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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?
The Real Us in-depth immersion experience is designed for couples who feel that edge of possibility and are ready to respond to it. It's a dynamic 4-month journey for those ready to let go of what's no longer working while opening wide to the new.
  What is the Couples Immersion?
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A creatively orchestrated four-month journey, a healing and empowering container designed to support real, lasting change in your relationship…a depth of shift that can last a lifetime.
We begin with a 3-day in-person immersion retreat at our sanctuary home in Mt. Shasta. From there, we continue the gatherings for 3 additional months to integrate new levels of skillful, loving intimacy. Each of these subsequent months includes a 4-hour online gathering and a private online couples therapy session with Gavin. This potent container becomes, in effect, a four-month, 24/7 dynamic learning laboratory, personally tailored to strengthening each couple’s unique relationship.
The Power of an Aligned Small Group
You will be part of a small, carefully curated group comprised of five 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
• you are moved and inspired by what is possible
Gavin & Joy's seasoned guidance and sustained support invite profound breakthroughs and grounded integration in each couple’s day-to-day lives. This 4-month sacred group process affords new levels of communication skills, safety, stability, and relationship intimacy well beyond what has been experienced previously—into a more mature love designed to endure.
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
The in-person opening weekend is designed to be an immersive, experiential, and deeply nourishing launch to the program. We create a potent, transformational process that only small-group bonding makes available.Â
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 ceremonies
• Creating new levels of depth and shared memories that anchor your growth
The entire 4-month program provides an opportunity for you to naturally allow your relationship to deepen in the heart and body, reaching new levels of intimacy they've been yearning for.
Your Investment
$6,000 total cost per couple, which includes:
- Program launch: three full days in-person immersion retreat in Mt Shasta with catered lunches and dinnersÂ
- Three monthly 4-hour online group workshop sessions to facilitate grounded progress and integration
- Three 90-minute private couples therapy sessions with Gavin (one per month, Oct - Dec)
- All printed workshop resources and tools, and access to The Real Us online video library of ten transformational relationship courses to support your rich integration of our core teachingsÂ
 (Lodging for opening in-person weekend retreat is off-site and not included.)
Payment Plan
$1,250 x 4
(charged monthly)
Pay In Full
$4,750
(save $250)
Application Process
This experience will be carefully curated, and participation is by personal invitation and application only.
We will send you a brief questionnaire for you and your partner to complete. This will assist you and your partner to clarify your intentions for participation and support us in accepting those couples who are a genuine match for the in-depth small group experience we are offering.Â
Who This Program Is For...
This small group immersion 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 authentically 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, MFTÂ
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.Â
Structure of the Experience
 MonthTwo:
October
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Online Group Workshop Saturday, October 3rd
1:00 – 5:00 pm PT Â
Private Online 90-minute Couples Therapy Session w/ Gavin (#1)
Month Three:
November
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Online Group Workshop Saturday, November 7thÂ
1:00 – 5:00 pm PTÂ
A Private Online 90-minute Couples Therapy Session w/ Gavin (#2)
Month Four:
December
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Online Group Workshop Saturday, December 5th
1:00 – 5:00 pm PTÂ
Private Online 90-minute Couples Therapy Session w/ Gavin (#3)Â Â
Why a Four-Month Journey?
Real relationship change does not happen in a single weekend. Insight and knowledge are not enough. This dynamic four-month container allows you to:
• Experience meaningful breakthroughs
• Practice new ways of relating
• Return with questions and real-life examples
• Receive ongoing guidance and refinement
• Integrate grounded change and new skills of intimacy in your relationship
It is steady integration of organic growth over time that changes everything. This is the difference between inspiration and transformation.
The couples immersion program is designed to support you in making sustained, lifelong changes in your relationship—to step into new levels of fulfilling, mature intimacy from which there is no turning back.
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 Gavin & Joy and four other couples in this temple environment, with plenty of room to relax and gather. Lodging is off-site.
“Witnessing Joy & Gavin’s authentic adoration for one another modeled how a high vibration relationship can flow with genuine honesty, grace, and playfulness.”
~ Ara Pomarico
FAQ's
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What do you mean by intimacy?
What if we like to keep our relationship issues private?
We’ve only been together a short time. Is this for us?
Is this open to all sexual orientation couples?
How is Mt. Shasta part of the experience?
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