Participate in a variety of offerings intended to help you balance the intensity of the Summit with the chance to join others in self-care and wellness sessions available throughout the week. Self-care is an activity that we do deliberately to take care of our mental, emotional, and physical health. It is not something that we force ourselves to do, or something we don’t enjoy doing. Self-care is something that refuels us, rather than takes from us.

Please note that Self-Care sessions are not eligible for CE credit.

2026 Self-Care Sessions

Grounding Yoga

Presenter: Norma Durazo

Times: Thursday, September 24, 2026, 11:15am-11:45am | Friday, September 25, 2026, 11:45am-12:15pm | Saturday, September 26, 2026, 6:45am-7:30am

Location: TBA

Description: Grounding yoga will consist of gentle movement, a breathing practice, and a meditation. I like to bring in the elements (earth, water, wind, fire) as part of the visualizations and metaphors used within the practice. Grounding yoga will help participants get out of their heads, connect with their bodies and the natural world around them.

Healing with Crystals

Presenter: Rocio Evans

Times: Thursday, September 24, 2026, 4:15pm-5:00pm | Friday, September 25, 2026, 11:45am-12:15pm

Location: TBA

Description: Reiki Crystal Healings. Aura cleansing and energy blessings with the use of crystals. Free Crystals. Power Animal Oracle Card Readings. Discover your power animals with the use of Power Animal Oracle card readings.

Creative Movement for Self-Care

Presenter: Dahlia Rifkin

Time: Thursday, September 24, 2026, 4:15pm-5:00pm

Location: TBA

Description: Creative Movement for Self-Care will help participants reconnect with themselves through movement, mindfulness, music, and play. Guided by principles from dance/movement therapy, this session will invite attendees to explore mind-body awareness, attunement, and connection with others through breathing, grounding, and creative movement. No dance experience is needed—participants will be encouraged to move in ways that feel authentic, freeing, and restorative to them.

Emotional Freedom Technique/Tapping  *Virtual Session

Presenter: Gail Soffer

Time: Thursday, September 24, 2026, 4:15pm-5:00pm

Location: Virtual

Description: EFT/Emotional Freedom Technique/Tapping will be taught and practiced by  participants being guided through tapping gently on a prescribed series of points on their own upper body while repeating a chosen phrase. We will go through the sequence of 9 tapping locations a few times and then see what we notice. That process can repeat with a different phrase as selected by participants depending on what they would like to see “addressed” by this modality. A diagram of tapping points and the format for constructing the phrase will be emailed to anyone who would like to receive them to help remember how to continue practicing EFT on their own.

*Please note: Virtual Sessions will take place via Zoom. Late attendees will not be admitted once the session has begun.

Hatha Yoga

Presenter: Glenna Tinney

Time: Friday, September 25, 2026, 6:15am-7:00am

Location: TBA

Description: Hatha yoga is practiced at a slower pace, with focus on the breath, controlled slow movements through static postures, alignment, and stretching. The class is designed to increase range of motion and mobility while focusing on strength, alignment, flexibility, and balance. Through movement and breath, Glenna helps those seeking to increase their strength, stamina, flexibility, and balance while also increasing self-awareness, decreasing stress, overcoming trauma, and becoming their best compassionate and gentle selves.

Mindfulness *Virtual Session

Presenter: Gail Soffer

Times: Friday, September 25, 2026, 6:45am-7:30am | Saturday, September 26, 2026, 6:45am-7:30am

Location: Virtual

Description: Mindfulness will be taught and practiced by a short presentation of Gail/Mindful Veteran Project’s definition of mindfulness and description mostly of what it is NOT so participants are clear on how different this is from what they might think and are able to engage with and enjoy the actual session. Participants will be guided through a variety of mindfulness tools/exercises followed by hearing from them what they noticed, experienced, and if they feel clear on how to continue on their own. Important ways that these tools can be used during the Summit will be emphasized.

*Please note: Virtual Sessions will take place via Zoom. Late attendees will not be admitted once the session has begun.

Building a Better Day

Presenter: Mary Jo Barrett

Time: Friday, September 25, 2026, 6:45am-7:30am

Location: TBA

Description: Together we will participate in a morning self-care ritual that will enable us to use our entire brain and body to build a better day. Through meditation, guided imagery, and journaling, we will create a practice that you can use each and every day to build a better day, a better year, and a better healthier energized you. Please bring paper and a pen.

Guided Meditation

Presenter: Nikoo Sadat

Time: Thursday, September 24, 2026, 4:15pm-5:00pm

Location: TBA

Description: This 45-minute guided meditation class offers a peaceful and restorative space to pause, reconnect, and cultivate greater inner awareness. Whether you are new to meditation or have an established practice, each session is designed to help you reduce stress, calm the mind, and strengthen the connection between your mind and body. This class provides practical mindfulness skills that support emotional well-being, resilience, stress reduction, and a greater sense of peace in everyday life.