Lead with Love Signature Wilderness Retreat
AUGUST 10TH - AUGUST 13TH
Join Lead with Love Founder, Gina Murdock, Professional Sound Healer and Musician, Elisa Bava, Integrative Medicine Practitioner, Dr. Miles Reid, and a host of other luminaries for three magical days and nights to deeply connect to nature, yourselves and others.
Yoga, Meditation, Self-Inquiry, Sound-Healing + LOVE
A note from the facillitator:
We are so excited to be hosting another Aspen area retreat!!! It has been 5 years and 2 two twin girls since we have gathered together in this magical land. Calling all Lead With Love alumni — COME BACK for a reunion in the Rocky Mountains! Up to 50% of retreat attendees are eligible for full scholarships as a part of our Care For Caregivers (C4C) Program in partnership with CASA of the Ninth. Please consider supporting C4C by becoming a sponsor. Email Gina for details.
MEET YOUR FACILITATORS
Gina Murdock | Writer, Speaker, Yoga + Meditation Teacher, Community Organizer and curator of La dolce vita!
Gina Murdock is an Aspen, Colo. based writer, yoga & meditation teacher, inspirational speaker & community organizer. She is founder of the Aspen Yoga Society, The Aspen City of Wellbeing, Lead with Love, The Love Ninjas and the Mind, Body, Spirit Rx content brand. Gina’s mission is to shift culture from fear to love from the inside out. All of her endeavors are intended to help people thrive and find joy and freedom in mind, body and spirit. Gina and her husband Jerry created and support the Mind, Body, Spirit Series at The Aspen Institute hosting speakers and events to raise consciousness and honor “The Aspen Idea”. Murdock has a Master’s Degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica with a special emphasis on Consciousness, Health, and Healing. Gina is a certified Chopra yoga and meditation teacher as well as a certified Bikram and Vinyasa Flow yoga teacher and retreat guide who teaches internationally. Gina has had the pleasure of teaching yoga to such luminaries as Sir Richard Branson, Dr. Deepak Chopra, Actress Goldie Hawn, Musician Michael Franti and more. She taught yoga on Franti’s Soulshine Tour to hundreds of people, at Wanderlust Festival, Telluride Yoga Festival, Yoga on the Mountain and Yoga in Action Day and Lead with Love Summit in Aspen which she also created. Gina is also a published author and inspirational public speaker known for humor, enthusiasm, authenticity and vulnerability.
Gina is passionate about optimal wellbeing for the planet and people and leading from the heart. Her absolute belief is that we always have a choice and we can choose love when given the tools to create the awareness to do so. Gina is a founding member of Dr. Deepak Chopra’s Self Directed Biological Transformation Initiative and has willingly submitted her body to science to prove the effectiveness of mind/body practices on optimal health! Gina is an active board member of the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES), The Center for Living Peace, The Aspen Brain Institute and CASA of the Ninth as well as an advisor to The Chopra Foundation and CTZNWELL. Gina is a former radio and newspaper journalist and contributor to Origin Magazine and Mantra Yoga and Health Magazine . She continues to write a monthly column for The Aspen Times as well as publish a monthly newsletter for Lead with Love called “Founder’s Letter”. Gina lives by these mantras: “Let the beauty you love, be what you do.” (Rumi); “Be the change you wish to see in the world” (Gandhi); and “WOOO-HOOO!” (Gina)
Elisa Bava | Professional singer and performer, vocal coach, certified sound therapist and yoga teacher
Professional singer and performer, vocal coach, certified sound therapist, 200 hrs yoga teacher, Elisa Bava strongly believes in the healing power of sound and movement.
After 15 years touring all over the world, recording for international djs, signing with Universal Music, taking part in music competitions such as “Eurovision Song Contest”, she’s now devoted to utilizing her voice and her profound connection to music as a healing and transformational tool.
She will guide you through practices that will facilitate release, help you find your voice, ignite your creativity, empower and rebalance your whole system.
From group activities to private sessions, there will be endless possibilities to work with your own sound and vibration with her.
And since she’s spent most of her life on stage, she’s always up for some fun dancing moves and will easily start a party that involves crazy outfits and singalongs! So be ready!
Elisa is also 100% Italian, loves Italian culture, food and wine and will be our first-hand connection to the beautiful Land that will host our retreat.
DR. MILES REID | MASTER OF HEALING AND FOUNDER OF ENERGY LIFE SCIENCES INSTITUTE
An integrative medicine practitioner and mind-body educator, Dr. Miles Reid practices Traditional Chinese Medicine, Functional Medicine, and is also dedicated to the modern application of shamanistic principles.
Miles Reid was born into a family of physicians. Working as a resident after earning his Medical Doctor degree summa cum laude, he became interested in complimentary healing practices, and in understanding the inner workings of the human body and spirit.
Dr. Reid returned to the USA to further his medical education, studying shamanism with the renowned Carlos Castaneda and earning a Masters with highest honors at Yo San University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Dr. Reid is Cofounder of Being Energy®️ and the Energy Life Sciences Institute in Los Angeles, California. He is the clinical director at the Institute and travels internationally to see patients and teach workshops that incorporate movement practices, guided.
Dr. Reid is among those leading the way in the Integrative Energy Movement toward Health, and brings to the world an integrative solution for the dedicated advancement of healing methods and societal wellbeing.
We are also proud to welcome special guest teachers, River Morgan, Jayne Gottlieb and Gretchen Bleiler!
Sample Daily Retreat Schedule
Sunday August 10: Arrival + Check In Day
2:30 - 3:30pm | Check In with Welcome Drink and Snack at Reception
4:30 - 6:00pm | Opening Ceremony with movement/meditation Yoga Tent (Gina + Elisa + Miles)
6:30 - 8:00pm | Dinner
9:00 - 10:00pm | Fire Pit & Intention setting
10:00pm | Quiet time
Monday August 11: Full Day
7:00 - 8:00am | Coffee + Tea in the lodge
8:00 - 10:00am | Yoga, Meditation + Sound in the Yoga Tent (Gina + Elisa)
10:30am | Brunch
11:30am - 2:00pm | Free time: canoe, paddle board, hike, cold plunge + sauna, herb walk, acupuncture, voice coaching, treatments
2:00 - 3:00pm | Workshop 1 (storytelling, voice or meditation) - 2 options
3:30 - 5:30pm | Afternoon Energy Passes* movement + meditation session (Miles)
6:30pm | Dinner
8:00 - 10:00pm | Fire Pit + Storytelling
8:30 - 10:00pm | Ecstatic Dance in Yoga Tent
10:00pm | Quiet time
Tuesday August 12: Full Day
7:00 - 8:00am | Coffee + Tea in the lodge
8:00 - 10:00am | Body ALIVE in the Yoga Tent (Jayne + Gretchen)
10:30am | Brunch
11:30am - 2:00pm | Free time: canoe, paddle board, hike, cold plunge + sauna, herb walk, acupuncture, voice coaching, treatments
2:00 - 3:00pm | Workshop 1 (storytelling, voice or meditation) - 2 options
3:30 - 6:00pm | Afternoon Yoga + meditation + sound + cacao ritual +breathwork (Gina + Elisa + Nicole) Yoga Tent
6:30pm | Dinner in the Aspen Grove
8:00 - 10:00pm | Closing Ceremony + Campfire Singalong
10:00pm | Quiet time
Wednesday August 13: Check Out Day
8:00am | Breakfast
10:00am | Checkout
Retreat Includes:
All programming
24/7 coffee and tea service
All meals, from Dinner Sunday night to breakfast on Wednesday, are included
Stream fed cold plunge tub, sauna, and hot tub
Onsite paddle boarding and canoeing
Onsite hiking
Onsite art walk
