Paths of Self-Care: Harnessing Quantum Flow for Well-Being
A Boutique Women’s Retreat
Tenuta di Paternostro
Italy
September 25-29, 2025
Arrival: 4:00 PM | Departure: 2:00 PM
A Unique Experience
Our 5-Day self-care retreat weaves together the human story, well-being strategies, nature, ancient wisdom, and sacred rituals to create a deeply restorative self-care experience. Through ceremony, movement, and connection, you will gently reset your autonomic nervous system, leaving with a renewed sense of calm, creativity, compassion, and connection—to yourself, to others, and to the infinite.
As we explore the properties of the quantum field, you’ll begin to understand the power of your mind to heal and create the future you’ve been striving for. Linear time is an illusion, and within the vast, interconnected ocean of energy that is quantum space, you’ll learn how to cultivate dynamic flow.
Guiding this journey, Dr. Paula Petry shares her transformative path—from decades of supporting mothers of children with disabilities to her personal healing through deep grief. Her spiritual exploration has led her to shamanic energy medicine, sound healing, Akashic Records, Psych-K, and Jungian dream analysis. Her wisdom, drawn from lived experience and profound insight, is also shared in her books A Mother’s Courage to Awaken (2020) and 24/7 Flow: Thrive Around the Clock (2024).
A unique element of this retreat at Il Tenuta is the opportunity to experience the healing presence of horses. Spending time in the field with the nine thoroughbred horses who call Tenuta home offers a powerful way to reconnect with yourself and the natural world.
Joining Dr. Paula Petry is Karen Mellers, an emotional wellness coach, circle facilitator, and natural wellness expert whose own 40-year healing journey informs her deep, intuitive work. With years of experience leading and mentoring within Weleda UK, where she guided a team of over 700 Wellbeing Advisors, Karen brings her wisdom and passion for holistic wellness to this retreat as a co-facilitator.
Together, we invite you to step into this sacred space, where transformation unfolds with grace, and healing happens on every level.
Peel Away Layers of Your Past
Set against the backdrop of Tenuta di Paternostro, a beautiful country retreat center nestled in the heart of the mystical Tuscia region just north of Rome, you will step away from daily demands, and be immersed in a safe and nurturing environment – where healing flourishes. Through guided shamanic practices and immersive experiences with horses and nature’s four elements, we’ll lead you on a transformative voyage between worlds, where profound insights and healing unfold. Reconnect with lost aspects of yourself and surrender to the nurturing embrace of Mother Earth as you delve into the principles of this unified field of awe and wonder.
A Message from Paula and Karen
We are offering our Paths of Self-Care retreat because we know that today’s demands of daily life are hijacking our heart and soul’s desires, keeping them hidden, buried under the to-do list, fret, and worrying. Self-care, for many, has not feel like an option – creating unprecedented levels of stress and burnout.
At the same time, research in the new sciences, e.g. quantum physics, positive psychology and neuroscience is showing us effective ways to reset our nervous system and giving us new perceptions of the world that are uplifting, life-affirming, and feel like personal truth for many.
We also understand the power of safe containers, deep listening, and working with the sacred, at the level of the energetics – to transmute and release one’s past.
This is all possible as you remove yourself from daily demands, surround yourself in natural beauty, allow yourself to be guided to a place of inner calm and deep relaxation from which healing can flourish, with guided journeys, healing circles, sound healings, soft movement, and sacred ceremony.
We Await You!
Paula and Karen
A Taste of Italy: Farm-to-Table Dining at Tenuta di Paternostro
Tenuta Di Paternoster is known for its high quality organic farm to table cuisine. Meals are served to you in quaint country outdoor settings with beautiful and calming vistas.
Paths to Self-Care: Your Equine Guided Quantum Healing Experience
Paths to Self-Care offers a unique equine-guided quantum healing experience with nine formerly thoroughbred racehorses who reside at Tenuta.
Your equine experience begins before entering the field, with Paula’s signature Attunement Process — a gentle preparation that invites the nervous system to relax and align with the natural world. This includes:
- Setting a personal intention
- Breathwork to calm the autonomic nervous system
- An energetic attunement with the horses through a heart opening and visualization process
- Wait to be invited in – teaching
- The basics of safely and respectfully interacting with horses
This process helps slow your heart rate, raise heart coherence, and harmonize your energy with that of the horses. It creates a resonant field — a quiet, welcoming frequency that lets the herd know we are approaching with presence and respect. The knowledge shared about being with horses helps you feel safe.
Small groups of no more than six guests are then invited into the open field. From a distance, Paula and the group silently call the horses — not with voice or movement, but through pure intention and heart connection. The herd responds, walking across the land to join the group, drawn to the shared field of awareness and calm energy.
As the horses near, the group will slowly move toward them, pausing, moving, pausing and waiting – intuiting the invitation from the horse to interact. The interaction will include slow movements, touching, looking into their eyes, allowing the horse to sniff and nudge and poke as you remain in a peaceful state; perhaps with an open dialogue with the horse as to what you are noticing and feeling about him/her. This energetic exchange is the way horses sense and clear the human auric field.
In 30 – 45 minutes we will end the process by thanking the horses for their attention and willingness to engage with us on our healing journey.
Note: Paula recently spent two months immersed at Tenuta di Paternostro, deeply connecting with the herd, as captured in this video and her poetic expression.
Paula Petry, PhD
We are offering our Paths of Self-Care retreat because we know that today’s demands of daily life are hijacking our heart and soul’s desires, keeping them hidden, buried under the to-do list, fret, and worrying. Self-care, for many, has not feel like an option – creating unprecedented levels of stress and burnout.
At the same time, research in the new sciences, e.g. quantum physics, positive psychology and neuroscience is showing us effective ways to reset our nervous system and giving us new perceptions of the world that are uplifting, life-affirming, and feel like personal truth for many.
We also understand the power of safe containers, deep listening, and working with the sacred, at the level of the energetics – to transmute and release one’s past.
This is all possible as you remove yourself from daily demands, surround yourself in natural beauty, allow yourself to be guided to a place of inner calm and deep relaxation from which healing can flourish, with guided journeys, healing circles, sound healings, soft movement, and sacred ceremony.
We Await You!
Paula and Karen
Joining Paula is Karen Mellers, a seasoned emotional wellness coach and natural wellness expert. Karen and Paula met during their stay at Broughton Sanctuary in 2023. They learned that they were both wandering nomads with a purpose – to create more goodness in the world. Their mutual trust and admiration is the key to the magic they create in their retreats.
Karen’s background includes leading a team of over 700 Wellbeing Advisors at Weleda UK, bringing a wealth of knowledge and a compassionate approach to her role. Her expertise in emotional and natural wellness complements Paula’s vision, creating a powerful synergy that enriches your retreat experience.
Together, Paula and Karen offer a rich tapestry of guidance and support. They begin by meeting with you 1-on-1 before the retreat. Here they will help you set a powerful intention for the retreat. During the retreat their individual guidance is purpose-driven – illuminating the ways you may be blocking the very thing you want the most and offering strategies for forward movement.
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Location
By Air
Rome has multiple airports. The easiest access is from Fiumicino Airport
By Transit
The closest station to the venue is located in Vetralla.
** A transportation option will be arranged prior to to arrival.
By Car
Strada Marchionato, 36, 01019 Vetralla VT, Italy
Driving from Fiumicino Airport T1 Airport: 1 hour 15 minutes
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