Veteran's PATH Inc.

BRAVE stands for Breathwork Recalibration And Veteran Empowerment. The retreat invites women veterans to a 5-day intensive in-person gathering followed by a 12-week practice period online (in groups and individually with Veteran’s PATH facilitators) and ending with a 3-day reconvening in-person. BRAVE supports women veterans struggling with reintegration issues that can include post-traumatic stress, military sexual trauma, substance abuse, and family/caregiver matters. We integrate meditation and mindfulness practices into a disciplined, daily routine that is also full of fun and laughter so that, together, veterans can open up about their experiences and heal inner conflicts they never thought possible. The BRAVE retreats are life changing and offer an opportunity to connect with other female veterans in a safe and supportive environment. Lifetime friendships are formed!

Naval Special Warfare veterans are taking initiative in the fight against suicide by identifying, researching, and validating new mental health treatments. One of the most promising is psychedelic-assisted therapy (“PAT”), which continues to headline advances in mental health treatments with ongoing research in hundreds of universities and clinical trials. Veteran’s PATH does not directly fund PAT, but our AMP Dojo meditation program serves as a critical element in stabilizing and integrating the therapeutic impact of an innovative treatment like PAT. AMP Dojo helps veterans undergoing PAT to integrate psychedelic-induced insights, including deconstructing faulty beliefs, restructuring attitudes, challenging assumptions, and healing traumas stored in the body/mind. Learning meditation plays a very important role in successful PAT, and AMP Dojo helps sustain lasting positive change.

Veteran’s PATH wilderness retreats offer veterans multi-day journeys based on mindfulness practice and activities such as whitewater rafting, rock climbing, hiking, or skiing/snowboarding. These life-changing and life-affirming opportunities require energy, courage and dedication. Time in nature can reduce anxiety and depression and decrease PTSD symptoms in veterans. This is a serious commitment, so only apply if you are ready to step forward towards the changes your heart is longing for. While programs can be challenging, they are filled with fun, laughter, connection, purpose, and renewal. Through coming together with other veterans, in a safe and beautiful natural setting, veterans are given the time, support, and new skills to focus on the personal changes needed to move forward from military service into the post-military life that they envision and create. Our retreats are open to active-duty service members and veterans of all branches of the military and all eras.