We didn’t set out to “build a business.” We followed a vision. A feeling. A call to create a space where people can take off their armor and simply be.
We believe true transformation happens when the nervous system feels safe, the heart feels seen, and the body feels free to move, rest, and release.
Everything we offer – our retreats, our daily meditations, our community – is designed to hold that space.
No performance. No pressure. Just the right conditions for you to remember who you are and step into it fully.
Sean
From the meditation hosts who hold space for our daily practice, to the movement coach who wakes the body — each member of our team adds their own skill, heart, and presence to the field we’re creating together.
Meditation Hosts
Maria Cristina is the heart and anchor of Harmonic Leap. Her journey began in a world where strength meant control, love had to be earned, and safety came from holding it all together.
Raised between two cultures and a narcissistic parent, she learned to adapt, to achieve, and to silence her own voice to survive.
For years, she searched for healing through self-work, books, frameworks, and personal development. It helped — but only on the surface.
The real shift came when she discovered the power of meditation and started to surrender, not just in thought, but in feeling.
That’s when she met herself again — not the version shaped by survival, but the woman rooted in truth, softness, and strength.
In one of her deepest meditations, she saw a vision: A villa. A long table. A group of people arriving as strangers and leaving as soul family. That vision became the foundation of Harmonic Leap.
As the lead organizer and energetic guide, Maria Cristina creates the conditions for transformation — from the practical to the profound. She is your anchor before, during, and after the retreat, holding space with warmth, directness, and deep intuition. Her gift is helping others soften — not by pushing, but by making them feel safe enough to put down the performance and be real.
Before there was a villa in Sicily… before the meditations and breathwork and the shared dinners under the stars… there was me: a woman who had spent her entire life performing, achieving, surviving. Trying to be „good enough“ in systems that never made space for her truth.
I grew up between two cultures—Sicilian at home, German outside—never fully belonging in either.
Under the roof of emotional instability and conditional love, I learned early on that safety meant control, that love was something to earn, and that being strong meant doing everything on my own.
By the time I reached adulthood, my independence had become my identity. But it came with a cost: emotional distance, exhaustion, and a deep disconnection from my own essence.
Even after meeting Vincent—the one person who saw me and loved me without trying to fix me—I still couldn’t fully let go. I was holding on too tightly to old protection.
Then, in December 2023, I attended a Joe Dispenza event. Not for me, but to support Vincent. Somehow… it changed my life.
For the first time, I found people who got me. Who didn’t ask me to shrink. Who thought like me, felt like me.
In one of the meditations, I saw a vision: a villa, a group of people, connection, stillness, movement, presence. I knew in that moment I was being shown something I was meant to create.
But life tested me first. I spiraled again, faced my unresolved trauma, and had a panic attack in front of my son.
In that moment, I realized: I hadn’t healed—I had just built higher walls. Vincent—bless him—put me on a plane to Orlando. Alone. To find my own voice again. And there, in one of my meditations, I surrendered. Not in thought, but in feeling.
I let it all burn: the control, the fear, the stories that weren’t mine. What remained was me. Real. Raw. Ready.
That’s when this retreat truly began. It’s not a business for us. It never was. It’s a soul offering. A space for people who, like me, have been too much, too quiet, too emotional, too strong—for too long.
It’s a place for you to take off your armor. To be soft and held, wild and honest. To move, cry, laugh, breathe, be.
Healing here doesn’t happen through fixing, but through remembering. Through witnessing. Through community.
Because healing doesn’t happen alone. It happens in the presence of others. It happens when someone like Axel makes you feel seen.
When someone like Jefi reminds you that you are love—that you just forgot.
This retreat came from that remembering. From the vision I saw and the version of myself I chose to become. And if you’re reading this, you’re likely part of that vision too. We don’t promise transformation. We promise a space where transformation becomes possible—if you’re willing to surrender to it.
Vincent’s journey began in 2020, when burnout left his nervous system depleted and none of the conventional tools — therapy, cold plunges, coaching, or hypnotherapy — could reach the root. Everything helped temporarily, but nothing truly healed.
That changed when he discovered the science behind meditation and the work of Dr. Joe Dispenza. Once he fully committed, something reignited — and from that spark, his real healing began.
At the retreats, Vincent leads group meditations and powerful somatic breathwork sessions, drawing from his ongoing breathwork teachings and his gift for sound design to guide deep emotional release and embodiment.
One of his greatest passions is helping others understand why the work works — what’s happening in the body, the nervous system, and the brain. He studies it daily, and is currently training to become a certified neuro change solutions coach.
Because for Vincent, knowledge is power — and knowing how to integrate the inner shifts of meditation into real, 3D life is the key to lasting transformation.
I didn’t arrive at this retreat with a dream. I arrived because my body—and life—left me no other choice. At the end of 2020, I hit a wall. My nervous system collapsed. My vision lagged. Conversations became overwhelming. I was overstimulated, short-tempered, and hollowed out. And the worst part? The people I loved most—Maria Cristina and our son—were getting the leftovers of me.
I sought help. I got diagnosed. I was told: “Maybe this is your new normal.” And something in me refused. If I broke myself, maybe I could rebuild myself. So I searched. Therapists. Cold plunges. Mental frameworks. Breathwork. Some helped. None healed.
Then I found Dr. Joe Dispenza’s work. And I committed. I flew alone to my first retreat—burned out, scared, unsure.
And there, in a meditation, something cracked open. Not pain—joy. Tears on a bike ride. Pure love from within.
It was the first time I understood: we are our own pharmacy.
Later, my chronic neck pain vanished in a meditation. One night, my body realigned itself while I slept. I burned with a fever—and let it burn, knowing I was shedding the old. This wasn’t mindset work. This was biology, energy, truth.
What I left behind wasn’t just pain. It was the version of me that had been surviving. The one who overworked, overcontrolled, stayed loyal to people and systems that drained him.
So I let go—of a business, of stability, of the old me—and I chose this path. Not to teach, but to live it.
When Maria Cristina had her vision of the villa, I knew: this is why we went through it all. This retreat isn’t strategy. It’s soul. It’s the integration of everything we’ve lived through: the breakdown and the breakthrough, the masculine and the feminine, the mind and the heart.
We’re not here because we have the answers. We’re here because we’ve walked the path—and created a space for you to walk yours. So if something in you is stirring, aching, ready… maybe this is your moment too. To remember. To choose. To become someone new. Because deep down… you already know.
