RETREATS

The Story House Retreat

Create your new story.

A face-to-face, soul-to-soul intensive
in a fully-supportive setting.
Play with power. Reshape your stories.
Learn to live, love, work & create
in a state of self-actualized sovereignty.

You could attend an industry conference.
You could hire an elite business adviser.
You could enroll in a structured MBA program.

Or, you could enter The Story House Retreat, and spend three luxurious days transforming your life with energy alchemy. Powerful processes that create momentum in your business & your relationships. That re-align your daily actions with your authentic mission. That clear away energetic debris, so you can live, work & play in a state of creative sovereignty.

A Letter of Cosmic Relevance
Re: my retreat with Hiro Boga.

Here’s what went down:

There was tea. And organic raspberries. And the ocean.
A warm room for napping. Pads of white paper for scheming. Plenty of time for dreaming. But first…

There was a mind map I’d emailed to Hiro a week before I arrived. My business and aims all mapped out with one sentence explanations. Hiro had it printed out and sitting beside her chair.

“Where shall we start?” she asked.

“Let’s start with my new book.”

We cleared emotions, transformed patterns and got very clear direction — on everything . On my creative intentions, and the blocks and the road signs to alignment and success.

I thought I was going for deeper strategy; what I got was a chiropractic adjustment for my soul.

Big themes that have been with me all this life-time showed up — some to be plucked out, and others to be crowned.

Sometimes our meditations and conversations happened overlooking Hiro’s back yard (which is graced with a family of deer), and other times we did clearing work while walking on the beach.

On Day One, I committed to go in to find out. Day Two, I was exhausted. On day Three, I was so energized I wanted to swim home and get to work.

Hiro is a Soul Sherpa. She knows where to find the crevasses and how to get you to your summits.

After three days of working my psyche with Hiro’s techniques, I was not only tuned up, but I was leaving with the tools to, as she puts it, “become my own business adviser.” I thought I always was my own business adviser, but sometimes it’s outmoded thought forms and tired ol’ karma calling the shots. But not after Boga time.

This is the sacred work that needs to be done before you forge into the world with your ambitions and plans.

Tea. Energetics. And the future merges with now.

Make the journey.

Love,
Danielle

–Danielle LaPorte, Bestselling author and Speaker; Business Strategist (whitehottruth.com)

I offer a very limited number of 1-on-1, in-person intensives each year. The cost is $7,500 for three days. Payment is due on registration and is fully refundable, minus a $150 administrative fee, up to 60 days prior to your retreat. After that, your retreat fee is non-refundable. Before signing up, please read the detailed description below, to see if a Story House Retreat is right for you at this time.

If you’d like to spend some time at The Story House Retreat, send me an email. I’ll respond within three days to let you know my next available retreat date. And if I feel you’d be better served by a different program, product – or person! – I’ll give you a loving referral.

If you’ve worked with me before, and are ready to sign up, please click the button below to make your payment. Then email me to arrange your dates.

Every moment of my Story House retreat with Hiro was restorative, elegant, and deeply rewarding. From the spectacular ferry boat ride that brought me to her home in Nanaimo, to the luxurious strolls we took along the coastline, to the beautifully-prepared meals (and snacks, and chocolates), to the evocative energy & visualization work — I felt completely & wholly cradled in love.

So, what actually…happened? I wrote three new poems. I outlined my creative priorities for the year. I got invited to headline at a gorgeous retreat (mere hours after sharing with Hiro how much I wanted to teach, at a workshop). I slept — a lot. I read — a lot. I did some work untangling my dreams & needs from those of my partner. I set some old stories aside.

In ancient times, students would travel miles — lifetimes — simply to be in the presence of a great teacher, healer or wise one. My trip to Hiro’s home had echoes of just such a pilgrimage. And I’ll never forget it.

–Alexandra Franzen, Promotional Wordsmith & Personal Scribe (AlexandraFranzen.com)

Why play with power?

As children, we are wise, fearless, magical, creative and free. We’re still so connected to ourselves, our souls, and our Source. We are born with the knowledge of our true home. We haven’t yet lost touch with our true stories.

In time, we forget the stories we know. We learn new stories, ones that sing of Loss, Lack, and Limitation. We learn stories about Maybe and Possibly, and Someday and Try. We get patted on the back for working hard, for coloring inside the lines, for sitting still and doing what we’re told.

We lose ourselves in those new stories. We lose the ease, flow and freedom of our child-spirits. We forget that we have the power to transform our stories with our choices, vision, imagination, heart, skill and love.

We forget to come out and play.

Learning to play with power – and re-shape your stories – allows you to reach out and hold hands with the soul of your life, and your business. Together, you shape a world of love and wholeness, kindness and generosity. You become the source of the world in which you want to live.

Dear Hiro,

I’ve had the privilege of working with you for many years in many different formats — privately, in group workshops, in a year-long transformational program.

The Story House Retreat was a very different experience. It was more intense, and created deep and lasting change.

The three-day retreat gave me time and space to confront my patterns and to transform them.

I experienced, in my body, what it felt like to run a different energy and to create new pathways, new habits. When I veered off into old patterns, you were there to guide me back.

During our process and afterwards, I realized what a toxic energy field I had been living in and how impossible it was to create from that place or to experience any joy in that state.

I was seeing the world through the filter of early stories and it was very hard to step out of that place on my own.

Since returning home from my retreat, I notice significant differences in my behaviors, priorities, boundaries, and the choices that I make. I am also much more aware of the subtle energy patterns in and around me, and more conscious of how I interact with them.

This focused work with you has freed up a lot of blocked creativity and joy. I am especially grateful for that.

With love and gratitude,

Judith

–Judith Snider, RCC; Family Therapist

Practical miracles & forward momentum

In working intimately with thousands of clients over the past 30 years, I’ve become deeply familiar with the power of energy alchemy. The results may seem miraculous, but they’re really the result of awakening and aligning the patterns held in subtle dimensions and bringing them into the world through practical energetic technologies.

My retreat participants have:

  • Launched major shifts in their businesses, making them both highly profitable and highly sustainable.
  • Used our retreat time to create successful new classes and programs, complete with program structures, curriculum outlines, and marketing and promotional plans.
  • Written successful book proposals, and signed contracts with agents and publishers.
  • Healed ancient traumas and family legacies of pain and loss.
  • Ended empty relationships, and created lasting marriages.
  • Enjoyed successful pregnancy and birth, after many years of being unable to conceive.

“You know those Madeline books, where Miss Clavel wakes up in the middle of the night, raises her index finger and says, ‘Something is not right!?’

One year ago, I had that feeling about my business.

I’d built a successful asset management company, but there was no denying that feeling of having a large elephant trapped in a tiny room — perhaps doing lots of damage. And to my great frustration, that elephant was invisible. If I could just see the elephant, I could fix the problem. I am a woman of action, after all, who does nothing by halves. But I was so ‘in the middle’ of my business, I had no clue as to where to find the polka dotted pachyderm that was stomping through my work life.

Did you guess? The elephant in the room was me.

Hiro was superb at helping me see the things that had accumulated over the life cycle of my business — old habits, dated beliefs, barnacles on the boat.

I learned that you need to evolve as your business evolves. Otherwise, you get in your own way.

Over the past year, I’ve worked with Hiro practically every week. I’ve really come to appreciate the wisdom that she brings to bear, and the questions that she asks. In working with Hiro, I’ve become much more sensitive to subtleties. Where I once said, ‘something is not right,’ I can now say, ‘I know exactly what’s not right!’ And when I know what’s not right, I can take action, and so can you.

If you’re flummoxed, feeling out of sync, or sense that your business needs something to move forward — but you don’t know what that something might be — Hiro’s work around boundaries and sovereignty is critical.

I gave sessions with Hiro to a wide range of friends and they were all blown away. I’m not surprised — I trust Hiro completely.

If the business you’ve built feels like a lovely, cozy campfire — but what you really want is purple and green and blue sparks, lighting up the night sky — she’s the one for you.

It’s inexplicable. But it will change your life.”

– M.G., NYC, Founder and CEO of $2 billion asset management firm

Choosing to play

The Story House Retreat is an ideal option if you’ve already worked with me – either individually or in a group setting – or have worked through my digital program, How To Rule Your World From The Inside Out: The Art Of Inner Leadership.

If you’re familiar with my philosophies and practices, and want to work closely with me in an unhurried setting, The Story House Retreat will create a space for you to:

• Transform outworn energetic patterns in your life – patterns that clutter your path to joy and fulfillment
• Reframe your approach to success, and design a business that supports your life (not the other way around)
• Experience a fully-supportive creative playground (perhaps for the first time since childhood!)

Structure, without strictures

We’ll work together from 10 am to 4 pm at my beautiful home in Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. Each day will include transformative work, as well as deep nourishment for your body and spirit: walks along the beach, dancing yourself silly, creative play in my playroom, a catered lunch break, and restorative naps as needed.

Your retreat is designed especially for you. For after-hours self-care & restoration, I can connect you with the wonderful resources here in my home community: from a Water Pilates workout in our local warm-water pool, to a lesson with a brilliant voice coach or a stress-melting therapeutic massage from my favorite registered massage therapist.

Planning your retreat

Getting Here

Nanaimo is a small seaside city on the east coast of Vancouver Island, across the strait from Vancouver. Here are three travel options to help create your ideal route:

1. Most major airlines have flights into Vancouver International Airport (YVR). To get from Vancouver to Nanaimo, book a seat on the seaplane from Richmond/YVR to Nanaimo.

The Harbour Air seaplane terminal is a ten-minute taxi ride from Vancouver International Airport. The flight to Nanaimo is just 20 minutes. You can rent a car at the seaplane terminal.

2. Fly into Victoria International Airport. Alaska Airlines has flights from Seattle to Victoria.

Rent a car in Victoria, and drive up to Nanaimo. The ride up is beautiful, and takes about an hour-and-a-half.

3. Take the Victoria Clipper Ferry from Seattle to Victoria Harbor.

Rent a car in Victoria and drive up the island to Nanaimo.

Where to Stay

There are a number of wonderful Bed and Breakfast places in Nanaimo, including a beautiful waterfront B&B just a five-minute drive from my house. I also recommend The White House On Long Lake, Long Lake Waterfront Bed and Breakfast, and Graycliff Cottage.

There are also a number of hotels in the area. A Google search for “Nanaimo Hotels” will show you TripAdvisor ratings as well as links to hotel websites.

Meals

Lunch is included with your retreat. If you have specific dietary preferences, or food allergies, please let me know at the time of your booking.

There are a wide variety of restaurants in the city, ranging from small, casual cafés to fine dining. Let me know your preferences ahead of time, and I can make recommendations.

What to Bring

Comfortable, casual clothing. Walking shoes. Rain gear (this is the Wet Coast!). Layered clothing. A swimsuit, if you want to take advantage of our wonderful community pool. A journal, notebook, or 3-ring binder and your favorite pen. And most importantly – your playful spirit.

My commitment to you

To place all my skill, knowledge and wisdom in service to your soul. To help you grow into your genius, expand your capacities, and evolve both yourself and your business with integrity and heart.

Jennifer Louden“Working with Hiro is one of the most powerful transformational experiences I have enjoyed in a long life of transformational experiences. She is the real deal and that is something, as you know, that is rare in our hyper-inflated show-me-the-money times. Her knowledge and wisdom is vast, her ability to help you shift extraordinary, and her heart shines so brightly. I find myself grinning just writing this — she is that real and that good.”

– Jennifer Louden, Best-selling Author & Teacher (jenniferlouden.com)

 

Kelly Parkinson“Hiro didn’t try to fix anything. Her attitude is more of a feeler-explorer-detective-metaphorist-storyteller. She gave me life-changing metaphors (or, rather, she reached into my soul & gifted me with metaphors I wanted myself to have).

This isn’t just a “feel-good” kind of thing that wears off after a few hours. She actually shifts things, almost like changing tracks.

I feel so much more creative and in tune with myself, and I am making room for myself in my business. I feel more grounded, and clear.”

– Kelly P., Copylicious (copylicious.com)

 

Rebecca Leigh“Hiro showed me how to gently unravel the knots in which I had tied myself, and how to receive the compassionate and nourishing energy I desperately needed.

Through her gifted guidance I discovered the truth – I can accept with gratitude all that is me, my gift, my power, my difference, my way of being. From this place of wholeness I can release the judgment and worry – knowing it was never truly mine.”

– Rebecca Leigh, Smart Fresh Writing (smartfreshwriting.com)

 

Fabeku Fatunmise“I needed to find some inner clarity around expressing a new facet of my work in a way that was clear, effective and able to reach people.

Hiro left me open-mouthed with awe. She has an exceptional ability to see and articulate inner dynamics in a way that’s real and practical. She embodies the very essence of clear seeing. And while leading me through deep work, her gentle spirit allowed me to feel perfectly safe and cared for every step of the way.”

– Fabeku Fatunmise, Sankofa Song (sankofasong.com)

 

Havi Brooks“You cannot underestimate the power of having a clairvoyant business adviser.

I say that because I have one. I get a session from Hiro at least once a week and I also consult with her first on just about everything I do in my business before I do it.”

– Havi Brooks, The Fluent Self (fluentself.com)

 

Melanie Marx“Your wise and gentle guidance still rings in my ears and informs my forward movement. I deeply appreciate the way you blend spiritual and energetic wisdom with business, creative projects and the practicalities of everyday life.

The whole concept of sovereignty was new to me–I have struggled with autonomy for most of my life, and the tools you gave us have helped tremendously. What a relief to begin to see what is mine (and what is not).

I cannot believe all the changes and forward movement that has happened since that rich time last spring. My business is blossoming and my life is juicy and deep and so very sweet. My creative life has begun to dance and swoop and have a joyous life of its own.

Thank you, Hiro, for the part you played in this.”

– Melanie Marx, On Purpose Life Design (onpurposelifedesign.com)

Considerations & additional questions

If The Story House Retreat appeals to you, but you’d prefer to allow our work to unfold over time, you might feel drawn to The Sea of Story: a six-month evolutionary mentoring journey.

If you’re keen to read a few more client reviews, you can browse through my testimonials, right here.

If you’re unclear about what to expect during our time together — and what types of transformations are realistically possible — you might enjoy my FAQs.