The Inaugural Gathering · November 16 – 19, 2026 · Joyful Journey Hot Springs, Colorado
A Tuners Retreat
Reserve your spotThe inaugural gathering
A gathering for those who tune
The Tuners Retreat is made for practitioners and students alike — people who are ready to do this work together in community, held in an astounding landscape.
This is all about community — growing together, expanding your skillset, and finally getting to experience the work you give to others on your own body, in person, nourished in nature.
An open high desert sky. The Sangre de Cristo mountains at your back. Geothermal waters rising up from the earth. We'll be held in a wild landscape open for transformation — between the mountains, supported by the waters.
Our four days together will hold integrative movement sessions, diversified sound healing, and intentional workshops — with organic meals shared throughout together. You'll receive tuning daily while learning how to deepen how you work with sound and the body in brand new ways.
Please join us for the inaugural Tuners Retreat.
"Building roots in community and resonance together."
Joyful Journey Hot Springs
What we'll share
The full experience
Jillian leading an embodied entrepreneur workshop, Marielle guiding plant meditations with full access to our plant medicine bar, and Matt introducing his Sonic Somatic Method™ — a new approach to tuning fork application you'll both learn and experience firsthand.
Daily morning practices to ground into the body and begin each day rooted in yourself before the day unfolds.
Enjoy giving and receiving daily with your forks. Attune your skills, and receive lots of direct on-the-body work from your peers throughout our days together.
Daily integrative sound baths for all to receive — gongs, singing bowls, and other instruments, including our own voices. Integrative sound from skilled practitioners.
Unlimited access to Joyful Journey's geothermal mineral pools — ancient water rising from the earth, the best kind of integration.
Simple, nourishing meals — breakfast, lunch, and dinner — all prepared fresh and organic, served on-site.
The land
Into the wilds of
Colorado
The San Luis Valley is different. Spacious, expansive, wide open skies. Ringed by the Rocky Mountains, sitting at 7,700 feet — it has a quality of stillness that is rare and real. Spending days in the valley itself is a reset. Add geothermal mineral pools, the last golden aspens of the season, star-flooded November skies, and crisp high-desert air, and you have a location that does profound work just by being what it is. Add in our community, and voilà — we can't wait to welcome you.
Joyful Journey Hot Springs has held retreats, gatherings, and seekers for decades — a true refuge far from the buzz of city life. It will hold this gathering beautifully.
This is Colorado's wildness, away from the noise and crowds — open land, dark skies, and space to simply be.
San Luis Valley
Sangre de Cristo views
& hot springs access
clear skies, mineral water
A collaborative container
Held by a grounded, full-hearted team
A skilled, intentional team has come together to create this container — our facilitator circle is now complete.
MV
Marielle is a true wild woman long devoted to natural expression, connection to nature, and having a good ol' time. A folk herbalist based in Buena Vista, Colorado, she's eager to share the beautiful places she's found amongst her home here in the Rockies. She's been teaching sound healing and embodiment globally for 7 years, and is elated to welcome you all to this stunning neck of the woods.
MC
Melinda is a radiantly attuned woman who has been running regular women's circles from her home in Uvita, Costa Rica for over 10 years. We are elated to have her stateside gathering our group — her sound baths are otherworldly. She's the humble kind of woman who can cackle right beside you one moment and effortlessly peer into your soul the next, offering you the reflection you didn't know you needed.
JF
Joining us from her home in Sisters, OR, we are honored to have Jillian on board guiding the week and offering strategic Empowered Entrepreneur workshops to help everyone continue the momentum after our gathering ends. She's a down-to-earth powerhouse — a trained life coach and former Director of Training for Biofield Tuning.
MF
Matt Faldmo is a Certified Rolfer, sound therapist, Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and founder of The Sonic Somatic Method™, a vibration-based somatic modality that integrates tuning fork vibration with hands-on fascial bodywork for nervous system reconnection. With over a decade of experience in sound facilitation and 6 years as lead instructor for a national tuning fork training program, Matt brings a unique clinical perspective to the intersection of vibration and the body — work he carries out from his home in Sisters, OR.
Holly is a Licensed Vibrational Sound Therapy Practitioner on a mission to liberate human potential by clearing subconscious blockages held in the body. An International Teacher and Advanced Practitioner in Biofield Tuning, she also facilitates TRE, BBTRS Acute Trauma Therapy, Vibroacoustic Therapy, Oxygen Advantage Breathwork, and Reiki — layering years of experience into targeted nervous system support that helps you arrive at deep inner peace.
Co-facilitation
Our team is full — thank you for your interest!
We've had an enormous response, and all co-facilitator spots have now been filled. We're so grateful to everyone who reached out to share their gifts — and we can't wait to weave this gathering together with the beautiful team that's formed.
Investment
Choose your space
All tiers include the full retreat experience — workshops, circles, meals, and hot springs access. The difference is simply where you sleep.
Many of our tuners choose to share — it's a beautiful way to deepen connection with a fellow practitioner before you even arrive.
w/ a fellow tuner
- Yurt with queen + twin beds
- Your own dedicated bed
- Mountain views
- 3 nights accommodation
- Breakfast, lunch & dinner daily
- All workshops & circles
- Unlimited hot springs access
private space
- Private yurt, yours alone
- Mountain views
- 3 nights accommodation
- Breakfast, lunch & dinner daily
- All workshops & circles
- Unlimited hot springs access
private & comfortable
- Private hotel room, yours alone
- 3 nights accommodation
- Breakfast, lunch & dinner daily
- All workshops & circles
- Unlimited hot springs access
w/ a fellow tuner
- Two-queen hotel room
- Your own dedicated bed
- 3 nights accommodation
- Breakfast, lunch & dinner daily
- All workshops & circles
- Unlimited hot springs access
two private bedrooms
- Your own private bedroom
- Full shared kitchen
- 3 nights accommodation
- Breakfast, lunch & dinner daily
- All workshops & circles
- Unlimited hot springs access
All private rooms are sold out — thank you for the incredible response! We understand that sharing a sleeping space can feel sensitive, and we want you to know we take that seriously. We'll do our very best to pair you with someone who feels like a genuinely great match.
Don't have a roommate in mind? We'll help match you — just let us know at registration.
Workshops & offerings
Learn from our facilitators
This retreat is designed to expand your skillset and deepen your practice — from mindset work to tangible, on-the-body fascia awareness. You'll leave with deeper knowledge, built in community.
A strategic, embodied workshop for practitioners building or growing their own practice. Jillian draws on her background as a trained life coach and former Director of Training for Biofield Tuning to guide you through the mindset shifts, business foundations, and practical next steps to keep your momentum going long after the retreat ends — so you leave not just inspired, but equipped.
In this hands-on workshop, you'll experience a completely new approach to tuning fork application grounded in nervous system science, fascial anatomy, and proprioceptive reconnection. You'll learn how vibration travels through bone and fascia to re-map the brain's relationship with the body, and why conscious participation transforms a session from passive treatment into active reconnection. Instruction is woven together with guided practice, so you don't just learn the technique — you experience it firsthand, leaving with tools you can immediately bring into your own work.
Receive from the plants themselves. Marielle will offer embodied herbalism throughout the weekend, sharing wildcrafted medicines of the Rockies to deepen your connection to this time and place. A guided plant meditation journey is offered to help you hone in to listening from the plants — similar to how we listen to the field, but learning from the green ones themselves. Pure plant magic, and how to support your clients with the same.
TRE (Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises) uses a series of simple, body-based exercises to activate the body's natural shaking reflex — releasing deep muscular tension and helping the nervous system settle out of chronic stress patterns. Holly guides you through the foundational TRE sequence and how it complements tuning fork work, since both speak directly to the nervous system: helping the body move out of bracing and tension and back into a felt sense of safety and calm.
Questions
Good things
to know
Practical
What to bring
A more detailed packing list will be sent closer to the gathering. For now, just bring:
If you'd like to bring more sound healing tools — amazing.
Colorado can get chilly in November — perfect for soaking!