True Nature Holistic Retreats

Welcome! We are so grateful to provide holistic retreats year-round at our oasis in Holmes County, Ohio. Since 2010, we (Dave and Alana Pratt) have been helping people from all walks of life bring presence to their days. We are long-time students and teachers of meditative arts, and we do our best to live what we teach. The medicine of nature is at the heart of what we offer, and all of our retreats include: classes in Yoga, Self-Breema exercises and Meditation, deliciously-beautiful vegetarian meals, plus massage and bodywork. Read on to learn about the key ingredients of what we offer or go right to our Overnight Retreats page to schedule.

A Sense of Coming Home

We live right here on the land where you’ll be a guest, and we welcome you as a friend. We will meet with you each day to offer support and provide you with time to yourself. In fact, a retreat at True Nature is a return to yourself, a home-coming that is both familiar and welcome and deeply-needed in our busy world.

Key Ingredients of Our Retreats

The Medicine of Nature

True Nature is 9 acres of rolling hills, open meadow, forest, creeks & a lively spring-fed pond. The land is teeming with wildlife and diverse plants. A key aspect of the property is that it is completely enclosed in forest, creating a natural sanctuary that gives the feeling that you are 1,000 miles away from the rest of the world. See photos here.

Yoga, Breema & Meditation

You'll experience small classes, and even one-on-one attention for individual retreats. Layer-by-layer, each class helps you see and drop what's extra and release unnecessary tension. We have been students of meditative arts since a young age, and our primary aim is to help you reconnect to your own True Nature and to return home with tools to create balance in your daily life.  Read more about us here.

Massage Therapy & Bodywork

Our individual retreats include nurturing, transformative touch through massage therapy and Breema bodywork treatments provided by Dave. Both of these arts are profound support for healing, and for embodying and integrating your class-time. Read more about massage and bodywork…

Vital Vegetarian Meals

Meals at True Nature are simple and revitalizing, featuring seasonal and mostly organic ingredients. Alana has a gift for choosing the most alive and delicious items and preparing them in a way that "let's the food speak." Our garden of organic, heirloom vegetables provides some of what we serve in the growing season, and the rest comes from local sources. Read more about meals here.

Overnight Retreats

in Ohio & Beyond...

Now you know a little about the ingredients that add up to form the retreats we offer. You can schedule individual retreats at True Nature (for you alone or with a friend or loved-one) or come to one of our Group Retreats at True Nature. We also offer retreats in The Sacred Valley of Peru, and we'd love to share that beauty with you too! Regardless of which retreat you're interested in, you can Learn more about available retreats here