Reorganize Pain. Reclaim Self-Agency. Reframe Paradigms.
Fellowship Retreats for Healthcare Professionals
Before You Quit Healthcare or a Loved One…
Join Us & Change Your Lens
Competent Isn’t the Same as Fulfilled.
You know the protocols. You know the research. You know how to get through the day.
Here…
You won’t get more noise.
You’ll leave with personal alignment.
Many times alignment is all it takes to FALL BACK IN LOVE…
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With your profession
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With life
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With yourself
When you are internally aligned, you stop chasing what’s next—
and start attracting what fits.
This is not another workshop.
It’s a turning point to personal and professional fulfillment.
Most workshops add more information.
Ours reorganizes how you see, which changes how you think, feel and act.
You won’t just think differently. You will practice differently.
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Other programs often prioritize information over integration—asking participants to learn more without first creating the physiological safety the nervous system needs in order to change, and without integrating activities.
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As a result, these approaches tend to target symptoms instead of systems, focusing on pain reduction without addressing nervous system rigidity, metabolic instability, or loss of meaning.
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Many chronic pain trainings take place in the same environments where pain patterns were formed, unintentionally reinforcing stress, threat, and over-functioning rather than interrupting them.
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Other programs also leave little time or space for embodiment, regulation, and reflection—the conditions required for durable neuroplastic change to occur.
As a result, participants may feel temporarily hopeful or informed, but often return home to the same patterns, with limited long-term relief.
Falling Short
My Physio-Zen Fellowship®
Certification Retreats
Level 1 –Tools Acquisition
The My Physio-Zen World Certification is designed for tool acquisition—not just insight.
Participants leave with practical, evidence-informed strategies they can immediately apply to relieve pain, regulate the nervous system, and support whole health in themselves and their patients.
This is hands-on learning that translates directly into clinical clarity and real-world results.
Grounded in contemporary pain science and strengthened through foundational training in yoga, Tai Chi, and Qi Gong, the program equips clinicians with embodied techniques that restore function, build resilience, and expand therapeutic range.
Through structured movement, reflective inquiry, and applied nervous system regulation tools, participants develop repeatable frameworks—not abstract concepts.
A guided study of a foundational Western psychiatry text on the ego further sharpens clinical reasoning, revealing how ego-centered paradigms contribute to chronic pain patterns, stress, and anxiety.
Participants learn to recognize these patterns and apply integrative strategies that shift them.
The result is a refined clinical toolkit, strengthened self-agency, and a coherent, values-aligned way of practicing that moves beyond outdated paradigms toward sustainable, whole-person care.
Soul School®
A Scholarly Immersion for Paradigm Shifters
Level 2 —Broken Paradigm Solutions
The Soul School Workshops are advanced, location-based immersions held in regions shaped by Catholicism, Islam, Hinduism, Taoism, Judaism, and Buddhism—inviting direct encounter with the world’s great wisdom traditions in the places where they live and breathe.
Through the lens of Christ Consciousness—a universal orientation toward unconditional love, moral courage, humility, unity, and NON-JUDGEMENT beyond ego identification—participants engage these traditions alongside a guided study of foundational Western psychiatry texts.
Together, spiritual insight and psychological science illuminate how ego-centered cultural paradigms have contributed to fragmentation, stress, and persistent patterns of suffering.
We continue and deepen the yoga, Tai Chi, and Qi Gong practices first introduced in the My Physio-Zen World Certification, integrating embodied discipline with advanced spiritual and psychological inquiry.
Soul School offers a response to a broken paradigm—one that has separated science from spirit, intellect from embodiment, and success from meaning.
This rigorous, interdisciplinary immersion cultivates the capacity to move beyond inherited frameworks and lead with clarity, compassion, integration, and spiritual maturity.
How Healing Happens Here
Our Bio-Psycho-Spirit approach blends modern pain science with gentle, embodied practices to restore regulation and resilience across multiple systems simultaneously.
Physical & Nervous System
Reset
Evidence-based strategies aligned with global “Blue Zone” longevity principles, including natural movement, restorative stress regulation, purpose-driven living, service and connection, nutrition that supports metabolic health, and habits for restorative sleep.
Sustainable Pain & Burnout Relief
Restore regulation, ease chronic stress, and build lasting resilience—while earning continuing education hours. As capacity returns in addition to coaching, many rediscover enthusiasm, meaning, and purpose in both their personal lives and professional roles.
Certified Integrative Practice Skills
Earn a recognized certification and continuing education credits while learning safe, integrative strategies that deepen your clinical skill set and help you carve out your own unique path while serving others with greater clarity, confidence, and effectiveness.
Mind: Restore Purpose
Spirit: Cultivate Self-Agency
Body: Rebuild Function
We use Travel as Medicine
Each site is not chosen for tourism alone, but for its capacity to support the specific intellectual, clinical, and contemplative work of that retreat. Environment matters. Place shapes perspective.
Travel…
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Interrupts habitual stress patterns by stepping away from familiar environments that reinforce pain, burnout, and over-functioning
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Creates psychological safety through distance from daily roles, responsibilities, and expectations—allowing the nervous system to soften rather than stay on high alert
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Awakens curiosity and wonder, natural regulators that help quiet threat and pain pathways
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Expands sensory, emotional, and cognitive experience, restoring perspective and fresh clarity
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Supports nervous system flexibility, creating the conditions for new patterns of regulation, resilience, and meaning to emerge
Who Should Attend?
More than a retreat—an interdisciplinary collaboration where healthcare professionals elevate their own well-being while building a connected referral network for seamless patient care.
Physicians (MD / DO)
Evidence-based integrative approaches to chronic pain and clinician resilience
Physical & Occupational Therapists + Assistants (PT / OT / PTA / COTA)
Integrative, person-centered frameworks supporting sustainable clinical practice and professional well-being
Nurses & Advanced Practice Providers (RN / NP / PA)
Systems-based approaches to chronic pain grounded in contemporary neuroscience and clinical science
Psychologists & Behavioral Health Professionals
Bio-psycho-social and neuroscience-informed pain and stress care
Allied Health Professionals
Interdisciplinary education supporting whole-person care
This is an educational, experiential program intended to support clinician learning and professional well-being. It does not replace medical treatment and is undertaken voluntarily within each clinician’s scope of practice.
What you Will and will Not Do
YOU WILL
Restore self-agency by learning nervous-system–informed practices that help you influence pain, stress, and internal responses in real time.
Rebuild function with confidence through graded, body-aware movement that retrains safety, strength, and mobility without forcing or fear.
Reconnect with purpose by stepping out of survival mode and engaging reflective practices that restore clarity, meaning, and intentional direction.
Stabilize energy and regulation using plant-forward, insulin-aware nutrition and restorative routines that support metabolic and nervous system coherence.
Return home with embodied skills developed through guided practice, integration, and repetition—so self-agency, function, and purpose continue to grow in daily life.
YOU WILL NOT
You will NOT be asked to perform activities beyond your comfort or clinical judgment
You will NOT be required to disclose personal health information or experiences
You will NOT be subjected to non-evidence-based, dogmatic, or prescriptive practices
You will NOT be treated as a patient, case example, or research subject
You will NOT experience commercial bias, product promotion, or sales pressure
Meet the Founder
Experienced, certified, and passionate about your journey.
Dr. Kim Byrd-Rider, PT, DPT
Kim Byrd-Rider, PT, DPT, created the My Physio-Zen Method® from a deep devotion to helping people feel at home in their bodies again. She believes true healing unfolds when healthcare professionals gather with intention—sharing wisdom, presence, and care for the whole human experience. Having lived and worked in each course destination, Kim curates every retreat with an insider’s sensitivity to place, rhythm, and beauty, inviting participants into an experience that feels restorative, meaningful, and deeply personal.
Certified Specialist
Drawing from hospital, outpatient, and military physical therapy, along with 30 years of teaching yoga, meditation, Pilates, and holistic practices, Kim blends medical precision with deeply human care.
Education
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Bachelor’s of Science in Health Science, University of Oklahoma
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Master’s in Physical Therapy, University of Oklahoma
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Master’s Study in Psychology, Harvard University
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Doctorate of Physical Therapy, Boston University
She brings over 30 years of scholarship in world religions, Christian theology, biblical Greek, and holistic disciplines—including yoga, meditation, and Pilates—integrating academic rigor with embodied wisdom.
Physical Therapy Experience
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Advent Health Hospitals, Florida
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West Point Military Academy, New York (Department of Defense)
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Department of Education Virgin Islands Schools
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Aspen Valley Hospital, Colorado
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The Golden Door (#1 Spa in the World), California
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Adjunct Professor California Institute of Human Science University
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CEU instructor Cross Country Education, Nationwide
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Volunteer Hospital PT and Professor in Thimphu, Bhutan
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