Owning (Body) Wisdom with Chip Conley and Molly O’Brien

Embodied Wisdom:

Revitalize Your Body and Spirit

Feb 10 - Feb 15, 2025 in Santa Fe, USA
Led by: Chip Conley, Molly O’Brien, Laurie Hofmann, Darby Rose
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Financial aid is available. Apply Here.

Reconnect with your body, awaken your mind and spirit, and find your peace and clarity

You’ve spent years building a successful life—juggling responsibilities, making an impact, and striving for more. But somewhere along the way, you lost touch with you.

Maybe stress has taken its toll on your body, leaving you feeling tense, fatigued, overwhelmed, or disconnected. Maybe your mind is constantly racing, making it hard to find clarity or a sense of calm. 

Or maybe you’re simply sick and tired of feeling sick and tired, and searching for a way to reclaim your energy, calm your heart and mind, and feel at home in your body again.

If any of this sounds familiar, join MEA founder Chip Conley – along with former Functional Medicine Institute Director and CEO Laurie Hofmann, and Biodynamic Craniosacral Massage therapist Molly O’Brien for a transformative experience designed to help you reconnect with the most powerful source of wisdom you have – your own body. 

Join us on our beautiful ranch in Santa Fe for five powerful days of guided movement,  healing practices, and mind-body integration that will help you unlock deeper intuition, regain a sense of balance, and step into the next chapter of your life with renewed energy, focus, and ease – no matter what’s going on in the world around you. NOTE: Complimentary massage included.

As part of this transformative experience, our entire cohort will visit Ten Thousand Waves, a renowned Japanese-inspired spa nestled in the Santa Fe mountains. Here, you’ll soak in serene hot baths, allowing the healing waters to deepen your connection to body and mind. This rejuvenating field trip is an opportunity to integrate the wisdom of the workshop in a setting of pure relaxation, helping you embody presence, renewal, and deep inner peace.

What you’ll gain

Through a dynamic blend of guided movement, hands-on healing practices, and MEA’s foundational Owning Wisdom curriculum, you will:

  • Recharge Your Energy & Vitality – let go of built-up tension and fatigue, leaving you feeling lighter, stronger, and more refreshed.
  • Tap Into Your Body’s Natural Wisdom – listen to and trust the subtle cues of your body for greater clarity and self-awareness.
  • Restore Inner Peace & Mental Clarity – quiet mental chatter, ease stress, and cultivate a lasting sense of calm
  • Step Out of Survival Mode – move beyond constant “go mode” and find rediscover a sense of presence, balance and ease.
  • Feel Grounded & Fully Present – Shed tension and disconnection and experience greater harmony and alignment in your body.
  • Experience True Rest & Restoration – Through guided healing sessions, mindfulness exercises, and healing body work, allow yourself to deeply relax and reset.
  • Deepen Your Sense of Awe  – and your awareness of being connected to something so much larger than you.

You'll leave with practical tools for everyday life and simple, sustainable practices to maintain balance, resilience, and well-being long after the workshop ends.

Meet your faculty

Chip Conley

MEA Co-Founder and Author of Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age

Bestselling Author | Entrepreneur | Innovator | Disruptor | Speaker

A three-time TED speaker on the big stage, Chip Conley is one of the world's leading experts at the intersection of business innovation, psychology and spirituality.

As one of the creators of the boutique hotel movement and the "modern elder" to the young Airbnb founders, Chip's been a disruptor and expert on entrepreneurship and business leadership. He’s a globally-recognized thought leader on the future of work and the competitive advantages of a multi-generational workplace.

Inspired by his experience of intergenerational mentoring as a “modern elder” at Airbnb – where his guidance was instrumental to the company’s extraordinary success – Chip founded MEA and has since dedicated his midlife years to reframing the concept of aging and helping people navigate midlife with a renewed sense of purpose and possibility.

Molly O'Brien

Certified Bodyworker

Biodynamic Craniosacral | Shiatsu | Rolfing® Structural Integrity | Kundalini Yoga

Molly O’Brien has been a bodyworker for over thirty years and has been fascinated by how the body moves and works since she was a teenager. She is a certified Biodynamic Craniosacral and Shiatsu massage therapist with a background in Kundalini yoga.

Molly is also a certified Rolfing® Structural Integrity practitioner and helps her clients relieve stress and find pain relief through consciously paying more attention to our body’s structural system. She believes that if we want a better quality of life, we need to pay attention – and when we tune into our own body’s innate wisdom and inherent capacity to heal itself, incredible shifts can happen. She has seen it happen with her clients and also in her own life. 

Laurie Hoffman, MPH

Content Facilitator

Laurie Hofmann is a seasoned chief executive, board chair, and healthcare visionary. She is Partner at OvationLab, the premier expert consulting agency for health care innovators, early-stage and start-up ventures. Prior to that she  served for 20 years as a director, vice chair, chief executive officer, and board chairwoman for the Institute for Functional Medicine, the global leader in functional medicine with 150,000 practitioners from 96 countries.

Laurie’s 30-year track record of accomplishments in personalized public health and wellness, functional medicine, personalized nutrition, and science-based natural medicine have served to advance and significantly expand the awareness, reach, and adoption of personalized, systems-based approaches to health and medicine. She is passionate about purposefully navigating her own transitions and supporting others in their “lifequakes”.

This workshop is for you if...

You feel disconnected from your body and want to improve your health, vitality, and overall well-being

You want to unlock your body’s innate wisdom for physical, emotional, and spiritual healing

You’re looking for practical proven tools to help you manage anxiety, stress, and overwhelm

You want to move better, sleep better, think better, and feel better now and for years to come

You have old wounds and trauma you’re ready to release

Looking to deepen your sense of community and connection with the world around you

Ready to let go of self-limiting beliefs that are stopping you from stepping into your full power

Ready to expand your sense of awe – and cultivate profound gratitude for the life you get to live

Yearning to feel like you’re part of something that’s much bigger than yourself

Do this powerful work on our beautiful regenerative ranch in Santa Fe

Santa Fe, USA

Rising Circle Ranch

An upscale regenerative ranch featuring traditional Pueblo architecture and spanning nearly 2,600 acres of wildlife, hiking trails in the arroyo, with ancient petroglyphs, and awe-inspiring beauty. Close to historic Santa Fe, an artisan’s mecca.

  • Big-sky desert country
  • Breathtaking nature
  • Interaction with horses and donkeys
  • Evenings around the campfire
  • Star-gazing

Your body’s wisdom is available to you at any time

But in our culture, we have not been educated to sit with ourselves and listen to our bodies and understand what they are telling us.

The good news is, there are age-old techniques available that you can access at any time to deepen your awareness of your body and spend more time noticing what comes up for you. 

And when you learn how to tune into your body’s innate intelligence, you can unlock your ability to thrive mentally, spiritually, and physically for years to come.

Are you ready to connect more deeply with your body and activate its inherent healing abilities for greater vitality and wellbeing?

People come for the workshops,
but they stay for the community

This is truly MEA’s “secret sauce” and something you can only experience in person: the powerful connections you will make, not only with your fellow participants and the incredible MEA faculty, but also the deeper sense of connection you will feel to your own inner self and the natural world around you.

Research into aging shows that your relationships play a HUGE role in your health and wellbeing later in life. At MEA, you will make deep and lasting connections and become part of a larger community that will make your life richer and more meaningful.

Many of our alumni cohorts have stayed in close touch for years after their workshop and we have a growing number of local alumni chapters all over the world. It’s a joy for us to see them continuing to offer each other community, friendship, and support as they create thriving midlives for themselves. So if you have been feeling at all disconnected or isolated on your journey, we would love to have you join us!

Have we mentioned the food?

The MEA experience is designed in part by Chip Conley, a world-renowned boutique hotelier, which means the food is amazing.

All of the ingredients are locally sourced, organic, and made from scratch in our kitchens by hand-picked chefs. The delicious breakfasts, lunches and dinners will leave you feeling nourished inside and out – not to mention the blended drinks made with fresh fruit and other top-shelf ingredients. 


Each retreat center has multiple kitchens that always have snacks and beverages available. At MEA, we believe that thriving is delicious!

Your Workshop Includes

  • 5 days and nights of lodging at our boutique luxury retreat center in Baja or Santa Fe with all of your meals, snacks, drinks and other amenities included
  • Daily sessions and experiential activities to help you connect with your inner self, envision your desired experience, and release what no longer serves you
  • Meditation covering a range of practices to soothe your nervous system and help you cultivate greater mindfulness and presence in the moment.
  • Movement to get the energy flowing and build your strength and agility as you chart your course forward to the life you want to live.
  • Incredible bonding experiences with the most amazing humans you’ll ever meet.
  • Three delicious, chef-prepared meals plus snacks throughout the day prepared from scratch with the freshest local ingredients.
  • Festive gatherings to cultivate connection and celebrate the joy and beauty of life.

Tuition starts at $4,000

Ready to start your journey?

Embodied Wisdom: Revitalize Your Body and Spirit

Feb 10 - Feb 15, 2025 in Santa Fe, USA
Led by: Chip Conley, Molly O’Brien, Laurie Hofmann, Darby Rose

Step into your next chapter with confidence and ease, knowing that every detail of your experience is being taken care of by our world-class faculty and hospitality team.

Starting at

$4,000 per person

Enroll Now

Financial aid is available. Apply Here.

Still deciding or have questions?
Connect with our helpful team of Advisors

Our Advisors are all MEA alumni who can offer genuine insights into our programs. They’re passionate about helping you finding the right fit to make your next chapter the best one.

Daniel Booz

Dana Anton

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