Dubai · November 7–8, 2026 · 2-Day Workshop
One weekend to release
what years couldn't.
Two days to release what's been holding you back: old wounds, breakups, guilt, the past that won't let go. You'll walk out lighter, more yourself, and genuinely ready for what's next.
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Release & Rise
Stop carrying
what's already over.
A 2-day workshop for expats in Dubai who are done replaying the past and ready to release the weight, find forgiveness, and walk into what's actually next.
- No more replaying what happened. You'll finally release the grip the past has on you
- Forgiveness work & deep practices, held safely in a small intimate group
- In English · November 7–8, 2026 · Dubai, UAE
Only a few Early Bird spots still available
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Sarah Almeida
Workshop participant
"Something shifted in me that weekend that I had been trying to shift for years. I walked in carrying something very specific, and I left lighter than I've felt in a long time."
★★★★★
Two days, one small circle, no audience.
Forgiveness work
Deep practices
In English
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A safe, held space
Small group. No pressure. You set the pace. Paul holds the container with care and warmth throughout.
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100% money-back
If you don't feel the shift by end of Day 1, full refund. No questions, no awkwardness. Paul's personal promise.
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No experience needed
You don't need to know how to "do this work." You just need to show up. Everything else is guided.
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Nothing to prepare
All workshop materials are waiting for you, along with coffee and water throughout both days. Bring yourself, nothing else.
🌿 Early Bird closes October 25, 2026 · After that, price rises to AED 2,097
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Full Days
6
Guided Practices
1
Intimate Group
Nov 7–8
Dubai, UAE
Where you are right now
There's a weight you've been carrying for a while now.
"You can move to a new city. You can't leave yourself behind."
From the outside, your life might look perfectly fine. But something underneath won't quiet down. A relationship that ended, and you still feel it when their name comes up. Guilt you keep carrying. A tension with your close ones that was never resolved. A sense of emptiness, and you don't even know where it's from. Maybe you feel it in your body before you can even put it into words.
Many of us travel to new destinations. But the old wounds travel with us. The old patterns follow. So most of us do the next best thing: we push it down. We stay busy. We numb it with a glass of wine, a full calendar, anything that makes the noise quieter for an hour. It works for an hour.
But suppressing it was never the answer. Resolving it is. The time is now.
Why nothing has fully worked
You've read the books. You understand your patterns. And still something sits there, unmoved.
Most approaches help you understand the weight. Very few actually help you put it down.
Therapy gives you language for what happened. Meditation quiets the noise for a while. Journaling helps you see the patterns. These things have value. But understanding what you're carrying isn't the same as finally being able to let it go.
Release & Rise is built around one goal: releasing the emotions you've been carrying. The two days combine guided forgiveness practices and body-based release, designed with one purpose: to create the conditions for real, felt release.
DAY ONE
Release
Letting go. Freeing yourself from the emotions, beliefs, wounds and blocks you've been carrying, some for decades. Forgiveness of yourself, of others, of the past. This is the heavy day. It's meant to be.
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DAY TWO
Rise
A new beginning. Moving forward. A new timeline. You don't leave with a list of affirmations. You leave with direction, and the strange lightness of no longer dragging what you walked in with.
"I can't move on after the breakup."
Months later, they still live rent-free in your head. Every new person gets measured against a ghost.
"I'm still carrying my parents' story."
Old family wounds you've explained a hundred times, but never actually released.
"I can't forgive myself."
Guilt, shame, a decision you'd take back. You've forgiven everyone but you.
"There's an emptiness I can't explain."
The job, the apartment, the life. It all looks right. Something inside doesn't agree.
"I came for a new life. I haven't found it."
The address changed. The tax residency changed. The thing you were running from came with you.
"He cheated me. I'm not done with him."
A partner, a client, a contract that meant nothing to him. Maybe you're still fighting it. Maybe you've given up but you haven't let go. Either way he's in your head every day.
Any one of these is enough. You don't need to be broken to come. You just need to be ready to stop and look.
The experience
Two days that can change how you carry the rest of your life.
Release & Rise is not a lecture. It's a living, breathing experience, designed to take you somewhere you can't get to alone.
Forgiveness Work
Guided processes for releasing what you hold against yourself and others. Real, felt, transformative.
Emotional Release
Safe, supported practices to let what's been stored in the body finally move. No experience needed.
Letter Writing
Writing as a tool for closure, truth-telling, and letting go of people, moments, versions of yourself.
Two days of deep work, not a lecture
You do the work, and Paul holds the room while you do it.
Coming back to the body
Simple grounding exercises between the heavier parts of the day. You will learn how to ground yourself in any life circumstances.
Guided Meditation
Space to go inward and listen to what's been trying to be heard. Deep, held, and safe.
What shifts
How participants describe the weekend after.
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Lighter. Like something they've been carrying has shifted, not because anything changed on the outside, but because something released on the inside.
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More themselves. Reconnected to something they'd lost: a sense of who they are underneath everything they've been carrying.
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Ready. A genuine sense of readiness for what comes next, not forced optimism, but real inner movement.
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Seen. Held in a group of people going through real things, perhaps for the first time in a long time, not alone.
"Leave Sunday lighter than you've felt in years."
Release & Rise
Paul NazarukGuide & Founder
Your guide
I know what it feels like to carry something you can't put down. Because I did.
My name is Paul Nazaruk, and before anything else, I'm someone who's been through the kind of pain that changes you.
A horrible breakup I couldn't get over for a year. A business partner who changed our agreement behind my back. Financial decisions that wiped out my savings, decisions I couldn't forgive myself for. And a childhood so unfair that I carried the unbearable anger from it for most of my adult life.
I went through real darkness, and this work is what changed that. Not understanding it. Not talking about it. Releasing it properly, all the way through.
Today I'm free. I'm at peace. I'm genuinely happy. And I care about this work enough to spend my life sharing it with people who are still carrying what I used to carry.
Paul Nazaruk, Guide & Founder, Release & Rise
Paul's Mission
"I help people to forgive others and release what they've been carrying: anger, grief, guilt, regret, sometimes for years, sometimes for a lifetime.
I know this work because I needed it myself. I'm not here to fix anyone. I'm here for people who are done carrying it and ready to finally put it down, the way I did.
I am here for those who are ready to return to themselves, to stop carrying what was never theirs to carry, and finally feel free."
I know this work because I needed it myself. I'm not here to fix anyone. I'm here for people who are done carrying it and ready to finally put it down, the way I did.
I am here for those who are ready to return to themselves, to stop carrying what was never theirs to carry, and finally feel free."
Paul Nazaruk, Guide & Founder, Release & Rise
What others have experienced
In their own words.
★★★★★
"Something shifted in me that weekend that I had been trying to shift for years. I walked in carrying something very specific, and I left lighter than I've felt in a long time."
★★★★★
"I wasn't sure what to expect. I'd done therapy, I'd done yoga. But something about this was different: more honest, more direct. Paul holds the space in a way I've never experienced before."
★★★★★
"I came because of a relationship that ended. I left having made peace with something much older and much deeper. I didn't expect that. I'm grateful for it."
Honest self-reflection
Be honest with yourself.
✔ Come if
- You've been through a painful breakup, divorce, or loss, and feel like you haven't fully healed
- You carry guilt, shame, or regret about something in your past
- Your relationship with your parents is something you'd like to make peace with
- You feel empty or directionless despite building a life that looks good
- You're tired of carrying this. You're ready to put some of it down.
✗ Probably not for you if
- You're looking for a quick fix or a motivational boost. This is deeper work
- You're in acute mental health crisis and need clinical support right now
- You're not willing to show up fully. This work asks something of you
Ready to join?
Choose your spot.
If you've made it this far, something in you is already saying yes. Trust that.
Online Access
AED 1,097
Live stream + full recording
- ✔ Live stream of both days
- ✔ Recording available after
- ✔ Digital materials included
- ✔ Paul's guidance online
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Can't be in Dubai? Join remotely.
🔥 Early Bird: Best Value
Early Bird
AED 2,097
AED 1,647
Until October 25, 2026
- ✔ Full 2-day workshop
- ✔ All materials included
- ✔ Paul's guidance throughout
- ✔ Small group, intimate space
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- ✔ Full 2-day workshop
- ✔ All materials included
- ✔ Paul's guidance throughout
- ✔ Small group, intimate space
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AED 3,647
Limited to a few people only
- ✔ Full 2-day workshop
- ✔ All materials included
- ✔ Paul's guidance throughout
- ✔ Private 1:1 with Paul (45 min)
- ★ Saturday evening dinner with Paul
- ★ Saturday & Sunday lunch (two meals)
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My Personal Promise
100% Money-Back
Guarantee.
I know what it's like to wonder if anything can actually help. To invest in yourself and fear it won't be worth it.
I've been there myself. That's exactly why I can stand behind this with complete confidence.
"If by the end of Day 1 you don't feel that this workshop was worth your investment, tell me. I'll return every dollar. No questions. No forms. No awkward conversation. Just a full refund."
I make this promise because I am that certain something real will move in you this weekend. I have seen it too many times to doubt it.
100%
Money-Back Guarantee
Not satisfied by end of Day 1?
Full refund on the spot, no questions asked.
Full refund on the spot, no questions asked.
Paul Nazaruk, Founder · Release & Rise
Got questions?
Frequently asked questions.
Do I need any prior experience with this kind of work?
No experience is needed, and in some ways, none is better. The workshop is designed to meet you exactly where you are. Whether you've done years of therapy or you've never experienced such work, you'll be guided step by step. You don't need to know how to do this. You just need to show up.
What exactly happens over the two days?
The workshop runs across both days with a combination of guided group practices, individual reflection, forgiveness and emotional release work. Each practice builds on the last. You'll be moving through things, not just talking about them. The two days are designed to take you from opening up, to releasing, to setting intention for what's next.
Is this a religious event?
No. This is not a religious event, and you don't need to follow any particular faith to take part.
The work can be considered spiritual in the sense that it deals with forgiveness, intention, and the understanding that we are more than just our thoughts. But it is not tied to any one religion. Whatever you currently believe, this work can be applied to it. People from all faiths, and all backgrounds, are welcome here.
You also don't need to believe in God, or belong to any religion, to take part. If you're an atheist, this retreat is just as much for you. What matters here is your willingness to release what you're carrying, not what you believe.
The work can be considered spiritual in the sense that it deals with forgiveness, intention, and the understanding that we are more than just our thoughts. But it is not tied to any one religion. Whatever you currently believe, this work can be applied to it. People from all faiths, and all backgrounds, are welcome here.
You also don't need to believe in God, or belong to any religion, to take part. If you're an atheist, this retreat is just as much for you. What matters here is your willingness to release what you're carrying, not what you believe.
What is the Early Bird deadline and what happens after?
The Early Bird price of AED 1,647 is available until October 25, 2026. After that date, the price moves to AED 2,097. The number of spots is also limited, and once they're gone, registration closes. If you're considering it, the earlier you decide, the better.
How do I pay, and is it secure?
Payment is handled through a secure, encrypted payment gateway. When you click any booking button, you're taken to a secure checkout page, and we never see or store your card details. Visa, Mastercard and American Express are accepted. You'll receive an emailed receipt immediately, and your joining instructions shortly after.
Tickets are sold by Black Swan Scale Inc., and the workshop itself is organised and delivered by AWAKEN FZ-LLC (RAKEZ, United Arab Emirates). Your payment will appear on your card statement as Black Swan Scale Inc.
Tickets are sold by Black Swan Scale Inc., and the workshop itself is organised and delivered by AWAKEN FZ-LLC (RAKEZ, United Arab Emirates). Your payment will appear on your card statement as Black Swan Scale Inc.
What if I need to cancel my spot?
Two different things apply here.
If you attend and it isn't for you, tell us before Day 2 begins and we refund your ticket in full, on the spot. That's the Day One Guarantee, no questions asked, we'd just love five minutes of honest feedback first.
If you can't come at all, cancel more than 14 days before for a full refund (less the payment processing fee). 7 to 14 days before, it's a 50% refund or a transfer to a future workshop. Inside 7 days there's no refund, though we can usually agree to pass your place to someone else.
Online Access tickets work differently, since there's no venue cost involved. You can request a full refund within 14 days of receiving the recording.
If we cancel for any reason, you get everything back. Full details on our Refund & Cancellation Policy page.
If you attend and it isn't for you, tell us before Day 2 begins and we refund your ticket in full, on the spot. That's the Day One Guarantee, no questions asked, we'd just love five minutes of honest feedback first.
If you can't come at all, cancel more than 14 days before for a full refund (less the payment processing fee). 7 to 14 days before, it's a 50% refund or a transfer to a future workshop. Inside 7 days there's no refund, though we can usually agree to pass your place to someone else.
Online Access tickets work differently, since there's no venue cost involved. You can request a full refund within 14 days of receiving the recording.
If we cancel for any reason, you get everything back. Full details on our Refund & Cancellation Policy page.
One last time
You've been carrying this long enough.
If something in you is saying yes, trust that.
November 7–8, Dubai. Small group. Limited spots.
Online Access
AED 1,097
Live-stream from anywhere
- Live-streamed both days
- Guided audio recordings
- Digital workbook
- Private community access
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- Full 2-day in-person attendance
- All materials included
- Paul's guidance throughout
- Group integration circle
- Post-workshop community
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Standard
AED 2,097
Full in-person experience
- Full 2-day in-person attendance
- All materials included
- Paul's guidance throughout
- Group integration circle
- Post-workshop community
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VIP Experience
AED 3,647
Limited to a few people only
- Full 2-day workshop
- All materials included
- Paul's guidance throughout
- Private 1:1 with Paul (45 min)
- Saturday evening dinner with Paul
- Saturday & Sunday lunch (two meals)
★ Very limited spots
Money back after Day 1 if it's not for you
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