Awakening the Soul
weekend retreat
Awakening the Soul is a sacred weekend designed to guide you into your highest alignment—releasing the old, embodying your truth, and expanding into new levels of clarity, love, and inner power.
Over two days, you’ll journey through heart-opening ceremony, deep energy work, transformative breathwork, and soulful connection in an intimate group of just 20 participants.
This journey weaves ancient practices and modern healing modalities to open the heart, quiet the mind, and awaken the spirit. Each session is curated to help you release limitations, embody your authentic essence, and connect more deeply with yourself and others.
Day 1 – Saturday, September 6
1:00 PM – Opening Ceremony & Intro Talk
2:00 PM – Soul Activation
3:15 PM – Song of the Soul Reiki Circle
4:45 PM– Snack Break (Orientation for New Arrivals for Pranic Rebirth Journey)
5:15 PM – Pranic Rebirth Journey
7:15 PM – Closing Ceremony & Circle
Day 2 – Sunday, September 7
1:00 PM – Opening Ceremony & Intro Talk
2:00 PM – Sound Healing
2:45 PM – Cacao Ceremony
3:15 PM – Kirtan
4:45 PM– Snack Break (Orientation for New Arrivals for Pranic Rebirth Journey)
5:15 PM – Pranic Rebirth Journey
7:15 PM – Closing Ceremony & Circle
Our Journey
Opening Ceremony & Introduction Talk- We begin by opening the energetic space for the day, inviting everyone into presence and connection. Together, we’ll set intentions—both individually and as a collective—for the transformations we wish to experience. This is a moment to align our hearts, minds, and energy with the retreat’s purpose, to introduce the flow of the day, and to create a unified container where deep healing and authentic connection can unfold.
Soul Activation- this immersive journey invites you into a deeply relaxed, expansive state where the noise of the mind quiets and the voice of your soul becomes clear. Using guided visualization and soul-aligned techniques, you’ll connect with your higher self, release limiting patterns, and awaken the inner wisdom that has always been within you. This activation opens the door to clarity, purpose, and a renewed sense of alignment with the life you are meant to live.
Song of the Soul Reiki Circle- In this healing ceremony and celebration, you’ll be guided through a meditation designed to awaken and uplift the divine power within you, supported by high-vibrational instruments. Each participant will receive Reiki energy healing while being bathed in sacred song, mantras, and rhythmic soundscapes. Reiki is an art of healing in which the practitioner becomes a conduit for the universal life force, helping to restore harmony on physical, mental, and emotional levels. Whether you are seeking deep healing or simply wish to immerse yourself in positive, loving energy, this experience welcomes all.
Pranic Rebirth Journey- A conscious, connected circular breath awakens and activates the energy of your highest self. This transformative journey releases stagnant energy, opens the heart, and aligns you with your deepest truth—inviting clarity, liberation, and inner peace.
Sound Healing- Immerse yourself in harmonic vibrations from crystal bowls, gongs, drums, and chimes. These frequencies balance your energy, dissolve tension, and guide you into a deeply meditative state.
Cacao Ceremony- A sacred heart-opening ceremony honoring cacao—an ancient plant medicine—known for its ability to connect us to our hearts and deepen our intentions. As we sip this sacred elixir, we invite love, gratitude, and connection into the space, opening ourselves to the transformational journey ahead.
Kirtan- is a devotional practice of call-and-response chanting mantra that invites divine energy into our hearts. As voices rise together, a powerful sense of unity, joy, and connection fills the space.
Closing Ceremony & Circle- We complete each day by gently closing the energetic portal we’ve opened together, sealing the work in a space of gratitude and intention. In this sacred closing, you’ll be invited to share reflections, insights, and experiences from the day—witnessed and supported by the group’s loving presence. This integration process helps anchor the transformations you’ve received, allowing them to settle into your body, mind, and spirit, so you leave feeling grounded, connected, and renewed.
How to show up
Arrive with an open mind and an open heart, ready to receive whatever this weekend has to offer. Release expectations and allow yourself to fully surrender to the process, trusting that you are in a safe space to feel, to experience, and to let go.
For some, this may be your first time exploring these types of practices—know that you are supported every step of the way, and that there is the possibility for massive transformation in the shortest amount of time, held in a space of love.
While we highly encourage you to participate in every experience for the deepest impact, you are never pressured to do anything that does not feel right for you. Listen to your body and your heart, and engage at the level that feels safe and authentic.
To help you prepare, we’ll send a detailed email 5 days before the event
Dress comfortably—you’ll be lying down, sitting, and moving at different times throughout the day. Bring a water bottle to stay hydrated, and come as you are, knowing you’ll leave as an expanded, more connected version of yourself.
***We will provide yoga mats, cushions, and blankets***
Our Soul-Led Facilitators
Heal. Grow. Love.
Hardy Patel
Hardeek “Hardy” Patel is a world-renowned intuitive channel, transformational guide, conscious creator of events, program director for retreats, and owner of The Float Place wellness center. He serves as a conduit for profound personal and spiritual awakening. His name, meaning “from the heart,” reflects the essence of how he works — leading others from a place of deep soul connection, unwavering presence, and divine attunement.
For over 12 years, Hardy has been on his own deep healing journey — a path of continuous transformation, growth, and devotion. Having personally navigated alcohol addiction, poor health, and a turbulent inner landscape, he has transmuted these life experiences into embodied wisdom, becoming a living example of what is possible when one surrenders fully to the call of the soul.
His journey has taken him across continents: fasting without food or water in the mountains of Washington, working with sacred plant medicines in Costa Rica, and absorbing yogic wisdom in the sacred lands of Nepal. Along the way, Hardy has integrated a wide range of ancient and modern transformational tools — including rebirthing breathwork, energy work, sound healing, mantra, sensory deprivation (float therapy), fasting, and the newest frequency medicine technologies and devices — to help others activate their own self-healing, awakening, and soul remembrance.
Hardy does not claim to heal; rather, he holds a multidimensional space where individuals reconnect to their own limitless potential, clarity, and purpose. Clients worldwide describe working with Hardy as life-changing — a catalytic return to love, freedom, and the truth of who they really are.
Whether through one-on-one sessions, group immersions, global retreats, or the sanctuary of his wellness center, Hardy offers something rare: the opportunity for massive transformation in the shortest amount of time, held fully in a space of love.
Davey Joe Bonessi
Davey Joe Bonessi is dedicated to serving humanity in every interaction, a devotion that shapes his entire life. Having walked his own healing path and triumphed over mental health challenges, Davey has discovered that the true fruit of life lies within — that deep joy and fulfillment are available to anyone willing to sincerely seek spiritual truth.
As a Reiki Master, 500-hour certified yoga teacher, Thai massage practitioner, and beloved Kirtan leader, Davey offers a rich range of modalities to support others on their spiritual journeys. Whether through meditation, yoga, energy work, or the power of song, he creates spaces for healing, connection, and transformation. Davey is blessed, grateful, and deeply honored to be of service.
Nikita Gohil
Raised in the UK with a rich Indian music lineage, she carries the legacy of sacred sound through voice, mantra, and light language. A Reiki and Sekhem Master, she blends energetic healing, movement, and sensory immersion, creating transformative experiences for individuals and groups around the world.
Her deeper path began over a decade ago—a journey of profound self-inquiry, healing, and transformation. Through life’s challenges, she cultivated the inner strength and wisdom needed to hold safe, expansive space for others. Today, she supports women in reconnecting with their authentic selves—empowering them to feel good in their bodies, honouring their boundaries, and express creatively through business, art, dance, and intuitive living.
Nikita’s work is an invitation to soften and awaken—balancing the inner masculine and feminine, and aligning with one’s truest self. Whether curating sound alchemy for ecstatic dance, leading a women’s circle, or channeling light language transmissions, her presence is a reminder that healing is a return to wholeness—and home to the heart.
Alicia Munian
Alicia Munian is a Guyanese-American healer, hypnotherapist, and certified Quantum Healer through Soul Mastery University who has transformed her own pain into powerful purpose. Her healing journey began in the depths of depression—where the weight of untapped dreams and ancestral pain once silenced her light. But through deep inner work, global travel, and spiritual training, Alicia reclaimed her power and remembered who she truly was.
Now, she holds space for others to do the same.
Blending ancient wisdom with modern techniques, Alicia specializes in subconscious reprogramming, Akashic Records channeling, and transformational hypnotherapy. Her sacred offerings guide clients through emotional clearing, soul remembrance, and energetic rebirth. Every session is a portal—an invitation to journey inward and awaken the truth that already lives within.
Having traveled to over 30 countries before the age of 30, Alicia brings a rich, multicultural lens to her work, honoring the universal language of healing and the deep resonance of story. Whether she’s leading luxury retreats in Costa Rica, expanding her network in Dubai, facilitating past life regressions, or helping entrepreneurs align their business with their soul blueprint, her work is rooted in love, intuition, and remembrance.
She believes healing is not linear—it’s cosmic. And your soul knows the way.
Fairy Hawk
Fairy Hawk is a sacred servant of the Earth and spirit, walking the path of remembrance and liberation. She moves between worlds as a Liberation Activator, Ritual Artist, Yogi, Indigenous Advocate, and Sacred Sacrament Ceremonialist, devoted to helping humanity reconnect with their original divinity.
Rooted in deep listening and ancient wisdom, Fairy Hawk weaves together channeled readings, Reiki, breathwork, Kundalini Yoga, intuitive bodywork, light language transmissions, and ritual art to guide others home to their inner truth. Her work is not about fixing—it's about remembering: reclaiming the parts of ourselves long buried under trauma, systems, and silence.
With fierce love and soft power, she creates brave, sacred spaces where transformation can unfold—where grief is honored, joy is sacred, and every being is seen as holy.
Her mission is clear: to support the awakening of our gifts, not through imitation, but through deep inner activation and embodied remembering. The medicine she carries is ancient, intuitive, and radically alive.
Heilin
Born in the Dominican Republic to a family with deep spiritual roots spanning Taíno, Spanish, and African ancestries, my healing practice honors the beautiful convergence of these cultures while embracing a universal truth: we are energetic beings first and foremost.
My intuitive gifts have been with me since childhood, guiding me in helping myself and others heal. Five years ago, everything shifted when I truly understood the profound importance of spiritual presence as worldly events unfolded and blurred my purpose. This awakening led me to formalize my practice through Reiki training over the past two years, earning certifications in Usui Ryoho Reiki I, Reiki II, and Shamanic Reiki Master.
Beyond traditional Reiki, I connect with individuals' energetic channels to deliver messages from, and to, their spiritual ensemble—guides, power animals, ancestors, and archangels. Each session is a collaborative journey where we work together through the power of breath, intentional presence, and direct spiritual communication.
My purpose is to help you better understand your energetic self, create pathways out of hidden and unhelpful patterns, and foster a renewed connection to your divine purpose. I am deeply honored to witness clients as they meet themselves authentically, cultivate divine courage, and share their unique light with the world.