Radiance: The Art of Becoming Fully Alive

Radiance: The Art of Becoming Fully Alive is a healing retreat at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, led by Eset Rose and Jess Magic. It is a weekend immersion in embodiment, movement, and nervous system work, for anyone who feels worn down by overperformance and wants to reconnect with their vitality, creativity, and emotional truth.

The program is open to all levels. No prior embodiment, yoga, or meditation experience is needed.

What to Expect

Radiance is built around the idea that people become more alive, expressive, and fully themselves when the body, nervous system, emotions, creativity, and spirit come into greater harmony. The work draws on embodiment, movement, ritual, emotional inquiry, cyclic living, and the philosophy of the Beauty Way.

Over the weekend you can expect:

- Embodiment practices that cultivate vitality, sensuality, nervous system regulation, and grounded presence
- Movement, sound, breathwork, and creativity exercises meant to awaken eros and creative life force
- Guided inquiry into self-expression, visibility, desire, authenticity, beauty, and emotional truth
- Practices rooted in cyclic living, harmony, reciprocity, and intuition
- Relational and group experiences that deepen connection, self-trust, courage, and belonging

The aim is to leave with greater vitality, self-trust, and practical tools for sustaining nervous system wellbeing.

The days follow the Kripalu rhythm. Opening day begins with check-in at 2:00 pm, a Kripalu Yoga class from 4:45 to 6:00, dinner, and a first program session from 7:30 to 9:00 in the evening. Full days start with a yoga class at 6:30 am, followed by a silent breakfast, then program sessions from 9:00 to 11:30 am and 1:30 to 4:00 pm, with lunch between them. Another yoga class and dinner close the day. On the final morning there is yoga, silent breakfast, and a program session from 9:00 to 11:00, then lunch and departure. Times may shift, and the schedule given at check-in has the final details and room locations.

About Eset Rose and Jess Magic

Eset Rose and Jess Magic are the presenters of Radiance. They guide the program together, bringing the embodiment, creativity, and ritual practices described above.

The Setting

Kripalu sits in Stockbridge, in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, and the grounds are part of the stay. Accommodations are intentionally simple, meant to help you unplug and feel grounded. Options include a private room or a community-style shared dormitory for those who want connection. Rooms are ready by 4:00 pm, and a luggage room is available if you arrive earlier.

Three meals are served each day, and breakfast is taken in silence. Check-out on the last day is at 10:00 am, though you may stay on campus and take part in workshops until 2:00 pm.

Before You Go

Registration includes program sessions with the presenters, more than ten yoga classes daily across the campus offerings, three meals a day, and access to the grounds and facilities, along with your accommodation, which varies by room type. Healing Arts sessions and purchases from the Kripalu Shop and Cafe are extra, and transportation is not included. The program is taught in English.