Full-bodied Awakening: Unbinding the Nervous System

With Chelsea Muth, PhD, Angelo Dilullo, MD, Victor Bucklew, PhD, Richard Witteman and Gregory Allison

November 2 - 8, 2025

Address: 375 Panterkill Road PO Box 70 Phoenicia, NY 12464 United States

  • Deluxe King – $3,205.40
  • Deluxe Queen – $2,552.00
  • Deluxe Double (Shared Room) – $2,168.60
  • Standard Single - Shared Bath – $2,292.80
  • Standard Double Full - Shared bath (Shared Room) – $2,001.20
  • Standard Double Twin - Shared bath (Shared Room) – $1,878.80
  • Economy Premium Single - Shared Bath – $2,109.20
  • Economy Single - Shared Bath – $1,817.60
  • Economy Double - Shared Bath (Shared Room) – $1,763.60
  • Economy Quad - Shared Bath (Shared Room) – $1,628.60
  • Commuter – $1,124.00
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Can you notice a sense of fixity that feels connected to who you take yourself to be right now? As if you are experiencing life from a space that appears more central and solid than elsewhere in your inner or outer experience?

This reflex—this habit of orienting—isn’t a flaw or a sign of misunderstanding. It’s a natural pattern of the nervous system trying to find safety. It’s the nervous system whispering, “Stay here. Don’t let go. We can survive this.”

Many spiritual and healing practices, while helping the practitioner to address fundamental perceptual delusions, subtly reinforce another layer of nervous system conditioning—one that says, “This experience is not ok. I need to fix it, transcend it, or make it go away.” What if this sense of separateness wasn’t only something to wake up from, but also something to wake more deeply into? Identity and separateness are byproducts of our natural movement toward simplicity, naturalness and innocence–movements of safety, belonging, and love.

When we awaken to what’s really happening—that we are experiencing life through the adaptive perceptual filters of our nervous system—something shifts. We stop struggling. We stop fighting against what is natural and human. A gentle, full-bodied release begins to arise, not from effort or analysis, but from the tender recognition of what’s here.

This retreat supports participants in deepening realization of their awake nature by helping them reconnect with the wisdom of their nervous systems and bodies–the same wisdom which calls us to meet ourselves and the world as we truly are, with all the rawness, connection, and complexity that life entails.

Schedule

Sunday, November 2

  • 3 – 6 pm Arrival and Check-in
  • 6 – 7 pm Dinner
  • 7:30 – 9 pm Welcome Program

Monday, November 3 – Friday, November 7

  • 7 – 8 am Silent Sitting
  • 8 – 9 am Breakfast
  • 9 – 9:30 am Silent Sitting
  • 9:30 – 10 am Guided Meditation
  • 10 – 10:30 am Silent Sitting
  • 10:30 – 11:30 am Talk
  • 11:30 am – 12 pm Silent Sitting
  • 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch
  • 1 – 3 pm Free time // Individual Meetings
  • 3 – 3:30 pm Silent Sitting
  • 3:30 – 5 pm Group inquiry // Q&A
  • 5 – 6 pm Nervous System Reset
  • 6 – 7 pm Dinner
  • 8 – 9 pm Music & Continuum (Gentle Movement Inquiry)
  • 9 – 9:30 pm Silent Sitting
  • 9: 40 – 10 pm Silent Sitting (Maintain Silence)

Saturday, November 8

  • 7 – 11 am Check-out of Rooms
  • 7 – 8 am Early Morning Program
  • 8 – 9 am Breakfast
  • 9:30 am – 12 pm Morning Program
  • 12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch & Departure

*Please note that the schedule is subject to change. 

About the Leaders

Chelsea Muth, PhD

Chelsea Muth, PhD, is a psychologist, psychotherapist, and teacher, whose life’s work has centered on helping others find relief from frozen states of suffering and access freedom to live dynamically. She has worked as a PhD scholar and fellow of the National Institutes of Health studying mindfulness interventions; a psychotherapist for trauma survivors; and an […]

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Angelo Dilullo, MD

Angelo Dilullo is the author of the book Awake: It's Your Turn, which is ranked among the Top 50 books in spirituality on Amazon. He is also an MD who is board certified in Family Medicine and Anesthesiology.  At the age of 24, after years of intense internal suffering and an intuition that something about […]

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Victor Bucklew, PhD

Victor is a psychotherapist and physicist who studies the quantum mechanics of light. He is also the author of the award-winning book The Hidden Gifts of Addiction, which explores healing from trauma and addiction through presence and compassion. Victor’s journey has been shaped by many threads including a near-death drowning experience, recovery from heroin addiction, […]

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Richard Witteman

Richard began meditating in his early 20’s, and was a student of Roshi Philip Kapleau at the Rochester Zen Center for ten years. He then began working with Toni Packer, who was Philip Kapleau's dharma heir.  In the early 1980’s, Toni decided to leave the Zen tradition to explore fresh ways of meditation and inquiry, […]

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Gregory Allison

Gregory Allison creates with a single violin a sound that travels across great landscapes. He has toured the world with violin in hand and is endlessly inspired by the instrument’s journey around the globe, especially its use in South Indian Classical Music. His live performance blends the Indian Classical melodic improvisation with his soundscape sensibility […]

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