we find breakthrough again and again.
Where traditional counseling fails,
Like most, you've probably tried everything at this point, including counseling... but it hasn't "fixed" anything. Why? We're trying to treat heart conditions with knowledge, strategy and tools. The failure isn't a lack of trying, it's that your head can't fix your heart.
Why am I stuck?
Most of us run into the same problems in varying degrees. We're tired, busy, having communication break-downs, feeling misunderstood, undervalued and unloved. We're overwhelmed, buried under guilt and shame, numb, and can't seem to change things.
The Problem?
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we need to take action
to heal our hearts.
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We are often shaped by deeper pains. We are not being seen, known, valued, received, understood or loved in the way we'd best experience it. Our lives suffer the result. We need to heal in these deeper places to experience life again. We'll guide you through it.
Navah is about transformation.
Because it isn't about information.
Why Navah works.
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Let us help you find
the freedom you were meant for.
These are things you may have given up hope on in your life and relationships, but we see people grab hold of them again as we guide them up their mountains.
It is possible.
For 19 years, Joseph Dalton has been working to put broken lives and marriages back together. He and his wife, Jen, are building a healing retreat community in Bend, Oregon that pairs their gifts of healing with their love of the outdoors to create a transformative environment to release people into freedom.
The work of Navah was birthed out of personal experience as Joseph’s heart and life came to understand some of the secret pathways to emotional and spiritual wholeness. In 1997 Joseph’s own healing journey started. Now after 28 years of an ever deepening experience in the wisdom of putting hearts back together, Navah is the gift offered to those who need a fresh start in their lives.
Joseph (54) and Jen (nope) have five adventure-loving children:
River, Navah, Hana, India and Bodhi.
About Navah
19
YEARS
3,228
hearts
1
Desire
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We'd love to talk through any questions you have. Just shoot us an email and we can hop on a call.
At the core of every human being is a longing to be seen, known, valued, treasured, cherished and received. We want to belong, to be loved for who we are not for what we do. This yearning can be described with one word: navah.
Navah is an ancient word meaning “home”. More precisely, it's a verb that means “to find rest, to bring home and to make beautiful”. In our lives so many of us have experienced the opposite of this in our families, friendships, schools and even churches. Our relationships are not restful, we don’t know how to make a dwelling place in our hearts with others. We have lost our ability to dream and hope and thrive because we've been broken by failed love. We have lost our identity and feel far from home, with no place to dwell.
Therefore, we purpose to make navah a reality in people’s lives again, sometimes for the first time. Navah also means “to purpose journeying, to shepherd, and prepare a habitation to dwell in.” This is an integral part of what we intentionally offer people when they spend time with us. We operate as guides in a shepherding capacity, similar to Sherpas, assisting those taking on the “Everest” in their lives…mountains that have long been too difficult to climb.
Navah at Bend is different than counseling, therapy, or common solutions offered by most marriage and family therapists. What we offer is something that needs to be experienced to be understood. It goes beyond words, and theories, and concepts. To have a "navah experience" is to be awakened, and to have the eyes of your heart opened to see again. With the eyes of your heart enlightened there is a new place to live from, with a new orientation and renewed hope and vision. As hearts come alive again, marriages and relationships experience new depth and closeness and freedom, with sustained transformation.
These are the experiences that capture the essence of what Navah Retreats are all about. Where traditional counseling fails, we see breakthrough again and again. It is our privilege to ‘Sherpa’ your hearts as you climb these mountains and take hold of the new life you are looking for.
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Stop fighting alone.
it's time to heal.
Experience Navah as a 3, 4 or 5 day immersion retreat. Customize your retreat to include lodging, rest & recreation or the sessions alone.
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Send me an email at navahretreatsbend@gmail.com