Calm, Resilient and Wild: Unlock the Secrets of your Nervous System with Dr Alice Kerby

In Santa Margarita, San Luis Obispo County, Central Coast California

September 4 - 7, 2025

An experiential course for the busy professional who knows the value of inner peace, and wants practical tools to find it.

Join me for an adventure into your own nervous system. In this three-day experience, you will learn practical skills to stop racing thoughts, come into your body, and begin to trust your innate wisdom. This program includes gentle movement and creative expression, guided practices to restore your system to a place of calm, and practical information to satisfy your intelligent cognitive mind!

You will leave with a greater understanding of how to pause before responding, how to listen to your gut, and ways to express healthy assertion. 

Class Overview

Dr Alice uses Somatic Experiencing techniques to cultivate a safe and creative container for your internal adventure. Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a “bottom-up” modality, created by Dr Peter Levine, author of Waking the Tiger, that works with healing deeper levels of trauma and chronic stress from the nervous system, physiological, and subconscious levels. Our workshop will provide an introduction to somatic techniques that leave you feeling calmer, more connected to your body, energized yet grounded, and awake. 

Course includes 

• Gentle movement

• Guided practices to calm the system and connect you to your body

• Foundational information about how your nervous system works and stores trauma and stress

• Animal imagery and connecting to the “wild” part of yourself in an exploration of healthy assertion and boundaries.

This program will provide a beautiful ebb and flow of academic information and experiential practices. You will satisfy your brain’s desire for information and context, yet you will touch deep parts of your nervous system so that you leave feeling different. 

Your Benefits

Past participants have consistently said, “I feel so good after this. I feel better. Calmer yet energized. I feel whole” 

You will: 

• Gain practical tools you can use right away to calm yourself in stressful situations and begin building resilience in your system.

• Have a “felt sense” understanding of your boundary and ways to more fully inhabit yourself.

• Feel more present in your body, able to partner with yourself, and alive in your human-ness.

Our class provides a safe and creative container for you to explore these techniques with an expert guide.

About Dr Alice

Dr Alice Kerby specializes in Somatic Experiencing Trauma Therapy and Resiliency Coaching. She holds a Clinical Doctorate in Physical Therapy and is an expert in movement and working with the nervous system and body to unwind past patterns of trauma and chronic stress. Dr Alice helps her clients and students to gently touch past trauma patterns that are stored in the body. This leads to restored resiliency in the nervous system, offering a greater ability to make choices from a place of one’s essential self. As a sober woman, she is passionate about bringing these tools to women in recovery to facilitate an engaged life that is hallmarked by ease. She is a teacher, clinician, freelance writer, lover of nature, and adventurer living in San Diego, California.

She is an avid outdoorswoman and adventurer and is the creator and founder of The Sober Girls Hiking and Adventure Club. Her work and presentations have been featured at The YogaVille Ashram, The Huffington Post, She Recovers, the annual Women for Sobriety Conference, The Amazon Corporation, and The Holistic Immunity Summit. 

Rates for 4 day / 3 night yoga retreats: prices are per person
Communal bedroom shared bathroom - $1395 + tax

Private bedroom (one queen bed) shared bathroom - $1895 sgl / $1595 dbl + tax

Private King bedroom shared bathroom - $2095 sgl / $1695 dbl + tax

Cottage two bedrooms up to three guests (one king bed, one full bed), private bathroom with bathtub, kitchen, living room - $2995 sgl, / $1995 dbl / $1595 triple + tax

All prices are subject to change without notice.

Prices are per person and include the following:

Accommodation with comfy linens and towels

Cleansing, high vibrational meals included (This is a no alcohol retreat - vegan/vegetarian options available)

Vinyasa flow yoga and restorative yoga classes

Hot tub

Plenty of free time on the majestic grounds for mindful walking, journaling, meditation, and self-reflection.

Acupuncture can be arranged for additional fees.

Check-in is after 2 pm on the scheduled retreat date. Check-out is at noon on the scheduled last day of the retreat.