A daylong journey of breath, sound, and self-discovery designed to restore your spirit and reconnect you with life’s natural flow.
Led by Marian Kraus and Laura Jane Mellencamp
Sunday, November 9
11am–5pm
$225 Full price — **Use code EARLYBIRD30 when registering for $30 savings by Oct 31
Light lunch + refreshments included
Wear comfortable clothing, bring a mat/blanket; journal & crystals welcome
Step Into a Sacred Exploration
What if the miracle you’ve been seeking isn’t found in control and effort—but in surrender and wonder? 🌿
Join Marian Kraus and Laura Jane Mellencamp for a healing retreat in Downers Grove, IL, designed to awaken your clarity, balance your energy, and reconnect you to life’s natural flow. Through pranayama breathwork, sound vibration, and creative expression, you’ll discover how to move beyond stress and resistance and into presence, wonder, and renewal.
Your Transformational Journey Includes:
✨ Sacred Breath & Life Force – A pranayama workshop with Laura Jane Mellencamp. Learn ancient breathing practices to calm the nervous system, balance inner energy, and experience breath as a direct pathway to wonder.
✨ The Science of Sound & Vibration – Explore Cymatics with Marian Kraus, revealing how sound frequencies influence your body at the cellular level. Understand the science behind the healing effects of vibration.
✨ Creative Flow & Authentic Expression – Unlock your second chakra to transform resistance and invite inspiration. Learn practical tools for creative expression and self-trust.
✨ Transformational Sound Journey – Immerse yourself in a powerful gong bath and sound healing experience with Marian Kraus. Featuring gongs, didgeridoo, singing bowls, vocals, and handpan, this sound bath in the Chicago suburbs will leave you deeply renewed.
Why Join?
This isn’t just an event—it’s a declaration that you’re ready to step into life’s miracle. In this full-day wellness retreat near Chicago, you’ll:
Release stress and tension
Awaken creativity and inspiration
Experience chakra balancing and deep energetic renewal
Feel clearer, lighter, and more connected to your authentic self
Retreat Schedule
11:00 a.m. – Check-In & Orientation
11:15 – 11:45 a.m. – Introductions & Intention Setting
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. – Sacred Breath & Life Force (Pranayama Workshop)
1:00 – 1:45 p.m. – Light Lunch & Community Connection
2:00 – 3:00 p.m. – The Science of Sound & Vibration
3:00 – 4:00 p.m. – Creative Flow & Authentic Expression
4:00 – 5:00 p.m. – Transformational Gong Bath & Sound Journey
Please note: times may flow organically with the group.
Reserve Your Spot
Online Payment
$195 Early Bird - **Use code EARLYBIRD30 when registering for $30 savings by Oct 31
$225 Full price
Space is limited to preserve intimacy.
Click this Miracles vs Magic Full Day Retreat link to register and pay for the class. **Use code EARLYBIRD30 when registering for $30 savings by Oct 31
You will receive an email confirmation.
You will also receive reminder emails 24 hours and 2 hours before class
About Marian
Marian generates a broad spectrum of fascinating rhythms and functional harmonics by exploring the full range of frequencies within his instruments ranging from shimmering explosive highs to deep mysterious lows. His meditative and transformative sound journeys are driven by his innate rhythmic hand drum abilities and keen sense of visual and intuitive perception. The result is that these sonic, vibrational and mystical characteristics energize and quiet the mind & body in a very unique fashion. His gong sound meditations are psychoacoustic gateways to higher states of awareness and consciousness. They provide spaces for inner healing while taking listeners into truly otherworldly realms.
After spending 20 years in the corporate world, he began his career as a professional architectural and fine art photographer in the Chicago area in 1999. By being a long time hand drummer, he expanded his creative repertoire by expressing images also through the sound of gongs. Marian is a member of the Sound Healers Association and refines his advanced interpretation and application of gong sound healing under the guidance of senior instructor, lecturer and teacher Mitch Nur, PhD of