Softening the Edges — Allowing Love to Flow Retreat

With Michelle Walker

September 17 - 21, 2026

Date and Time Details: September 17, 2026: 3pm, September 21, 2026: 12pm

Location: Casa Portal

Address: 83 Sullivan Road, Jackson, Maine, USA

Contact: Melissa
casaportalretreats@gmail.com
207-323-3016

All-inclusive 4 Night Rates Include:: Chef-prepared meals each day, with snacks and drinks available throughout. Guided retreat programming and time to settle into the rhythm of the land. Accommodations across the farmhouse and cabins. Access to over 100 acres of private land, including walking trails, gardens, and a spring-fed swimming pond. Shared spaces for gathering and creating, including the workshop barn, screened porch, and outdoor areas. Wi-Fi, parking, and on-site Casa Portal staff to support your stay

Payment Policy : A $500 non-refundable deposit is required to reserve your spot and is applied toward your total retreat cost. The remaining balance is due 30 days prior to the retreat start date. Once the final payment is made, all payments are non-refundable.

Cancellation Policy : All deposits are non-refundable. Cancellations made more than 30 days prior to the retreat may be eligible for a transfer to another guest or a credit toward a future Casa Portal retreat within one year, at Casa Portal’s sole discretion. Cancellations made within 30 days of the retreat are non-refundable. In the case of unexpected or emergency circumstances within 7 days of the retreat, requests may be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. Any exception, including partial credit, is granted solely at Casa Portal’s discretion and must be confirmed in writing. Supporting documentation may be requested where appropriate. We strongly recommend purchasing travel insurance to protect against unexpected changes.

  • Cabin A – $1,500.00
  • Guesthouse #1 | Private | King – $1,450.00
  • Guesthouse #2 | Shared | 2 Fulls – $1,250.00
  • Guesthouse #3 | Shared | 2 Twin XL – $1,250.00
  • Guesthouse #4 | Shared | 2 Fulls – $1,250.00
  • Guesthouse #5 | Shared | 2 Twin XL – $1,250.00
  • Guesthouse #6 | Private | Queen – $1,350.00
  • Cabin B – $1,500.00
  • Cabin C – $1,500.00

Softening the Edges — Allowing Love to Flow Retreat

www.casaportalretreats.com

Love is the experience we long for.

What would it be like to live from love, rather than trying to find it or receive it from outside us? What if accessing love is simply a matter of turning our attention inward — toward our own true nature — and allowing a sense of tenderness and kindness to arise within the body?

This 4 night retreat explores how the body holds tension and protective patterns that shape our experience of life, and how we can gently return to a more natural sense of connection and aliveness through presence with the body.

Guided by Michelle Walker, you’ll engage in embodied awareness, breathwork, and subtle-energy practices inspired by The Energy Codes® to release what’s been held and restore the natural flow of life force.

Time in nature and shared space with others offers room to integrate and deepen. As the edges begin to soften, love becomes something you directly feel — as your true nature — present in your body, your breath, and your everyday experience.

What to Expect: 

Each day includes guided sessions that may weave together:

  • Embodied awareness practices to build sensitivity and presence in the body
  • Breathwork to support release and regulation
  • Energy practices inspired by The Energy Codes® to restore flow and coherence
  • Gentle movement, meditation, and heart-centered practices
  • Time in nature to support integration and deepen connection

You will leave with:

  • A more intimate relationship with your body’s wisdom
  • Greater vitality and energetic alignment
  • Practices that support you in directly experiencing love from within
  • A renewed sense of aliveness
  • Deeper trust in your inherent wholeness

Michelle creates a supportive container to explore how emotional imprints, unconscious programming, and protective patterns may have shaped our edges. With compassion and respect for where everyone is showing up, she guides participants into softening what is ready to soften and strengthening what longs to come forward.

The retreat offers both structure and spaciousness — guided sessions woven with integration time, reflection, rest, and connection. You will be supported in following your own rhythm while being held within a safe and intentional container.

This retreat is an invitation to inhabit yourself more fully. It is about softening enough to feel what has been here all along — and allowing love to flow more freely into your body and into your life.

All-Inclusive Rates at Casa Portal Include: 

• Three meals per day (plus snacks & non-alcoholic beverages)
• Teacher programming fee & materials 
• Accommodations and parking for the duration of the retreat
• Exclusive private access to Casa Portal and its amenities ( walking trails, swimming ponds, gardens, sheep meadows, workshop barn studio, large porch, living areas and dining areas)

About the Leader

Michelle Walker

  Michelle Walker is a guide in embodied awareness and subtle energy cultivation. Shaped by her own search for truth and healing — and the transformations that followed — she has devoted decades to contemplative practice, psychological study, and natural approaches to well-being. Through meditation, qigong, breath, and heart-centered practices, she creates spaces where participants […]

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