Your Retreat Leadership Team

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Visionary Founder & CEO

Lauren Dickinson is the founder and CEO of multiple pioneering ventures reshaping the conscious travel and wellness industries: Orion Retreats, The Orion Institute, Retreatpreneurs, and the Orion Media Collective. As a thought leader and industry innovator, she is elevating professional standards and creating transformative frameworks that empower retreat leaders, wellness entrepreneurs, and conscious travelers worldwide.

With over two decades immersed in the healing arts and psychospiritual training, Lauren brings depth and authenticity to her entrepreneurial vision. Deeply connected to sacred energy centers of the earth, she has lived and done her mission work in Sedona, Arizona, spent time with an Aboriginal tribe in Uluru, Australia, and currently resides in Mount Shasta, California—considered the root chakra of the world. This profound connection to sacred geography informs her approach to creating bespoke retreat experiences at powerful energetic points across the globe.

As an international, award-winning visionary multimedia artist, Lauren bridges the worlds of creativity and consciousness, guiding both artists and non-artists in accessing their innate creative genius and using art as a portal for healing and self-discovery. Through her diverse ventures, she is building a conscious travel ecosystem that supports retreat facilitators, empowers wellness entrepreneurs, and creates profound transformational experiences for guests seeking to awaken to their divinity and design lives aligned with their soul's vision.

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Spiritual Systems Strategist

Nik Wood is a mentor and coach, helping clients to live their full yes life. As the Founder of Life Athletics, Nik sees himself as is a "Champion of Greatness" and stands for a vision of humanity where everyone sees their greatness daily.

Through his Life Athletics coaching program, Nik helps clients to actualize the potential that lies on the other side of the things they've been wanting to change, improve, alter, repair, heal, and fix; to live a life toward what he calls the "Horizon Life" and the "Horizon Self."

Nik is the Co-Founder of The MENtorship World, contributing author for the best-selling Activate Your Life Volume III, and host of the NextUs Podcast, where he engages guests to explore what's possible for the evolution of humanity.

Nik currently lives in Mexico City with his Malinois puppy, Apollo.

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Psychic Business Guide

Carissa holds the energetic field while you lead your retreat or event - no co-teaching, no interference, just pure behind-the-scenes frequency insurance.

Think of her as your retreat doula: she tends to the invisible architecture so your brilliance can show up steady and unshakeable. When the container is held with intention, exponential results become inevitable. 

She's here to anchor the space while you do what you do best: lead, teach, and transform lives.

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