Sun-Kissed Nutrition™

Food as Medicine • Live Cooking Experience • Whole-Food, Plant-Based Lunch 

Discover how the sun's energy becomes the nourishment that fuels every cell in your body. Through an engaging presentation, you'll explore the fascinating connection between sunlight, plants, human biology, and vitality—and how the foods you choose each day can support energy, hormonal balance, gut health, mental clarity, and long-term wellness. 

We will share practical, sustainable meal-planning strategies rooted in a whole-food, plant-based lifestyle, making healthy eating simple, enjoyable, and realistic for everyday life.

You'll also enjoy a live cooking demonstration featuring delicious, nutrient-dense recipes while learning how to use food as one of your greatest tools for healing and prevention.

A fresh, whole-food, plant-based lunch is included with your retreat experience.

Intuitive Body Technique™

Acupressure • Therapeutic Tuning Forks • Sound Healing • Brain Entrainment 

Experience deep relaxation and energetic renewal through the Intuitive Body Technique™—a unique blend of acupressure, precision-tuned therapeutic tuning forks, sound vibrational healing, and brain entrainment designed to calm the nervous system and restore balance.

This immersive experience helps release tension, encourage the free flow of energy, and support the body's natural capacity for healing.

As sound, vibration, and gentle touch work together, you'll discover simple practices that can help reduce stress, quiet the mind, improve resilience, and leave you feeling deeply grounded, refreshed, and renewed.

Effortless Coherence

HeartMath® Breathwork • Nervous System Regulation • Emotional Balance

Discover the restorative power of HeartMath® Breathwork, a science-based approach that combines rhythmic breathing with heart-focused awareness to help regulate the nervous system, increase coherence, and restore emotional balance. 

You'll experience simple, practical techniques you can use anytime to shift your inner state, quiet the mind, and return to greater calm and clarity. As the breath, heart, and nervous system begin to work in harmony, the body settles, emotions stabilize, and your natural capacity for resilience and healing becomes easier to access.

More than a breathing technique, Effortless Coherence is a lived experience of alignment—a state in which the heart, mind, and body work in harmony, energy flows more freely, and your innate capacity for healing, presence, and well-being naturally emerges.

The Miracle Method™

Presence • Awareness • Transformation • Higher Self

Discover a practical path for creating everyday miracles by reconnecting with the spiritual dimension of life, the wisdom within, and the highest, healthiest, and most heroic version of yourself. 

Drawing from both ancient wisdom traditions and modern transformational practices, The Miracle Method™ uses the acronym PATH to explore four essential practices for living with greater clarity, purpose, and alignment. You’ll learn to cultivate Presence as Medicine, awaken Awareness as the Witness, Trace the Root of challenges back to the emotions and unmet needs beneath them, and reconnect with your Higher Self—the deeper intelligence within that knows, heals, and guides.

Together, these practices offer a simple yet profound framework for transforming everyday challenges into opportunities for greater wholeness, meaning, and extraordinary growth.

Quantum Connection

Intention • Awareness • Alignment • The Unified Field

Discover the fascinating principle of quantum entanglement—the idea that connection itself is a powerful force for healing and transformation. Explore how energy, intention, and consciousness are interconnected, and how your inner state actively shapes the energetic field around you. 

Through engaging discussion and practical exercises, you'll learn how thoughts, emotions, and intentions influence your experience, helping you trust your inner guidance, feel more deeply connected to others, and recognize that healing occurs within a unified field rather than in isolation.

You'll also explore the science behind entanglement—the phenomenon in which two particles remain connected beyond space and time—and learn practical ways to apply these principles through intention, breath, emotional alignment, mirror work, journaling, and everyday practices that make these concepts simple, grounded, and meaningful in daily life.

Amanda Johns CCHt, LSHC, LMT, HHP, SWC

Amanda Johns is an Energy Medicine & Holistic Health Practitioner, Clinical Hypnotherapist, and SelfActualization Coach at the Jacksonville Health & Wellness Center. She also serves as an instructor at the Wellness By Design Practitioner Academy, where she guides emerging practitioners in the art of integrative healing.

Amanda brings a deeply intuitive presence to her work, attuning to the subtle body’s wisdom through lifestyle medicine, nutrition, and energetic modalities.

Her passion is to awaken a sense of wonder within her clients and students — revealing how sacred energetic principles illuminate the truth that lives beyond the physical eye.

Through her teachings, she invites others into a space where healing becomes both a science and a soulful remembering.

Nicole Barry, NBHWC, CFHHP, SWC

Nicole Barry is a Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBHWC), Holistic Health Practitioner, Certified Clinical Homeopathic Specialist, HeartMath® Building Resilience Certified Coach, and Self-Actualization Wellness Coach, with a background in Montessori education. She specializes in gut health, hormones, nutrition, and homeopathy, empowering others to restore balance through a holistic approach to health and well-being. 

Her work is deeply rooted in her own healing journey. After years of struggling with chronic hormonal imbalances—including ovarian cysts, endometriosis, benign breast tumors, anemia, and digestive issues—Nicole turned to holistic wellness when conventional approaches failed to provide lasting relief. Through practices such as yoga, acupuncture, chiropractic care, meditation, prayer, and whole-food nutrition, she rebuilt her health from the inside out.

Today, Nicole combines her professional training with her lived experience to help others heal physically, emotionally, and spiritually. She believes deeply in the body's innate ability to heal and restore balance and is passionate about guiding people toward greater resilience, clarity, self-care, and lasting transformation through practical, holistic lifestyle changes.

John Buchanan

John Buchanan began a personal journey of transformation in 2018 to overcome addiction and better understand the relationship between consciousness, awareness, and human potential.

Since then, he has explored a variety of healing and personal development modalities, including meditation, silent retreats, ketamine-assisted therapy, ayahuasca ceremonies, mushroom ceremonies, hypnotherapy, and PSYCH-K®, becoming a Certified PSYCH-K® Facilitator.

John has studied the work of Michael Singer, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Dr. Bruce Lipton, Carl Jung, David Hawkins, Red Hawk, Lynn Buchanan, and many others in the scientific and consciousness communities. His interests include quantum physics, the double-slit experiment, remote viewing, meditation, neuroscience, and the exploration of consciousness.

He also helps organize a meditation group in Jacksonville, Florida, where people gather to explore meditation, mindfulness, and personal growth.

Drawing upon more than three decades of experience as a business owner, public service, & volunteering, John brings a practical perspective to topics healthy state of mind.

John's greatest hope is self- reflection. No outside person can improve any of us until we can see within yourself, what needs to grow. Then the answers flow more freely. Start asking better questions of yourself, becoming more curious, and continuing their own exploration of consciousness, awareness, and the nature of reality.

Dr. Jon Repole DC, BC, CFMP, HHP, NC, CPT 

Dr. Jon Repole is a lifelong seeker, teacher, and healer whose journey into health and wellness began through personal tragedy. After losing his sister to iatrogenic disease, he was inspired to search beyond symptom management and discover the deeper principles of healing, purpose, and transformation. That quest has evolved into more than 25 years of helping others restore their health, awaken to their potential, and reconnect with the wisdom within. 

As the author of the #1 Amazon bestseller Illness to Wellness and the creator of The Miracle Method™, Dr. Jon integrates modern science, functional medicine, ancient wisdom, and spirituality into a practical framework for living with greater health, purpose, and inner peace. His passion is helping others shift not only their health, but also their identity—unlocking the highest, healthiest, and most heroic version of themselves.

Dr. Jon is the Clinic Director of Jacksonville Health & Wellness Center and the Founder of Wellness by Design, where he trains future health coaches and holistic practitioners. He holds a Doctor of Chiropractic degree from New York Chiropractic College and Functional Medicine Practitioner from Functional Medicine University and has advanced training in nutrition, endocrinology, neurology, anti-aging, longevity, and holistic health.

Through his teaching, Dr. Jon hopes to inspire others to live with greater awareness, compassion, and purpose, becoming a positive force for healing in their own lives and in the lives of those around them.