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Upcoming Retreats & Events in Coldspring, TX | Golden Hill

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Upcoming Retreats & Events

Golden Hill Retreat Center is honored to welcome gifted facilitators from Texas and beyond who bring their own unique retreats, workshops and transformational experiences to our peaceful grounds. From meditation and movement to spiritual exploration, creativity and holistic wellness, each gathering offers a new opportunity to connect, learn and return more deeply to yourself.

A sacred place for meaningful gatherings and inspired experiences.

Upcoming Retreats & Events in Coldspring, TX | Golden Hill
OmiLomi Retreats Presents

East Meets West

Ancient wisdom. Modern understanding.
Practical tools for real life.
November 20–22, 2026
Golden Hill Retreat Center • Coldspring, Texas
Reserve Your Spot
A Weekend of Exploration

What does it actually mean to
“find your balance”?

How do you get unstuck?
What does mindfulness actually mean?
Why meditate?

What does awareness look like when you're stressed, busy, triggered, tired, or overwhelmed?

And how are any of these practices supposed to help when you have a job, family, responsibilities, and normal everyday life?

Most of us can't disappear into the Himalayas for a month.

So how do we bring the wisdom of the East into the reality of life in the West?

That is the heart of East Meets West.

This immersive weekend was created for curious people who want to understand themselves more deeply—without needing to become a yogi, meditator, or wellness expert first.

We'll slow things down enough to explore the questions behind the wellness jargon and experience practical tools that can actually be carried home.

You'll explore what balance feels like in your body, how your nervous system influences the way you respond to life, why familiar patterns keep showing up, and how breath, movement, sound, reflection, mindfulness, and body-based practices can help create greater awareness and choice.

The goal isn't to give you a perfect answer.

It's to help you understand yourself well enough to discover which tools may actually work for you.

Your Weekend

What You'll Experience

🌿

Bio-Well Wellness Scan

A personalized scan offering visual feedback about energetic patterns and used as one point of reflection in shaping parts of your retreat experience.

🌬️

Immersive Breathwork Experience

Intentional breath patterns combined with healing frequencies to support nervous-system regulation, emotional exploration, and integration.

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Morning Yoga on the Deck

Begin the day with mindful movement and breath surrounded by the peaceful natural setting of Golden Hill.

🥢

Kali Yoga with Karla Grecia

Combining yoga, Kali sticks, martial-arts principles, coordination, mobility, mindfulness, and movement.

🎶

Floating Sound Bath

Immerse yourself in sound, vibration, stillness, and a deeply restorative Golden Hill experience.

💫

Personalized Workshops

Experiences and conversations informed in part by your individual Bio-Well experience.

❤️

Integration & Reflection

Space to process your experiences, recognize patterns, and explore how new awareness can translate into daily life.

🎵

Special Musical Evening

A shared evening experience centered around music, connection, and community.

🥗

Five Vegetarian Meals

Five wholesome vegetarian meals are included as part of your weekend experience.

More Than a Weekend Away

Most importantly, you'll leave with practical tools you can continue using when you return to everyday life.

Meet Your

Omi Homies

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Dimple Malkan

Founder • OmiLomi

Founder and creator of OmiLomi and facilitator of the East Meets West experience. Dimple brings together yoga, meditation, hypnotherapy, Reiki, EFT, wellness exploration, and years of experience bridging practical Western life with meaningful inner work.

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Dr. Nelson Valena, MD

Integrative Wellness

A physician with more than 30 years of experience in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation whose personal healing journey deepened his work in integrative medicine and whole-person wellness.

Dr. Nelson will provide Bio-Well scans and interpretation to support reflection and greater self-understanding.

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Karla Grecia

Founder • Kalm & Grace Yoga

Entrepreneur, lifelong martial artist, and Kali Yoga facilitator. Karla integrates yoga with her background in Sanshou kickboxing, Muay Thai, and Kali to create an energizing practice rooted in strength, balance, mobility, coordination, and mindfulness.

Join Us

Retreat Details

November 20–22, 2026

Golden Hill Retreat Center
7160 FM Rd. 224
Coldspring, Texas
Early Bird • First 7 Spots
$750

Full retreat experience
+ Bunkhouse accommodations
+ Five vegetarian meals

$400 deposit reserves your spot.

Shared accommodations and room upgrades are available.
Group discounts available.

Open to all genders.
No prior experience is needed.


Reserve Your Spot

Questions?

[email protected]
(281) 704-3467
Instagram: @omilomiretreats

If you've been curious about mindfulness, nervous-system regulation, meditation, movement, energy, or simply how to feel more connected to yourself without turning your life upside down, East Meets West was created for you.
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EAST MEETS WEST • OMILOMI RETREATS
GOLDEN HILL RETREAT CENTER • COLDSPRING, TEXAS
A Restorative Women's Retreat

Surrender
& Reset

End of the Year Women's Retreat
December 4–6, 2026
Golden Hill Retreat Center • Coldspring, Texas
Reserve Your Space
An Invitation to Slow Down

You're allowed to end
the year softly.

Pause. Exhale. Reconnect.

If you've been carrying a lot, we invite you to pause, exhale, and reconnect with yourself during a gentle, restorative weekend at Golden Hill.

Give yourself space to reflect on the year, release what feels complete, and welcome what wants to emerge.

🤍

Come As You Are

This weekend is an opportunity to step away from the pace and responsibilities of everyday life and give yourself permission to simply be.

Through gentle movement, breath, meditation, sound, reflection, nature, and meaningful connection, you'll have space to listen inward and reconnect with what matters most.

Receive support. Make room for yourself.

Your Weekend

What You'll Experience

🌿

Gentle & Restorative Yoga

Gentle, restorative, and somatic yoga practices designed to invite softness, awareness, and connection with the body.

🌬️

Breathwork & Vagus Nerve Practices

Explore intentional breathing and practices centered around slowing down, grounding, and reconnecting with yourself.

📖

Meditation & Guided Journaling

Guided reflection creates space to look back on the year, listen inward, and explore what you're ready to carry forward.

🎶

Sound Baths & Yoga Nidra

Settle into stillness through immersive sound and deeply restful guided practices.

🤍

Women's Circles

Meaningful opportunities for authentic connection, shared reflection, listening, and community.

🍵

Nature, Tea & Rest

Quiet time is part of the experience. Wander, sit, sip tea, journal, rest, or simply enjoy the surroundings of Golden Hill.

🕯️
Saturday Evening

Year-End Surrender Ceremony

Candlelight • Restorative Yoga • Sound

As evening settles over Golden Hill, we'll gather for a special candlelit experience offering space to reflect, release, and soften into stillness.

Restorative yoga and a sound bath create a gentle setting for honoring what has been and making space for what wants to emerge.

Space to Simply Be

Rest Is Part of the Retreat

Cozy lodging, quiet corners, and time for optional healing experiences support rest and reflection throughout the weekend.

🌲 Quiet Nature
☕ Tea & Reflection
🤍 Time for You
✨
Surrender what was.
Rest in what is.
Create space for what wants to emerge.
Join Us at Golden Hill

Retreat Details

December 4–6, 2026
Golden Hill Retreat Center
Coldspring, Texas

A restorative weekend created for women seeking space to slow down, reflect, reconnect, and close the year with intention.

Learn More & Reserve
🤍

Give Yourself the Space to Exhale

Come as you are. Receive support. Rest, reconnect, and make room for yourself before stepping into a new year.

Reserve Your Space
End of the Year Surrender & Reset
December 4–6, 2026 • Golden Hill Retreat Center
Discernment in Psychedelic Therapy | Safety & Emergency Training | Texas

Professional Training • Safety • Discernment

Discernment in Psychedelic Therapy

Beyond Safe Set & Setting

A two-day professional training in discernment, safety, emergency preparedness, scope of practice, and CPR/AED education for psychedelic and ceremonial practitioners.

January 23-24, 2027 Coldspring, Texas Professional Training

Why This Training Matters

When Is an Intense Experience Part of the Process— and When Is More Help Needed?

As psychedelic therapies, ceremonial medicines, and expanded states of consciousness become more widely used, practitioners increasingly encounter experiences that can be difficult to interpret.

Most journeys unfold safely. Some become emotionally or psychologically intense. A small number may involve genuine medical or psychiatric emergencies.

The challenge is knowing the difference—and knowing what to do next.

This training was created to help practitioners recognize warning signs, understand the limits of their role, respond appropriately, and know when additional professional or emergency support may be needed.

This is where science, safety, and spirituality meet.

Who Should Attend?

Built for Practitioners Working in Expanded States

The training is designed especially for professionals, practitioners, facilitators, and support people who may encounter intense physical, emotional, psychological, or spiritual experiences in their work.

Psychedelic facilitators and sitters
Ceremony leaders and shamanic practitioners
Integration coaches
Retreat staff
Harm-reduction and peer-support professionals
Breathwork, somatic, meditation, and energy practitioners
Spiritual guides
Mental health and healthcare professionals

Two-Day Professional Training

From Discernment to Emergency Preparedness

Day 1 • Saturday, January 23 10-5PM

Discernment in Psychedelic Therapy

Learn practical frameworks for distinguishing between an intense but potentially manageable psychedelic experience and a situation requiring additional medical or psychiatric evaluation.

Understanding Altered States

  • Common psychedelic and psycho-spiritual experiences
  • Psychological distress, trauma responses, and spiritual emergence
  • Physical, emotional, and behavioral responses in non-ordinary states

Recognizing Red Flags

  • Significant changes in consciousness
  • Breathing and circulatory concerns
  • Seizure recognition
  • Heat-related illness
  • Cardiac warning signs
  • Severe agitation or confusion
  • Potential medication interactions
  • Situations exceeding a facilitator’s scope

Medical Crisis vs. Psycho-Spiritual Crisis

Explore practical ways of considering whether an experience may represent transformation, trauma activation, panic, psychological distress, or a potential medical or psychiatric emergency.

Scope, Ethics & Referral

Understand when supportive presence may be appropriate—and when consultation, referral, or emergency medical services may be necessary.

Communication During Crisis

Explore strategies for communicating with participants, families, healthcare professionals, and emergency responders.

Creating a Culture of Safety

Preparation, screening, observation, documentation, emergency planning, and collaborative care.

Day 2 • Sunday, January 24 10-5PM

Emergency Response & CPR/AED Training

Practical Skills for Safer Ceremonies & Retreats

Day 2 moves from discernment into practical emergency preparedness. Participants will explore how to respond when an unexpected event occurs in a psychedelic, ceremonial, retreat, or consciousness-expansion setting.

Emergency Response Education

Practical emergency response education and CPR/AED training designed to help participants recognize, respond, communicate, and escalate appropriately.

CPR/AED certification may be provided upon successful completion of the designated training and all requirements of the applicable certifying program.

Recognize. Respond. Know Your Limits. Know when to call for help.

A Culture of Responsible Care

Psychedelic Safety Requires More Than Set & Setting.

It requires discernment. It requires preparation. It requires knowing the limits of your role. And it requires relationships between medical, psychological, and ceremonial communities so that people can receive appropriate support when they need it.

We believe the future of responsible psychedelic care can be strengthened when science and spirituality are willing to sit at the same table.

Education. Discernment. Collaboration. Safety.

January 23-24, 2027 10-5PM

Reserve Your Space

Space is intentionally limited to support hands-on practice, meaningful discussion, and interactive learning.

Full Two-Day Training $650
Saturday Only $395 Discernment in Psychedelic Therapy
Sunday Only $295 Emergency Response & CPR/AED Training

Vegetarian lunch is included each day.

Golden Hill Retreat Center
7160 FM 224 Rd
Coldspring, TX 77331

Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is this psychedelic safety training for?

The training is designed especially for psychedelic facilitators, sitters, ceremony leaders, shamanic practitioners, integration coaches, retreat staff, harm-reduction and peer-support professionals, breathwork and somatic practitioners, spiritual guides, and mental health or healthcare professionals interested in psychedelic support.

What will participants learn?

Participants will explore altered states, warning signs, medical versus psycho-spiritual crises, scope of practice, communication during crisis, emergency planning, observation, documentation, referral, and appropriate escalation.

Does the training include CPR/AED certification?

Day 2 includes emergency response education and CPR/AED training. Participants who successfully complete the designated training and all requirements of the applicable certifying program may receive the corresponding CPR/AED certification from the authorized training provider.

Does this certify me as a psychedelic therapist or medical professional?

No. The program provides educational training and a Certificate of Participation or Completion only. It does not confer a medical license, clinical credential, psychedelic therapy credential, or authorization to diagnose or treat medical or psychiatric conditions.

Important Educational & Scope-of-Practice Notice

This program is provided for educational and informational purposes only. Participation does not confer a license, medical credential, clinical qualification, or authorization to diagnose, treat, prescribe for, or independently manage any medical or psychiatric condition.

The workshop is intended to improve general awareness, emergency preparedness, recognition of potential warning signs, understanding of professional boundaries, and appropriate escalation or referral. Participants are responsible for practicing within the scope permitted by their individual education, training, licensure or certification, and applicable laws and regulations.

Completion of this program provides a Certificate of Participation or Completion only and should not be represented as certification or credentialing in psychedelic therapy, medicine, emergency medicine, or mental health treatment.

CPR/AED certification is separate. Participants who successfully complete the designated CPR/AED training and all requirements of the applicable certifying program may receive the corresponding CPR/AED certification from the authorized training provider.

This training does not replace professional medical evaluation, emergency medical services, mental health assessment, or other appropriately licensed healthcare services. In an actual or suspected emergency, participants should activate appropriate emergency services and follow established emergency protocols.

Participation in this course does not create a physician-patient, therapist-client, or other healthcare-provider relationship between attendees and the host, Golden Hill Retreat Center, or affiliated organizations.

“What does this person need right now— and who is best qualified to provide it?”

Education. Discernment. Collaboration. Safety.

Meet Your Hosts

Held by the land, guided by experience, and supported by those devoted to creating spaces for transformation, connection, and remembrance.

Dr. Nelson Valena

Dr. Nelson Valena

Founder • Host • Wholistic Practitioner

Dr. Nelson Valeña is a board-certified Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation physician with a subspecialty in Brain Injury Medicine and more than 30 years of clinical experience.

Following his own recovery from a stroke in 2011, his work expanded into integrative medicine, energy medicine, medical hypnotherapy, shamanic healing, and psychedelic-assisted therapies.

Having participated in psychedelic work in both clinical and traditional ceremonial settings in the United States and internationally, Dr. Valeña advocates for safe, ethical, and responsible dialogue around psychedelic therapies.

As co-founder of Golden Hill Retreat Center and founder of the Entheogenic Practitioners Network (EPN), his mission is to help create meaningful collaboration among physicians, therapists, researchers, first responders, psychedelic facilitators, and traditional practitioners.

Stephanie

Dr. Stephanie Burgos

Host • Practitioner • Guide

Emergency Medicine Physician • Shamanic & Somatic Practitioner • Breathwork Facilitator

Dr. Stephanie Burgos is a board-certified Emergency Medicine physician whose work bridges modern medicine, nervous-system regulation, somatic practice, and sacred healing traditions.

Her years in emergency medicine have cultivated the ability to remain calm and discerning during medical, psychological, and emotional crises. Combined with her experience in shamanic, somatic, breathwork, and ceremonial practices, she brings a multidisciplinary perspective to psychedelic care.

Dr. Burgos will share practical insights into screening, risk assessment, medical contraindications, emergency recognition, and the discernment required when considering psycho-spiritual experiences alongside situations requiring professional medical or psychiatric intervention.

Valerie

Valerie McKenzie

Host • Practitioner • Guide

Founder, Ancient Roots Alchemy • Trained First Responder • CPR/AED/First Aid Instructor • Advanced Master Herbalist • Trauma-Informed Practitioner

Valerie McKenzie brings more than a decade of experience across emergency response, medical, and holistic wellness environments, including more than six years supporting plant medicine ceremonies, breathwork, somatic practices, and integrative healing spaces.

Her work bridges practical emergency preparedness with trauma-informed and ceremonial approaches to care.

Valerie will provide practical tools for emergency response, early warning recognition, risk reduction, and safety protocols while emphasizing that effective emergency preparedness begins long before an emergency occurs.

Held by people. Supported by place. Activated through connection.