Institute Retreat | Wintering: Seasonality, Physicality, Spirituality with Re-Well

With the new year comes new opportunity for making self-betterment goals with gusto! But those intentions can come with confusion, lack of support, and are all too often devoid of the Spirit’s guidance. Somewhere along the line, we forgot how deeply interconnected our spiritual selves are to our physical bodies. Our spirit resides within the physical form that God fearfully and wonderfully made, and as Christians our physical bodies are also (mysteriously) the place where God’s Spirit dwells. Therefore when Scripture calls our bodies a temple, it is a physical reality and not just a philosophical idea.

Despite this divine design of interconnection, we tend to separate the spiritual from the physical in our thoughts and in our actions. We don’t know what to eat, or when, we deprive ourselves of sleep and expose our bodies to toxins, we disassociate the stress in our spirits from our bodily reaction, all resulting in disease and disorder.

But God’s desire is to reconnect our spirits with our bodies, because it is in our bodies that His Spirit dwells. It is in the fullness of our embodied form that we can experience His Kingdom breaking into this world.

How can we grow in spiritual discernment to know how to nourish, care for, and strengthen our bodies? How can we experience the power of the Spirit leading us toward a fullness that encompasses both body and soul? And how can we embrace the seasons as a divine pattern for overall flourishing?

This 1.5 day collaboration with Re-Well is the first in a four-part seasonal series unfolding in 2025, in a new location each quarter!

Space is limited for this retreat; secure your spot today!

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Details:

Location: Midtown Manhattan, NYC
Cost: $500 (individual) / $900 (couple)
Your registration includes several of the group meals and all retreat sessions and materials, but does not include lodging. 

About your Guides:

About Re-well: We care for your body, soul, and spirit – all under one roof. Through a Functional Medical model, we are bringing clarity instead of confusion, connection instead of fragments, wellness instead of a facade, truth instead of guesses, and power instead of prescriptions.

Dr. Chika Okoli earned her B.S. in Sports Medicine from Samford University. She then went on to complete medical school at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA where she graduated Cum Laude. She completed her internship and residency training at The Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, CT. She earned the honor of Resident of the Year during her second year of training. She was recognized as a Global Health Scholar through the Yale/Stanford Johnson & Johnson Global Health Scholars Program for the work she did in Tugela Ferry, South Africa. Following residency, she began working as an attending physician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

Amber Gentry earned her B.S. in Psychology from Texas A&M University. She then went on to serve in various Christian churches and ministries for 15 years, while raising three awesome kids. In 2016 she went back to school to the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, for nutrition and coaching. What she learned was astounding but true: we are perpetuating 80% of our disease and disorders through our food and lifestyle habits. She founded her private Health Coaching practice in 2017, and has coached clients from all over the country on how to find the best way to eat for their bodies, in accordance with their bio-individuality, and connected with their culture and heritage. Amber specializes in coaching busy professionals and their families towards abundance and peace.