Please note that there is a $150 application fee required to submit your General Application for Refugia 2026-27. 100% of this fee will be applied toward your tuition if you are accepted, and will be refunded if you are not accepted. As a reminder, you can read all the details about this program here.

If you are accepted but choose not to participate in Refugia, the $150 application fee will not be refunded, but will go to our scholarship fund. This helps ensure that those who apply are truly sincere in their intent to participate and honors the investment of time and energy that applications require for applicants and hosts alike. 

If you are requesting a partial scholarship, please complete this scholarship application *after* submitting this General Application.

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Confidentiality. Let's honor one another by holding what is shared by others in Refugia in sacred privacy. Thank you. 

Respect. Let's agree to not offer any unsolicited advice to others. Let's refrain from attempting to fix anyone. Let’s practice noticing and divesting from the overculture’s common practice of dominating others (or ourselves). Let's not utter words that can create discord and cause the community to break. Let's be mindful of the impact of our speech and aim to speak with respect, so that our words help to create and protect Refugia. Let's address any conflicts that occur directly with respect and a kind heart. Thank you. 

Soul Manners. We ask that you intentionally treat everyone in the community with the utmost kindness, compassion, and respect, even if you don't like them. Each of us helps to create this shared culture that allows this work to work and that allows the space to be a refuge for us all. Let’s practice the manners that are missing in the overculture. Let’s welcome diversity and honor every individual in our ecosystem with kindness, respect, and warm regard. Practicing soul manners also includes giving credit where it’s due. Please honor your sources when sharing others' words and images, and please attribute us accordingly when sharing any teachings or practices from Refugia outside of our space. Thank you. 

Presence. Let's lean toward embodied presence and avoid the fractured attention of multitasking or multi-screen activity during our time together. We know that during a 13-month immersion, things will come up that may require you to miss some meetings. We purposely welcome a “village-sized” group between 20-50 people. As this is not a huge group, we notice when you're absent. If you're going to say yes to this 13-month immersion, and if we're going to say yes to you taking a spot in the circle, we invite you to aim toward really showing up. There are ways of staying present and energetically connected to the group and the container even when you have to miss sessions. Please aim to do so. Thank you. 

Responsibility. Let's all take responsibility for co-creating a life-giving experience in Refugia. This includes asking for what you need and also caring for the well-being of our village. Let’s practice true listening with one another and with ourselves. You are invited to honor your inner authority. You get to decide how you participate, knowing nothing is demanded. Let's aim to create a nourishing experience for ourselves and others. Thank you. 

Curiosity. Let's practice reverent curiosity and humility, knowing how much we don’t know about one another or even ourselves. Let's meet in Rumi's field, out beyond ideas of right-doing and wrongdoing. Let’s actively endeavor to avoid being rigid or fundamentalist in our thinking and our language, and avoid trying to convince anyone of our views and beliefs. Let's instead bring our open minds, open hearts, authenticity, good humor, and a willingness to embody our values, rather than proselytize them. Thank you. 

Courage. Courage means wholehearted participation. We ask you to plan on participating in Refugia with as much wholehearted engagement as possible. We invite you to stay connected and to recommit when necessary so you can really show up for this experience and for the community. This helps create a strong container and an authentic refuge for you and for the whole group. Thank you. 

The tuition for this immersive 13-month training is $4995. 

**Please understand that if you claim a spot in Refugia, you are responsible for completing all monthly payments whether you attend all sessions or not.**

Please read our crystal clear cancellation policy here.

This course includes live Zoom gatherings weekly over 13 months, recordings of each session, course materials, and an online classroom on the Ruzuku platform. Please know that once you've registered for the course, we do not offer refunds. If you choose a payment plan, please understand that by accepting a spot in the course, **you commit to making all payments regardless of your level of participation.**

Do you agree to this payment and (no) refund policy? (Please know that filling out this application does not count as your registration. Only once you've made a payment are you registered.)

Making refugia real means creating conditions where everyone called to this work can participate. When you contribute to our Community Scholarship Fund, you're not just helping individuals access this training — you're investing in a more regenerative world where everyone called to this work can answer that call, regardless of their economic circumstances. We at Embodiment Matters are happy to offer $12,500 in scholarship discounts. We appreciate every dollar that adds to this fund. 

Every contribution — whether $25 or $2500 —helps create a more inclusive community of Refugia-makers. Every single donation, small or large, is received with our deepest gratitude and reverence.

Thanks so much for considering it!