —

Single occupancy price: USD 2,270 per person (Early bird: USD 2,070)

Double occupancy price (you and a friend/family member/colleague): USD 1,930 per person (Early bird: USD 1,730)

Early bird closes 10 January, 2025. Retreat limited to 8 seats.

Meet Amanda, Your Guide on This Journey

I’m an Integrative Mind-Body Therapist, — I combine my experience as a Psychologist and Life Coach to help clients worldwide transform stress into strength. Through a unique blend of psychoeducation, trauma-informed therapy, positive psychology, and performance-oriented coaching, I guide high-achieving individuals, self-reliant leaders, and those facing chronic stress or emotional strain toward greater awareness and healing across the mind, heart, and body.

Together, we identify and retrain unhealthy—but default—patterns in thinking, emotion, and behavior to build resilience and create real and lasting shifts in your day-to-day life.

Meet BeingSattvaa, Our Retreat Venue

For this retreat, I’m partnering with BeingSattvaa, an integrated and healing sanctuary that focuses on one thing – You.

BeingSattvaa is an exclusive retreat center of 15 Balinese garden villas where you can reconnect with yourself, nature, and friends.

The center is thoughtfully designed to enable a refreshing routine of yoga, meditation, spa, swims, nature walks, and treks to hidden canyons, rivers, waterfalls, villages, and temples.

Equally, it will be a feast for your senses, with menus that feature nutritionally balanced Asian and Western vegetarian and vegan cuisine delicately flavored with fresh produce from our garden.

Join Us.

Turn your stress to strength, and go home empowered.

  • “My time with Amanda has been a life-changing experience. Though her program is short and contained, Amanda's ability to ask the important questions and her natural empathy and understanding provided the safe space I needed to get to the heart of what mattered to me. I’ve become more aware of triggers to my mood and overall wellbeing, and have developed an appreciation for how moments in my childhood have shaped me today. Because of this, I can be a lot more thoughtful in my decision making, and more apt to take care of myself first and foremost, something I subconsciously neglect to do at times. Anyone looking for a down-to-earth, kind and empathetic therapist can't find a better choice than Amanda.”

    - C.M.

  • “Amanda’s structure of therapy, where theory is applied to my experiences, has been educational and eye-opening. For someone who’s been naturally turning to self-help books for a long time, this is a comforting logic to build into my first experience with therapy. I feel a genuine sense of progress after every session. Amanda somehow manages to use very few words and gentle prompts to encourage me to flow from my heart and mind. In the end, it feels like I’ve managed to do a structured self-reflection without feeling stressed talking about heavy things.”

    - D.L.

  • “What I loved about Amanda's process was her focus on self-discovery. She never told me what to think or do, but asked the right questions to helped me arrive at conclusions I had personal conviction over. Every session was action-oriented - we would always end with clear next steps on what I would do differently, and we'd begin the next session checking in on my progress. Definitely a highlight of an extremely chaotic and uncertain year, and I would recommend Amanda to anyone who's seeking change and clarity in their life.”

    - L.T.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Here’s a sample agenda:

    • 7:00 AM - Morning Mindfulness & Flow

    • 8:30 AM - Breakfast

    • 9:30 AM - Morning Learning Session & Discussion (e.g., Polyvagal Theory - How our Nervous Systems Influence our Emotions & Behavior)

    • 11:00 AM - Yoga Nidra

    • 12:00 PM - Lunch

    • 1:00 PM - Spa / Relaxation / One-on-one Coaching with Amanda

    • 5:00 PM - Creative Healing Session (e.g., Blackout Poetry)

    • 6:30 PM - Dinner

    • 8:00 PM - Evening Wind Down & Reflections

  • These are trauma-informed approaches to therapy that help us understand how our bodies and histories influence our present challenges.

    • Nervous System Mapping: This process helps you recognize how your nervous system responds to perceived threats or feelings of safety. By identifying your unique patterns of activation and calm, you can develop tailored techniques to effectively regulate and manage stress responses.

    • Inner Child Work: Inner child work explores past experiences and unmet needs from childhood that—perhaps unknowingly—still affect you in the present. By acknowledging and nurturing these parts of yourself, you can heal old wounds and build healthier emotional patterns.

    • Somatic Experiencing: Somatic experiencing is a body-based approach to trauma recovery. It works by helping you release tension and stress held in the body, supporting a gradual process of restoring balance to the nervous system and promoting a sense of calm and resilience.

  • We recommend arriving in Bali by the afternoon of April 23rd to allow time to settle in before our welcome dinner that evening.

    The retreat officially concludes with a goodbye brunch on April 27th, so feel free to plan your departure anytime after that.

  • We will send across a request for a USD 250 deposit payment right after you sign up. We recommend paying this deposit as soon as possible as your spot in the retreat will only be confirmed once payment is received.

    One month before the retreat date, we’ll be in touch with you regarding the balance payment.