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About the Event

About the Retreat

What if this is the year everything shifts? Not through forcing or striving, but through inspired, intentional alignment across every part of your life?

Join us for the New Years Holistic Wellness Reset—a nurturing day retreat designed to help you step into 2026 feeling grounded, motivated, and genuinely supported. This isn’t about quick fixes or unrealistic resolutions; it’s about creating a sustainable foundation for all of who you are.

Throughout the day, you’ll be guided by expert and encouraging facilitators who understand that wellness isn’t one-dimensional. Together, we’ll explore all 8 dimensions of wellbeing: physical, emotional, spiritual, financial, environmental, social, intellectual, and occupational wellness. Whether you’re seeking more energy, clarity with your finances, deeper spiritual connection, or simply a community that “gets it,” this retreat offers an insightful space for your growth.

Why This Retreat Feels Different:

• You’re Seen as Whole: Your wellbeing encompasses so much more than just physical health
• Mission-Centered Facilitators: Learn from professionals who bring both wisdom and genuine passion
• Truly Accessible: At $60 with lunch included, knowledge to grow doesn’t have to strain your budget
• You Belong Here: No matter where you are on your journey, you have a place in this group
• Take It With You: Walk away with actionable practices and insights that serve you all year

Your Wellness Journey

Throughout this informative and inspirational day, we’ll explore:

Financial Wellness – Release anxiety and step into confident, values-aligned relationship with money and discover unknown options available to you

Physical Wellness – Uncover joy-filled, sustainable ways to honor your body

Spiritual Wellness – Reconnect with your deeper purpose and the meaning that guides you

Emotional Wellness – Cultivate resilience, self-compassion, and authentic emotional expression

Environmental Wellness – Create healing spaces that reflect and support your inner peace

Social Wellness – Experience the profound gift of authentic connection and belonging

Intellectual Wellness – Awaken curiosity and embrace perspectives that expand your world

Occupational Wellness – Align your daily work with your deepest values and unique gifts

What You Can Expect

Your day begins at 10 AM at the peaceful San Damiano Retreat. You’ll move through thoughtfully crafted sessions that weave together learning, reflection, and genuine inspiration. Over a nourishing midday meal, you’ll share stories and laughter with fellow seekers. The afternoon brings more discovery, more “aha” moments, and the kind of inspiration that reminds you why you started this journey.

This retreat is calling to you if you’re ready to:

• Honor yourself with dedicated time and attention
• Release the burden of trying to “do it all” and instead embrace wholeness
• Learn from guides who see and celebrate you
• Find your people—a community that supports your growth
• Step into 2026 feeling aligned, inspired, and genuinely hopeful

You don’t need to have everything figured out. You don’t need to be “good at” wellness or finance. You just need to show up with an open heart and a willingness to receive.

Your Seat at the Table Awaits

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Meet Your Facilitators

Samantha T. Marie, CMP, CPT

Samantha Talia Marie is a Certified Holistic Life Coach, Fitness Nutritionist, and licensed financial wellness advisor who has dedicated over a decade to helping people thrive across all dimensions of wellbeing. As the founder of SamTalia Wellness, she combines her wellness expertise with two decades in the events industry to create transformative experiences that honor the whole person. Having navigated her own health challenges, Samantha brings authentic passion and practical wisdom to guiding others—especially women, minorities, and the LGBTQ+ community—toward sustainable wellness and empowered living.

Session: Samantha will open our day together by guiding you through the foundational framework of “Input, Output, & Environment”—a powerful lens for understanding how what we take in, what we express, and where we exist all shape our emotional and mental wellbeing. Through gentle exploration and an interactive worksheet, you’ll discover where you are in your current wellness journey and bring clarity to what you’d like to nurture and grow in 2026. This session sets the intention for our day and too close, will help bring together what you’ll learn and leave with a personalized roadmap for your holistic wellness path ahead.

Joel Barnehama

Joel Barnehama brings over 30 years of entrepreneurial experience across diverse industries, from insurance and freight forwarding to high-tech startups. Throughout his career, he’s developed deep expertise in helping business owners and individuals build sustainable financial success. With an extensive network of strategic partners and a genuine passion for empowering others, Joel specializes in revealing financial tools and strategies that many people don’t know exist—but that can profoundly impact their wealth-building journey.

Session: In this eye-opening session, Joel will introduce you to powerful financial tools you may never have heard of—including universal life products that can help you build wealth, borrow tax-free, and protect yourself in emergencies. You’ll discover practical strategies that go beyond traditional savings, learning how to make your money work harder for you in ways that align with your values and goals. Joel’s approachable style makes complex financial concepts feel accessible and empowering, no matter where you’re starting from.

Tamar Schwartzbart, CPT

Tamar Schwartzbart has spent over twenty years helping people discover joy in movement. As the owner of Workout Spot, her boutique personal training studio, she creates individualized programs that honor each person’s unique body, goals, and abilities. A lifelong dancer with expertise spanning yoga, pilates, strength training, and more, Tamar’s deepest passion is helping others find their own sustainable relationship with physical wellness—one that feels good and lasts a lifetime.

Session: In this gentle, inclusive session, Tamar will guide you through the vital role physical wellness plays in our overall health—honoring that every body is different and worthy of care. You’ll explore how movement can be joyful rather than punishing, and discover simple ways to incorporate it into your daily life. Together, we’ll experience an accessible physical activity designed to energize without overwhelming, perfect for all fitness levels and abilities.

Michelle Ford

Michelle Ford brings over 30 years experience as a Holistic Health Practitioner. To provide help and support to those seeking improved well being is her life’s purpose, privilege, and joy. As a Certified Massage Therapist in practice, Michelle began integrating alternative studies in meditation, sound medicine, and spiritual practices into healing sessions with clients, witnessing noticeable improvements. A whole person approach includes Body, Mind and Spirit/Soul connection for deep healing.

Session: Michelle’s Sacred Sound Medicine Practice invites participants to experience deep spiritual renewal through the healing vibrations of ancient instruments and crystal bowls. The resonant frequencies help quiet the mind, open the heart, and restore energetic balance. This practice nurtures spiritual wellness by reconnecting participants to their inner guidance and the universal flow of life force energy.

Kathryn Chess

As a Nutritionist and Joyful Living Coach, Kathryn is your guide on a heartwarming journey to discover your happiest, healthiest self and unleash the life of your dreams. With an infectious passion for empowering others, she invites you to come home to your heart, renew your passion, and embrace self-love in a way that lights you up from within. She is on a mission to help you “Live a Life You Love” and finally feel completely at ease in your own skin. You can catch Kathryn’s inspiring videos on YouTube at “The Marvelous Midlife Method”.

Session: Kathryn will guide morning and closing experiences designed to “Bring Yourself into Your Body.” Her opening exercise blends breathwork, gentle movement, visualization, and intention-setting to energize, ground, and uplift participants. The closing “Anchor & Activate” practice is a powerful exercise that helps you internalize your retreat experience and carry its energy into daily life, leaving you feeling empowered, connected, and ready to embody your growth.