The Refuge

a seasonal practice community for those who want to live with their hearts turned toward life. Because there is no better way to spend a human lifetime than by compassionately, wisely, and humbly loving each other.

ENROLL FOR SPRING
ENROLL FOR THE YEAR

Payment plans available for seasonal and yearly enrollment.
To set up, please email hello@erinroseward.com


Spring is the season of emergence.
Of trembling honesty.
Of the first green shoots that push through the soil because they cannot help but live.
Of the heart remembering its courage, aliveness, and in-it-togetherness.

Together, we open gently — and we learn how to hold one another through the quivering beauty of that opening.

In this cohort, we practice the brave art of emotional expression — not the kind that spills everywhere, but the kind that tells the truth without abandoning the body.
We work with relational hygiene, communication as devotion, and the sacred task of letting ourselves be seen without hiding in the shadows of performance.

What We Practice in Spring

  • Emotional articulation rooted in the body

  • Relational presence without performance

  • Somatic support for vulnerability and expression

  • Boundaries that protect openness rather than close it

  • Compassion practices rooted in ancient and living contemplative traditions. Including: Yoga, Buddhism, and Christian mysticism.

  • Movement and breath that help the heart feel supported rather than exposed

Each session will include

  • Core teaching

  • Somatic + movement inquiry

  • Relational/emotional hygiene focus

  • Contemplative practice

  • Integration invitations

— Opening the Heartfield

SPRING 2026

begins Friday March 20
we meet every Friday at 11am pst
for 8 weeks.

ENROLL FOR SPRING
ENROLL FOR THE FULL YEAR

THE FOUR SEASONS OF THE REFUGE

Each season of The Refuge we gather for eight weeks at a time to explore the inner territory: the grief that asks to be met, the tenderness that wants to be honored, the joy that comes when we inhabit our bodies without apology. We practice the ancient ways — breath, meditation, movement, ritual, storytelling — not as abstractions but as living companions that steady us through what it means to be human.

Each season a doorway into a different dimension of the nervous system.
Each a training ground for becoming present, honest, and anchored in the heart.

Join for the entire year or just one season.

  • Choose the tier that reflects your financial reality. 

    Supported Tier — $350 per season

    For those with limited financial resources or fluctuating income.

    • Monthly plan: $120 per month (3 months)

     Standard Tier — $550 per season

    The true cost of the program; for those with steady income.

    • Monthly plan: $190 per month (3 months)

     Patron Tier — $800 per season

    For those who are financially resourced and want to help make the work accessible for others.

    • Monthly plan: $275 per month (3 months)

  • Know you’re all in for every season?
    This is for you.

    Bonuses for Year-Long Members:

    • One complimentary 1:1 session per season (4 total)

    • Welcome gift

    • Early access to retreats + advanced trainings

    • Discount on future add-on workshops

    • Locked-in pricing for future years

    Year-Long Pricing Options

     Supported Tier — $1,200 for the year

    (Equivalent to $300/season)
    Monthly Plan: $110/month

     Standard Tier — $1,900 for the year

    (Equivalent to ~$475/season)
    Monthly Plan: $175/month

    Patron Tier — $2,800 for the year

    (Equivalent to $700/season)
    Monthly Plan: $255/month

  • Scholarships available for those who are desiring to join, but in need of further financial assistance. Please email to hello@erinroseward.com

The Refuge is a space where we practice being with our emotions in skillful ways.

We turn towards spiritual perspective and devote our time
to connection with the sacred.

We embrace our aging human body and all of its knowing.

The Refuge is informed and inspired by both ancient and modern perspectives.

Gratitude to all of the teachers, organizations and mentorships that inform The Refuge.

EHA - Emotion Hygiene Alliance - A non-profit dedicated to fostering trauma-informed well-being education. The EHA frameworks thread throughout The Refuge, and Erin Rose has been in mentorship with the founder of the EHA for about two years.Learn about the EHA here.

THE 360 EMERGENCE - Founded by Amber Ryan and Kate Shela, The 360 Emergence is a free form movement modality that bridges dance and personal growth, rigor and freedom,
individuality and the global collective. Erin Rose completed The 360 Emergence Apprenticeship in 2023 and is an active facilitator of the craft. Learn about The 360 here.

INSIGHT - Kevin Courtney’s framework of supporting human awakening via various maps of the yoga tradition. Erin Rose completed Kevin’s apprenticeship in 2024. Erin has studied the path of yoga, specifically Tantra, with Kevin since 2017. Learn about INSIGHT here.

THE THREAD SEMINARY - Erin Rose is currently enrolled in The Thread interspirituality Seminary, headed by Rev. Melissa Stewart. This program looks at how faith traditions can serve our modern landscape and the various poly-crisis we face.

YOGA NIDRA with TRACEE STANLEY - The Refuge includes the deep rest practice of Yoga Nidra. Erin Rose trained in Yoga Nidra facilitation with Tracee Stanley in 2020. Learn about Tracee here.

What You Receive

The Refuge is not a course. It is a living, breathing, transformational container — a sacred training ground for the heart, body, and spirit.

Inside each season, you receive guidance, support, and companionship designed to meet you where you are and carry you into deeper layers of truth, agency, and embodiment.

Here’s what’s included:

  • These are our shared hearth — where teachings, movement, meditation, emotional hygiene, and somatic practices come alive in real time.
    Together we explore the inner terrain: the heartbreak, the courage, the clarity, the humanness that urges us toward evolution.

  • A dedicated 60 minute private session for deeper attunement, clarity, and embodiment.
    This is where your personal story, your edges, your longings, and your becoming get individualized support.
    These sessions are often described as “turning points” — where something lands, shifts, or releases in a way the body remembers.

  • Weekly practices — movement, meditation, breathwork, and guided somatic journeys — are recorded and yours for the duration of your time inside The Refuge.
    This means you can return again and again to the teachings that meet you most intimately.

  • Full-year members receive priority invitation to join the in-person Refuge retreat — a pilgrimage into deeper practice, community, embodiment, and belonging.
    This is where the threads of the year weave themselves into something in-person, unforgettable and holy.

There comes a point in every person’s life when the old ways of holding ourselves begin to crack. When the habits that once kept us safe no longer fit. When the body whispers for deeper ground, and the heart asks for companions who can hold the honest, trembling truth of who we are becoming.

There comes a point - and as humans we are at this place - where the individual identity must give way to a greater belonging. To the remembrance of interconnection and the reality that we are always in-this-together.

The Refuge was born from this awareness.

SUMMER 2026

— Living in Full Flame

Begins Friday June 26th
at 11ampst
We meet every Friday
for 8-weeks.

Summer is when we step into the sunlit center of our lives.
The fire, the passion, the solar plexus.
It is the season of embodied power — not dominance, not force, but the kind of power that comes from living aligned with our deepest integrity.

Here we claim our values:
What do I care about?
What do I stand for?
What lives at my center?

Here we explore capacity:
How much vitality can I hold?
How much joy?
How much clarity?
How much right action without losing the soft animal of my body?

We build the musculature of boundaries that support connection rather than harden.
We explore the somatic signatures of yes, no, and not yet.
We practice carrying our fire with grace.

Summer teaches us that we are allowed to shine.
And that our light is not a threat — it’s a blessing.

ENROLL FOR SUMMER

FALL 2026

— Harvest & Integration

Begins in September 11th
at 11ampst
We meet every Friday
for 8-weeks.

Fall is the season of gathering.
Of truth-telling.
Of bowing to what the year has shown you — both the beauty and the ache.

In these weeks, we practice closing loops with integrity, digesting experience into wisdom, and tending the parts of us that still feel unfinished.
We work with repair — relational, emotional, spiritual.
We honor what’s ready to be released and what wants to be carried forward.

Fall is where the threads come together.
Where understanding ripens.
Where the heart becomes both softer and stronger through the humility of reflection.

This is the season of integration — not tying things in neat bows, but honoring the real shape of what is.

Enrollment for Fall 2026 only cohort begins in July

Winter invites us into the holy hearth of our own being.
It’s the season where the world grows quiet enough for us to hear the truth whisper inside the bones.

In these eight weeks, we turn toward the nervous system with tenderness.
We explore the kind of stillness that doesn’t collapse us, but roots us.
Through breath, grounding, and gentle somatic work, we remember how to become a steady place for ourselves — especially when life feels like it’s shaking us loose.

This is not the stillness of avoidance.
This is the stillness of meeting.
Where the inner fire is tended softly, faithfully, without rush.

Winter teaches us how to sit with ourselves the way a loving mother sits beside a child who is learning how to breathe again.

Enrollment for Winter 2026 only cohort opens in October 2026.

— Tending the Inner Fire

WINTER 2026

Begins Dec 4
at 11ampst
We meet every Friday
for 8-weeks.

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What makes The Refuge stand out?

Live practice.
Emergent learning
Consistent rhythm.
Community that holds you.
A teacher who knows how to walk with you through the deep places.
A seasonal arc that aligns with the body’s natural wisdom.
1:1 support that meets the truth of your moment.
A full-year field that reshapes the way your nervous system, relationships, and heart experience life.

This is not a passive program.
It is a living altar.
A place where the old layers shed, where resilience grows, where the heart stretches wider than it ever thought possible, where agency and tenderness become allies.

This is work that changes you — not by force, but through devotion to this life.

This is a training ground for the human heart.
A remembering of who you are.
And a reclamation of what becomes possible when we walk the path together.


WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

“One conversation with Erin can change your life…Her radiant ethic of love can transform so much pain. I am forever grateful for the gift of Erin.”

— Natalie

“"Erin incorporates this sense of the body that is different from therapy, different from psychiatry, different from all these modalities I’ve learned to think about my life and feel about my life." 

— WHITNEY

“"The sense of community and growth you receive from committing to something like this with like minded women and a theme so close to your identity and being - it's incredible to me how much you can grow when you open your heart, verbalize your vulnerabilities/fears/etc., and feel no judgement - only support and love - from others who you never met in person. I've never really experienced this kind of power from having being witnessed."”

— SARA