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tap into the power of your heart

Explore the depths of your heart and tap into the guidance of your inner goddess as we commune in sacred sisterhood atop 3 acres of healing coral stone on the beautiful island of Puerto Rico.

For 4 magical days, you’ll activate and strengthen your connection to the innate higher wisdom of your heart through healing modalities including breathwork, meditation, plant medicine (ceremonial-grade cacao), yoga, and so much more. Because Play is a big part of Heart work, you will also get to explore some of Puerto Rico’s beautiful waterfalls and rainforest.

Heart Coach Shelsea Sanchez will lead the way as you venture within, but the expansion that will follow in your life as a result of this heart-opening experience will be all you.

We all have the intention to be successful, make a difference, and follow our dreams. But without living from our heart-centers, this journey can be overwhelming, stress-including, or even lead us away from our true, inner selves. Nurturing and honoring our body - mind - spirit is vital when it comes to operating from the heart, but we’re not automatically taught to do this, and it isn’t always in congruence with our outer, daily world.

When you learn to shift into your heart, everything changes. Living from the heart means going within, truly connecting with your inner self, and working through subconscious patterns and beliefs in a new, love-based way.

When you have the techniques and emotional tools to understand and work with your inner world from a heart-centered way, you’ll navigate life through a new lens. As you learn to go inward and truly, divinely honor and nourish yourself, you’ll find that your life is of your own creation, and that creating from your heart is your most powerful tool.

Work Heart // Play Heart | The Retreat was crafted intentionally to help gain access to a new level of healing and self-awareness through the power of opening, exploring, and living in-tune-with your heart.

Just imagine being in a state of complete flow…that feeling where your heart, mind, and body are one and you’re deeply connected with your inner self and those around you.

Not only is this expansion the transformation you’ve been craving, it’s a divine birthright that you’re worthy of energetically claiming.

reconnect with your heart

renew your vision of who you truly are

refresh your soul as you unplug from the day-to-day

this is right for you if...

You’re ready to say YES to living a true heart-centered life
You’re ready to level up your life
You’re intrigued by heart intelligence and the wisdom of this lifelong inner intuitive guide
You crave genuine human connection and a supportive container of like-minded women
You’re open-minded to healing modalities and practices like breathwork, meditation, plant medicine, yoga, and light therapy
Your soul is calling you to dive deeper into your most authentic self

what's included

Daily guided meditation to tap into your inner world.
Daily healing breathwork with certified facilitator Shelsea Sanchez to facilitate deep emotional healing.
Heart-opening pure cacao ceremony led by certified cacao practitioner Shelsea Sanchez so you’ll receive ultimate heart-coherence effects.
Lucia Light Therapy with certified practitioner Jenna Rose helps you journey inward and experience deep peace and wholeness.
Sound Healing led by facilitator Shelsea Sanchez to create harmony and repair disorders within your physical and energetic bodies.
Yoga + Intuitive Movement so you can experience full mind-body-spirit healing.
Guided heart-coherence workshops led by heart-coach Shelsea Sanchez and heart-centered therapist, Erica Thomason to teach you scientifically proven strategies for increasing heart-coherence.
Daily Cold Plunges for recovery
I've created this retreat for the woman who feels ready to tap into her inner wisdom, to explore the inner space of her heart...
You'll gain access to a new level of healing and self-awareness through the power of opening, exploring, and living in-tune-with your strongest energy center: the heart. This healing is amplified by the communion of sacred sisterhood and the magic of the surrounding natural elements.

your attendee pack

Journal
Fair trade blanket
Commemorative retreat green bag
Heat-centered goodies + swag!

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Shelsea Sanchez heart coach

I’ve always been driven by inspiring and empowering others. After a decade of owning a luxury Dallas salon, I made the pivot to course creation, and after going through my own transformative wellness journey, which included meditation, breathwork, and yoga, I launched Commune and Bloom, a conscious lifestyle and wellness brand.

My mission is to facilitate heart-centered, nurturing environments where women can connect, collaborate, grow, and share together. Commune and Bloom embodies the paradigm of leading with love. In this reality, business is about so much more than just making money, and being a leader has nothing to do with being a traditional “boss.”

My passion is holding space for others on their journey of consciousness expansion. I LOVE helping others tap into their own power, greatness, and personal toolbox of wisdom that lies within. When you realize you’re connected to a power that’s greater than any challenge you could face, you realize your infinite potential. That’s what I want you to feel and know is inside of you.

I’m a 200 hour Registered Yoga Teacher and Breathwork Facilitator. I’m also trained in Holographic Sound Healing and am a Ceremonial Cacao Practitioner.

YOU’RE the one changing your life – I’m just the facilitator.

♡ Shelsea Sanchez

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the retreat recap
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the breathwork experience

Breathwork is a powerful healing modality that involves consciously using your breath to bypass your mind and enter an embodied state of awareness (a non-ordinary state of consciousness). This practice opens the door to personal growth, awakening and transformation through improved mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual wellbeing. Your body carries a warehouse of stored emotions and dormant energy. Think of your breath as a portal into the body that clears out any of these suppressed energies! Imagine that your breath is like a broomstick, sweeping out all of the old energy out and inviting healing through bringing fresh oxygen to the body.

the benefits

For the Physical Body, Breathwork…
Increases energy and focus
Alleviates physical pain
Improves sleep, immunity, and digestion
Optimizes body function and homeostasis
For you Emotional Well Being, Breathwork…
Reduces anxiety and depression
Boosts happiness, self-worth, and self-love
Cultivates cathartic emotional release of trauma
Breaks patterns of negative thinking, behavior, and addictions
For Your Spirit, Breathwork…
Creates spaciousness, clarity, presence, and awareness
Accesses non-ordinary states of consciousness
Supports spiritual awakening and healing
Connects you to Source and your Higher Self

ceremonial cacao plant medicine

You’ll partake in Pure Ceremonial Grade Cacao ceremonies and experience the benefits of this heart-opening plant medicine as a ritual. Keith’s 100% Pure Ceremonial Cacao is loaded with minerals like magnesium, copper, calcium, zinc, and potassium, and iron. In fact, cacao contains the highest known plant-based source of iron.

Cacao has been scientifically proven to release serotonin, tryptophan, and tyrosine, a.k.a all of the “happy chemicals!” It also contains Phenylethylamine (PEA), the “love chemical” and Anandamide, the “bliss chemical”.

Overall, Ceremonial Cacao is a powerful facilitator to guide you inward toward your heart, as it “cuts through the mental clutter, enhancing focus and concentration while enabling you to hear your heart, making self-expression, creativity and connection easier and more enjoyable.”

Shelsea Sanchez began drinking Pure Ceremonial Cacao in 2019, and has never looked back.

“When I discovered all the benefits from this superfood and that it was a heart opener,” says Shel, “I was so intrigued.”

“I would drink it occasionally in small doses, and then had a profound experience when I went to my first Cacao Ceremony in Tulum with my husband. To see my husband (who I always jokingly call an “open minded skeptic”), have a heart-opening experience, I knew I HAD to share this “heart medicine” with the world and become a Cacao Practitioner, which I did,” she continues.

“Adding this heart-opening medicine to my retreats has helped facilitate a deep level of heart-healing.”

lucia light therapy

Lucia Light Therapy is a journey through your subconscious mind into light and greater consciousness. The light science of the Lucia N°03 Light will elevate your consciousness by encouraging your brain to enter a field of alpha-theta waves. Your brain then signals your central nervous system to relax and restore in a parasympathetic state, where deep healing is possible as the light activates neural networks and creates harmonic coherence within your brain.

The benefits from Lucia Light Therapy sessions include:

Reduced stress as result of down regulating your nervous system
Deepened sense of peace, realization, and unity
Increased creativity and ability to tap into the “flow state”
Reconnects you to your inner Spirit
Activates your Light Body
Allows you to step out of time and back into yourself

Heart-Centered Lucia Light Facilitator Jenna Rose has a gift for creating sacred space for Light Travelers to regulate their nervous systems while journeying with the Lucia N°03. Jenna will lead you into heart-coherence as you prepare to experience the Light, guiding you toward inner healing, cleansing, and ultimately, into the portal of your own heart.

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Sound healing is the use of sound, or vibrational frequencies, to create harmony and repair dis-order within the body.

Everything in the universe is vibration – even things that seem like they’re solid are actually made up of vibrating particles. Sound also has a vibration, as do our bodies. When our bodies are in dis-order, it just means that our system or a part of our system is vibrating at a rate that is dissonant with orderliness.

To heal, we can introduce a sound that is resonant with order, which will infiltrate the disorderly system and begin to unlock a remembrance of what order and peace feels like. As the disorderly system changes, the sound that resonates with order will shift the entire system back into harmony. This transformative process is called entrainment.

We’ll be using sound healing as a group, which is especially powerful, as the resonance is that much stronger. Sitting in sacred sound with others is a healing experience that creates and illuminates powerful soul connections.

sound therapy

In 2021, Erica and I launched our Work of Heart 4-week online livestream course. The feedback we received on this course coupled with our own heart-expanding journeys through the months of course creation inspired us to create an in-person workshop experience within the Work Heart // Play Heart retreat.

This exclusive Heart-Coherence Workshop is designed to help you shift your inner focus from operating in survival patterns to embodying a conscious state of flow. You’ll learn how to lead with love in all aspects of your life as you gain courage, resilience, creativity, authenticity, and self-love.

Through this powerful series of workshops, you’ll learn how to uncover and embody your shadows and celebrate the dark and the light parts of yourself, to love yourself holistically and unconditionally.

You’ll gain skills surrounding topics like:

Heart + Brain Coherence
Self-Awareness
Self-Regulation
Conscious Communication
Leading with Love
Embodying the Essence of Your Heart

By participating in and committing to this Work of Heart, you’ll learn how to move beyond the illusion of limitation and express the essence of your soul vibrantly and authentically. As you practice the heart-centered skills you'll learn, you’ll radiate the energy of your heart-center into all areas of your life. You’ll become a magnet for radical, magical energetic abundance.