Loto Wellness Collective is a sanctuary of sacred rest, curating digital content and hosting somatic healing experiences where guests immerse themselves in God’s love.
Join us on this transformational journey towards flourishing. Let’s experience His unforced rhythms of grace together.
"Awake, sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
― Ephesians 5:14 NIV
Immerse yourself in sacred rest by joining one of our in-person experiences.
Matthew 11:28 MSG
“Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.”
Sacred Rest
We believe that at the core of a rich Spirit-filled life with God is mindful rest, having been designed for and instructed to do so regularly since Genesis.
Sacred rest is a hallowed experience of divine connection, incorporating our minds, bodies, hearts, and spirits. Not merely a matter of routine, sacred rest transfers our gaze from schedules to the soul, a proclamation of His goodness that comes from the abundance of soaking in His presence.
Learning to rest is learning life-changing dependence on Him, shifting focus away from our circumstances. We surrender control into His hands in recognition of our trustworthy source of strength in a burned-out and weary world.
We believe that immersing ourselves in nature and spaces of beauty is a special way of awakening our hearts to the still small voice of our Creator. In the light of His healing presence, our hearts come alive in response.
Rest With Us
Whether in-person or online, our somatic experiences support you through embodied worship as curated moments of rest in His unhurried rhythms of grace as a community.
Yin Yoga
We practice yoga as postures of prayer, uniting body, mind, and spirit in active worship of the Creator. Yin yoga is a slow practice that is gentle enough for all abilities.
Meditation & Breathwork
Quieting the internal narratives of our minds and opening our hearts to hear to God from a regulated nervous system state of rest.
Workshops
In a society that praises being able to “do it all” at any cost, many suffer debilitating physical, emotional, and spiritual burnout under the weight. There is another way.
Here to thrive!
Ceremonial Journeys Immersed in His Creation
Experience sacred rest in an immersive retreat with us in Colorado and around the world, designed to quiet our hearts and minds to encounter the indwelling Holy Spirit while soaking in God’s creation.
Connect deeper with yourself and our Creator in sacred spaces around the globe. Experience the beauty of nature as God’s gift of rest & refilling.
Join us for an immersive retreat experience to AWAKEN, RESTORE, and IGNITE your journey towards flourishing.
The Mind-Body-Spirit Connection in Rest
As humans, so many of us live in a state of chronic stress or have faced trauma with a lack of safe support to recover, leaving us emotionally dysregulated and our nervous systems in a chronic state of fight/flight/freeze/fawn response. When we live in that chronic state, our nervous systems get stuck in a state of panic or shut down, sometimes swinging wildly between the two extremes. In this state, self-care is often the first thing to go out the window.
While it can look different for everyone, living in an activated state of the nervous system without safety in the body (fight/flight) means running on high alert, and anxiety, which can be incredibly fatiguing to the body, contributing to higher levels of cortisol in the blood and physical dis-ease.
The body’s protective response to chronic stress and dis-ease is to move into freeze/fawn, a “system shutdown” that creates and contributes to a state of depression or hopelessness.
The Polyvagal theory, developed by Stephen Porges, teaches that there is a third state of the nervous system that is ideal for health, which he calls the social engagement system. This is when the system is relaxed, but alert. Present but open. Safe. This social engagement system helps us navigate relationships, in safe intimacy.
At Loto Wellness, we believe that utilizing somatic body-based tools like yoga, breathwork, and body scan meditation can help support us in self-regulating our nervous systems into this healthy state of safety. Thus, helping us connect more fully with ourselves, with others, and with God.
To learn more about the autonomic nervous system, check out this video.
All too often, self-care is misunderstood as selfish. As a result, we give too much of ourselves away and forget to prioritize caring for ourselves (sometimes our most basic of needs go unmet), resulting in the chronic outpouring from the proverbial empty cup. In our attempts to be everything to everyone, we forget the importance of putting our own oxygen masks on first before helping others.
Developing a self-care practice is about making time to refill our cups and have God breathe life into our weary body, minds, and spirits. However that practice looks for each of our unique needs, self-care in general can mean:
Taking care of our own thoughts, and our own feelings, and not projecting them onto others.
Replenishing our resources without depleting someone else’s.
Building strength and ensuring we can be sustained in order to care for others.
Setting healthy boundaries so that we don’t expend all of our energy taking care of others and forgetting ourselves.
Enabling us to live out of our greatest potential for Christ, discover our purpose, and experience joy.
Accepting His invitation to rest.
A healthy self-care practice benefits us and everyone in our lives and is a basic need for every human.
The Importance of Self-Care
