Love is a Verb: A Couples Retreat for Connection & Renewal
A 1-day retreat designed for couples who want to slow down, reconnect, and intentionally tend their relationship.
A 1-day retreat designed for couples who want to slow down, reconnect, and intentionally tend their relationship.
A 1-day retreat designed for couples who want to slow down, reconnect, and intentionally tend their relationship.
“The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb.”
Love isn’t just a noun - it’s a conscious choice; a living breathing practice that requires your care and presence, like anything else that matters to you. Of course, your relationship needs and deserves tending! How much time, energy and money do we invest in our kids, pets, homes, cars, hobbies, jobs, and everything else? After all of that, it’s no surprise that sometimes we find there is little left in the tank for this sacred partnership.
Well, don’t fret, because you are invited to life-giving day of honoring your relationship. No distractions. Just you and your beloved in a serene setting, delicious food, enjoying a wondrous yet substantive day together— with space to tend, mend and delight in your relationship. Together, you’ll engage in practices like embodied listening, yoga, relational mindfulness, playful experiential activities, and relational games that foster connection, intimacy, greater communication and mutual understanding.
This is not a crisis intervention retreat, but a space for couples who know that relationships, even strong ones, need care. Whether you’re navigating patterns that feel a stuck or simply want to nourish what’s already working, this beautifully curated day offers time, space, and tools to fortify your bond.
You’ll be treated to a beautiful farm-to-table lunch with other couples. The group is small—just five couples—so there’s room for depth, comfort, and real attention. For those who are curious: No, there will NOT be sexual practices on this retreat. However, the practices you’ll do together tend to result in greater intimacy (emotional and physical) in your day to day life. In addition to your full day together, you’ll be sent home with tools to continue deepening the bond.
When: Sunday, May 17 from 10am to 5pm
Where: a private, beautiful location in Santa Cruz, California. (Address will be given upon registration.)
Who: Led by Hannah Muse-McKenney, internationally-celebrated teacher of integrated spirituality, mindfulness, yoga, social change, classical tantra and Buddhist psychology. She’s been working with couples for over 10 years and teaching for over 15. Her work with couples is inspired by attachment theory, nonviolent communication, archetypal wisdom, gestalt, internal family systems, authentic relating, somatics, self-directed neuroplasticity. In addition to these modalities, Hannah authentically guides from her own humble and human life experience navigating love, parental loss, attachment wounds, parenting, divorce, and her deep devotion to the sacred partnership with the love of her life, Brian. Together her and Brian are in practice, committing every day to their super silly, very sexy, deeply rooted, wild, alive, ever-changing relationship. Brian will be supporting the retreat, sharing in practice with you.
Investment: $625 per couple. Includes farm-to-table lunch, refreshments, take-home tools. Limited to 5 couples.
(For context: couples therapy sessions average $200 for one hour. This retreat offers 7 hours of guided connection, resourcing, and renewal for a fraction of the price.)
If financial need is keeping you from this workshop, contact us at care@HannahMuse.com to inquire about partial scholarships.