Ready to Rekindle, Reconnect, and Rediscover Each Other?
Join us for a transformative retreat where science-based relationship tools meet sacred intimacy practices. Whether you’re looking to strengthen your foundation or reignite your spark, this experience is designed to bring you closer — body, heart, and soul.
This 3-day retreat is designed to nurture and reawaken the foundation of your relationship — friendship, connection, and mutual respect. The first part of the retreat includes 12 hours of psychoeducational material developed by the renowned psychologist, Dr. John and Dr. Julie Gottman.
Using the Gottman 7 Principles for Making Marriage Work as our framework, you'll engage in science-based practices to improve communication, rebuild trust, and deepen emotional intimacy. This is not about fixing what's broken — it's about strengthening what’s already there, learning how to support each other through conflict, repair with grace and grow in appreciation and empathy. You'll leave with tools you can actually use — and a renewed sense of what makes your relationship uniquely yours.
This workshop will include proven tools to help couples:
🌳 Improve friendship, fondness, and admiration
🌳 Enhance romance and intimacy
🌳 Manage conflict constructively
🌳 Gain skills to address perpetual and solvable problems
🌳 Create shared meaning
🌳 Maintain gains throughout a lifetime
After strengthening the foundation of your relationship, we will shift into an immersive intro into sacred sexuality practices led by Cass Estes, Intimacy and Relationship Coach.
🪻 Slow down and feel more: Explore sensual touch and intentional massage to ignite connection and awaken the body.
🪻 Breathe into presence: Experience tantric breathwork and eye gazing as pathways to intimacy, trust, and energetic attunement.
🪻 Come home to your erotic truth: Drop into a guided meditation to connect with your authentic sexual self—beyond roles, expectations, or performance.
🪻 Activate your energy centers: Learn how to sense and amplify life force through chakra awareness and subtle energy play.
🪻 Turn on your senses: Play with sound, scent, taste, and touch in a series of practices that cultivate embodiment and connection.
Registration is now open!
3-Day Retreat | Hood River, Oregon
September 19-21, 2025
Cost - $1111 per couple
Come home to each other with compassion, presence, and love.
After you fill out the registration form, you will receive an email with information and payment links. Your spot is reserved only after you pay the deposit.
Your Investment
$1,111 per couple for this three-day immersive retreat. A non-refundable $100 deposit is required to reserve your space. Full payment is due 4 weeks prior to the workshop start date.
Space is limited and registration closes on August 22nd, 2025 to ensure time to prepare and order materials.
Workshop Dates
Friday–Sunday, September 19th–21st, 2025
9:00AM – 3:00PM each day
What's Included
Your registration includes:
- Light refreshments and nourishing snacks each day
- Lunch provided all three days
- Two beautifully designed Couples Guides to personalize your journey through the workshop
- One copy of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by Dr. John Gottman
- One Gottman Love Maps card deck
- One Open-Ended Questions card deck
- 12 hours of transformative psychoeducational teaching guided by a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, Clinical Sexologist, and Gottman Leader
- A sacred 3-hour introduction to sexuality and embodiment practices (1 hour per day) with Cass Estes, exploring connection, ritual, and embodied love
- Sacred sexuality materials to support your exploration during and after the workshop
- Thoughtful relationship-building activities to strengthen intimacy, communication, and play
- One optional post-retreat couples check-in via Zoom
Registration
Space is limited to create an intimate and supported experience. Register early to reserve your spot and allow time for all materials to be thoughtfully prepared.
Click below to register and begin your journey toward deeper connection and sacred partnership.
Location
Join us at Triskele Rivers, a serene 33-acre private sanctuary. Take in the incredible view of Mt. Hood and Mt. Adams, take time to walk the land, observe the animals in their natural rhythm, and settle into the quiet presence this sacred space offers.
Meet Your Retreat Facilitators
Jacqueline Jackson, LMFT, Clinical Sexologist and Certified Sex Coach
Jacqueline is a Forest dweller, Water Lover, Moon and Star Seeker, Compassion Weaver, Aspiring Homesteader, Animal Whisperer, Dog Mama, Ritual Maker, Kayak Rider, Tiger Spirit, Light in the Shadows.
Jacqueline is a clinical sexologist who blends science, somatics, and spirituality (and sometimes a little swearing) to help people heal in a real, embodied, and grounded way. She draws from modalities like EMDR, somatic therapy, and mindfulness self-compassion — with influences from Zen Buddhism, earth-based spirituality, and sacred sexuality.
Cass Estes, Intimacy and Relationship Coach
Cass is a Moon Child. Outdoor Lover. Fierce Mother. Space Holder. Shadow Seeker. Spiritual Explorer. River Runner. Intuitive Dreamer. Creative Force.
Her work as a coach combines modern neurobiology, shamanic healing, and holistic embodiment practices; blended with the ancient wisdom of Tantra, Taoism & sacred sensuality. The work is based in an understanding that all of us are sensual beings with a tremendous capacity for love and connection. Her method recognizes and supports that human beings thrive by regularly experiencing states of ecstasy, surrender, conscious connection, and wild freedom. Join us as Cass leads us through sacred sexuality practices. To learn more about Cass's offerings, please visit her website at CassEstes.com.
Is this workshop for us?
The Gottman Seven Principles Program is designed with all committed couples in mind, supporting:
🪷 People of all ages, backgrounds, Faiths, sexual orientations, and relationship arrangements
🪷 Pre-engaged couples (those thinking about marriage)
🪷 Engaged or premarital couples (those actively planning a wedding/marriage)
🪷 Every phase of relationships, from newlyweds to senior couples
🪷 Those who want to strengthen and deepen their marriage or relationship
🪷 Those who are considering couples counseling but aren't "ready", yet
*This workshop is not appropriate for couples who are experiencing severe relationship distress, emotional abuse, domestic violence, active addictions (alcohol, drug, sexual, gambling, etc.), serious mental health problems in one or both partners, or those with an aversion to touch.
Frequently Asked Questions
Seven Principles Couples Program format includes lectures and private couple exercises. Participants will not be sharing their personal problems in front of others.
This retreat incorporates effective, proven techniques based upon the New York Times best seller The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by Dr. John Gottman, Ph.D.
The 7 Gottman Principles are straightforward in their approach, but deeply effective at making relationships work. For over 50 years psychologists Dr. John and Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman scientifically analyzed the habits of married couples and developed a method of changing behaviors in order to foster healthy, long-lasting relationships. This method helps couples focus on each other and the small, day-to-day moments that make up the foundation of relationships.
Contact Jacqueline Jackson by phone at (424) 644-6487 or email at jacquelinejackson@bloomintomindfulness.com.
Absolutely not! What you wish to say or share is entirely up to you. You are welcome to listen and engage in the activities with your partner. You are never required to share any personal information or stories during the retreat.
We accept debit and credit card payments. You’re welcome to pay using Zelle or Square for a secure and simple checkout experience.
