container for stillness, observation, and awareness
Retreat Unfolding
A few quiet days to step outside habitual momentum and meet experience more fully.
An invitation to observe the mind with honesty, steadiness, and care.
These retreats are for anyone seeking a more mindful, intentional, and deeply present way of moving through life. Through shared practice, silence, movement, and nature, we create space to slow down, observe more carefully, and reconnect with what matters.
Movement
Simple, steady movement to bring attention into the body. Noticing how you move and where you hold tension.
Meditation
Time spent sitting and noticing. Breath, sound, sensation. Learning to stay with what is here, without trying to change it.
Reflection
Time without structure. For exploring, journaling, or doing nothing.
Time outdoors
Walking and being outside, without rush. Attention to what is here, as it unfolds.
Retreats are held at Aldermarsh Retreat Center. Aldermarsh is situated on the edge of a beautiful marshland on the south end of Whidbey Island. The wooded 5 acre facility is integrated with its natural setting where community, collaboration and sustainability thrive. The grounds include a cordwood sauna, an outdoor heated Japanese soaking tub, beautiful gardens, an outdoor fire pit, and maintained pathways through acres of natural wetlands.
Retreats are guided by Sarvinder Kaur, founder of TrailBliss. She is a 500-hour registered yoga teacher and mindfulness meditation teacher with more than two decades of personal practice. Her learning has been shaped by teachers in India and the United States, and by years of steady work on the mat and in daily life.
Sarvinder teaches from lived experience rather than theory. Her aim is to offer clear, grounded tools for cultivating peace, compassion, and resilience in an ever-changing world.
Outside of teaching, she is a hiker, backpacker, mountaineer, and long-time volunteer with King County Search and Rescue.
Upcoming Retreats
Winter Retreat
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