Couples Retreat in Mt. Shasta

Create extraordinary love. Learn communication skills, conflict resolution, and visioning. Create more safety, passion, and transparency in your relationship. Thrive as a couple.

October 9 - 11

There comes a passage in many committed relationships when something new is asking to emerge.

Sometimes it shows up as tension, as repeating patterns,
as an invitation, or perhaps an intuition that more is possible.

Are you seeking more connection and aliveness in your relationship?

This couples' experience is designed for couples who feel that edge of possibility and are ready for extraordinary love. It's a dynamic journey for those ready to let go of what's no longer working while opening wide to the new.

Ready to release old patterns and embrace a new season of love and passion?

This retreat is a creatively orchestrated healing and empowering container designed to support real, lasting change in your relationship…a depth of shift that can last a lifetime...a doorway into extraordinary love.

We welcome you to this intimate 3-day in-person retreat at our sanctuary home in Mt. Shasta.

The Power of an Aligned Small Group

You will be part of a small, carefully curated group comprised of up to seven couples. This creates a rare environment. Intimate. Safe. Deeply human.

There is something powerful that happens when aligned couples come together in this way:

• you see yourself, your partner, and your relationship reflected

• you witness others navigating similar terrain and get inspired by their struggles and stories

• you begin to envision what is possible with your partner, with new eyes, new insight, and new skills

Gavin & Joy's seasoned guidance and support invite profound breakthroughs and grounded tools for integration in your day-to-day lives.

Joy and Gavin...are the real deal.

"The program gave me renewed incentive, hope, and belief. What a beautiful and healing way to “see" the possibilities of a genuinely loving long-term relationship. Joy and Gavin are wonderfully transparent...the real deal. Their ability to live what they teach as they guided individuals and the group was authentic and highly effective."

~ Lydia Clark

An Enlivening Experience

Our weekend is designed to be an immersive, experiential, and nourishing program. We create a potent, transformational process that only small-group bonding makes available. This is not curriculum and talking heads; this is a lived experience full of practices and opportunities for you, as a couple, to engage in healing, new awareness, and lasting change.

As facilitators, our style emphasizes creative interaction and self-discovery. You'll be engaging in a rich range of relaxed, guided experiences with your partner.

• Learning and anchoring new communication skills in real time
• Experiencing new levels of connection through playfulness, movement, touch, and presence
• Spending time in nature, Mt Shasta's glorious forests, fresh air, alpine lakes, and expanse
• Participating in shared group experiences and sacred ceremony
• Creating new levels of depth and shared memories that anchor your growth

The Mt. Shasta Couples Retreat provides an opportunity for you to naturally deepen your relationship in the heart and body, reaching new levels of intimacy you've been yearning for.

Your Investment

$2,000 total cost per couple, which includes:

Three full days of an in-person immersion retreat.
Delicious, healthy, locally sourced lunches and dinners catered to your needs.
Workshops, nature excursions, group coaching, and body breakthrough healing experiences
All printed workshop resources and tools, and access to The Real Us online video library of ten relationship workshop courses to support your rich integration of our core teachings

Lodging is off-site and not included. We will recommend our favorite locations and support you in your logistical planning! We love our little town and want you to enjoy spending time here.

Payment Plan per couple

$500 x 4

(charged monthly)

Pay In Full per couple

$2,000

(save $250)

Application Process

This experience will be carefully curated, with participation by personal invitation and application only.

Below is a brief questionnaire for you and your partner to complete. This will assist you both in clarifying your intentions for participation. It will also support us in welcoming those couples who are a genuine match for the in-depth small-group experience we are offering.

Apply Here to Join Us

Topics and Themes We'll Explore

We'll be drawing relationship frameworks and practices from The Real Us Workshop Series, including:

Core Dimensions of a Thriving Relationship - assessing where you are individually and as a couple, identifying both strengths and opportunities for growth for each partner
Heartfelt Communication - facilitating new levels of reflective listening with empathy and presence, emotional awareness, skillful relationship repairing, and anchoring the skill of sharing with love and truth
Safety, Trust, and Transparency - understanding how to create a relational field where honesty, vulnerability, connection, and teamwork can thrive
Bringing Your "A Game" to Relationship - a wide range of fundamental practices for everyday living, including appreciations, affection, apologies, assurance, and more
Embodied Intimacy - exploring nuances of closeness, alchemy, and connection through the body senses, mutual consent, and without pressure or performance
Masculine and Feminine Dynamics - each partner will be consciously evolving these natural, complementary energies within, opening to a deeper understanding of relational polarity and balanced integration

Creating the Next Season of Your Life Together

One of the most meaningful elements of this experience is the opportunity to consciously reorient your relationship. You will be:

• creating individual and shared visions for your life and relationship
• exploring and expressing your specific desires for greater fulfillment
• mapping areas of growth, goals, and timelines for manifesting your dreams

This visioning activity allows for shared teamwork and next steps as a couple, including nurturing your home, creative expansion, health, lovemaking, adventures, wealth, and more.

Who This Program Is For...

This small group expereince is for couples who:

Love each other deeply and know there is more available
Feel ready to grow, individually and together
Value honesty, emotional maturity, and conscious partnership
Want to move from levels of stagnation into renewed energy and vision
Are experiencing some measure of disconnection, pain, or repeating patterns
Feel open to exploring learning and to be sincere students of love together

You may have been together for three months or thirty-plus years. What matters is not the length of your relationship, but your shared intention and willingness to grow.

Meet Your Guides

We bring together many decades of experience in transformational leadership, spiritual development, and relationship work. We offer our experiences of partnership to the facilitation process, teaching from transparency and lived experience, not theory alone. In our retreats and The Real Us workshops, we openly share our personal journeys as we continue to embrace opportunities to learn and grow as a couple. Together, we hold a space that is grounded, compassionate, honest, and deeply committed to each couple's evolution. It is our joy and nourishment to support couples as they deepen their relational field and come into new levels of aliveness with each other.

Gavin Taylor, MA, MFT

Gavin is a licensed spiritual therapist and couples counselor with over 40 years of professional experience guiding individuals and couples toward new levels of flourishing love in their relationships. With a unique ability to weave profound wisdom with practical tools, Gavin has helped thousands of clients uncover their true potential as they heal and transform their lives.

His work is rooted in the appreciation that relationships are sacred pathways to personal growth and awakening. Gavin’s approach combines intuitive insight, compassionate presence, and a commitment to creating safe spaces for exploration and transformation.

A beloved facilitator, speaker, and author of The Real You: Leading Your Life From Your Authentic Self, Gavin is known for his gentle yet powerful ability to inspire insight and lasting change. His work invites people to live with greater courage, clarity, and joy in their personal and professional lives.

Joy Taylor, LMT

Joy is a transformational leadership coach and soul-somatic integration practitioner whose work is dedicated to helping individuals awaken their gifts and create a life they truly love. With over 30 years of experience in personal growth, professional development, and the healing arts, Joy blends her expertise in body-based wellness, spirituality, and creative expression to guide her clients toward greater connection, confidence, and inner harmony.

Joy’s compassionate presence and heartfelt wisdom create a nurturing environment where individuals and couples can explore their vulnerabilities, deepen intimacy, and embrace their emerging truth. Her approach is grounded in the knowing that relationships are a powerful catalyst for awakening and transformation.

An inspiring speaker and author of Inspired: 7 Wisdoms of a Soul-Inspired Life, Joy facilitates women's circles and retreats and enjoys encouraging others to bring their visions to life by sharing their talents and solutions with the world.

Structure of the Experience

We'll gather Friday through Sunday with powerful, experiential learning, nature walks, and a relaxed flow allowing space to just "be" with your Beloved.

Friday: 10 am - 8 pm

Saturday: 10 am - 9 pm

Sunday: 10 am - 4 pm

Each day holds a theme and intention, We'll combine workshops with sharing circles, tools, frameworks, and practices you can bring into your relationship. We'll walk, journal, and commune with nature. Some weekend highlights include: developing a shared relationship vision, learning new communication frameworks, understanding your partner's needs, sparking more passion in your relationship, exploring new levels of transparency, and a potent release of the past patterns in a sacred fire ceremony circle.

Our Sacred Renewal Space

Our sanctuary home offers ample room as our central meeting space. We'll enjoy our workshops and meals here, with a sunset-facing patio and a sunrise porch for outdoor dining, plus a large lawn surrounded by majestic views where we can dance, walk barefoot, and be nourished by the fresh air. Share and learn together with plenty of room to relax. Lodging is off-site.