The living well journey
September 16 - June 16, 2027
With deep gratitude and joy, I’m delighted to announce that I am once again offering a collaborative journey with Opt2Liv!
Yoga, nature, and contemplative practices offer the maps.
The life you create is the adventure.
We live in a time overflowing with information, yet many of us still feel that something essential is missing.
What we seek cannot be found on the internet—or even in books alone. It must be experienced, practiced, and lived.
Together, your guides—Kim Carlson, Eric Banter, and Dr. Amy Banter—bring decades of combined experience teaching, guiding, and supporting thousands of people. Through this work, we have come to understand that a life well lived is rooted in a few essential qualities:
Connection & Belonging
Contentment & Peace
Love & Compassion
Presence & Purpose
This journey invites us to remember how to live with greater peace, love, purpose, and joy—even as we learn to hold the full spectrum of being human: delight and sorrow, fear and hope, beauty and brutality.
The Living Well Journey is an invitation to remember what truly nourishes you and enter a deeper, more intentional relationship with your life.
Over 40 weeks, we will allow the wisdom of nature to guide us through the four seasons and their cycles of release, rest, renewal, and growth. Along the way, we will learn to live in greater harmony with our own ever-changing nature and become more attuned to the season of life we are currently experiencing.
Within this seasonal journey, we will move through three interconnected phases of inner transformation: Awakening, Illumination, and Embodiment.
Who Is This For?
This journey is for anyone ready to deepen their relationship with yoga, contemplative practice, and the sacred work of being human.
No prior training is required. Whether you are new to yoga or have completed more than 1,000+ hours of study, you will be met exactly where you are.
If you have participated in one of our previous trainings, this experience will feel both familiar and entirely new. You will recognize the community, sacred space, meaningful conversation, and depth of practice you have loved—yet none of us arrives as we were before. Students and teachers alike enter this journey changed by life and ready to discover and integrate the next layer of wisdom and growth.
If you long to slow down, engage in nourishing experiences, reflect on what truly matters, deepen your relationship with the sacred, and integrate what you discover into a life well lived—this journey is for you.
Optional Teaching Path
The Living Well Journey is intended to help each participant become a lifelong student of the practice of living well.
For those who feel called to share these teachings with others, optional certification pathways will also be available. Through additional mentorship, specialized coursework, teaching practicums, and guided integration, participants may pursue 200-hour or 300-hour advanced yoga teacher certification while remaining fully immersed in the shared journey.
Spaces are intentionally limited to preserve the integrity of the container and the depth of connection.
The Questions That Guide Us
There are universal questions we all ask:
Who am I?
Why am I here?
How can I receive, navigate, and integrate the full spectrum of feelings and experiences that life asks me to hold?
How do I create a life of greater peace, love, and joy?
Bringing yoga and contemplative practices together creates a powerful alchemy—one that can support healing, awaken the spirit, and help us embody a more illuminated life of meaning, contentment, and joy.
Along the journey, we will explore:
Yoga and embodied somatic movement
Meditation and Yoga Nidra
Ayurveda, nature medicine, and seasonal living
Mysticism and contemplative traditions
Neuroscience, anatomy, and nervous-system regulation
Energy awareness and subtle practices
Breath, sound, and Nada Yoga
Journal reflection and creative expression
Ritual, sacred space, and personal practice
Spiritual conversation, community, and communion
Our Rhythm
Weekly Gatherings
Each Wednesday offers spacious time for learning, experience, and connection, including:
Teachings and reflections drawn from yoga, science, nature, and the wisdom of the world’s mystics
Guided contemplative and embodied practices
Creative exploration and personal reflection
Meaningful conversation within a community of fellow seekers
Practices to carry into daily life
Seasonal Immersions
We will gather for 4 weekend immersions—one for each season—offering extended time to deepen into the teachings and integrate what we are learning through experience.
Participants will have opportunities to curate portions of their weekend according to their individual interests and areas of study. Those pursuing yoga teacher certification will also have dedicated time to develop, practice, and refine their teaching skills.
Through this sustained rhythm of weekly gatherings and seasonal immersions, the teachings move beyond something we simply understand and become something we embody and live.
What You’ll Receive
Weekly four-hour gatherings for community, connection, and consistent practice — Value: $3,200
Four seasonal weekend immersions to explore the teachings more deeply, with the freedom to curate your own weekend experience — Value: $1,200
Two Cell Wellbeing evaluations to support your physical body throughout the journey — Value: $900
Four Neubie sessions to support your nervous system and energy body — Value: $100
Four personal mentoring sessions offering individualized support along your journey — Value: $800
Optional participation in the Gethsemani silent retreat — Value: $300+
(room and board donation not included)
Total Program Value: $6,500+
Investment
You may notice that the investment for this 40-week journey is lower than similar offerings we have held in the past. After much reflection, we kept returning to the same knowing: this work is life-giving, and we want more people to be able to say yes to it. With that intention in our hearts, we have chosen to offer The Living Well Journey at a more accessible investment.
Program Investment: $2,950
Opt2Liv members and graduates of any previous yoga teacher training with us will receive a 20% discount, bringing the total investment to:
$2,360
Early Registration Offering
*Payment plan options available.
3% service charge on all credit card transactions.
$500 deposit required to hold your space.
If you prefer to pay with cash, check, Venmo or Zelle - reach out to Kim to make arrangements.
If you feel called and want more details, reach out. We would love to connect with you, answer your questions, and explore whether this training is the right path for you.
Next Steps
Contact Kim, 317-694-2415 or Eric 765-730-4954 to set up an inquiry call.
We would be honored to be your guides for this 40-week journey into the art of living well.
We am deeply grateful for the opportunity to share this sacred work with you.
Humbly yours,
Kim, Eric and Amy