Inner Healing Retreat

Move His truth from your head to your heart.

A two-and-a-half day inner healing retreat for women, hosted by Tasha Layton at a farmhouse setting south of Nashville, Tennessee.

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How long

Two and a half days

Where

A farmhouse setting
south of Nashville, TN

Who it’s for

Women, in a
small group

Is this you?

You’ve done the work. So why does it still hurt?

Most of the women who come to Poiema aren’t in crisis. They’re functioning. That’s part of the problem — you can carry something for years while everyone around you assumes you’re fine.

You’ve prayed about the same thing for years and it hasn’t moved.

You can hold everyone else together and still feel hollow on the drive home.

You’ve told the story so many times it’s gone flat — and you’re not sure you ever actually felt it.

Something happened to you, and you’ve never had words for it.

You’ve been told to forgive. You want to. You don’t know how.

You keep waiting to feel like the person everyone thinks you are.

If you recognized yourself more than once, this weekend was built for you.

The Greek word poiēma means “a work,” “workmanship,” or “masterpiece”—something intentionally created and lovingly crafted by its Maker.

“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:10

Poiema is a reminder that your story is not an accident, your wounds do not define you, and your life is not beyond redemption. You are God’s workmanship—His intentional creation, still being restored, renewed, and made whole in Christ.

This retreat is an invitation to step into that truth—not simply to know it in your head, but to begin experiencing it more deeply in your heart.

Surrounded by God’s creation, you’ll step away from the noise of everyday life and into two focused days of reflection, teaching, community, prayer, and worship.

What this is

Not a conference. Not therapy. Something else.

There’s no stage here. No lanyard, no breakout tracks, no green room. Just a farmhouse, a small group of women, and two and a half days with enough room in them to actually feel something.

Poiema takes seriously what most retreats skip: that difficult experiences don’t only change what you believe — they change how you think, relate, and react, often long after you’ve forgiven everyone involved. So the work here is both. Teaching that helps you understand what happened to you. Prayer that goes at the wound rather than around it.

“God and my therapist saved my life.”Tasha Layton

This retreat is built on that conviction — that faith and real psychological understanding belong in the same room, and that needing both is not a failure of faith.

You will not be asked to perform.

The Two Days

What You’ll Experience

Trauma Exercises & Teaching

Understand how difficult experiences can shape the way we think, feel, relate, and respond—and learn practical tools for moving toward wholeness.

Timeline & Story Work

Look honestly and compassionately at your story, identifying significant moments, patterns, wounds, and places where God has been present.

Group Exercises & Community

Experience the power of being seen, known, and supported through guided exercises and meaningful conversation in a safe community of women.

Inner Healing Prayer

Bring wounds, lies, shame, fear, unforgiveness, and pain into God’s presence through guided inner healing prayer.

Worship & Reflection

Slow down through worship, quiet, reflection, and time in nature—creating space to listen to God and to your own heart.

Special Guests

Receive additional wisdom, perspective, and expertise from special guests joining us throughout the retreat.

Tools to Get “Unstuck”

Leave with practical tools and next steps you can continue using long after the retreat ends.

Afterward

What you’ll take home

A weekend that feels good and changes nothing isn’t worth your time or your money. Here’s what we actually build toward.

Language for what happened to you.Naming a thing accurately is most of the work. Many women leave with words for something they’ve carried wordlessly for decades.
Your story on one page.You’ll map your own timeline — the moments, the patterns, and the places God was present that you couldn’t see while you were living it.
Prayer that goes somewhere.Guided inner healing prayer, brought to specific wounds rather than general requests.
A practice small enough to keep.Not a program. One or two things you’ll actually do on an ordinary Tuesday when you feel nothing.
Women who know.You’ll arrive as strangers. That changes fast in a room where nobody is performing.

You won’t leave fixed. Nobody does, and anyone promising otherwise is selling something. You’ll leave further along, with tools, and no longer carrying it by yourself.

Before you decide

Honest answers

Do I have to share?: No. You’ll never be put on the spot, and “I’d rather not” is a complete sentence here. Most women share more than they expected to — because they weren’t made to.
Is this therapy?: No. This is a retreat, not treatment, and the leaders aren’t acting as your clinician. If you’re in care now, we’d encourage you to tell your therapist you’re coming. Many find it gives them a month of material.
What if my story isn’t “bad enough”?: Suffering isn’t a competition and there’s no bar to clear. If something is sitting on you, it qualifies.
What if I fall apart?: Then you’ll be in a room with people who won’t flinch and who will still be there afterward. That’s rather the point.
I’m not sure I belong here.: Almost everyone thinks that on the drive in. It’s usually the ones who nearly didn’t come who are hardest to get out the door on the last day.

Let’s Be Boundless Together.

No matter what you’re facing, we believe God is able to heal, free, and restore. Come ready to go deeper. Come ready to be known. Come ready to encounter God.

Your journey to true freedom starts here.