Nicasio Creek Farm
A CME Experience Like No Other
Rest, Refresh, & Rejuvenate
Bask in natural beauty
Melt away stress
Experience epiphanies
Move forward with newfound energy, creativity, and hope
Potent Medicine for Mind, Body & Spirit
Unwind to the soothing sounds of nature
Enjoy being in your body with mindful yoga
Experience professional mindset coaching and discover lightness and ease
Relax and unwind with restorative yoga and sound healing
Leave Inspired & Transformed
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“If you are struggling with burnout, or even a hint of it, go to this retreat and learn to care for yourself.”
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“The meals-OMG the meals!—were so delicious, colorful, healthy, and abundant. A constant that felt so kind and loving.”
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“I loved the small, intimate nature of this experience. There was time to get to know other participants and the small group format allowed for great discussion in a safe space. The agenda was flexible based on our needs and there was plenty of downtime to journal, read, and reflect on what we were learning.”
Nourish Mind, Body & Spirit
Wellness Does Not Come Through Lectures, Powerpoints, or Checklists
True health and well-being come through
coaching and mindset work,
physical and emotional repletion,
nervous system retraining,
and
connection, community, and laughter.
Across the Golden Gate Bridge . . .
nestled between Napa and Point Reyes National Seashore,
down the road from Spirit Rock Meditation Center,
is a luxurious, 4-acre farm with the Nicasio Creek running through.
Immerse Yourself in Lifestyle Medicine
Care for every cell in your body
Rest
Practice creekside yoga and mindfulness
Explore culinary medicine
Enjoy mind-opening life coaching
“I am still feeling the glow of the empowerment that comes with having new frameworks to apply and skills to practice. So many ideas resonated with me. How Dr. Mahoney frames lessons is different and hits home uniquely and powerfully.”
- Surgeon, California Pacific Medical Center
Your Host: Dr. Jessie Mahoney
Jessie is a physician wellness expert and experienced master-certified coach. She is also a yoga and mindfulness teacher and board-certified pediatrician.
In 2020, Jessie followed her dream to create Pause & Presence where she could support her high-achieving colleagues in exactly the ways that would help them most.
Jessie is a graduate of Dartmouth College and UCSF Medical School. She was a pediatrician and physician leader at The Permanente Medical Group for 18 years. She has been a chief of physician health and wellness since 2002 and has been leading wellness retreats since 2015.
She is cohost of The Mindful Healers Podcast , and a wife, mom of three young adult sons, and a new grandma! Find out more here.
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“Jessie and the retreat gave me practical real-life tools to improve how I approach problems, both big and small.
I learned how to reframe my thoughts and challenge my assumptions and learned behaviors. I recommend this to all physicians.” - Surgeon, Oregon
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“Jessie is so warm and wise. There were all types of women with various struggles and eases. Regardless of how tightly wound up or zen you are on arrival, you will leave feeling lighter.”
-Trauma Surgeon, Missouri
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“This experience is life-changing. The value of diving deeply into our learned belief patterns in the company of other supportive colleagues is immeasurable.” - ObGyn
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“Coaching helped me to realize my thought patterns that are contributing to dissatisfaction at work. It showed me that modifying my interpretation and ruminating less on certain aspects can allow me to focus on the fulfilling aspects of my life and job.”
What Is Coaching?
Professional coaching is an effective, high-quality, evidence-based intervention that lessens burnout and emotional exhaustion and improves the quality of life. It empowers you with tools and strategies to maintain a fulfilling and successful career. It helps you reduce burnout, anxiety, self-doubt, shame, imposter syndrome, and guilt.
Coaching helps you take back control of your life, career, health, and future.
“I am much stronger and more in control of my own happiness. I didn’t ever believe that I could feel calm and happy in this way.”
“I can personally attest that as a Family Medicine physician and co-director of Primary Care as well as a mom of two young kids, with a commute, and a partner who also has a demanding job, I may have left a job I love if it weren’t for physician coaching and development.”
- Sutter East Bay Internal Medicine Physician
Details
Where is Nicasio?
45 min north of the San Francisco Airport. Nicasio is an easy drive from the East Bay, Sacramento, or the Peninsula/South Bay.
Which coaching, yoga, culinary medicine, mindfulness, and general wellness opportunities are available?
Sign up for my email list to be notified of offerings as they are announced. Click the sign up button to see what offerings are currently available. Offerings are intentionally intimate. They are open to a maximum of 6 participants and tend to sell out quickly.
I welcome timing requests. Private retreats for groups of friends or colleagues are available by request. Sister, friends, and couples experiences are also available.
Team building events with coaching, wellness education, culinary medicine, and/or yoga are possible. Email requests to jessie@jessiemahoneymd.com.
Find out more about curated team wellness events here.
Retreats with no CME and offerings for non-medical or mixed groups are also available.
What's the agenda?
The schedule for each day varies based on duration of offering, weather,time of year, and group preference.
Mindful and restorative yoga and inspired experiential mindfulness sessions happen daily. For CME offerings physician-facilitated CME-accredited coaching happens daily. Jessie and Mark shares their wisdom, insight, tools, and strategies throughout the small moments of each day.
No coaching, mindfulness, or yoga experience is required.
- Mindful yoga is hatha-style. I do not teach vinyasa, power, hot, or exercise yoga. Mindful yoga is a mind-body-spirit experience. Yin, Restorative, or Sound Healing experiences are also offered.
- The level and style of the yoga taught is similar to that offered on Jessie's YouTube channel. Opting out of poses and choosing "variations that work for you" is highly encouraged.
- Mindfulness sessions are often outside, in nature, in locations that require walking on unpaved, uneven trails.
CME
- 6-12 units of accredited AMA PRA Cat 1 CME are available for the the [Mindful Physician Buoyancy Coaching Program][5]. Actual number of CME credits varies by the duration of the offering. You are responsible for claiming only the units commensurate with your participation. You will receive a CME Evaluation after the retreat. If your evaluation is completed within two weeks, you will receive a CME certificate within several weeks.
Culinary Medicine with Mark Mahoney
Mark, Jessie’s husband, is a culinary craftsman. He shares an inspired approach to cooking and plant-forward eating. He invites you to taste with your eyes and approach cooking and nourishment with presence, calm, creativity, and wonder.
Mark learned to cook from his mom, who loved making complicated recipes using strange and hard-to-find ingredients. Mark got his start working at a food stall in Faneuil Hall during a gap year. After graduating from Cornell, Mark helped open Michel Richard’s flagship DC restaurant Citronelle. While Jessie was in med school and residency, Mark was a stay-at-home dad by day. At night, he worked at Wolfgang Puck’s celebrated SF restaurant, Postrio.
His superpower is curating and sharing recipes that are simple, beautiful, and healthy.
Mark is also an attorney. He and Jessie met in high school and have been together ever since.
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”
Immerse Yourself in the Unrivaled Beauty and Healing Power of West Marin
Enjoy expansive vistas and protected open spaces
Experience wildflowers, waterfalls, estuaries, ocean bluffs, windswept beaches, and Tule Elk in Point Reyes National Seashore
Hike on mountain tops and in redwood forests
Kayak and birdwatch in Tomales Bay
Walk Stinson Beach
Run, hike, or meander the trails on Mount Tamalpais
Marvel at the dairy farms of Olema and Nicasio
Partake of the locavore movement at Bovine Bakery, Marin Sun Farms, Cowgirl Creamery, and Nicasio Cheese Company
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“Powerful, inspirational, and transformative!!! Jessie Mahoney is nothing but phenomenal, wise, bright, and fun.
- ICU, Cleveland Clinic
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"This was a nourishing and transformative, full-body experience--from the yoga to the culinary delights, to the coaching, to the natural beauty.
I am coming away feeling inspired, nourished, healed, loved, and free.” - Maternal-Fetal Medicine, New York
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“Being coached from a place of deep understanding and love helped me make leaps in terms of my understanding of myself and changed my thinking about the story I have told about my career to date. “
- ObGyn/CMO, VT
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“This retreat offered actionable content that will help me in both my professional and personal life. I was able to absorb the content because of the relaxed atmosphere, ample free time, and companionship of the group.“ - TPMG Gyn Surgeon
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Continuing Education, Inc. and Pause & Presence, LLC. Continuing Education, Inc. is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Continuing Education, Inc. designates this live activity for 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Details & Objectives.
Click here for a tentative agenda.
