Keep the retreat going after everyone goes home.
You create the retreat. I create a meditation around its themes and intentions that participants can return to afterward.
What happens after the retreat matters, too.
A retreat gives people time and space to step out of their usual lives, think differently, and engage with ideas, practices, and experiences they may not have room for in everyday life.
Then they go home.
The emails are waiting, the routines return. And even a powerful experience can start to feel very far away.
A Retreat Touchstone gives participants something concrete to return to.
Created for the experience you're creating
A Retreat Touchstone is a custom meditation created specifically for your retreat and the experience you want your participants to have.
You tell me about your retreat: what you're exploring, what you want participants to take away, the intentions you're setting, and the ideas or practices you want to stay with them.
I use that to create a 10–12 minute meditation that reflects the retreat and gives participants something meaningful to return to after they leave.
You don't need to provide individual information about each participant. One Retreat Touchstone is created for the whole group, so everyone receives the same meditation, made specifically for the retreat you've designed.
The retreat ends, but the experience doesn't have to.
Give Participants Something to Return to
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Reinforce
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Reinforce the themes and ideas at the heart of your retreat.
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Extend
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Extend the experience beyond the time you have together.
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Revisit
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Give participants a way to revisit what they explored after they return home.
What could your Retreat Touchstone focus on?
Every retreat has its own purpose. Your Touchstone should reflect yours.
✺ Trusting yourself more fully
✺ Letting go of something that no longer fits
✺ Making space for what comes next
✺ Reconnecting with creativity
✺ Moving through a transition
✺ Listening more closely to what you need
✺ Bringing a new perspective into everyday life
The meditation is personalized for your retreat, not copied from a template. Its themes, language, and focus come directly from what you are exploring with your participants.
Your Touchstone can be created around the intentions and ideas that are central to your retreat.
How You Can Use Your Retreat Touchstone
During the retreat
Use it as part of a morning or evening practice, a reflection, or a closing experience.
As participants leave
Give them the meditation as something meaningful to take home with them.
After the retreat
Share it in your follow-up so they have a way to return to the work you began together.
The right timing depends on your retreat and how you want the meditation to fit into it. We’ll decide that together.
What Your Participants Receive
A professionally produced 10–12 minute meditation created specifically for your retreat.
It can incorporate the themes, language, intentions, and ideas that are central to what you’re creating, giving participants something familiar to return to after they leave.
Everyone receives the same meditation. It’s created for the group as a whole and shaped around the retreat you designed.
They can come back to it whenever they want to reconnect with what the retreat opened up for them.
The same care behind every Touchstone.
More than 150,000 people have listened to my guidance on Insight Timer. Over the years, I’ve created a substantial body of meditation work focused on creating a tangible difference in people’s lives.
A Retreat Touchstone brings that same level of thought and personalization to your retreat. You know the experience you want to create. I take the time to understand it, find the thread that runs through it, and turn that into a meditation your participants can return to and benefit from long after the retreat is over.
“Having Skylar create a Touchstone specifically for me felt so different from the other meditations I’ve tried, made for any ol’ generic human.
From the very beginning, I felt so heard and seen. Skylar took the time to really understand what I was moving through, what I was struggling with, and the intentions I wanted to work on, and somehow turned all of that into something that felt deeply personal.
Hearing her calming voice say my name was surprisingly powerful. Having my specific intentions woven into it just made it hit differently.
I’ve started listening in the morning, and it’s become a way to slow down, get out of my own head, and gently move through some of the blocks that have been holding me back.
It feels less like listening to a meditation and more like having someone who really gets me remind me that I already have what I need to keep moving forward.”
Stacey Birch, Retreat Leader
"The first time I heard my personal Touchstone, my eyes filled with tears. It was such a relief to hear Skylar's supportive, heartfelt words instead of the fear-based looping thoughts in my head. Now, each morning, I start my day with Skylar's beautiful, melodic voice. It's a balm for my soul that I am so grateful for."
Wendi Knox, Author & Artist
“I received a personalized Touchstone recording from Skylar a number of months ago, and have listened to it nearly every night. Here's why: it's perfectly tailored to my situation because Skylar has taken the time to really listen and reflect back what I needed and wanted to hear, and has done so in a calming and soothing voice. I find it reassuring and validating.”
Mary Streche
Your retreat doesn't have to end when everyone goes home.
