Retreats
The Soul Reset V
Saturday, November 8, 2025
Rancho de Vida, Johnson City, Texas
Immerse yourself in a transformative and uplifting one-day women's retreat in the Texas Hill Country on Saturday, November 8, 2025. At this, our 5th Soul Reset, you'll glean from other wise women and explore topics that will rejuvenate your mind, body and spirit.
This time finds us digging deep for new life skills to handle a changing world where so much is coming at us fast. Initially, I resisted creating a theme to this year’s Soul Reset. Instead, to put together this year’s lineup, I visited with other Soul Resetters, and tapped into to my heart about what women need most right now. After generous speakers said yes, I looked at the list of wisdom bringers and voila! The theme was right there: Resilience & Joy.
Building and practicing resiliency is hard work, so we need to remember to reconnect with joy. It’s something women, (caretakers and caregivers that we are), forget to make room for in our lives. Doing so brings us back to our light.
Soul Resets are a one-day immersive (re)treat in the Texas Hill Country. You will enmesh with other wonderful women and learn from them, and they from you. You will connect more deeply to yourself, and others with learnings, laughter, music, food, and art in a unique cauldron.
2025 Soul Reset Speakers
We've got an incredible group of women generously sharing their knowledge this year. Join us for a day that promises to reset your heart and soul.
Jen Ostrich
The Enneagram—Become a More Integrated Version of Yourself
Jen is a sought-after executive coach, podcast host, and author. As CEO of Grow Collective, she leads the charge creating content and coaching focusing on coaching and developing powerful women leaders. She's been an active certified practitioner and huge believer in the Integrative9 Enneagram having witnessed profound awareness among hundreds of executives and teams. Many of you may know about the power of the Enneagram, a personality map featuring nine types. Its power lies in how it’s able to help you deeply understand yourself so you can learn how to manage your underlying motivation (which was created as a means to protect you as a child) so it’s not managing you. We cannot work to shift something that we cannot see. The Enneagram insights are like getting the keys to unlocking you. It’s a beautiful growth map, showing you where you are today, and what the pathways are to become full integrated into your best, most healthy self. It’s the “why” behind “what” you do. It’s psychologically and spiritually based and has been around for centuries.
In her Soul Reset session Jen will illustrate how the Enneagram is a beautiful map for inner work and development. (You can take an Enneagram test online--see box below--and your “type” number shows you what your subconscious motivation is and how that drives how you behave). By learning your core type you can then begin to deeply understand the why behind how you think, feel, and act. This is an invitation to wake up to all parts of you and learn what your own individual growth map looks like to evolve into your highest, most authentic self.
If you haven’t done so before, we encourage you to take an Enneagram test before you come to enhance your takeaways from this session. You can find some online to take for free, but Jen recommends these two links to get your Enneagram type: Integrative9 Test on Grow Collective Site: Offers a personal one for $60 and a professional (more extensive for the workplace) for $120 CP Enneagram: Offers a less extensive one but highly credible for $45
Karina Maria, LPC
The Goddess Story, Guided Meditation & Somatic Goodness
Karina María is a Licensed Professional Counselor, life coach, and psychedelic guide who took us on a powerful somatic journey at the Soul Reset two years ago. She supports people on their spiritual path to unlock their inner power and live abundant, meaningful lives. Her work weaves psychedelics, archetypal psychology, and breathwork, all grounded in a somatic and trauma-informed approach. Karina María offers 1:1 online support and leads women’s retreats in Colorado. The guidance she offers is deeply inspired by her time with the Arhuaco and Kogi peoples of Colombia, her ancestral homeland, and by the mythic teachings of Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés and the Awakening Women Institute.
Karina Maria will take you into a space of deep remembering. A space where you can exhale… soften… and come home to yourself. This offering is about slipping into a state of ease and connection—and the quiet strength that lives inside your body. Through the telling of a Goddess story, gentle breathwork, a nourishing body scan, and a guided meditation, Karina María will guide you in opening to your own resilience and joy. From this softened, grounded place, you’ll be gently invited into connection with the other participants and the land.
Dr. Gigi Dunn
Healing—A Full Circle Journey with the Vagus Nerve as Our Guide
Gigi Dunn, MD, and her rich presentation at last year’s Soul Reset about the impact of trauma on our bodies had many aha moments for us. This year, she’ll share the role neuroscience plays in creating our path to inner peace, hope, and healing. Much is now coming into popular knowledge about the vagus nerve and its importance to our physical and emotional health.
In these times of societal uncertainty and rapid transformation, turmoil can present individually in physical, emotional, and behavioral ways. In the context of real-life examples of the recurring climate events that are common to most of us, Gigi will help us navigate healing and the full circle journey with the “wandering” vagus nerve as our guide.
Gigi spent 20 years as a clinical anesthesiologist and physician executive in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Propelled by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, she made a big pivot to introduce a new paradigm in population wellbeing through evidence-based educational programming after completing an Integrative Medicine fellowship through the renowned Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine. Gigi is also certified in traumatic stress studies, and has authored healthcare journal articles on trauma, moral injury, and burnout. She’s currently working with physicians, nurses, and healthcare executives by collaborating with medical centers and medical schools to create a Center for Compassion and Wellbeing in Medicine.
Laurie Benson
Wild Hope & Emergent Wisdom: a Guided Forest Therapy Walk
Laurie is a beloved speaker at the Soul Reset (those at last year’s will remember her inspiring talk on Wild Hope). This year, Laurie will take us on a guided Forest Therapy Walk in the woods and creek of the ranch to reconnect with the wisdom and gifts of the natural world.
Forest Therapy evolved from Shinrin Yoku, a practice that saw a resurgence in Japan in the 1980’s when their government saw a dramatic increase in cancer and auto-immune diseases. They realized this was directly linked to their shift to a technology dependent society and decreased time in nature. The science is now proving that spending time among the trees, and in nature decreases cortisol levels, reduces inflammation, reduces stress and the physical impacts of stress, and so much more.
We have evolved alongside all of the beings of the natural world and co-exist in a relationship of reciprocity. Their gifts and wisdom are abundant. Trees, and other plants emit phytoncides - their natural defense mechanism - to keep themselves safe from disease and infestation. Science has now proven that these phytoncides also activate our NK cells that fight cancer within our bodies.
Laurie will begin her walk with a session on Wild Hope and how important it is to care for ourselves during challenging times. It’s important that we move into action right now in a way that honors our own health and well-being alongside the health and well-being of the planet. After the walk, Laurie will share easy invitations we can take with us to continue this beautiful practice at home.
Laurie has been an entrepreneur and community organizer for over 20 years. She is an adventurer who has traveled the world leading groups of women from New Mexico to the Ecuadorian Amazon and lots of places in between. As an author and speaker, she has had the honor of supporting and working within Indigenous communities around the world. Her first book, Leading From the Feminine has won many awards and is acknowledged as a go-to guide for embodiment and somatic awareness work. Her new book, Resilient Activism: Igniting Wild Hope in Uncertain Times embodies the guiding principles of her nonprofit, the Center for Wild Hope.
Prayana “Pray” Sharma
Bollywood Dance Joy
From the moment young Prayrana Sharma watched her first Bollywood movie, something came alive inside of her. Growing up in India, she was captivated by Bollywood icon Sridevi, who could tell stories with just a look and express a world of emotions through her graceful movements. Mesmerized by this artistry, Prayrana began practicing those captivating dance sequences on her own. She honed her skills through nine years of rigorous training at the Shiamak Dance Academy in India, where she absorbed the foundations of dance with discipline and grace.
She’s now a dedicated Bollywood dance teacher and owner of Sway with Pray renowned dance studio in Austin, where Bollywood dance meets joy, inclusivity, and artistry. She is also a beloved staple brining her dance light to students at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Schools and at the annual SXSW festival, where she choreographed mesmerizing flash mobs that pulsated through the streets of Austin, receiving resounding applause.
Group dances are a big part of Bollywood and Pray will lead us in learning some Bollywood moves-sure to bring joy!
Brenda Coffee
Resilience in Motion
This San Antonio gal is photographer and filmmaker and author of MAYA BLUE A Memoir of Survival, published by Simon & Schuster this past May. This book reads like a Netflix series and topped out Maria Shriver’s list of recommended summer readings and has been nominated for the prestigious 2025 Kirkus Prize.
An avid adventurer and successful businesswoman, Coffee is the creator of two Top 10 websites, including 1010ParkPlace.com home to her popular BRENDA’S BLOG, delivering straight-talk about finances, fashion, life, and relationships for women over 50.
Brenda will share her life and its curves (including being forced into a Guatemalan jungle at gunpoint, living with an addict, the death of two husbands, and surviving breast cancer), and how clarity, strength and finding your voice are the keys to resilience.
Sara Laas
Stories in the Key of Life
Sara and her resonant poetry have been a part of The Soul Reset since the beginning. She’s a former newspaper reporter, TV host, job placement specialist, HR Director, MP’s beloved auntie and Claire Ochoa’s momma. Over the years, she’s interviewed 10,000 plus people. Using that experience, Sara now writes poetry and non-fiction as a path to understanding what motivates people, and how and why people get along well with each other — or don't.
Sarah recently published a book of poems, Feeling My Way Along, and has started a nonprofit to build the first ever museum honoring the contributions of immigrants in our country, the Immigrant Hall of Honor. This amazing 95-year-old’s newest love is telling stories, Moth Radio style, before live audiences in Austin and beyond, and we will experience a tale from her textured multi-cultural past, told in her warm, insightful and imitable style. .
Buddy’s Open Mic
This is Where You Bring Your Talents & Wisdom!
Buddy left us this March and is longer walking this planet, but he sure loved a good time. This year we are going to do something new to mine joy and lift us up. Have a stupid human trick, magic spell, super power, poem, comedy sketch, or a song in your heart that needs to get out? Something that makes you happy, moves you and you want to share? Give me a shout out with what you want to share/perform that will take five minutes or less and we will slot you in! mpmueller8@gmail.com.
The Soul Reset Schedule
The day will start at 8:30 with registration and breakfast and the program will begin at 9:15. Lunch will be served on the lawn, and we’ll toast the day and each other with a hilltop happy hour gathering beginning around 5 pm.
Save Your Place Today
Your registration fee of $125 includes:
Awe-inspiring speakers
Breakfast, lunch, appetizers, wine & beverages
Laughs, soulful connections and nourishment
Tickets are nonrefundable but absolutely transferrable if your schedule changes.
About The Soul Reset
When we take care of women, women take care of the world.
This is our fifth year to host The Soul Reset at Rancho de Vida. I started it as an outcome of my own soul-mining journey that followed some big life hiccups. What I learn and continue to understand is that when we go inward, that’s where the good stuff is. And, sisterhood is the constant that renews and lifts. I hope you can join us, bringing your unique, wonderful self and wisdom.
- MP Mueller