Stay Human – Connection at the edge of capacity
With Stephen Odom PhD, LMFT, Andrea Jensen E-RYT 500 and Gina Brown E-RYT 500
March 3 - 7, 2027
Stay Human is for people who are trying to make sense of it all — who believe in therapy, self-care, kindness, and hard work, and yet still feel an almost. An undercurrent. A sense of living close to the edge of capacity where anxiety or quiet angst creeps in — or never quite leaves.
This retreat is a pause — not to escape your life, but to experience it differently.
Through guided conversation, yoga and movement, breathwork, meditation, sound, and facilitated circles, we’ll work at the level beneath ideas. The level of nervous systems. The level of pacing. The level where connection either tightens or opens.
Together, we’ll explore how pressure accumulates, how isolation quietly grows even among capable people, and what restores our capacity to stay connected — to ourselves and to one another — when things feel tense.
This isn’t about fixing what’s wrong. It’s about strengthening what allows you to remain steady in the middle of complexity: regulation, repair, discernment, and relational courage.
You’ll leave not just restored, but practiced — with embodied tools for meeting pressure without hardening, and staying human when it would be easier to withdraw.
Leaders
Stephen Odom, PhD, LMFT, has spent more than thirty years walking alongside strong people in hard seasons—first responders, healthcare professionals, leaders, creatives, and the quietly overwhelmed. As the founder of First Responder Wellness and a behavioral health executive, he’s built nationally recognized programs focused on resilience, recovery, and culture change. But at his core, he’s simply curious about how human beings stay human while carrying a lot. Raised in a family shaped by service, Stephen understands both the pride and the weight of responsibility. Though his work has taken him to national stages and complex organizations, he values smaller circles…
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Born and raised in California, Andrea discovered yoga in her early twenties. For the first time, she experienced movement not as performance, but as medicine — a practice that helped her feel at home in her body. When Andrea was 27, she went through what she would call a “quarter-life crisis”. She quit her job, moved out of her apartment, put everything she owned into storage, ended her relationship, and went to India for a 320-hour Ashtanga based yoga teacher training program. It was one of the hardest, and most rewarding, things she has ever done. From that moment on,…
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Gina Brown is a 500-hour registered yoga teacher whose classes blend the heart-centered wisdom of Anusara with a soulful balance of depth and levity. Rooted in alignment, dharma, and the art of awakening, her teaching invites students to move with intention and return home to their own inner light. Gina has shared her love of yoga across the world — from Equinox, studios, and private sessions to community parks, corporate spaces, and retreats in Joshua Tree, Portugal, Costa Rica, and Bali, where she also offers Reiki healing. Deeply devoted to the power of practice, community, and the journey of the…
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