The Boat Within
A Meditation in Motion Lab Founding Immersion
A 25-Day Hybrid Immersion in Strength, Presence & Belonging
Pilates • Meditation • Nature
Reconnect with your body, steady your mind, and cultivate lasting connection.
One journey. Two ways to participate: in person or online. Limited to a small founding cohort.
Sept. 10 - Oct. 4, 2026
The boat is you.
The captain is within.
We all navigate different waters, sometimes with clarity, sometimes by instinct, and sometimes by simply surrendering to the waves.
The Boat Within is an invitation to become more aware of how you navigate your life.
Through Pilates, meditation, reflection, community, and connection with nature, we explore what becomes possible when we bring greater attention and presence to ourselves and to one another.
You don't have to go anywhere to find your way.
The wisdom to navigate is already within you.
Life can easily become fragmented.
Work, relationships, responsibilities, health, creativity, and our inner lives can begin to feel disconnected from one another.
The Boat Within was created as a space to pause, strengthen, listen, connect, and integrate.
A chance to complete the summer with intention and step
into fall feeling more grounded, embodied, and aligned.
This is not simply a Pilates program.
This is not simply a meditation course.
It is an embodied laboratory where you become both the explorer and the experiment.
Because flourishing isn't something we achieve.
It is something we cultivate together, in relationship.
Why This Journey, Why Now?
Who Is This For?
This immersion is designed for people who sense that real transformation happens through becoming more embodied and present.
You might be:
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A healer, wellness professional, coach, therapist, or movement practitioner
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Looking for a more intentional way to live
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Recovering from an injury and ready to rebuild strength
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Coming out of a busy summer and wanting to integrate before fall
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Looking for an embodied community
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Drawn to nature, creativity, and embodied experiences
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Ready to recharge and reconnect
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Navigating the transitions of midlife, including perimenopause or menopause
No Pilates or meditation experience is needed. People of all genders, backgrounds, ages, and abilities are warmly welcome. This is a space to come as you are, explore, and find your own rhythm.
Only curiosity and a willingness to explore.
Your 25-Day Journey
Includes
3 Private Pilates Sessions in-person
1 Group Mat Pilates Classes online
2 Instinctive Meditation Sessions online
Opening & Closing Journal Prompts
Guided Reflection Journal
September 27 Founding Gathering (in-person participants)
September 27 Online Integration Experience (online participants)
Connection with the founding cohort
Calendar
September 10– October 4, 2026
A carefully curated rhythm of movement, mindfulness, reflection, and connection.
🌱 PROGRAM STARTS - BEGIN
Thursday, September 10
Your journey begins with a simple journal prompt delivered by text.
An invitation to pause, notice, and begin navigating from within.
🌀 PILATES Mat Class - MOVE
Sun. Sept 13 | 10:00–11:15 AM (Online)
Move, connect, and bring awareness into the body
🧘♀️ INSTINCTIVE MEDITATION - EXPLORE
Sat, Sept.19 | 10:00–11:15 AM (Online)
Explore meditation as a way of cultivating presence, awareness, and inner spaciousness.
⭐ THE FOUNDING GATHERING / MEDITATION IN MOTION workshop
Sun, Sept. 27 / 10:00 A.M 1:00 P.M (In-Person)
Meditation in Motion Lab Headquarters
Breathing Room Studio / 1001 NE Boat Street, Suite 2 (University District)
A day to bring movement, meditation, reflection, nature, and community together
in an intimate waterfront setting. We will practice, pause, connect, and reflect on
how we are navigating our lives, and what we want to carry forward.
This is the heart of The Boat Within: a chance to practice presence, connection,
creativity, and joyful navigation not just in the studio, but in the living world.
🧘♀️ INSTINCTIVE MEDITATION - INTEGRATE
Sat., Oct. 3 | 10:00–11:30 AM (Online)
Gather again to integrate the journey and notice what has shifted.
🌀 3 PILATES SESSIONS - RESILIANCE
Private or semi-private
Scheduled individually according to your availability.
These personalized sessions provide space to:
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Clarify intentions
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Build strength and resilience
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Work on flexibility and core awareness
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Balance and posture
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Address injuries or limitations
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Deepen your Pilates practice
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Integrate insights from the journey
✨ POROGRAM ENDS - REFLECT
Sun., Oct. 4
Your final journal prompt arrives by text; a moment to reflect
on what you have discovered, cultivated, and want to carry forward.
*Recordings could be available if you miss any session
Two Ways to Take the Journey
🌿 IN-PERSON IMMERSION
Join us in Seattle for the complete
experience, including the September 27 Founding Gathering at Meditation in Motion Headquarters.
🌎 ONLINE IMMERSION
Can't join us in Seattle? You can still take the whole journey from wherever you are.
The Online Immersion includes all events tought via Zoom and a special recording of the Sept. 27 Integration Experience
*Recordings of all the live events can be available if you miss any session
Meditation in Motion Lab Headquarters
Breathing Room Studio
1001 NE Boat Street, Suite 2
Seattle, WA 98105
Located at the University District beneath Seafab Café on Portage Bay.
Breathing Room is a cozy waterfront Pilates and meditation studio facing a beautiful marina. Conveniently located 10 min walking distance from the University of Washington
It is our home base for The Boat Within and the September 27 Founding Gathering.
About your guide
My name is Dhyana Garcia. I design embodied experiences that help people cultivate healthier relationships with themselves, others, and the living world.
My work integrates:
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Pilates
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Instinctive Meditation
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Nervous System Awareness
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Creativity
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Nature
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Community
I believe that when body, mind, emotions, and relationships begin to move together, something changes in the way we experience life.
Meditation in Motion Lab emerged from this exploration. I look forward to sharing this founding journey with you.
Investment
IN-PERSON IMMERSION
For current Meditation in Motion clients
Includes the complete 25-day journey + September 27 Founding Gathering.
$495 For participants joining from outside Seattle or creating the journey from home.
Includes the complete 25-day journey + September 27 Online Integration Experience.
Sales tax included.
Limited to a small founding cohort, intentionally designed to allow for meaningful connection and personalized support.
About Meditation in Motion Lab
A Living School of Embodied Flourishing
Meditation in Motion Lab is an evolving exploration of how movement, mindfulness, relationship, curiosity, and joy can help us flourish.
Rather than focusing on self-improvement, we cultivate healthier relationships; with ourselves, with others, and with life itself.
Our method brings together the wisdom of Pilates, nervous system awareness, and Instinctive Meditation.
Rather than separating movement from meditation, we let each deepen the other.
Pilates teaches us to move with intelligence.
Meditation teaches how to meet ourselves with
presence. Together, they become a way of living
Throughout these 25 days, you’ll explore how posture influences emotion, how breath shapes attention, and how awareness transforms movement—until movement itself becomes a meditation.