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The Listening Field

An Immersive Educational & Experiential Retreat

21st - 23rd August, 2026

Eaglewood Resort & Spa | Itasca, Illinois

Early Bird

Secure your place at a reduced rate for a limited time before standard pricing applies.

Please note: Ticket prices do not include flights, accommodation, or main meals. Participants are responsible for arranging their own travel and lodging.

General Admission

Full retreat access at standard pricing once Early Bird tickets have sold out.

Please note: Ticket prices do not include flights, accommodation, or main meals. Participants are responsible for arranging their own travel and lodging.

Before intuition has a name, before perception becomes belief, there is a field.

The Listening Field is not a retreat to escape your life.
It is an immersion into how awareness actually works.

This weekend experience is designed to teach and demonstrate:

  • How intuitive information is received

  • How to discern imagination from perception

  • How to work with energetic fields safely and ethically

  • How sound supports clarity, regulation, and integration
     

This is grounded spirituality.
Discernment over distortion.
Embodiment over performance.

 

Through structured teaching, demonstration, sound immersion, somatic integration, and guided practice, participants step beyond theory into lived experience.

The body leads.
The nervous system becomes the instrument.
Sound becomes the bridge.

You will leave with clarity, regulation, and tools, not just inspiration.

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The Setting

Eaglewood Resort & Spa

Itasca, Illinois

The Listening Field will be hosted at Eaglewood Resort & Spa, a grounded yet refined setting designed for both restoration and focus.

Surrounded by natural landscape and expansive skies, Eaglewood offers the ideal environment for immersive learning, nervous system reset, and spacious integration.

 

The setting supports the work, quiet enough to soften, structured enough to hold depth.

This is not an escape.


It’s an intentional pause in a space designed for clarity. Accommodation is booked separately through the resort. Please contact the resort directly and reference “The Listening Field Retreat” to receive the preferred group rate.

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MEET THE PRACTITIONERS

A collective of educators, intuitives, and embodied guides, each bringing depth, discernment, and lived experience to the field.

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Jim Alstott

Mindfulness | Consciousness
| Perspective

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Jim Alstott guides participants into expanded awareness through grounded mindfulness and perceptual inquiry. With decades of exploration into consciousness, he helps individuals question assumptions, shift perspective, and access clarity without force. His work is reflective, steady, and insight-driven, creating space for meaningful change rooted in observation rather than ideology. With Jim, stillness becomes powerful, curiosity becomes transformative, and awareness becomes the doorway to deeper understanding.

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Kerry Sue Muller

Therapeutic Sound | Nervous System Regulation | Integration

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Kerry Sue Muller is a therapeutic sound practitioner specialising in nervous system optimisation and perceptual clarity. Through structured sound immersions, breath-based techniques, and psychologically informed methods, she supports regulation, recovery, and integration. Her work bridges neuroscience and subtle energetics, using sound as a precise regulatory tool rather than performance. Kerry creates experiences that recalibrate the system, strengthen intuitive access, and restore autonomic flexibility in a grounded, outcome-focused way.

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Gail Alexander

Intuition | Energy Healing
| Soul Remembrance

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Gail Alexander brings over 30 years of experience in healing arts and psychotherapy.

 

Known as “The No-Nonsense Intuitive,” she supports individuals navigating transition and spiritual growth with clarity and grounded compassion.

Gail’s work focuses on remembrance, helping participants reconnect with their innate abilities and inner authority. Her approach is direct, validating, and empowering, offering insight without bypassing the human experience.

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Heather Pleune

Akashic Records | Soul-Level Insight
| Intuitive Guidance

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Heather Pleune has worked with the Akashic Records since 2012 and is a certified practitioner and Reiki Master. She supports clients in accessing clarity, healing, and direction at the soul level. Heather’s grounded and compassionate approach emphasises empowerment over dependency, guiding individuals toward deeper self-trust and aligned decision-making.

 

Her work offers perspective, reassurance, and practical insight rooted in higher awareness.

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Irene Doreste

Embodied Mediumship | Nervous System Awareness | Intuitive Development

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Irene Doreste teaches mediumship as an embodied state of awareness rather than performance. Her work focuses on how spirit communication is experienced through sensation, presence, and nervous system attunement. With a grounded, experiential approach, she supports safe, ethical, and intuitive development rooted in regulation and discernment. Irene guides participants in recognising how information moves through the body and how subtle perception can be strengthened without overwhelm.

Her sessions emphasise clarity, safety, and embodied literacy, allowing intuitive ability to unfold in a stable and integrated way.

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Nancy Regan, LMT

Somatic Healing | Craniosacral Therapy | Embodied Awareness

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Nancy Regan is a licensed massage therapist and somatic practitioner with over 20 years of experience in bodywork and subtle energy healing. Drawing from visionary craniosacral therapy, intuitive touch, and nervous system-informed practice, she supports gentle release and embodied transformation. Nancy creates a calm, nurturing environment where the body is invited to soften and restore itself naturally. Her work emphasises regulation, safety, and reconnection to innate wholeness. Through skilled presence and refined touch, she helps individuals access deeper awareness within their physical and energetic systems, fostering sustainable healing and integration.

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Kelly Schwegel

Human Development | Spiritual Mentorship | Empowerment

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Kelly Schwegel, MSE, Ed.S., Reiki Master, blends education, spirituality, and holistic healing to support personal and professional transformation. As a speaker, mentor, and four-time author, she guides individuals toward deeper alignment through science-informed spiritual development. Kelly’s work focuses on empowerment, self-leadership, and integrating awakening into daily life.

She is known for translating complex spiritual concepts into accessible, practical understanding that fosters sustainable growth. With a strong foundation in human development, Kelly supports participants in cultivating clarity, resilience, and embodied confidence, bridging intellect and intuition with warmth and insight.

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Cathy Baldwin

Chios Triadic Energy Healing | Frequency Alignment | Energetic Restoration

    Cathy Baldwin specialises in Chios Triadic Energy Healing, working across the chakra system and auric layers to cleanse, align, and restore energetic coherence. Her practice addresses energetic imbalances, emotional blocks, and inherited or past-life residues with precision and care.

    Through frequency work and subtle field restoration, she supports recalibration of the body’s energetic systems and access to higher states of well-being. Cathy’s approach is structured yet intuitive, helping participants experience clarity, energetic integrity, and alignment with their Higher Self and I AM presence.

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    The Experience

    Structured learning. Direct experience. Integrated transformation.

    Friday

    Opening the Field

    Orientation, intuitive foundations, Akashic access, and evening sound integration.

    Saturday

    Learning & Embodiment

    Connection at breakfast, experiential sessions in intuitive communication, somatic grounding, subtle energy work, science with sound, and the mechanics of aligned manifestation, immersive sound journeys, and guided practice.

    Sunday

    Integration & Completion

    Grounding, Q&A, closing circle, and optional mini-sessions with practitioners.

    *What you see outlined here is the framework. The full schedule is expansive, immersive, and intentionally curated, and will be shared with confirmed participants upon registration. If you’d like a deeper sense of what’s unfolding, we invite you to connect with one of the facilitators, we’re happy to share more and get you excited

    about what’s ahead.

    Your Investment in The Listening Field

    Early Bird

    Special reduced rate available for a limited time.

    General Admission

    Standard retreat investment once Early Bird allocation has sold.

    What’s Included

    • Intimate Saturday Morning Breakfast Gathering

    • Exclusive Teaching & Integration Workshops

    • Mini Personal Experiential Sessions

    • Curated Sacred Gift Bag

    • $50 Credit Toward Any Future Course

    • Priority Access to Upcoming Programs

    • Early Access to Future Retreats

    • Full Access to Resort Facilities

    Who This Is For

    • This retreat is designed for individuals who value depth, discernment, embodiment, and grounded spiritual development.

    • It is not performance-based.
      It is not surface-level.
      It is an immersive educational container.

    What’s Not Included

    • Flights or travel expenses

    • Accommodation

    • Main meals

    • Participants are responsible for arranging their own travel and lodging.
      Accommodation can be booked directly with Eaglewood Resort & Spa (mention “The Listening Field Retreat” for the group rate).

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