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At Your Inner Awakening Retreats, we create transformative experiences that nurture both the artist and the healer within you.

Our retreats invite you to step away from daily distractions and immerse yourself in a sanctuary of creativity, connection, and self-discovery.

About Our Founder

Forrest Elliott is a multidisciplinary artist, healer, and guide whose work merges contemporary painting, Reiki healing, and immersive retreats. Rooted in a refined relationship with color and intuition, his practice bridges creativity, energy, and transformation — inviting presence, empowerment, and creative flow through original artworks, transformative workshops, and luxury collaborations.

Based in Southern Coastal Maine, Forrest is the founder and CEO of Your Inner Awakening Retreats, where he integrates Reiki, intuitive painting, and mindfulness practices to cultivate environments of inner renewal and self-expression. He is also the co-curator of Blue Door Gallery and co-founder of State of Being, a luxury fragrance line crafted with intention to elevate your state of being and embody abundance.

His paintings are represented by leading galleries in New England and are held in private collections across the United States, Australia, and China. His multidisciplinary path — as an artist, Reiki practitioner, creative consultant, and interior designer — shapes every retreat and collaboration, creating spaces where beauty, healing, and authenticity meet.

Forrest currently lives and works in York, Maine, where his studio and retreat practice serve as a sanctuary for creative and spiritual awakening.

Your Inner Awakening Retreats Founder, Forrest Elliott alongside Janice Santini, Owner and Curator of Blue Door Gallery at the launch of State of Being, their Luxury Fragrance Line.

Photo by
Loose Rein Photography

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