Transformational Retreats
The Intentional Living retreats are designed for people who are done living on the surface.
Each experience brings together leading practitioners, intentional environments, and real transformation so you can reconnect with your body, your relationships, and your direction in life.
The Art of
Intentional Living
The Sovereign Life Experience
Reclaim rhythm, restore connection, & redesign life by choice.
Design a Life That Reflects Who You Truly Are! The Sovereign Life Experience is not a lifestyle workshop but a transformation into conscious living. Designed for visionary people, LAB members, and families who choose to live by design rather than live a life that no longer reflects their deeper values.
This experience invites you to pause and examine the architecture of your life.
- How do you spend your time?
- How do you source your food?
- How do you design your home environment?
- How do you relate to nature, work, and community?
Intentional living is not about withdrawing from society, but about engaging with it from a position of sovereignty.
Who This Is For
This experience is for you if:
• Your success has outpaced your lifestyle congruence
• You crave simplicity without losing ambition
• You want your environment to support your lifestyle vision
• You feel disconnected from nature, rhythm, or community
• You are ready to live by design instead of default
This retreat guides you in consciously redesigning your lifestyle, so your reality reflects your values and you no longer require temporary relief or withdrawal.
Partnership opportunity:
When you feel aligned with the vision, this experience also opens the pathway to become part of our intentional living community, whether as an investor, homestead owner, or long-term steward within the LAB ecosystem.
What You Will Experience
The Sovereign Life Experience blends reflection, practical frameworks, and embodied integration.
You will experience:
• A full lifestyle clarity audit
• Design principles for home, food, and daily rhythm
• Body, mind, and soul recalibration through nature immersion
• Community dialogue around contribution and legacy
• Financial and structural reflection aligned with sovereignty
• Vision mapping for your next chapter of life.
You will not only think differently, but you will also see your life differently.
2-day Program
Day 1: Reconnection & Revelation
You step out of noise and into awareness.
We begin by slowing the pace and examining the current architecture of your life. Through guided reflection and structured dialogue, we identify where your environment, habits, financial structures, and relationships are aligned with your values and where they quietly contradict them.
You will see clearly what drains you, what sustains you, and what no longer belongs in your next chapter. This is where clarity replaces autopilot.
Day 2: Redesign & Commitment
With awareness established, we move into conscious restructuring.
We rebuild your lifestyle architecture, including environment, daily rhythm, nourishment, contribution, and relational dynamics. You will translate insight into structure, aligning your external life with internal truth.
Before you leave, you commit to concrete shifts. Not vague inspiration, but clear decisions. So, you can depart with a practical integration blueprint and defined next steps that anchor sovereignty in daily life.
The Outcome
By the end of this experience, you will:
• Know what stays and what changes
• Have clarity on your ideal rhythm and environment
• Feel grounded instead of overstimulated
• Experience community without dependency
• Design a life that supports love, work, and legacy
You do not leave inspired, you leave connected with a plan.
V.I.P. Seat
For participants who desire deeper integration, the V.I.P. seat includes:
• Private Sovereign Lifestyle Strategy Session
• Personalized integration framework
• 60-day accountability check-in
• Priority placement in future LAB community opportunities
2-days
12 spots + 4 VIP spots
Locations: U.S. & Italy
Dates: TBD
Standard Seat: 6,500$
V.I.P. Seat: 9,500$
Gwen Geerinck
With more than two decades of expertise, Gwen works with high-performing leaders to realign love, life, and legacy, so success enhances presence, passion, and purpose rather than eroding them.
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Chase Costello
Founder of "Ancestor Life" and advocate for ancestral living experiences rooted in health, self-sufficiency, and respect for the land, through field-to-fork education and guided hunting programs. His work reflects a modern return to traditional wisdom, where strength, sustainability, and sovereignty converge.
California Guide License: 1002246
Hunting Immersion
Honor Your Rite of Passage - Learn to Hunt
Ancestor Life Hunting Immersion is not a recreational workshop, but a structured hunting initiation into responsibility, skill, and sovereignty. This immersion is designed for men and women who feel the call to reconnect with the land, understand where food truly comes from, and step into the discipline of ethical harvest.
Part 1: The Hunter Intensive
The Hunter Intensive is a guided journey into the full arc of the hunting experience.
Participants will move through:
• Gear consultation and field preparation
• Understanding terrain and locating big game
• Ethical harvest principles
• Live ungulate harvest ceremony
• Field dressing and pack out
• Wilderness skills and base camp integration
• Closing feast honoring the animal
This experience is not about conquest or ego.
We participate in the cycle of life, not domination of it.
Every step is taught with discipline, safety, and deep respect for life and nature.
Part 2: The Firearms Intensive
The Firearms Intensive develops competence and confidence under expert guidance.
The Training includes:
• Rifle and pistol fundamentals
• Ammunition knowledge
• Safety protocols
• Hunting strategies
• Long-range shooting introduction
This component builds technical skill anchored in responsibility.
Mastery begins with control, awareness, and restraint.
You will leave not only more capable, but more grounded.
Ammunition & Caliber Mastery
This is not a shooting course, but a practical education in how firearms and ammunition function, and how to apply them ethically in the field.
Students learn:
Bullet construction: lead core, bonded, partition, and monolithic copper
Lead-free vs. lead-based performance and California compliance
Terminal ballistics and expansion thresholds
Matching projectile design to animal and distance
We develop caliber consciousness, the ability to confidently select the appropriate cartridge, bullet weight, and platform for the intended use.
The right tool. The right context. No guesswork.
Platforms & Calibers Included
Training includes hands-on experience with modern hunting platforms such as:
Bolt Action: 6.5mm PRC, 7mm PRC
Lever Action: .45-70, .44 Magnum
Pistol: .22 Magnum, 10mm, .44 Magnum
Modern Sporting Rifles: AR-10 and AR-15 platforms
Each platform is used to illustrate practical application, recoil management, ballistic performance, and ethical field considerations.
Real-World Distance Training
Skill is built across practical hunting distances:
15 yards
100–300 yards
500–750 yards
Then training is conducted on professional-grade AR500 steel targetsproviding immediate feedback and reinforcing accountability at a distance.
For many hunters, 500–750 yards exceeds their maximum effective range on game. We train beyond typical hunting distances to strengthen fundamentals so common field shots feel controlled and confident.
Maximum effective range is defined by the shooter’s ability to consistently execute successful shots under realistic hunting conditions. Some experienced shooters, with substantial practice and validated performance, are capable of ethically executing extended-range shots when skill, equipment, and conditions align.
The focus is disciplined judgment, not distance for its own sake.
A Neutral, Inclusive Environment
This program is politically neutral and gender inclusive.
It is grounded in responsibility, safety, and ethical harvest, not party affiliation or identity. It does not discriminate based on gender, race, religion, or background. All participants are held to the same standards of professionalism, accountability, and respect.
We are cultivating proficiency and confidence in modern hunting tools, together.
Eligibility Requirements
Participants must present a valid government-issued photo ID and attest that they are legally permitted to possess firearms under applicable state and federal law.
Safety and lawful participation are non-negotiable.
2 days
10 spots
Location: San Diego, CA
Dates: May 16-17
$3000
Gwen Geerinck
With more than two decades of expertise, Gwen works with high-performing leaders to realign love, life, and legacy, so success enhances presence, passion, and purpose rather than eroding them.
🌀 Lead with Truth, Love & Presence.
Reconnect & Thrive™
Sovereign Leadership Intensive
Redefine Leadership from the Inside Out:
The Reconnect & Thrive™ Leadership Intensive is a structured initiation into sovereign leadership.
This intensive is designed for founders, executives, and LAB members who have built successful careers or businesses and whose lives feel incongruent with their purpose and passions, while longing for greater presence in their lives. When life looks right, the results are there, but the clarity, connection, and deep congruence are missing. This experience guides you back to the source of your emotional mastery and truth.
During the intensive, you will learn how to lead from congruence and authenticity.
Who This Is For
This intensive is for you if:
• You carry responsibility for others and feel the weight of it
• Your success has outgrown your internal alignment
• You make decisions fast but question them later
• You want to lead without burnout
• You are ready to lead from presence, aligned with your core values
This is not entry-level leadership work. This program is designed for those ready to elevate life, love, and legacy.
What You Will Experience
Reconnect & Thrive™ introduces the foundations of sovereignty through body work, mental clarity, and grounded challenges.
You will experience:
• A personal leadership clarity audit
• Emotional mastery and body recalibration ( Kundalini work )
• The Integrity Trinity: Truth, Trust, Tenderness
• Decision-grade clarity processes
• Shadow pattern recognition in leadership
• The transition from performance to presence
This is an experiential retreat, so you will not sit and listen.
This retreat requires you to participate, reflect, and recalibrate, so you can expereince cungruence that lasts longer than the intensive.
3-day Program
This is a 3-day in-person intensive.
Day 1: Reconnection
Identifying where your leadership is fragmented and where you are overcompensating or underdelivering.
Day 2: Truth
Deep clarity work around decisions, relationships, and internal contradictions.
Day 3: Integration.
Rebuilding your leadership operating system around sovereignty and coherence.
The Outcome
By the end of this intensive, you will:
• Know exactly what is misaligned
• Understand your current leadership stage
• Have clarity on your next congruency cut
• Feel grounded instead of stretched
• Lead from choice instead of reaction
You leave with internal authority restored.
Why This Matters?
When leaders are incongruent, organizations fracture.
When they are coherent, culture stabilizes.
Reconnect & Thrive™ is the gateway into deeper pathways and longer sovereign mentorship containers.
This intensive is where clarity becomes congruent with who you are.
V.I.P. Seat:
Includes:
– Everything in Standard
– Private 90-minute Clarity Booster™ before or after
– Priority hot seat
– Private evening experiences during the retreat
– Direct integration call 30 days after
3-days
12 spots + 4 VIP spots
Locations: Italy, Sora - Province of Frosinone
Dates: September 11-13
Standard Seat: €8,500
V.I.P. Seat: €12,500
Gwen Geerinck
With more than two decades of expertise, Gwen works with high-performing leaders to realign love, life, and legacy, so success enhances presence, passion, and purpose rather than eroding them.
🌀 Lead with Truth, Love & Presence.
Heather Munnelly
Heather Munnelly is a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner focused on gut health and digestive healing. Her work supports women in moving beyond symptom management, helping them understand their body, restore balance, and reconnect with a way of living that feels clear, grounded, and sustainable.
When your gut is getting in the way of your life!
The Gut Reset
Your Radiant Body
This Retreat is designed for women who feel held back by bloating, fatigue, food confusion, and unpredictable energy. In a calm and supportive environment, you will learn how your digestion, nervous system, and daily rhythm work together, and what your body has been asking from you all along.
This is where healing becomes something you feel, not something you chase.
Understanding Your Body
This is where you begin to understand your body in a different way.
You will start by slowing down and reconnecting with your body.
Through guided sessions, you will begin to understand what may be driving your symptoms, how your digestion actually works, and why previous approaches may not have created lasting change.
This is where confusion starts to clear and your body begins to make sense again.
Nourishment & Gut Support
When food becomes simple again.
You will learn how to support your body with nourishment that works for you, without extreme rules or overwhelm. Through gut-friendly meals and practical guidance, you will experience how your body responds when it is supported instead of restricted.
This is where you stop guessing and start responding.
Detox & Digestive Balance
Your body already knows how to detox and restore. It just needs the right conditions.
You will learn how detox pathways, digestion, and daily habits influence how you feel, and how to support these systems in a way that is sustainable and grounded.
This is not about pushing your body. It is about working with it.
Nervous System & Regulation
Healing does not happen when your body is in constant stress.
This part of the retreat focuses on calming the nervous system so your body can shift out of survival mode. Through simple, supportive practices, you will experience what it feels like when your system begins to regulate, and your body can finally soften.
Let the real change begin.
Integration & Daily Life
This is where everything comes together.
You will leave with a clear understanding of what your body needs and how to support it in your daily life. No complicated protocols, just practical next steps that feel aligned and sustainable.
This is where you take your body and your energy back into your life with clarity.
A Safe & Supportive Environment
This retreat is designed to feel calm, personal, and supportive.
You are not judged, rushed, or overwhelmed. You are guided, supported, and given space to reconnect with yourself in a way that feels natural and grounded.
This is not about perfection.
This is about feeling at home in your body again.
2 days
10 spots
Location: San Diego, CA
Dates: TBD
$5000
Gwen Geerinck
Gwen brings over two decades of experience in working with the body, energy, and human connection, guiding people back into alignment with themselves, their relationships, and the way they live.
🌀 Lead with Truth, Love & Presence.
The Experiential
Gioia Retreat
Beyond Traditional Luxury
This experience is intentionally simple.
You will not find polished luxury or curated perfection. You will find real spaces, natural surroundings, and a way of life connected to the land.
The comfort here comes from space, silence, nature, and the rhythm of each day.
The focus is not on how things look, but on how you feel. The refinement of this experience lives in what cannot be manufactured, the food you prepare, the land you walk, the body you reconnect with, and the pace you return to.
If you are looking for polished luxury, this is not the place.
If you are looking for something real, grounded, and deeply felt, you will recognize the value of what is here.
Who This Is For
This intensive is for you if:
• You carry responsibility for others and feel the weight of it
• Your success has outgrown your internal alignment
• You make decisions fast but question them later
• You want to lead without burnout
• You are ready to lead from presence, aligned with your core values
This is not entry-level leadership work. This program is designed for those ready to elevate life, love, and legacy.
What You Will Experience
Reconnect & Thrive™ introduces the foundations of sovereignty through body work, mental clarity, and grounded challenges.
You will experience:
• A personal leadership clarity audit
• Emotional mastery and body recalibration ( Kundalini work )
• The Integrity Trinity: Truth, Trust, Tenderness
• Decision-grade clarity processes
• Shadow pattern recognition in leadership
• The transition from performance to presence
This is an experiential retreat, so you will not sit and listen.
This retreat requires you to participate, reflect, and recalibrate, so you can expereince cungruence that lasts longer than the intensive.
5-day Program
5-DAY EXPERIENCE FLOW
This is about immersion and reset.
You touch everything once, in a natural way.
Day 1 – Arrival & Landing
Arrival, welcome, settling into the space
Light movement or grounding session
Shared dinner
The body starts to slow down
Day 2 – Nature & Body
Morning yoga or breathwork
Guided hike through the forest or mountains
Afternoon bodywork workshop with Gwen
Evening shared meal
You reconnect with your body and the land
Day 3 – Culture & Creation
Morning movement
Pasta or cheese-making workshop
Village walk and exploration
Optional massage or rest
Evening shared meal
Freestyle activity
You are not observing local life, you are part of it, working with your hands, moving with your body, and fully present in what you are doing.
Day 4 – Deep Nature Experience
Longer hike to the waterfall
Time in water and nature
Afternoon integration or bodywork session
Evening slow dinner
This is where the reset happens
Day 5 – Closing & Integration
Morning practice
Slow breakfast
Closing moment
You leave feeling different, and for those who stay, a freestyle experience opportunity.
10-day Program
Day 6 – Land & Rhythm
Morning movement
Return to the land of harvest, and walk through olive orchards and vineyards, experiencing how the land is cultivated and cared for.
Afternoon "Visit and Tasting": Discover the history and experience in biodynamic agriculture.
Evening shared meal
You move with the rhythm instead of following it.
Day 7 – Body & Practice
Morning practice
Extended bodywork and massage workshop with Gwen
Afternoon: Practice giving and receiving
Evening shared meal
Your sensitivity and awareness deepen, all practices are done fully clothed in a comfortable and respectful setting.
Day 8 – Exploration & Choice
Morning movement
Open day to explore nature, Discovering Pescosolido by E-Bike or
Optional guided activity or session
Evening shared meal
You choose how you spend your day
Day 9 – Space & Stillness
Light morning movement
Horseback ride with aperitif at the high-altitude refuge
Free flow for the rest of the day, time to rest, be in nature, or take space for Evening shared meal and a closing bonfire together
Everything settles without effort
Day 10 – Closing & Departure
Morning practice
Shared breakfast & closing experience
Departure
You leave grounded, clear, and connected (2pm CET)
The Outcome
By the end of your time here, you will:
• Feel more at ease in your body
• Move at a slower, more natural pace
• Feel more connected to nature and your surroundings
• Experience food, touch, and daily life with more awareness
• Have space in your mind instead of constant input
You leave feeling rested, clear, and connected to yourself.
5-10-days
12 spots Experience / 8 spots Immersion
Locations: Italy, Sora - Province of Frosinone
Dates: September 18-27
5-day Experience: €6.500, all inclusive
10-day Immersion: €9.500, all inclusive
Gwen Geerinck
Gwen brings over two decades of experience in working with the body, energy, and human connection, guiding people back into alignment with themselves, their relationships, and the way they live.
🌀 Lead with Truth, Love & Presence.
