Fall Retreat
Deeply Alive: A Being Space Retreat
Enrollment open now and space is limited, scroll down to reserve your room.
Return to yourself.
Movement, nature, rest, and shared presence.
Hudson Valley • October 8–11, 2026
Thur, Oct. 8th — Sun, Oct. 11th
with Tracee Kafer and Jess Linick, PhD
Hudson Valley, New York
The Fall Being Space Retreat is an invitation into a slower, deeper meeting with yourself, others, and the living moment.
Through movement, somatic and relational practices, spacious inquiry, stillness, creativity, nature, and shared experience, we create space to listen for what is present beneath the noise of everyday life — and to gently reconnect with the parts of ourselves that long to breathe, move, feel, and belong.
Held by experienced facilitators within an intimate group setting, this retreat is intentionally designed to support nourishment, reflection, connection, and aliveness. Rather than focusing on performance, productivity, or self-improvement, we orient toward presence — toward what emerges when there is enough space to soften, notice, and be with what is here.
There will be space to move.
Space to pause.
Space to feel.
Space to be witnessed.
And space to simply exist without needing to become anything else.Together, we’ll explore what it means to become more deeply alive.
“I lived my most empathetic and authentic life that week.” - Cheryl
Reclaim your life force.
Return what isn’t yours to carry.
Meet who you truly are beneath the rush, pressure, and expectation.
Our Days Together…
…will include guided Being Space sessions, movement explorations, opportunities for rest and integration, shared meals, time in nature, and moments of both solitude and community. The retreat is held within the quiet beauty of the Hudson Valley — surrounded by rolling farmland, trees, birdsong, open sky, and the rhythms of the natural world.
This experience may especially support those moving through periods of transition, expansion, uncertainty, grief, emergence, creative awakening, or the simple longing to come back into deeper contact with themselves.
Questions We’ll Sit With
What does it feel like to truly arrive in yourself?
What begins to shift when there is enough space to slow down and listen?
What becomes available when you are no longer bracing, performing, or trying to force change?
“Forever changed by this retreat. My soul is lighter. Colors have more vibrancy, sounds have more melodies and rhythms, smells have more intensity and things have more texture. Grateful for the unconditional love and inspiration. Feeling alive.”
- Soul Movement Retreat Attendee
🍂 Picture this…
You wake up slowly.
Coffee in hand, stepping out onto the deck — mist still sitting in the valley.
Birds already gathering at the feeders just beyond the window.
The day begins gently.
Maybe a walk along the butterfly path…
just enough movement to feel yourself arrive.
The kind of space where nothing is rushing you forward.
Inside… a wide open room.
cathedral ceilings, warm wood floors, light pouring in.
A place to move, to rest, to be with what’s here… together.
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Afternoons that stretch.
Conversations that deepen.
Or silence, if that’s what’s needed.
As the sun drops:
Cornhole in the grass, laughter echoing out across the pasture
or swaying in a hammock, doing absolutely nothing.
And later…
slipping into the hot tub under the stars
new friends, warm water, night air,
the kind of exhale that only happens when you’ve truly slowed down.
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This space holds a kind of energy that’s hard to find.
Private land to wander.
Room to be alone and room to be together.
A house that invites gathering without demanding anything from you.
Just 30 minutes from Hudson Metro North Stop (we’ll have options for pickup from the train),
but it feels like you’ve gone much farther.
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This retreat won’t be about anything else but…
Space to arrive.
To listen.
To be in process, in motion, in stillness — as you are.
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If you’re already feeling the pull… you’ll know this is for you.
🛏️ The Rooms
Each room holds a slightly different rhythm of rest.
Some offer more space to spread out.
Some are tucked and quiet.
Some invite shared experience and connection.
All are held within the same home, the same land, the same field we’ll be creating together.
Choose what feels supportive for you. Rooms are first come, first served.
If you’re joining with a friend and would like to share a space, you’re welcome to coordinate and let us know.
The Primary
Private Bedroom: King Bed
Primary 🌿 Currently Available
Cost: $1,250
Food, lodging, and all retreat activities included.
A spacious, sunlit room to land in.
The primary offers a king bed, warm wood floors, and soft natural light that moves through the windows across the day.
A cozy chair by the window invites slow mornings or a moment to yourself between sessions.
At night, soft lamps and layered textiles make it easy to wind down.
This room is for those who want a little more room to breathe — a place to fully arrive, rest, and return to throughout the weekend.
The Pink Room
Private Bedroom: Queen Bed
Pink 🌸 Currently Available
Cost: $1,075
Food, lodging, and all retreat activities included.
Soft, warm, and quietly held.
The Pink Room offers a queen bed and a gentle, intimate feel — a space that invites you to settle in without needing much. Light moves in softly, and the room carries a calm, almost nostalgic stillness.
Just beyond, a small step opens toward the adjoining space, adding a subtle sense of depth while still feeling private and contained.
It’s a beautiful middle ground — not too much, not too little —
a place to rest, reflect, and return to yourself throughout the weekend.
The Yellow Room
Private Bedroom: Double Bed
Yellow 🌼 Currently Available
Cost: $950
Food, lodging, and all retreat activities included.
Warm, simple, and quietly grounding.
The Yellow Room offers a double bed, wide plank wood floors, and soft natural light that gives the space an easy, lived-in feel. There’s a steadiness here — nothing ornate, just a calm place to land.
A small step connects the room to the hallway and bathrooms, creating a gentle sense of openness while still holding your own private corner of the house.
The Nook
Private Bedroom: Single Bed
Nook 🌱 Currently Available
Cost: $900
Food, lodging, and all retreat activities included.
Tucked away, simple, and quietly its own.
The Nook is a smaller private room with a single bed, soft green walls, and a gentle view of the land just outside the window. Light comes in easily, and the space holds a calm, almost secluded feeling.
This room is for someone who appreciates less —
less space to manage, less distraction —
and a quiet place to land fully in themselves.
The Writers Room
Private Bedroom: Double Bed
Writer’s ✍️ Currently Available
Cost: $950
Food, lodging, and all retreat activities included.
Quiet, simple, and made for reflection.
The Writer’s Room offers a double bed, soft green walls, and a calm, contained feeling that invites you inward. Light filters gently through the window, and a small desk space offers a place to write, journal, or simply sit with what’s unfolding.
There’s a stillness here — a kind of quiet that supports integration, not distraction.
This room is for someone who values solitude and reflection,
a space to land at the end of the day and listen a little more closely to themselves.
The Blue Room
Private Bedroom: Double Bed
Blue 🌀 Reserved
Food, lodging, and all retreat activities included.
Cozy, simple, and personal.
The Blue Room offers a double bed, soft light, and warm wood floors that give the space an easy, grounded feel. A small chair and nearby bookshelf add a touch of comfort — a place to sit, read, or unwind at your own pace.
It’s a room that doesn’t ask for much,
but holds you well at the end of a full day.
A steady, comfortable landing place to rest, reset, and return to yourself.
The Shared Room
Communal Bedroom: 2 Queens, 1 Double, and 2 Singles
Shared 🌾 Currently Available
Cost: $800–$825
Food, lodging, and all retreat activities included.
Open, airy, and made for shared experience.
Tucked beneath the sloped ceiling, this room holds a mix of beds and space to settle in together. Light filters in through the windows, and the room carries an easy, communal rhythm — simple, spacious, and quietly connected.
There’s room here for soft conversations at the end of the day, or for slipping into rest alongside others moving through their own process.
This space is for those who feel at ease in shared environments —
who don’t need as much separation, and may even find comfort in being alongside.
A more accessible option, without losing the heart of the experience.
✨ Booking & Payment
To reserve your place in the retreat, simply choose your room above and submit your full payment or $300 non-refundable deposit.
This will secure both your room and your spot within the retreat experience.
🌿 Pay In Full
Receive $50 off your retreat balance when paid in full.
or
🌿 5-Month Payment Plan
The remaining balance will be automatically divided into 5 monthly payments through Stripe autopay.
This option is designed to make the retreat more financially accessible.
🌱 Payment Plan Details
After your deposit, the remaining balance will be charged automatically each month through Stripe.
Approximate monthly payments:
Primary Room → 5 payments of $190
Pink Room → 5 payments of $155
Yellow / Blue / Writer’s Rooms → 5 payments of $130
Nook → 5 payments of $120
Shared Room → 5 payments of $100-105
🌿 About the House
Being Space Retreat will be held in a lovingly restored farmhouse nestled within the rolling farmland of the Hudson Valley, just east of the Catskills.
Surrounded by open pasture, trees, birdsong, and quiet trails, the property offers a slower rhythm — a place to breathe, wander, gather, and reconnect with yourself and the natural world around you.
The house itself blends historic charm with warmth and comfort: wide plank wood floors, cathedral ceilings, hand-hewn beams, soft gathering spaces, and panoramic windows overlooking the land. There are many places to settle in throughout the home — a spacious great room for our sessions and shared practices, a large farmhouse kitchen and dining room for meals together, cozy reading corners, fireplaces, bookshelves, and quiet places to pause between moments of connection.
Outside, the land invites exploration and rest. You might begin the morning with coffee on the back deck, take a walk along the Butterfly Path, spend time beneath the maple trees, or end the evening soaking in the hot tub under the stars.
This retreat lives not only in the sessions themselves,
but in the atmosphere surrounding them —
the softness of the house, the spaciousness of the land, and the feeling of being held by a quieter pace of life.
🛁 The (3 Full) Bathrooms
Like the rest of this historic farmhouse, the bathrooms feel connected to another pace of living — quieter, softer, and a little closer to the feeling of home.
Soft light, vintage details, warm wood floors, and an atmosphere that feels both simple and lovingly kept.
One features a deep soaking tub tucked beneath floral wallpaper and a window overlooking the trees. Others offer bright walk-in showers, soft blue or yellow walls, and clean, calming space.
🏡 The Spaces In Between
Beyond the bedrooms, this historic home offers many places to gather, exhale, wander, and simply be.
Sunlight pours through the windows of the great room and kitchen, warming the wood floors and long tables where we’ll share meals, conversations, and quiet moments together. Cozy corners invite reading, reflection, or an afternoon pause, while open spaces allow room for movement, creativity, and connection.
Throughout the house, there’s a feeling of ease — of being welcomed into a home rather than a venue.
You might find yourself lingering over tea in the morning light, curled into a chair with a book, playing a game with someone new, or listening to the sounds of the house settling into evening.
This retreat lives not only in the sessions themselves,
but in the moments between them.
Meet Your Facilitators
Tracee Kafer
Tracee Kafer is a movement facilitator, space holder, and the creator of Finding Your Freestyle® — an evolving body of work centered around embodiment, creative expression, relational awareness, and authentic self-contact.
With a lifetime immersed in dance and movement and nearly two decades within the world of pole, Tracee’s path has carried her through many identities: student, performer, competitor, teacher, choreographer, explorer, and facilitator. Over time, her work has shifted away from performance and toward presence — toward creating spaces where people can reconnect with themselves beneath conditioning, expectation, productivity, and survival patterns.
For almost 15 years, Tracee has designed and facilitated workshops, retreats, classes, and immersive group experiences that invite people into deeper listening through movement, sensation, imagination, relational inquiry, and nervous-system awareness. Her approach blends structure with spaciousness, honoring both the intelligence of the body and the uniqueness of each person’s process.
In recent years, her work has expanded beyond movement alone to integrate modalities that support deeper self-exploration and embodied transformation, including Family & Systemic Constellations, parts work, somatic practices, archetypal exploration, meditation, and symbolic inquiry.
Since 2020, Tracee has been deeply immersed in the study of Family & Systemic Constellations through multi-year trainings, mentorship, and facilitation labs with teachers including Jane Peterson, PhD, Bill Mannle, LMFT, Leslie Nipps, and Sarah Peyton.
Across all of her work, Tracee is less interested in helping people become “better versions” of themselves, and more interested in creating the conditions for people to become more fully alive inside their own experience.
Her spaces invite curiosity over performance, presence over perfection, and a deeper relationship with the many parts of ourselves that long to move, feel, express, belong, and be seen.
About Jess Linick, PhD
Jess Linick, PhD, SEP, is a clinical psychologist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner®, and facilitator whose work explores the relationship between the body, nervous system, emotion, resonance, and human connection.
For over a decade, Jess has woven together somatic practice, movement, relational inquiry, and psychological understanding to support people in coming into deeper contact with themselves and their lived experience. Her approach is grounded, compassionate, and deeply attuned to the intelligence of the body.
Jess began collaborating with Tracee in 2012 through Finding Your Freestyle, immediately resonating with its experiential and embodied approach. Together, they have since co-created and facilitated retreats, workshops, immersions, and long-form spaces centered around movement, self-inquiry, creativity, and relational exploration.
Her work is informed not only by her clinical background, but by years of lived exploration through movement and embodied practice. Jess brings a calming, thoughtful, and deeply human presence to the spaces she facilitates — helping participants gently slow down, listen inwardly, and reconnect with parts of themselves that often go unheard beneath the pace and pressures of everyday life.
To Jess, this work is not about performance or self-improvement, but about learning how to inhabit ourselves more honestly, more fully, and with greater capacity for presence, feeling, and aliveness.
“This will be an amazing experience for anyone who enjoys self-love/self-care practices and MOVEMENT!!!”
“It quite literally changed my life. If you need a reset, I can’t recommend this enough.”
✨ Is this retreat for me?
This retreat is for you if…
- you long to feel more fully here — in your body, your relationships, your creativity, and your place in this life
- you’re craving inner steadiness, softness, and real connection (with yourself, others, and with something larger)
- you sense there’s a deeper you beneath the noise, the pressure, the comparison, and all the inherited expectations
- you want to move from managing your life to feeling alive in its flow
- you’re ready to release what isn’t yours to carry and step into what is
- you feel the pull to understand where you stand and what’s unfolding next
- you want a place to explore what’s asking you to change, stop, or become — slowly, gently, and with others on a similar path
❌ This may not be the right fit if…
- you’re seeking quick fixes and you’re not open to slowing down, listening inward, or practicing gentler forms of inner work
- you prefer large groups, anonymity, or learning without personal reflection
- you’re looking for therapy or crisis support (this space can complement therapeutic work, but does not replace it)
- you’re not open to being in a relational field — witnessing others and being witnessed in return
💛 What’s Included
This retreat is intentionally intimate and space is limited.
To reserve your place, simply choose and book one of the room options above. Your selected room secures your spot within the retreat experience.
✨ Your retreat investment includes:
3 nights accommodations (October 8–11)
All Being Space sessions, guided experiences, and group practices
Access to the full property — gathering spaces, trails, hot tub, and nature throughout the land
Space for rest, integration, creativity, connection, and quiet reflection
Pickup/dropoff coordination from Hudson Amtrak station at select times
🍞 Food & Meals Included
Breakfast will be self-serve and easygoing each morning, with ingredients provided for you to prepare what feels supportive and nourishing to you — things like eggs, bread, oatmeal, yogurt, fruit, cereal, coffee, tea, and other simple breakfast staples.
Lunches and dinners will be catered, allowing everyone to relax into the rhythm of the retreat without needing to think about cooking or planning meals.
Dietary needs and restrictions can be shared after registration.
We know choosing to step away from everyday life and toward yourself can feel significant.
Our hope is that from the moment you arrive, you feel deeply welcomed, seen, and tended to.
Frequently Asked Questions
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This tranquil, historic home is nestled in the Hudson Valley's rolling farmland just east of the Catskills, about 2.5 hours from NYC, and 40 minutes from Albany Airport.
If you’re driving, you’ll receive the exact address after booking.
If you’re traveling by train, the closest stop is Hudson, NY (Amtrak) — about 30 minutes from the house.
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Yes — we’ll offer pickup and drop-off from the Hudson station at set times.
Closer to the retreat, we’ll coordinate arrivals so we can group pickups where possible.
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The nearest airport is Albany International Airport (ALB), about 40 minutes away.
If you’re flying in, we recommend either renting a car or coordinating a shared ride with others attending.
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Yes.
If you’d like to share a room or coordinate accommodations, just let us (findingyourfreestyle@gmail.com) know when you register and we’ll do our best to place you together.
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You are encouraged to listen to yourself.
While we’ll move through shared experiences together, there is also room for solitude, rest, reflection, and stepping away when needed.
The retreat is designed with spaciousness in mind — not constant stimulation or pressure to perform participation.
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Mornings begin slowly…
Coffee. Breakfast. Quiet. Movement. Time to arrive into yourself and the day.Across our days together, we’ll move through a blend of guided sessions, relational and somatic practices, spacious inquiry, creative exploration, and open time for rest, reflection, nature, or integration.
Some moments may gather us in ritual or shared experience. Others may invite solitude, wandering, conversation, or simply being.
Evenings unfold around shared meals, the hot tub, firelight, laughter, connection, and the softer rhythms that emerge when there is finally enough space to exhale.
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Keep it simple and comfortable.
We recommend:
Clothes you can move and rest in
Layers (fall in the Hudson Valley can shift temps up/down)
A journal + something to write with
Any personal items that help you feel grounded (blanket, object, etc.)
Optional: a book, music, or something you enjoy in your own quiet time
Bedding, towels, and essentials are all provided.
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There will be guided sessions each day, along with open space to rest, reflect, and integrate.
This isn’t a packed schedule —
there’s room to move at your own pace, to participate fully, or to take space when needed. -
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This space is open to a range of experiences and backgrounds.
You’re welcome exactly as you are — whether this is familiar territory or something entirely new.
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Deposits are non-refundable.
If something unexpected arises, you’re welcome to transfer your spot to someone else.
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You’re always welcome to reach out.
This is a more intimate experience, and it’s important that you feel clear and supported in your decision.