A Return to Alignment
The Expansion Experience
Jan 7-10, 2027
Phoenix
Self-care + self-development (wrapped in Sacred sauce) =
a delicious soul-development experience!
Life is often full. Meaningful. Good, even.
And then something shifts. The world intrudes. Our routines slip. We stay up too late. We watch the news even though we know better. The practices that steady us quietly fall away, not because we don’t value them, but because we’re tired.
Emotionally, we feel less grounded. More reactive. Pulled off center. Overwhelmed. And somewhere inside, we know we’re allowing it.
It can be exhausting.
Until... it isn’t.
The Expansion Experience is an intimate, immersive retreat for conscious professionals who are ready to return to alignment and live from it.
This experience is not about collecting more information. It’s about creating the conditions to live what matters.
This is not a seminar or a peak experience that fades when you return home.
Expansion is a lived progression. Through guided inner work, somatic practices, ritual, movement, energy-based alignment, and facilitated reflection, alignment becomes something you inhabit, not something you try to maintain.
Is Expansion right for YOU?
The Expansion Experience is ideal for:
- conscious professionals
- leaders, guides, creatives, and advisors
- those feeling called to recalibrate
- those who feel “out of practice" and ready to return to what steadies them
- individuals seeking depth without dogma
The Arc of Expansion
The Expansion Experience unfolds as a grounded progression,
with each pillar building on the one before it to support lived integration.
Return to Inner Alignment
Through meditation, breathwork, energy-based practices, & guided stillness, internal noise softens and your inner landscape steadies. This becomes the foundation for everything that follows.
Embodying Presence
Gentle movement, somatic awareness, nervous-system regulation, and time in nature help you inhabit your body with greater ease. Presence becomes felt, not conceptual.
Listening to Inner Guidance
As mind and body settle, your inner signal becomes clearer. You learn to distinguish intuition from habit, fear, or external pressure, supporting aligned decision-making in daily life.
Living as a Conscious Co-Creator
Attention turns outward. You explore how presence, emotion, energy, and intention shape lived experience, supporting leadership, communication, and conscious choice without force or striving.
Integrating Alignment into Daily Life
The retreat closes by anchoring what you’ve experienced into everyday rhythms. You leave with simple, embodied practices that support steadiness long after you return home.
Expansion is a YES! to recalibration.
Jan 7-10, 2027
Phoenix Area
Expansion takes place in a private home setting, chosen to support ease, comfort, and presence.
Limited in size to allow the work to unfold with care and responsiveness.
The experience includes morning practices, guided sessions, movement, time in nature, shared meals, and ritual - woven together to support both depth and sustainability.
Participants gather virtually for two live, one-hour Zoom sessions in November and December to set intentions, identify what is ready to be released, and begin forming the group container.
Holding the Container
Kelly Burns, M.Ed., CMI, CYT
Kelly brings over two decades of guiding somatic literacy, embodiment, and mindful presence. As founder of Earth Eagle Somatics and an educator of leaders, Kelly holds space with wisdom, grounded practice, and human-first insight, supporting deep connection to body, spirit, and Source in everyday life.
Vanessa Emerson, FDSI
Vanessa is a conscious leadership guide, educator, and retreat host devoted to helping professionals deepen their lived connection to Source. Through alignment-based practices, embodied awareness, and practical integration, she supports sustained presence, discernment, and the capacity to live one’s dharma with steadiness in real life.
Laura Schwindt, DDS, FDSI
Dr. Laura Schwindt bridges nutrition and choice, guiding participants into self-led nourishment rooted in awareness and choice. Her interactive approach moves beyond rules and plans, inviting a deeper relationship with food that supports sustainable well-being.
You!
Each Expansion participant is invited into shared leadership, offering one personal practice that supports returning to inner alignment and staying there. Through collective teaching and lived experience, the group becomes both guide and witness, creating a rich, grounded exchange of practices that sustain steadiness, and connection.
Expand Your Impact with Expansion.
"There’s nothing like Expansion to step away from the noise and gain clarity. It’s not about working in or on your business—but rising above it to reconnect with your true direction. If you’re feeling stuck or spinning your wheels, this experience will help you expand your impact—from the inside out."
A safe space to be human, vulnerable & transparent.
"So much of life measures us by what we do. Expansion gave me space to simply be—human, vulnerable, honest. It’s a rare gift to say “I don’t know” and feel completely safe. We’re all Better2Gether—and this experience reminded me just how much that matters."
"If you seek transformation & clarity, this experience is a must!" I left empowered, energized, and ready to embrace my best self."
"Can’t wait to be back next year! I was honored to be in the room with so many wonderful souls. Thank you for creating this unique meeting."
"Expansion is a powerful event! I am so grateful to Vanessa Emerson for being a brilliant light
for all of us."
"I am still carrying Expansion with me. Meeting this kind, powerful, caring community, and beginning the year with powerful reflection & intention was truly meaningful."
Noelle McWard
Facilitated by The Evolving Expert
"I'm still reeling after this event! Thank you to every soul that was there and shared so profoundly. This was a magical, transformative experience. I'll be taking the knowledge and your hearts with me from here on out."
"Words cannot express how grateful I am to have witnessed and captured this beautiful, transformative experience."
Kyra Rahn
"This event was the most loving and life-giving way to start a new year. Will you join us next year???"
Kelly Burns
"This was an extraordinary and unique experience unlike anything in our industry. Align your 'to-be' list before the hustle begins. My January was transformed because of this meeting, and I know the rest of my year will be too."
Not merely a retreat.
Expansion offers a profound awakening of the spirit - a sacred space where healing, love, and compassion flow freely. Expansion empowers us to live fully, feel deeply, and connect beyond words.
Powerful! Join us!
The Expansion experience is a deeply resonant space where we can explore our roots - in nature, within ourselves, and in community. This is a powerful way to begin the new year and dive deeper into my personal truths.
Forever on my "want to attend" list.
The Expansion community is loving kindness, articulate others-focused passion and directed drive WITH committed intention. This was a powerful two days.
Expansion is brought to you by
Launching mid-2026, ConsciousConnectionHub.com is a digital sanctuary for those walking the path of personal growth, soul nourishment, and conscious living. Open and accessible to all, the Hub invites you to follow your curiosity - where reflections, teachings, and insights from a collective of coaches, teachers, and wellness influencers await, shared with heart and intention.
Much more than "content", this is a community. A place where seekers find clarity, and contributors connect with kindred spirits while making a meaningful difference.
Built to inspire. Powered by purpose.
Rooted in the belief that we’re meant to expand—together.
Future Expansion Experience Dates
January 6-8, 2028
January 4-6, 2029
