Mount Fuji with traditional pagoda and cherry blossoms at sunset

Transform Your Life in theLand of Tranquility

An 8-day transformational experience through Japan's spiritual heart and natural wonders

April 5th - 13th, 2027

Live Your List Japan

Step away from the endless grind and into a transformational experience that will reshape how you see life, work, and purpose. Live Your List Japan takes you through Japan's most sacred and inspiring destinations, combining ancient wisdom with modern lifestyle design.

From Tokyo's vibrant energy to Kyoto's spiritual temples and Osaka's culinary mastery, this carefully curated journey includes cherry blossom viewing, forest bathing, hot springs, transformational workshops, and deep cultural immersion.

8 Days
3 Cities
15 People Max
Life-Changing
Kinkaku-ji Golden Pavilion in Kyoto with autumn maple leaves and reflection

Total Life Wellness

The Live Your List Wellness Journey

A Journey Toward a Healthier Life

Health isn't just physical. During Live Your List Japan, we'll explore what it means to become healthier in every area of your life — from your body and mind to your relationships, purpose, business, finances, and sense of adventure.

Physical VitalityMental ClarityEmotional Well-BeingRelationshipsPurpose &VisionBusiness HealthFinancial AlignmentAdventure &PlayLive Well.Live Fully.Live Your List.

Physical Vitality

Movement, energy, rest, nourishment, and reconnecting with your body.

Mental Clarity

Space to think, reflect, reset, and make decisions from calm instead of pressure.

Emotional Well-Being

Letting go of stress, reconnecting with joy, and creating room for peace.

Relationships

Meaningful conversations, shared experiences, and deeper connection with others.

Purpose & Vision

Clarifying what matters now and what you want your next chapter to look like.

Business Health

Looking at whether your business supports your life or quietly drains it.

Financial Alignment

Exploring money, freedom, enoughness, and the lifestyle you're really building toward.

Adventure & Play

Remembering that wonder, beauty, culture, and fun are part of a healthy life too.

This is the heart of Live Your List Japan: stepping away from your normal environment, experiencing the beauty of Japan, and returning with a clearer vision for a healthier, more aligned life and business.

Three Sacred Destinations

Each destination offers its own unique gifts for transformation and awakening

Tokyo skyline with Mount Fuji and Tokyo Tower at sunset

Tokyo

Where ancient traditions meet modern innovation. Experience the energy of Japan's capital while finding peace in hidden temples and cherry blossom sanctuaries.

• Welcome ceremonies & cultural immersion

• Cherry blossom viewing in Ueno Park

• Traditional temples amid city lights

Traditional Kyoto street with historic pagoda and wooden buildings

Kyoto

Japan's spiritual heart, where 2,000 temples and shrines create sacred spaces for deep reflection, forest bathing, and connection with ancient wisdom.

• Traditional ryokan & onsen experience

• Forest bathing in sacred groves

• Tea ceremonies & spiritual workshops

Vibrant Osaka street scene with neon signs and Tsutenkaku Tower

Osaka

Japan's kitchen and the soul of culinary culture. Discover how food connects community, tradition, and joy while exploring lifestyle business principles.

• Night market tours & street food

• Chef experiences & cooking workshops

• Lifestyle business design sessions

Your 8-Day Journey

A carefully crafted experience through Japan's most transformational destinations

Forest Bathing in Kyoto

Experience the ancient Japanese practice of Shinrin-yoku – literally "forest bathing" – in the sacred bamboo groves of Arashiyama.

This isn't just a walk through the forest. Forest bathing is a mindful, meditative practice where you slow down and connect deeply with nature through all your senses. As you move through Kyoto's towering bamboo cathedral, you'll learn to truly see, hear, smell, and feel the forest around you.

Scientific research shows that forest bathing reduces stress hormones, boosts immune function, and increases feelings of well-being. In this sacred space, surrounded by centuries-old bamboo reaching toward the sky, you'll discover a profound sense of peace and connection that will stay with you long after you leave Japan.

"The forest is not just a place to visit. It is home." – Ancient Japanese Wisdom

Woman in traditional kimono walking through the mystical Arashiyama Bamboo Grove in Kyoto

Everything Included

A completely curated experience with no hidden costs or surprise expenses

All Transportation

Ground transportation and trains throughout Japan

Luxury Accommodations

Mostly 4+ star hotels and traditional hot spring inns

Most Meals

Most of the time we will be dining together in amazing locations. Sometimes you'll be off exploring with others and dining on your own.

Music & Connection

At meaningful points throughout the retreat, music will help bring us together, deepen our connection, and inspire us through the messages it carries. Gather with the group, share in the experience, and let your own voice be heard.

Spiritual Workshops

Forest bathing, meditation sessions, and transformation workshops

Wellness Focus

Connect with leaders who will guide you in the wellness of your life and your business through focused workshops.

Meet Your Hosts and Trip Leaders

Your guides on this transformational journey

Hosts

Eiji Morishita

Eiji Morishita

Host

Rich German

Rich German

Host

Robert Evans

Robert Evans

Host

Trip Leaders

Stephanie Whitford

Stephanie Whitford

Trip Leader

Kristen Becher

Kristen Becher

Trip Leader

Travis Richardson

Travis Richardson

Trip Leader

Jon Block and Mansi Shah

Jon Block &
Mansi Shah

Trip Leader

Special Guest Leader

James Twyman

New York Times bestselling author, internationally renowned musician, award-winning filmmaker, and The Peace Troubadour

James Twyman will bring two powerful elements to the Live Your List Japan experience: Music and Movements. Through shared musical experiences and a special presentation on creating meaningful movements, James will invite us to gather, listen, reflect, raise our voices, and explore how a clear vision can create transformation that lasts.
James Twyman seated for a portrait

Music

Music That Brings Us Together

At different points throughout our time in Japan, we will gather for musical experiences with James designed to unite us as a group, open our hearts, and inspire us through the messages carried in the music.

For more than twenty years, James Twyman, also known as The Peace Troubadour, has traveled to countries experiencing war and conflict to share prayers of peace from the twelve major religions of the world—prayers he first put to music in 1994.

These gatherings will invite us not only to listen, but to participate, connect, and let our own voices be heard.

James Twyman singing during a musical experience

“How do we create something lasting in a world that never stops changing?”

Movements

Creating a Movement in a World That's Constantly Moving

In this thought-provoking presentation, James will explore how authentic transformation begins with timeless principles, a clear vision, and a commitment to truth.

Participants will be invited to consider how an idea becomes a movement, how a message can rise above distraction and short-lived trends, and how meaningful work can leave a lasting impact on the world.

A contemplative scene representing connection and creating a lasting movement

Together, these experiences will bring music, message, reflection, and purpose into our journey through Japan—creating moments that connect us more deeply with one another and with what we may be called to share next.

More Than a Trip

Japan Can Be the Beginning of Something Much Bigger.

Your Journey Into the Retreat Creator Apprenticeship

Live Your List Japan isn't only an opportunity to experience an extraordinary transformational journey. For those who feel called to eventually create meaningful retreats, adventures, or transformational travel experiences of their own, Japan can become the first stage of a year-long, real-world apprenticeship.

Instead of learning retreats from the sidelines, you'll experience the model from the inside — and then have the opportunity to progressively step into leadership alongside the person who invited you.

You still experience Japan fully as a participant. The creator perspective is an additional layer of value — not a job on the trip.

  1. 01

    Experience It

    It Begins in Japan

    Experience a professionally produced transformational journey from the inside while learning to see it through a creator's eyes.

    Observe the programming, transformation, community, logistics, experiences and details that make the journey work.

  2. 02

    Lead It

    Step Into Leadership

    Return on a future transformational trip with the leader who invited you — this time with real responsibility.

    Lead part of the experience, practice facilitating participants and build confidence inside a proven retreat environment.

  3. 03

    Co-Create It

    Build One Together

    Progress into helping co-create and co-host a transformational retreat alongside experienced leadership.

    Learn the business behind the experience — positioning, pricing, programming, enrollment, operations and delivery — with the potential for agreed financial participation in the retreat.

  4. 04

    Own It

    Create What's Next

    Complete the journey with real-world experience and a clearer pathway toward creating transformational trips and retreats of your own.

    Not just theory. Experience you can build upon.

A traveler walking a bamboo forest path in Japan

Learn It by Living It.

Most programs teach you the theory and hope you can translate it into a real experience later.

This apprenticeship reverses that model.

  • You experience it.
  • Then you lead inside it.
  • Then you help build one.
  • Then you're better prepared to create your own.

See the Trip Through a Creator's Eyes

Transformation

How an experience is intentionally structured to create meaningful change.

Experience Design

The rhythm between teaching, conversation, adventure, reflection and free time.

Community

How trust, connection and emotional safety are intentionally created.

Operations

How accommodations, transportation, vendors, communication and the unexpected are handled.

The Offer

Why people say yes, what they value and what makes an experience memorable.

The Business

How transformational experiences are positioned, priced, marketed, filled and ultimately delivered.

The Retreat Leader Apprenticeship Playbook, a physical paperback workbook

Included with Your Japan ExperiencePhysical 8.5" × 11" Workbook

Your Guide for the Journey

The Retreat Leader Apprenticeship Playbook

A physical, step-by-step workbook you'll use from Japan through the entire apprenticeship journey.

Every Live Your List Japan participant entering the Retreat Creator Apprenticeship will receive their own physical copy of the Retreat Leader Apprenticeship Playbook.

This isn't a book designed to sit on a shelf.

It's the working guide we'll use together as you learn how transformational retreats are actually created — beginning with our preparation before Japan, continuing through the training and experiences in Japan, and then traveling with you as you step into leadership and future retreat experiences alongside the Leader who invited you.

Plan

Design the retreat, define the transformation, choose the destination and build the experience.

Organize

Turn the vision into reality through budgeting, accommodations, transportation, vendors, scheduling and logistics.

Market

Position the experience, tell the story, invite the right people and learn how to fill the retreat.

Run

Lead the actual experience — participant communication, facilitation, on-site decisions, group flow and the unexpected.

Before Japan

Preparation calls, vision and understanding the model.

In Japan

Training sessions, observations, exercises and behind-the-scenes learning.

Beyond Japan

Continue using the Playbook as you lead, co-create and eventually develop transformational experiences of your own.

Your Playbook becomes the place where the entire journey comes together — the ideas, lessons, decisions, exercises, checklists and plans that can ultimately become your own retreat.

You Don't Do This Alone

Learn Alongside the Leader Who Invited You.

The person who invited you to Live Your List Japan isn't simply introducing you to the trip. They can also become part of your pathway forward.

After experiencing Japan together, the apprenticeship is designed to create opportunities for you to step into leadership alongside them on a future transformational trip and, later, potentially collaborate in creating and hosting an experience together.

This gives you the opportunity to learn inside a real relationship, with experienced people around you, instead of trying to figure everything out alone.

Learn Together

Experience the model alongside someone who already knows your gifts and potential.

Lead Together

Step into meaningful responsibility without immediately carrying an entire retreat yourself.

Build Together

Potentially collaborate on a future transformational experience and learn the business by actually doing it.

Your Japan Experience Can Be Your Enrollment Into Something Bigger.

For those entering the Retreat Creator Apprenticeship, Live Your List Japan becomes more than an 8-day transformational experience. It becomes your first real-world classroom — and the beginning of a pathway from participant, to leader, to co-creator, to someone prepared to create transformational experiences of your own.

EXPERIENCE IT.
LEAD IT.
BUILD IT.
OWN IT.

One year. Three real-world retreat experiences. One clear progression.

Trip and Apprenticeship Investment

Special Japan Pricing

Regular Price

$12,000

Special Price

$8,000

per person

Available through January 1, 2027
or until full

Reserve your place by January 1, 2027 to secure the $8,000 price — or until the trip is full, whichever comes first.

Available with payment options or payment in full.

Your Complete Journey Includes

8-day Japan experience (Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka)
Up to 4+ star accommodations
Most meals
All cultural entry fees and spiritual workshops
Access to leaders + support team
Retreat Creator Apprenticeship$10,000 Value

Your Japan experience becomes the first stage of the Retreat Creator Apprenticeship — a real-world pathway designed to help you learn the transformational retreat model, step into leadership alongside the Leader who invited you, participate in future retreat experiences, and become better prepared to create transformational trips of your own.

Includes your physical copy of the Retreat Leader Apprenticeship Playbook.

More Than an 8-Day Trip.

Your investment includes the Live Your List Japan experience plus entry into the Retreat Creator Apprenticeship — giving you the opportunity to continue learning, leading and building beyond Japan.

Japan is the experience. The apprenticeship is what can happen next.

Only 3 participant spots left.

$8,000 pricing available through January 1, 2027 or until all available spots are filled.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about your transformational journey

About Live Your List

Live Your List designs transformational travel experiences that help people reconnect with what matters most, expand their vision for life and business, and create meaningful adventures with people who are committed to living fully.

From wellness-focused workshops to immersive cultural journeys, every experience is crafted to bring clarity, connection, and a renewed sense of purpose — helping you design a life and business aligned with what truly matters.

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"In slowing down, we return to what matters."

Your transformation awaits in the Land of the Rising Sun. Step away from the grind and into a life of purpose, peace, and profound fulfillment.