[SleepaWeek NYC] WOW, I feel good!

​You are a PRO at running on fumes. Too little sleep, too much caffeine — and even while you feel bad, you can still be an absolute beast.

​There's a cost, though. A subtle exhaustion undercurrent through everything you do. Trouble winding down at night. Every time you and your close friends both feel bad, you give and give and give until they feel better first, even when you're too tired. A suspicion that if you cleared a full day with no plans, you might just sleep through the whole thing.

​Is it possible there's another way to feel?! One where you're gasp reliably well-regulated and still capable of doing everything you want to do?

​"I was expecting it to be hard and challenging, but I already do that so much in my everyday life. Instead, Sleepawake stretched me to be soft with myself, tap into my actual desires in moments where I would normally suppress them, and live more true to myself." - Sleepawake retreat participant

​Come try a range of practices for filling your cup and take home whichever ones work best for you. You'll leave with a better sense of how resourcing yourself can be the most efficient path to doing more of what you love — and maybe feeling like you just got a long professional massage, or lunch with an old friend.

​Agenda

• ​Arrival, welcome, & settling in

• ​Interactive activity to learn about your own unique needs and wants, and what feels good and resourcing to you

• ​Gentle and fun relational tool for grounding — up to you how deep you want to go, and your "no" will always be honored

• ​Guided meditation for deep rest

​Please bring a yoga mat or anything else that will help you feel comfy and cozy for the lying down portion.

​About Your Facilitator: Sarah Cruse

​"A few one-on-one conversations with Sarah helped me unlock an actual understanding of what it means to have ground experientially, such that in my post-Sleepawake life I'm feeling large, powerful, and unshakeable." - 2026 retreat participant

​Sarah has been with Sleepawake since 2023, leading both our emotional and relational curriculum and our creative expression curriculum at almost every retreat we’ve ever run. As a young repressed and depressed adult, trying to find her way out of patterns of personal and familial trauma, she found poetry and discovered the healing power of embodied truth, authentic voice and creative expression. Sarah now supports people and communities in activating their own inner creative pathways. Outside of Sleepawake, she is currently a practitioner of energetic medicine, sound healing and trauma clearing, and the lead singer of her band Yaya's Kitchen. Sarah is up for the adventure of whatever this evening together brings and delighted to be part of it with you.

​About SleepaWeek
Sleepawake is coming to NYC for a week! Check out our events calendar to see everything happening this week. If the ticket price is a blocker to your attendance, please reach out to info@sleepawake.camp for details on need-based scholarship discounts.