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LEAVE SURVIVAL
AT THE WATER'S EDGE
A four-hour riverside gathering where families, individuals, and couples reconnect through chiropractic care, healing arts, nature, and community.
Chiropractic Care • Nervous System Restoration • Healing Arts
Community • Nature • Connection
YOU DON'T NEED ANOTHER THING TO DO. YOU NEED A PLACE TO EXHALE.
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MODERN LIFE ASKS PEOPLE TO CARRY MORE THAN THEY WERE EVER MEANT TO CARRY.
Modern life asks us to carry more than we were ever meant to carry.
The schedules fill. The responsibilities grow. The notifications never stop. Before long, we're moving from one obligation to the next, telling ourselves we're fine while feeling more disconnected from ourselves, our families, and the life we actually want to be living.
River Healing was created as an invitation to step out of that cycle.
For four hours, you'll trade noise for the sound of the river. Screens for real conversations. Hurry for presence.
You'll receive gentle nervous system-focused chiropractic care, experience restorative healing arts, connect with others, and watch your children play freely in nature while your family slows down together.
This isn't about escaping your life.
It's about remembering how life feels when you're fully present in it.
You'll leave feeling calmer, lighter, more connected, and reminded that healing was never meant to happen alone.
WHAT IS RIVER HEALING?
Pagosa Springs River Healing isn't something you attend. It's something you experience.
Imagine arriving beside the river and feeling your shoulders relax before you've even said hello.
The sound of rushing water replaces notifications. Children run barefoot through the grass. Conversations unfold without hurry. For a few hours, the pace of life slows, and you remember what it feels like to simply be present.
River Healing is a four-hour community gathering designed to nourish your body, calm your nervous system, restore your spirit, and reconnect you with the people and things that matter most.
Throughout the afternoon, you'll have the opportunity to receive gentle nervous system-focused chiropractic care, experience restorative healing arts, connect with caring practitioners, and spend meaningful time with your family in the beauty of nature.
There is no pressure to perform. No expectation to have everything figured out. No need to know anyone before you arrive.
Whether you spend your afternoon receiving care, sitting beside the river, talking with new friends, watching your children play, or simply taking a deep breath for what feels like the first time in a long time, this space is here to meet you exactly where you are.
Because some of the most meaningful healing doesn't happen in a treatment room.
It happens when families slow down together.
When children are free to play. When conversations become real. When strangers become friends.
When your nervous system finally feels safe enough to soften.
At River Healing, healing isn't something you consume.
It's something you experience together.
Come exactly as you are.
Leave feeling more connected: to yourself, your family, your community, and the life you were created to live.
A Typical Afternoon at River Healing
- 11:00 AM – Arrive, meet the community, settle in by the river.
- Opening Circle – Grounding, connection, and an introduction to the day's experience.
- Throughout the Afternoon – Receive chiropractic care, explore healing arts, connect with practitioners, rest by the river, and let your children play freely.
- 3:00 PM – Leave feeling lighter, calmer, and more connected than when you arrived.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Every River Healing gathering is a little different because every person arrives with a different story.
Some come feeling overwhelmed and in need of rest. Others come seeking support for their health, deeper connection with their family, or simply a place where they can slow down and breathe. Wherever you find yourself, you'll be met with care, compassion, and space to receive exactly what you need.
Throughout the afternoon, you'll have the opportunity to experience:
Gentle Nervous System-Focused Chiropractic Care
Stress has a way of living in the body. Through gentle, specific Torque Release Technique adjustments, we help support your nervous system so your body can move out of survival and into greater ease, adaptability, and regulation.
Whether you're seeking support for yourself, your pregnancy, your child, or your family, every adjustment is personalized and delivered with care.
Learn more about Torque Release Technique.
Healing Arts & Restorative Bodywork
Healing isn't one-size-fits-all.
Throughout the gathering, you'll have opportunities to experience restorative practices such as energy healing, craniosacral therapy, sound healing, intuitive support, and other modalities designed to help you reconnect with your body, process emotions, and experience deeper rest.
Spiritual & Intuitive Support
For those who desire it, spiritual guidance and intuitive healing are available throughout the gathering.
Whether you're seeking clarity, encouragement, prayer, identity work, or deeper connection with God/Spirit, you'll find a welcoming space to explore your spiritual journey without pressure or expectation.
Biological Living & Family Education
Healing doesn't end when you leave the river.
Throughout the day, you'll have opportunities to learn practical principles for supporting your nervous system, caring for your family, understanding your body's wisdom, and creating a lifestyle that nurtures long-term health and resilience.
A Place for Children to Thrive
Children aren't sent off to be entertained while the adults heal.
They're part of the healing.
They'll have space to play, explore, be adjusted, participate in sound healing, connect with nature, and simply be children while witnessing what it looks like for families and communities to slow down and heal together.
Community, Nature & Meaningful Connection
Some of the most memorable moments happen between the planned experiences.
A conversation with someone who understands.
Watching your children make new friends. Laughing together by the river.
Sharing stories around a circle. Sitting quietly beneath the trees.
These moments can't be scheduled, but they often become the ones people remember most.
Because healing has always happened best in community.
Everything Included With Your Ticket
✓ Gentle Torque Release Chiropractic Care
✓ Nervous System Restoration
✓ Healing Arts & Energy Healing
✓ Craniosacral Therapy
✓ Sound Healing
✓ Spiritual & Intuitive Support
✓ Biological Living Education
✓ Children's Ministry & Nature Play
✓ Community Connection
✓ Family Experiences
✓ Time to Rest Beside the River
WHO THIS IS FOR
River Healing was created for the people carrying more than they were ever meant to carry alone.
It's for...
The mother who spends so much caring for everyone else that she can't remember the last time she truly slowed down.
The pregnant woman who wants to support her body, her baby, and her nervous system before birth.
The postpartum mother longing to feel like herself again while being held by a community that understands.
The parent trying to raise healthy, connected children in a world that often feels rushed, noisy, and disconnected.
The baby and child whose growing nervous system deserves gentle, intentional support from the very beginning.
The couple who misses feeling connected and wants a few uninterrupted hours to breathe together.
The individual who feels exhausted, overwhelmed, or simply knows there's got to be more to life than surviving from one week to the next.
The family searching for a different approach to health, healing, and community.
The newcomer hoping to find belonging.
The local who simply wants to spend a beautiful afternoon beside the river with good people and meaningful conversation.
Whether you're walking through a season of healing, growth, transition, celebration, grief, curiosity, or simply a desire to reconnect with yourself and the people you love, there is a place for you here.
You don't need to know anyone before you arrive.
You don't need to have experience with chiropractic care, healing work, or spiritual practices.
You don't need to have everything figured out.
You simply need a willingness to come exactly as you are.
We'll meet you there.
Not sure if River Healing is for you?
You don't need to be "into" chiropractic.
You don't need to be experienced with healing work.
You don't need to belong to a particular church or spiritual tradition.
You don't need to know anyone attending.
If you're longing for a slower afternoon, meaningful connection, and space to care for yourself and your family, you'll feel right at home.
MEET YOUR FACILITATORS
DRS. KAYLA & ANTHONY ABEID
For nearly a decade, Drs. Kayla and Anthony Abeid have dedicated their lives to helping individuals and families move beyond survival and experience lasting restoration.
As chiropractors specializing in prenatal, pediatric, and family care, they've supported thousands of people through nervous system-focused chiropractic care while creating communities centered on healing, connection, and wholehearted living.
Over the years, their work expanded beyond the physical body.
Through teaching, mentorship, healing arts, and spiritual guidance, they began helping people address not only physical symptoms, but the deeper patterns that shape relationships, family life, identity, purpose, and connection with God/Spirit.
Again and again, they witnessed the same truth:
People weren't broken.
They were carrying far more than they were ever meant to carry alone.
That realization became the foundation of Life Fully Embodied, a restoration movement devoted to helping individuals, couples, and families reconnect with their bodies, their faith, their relationships, their communities, and the life they were created to live.
In 2026, they followed God's call to leave behind their established practice, community, and home in South Carolina to begin again in Pagosa Springs.
It wasn't the logical decision.
It was the faithful one.
Today, alongside their three children, they are building more than a practice or a ministry.
They're helping cultivate a living community where healing happens in relationship, families are strengthened, children are celebrated, and people remember they were never meant to do life alone.
River Healing is one expression of that vision.
They would be honored to welcome you beside the river.
"We're not creating another event. We're helping rebuild the kind of community we believe every family deserves."
JOIN US BESIDE THE RIVER
Saturday, June 27 | 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
We'll gather at Mary Fisher Town Park along the San Juan River in beautiful Pagosa Springs. To preserve the peaceful, intimate nature of each River Healing experience, attendance is available by pre-purchased ticket only.
For four hours, you'll step away from the pace of everyday life and into a space intentionally created for restoration, connection, and community.
Whether you come seeking nervous system support, chiropractic care, healing arts, meaningful conversations, or simply an afternoon where your family can slow down together, we'd be honored to welcome you.
YOUR TICKET INCLUDES:
✓ Gentle nervous system-focused chiropractic care
✓ Access to healing arts and restorative experiences
✓ Spiritual support and meaningful conversation
✓ Biological living education
✓ Children's ministry and family connection experiences
✓ Time beside the river to simply breathe, connect, and be present
INVESTMENT
Individual Experience
$249
Perfect for individuals, young adults, or anyone attending on their own.
Family Experience
$499
One ticket for up to five immediate family members.
Because healing is even more powerful when families experience it together.
Reserve Your Place Today
Space is intentionally limited to preserve the intimacy of each gathering.
REFUND POLICY
All sales are final. No refunds will be issued.
Your ticket is reserved specifically for the date you selected, as each experience is intentionally limited to maintain the integrity of the space. If you are unable to attend your scheduled circle, your ticket may be transferred to a future gathering. This is not automatic. You must email [email protected]in advance to arrange your transfer.
You cannot simply show up to a different event without prior communication. Your reserved seat for your original date is the ticket you are exchanging, and we will place you into a future gathering based on availability.
Please be intentional with your purchase and honor the space you are committing to.
Q: What if my children are loud, active, emotional, or don't sit still?
Q: What should I bring?
Q: What if I don't know anyone?
Q: What is the difference between an Individual Ticket and a Family Ticket?
Q: Do I need to have experience with healing work to attend?
THE RESTORATION FRAMEWORK
At Life Fully Embodied, we do not believe the body is broken, defective, or working against you.
We believe the body is intelligent.
Every symptom, adaptation, pattern, sensation, behavior, and survival response carries information. What many people have been taught to fear, suppress, fight, or fix is often the body's attempt to help them survive, adapt, protect, and ultimately heal.
Our restoration framework is rooted in the understanding that the body follows natural biological laws. Nothing in nature is random, and the human body is no exception. Physical symptoms, emotional patterns, nervous system responses, relationship dynamics, survival identities and even many of the challenges people face throughout life often make sense when viewed through the lens of adaptation and environment rather than dysfunction.
Rather than asking:
"What is wrong with you?"
We ask a different question:
"What has your body been trying to communicate?"
This perspective transforms the healing journey. It moves people out of fear and into understanding. Out of shame and into compassion. Out of battle and into partnership with their own biology.
Through nervous system restoration, tonal chiropractic care, biological living education, healing arts, spiritual formation, and community support, we help individuals and families develop a deeper relationship with the wisdom of their bodies and the natural processes that govern healing and restoration.
We believe true healing is not about becoming someone new.
It is about removing the interference, adaptations, and survival patterns that have pulled us away from who we have always been.
River Healing creates space for that restoration to occur.
A return to relationship.
A return to family.
A return to community.
A return to creation.
A return to spirit.
A return to the truth that the body was never the enemy.
It has been carrying the wisdom of your story all along.
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A RETURN TO WHAT MATTERS
There is something deeply healing about gathering beside a river, sharing a conversation with people you have just met, watching children play freely, and remembering that life was never meant to be lived in isolation.
For generations, healing happened in community. People supported one another through seasons of challenge and celebration. Wisdom was shared. Children were raised within villages. Families gathered together. Connection was not something people searched for. It was simply a part of everyday life.
While the world has changed, the human need for connection has not.
We all long to feel seen. We all long to belong. We all long for spaces where we can exhale, put down the weight we have been carrying, and remember who we are beneath the demands of everyday life.
River Healing was created from that understanding.
It is an invitation to step away from the noise for a few hours and reconnect with yourself, your family, your community, and the natural world around you. It is an opportunity to receive support, build meaningful relationships, and experience what becomes possible when healing is shared rather than pursued alone.
If something about this gathering speaks to you,
trust that feeling.
Perhaps what you have been searching for is not another answer, another strategy, or another thing to add to your calendar.
Perhaps it is simply a place to belong.
We would be honored to welcome you by the river.
The conversation does not end here.
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