Women's Retreat 2024

Women's Retreat
May 2 - 5, 2024

A transformative women's retreat designed to foster connection and self-love. Set in a serene and supportive environment, this retreat offers a space for women to come together, share their stories, and build lasting connections. Engage in uplifting workshops, heart-centered discussions, and self-care practices that promote self-acceptance and self-love. Embrace your authentic self, forge meaningful connections, and leave with a renewed sense of love and empowerment.

Just click the button below to schedule your Discovery Call to get registered!

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Experience a transformative journey of self-love...

Guided by Shelley and her team of expert facilitators, the retreat combines the wisdom of plant medicine with therapeutic practices to create a safe and sacred space for healing and expansion for women. Through carefully curated experiences, participants are invited to delve into the depths of their consciousness, unlocking hidden insights and releasing emotional burdens.

The retreat's intimate setting fosters a sense of connection and vulnerability, allowing women to strengthen their bond with themselves and one another as well as rediscover the essence of their feminine divinity. From heart-opening ceremonies to guided meditations and mindful practices, each activity is designed to cultivate compassion, understanding, and enhanced communication between partners. This retreat provides a unique opportunity for women to embark on a transformative journey together, forging deeper connections, and fostering individual growth. With feminine empowerment as the guiding principle, this immersive experience invites women to create a space where they can embrace their true selves, celebrate their feminine essence, and unlock the vast potential within.

What to Expect

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Renew your relationship with yourself, connect with other like-minded women, and recharge your spirit.

Experience a new paradigm shift, sense of peace and well-being through intense self-care, nature immersion, sacred ceremony, whole, nourishing foods, and other healing modalities on this 4-day, 3-night retreat in the beauty of southern Utah.

Agenda

Day 1 / Thursday

Arrive and settle in to retreat space
Dinner and stories circle
- Introductions
- Heart conversations & check-in
- Fire ceremony
- Journaling

Day 2 / Friday

Nourishing breakfast
Prepare for ceremony
Journaling
Quiet time
Ceremony
Light & nourishing dinner
Integration

Day 3 / Saturday

Yoga
Nourishing breakfast
Breathwork & mindful movement
Integration circle
Prepare for nature immersion
Depart for nature immersion & lunch
Grounding activity
Dinner
Cacao ceremony
Drumming & singing

Day 4 / Sunday

Nourishing breakfast
Integration
- Implementing change
- Action items
- Insights
- Creating your own blueprint in your own schedule
- Affirmations
Farewell & depart from retreat

Featured Artist

Sonia Kreitzer, also known as, Doe Paoro

Sonia Kreitzer is a singer, songwriter, and sound healer who performs under the name Doe Paoro. She has released four full-length records, and her songs have amassed over 25 million streams worldwide and been featured on TV, film and radio. She also records guided meditations and has been featured as a meditator on both Apple Music and InsightTimer.

Sonia grew up in Syracuse, New York and much of what she understands about the power of music comes from indigenous lineages: she has studied Tibetan opera singing over many years in India and also studied with the Shipibo-Conibo community in Peru. She comes from a family of healers and artists and is engaged in exploring the intersection of music, healing, and consciousness. She is a certified yoga instructor. When not on tour, she facilitates soundbaths, singing retreats, and music for ceremonial spaces worldwide. She is the creator of Activating the Voice, an online course and workshop series that is dedicated to empowering voices and tending to individual and ancestral trauma through singing.

Doe Paoro

Sonia Kreitzer

Meet Your Hosts

Lead Facilitator

Shelley DeMarco

Shelley DeMarco's journey into the realm of holistic healing and transformation is deeply rooted in a life surrounded by music and the arts. Growing up in a musical household with classical singers and musical performers, Shelley spent countless hours immersed in the rich tapestries of classical operas and the vibrant scenes of Broadway shows in New York City. This exposure not only fostered her love for music but also deepened her appreciation for its profound power to heal, inspire, and evoke deep emotional responses.

Shelley's professional path has been shaped by over 30 years of dedication to supporting personal evolution. Her early days in the heart of recovery 12-step programs laid a strong foundation for her work, providing vital support to families and friends of those battling addiction.

As a psychedelic integration specialist and ceremonialist, Shelley seamlessly combines ancient traditions with modern insights, guiding individuals through transformative experiences enriched by sacred ceremonies.

In her practice, Shelley's voice serves as more than just a tool for communication; it is a vessel for healing. A skilled singer, sound healer, and energy healer, she harnesses vibrational frequencies to soothe and balance the soul, fostering peace and harmony.

Her passion extends into leading transformative breathwork sessions, which offer participants a profound journey into their subconscious, helping to release traumatic memories and emotional blockages.

For Shelley, transformation is not merely a concept but a lived experience—an all-encompassing journey that engages the mind, body, spirit, and beyond. Her integrative approach weaves together the healing powers of sound, energy work, and sacred plant medicine, creating a nurturing environment for those in pursuit of deep change, healing, and self-discovery.

Guided by the wisdom of Maria Sabina's words, "You are the medicine," Shelley continues to be led in her mission and purpose to help others and strives to be a compelling force in the field of holistic health, dedicated to empowering others to unlock their potential and embrace their own path to healing, health and joy.

Co-Facilitator

Tana Seaford

Tana Seaford's journey to wellness is a story of transformation and discovery, one that has taken her deep into the heart of Nature's healing embrace. Through her own search for healing, Tana has unearthed a profound truth: that the path to optimal wellness is intricately linked with the natural world.

Embracing health from Nature's perspective, Tana has learned to listen to the subtle cues and rhythms that guide the nurturing of body and soul. She has become an adept at intuitively understanding how to nourish herself, drawing from the abundance and wisdom that Nature provides. This journey has led her to explore various natural and holistic modalities that align with the body's innate ability to heal itself.

Tana's passion now lies in empowering other women, guiding them as they navigate their own transformative health journeys. Her approach is deeply holistic, considering the entirety of an individual's life experience—physical, emotional, and spiritual. Tana believes that every woman has an intrinsic connection to Nature that, when harnessed, can lead to profound well-being and balance.

In her role as a wellness guide, Tana employs a range of nature-based methods to help women rediscover their inherent vitality. This could include spending healing time outdoors, adopting plant-based nutrition, practicing mindful movement, or engaging in earth-centered spiritual practices that ground and connect them to the larger web of life.

Tana's work is characterized by a compassionate understanding that each woman's journey is unique. She offers tailored support, creating a nurturing space where women can explore their health goals and aspirations. With a gentle yet empowering presence, Tana walks alongside her clients, encouraging them to grow and thrive under Nature's gentle guidance.

As a mentor, Tana embodies the transformation she advocates, being a living testament to the life-affirming benefits of a health journey informed by and aligned with the natural world. Her commitment is to light the way for others, helping them to forge their path to wellness and to a life of enriched vitality, guided by Nature herself

Nourisher

We will have a delicious and nourishing menu provided by our amazing Kak!

Food Yogi

Kak Urpani

No bugs were harmed during the creation of this page and no they won't be a part of the menu either!

Here are some fascinating facts about Kak (whom we call "the most interesting woman in the world!")

Katherine, also known as Kak, is a hatha yoga teacher since 2013. She is a human being on a path she loves and loves to share.

Years ago, yoga gently lifted Kak from a deep, dark place and solidified her belief in its power forever. Since then she has continued to learn aspects of this practice which invariably resonate with her in every way.

Because of an unusually international upbringing, Kak was exposed to many languages and cultures early on. Perhaps this allowed her to be just that much more open-minded towards yogic ideas, once she became familiar with them. Her mother also gets due credit for raising her sister and herself to be open to extraordinary concepts.

On her first day at yoga teacher training in Rishikesh, India, Kak's teacher, Roshan, told her not to believe what he taught her but he then told her not to reject what he taught her either. He told her to contemplate what he taught her. Later Kak understood that this was because she was being encouraged to use her own ability to distinguish between true and false as per her perception; her heart is naturally equipped with discernment and all she has to do is learn to listen! Let that also be Kak's first message.

Since her training in India, yoga has exploded in popularity in the West. Although yoga seems to be widely misconstrued in the West and perceived as strictly a fitness tool, Kak learned from her Indian teachers that practicing asana in any way, shape or form may increase the odds of a desire for a deeper understanding and it can bring new levels of peace, love and joy.

Interesting qualifications:

Hotel School in Switzerland
Yachtmaster Offshore Captain's License
Fluent in English, French, Italian, and Spanish
Yacht Chef

A few bio facts:

30 years in Southern Utah
Born in Malta
Hiking/backpacking/playing music/growing medicinal herbs/watching chicken TV/making healthy food
Has undergone a massive transformation in the last 2 years since a "nervous breakthrough"
Has a deep desire to help others

Total Enrollment $1,875

To secure your spot at our beautiful women's retreat, send an email to support@sagesoul.net to learn the details for registration and to submit your enrollment.