Retreats
The Soul Reset V:
Resilience & Joy
Saturday, November 8, 2025
in the Texas Hill Country
This time finds us digging deep for new life skills to handle a changing world where so much is coming at us fast. Give yourself the gift of returning home to yourself and being uplifted. Join us for a transformative and soul renewing one-day womens retreat on Saturday, November 8, 2025 at Rancho de Vida in Johnson City, Texas. At this, our 5th Soul Reset, you'll glean from other wise women and explore topics that will rejuvenate your mind, body and spirit.
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 an hour southwest of Austin and 60 minutes north of San Antonio.
At the Soul Reset, you will mix it up with other wonderful, inspiring women, connecting more deeply to yourself and leave lighter with much laughter, learnings, music, food, and art in this unique and magical cauldron that is the Texas Hill Country.
2025 Soul Reset V 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—Waking Up All Parts 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 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.
Vagdevi Meunier, Psy.D., Licensed Psychologist, Relationship Coach & Therapist
Finding Your Center Through Love, Renewing Your Relationship With Self
What if the soul’s deepest longing isn’t achievement, balance, or even healing—but love? Not just being loved by others, but learning, in this lifetime, what it truly means to love and be loved—starting with ourselves? In this session, Dr. Vagdevi Meunier invites you to pause and remember that the most essential and enduring relationship in your life is the one you hold with your own self, the sacred companion who has been walking beside you all along.
This is not about fixing what is broken. It is a call to ask: How am I being invited to love myself more deeply in this season of life? With warmth, wisdom, and insight gathered from decades of guiding others on the journey towards flourishing relationships, Dr. Vagdevi will guide you through the process of renewing your relationship with your core self. You will leave not only inspired, but attuned to a deeper current within you—a remembering that loving and being loved is your soul’s real curriculum in this life.
Dr. Vagdevi is passionate about helping individuals, partners, teams and organizations develop flourishing and authentic relationships to self and others. She is a licensed psychologist and a Senior Certified Gottman Couples Therapist. Vagdevi is the Founder and Executive Director of The Center for Relationships in Austin and Founder and President of Sukha International, a coaching and wellness travel organization that specializes in holistic psychology, spiritual growth and Eastern wellness practices.
Karina Maria, LPC
Your Goddess Story
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 will slip you 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 held 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 tragedies, uncertainty and change, 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.
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 teach us some signature Bollywood moves-sure to bring joy!
Brenda Coffee
Shimmering Resilience
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 thriling 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.
This surthrivor will share her life and its curves (including being forced into a Guatemalan jungle at gunpoint), and how clarity, strength and finding your voice are the keys to resilience.
Sara Puig Laas
Humor in Life Storytelling
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 won’t be here this Soul Reset to nudge you and nuzzle you, but he sure loved a good time. This year we are going to do something new to mine us some joy. Have a stupid human trick, rope trick, magic trick, super power, poem, jokes, or a song in your heart that needs to get out? Is there something you want to share that makes you happy and moves you? Give me a shout with what you want to take the stage for five minutes or less and I’ll slot you in! Email: mpmueller8@gmail.com.
Soulful BONUS!
Reiki Sessions with Teri Hontas
Reiki is a holistic Japanese wonderful, grounding energy healing technique. It’s a gentle form of non-intrusive, fully clothed touch that can help reduce stress and promote relaxation, general well-being and healing. Teri Hontas, who attended 2024’s Soul Reset, is a Level 3 Master Reiki healer who is joining us from Vermont. She has generously offered complementary 15-minute Reiki sessions for six or so lucky Soul Resetters throughout the day. To save your slot, please email MP at 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:
Inspiring speakers & soul-quenching activites
Breakfast, lunch, appetizers, wine & beverages
Laughter, connections, resilience & joy!
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