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Sanctuary of the Inner Compass

Sanctuary of the Inner Compass is Eco-Retreat Center located at Everland in Sedalia, Colorado.

We are a collective, inclusive self-supported spiritual ministry and nonprofit that aims to provide a safe space to activate creativity as spiritual practice in alignment with our values of collaboration, play, connection, and service.

02/27/2023

✨Upcoming Retreat Alert✨

Welcome to Witness Sisterhood: Full Circle. This will be a very special gathering at Sanctuary of the Inner Compass Retreat Center at because it will be one of the last retreats on the property until there is a new land-owner! So if that isn't invitation enough to dive in and soak it up, get ready for this trilogy to be completed!

This spring at Witness Sisterhood: Full Circle get ready for a super special potentially once-in-a-lifetime experience. Connect your story, your ritual, and grab hold of a new paradigm of how you exist in the world, how you carry yourself, and what life means for YOU.

When you enter the Witness Sisterhood classroom, expect magic ❇️ and transformation 🌀We are here to be curious, to turn it on, and turn it up. This is an active journey, for and by this community. 📸It is designed to be shared with other women. If there is one thing that creates lasting change, it's Sisterhood: lean into our community while we are in 📸this sacred container and create the habits and relationships you’ll take with you into the rest of your life ✨

This retreat is designed to be "for the community and by the community" - all participants will have the opportunity to serve the whole through

So what are you waiting for?? Book today 💖

📸 .elle.logan

02/24/2023

Feeling embraced by the Winter season can bring up a lot of emotions. ❄️ We’ve been sitting in the cold for a bit now, and have a little ways to go. This is an amazing time to explore self care techniques that help us unearth our emotions, formulate our thoughts, and tap into a space of healing.

One way we can do this is through the practice of journaling. 📔 ✏️Humans have been journaling since far before scientific research began highlighting its benefits. The oldest known diary is from 161 AD! Writing forces us to organize our thoughts into a cohesive story allowing us to create a clearer path towards new discoveries within ourselves. The cathartic act of journaling can help boost our immune systems, improve our moods, and regulate our emotions. 🌀It increases our working memory capacity which allows us to do multiple things at once and strengthens our cognitive processing!

Writing helps us focus on specific thoughts or emotions and identify triggers. It’s a safe space to release tension in your body and work out issues you’ve been ruminating on. It can even reduce inflammation and alleviate chronic pain ❗️

This may be your sign to get back into journaling or try it out for your first time. We recommend picking a topic, setting a timer for 20 minutes, and seeing what comes out. Don’t worry about staying focused on one thing. Let your mind naturally flow from one thought to the next, and release what’s inside. A consistent practice will produce magic ✨

📸 .elle.logan

02/06/2023

✨Calling all retreat facilitators! ✨

Are you looking for a space to share your passion, wisdom, and expertise with others? Inner Compass Retreat Center has two openings coming up over March 4th and March 11th weekends! 🤗

Sanctuary of the Inner Compass provides a safe container for exploration, healing, and personal development. 🌀We’re located on the Everland property which offers 145 quiet acres in the forest to invite your guests to immerse themselves in your retreat. Guests can explore the grounds, unwind in our 8-person cedar barrel sauna, lay low in curated spaces, do yoga, or read on a giant hammock hidden in the woods. Accommodations include 13 individualized rooms, a multipurpose room, dining area, and an onsite host supporting you throughout the weekend.

Due to upcoming changes and other moving pieces, these are currently the only dates we have available to book in 2023, so book them while you can! We will be offering a special flash sale for these dates.

Please send us a message or go to our website to book! Info is in our link tree 🌀

01/31/2023

Living with compassion is about showing up for both yourself and those around you. 🌀 Compassion is about honoring your needs, holding space for others, and remaining present and kind in the midst of suffering.

Compassion is a word that gets thrown around a lot. While people often use it as a self-describing adjective, it can be better used as a practice. Practicing compassion allows you to connect more deeply to yourself and your loved ones. If you regularly offer compassion to yourself it strengthens your compassion for others.

How do you energize your compassion? Do you support yourself with self-care regimens such as movement, nourishing food, and rest. 🧘‍♂️ Do you practice mindfulness meditation? Do you volunteer your time to those in need?

Compassion comes in many forms and looks a little different in each of us.

Sanctuary of the Inner Compass offers a space to share these practices, learn from our peers, and share our experiences. We love connecting with our hosts and guests and seeing how we can learn compassion from each other 💕

Check out our upcoming retreats through our link tree to see how you can connect with yourself and others ✨

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01/24/2023

Imagine wandering the woods and stumbling upon an old desk with a prompt “Supplies are in the drawers - sit down and write the letter you haven’t written yet.” What would you write? Who would you write to? 📝

The Writer’s Desk in the Woods was inspired by CEO of Everland, . He had a vision of an inviting desk filled with pens, paper, stamps—everything you needed to compose a letter, right there in the middle of the woods. The WORD project was an addition to the Writers Desk in order to complete this literary inspired zone, and was created by our Inner Compass community and staff. “In the beginning was the WORD…”

Words, both positive and negative, can be constructive or damaging to our attitudes towards life. Positive words encourage positive brain function. 🧠They can improve our ability to cope with difficult things and regulate stress. Words can affect our mood and actions, which allows them to indirectly affect our reality.

On the other hand, using negative words such as telling yourself something is catastrophic, even when joking or acting consciously hyperbolic, can activate your sympathetic nervous system, or “fight or flight.” This can cause feelings of dread, hopelessness, or anxiety.

Your words can affect other people in the same light. Choosing words of encouragement and positivity when interacting with those around you can brighten moods, stimulate productivity, and generate a gratifying outlook on life.

Books, letters, and conversations all contain words that change our world. 😌 As we go through life and interact with those around us, let’s be sure to choose our words wisely.

01/19/2023

Abundance! We do enough, we have enough, we are enough.

Sometimes it can be so easy to slip into a scarcity mindset and always feel like we need more. Scarcity mindset tricks us into taking the people we love for granted, feeling dissatisfied with our lives, or wishing things were BIGGER, BETTER.

Living with abundance allows us to appreciate the small things. 🌱 It shows us beauty where we might not expect. It shines a warm light on the people we love. It teaches us how to honor our bodies, minds, and souls. We can learn so much when we stop worrying about what we don’t have and focus on everything that is right in front of us.

Practicing gratitude is a widely researched method for improving mental and physical health. Our gratitude spiral is the perfect place to breathe, receive, and renew 🌀

“What you believe is what you receive!” -Caroline Castrillon

Live in a mindset of abundance! And see where it takes you ✨

12/08/2022

There is immense value in creating alignment between the moon’s cycles and our life’s cadence 🌕 Research has shown that behaviors such as activity, reproduction, eating, photosensitivity, migration and molting are also aligned with the lunar calendar.

Take advantage of the third annual offering of the Moon Calendar, created by a group of women gathered across diverse cultures and backgrounds around the world.

The intention of this calendar is to help you easily organize your time around the moon phases, shifting into a cyclical way of living that honors internal rest and stillness as much as external output and productivity ✨

Instead of a standard 12-month calendar, this Moon Calendar organizes each “month” by moon cycles that begin with the date of each new moon, waxing into the full moon and waning into the dark moon (about 29.6 days), before it flips to the next moon cycle (and new moon).

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This Moon Calendar offers wisdom from different cultures, astrological journaling prompts, lunar quotes and suggestions, original artworks, and inspiring writings from the 15 different women artists who collaborated to bring this calendar to life.

The theme of this year’s calendar is WATER, 🌊 which was chosen to honor the non-profit beneficiary of this year’s fundraiser, Atitlán Water Protectors.

All proceeds support cleaning the waters of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala.

Don’t miss this opportunity to get your calendar! Follow the link pictured here!

11/14/2022

Did you know only humans possess the cognitive function needed to recognize music in its entirety? 🎶 While music is a core experience for us, most animals only contain the ability to perceive certain aspects of music, for example, rhythm or melody.

In contrast, only humans can piece together all the components to interpret its whole sound.

Music is healing, unifying, and emotional ✨ We can use music as a tool to sit with sadness and process difficult times. We can connect with others through music, sharing it, analyzing it, and loving it together🌀It’s one of the things that separates us from other animals, making it an entirely human experience.

Tag your music soulmate ♥️

11/03/2022

Sit. Breathe. Feel. Move. Connect. Celebrate. Love ❤️

Over November 18-20th Inner Compass is offering the unique opportunity to book a room for the weekend without attending an actual retreat!

We are calling it the “Un-Retreat” weekend. We have 13 rooms available. Bring your loved ones, your food to cook, and explore the wonder of our retreat center on the property. 🌲🌲 No schedule, no timeline.

Head over to our linktree for more information and to register. Rooms are between $500-650 for the weekend and sleep at least 2 people each. We need 6 more rooms booked in order to keep all bookings!!

Take what you need to rest, heal, and connect with yourself 🌀 There is something here for everyone ✨

10/26/2022

Have you seen these GLOW UP photos of our bathrooms??
✨SWIPE TO SEE!✨

Our new bathrooms were beautifully crafted by Victor Rivera. All the wood used was salvaged from our own property, in alignment with our ethos of upcycling 🪵whenever possible.

These stalls are the true epitome of “rest” rooms and we are so grateful to be able to bring Victor’s beautiful additions to our guests 💫

Previously, the retreat center building was a Korean Christian Ministry built in the 80’s. We have spent the past 3 years updating the roof, floors, paint, furnishings, and it was only a matter of time before these bathrooms got a facelift. These updates reflect the rustic yet modern and worldly design. The bathrooms feature hammered copper basins in one and hand carved Moroccan brass sinks in the other, with spaces for guests to store their items during their stay complimented by Geometric Wood Art and preserved moss.

The ongoing process of curating our retreat center atmosphere to be the ideal place for guests to rest and recharge has been an exciting process.
Next up: the kitchen! 🛠

Victor Rivera is an artist/designer/builder, based in Colorado, who specializes in using reclaimed materials in his work. He also designs and builds large-scale art installations and stages for the music/entertainment industry, working in recent years with collectives such as Meow Wolf. Victor is also working to develop an art-sustainability-education focused community retreat called, New Sky Ranch, based in the San Luis Valley. He was the perfect person to take on these upgrades for the Inner Compass!

“I’m so grateful and humbled to get to bring these improvements to life, and be a part of the Inner Compass’s vision and story. I absolutely loved working with the whole crew, and am looking forward to creating more with the Inner Compass family!”

Come see these glorious bathrooms in person! Check out our retreats page on our website to find the perfect getaway for you 🌀

10/21/2022

Calling all creators!

We are in search of some new wall art to beautify our retreat center and help you sell your pieces! We want to show off your work to create a peaceful, healing, and inspiring environment for our guests. Our guests often decide to take a reminder of their retreat time home with them, and we love supporting our artists.

Themes that focus on nature, wellness, self-discovery and spirit are often a good match. 😊

Artwork of any size is accepted and must be ready to hang with wire. Send an email to [email protected] if you think you’re a good fit.There is no deadline to apply.

Thank you for contributing to our mission to co-create a space for connection through art, nature, and play. We are foreseeing magic with this next round of art ✨ and are so excited to see what you have to share

10/17/2022

✨You’re invited: Upcoming “Un-Retreat” Nov 18-20✨

Many of us need a reminder to step away from our busy and sometimes chaotic lives. Whether you’re feeling stuck, confused, or in need of a routine, self-care getaway, we have the space that can support you. We all need to take agency over our own well-being, but not without a little help.

Our “Un-Retreat” has no agenda! Come hang out in our tree nets and read a book. Picnic on our new giant swing! Sit in the sauna. Wake up with the sun and do what you choose to do. Enjoy this unplugged staycation 45 minutes outside of Denver! 🌲

If you have ever desired to come spend a weekend on the land, this is your chance! Explore yourself and reset, reconnect, and re-energize. Head over to our retreats page to learn more.

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Sedalia, CO
80135

Website

http://www.sanctuaryoftheinnercompass.org/

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