Pause & Renew August 2025
With Carrie Demers, MD
August 22 - 24, 2025
Get away for a weekend of therapeutic massage, biofeedback sessions, and Private yoga sessions designed to help you unwind and feel refreshed.
This retreat puts rejuvenation and optimal health in your hands. This 3-day program provides you with relaxing and therapeutic services which will support you in your journey to creating renewed wellness and a balanced life.
Pause and Renew Retreat Includes:
A 60-Minute Integrative Consultation: This 60-minute medical and lifestyle consultation will provide an integrative approach to renewing your health. Combining concepts from allopathic (conventional), homeopathic, and ayurvedic medicine, core faculty member Carrie Demers, MD, will work with you to understand your health needs, make recommendations for a balanced lifestyle, and suggest natural medicines and supplements that support healing.
Daily 60-Minute Bodywork Treatment: Our highly skilled massage therapy staff will release muscular tension and restore the flow of healing energy in your body through individual bodywork treatments. Multiple treatments are sure to unwind stress and bring peace to body and mind.
A 60-minute Building Resilience Assessment: Resilience is the capacity to prepare for, recover from, and adapt in the face of stress, adversity, trauma, or challenge. In this session modern, computerized biofeedback techniques will be used to assess your breathing and resilience.
A 60-Minute Private Yoga Session: Our senior yoga teachers will use the tools of yoga (postures, breathing, relaxation and meditation) to help you find more ease and freedom in your body and mind. These private yoga sessions are tailored to each individual, focusing on your specific needs. You will discover simple techniques that will make a profound impact on your healing journey.
The program begins with an orientation on Friday evening and concludes at lunch on Sunday.
About the Leader

Carrie Demers, MD
Board-certified in both internal medicine and integrative medicine, Carrie Demers, MD, is a holistic physician who blends modern medicine with traditional approaches to health. After receiving her medical degree from the University of Cincinnati, Dr. Demers went on to study massage, homeopathy, nutrition, herbal medicine, yoga, and Ayurveda. She has been the medical director of […]
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