NURTURE BY NATURE

IN PERSON RETREAT

This is your invitation to a different kind of retreat

One where nature is the teacher, authenticity is the way, and sovereignty is sacred. There are no strict schedules. No gurus. No fixed path or one-size-fits-all journey.

Just you, the land, the orchard, the fire, the water, and air,the wide-open skies — held in a community that walks beside you, not ahead or behind.

Choose Your Own Way

✺ Every offering is optional.
✺ Every yes and no is honored.
✺ Every path is your own.

Each morning begins with a quiet devotional.
Each evening closes with fireside connection.
In between, the days are yours — to breathe, to move, to rest, to feel, to play, to simply be.

Illustrations of the four elements: fire, air, water, and earth, each represented within a circular border with minimalist line art.

What You’ll Find Here

✺ A place to reconnect with your body — not through force, but through gentle remembrance.

✺ A space to restore your nervous system to the ancient rhythms of the earth.

✺ A community where you are seen without performing and loved without conditions.

✺ A rhythm of giving and receiving that fills you, not empties you.

✺ A playful, soulful frequency where laughter, rest, and realness coexist beautifully.

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Classes for consciousness

✺ Relational Healing & Communication

Witnessing Your Partner After Rupture - A compassionate framework for reconnecting, being seen, and repairing with love and clarity after emotional rupture.

Compassionate Inquiry - Experience Gabor Maté’s grounded approach to uncovering the roots of disconnection and gently restoring trust, understanding, and intimacy.

✺ Nature-Based Healing

Wild Horse Lay-Down Ceremony - A rare and humbling encounter when a wild horse chooses to lay down beside you — symbolizing trust, safety, and deep mutual surrender.

Horseback Riding on the Trail - Ride through the red rock beauty of Southern Utah while learning to move with the rhythm of your horse and your own breath.

Fire Cider Making - Craft your own powerful immune-boosting tonic using traditional herbs, roots, and vinegar — a hands-on connection to ancient medicine.

Herbal Tea for Holistic Health - Brew and share herbal blends that nurture body, mind, and spirit while learning about the energetic properties of healing plants.

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✺ Soul & Spirit Expansion

Astrology: Your Celestial Map - Explore how your astrological chart reflects your soul’s patterns, lessons, and gifts — a map guiding you back to your natural rhythm.

Human Design for Self-Understanding - Discover your unique energetic blueprint — how you’re designed to move through life, relationships, and purpose with alignment.

Drum Circle - Connect to primal rhythm and the heartbeat of the Earth through community drumming — where sound becomes prayer and movement.

Walking the Labyrinth: A Journey Within - Practice sacred walking meditation to ground, center, and clarify your path — one step at a time, back to yourself.

Sweat Lodge Ceremony - Experience ancient purification rituals for releasing old layers and birthing new intentions — a renewal of body, mind, and spirit.

✺ Integration & Play

Water Wisdom - Float, balance, and flow — learning from the element of water through paddleboarding, kayaking, or simply swimming in stillness. Each ripple a reminder to move through life with grace and adaptability.

Sacred Rest & Play - Cornhole, basketball, pickleball, paddleboarding, fireside music, and laughter — because healing happens not just in depth, but in joy, connection, and play.

✺ Emotional Intelligence & Embodiment

Neurosomatic Reset Breathwork

Somatic breathwork to reset the nervous system and access deeper states of regulation, resilience, and presence.

Core Beliefs: Patterns of Connection & Disconnection

Explore the subconscious patterns that shape your relationships and inner world. Through somatic awareness, you’ll identify where safety was lost and how to restore authentic connection.

Sensations in the Body

Learn to feel, interpret, and trust the language of bodily sensations as the first step toward emotional freedom.

Language of the Breath

Discover how your breathing patterns reveal states of fear, safety, openness, and power — and how to shift them consciously.

Emotions as Messengers

Experience your emotions not as problems to solve, but as guides leading you back to self-understanding, compassion, and wholeness.

Cold Plunge Initiation

Meet the edge of your comfort zone through guided cold immersion — building resilience with breath, presence, and grounded strength.

Nurture by Nature classrooms

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    100 years old orchard

    The Garden of Patience

    An orchard is a living testament to patience, cultivation, and trust in unseen seasons. Beneath these century-old trees, wisdom ripens slowly. Here, we’re reminded that true growth is nurtured over time — and that tending to what we plant, within ourselves and in community, bears fruit beyond our lifetimes.

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    the teepee

    The Shelter of Spirit

    The tipi has long symbolized sacred shelter — a gathering place where spirit, story, and community converge. Its circular design reflects the cycles of life, the unity of all things, and the honoring of both earth and sky. Here, we remember the wisdom of sitting together around a center, learning not only from words but from presence.

  • Mountain peak at sunset with orange sky and dark silhouette of mountains and clouds.

    The Meadow

    The Field of Pure Awareness

    The open meadow, vast and uncontained, calls forth the spirit of possibility. Ancient peoples understood fields as sacred thresholds between the known and the unknown — places to dream, to listen, and to create. In this classroom, we stand in the expanse of our own becoming, invited to risk, to play, and to grow.

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    The Labyrinth

    The Path of Return

    The labyrinth is one of humanity’s oldest spiritual symbols — a walking meditation that leads us not outward, but inward. Its winding path reflects the sacred process of losing and finding oneself. Each turn becomes a prayer, each step a revelation that the way home is always through the heart.

  • A mountain landscape at sunset with a large, dark mountain in the background and layered ridges, with the sky illuminated in orange hues.

    The trail

    The Way of Partnership

    Trails have always been lifelines of exploration, pilgrimage, and discovery. On horseback, the trail becomes a sacred dance between human, horse, and earth — a journey built on trust, awareness, and attunement. Here, we remember that true leadership is partnership, and that every path walked in presence becomes a path home.

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    The Round Pen

    The Circle of Reflection

    The round pen, like the medicine wheel, is a symbol of wholeness, movement, and transformation. Within this sacred circle, we meet ourselves through the mirror of another — often a horse — and learn the art of authentic relationship. This classroom teaches us that growth is not linear but spiraled, and it’s found in the rhythm of stillness and motion.

  • A mountain peak at sunset with a orange sky and dark silhouette of rugged terrain.

    the lake

    The Mirror to the Soul

    Still waters have always been sacred to those seeking inner truth. The lake mirrors not only the sky but the unseen depths of our inner world. Here, reflection becomes both literal and spiritual — an invitation to meet the deeper waters of who we are, beyond the surface of daily life.

  • A silhouetted mountain at sunset with an orange sky, dark clouds at the base, and snow on the mountain peaks.

    The Fire Circle

    The Flame of Transformation

    Fire has always been at the center of human gathering — a symbol of warmth, renewal, and creation. In this classroom, we remember the courage it takes to let go of what no longer serves and the power that rises when we burn away illusion. Around the fire, truth glows brighter, and the embers remind us that light is born from release.

testimonials

  • Scenic landscape of mountains, a lake, and rolling grassy hills under cloudy sky in New Zealand.
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  • Modern house with wood and metal exterior, large glass window, situated in a mountainous landscape with yellow-green vegetation.
  • A modern wooden house with a flat roof in a field of brown grass, overlooking a large body of water with mountains and a cloudy sky in the background.

meet our team

  • Man in gray shirt and cap riding a tan and white horse in a dry, rocky, desert-like landscape with trees.

    Hugh Vail

    CO-FOUNDER

    Hugh has a rare gift for bridging the untamed wisdom of wild mustangs with the healing men and women need most today. With decades of experience gentling horses and guiding people, he has led over 5,000 men through retreats, workshops, and circles designed to restore nervous system balance, resilience, and authentic connection.

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    Amy Lorraine

    A breathwork teacher and author whose work centers on nervous system regulation and the medicine of breath. Amy teaches group classes, leads retreats, and works one-on-one, guiding people into steadiness and resilience through breath and body awareness. Her teaching is straightforward and practical, aimed at men and women who want to meet life with more presence, less reactivity, and a nervous system they can trust.

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    Sara Niec Carnahan

    Sara bridges the structure and soul of Mustang Medicine, blending operational clarity with a deep understanding of holistic wellness. A certified Naturopath, Herbalist, Mental Wellness Coach, and Holistic Health Practitioner, she helps create grounded systems for transformation. Deeply connected to nature and horses, she ensures that Mustang Medicine’s mission flows with purpose, integrity, and heart.

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