READING, PA

LOCATION: hOMe PYM Retreat Center

TIMES: Friday 6-8 pm

Saturday 10-6:00

Sunday 10-5:00

Let’s talk about what too few people  in the world of modern day awakening want to say out loud…

If you’ve ever left a spiritual community feeling smaller than when you arrived, handed over your power to a teacher who turned out to be anything but enlightened, or found yourself defending someone’s “divine” behavior that — let’s be real — would be a red flag anywhere else, this retreat is for you.

This is an educational and restorative immersion for people who have had less than favorable experiences with spiritual groups, self-appointed gurus, self-appointed higher up than other teachers, and so-called experts — including folks teaching within long established spiritual traditions.

And also? This is for people who are willing to look honestly at the ways they’ve participated in their own confusion.

Because here’s the thing: it goes both ways.
When you’re being bullshitted
There’s a whole psychology behind spiritual manipulation — and it doesn’t always look like a cult. Sometimes it’s subtle. Often times we’re reminded how much free will we have and that “it’s not a cult.”
A teacher who keeps you just dependent enough to keep coming back. An organization whose love-bombing turns to shame the moment you ask a real question. Charisma weaponized as authority. We’ll look at both unconscious and conscious manipulation — the teacher who genuinely believes their own hype, and the one who knows exactly what they’re doing — so you can recognize the difference between genuine transmission and a well-dressed power trip and also understand that someone can transmit powerful spiritual truths while being incredibly
Psychologically unwell. Both, ironically, can exist at the same time.

When you’re bullshitting yourself
This one’s harder to talk about — and more important. Spiritual bypassing. Gaslighting your own gut because the framework you’ve been handed sounds more evolved than your actual feelings and everyone else is doing it. Assigning cosmic meaning to things that just… don’t deserve that level of intentionality. Staying in something that isn’t working because leaving feels unspiritual or you keep questioning if you just don’t get it. We’ll explore how our very real longing for meaning can sometimes make us the most willing participants in our own confusion — and how to find our way back to ourselves without throwing the whole spiritual baby out with the bathwater.

Reclaiming your own truth
The goal here isn’t cynicism. It’s clarity. We’ll work with grounded, embodied practices to help you reconnect with your own knowing — the kind that lives in your body, not just your beliefs. For some people, that means stepping away from a path that they have outgrown. For others, it means going deeper into a tradition they’d started to abandon — this time on solid ground, with eyes open and their own authority intact.

Honest. Human. Deep. Healing. And yes —  irreverent. Because sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do is call it what it is.

Early Bird Discount $599 (Ends October 27th)

Full Price of $699 thereafter

If you have trouble checking out, or want to pay through Venmo send an email to info@carolineculverhouse.com