Private Gatherings
Anywhere in the World
You have a group worth gathering properly, and a team that needs more than an offsite ending in a slide deck. If you have ever hosted something like this yourself, you know the particular disappointment of spending the whole day managing it instead of being in it.
Another event your people will be polite about is not why you came here. And the experience you have been imagining for them is not going to design itself. Rest is not something you book. It is something you practice.
The problem
What gets sold as private and bespoke is usually an existing program with your name on it. A travel agency that books a venue but has never led a session. A teacher running their first corporate event and working it out in real time.
The result is an event that was fine. Polite. Beautiful photographs. And two weeks later nobody can say what changed.
What this looks like
From two hours in your back garden to a week at a destination property, the scope adjusts to your group. What does not adjust is the quality of what we build.
Twelve women on a back patio in Holladay on a Friday evening. The birthday woman had asked specifically for no restaurants, no toasts, nothing that would simply pass. Two hours built around breath and stillness and the particular intimacy that comes from being asked to actually stop. Everyone left quieter than they had been in years. Three of them came to the studio the following week.
A technology company brought a leadership team of eight who had not genuinely stopped in two years. A full day at a private property in the canyon above the city: morning practice, a long slow lunch with no agenda, and an afternoon session built around whatever surfaced in the morning. They arrived scattered and defensive. By mid-afternoon people were having the conversations they had been avoiding for months. The CEO emailed on Monday: “I do not know what you did, but something actually shifted.”
Three generations. Twenty-two people from a family that had been trying to gather like this for years and kept settling for long weekends where nothing quite landed. A week at a private property in Sedona: morning sessions on a red rock terrace, evenings around a long table. Rachel built each day around what the group needed rather than an agenda set weeks earlier. The grandmother, in her late eighties, said it was the best week of her life. She meant it.
A mid-sized company brought fifteen people who had been running hard for two years and had started to lose the thread of why. Five days at a private estate outside Tulum. Morning practice before the heat arrived, afternoons completely free for the water and the cenotes and the hammocks, evenings together at a long table under the palms. By day three the dynamic had changed and people were having honest conversations instead of efficient ones. The Head of Operations said afterward it was the most useful professional development the company had ever done, which was not what they had called it when they booked.
Eleven women who had been close in their twenties and had spent a decade slowly losing the time and proximity that closeness requires. Ten days on a Greek island: a private villa with a terrace above the Aegean, morning practice at the edge of the world, afternoons in the water, evenings that stretched long and unhurried into the night. By the fourth day something had shifted. Conversations were slower and laughter came easier. They said afterward it was the trip that reminded them who they were before everything else got loud.
Your guides
I design and lead every private experience from the ground up. The programming, the arc, the pacing, the modalities your particular group needs, drawn from yoga therapy, somatic movement and breathwork rather than from a form you filled in weeks earlier.
Eric settles the details before my first session begins. I lead. The rest stays invisible.
Rachel Cieslewicz · Lead GuideScope
These are scope descriptions rather than packages. Everything is designed from scratch and priced for what that actually takes. Every inquiry begins with a conversation.
Two to three hours at your home, a private venue or a hotel. Up to twelve guests. Yoga therapy, meditation, breathwork or restorative movement, designed in a consultation beforehand.
Half or full day, planned end to end. Up to twenty guests. We source the venue and build a complete arc, with catering and vendors coordinated and a written itinerary provided.
Multi-day to multi-week, domestic or international. We travel to you or go somewhere extraordinary together, and produce the whole thing from first call to final session.
How it works
Who your group is, roughly how many, what you hope they feel by the end, and the general timeframe. That is all we need.
Location, programming, arc, timing, logistics. Two hours or two weeks, built from scratch.
That is your only job. You are not coordinating or watching the clock. You are in the room with your people.
Who you become
Rest is not something you book. It is something you practice.
Your people are still talking about it, and not about the schedule. What they carry is the morning someone said the thing they had been holding for a decade, and the room held it with them. You were fully present for that, because you handed the whole thing to people who have done it since 2008.
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Rest is not something you book. It is something you practice.
Tell us who your group is and what you hope they feel by the end. We respond personally, and if it is the right fit you will know exactly what we can build and what it will cost.