A Circle Within the Circle: How Merkaba Retreats Can Support Your Clients’ Healing Journey

by Christopher Shaw, Founder Merkaba Retreats

As a healer, therapist, coach, or guide, you know that the work of transformation is rarely linear. Clients often reach a point on their path where something deeper begins to stir — a longing to connect with parts of themselves that can’t always be accessed through talk therapy, traditional coaching, or even somatic practices alone.

That’s where Merkaba Retreats comes in — not to replace the work you do, but to deepen and complement it.

✨ A Sacred Container Beyond the Office

Merkaba Retreats offers trauma-informed, spiritually grounded healing immersions in Mexico — private, couples, and small-group retreats held with the utmost care, prayer, and integrity.

We’re not here to “fix” your clients. We’re here to hold them through a layer of their healing that often lives beyond words — in the body, in the nervous system, and in the spirit.

Some of what clients experience at Merkaba Retreats:

💠 Deep somatic release of stored trauma

💠 A reawakening of purpose and self-compassion

💠 Sacred medicine work in a safe, ceremonial container

💠 Tools and insights to bring back into ongoing therapy or coaching

💠 A profound sense of belonging and trust in themselves

🌿 Why Refer Your Clients to a Retreat?

You know as well as we do: some patterns don’t shift just because we can name them. They need to be felt. They need the body to say yes, the spirit to rise, the nervous system to soften.

We work with many helping professionals who refer their clients for retreats as a way to:

✨ Accelerate breakthroughs that have felt stuck

✨ Help clients access suppressed emotions in a safe space

✨ Support clients at major life transitions (grief, divorce, spiritual awakening, chronic relapse)

✨ Offer an embodied experience that complements cognitive and relational work

And because we work in small, intimate groups or 1:1 — and always in a trauma-informed way — we’re able to support clients who may feel overwhelmed in large ceremonial settings.

🌿 We Don’t Replace. We Support.

It’s important to say: Merkaba Retreats is not therapy, per se, even though the healing that happens during our 7-day retreats is equivalent to 10 years of weekly psychotherapy. We’re not here to take your place in your client’s healing journey — in fact, we always encourage integration with their ongoing therapeutic or coaching work.

Many of our guests return home with deeper commitment to their work with you — bringing new clarity, vitality, and insight that enriches the progress you’ve already helped them make.

✨ Let’s Walk This Path Together

If you’re a therapist, coach, or practitioner who feels that one of your clients could benefit from this kind of sacred immersion, we’d be honored to collaborate.

You’re also welcome to reach out directly if you’d like to experience a retreat for yourself. Many helping professionals join us to tend their own nervous systems and refill the well of their own spirit — so they can keep showing up for others with love and integrity.

We are the circle within the circle — here to hold what you’ve already begun.