Dragonfly Retreat:
A Sacred Regenerative
Environment for Expansion
Located on six beautiful acres outside of Nederland, Colorado, nature meets rejuvenation and wellness. Find your peace and rediscover your spirit in our serene sanctuary.
Dragonfly Retreat:
A Sacred Regenerative
Environment for Expansion
Located on six beautiful acres outside of Nederland, Colorado, nature meets rejuvenation and wellness. Find your peace and rediscover your spirit in our serene sanctuary.
Enhanced Cognition
Enjoy mental clarity and focus throughout the day. Improve decision-making capacity and memory functionality.
Emotional Healing
Reduce the impact of emotional distress, depression, unresolved anxiety, and compassion fatigue.
Deeper Connection
Improve interpersonal relationships and create more meaningful bonds with others. Increase problem-solving capacity.
Resilience to Stress
Stay centered and calm regardless of the situation. Gain protection against stress, anxiety, and emotional turbulence.
Quality Sleep
Improve sleep quality, leading to restful nights and rejuvenated mornings. As sleep improves, so does health and quality of life.
Physical Healing
Boost strength, flexibility, and overall vitality. Unlock the body's potential to heal itself and decrease discomfort long-term.
During these changing times are you in need of a RESET to return to your
optimal functionality - a transformative vacation?
Let us to support you to bring more flow, resiliently, and flexibility to your life!
Are you on a profound path of self discovery?
Do you want to find stillness within yourself?
Do you want to share your gifts with the world?
If so, these programs are for you.
HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL EXPERIENCE AT OUR RETREAT CENTER
Transformative Experiences
Nature-based experiential transformation from the inside out
Reset Your Neurobiology
Use cutting-edge technology to optimize central nervous system and brain functioning
Recharge, Rest, & Rejuvenate
Enjoy rejuvenating activities like yoga, meditation, and nature walks/hikes.
Nourishing
Meals
Savor healthy and satisfying meals prepared for you by our excellent on-site chef.
Deeply Connected
Community
Gain valuable insights and connect with others in a safe and supportive community.
Expert
Content
Dive into profound wisdom and the latest research for deep healing and growth.
Wouldn’t it be amazing to be able to make deep connections with people and be able to be truly vulnerable?
What if you could confidently set boundaries in relationships without guilt, prioritizing your needs while caring for others?
Wouldn’t it be great to truly love yourself and not need to compare yourself to others?
What if you could confidently set boundaries in relationships without guilt, prioritizing your needs while caring for others?
Can you imagine a space where you’re fully accepted, without feeling like you need to prove your worth?
Wouldn’t connecting strongly with a partner who values emotional awareness be great?
OUR RETREATS ARE DESIGNED FOR YOU!
Looking for Lasting Change?
Reset the neurobiology in your brain and body so that your ability to process stress, perform in the zone, and relationship capacity improves:
CONNECTION & RELATIONSHIPS
At Dragonfly Retreat, we help individuals move beyond unhelpful thought patterns and automatic behavioral reflexes by guiding the brain toward greater flexibility, resilience, and emotional balance.
Using a combination of techniques, we support the regulation of the limbic system—the part of the brain responsible for emotion and social connection. This work is effective for children, adolescents, and adults who struggle with initiating and maintaining healthy relationships across all areas of life.
By improving attention, focus, empathy, and emotional regulation, participants learn to respond more thoughtfully in challenging situations, rather than reacting impulsively. This shift supports healthier communication, deeper connections, and greater adaptability in relationship and life stressors.
Through meaningful interpersonal connection, individuals can rediscover inner peace and strength. A core goal of these retreats are to help participants move beyond conditioned, trauma and attachment patterns to realize their potential, reconnect with others, and thrive in their personal and social lives.
STRESS & THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
Many factors within the nervous system can disrupt clear thinking, especially when the autonomic nervous system is activated. This system governs the body’s automatic responses to stress, including the well-known fight, flight, or freeze reactions.
During these stress responses, the body instinctively increases heart rate, breathing, and releases hormones like adrenaline and cortisol. These chemicals are essential for short-term adaptation, helping us respond quickly to perceived threats. However, when the body remains stuck in this stress state, elevated levels of these hormones can become harmful over time.
Chronic stress can dysregulate nearly every system in the body, weakening the immune response and making us more vulnerable to illness. While the brain may initially become more alert during stress, prolonged activation reduces blood flow to critical brain regions, resulting in impaired memory, mental clarity, focus, and decision-making.
These retreats are designed to support nervous system regulation through practices that calm the stress response and restore balance, helping you return to a state of clarity, resilience, and ease.
Looking for Lasting Change?
Reset the neurobiology in your brain and body so that your ability to process stress, perform in the zone, and relationship capacity improves:
CONNECTION & RELATIONSHIPS
At Dragonfly Retreat, we help individuals move beyond unhelpful thought patterns and automatic behavioral reflexes by guiding the brain toward greater flexibility, resilience, and emotional balance.
Using a combination of techniques, we support the regulation of the limbic system—the part of the brain responsible for emotion and social connection. This work is effective for children, adolescents, and adults who struggle with initiating and maintaining healthy relationships across all areas of life.
By improving attention, focus, empathy, and emotional regulation, participants learn to respond more thoughtfully in challenging situations, rather than reacting impulsively. This shift supports healthier communication, deeper connections, and greater adaptability in relationship and life stressors.
Through meaningful interpersonal connection, individuals can rediscover inner peace and strength. A core goal of these retreats are to help participants move beyond conditioned, trauma and attachment patterns to realize their potential, reconnect with others, and thrive in their personal and social lives.
STRESS & THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
Many factors within the nervous system can disrupt clear thinking, especially when the autonomic nervous system is activated. This system governs the body’s automatic responses to stress, including the well-known fight, flight, or freeze reactions.
During these stress responses, the body instinctively increases heart rate, breathing, and releases hormones like adrenaline and cortisol. These chemicals are essential for short-term adaptation, helping us respond quickly to perceived threats. However, when the body remains stuck in this stress state, elevated levels of these hormones can become harmful over time.
Chronic stress can dysregulate nearly every system in the body, weakening the immune response and making us more vulnerable to illness. While the brain may initially become more alert during stress, prolonged activation reduces blood flow to critical brain regions, resulting in impaired memory, mental clarity, focus, and decision-making.
These retreats are designed to support nervous system regulation through practices that calm the stress response and restore balance, helping you return to a state of clarity, resilience, and ease.
What if you finally found a mental health approach that works for you, helping you feel understood and empowered?
What if you didn’t have to be worried about sacrificing your work or professional goals for your personal life?
What if you were able to feel happy and could conquer your depression and loneliness?
Wouldn’t it be amazing not to be afraid to socialize/talk to new people and create the life that you want?
Could you imagine finally feeling confident with yourself and decisions in your career, relationships, and life?
PEAK PERFORMANCE
What many athletes and top performers speak of is finding their zone, a space where they know they are performing at their absolute best. This is not a place you can reach with the mind alone. It lives in the body, shaped by the nervous system and accessed through presence, rhythm, and regulation. It’s a state you can experience and return to with practice.
The zone is a paradoxical experience of heightened alertness paired with complete relaxation in both brain and body. Reaction times improve, distractions fade, and actions feel seamless. This state cannot be maintained through willpower or control. Instead, it emerges naturally as you learn to embody your full capacity and align with your internal rhythm.
Return to your optimal flow and functionality in whatever you do. Be at the top of your game, whatever that game may be whether it’s athletic performance, creative expression, professional productivity, or mindfulness practice.
These retreats are designed to help you reconnect with that state through movement, stillness, and research-based practices such as breathwork, neurofeedback, and somatic awareness. These tools restore nervous system balance and bring the mind and body back in sync.
EXECUTIVE FUNCTION & LEARNING
Neurofeedback helps develop the brain's processes that underlie learning, improving working memory, attention, problem-solving, initiating tasks, self-monitoring, emotional regulation, and decision-making. The brain is trained directly, bypassing the conscious mind to create new neural pathways and support a more balanced, resilient nervous system.
At the core of this process is neuroplasticity, the brain’s innate ability to change and adapt. As the brain becomes more efficient and integrated, emotional and physical symptoms diminish, and the capacity to learn naturally improves.
Potential improvements in learning include:
✓ Improved cognitive functioning
✓ Flexible and focused attention
✓ Regulation of emotional and behavioral responses
✓ Smoother navigation of daily transitions
✓ Enhanced processing speed and decision-making
✓ Strengthened evaluation and adaptation abilities
✓ Increased ability to independently initiate action
✓ A shift from trauma response to a learning-focused mindset
✓ Strategic planning and prioritization
✓ Improved problem-solving and decision-making
✓ Better organization and time management
✓ Expanded working memory
✓ Goal setting and sustained motivation
PEAK PERFORMANCE
What many athletes and top performers speak of is finding their zone, a space where they know they are performing at their absolute best. This is not a place you can reach with the mind alone. It lives in the body, shaped by the nervous system and accessed through presence, rhythm, and regulation. It’s a state you can experience and return to with practice.
The zone is a paradoxical experience of heightened alertness paired with complete relaxation in both brain and body. Reaction times improve, distractions fade, and actions feel seamless. This state cannot be maintained through willpower or control. Instead, it emerges naturally as you learn to embody your full capacity and align with your internal rhythm.
Return to your optimal flow and functionality in whatever you do. Be at the top of your game, whatever that game may be whether it’s athletic performance, creative expression, professional productivity, or mindfulness practice.
These retreats are designed to help you reconnect with that state through movement, stillness, and research-based practices such as breathwork, neurofeedback, and somatic awareness. These tools restore nervous system balance and bring the mind and body back in sync.
EXECUTIVE FUNCTION & LEARNING
Neurofeedback helps develop the brain's processes that underlie learning, improving working memory, attention, problem-solving, initiating tasks, self-monitoring, emotional regulation, and decision-making. The brain is trained directly, bypassing the conscious mind to create new neural pathways and support a more balanced, resilient nervous system.
At the core of this process is neuroplasticity, the brain’s innate ability to change and adapt. As the brain becomes more efficient and integrated, emotional and physical symptoms diminish, and the capacity to learn naturally improves.
Potential improvements in learning include:
✓ Improved cognitive functioning
✓ Flexible and focused attention
✓ Regulation of emotional and behavioral responses
✓ Smoother navigation of daily transitions
✓ Enhanced processing speed and decision-making
✓ Strengthened evaluation and adaptation abilities
✓ Increased ability to independently initiate action
✓ A shift from trauma response to a learning-focused mindset
✓ Strategic planning and prioritization
✓ Improved problem-solving and decision-making
✓ Better organization and time management
✓ Expanded working memory
✓ Goal setting and sustained motivation
FOUNDER LORI-GRACE KOCHEVAR, MS LPC
Lori-Grace, founder of Brighten the Brain, is a Licensed Professional Counselor, adoptive mother, and seasoned professional with over 30 years of clinical experience.
As a Transitional Specialist and Master Therapist, Lori-Grace helps families, businesses, and communities navigate change with research-backed models that deliver fast, safe, and lasting results. She believes in challenging old assumptions and creating new pathways for growth.
Beyond her clinical work, Lori-Grace is a Community Advocate, Trainer, and Presenter. One of her proudest achievements—besides raising her two inspiring children—is co-founding the Boys and Girls Club in Alamosa, Colorado, which has served hundreds of children daily for over 20 years.
Today, Lori-Grace continues to build spaces for collaboration, innovation, and sustainable growth with Dragonfly Retreats at her ranch 8 miles outside of Boulder, CO, bringing people together to create something truly transformative.
Accomplishments:
Child welfare professional for over 20 years
Community Advocate, founded San Luis Valley Boys and Girls Club
International Trainer and Presenter
Adoptive Parent of two incredible children
THE CHEF
Cooking for retreats is Steve Lamborn's real passion. Supporting someone's personal and spiritual growth with conscientious cookery and love-filled nourishment is his favorite arena for serving food
Steve's earliest food endeavor was home baked banana bread that he sold to fellow students at school. He started cooking as a chef after moving to Oregon and expanding his knowledge about different cooking styles in numerous venues and under different circumstances.
Steve then developed an interest in “traditional gastronomy,” a way of food preparation that honors culinary traditions of our ancestors and the food choices and preparation techniques of healthy non-industrialized nations.
"I want those who participate in transformational work to feel supported and able to focus on their process. It brings me great joy to take retreatants on a culinary journey around the world by providing dishes from different cultures and culinary traditions."
FAQs
Answers to Common Questions
What types of accommodations are available at Dragonfly Retreat?
We offer single or double occupancy rooms, a hermitage, and camping options designed for comfort and minimal environmental impact.
Are meals available at this retreat center?
Most of our packages include nourishing and nutritious, chef-prepared meals tailored to dietary preferences and restrictions.
Do I need to know exactly what is causing my discomfort in order to get results?
No, as your neurobiology optimizes, clarity of how to move forward becomes evident. This is a process of allowing the wisdom within you to remember your own answers.
What if I'm interested in doing a retreat at your center?
We would love to talk to you, please text LoriGrace at (970) 352-8873 to set up a time to explore what you're interested in.
What is the best time of year to visit Dragonfly Retreat
Dragonfly Retreat is a year-round destination, with each season offering unique experiences.
How do I book my stay at Dragonfly Retreat?
Please text LoriGrace Kochevar MS LPC LLC at (970) 352-8873 to set up a time to discuss your needs.