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
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:
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
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.



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.