About Tikkun Sanctuary
The physical home for Tikkun's immersive experiences — the place people come for a retreat or for the 14-Day Immersion.
Tikkun was created as a place to step away from ordinary life long enough to listen more carefully — to ourselves, to one another, and to something deeper.
We believe meaningful change is rarely created by a single moment. It happens when insight becomes practice, when intention becomes action, and when what we discover here begins to change the way we live.
The place where Tikkun's own immersive work happens.
Tikkun Sanctuary is located on a private five-acre property in South Florida, surrounded by palms, mature trees, open space and quiet gathering areas — with intimate accommodations, communal spaces, outdoor areas, and the Maloka, a dedicated gathering and ceremony space.
Two kinds of experience happen here.
- Retreats at Tikkun Sanctuary — group weekends, and private stays built around one person. Browse retreats
- 14-Day Immersion — fourteen days for men, away from the momentum of day-to-day life. About the 14-Day Immersion
Six things, held in one place.
None of these is unusual on its own. Putting them in the same place, for long enough, is what makes the difference.
- Nature. Open land, trees, water, and weather — not as scenery, but as the room you spend the days in.
- Intentional community. A small group, gathered on purpose, who keep each other honest and company.
- Wellness practices. Breathwork, movement, meditation, rest, and food that supports the days rather than interrupting them.
- Spiritual practice. Room for prayer, silence, study, and questions that don't resolve neatly.
- Grounded facilitation. People who hold the shape of the days, ask better questions than they answer, and know when to stay out of the way.
- Ceremony, when offered. Most retreats include one, and it matters. It is also one part of the days around it — prepared for carefully beforehand, supported afterwards, and never required.
A retreat is a beginning. What matters is the Tuesday afterwards.
We are not offering a permanent high or a single breakthrough. The work is learning to live a little differently — more presence, more choice, more clarity, more connection, more trust in your own read on things — and then carrying that back into relationships, work, and ordinary days.
Part of a larger mission.
Tikkun Ha'Nefesh is the nonprofit at the heart of Tikkun: a healing ecosystem that helps people find trustworthy support and integrate it into their lives. Guidance. Trusted referrals. Access. Preparation. Integration. Community.
Tikkun Ha'Nefesh is the larger mission. The Sanctuary is the place where our own immersive work happens. Sometimes the path leads here. Sometimes it leads somewhere else. And when someone leaves the Sanctuary, Tikkun Ha'Nefesh is still there — for integration, referrals and community.
The charitable side of Tikkun lives there too. If you would like to support this work, that happens through Tikkun Ha'Nefesh.
The people behind it.
Tikkun is run by people who came to this work through their own lives rather than through a title. What is offered here is what has been practised here — nothing further, and nothing claimed on anyone else's behalf.
Moishe Goldstein
Co-founder
Moishe co-founded Tikkun. He grew up in the Chabad community in Crown Heights, and came to this work the long way round — through his own years with addiction, and out the other side of them.
He spent nearly two decades inside the addiction-recovery and mental-health field, helping treatment centres around the country build honest systems for how people are admitted and looked after. That work showed him plainly what those models do well, and where they leave people standing.
At Tikkun he runs the practical side and sits in the rooms. He built the 14-Day Immersion and directs it. His own view is simple: people move when they feel safe enough to be seen, and then supported to actually do something about it. He is still walking the same path he asks of anyone else.
In Moishe's words
I have been in recovery for more than eighteen years. I have watched people at Tikkun have profound experiences. I have watched people see things about themselves that were absolutely real.
The breakthrough was not always the part that changed the life. What mattered was what happened next.
I do not have a perfect life. I am not selling one. But I have a life today that I once could not have imagined.
I love being alive.
My hope is not that you become me. My hope is that you get the chance to discover how good your own life can become.
Aaron Stefansky
Co-founder · Lead facilitator
Aaron co-founded Tikkun and leads the retreats here. He is still studying: long dietas with master plants in the Peruvian jungle and here in Florida.
In Aaron's words
Like most people, I came by G-d. I was searching for more. I was struggling with addiction and substances, anxiety and depression, and I didn't really find anything that helped. I was in and out of therapy for many years, and thought: that's just who I am, someone who struggles.
For me, it comes back to trust. There was so little trust in myself, and I didn't trust others. I never truly saw it — myself, or life — for how it actually was. When things are difficult, I now know that there are lessons to be learned and that it's for my own good. I know my purpose, I know I'm not here by chance. I have to trust. Without it, there is no foundation.
My intention is to bring healing to as many people as possible, through doing the deep inner work in a space that is safe, loving, and that goes deep. A space that encourages us to face the darkness. When we actually face it, we can see how much freedom we have, how much light we have. I believe we are the only thing stopping us from getting what we want in this life. I don't believe there is a way to bypass the inner work.
Tikkun is meaningful to me because of what it really stands for. It's not just a name, it embodies the healing work. When I think of Tikkun, I really, truly feel that we're healing the world. We do have a responsibility. We are partnering with G-d when we are here on the earth to make the world a better place. We do that by becoming more compassionate and more loving.
Eliezer Nerenberg
Co-founder
Eliezer co-founded Tikkun and carries the business side of it — the agreements and the arrangements that let everything else here happen.
He came to this the way most people here did: through his own struggles, and after other approaches left him without the lasting change he was looking for. He talks about this work as a gift from the Creator, and about his own part in it as helping to pass that gift on.
In Eliezer's words
Tikkun is the concept of correcting the world to bring it back to its original pure state. Before you can worry about the world, worry about yourself. Tikkun is about correcting yourself first. Once you can do that, you can slowly influence your surroundings for the better.
Sometimes I get caught up and lost in the weeds — but then I see everyone that comes through Tikkun, and it reminds me how beautiful and important this work is.
Facilitators
Alex Myrin
Lead facilitator · Integration guide
Alex is a military veteran who came to this after nearly a decade of talk therapy left him no better. He travels to Peru for master plant dietas with Shipibo maestros, and is quick to say the work is not about becoming something, but un-becoming.
Jacquelyn Myrin
Lead facilitator · Breathwork and yoga teacher
Jacquelyn came to this through her husband, Alex, and stayed for what it did for her — she describes coming out of it knowing it was safe to be vulnerable, and that this is where her strength lies. She teaches breathwork and yoga here, and is the grounding presence in a room.
Sacred medicine ceremonies, when offered, are conducted by Tikkun Healing Center, an affiliated spiritual organization.
Ceremony is one part of some Sanctuary experiences, never the whole of them, and it is never required — including for the 14-Day Immersion.
Tikkun Retreats manages the retreat experience, registration, accommodations, programming, and payment. A donation is made to Tikkun Healing Center on the participant's behalf for ceremony participation.
