Follow the path.
Come home to the heart.
Be the refuge
For those who feel the weight of the world and choose to lean in to community and practice.
For those who wish to keep spiritually deepening — walking the path of the heart with courage, compassion, and devotion.
For those who believe that embodying both wisdom and joy is essential to planetary health.
For those who wish to reclaim their agency, perspective, and effectiveness in the world.
Welcome to The Refuge.
The Refuge is a heart-led online sanctuary where embodied practice, soulful counsel, and diverse wisdom traditions meet.
Join us for weekly live classes, deep-dive immersions, transformational trainings, and a rich library of on-demand practices.
Come home to your body, your truth, and a community devoted to the path of the heart.
The Refuge Blessing
May this place be a refuge for you.
May you find both enlivenment and restoration here.
May you have a place to grieve and touch awe.
May your insight and wisdom flourish here.
May you fall deeper in love with your one aging body.
May interdependence be the location of your seeing.
May your efforts bear fruit for you, your communities, and all beings.
May we become a refuge for all sentient hearts.
What's Inside Your Membership
Weekly Live Classes
Stay rooted and inspired through a rotating schedule of live practices including:
Yoga Asana to awaken the body and clear energy
The 360 Emergence: movement as spiritual expression and embodied revelation
Breathwork for emotional release and nervous system regulation
Yoga Nidra to access deep rest and subconscious healing
Each class is a space to return to the body, the breath, and the present moment.
Twice-Monthly Group Counsels
Gather in a safe, sacred space for community-based healing and reflection.
Share and be witnessed in whatever is alive for you
Receive gentle guidance and nervous system tools for grounding and resilience
Held by skilled facilitators, these circles nourish belonging and emotional integration
Deep Dive Immersions
Quarterly programs designed to deepen your practice and expand your spiritual understanding.
Explore themes aligned with seasonal rhythms and natural cycles
Engage in multi-week journeys with a blend of live sessions, ritual, movement, and reflection
Learn from diverse traditions while grounding into your own embodied wisdom
Access to Advanced Trainings
For space-holders, guides, and aspiring facilitators, The Refuge offers:
Opportunities to join advanced trainings in somatic leadership, group facilitation, and trauma-informed practice
Tools to deepen your presence, expand your offerings, and lead from embodied integrity
A supportive container to grow your work in service to collective
On-Demand Practice Library
Access a growing archive of guided practices, including:
Yoga and intuitive movement sessions
Meditation and mindfulness journeys
Breathwork and Yoga Nidra recordings
Short and long formats to fit your rhythm and needs
Whether you have 10 minutes or an hour, your spiritual toolkit is always within reach.
FALL: Descent & Devotion
September – November
Quarterly Immersion: Tantric Yoga Meditation (6 weeks)
A journey into breath, energy, and sensual stillness — cultivating presence, opening inner channels, and deepening intimacy with self.
Weekly classes explore devotion, grounding, sensual embodiment.
Council themes: Letting Go, Erotic Aliveness, Root & Ritual.
SPRING: Emergence & Rebirth
March – May
Quarterly Immersion: The 360 Emergence (6 weeks)
Embodied liberation through movement, archetype, and expression. A homecoming to body and soul through dance-as-prayer.
Weekly classes amplify creativity, vitality, voice, and joy.
Council themes: Becoming, Thresholds, Play & Possibility.
WINTER: Silence & Dreaming
December – February
Quarterly Immersion: Yoga Nidra (6 weeks)
A sanctuary of sacred rest and subconscious revelation. Practice rest as a portal, as resistance, as remembrance.
Weekly classes focus on slow movement, voice healing, shadow inquiry.
Council themes: Dreambody, Inner Child, Ancestral Listening.
SUMMER: Expansion & Surprise
June – August
Quarterly Immersion: Mystery Path (6 weeks)
Curated spontaneously based on community need and seasonal energy — could be plant medicine integration, sensuality series, sacred anger, or guest-led experience.
Weekly classes support joy, expression, radiance, and inner fire.
Council themes: Desire, Sovereignty, Pleasure, Wildness.
From Erin Rose
Welcome, beloved.
My name is Erin Rose Ward, and I’m honored to invite you into The Refuge—an online spiritual sanctuary, a lighted house on the hill, where practice and community help us remember the home we carry inside: the refuge of love in our own hearts.
In this space, we honor the truth of our humanity. The grief, the pressure, the beauty, and the longing that come with living in a fast-paced, fractured world. Together, we slow down. We connect. We remember who we are—again and again—through embodied practice, sacred conversation, and soul-rooted support.
The Refuge is where we gather to:
Digest the ache of being alive and make something beautiful from it.
Meet fear with compassion, and walk through the gates of separation into a landscape of joy.
Become a refuge—for ourselves, for one another, and for a world in deep need of grace.
The practices and offerings within The Refuge—from our weekly live classes to seasonal immersions and heartfelt community councils—are born from a confluence of rivers:
Mystical traditions including Yoga, Tibetan Buddhism, and Tantra
Science backed approached to nervous system healing and trauma-informed care
Depth psychology, interfaith understanding, and embodied spirituality
I bring to this space over a decade of devotion: years of yogic self-study, mystical inquiry, graduate work in depth psychology, current training in interfaith ministry and chaplaincy, and mentorship through the EHA—a trauma-informed model for nervous system and soul health.
This is not just a program.
It’s a practice ground for the heart and the body. A place where science and spirit meet.
Where structure supports spontaneity.
Where love can do what it does best—remind us we belong.
So let’s begin.
Let’s play in the edgeless field of the heart.
Let’s come as we are and let love shape us.
Let’s become the refuge the world is asking for.
Welcome home.
Let’s lean into love—together—and see what unfolds.
