Rekindling the Connection Within: A Retreat for Women

During this epic experience of being outside of your day to day life you will be held and witnessed in a safe and sacred space of silence, sound, movement, love, receiving, integration and acceptance by masterful facilitators. A deepening of your relationship to yourself which you will experience with and through other women. A breakthrough of old beliefs and the transformation of knowing yourself through the workshops and experiences which will include:

Delicious Food

A glorious setting

Movement

Sound

Inner reconnection with ceremonial cacao

Integration

Activation of inner core power, which will facilitate a shift in your personal power

Connection

Laughter

Community

What our time together will look like:

Friday

*5pm, Arrival and get situated

*6:30pm Dinner

*7:30pm Our Opening Circle held by Lili Shuster

Saturday

*8am Breakfast 

*9am-10:15am Yoga with Sienna Smith

*10:45am-12:15pm Akashic Record Workshop with Jen Duchene

*12:30pm Lunch 

*Free time or Private Sessions 

*4:00pm-6pm Cacao Medicine Journey with Reiki with Nicole Gnutzman

*6:30pm Dinner 

*8pm-10pm Sound and Movement Journey with Akasha Silverhawk

Sunday

*8am Breakfast 

*9am-10:15am Yoga with Sienna Smith

*10:15-12:30pm Free Time or Private sessions

*12:30pm Lunch 

*1:30pm-2:30pm Closing Circle held by Lili Shuster

*3pm Departure 

Special guest Akasha Silverhawk will host our Sound and Movement Journey...more details coming soon.

Sign up sheets for private sessions with Lili, Jen, Nicole, and Sienna will be available at the retreat. 

Massage can be booked straight through Westerbeke Ranch by emailing massage@westranch.com.

Opening and Closing Circles with Lili Shuster

Lili will facilitate our sacred circles setting and holding the energy for our time together.  

Lili is the visionary and the founder of the eleventh house. She is the creator and ritual-space holder for this retreat, and has a passion for gathering people and creating space for deep healing to occur. Lili is certified in Reiki 1 & 2 studying with Mia Runanin, and she completed a Yoga Teacher Training with Nubia Teixeira, BhaktiNova, Women Healing the World. She is currently studying for her Masters in Intuition Medicine® at The Academy of Intuition Medicine in Sausalito, Ca.  She offers intuitive energy healing sessions to help bring clarity, soul alignment, and deep grounding to your life. 

Cacao Medicine Journey with Reiki with Nicole Gnutzman 

A divinely magical experience. 

We'll sit in sacred circle and drink a divine cacao elixir as Nicole calls in the Spirit of Cacao, directions, elements and guides to share their wisdom, guidance and healing. We'll set a powerful intention for what we would like to release, heal and receive supported by the feminine, loving and compassionate energy of Mama Cacao. Shamanic drumming will lead us from our heads into our hearts and a sacred music playlist will support and guide us the rest of the way. Nicole will share Reiki energy healing during the session to connect us more deeply to our bodies, hearts, souls and spirit. In the loving embrace of cacao we will remember how to deeply listen to our inner wisdom. There’s nothing you need do other than open, allow and receive. Let Mama Cacao bring you what you most need.

What to Bring
Yoga mat & blanket (provided)
Eye mask
Journal & pen
Water bottle
Sacred item for the altar for blessing

Preparation for an Optimal Experience 
A light lunch is recommended and no food 2-3 hours before for an optimal experience.  No dairy that day and light caffeine only. Hydrate before and after with water and electrolytes. Ceremonial cacao is a gentle guide, teacher, and healer of mind, body, spirit and soul.

Nicole Gnutzman is a Cacao Medicine and Shamanic Reiki Practitioner, Journey Guide and Integration Coach, Trainer and Spiritual Mentor, who has held cacao medicine and shamanic drum journeys at yoga and meditation studios, international retreat and healing arts centers; and privately for groups and individuals since 2014. Her private work includes guiding clients on healing journeys with plant medicine that allow them to get unstuck, release old patterns, and reconnect mind-body-soul. Previously, she worked in the corporate world for 18 years as an educational publishing executive and is Director of Training & Course Design for Keith’s Cacao, co-designing and facilitating the Power of Cacao Practitioner Training. A traveling medicine woman, she currently lives in Cazadero, CA. 

WEB:: Soulscape Coaching

IG: @cacaowisdom

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nicole.gnutzman/

Nourish and Activate your Soul's Desire with Jen Duchene

In this deeply nourishing experience we will tap into the wisdom and guidance of the Akashic Records to unbind you from being so focused on the opinions of others, nourish your sense of worth and activate a deeper and more meaningful connection to your Intuitive self.

Jen Duchene, Soul Guide, Creator, Master Akashic Healer, Practitioner and Teacher, provides an unconventional perspective to Innovators and creative over thinkers, feelers and doers, moving them from confused overwhelm into a focused awareness which supports and nurtures a calm, peaceful and powerful certainty, and a new way forward.

WEB: JenDuchene.com

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Yoga, Breath, and Chanting with Sienna Smith 

Breathe, sisters breathe. We start with the breath as the feminine fluid form of prana that pulses so consistently, lively, and poetically through our bodies. The animating life force of breathing allows us to fluidly move and intuitively connect inside to release wound-up tension patterns in the body and mind. Through yoga asana, breathing, and imagery, we will explore the inner landscapes of our bodies, strengthen weak-prone areas, stretch and lengthen as we anchor to our center. 

We will not overdo. We do that already. We will under-do and emphasize being and attunement. We will work smarter. We will find where our wise intelligence lives and see what emerges when we respect our limitations.  Pushing creates a backlash in our bodies.  Softening and receiving create trust, acceptance, and reverence - these are qualities of the Goddess. The masculine principle of consciousness will hold space and help to contain us so the feminine principle, the body and breath, can dance and be in her fullness. 

We will begin each yoga session with two chants to the Goddess to evoke her presence and ask for energy, love, and grace to support us in this wild and precious life. We will invite her to be with us how we need Her to be. Then we will flow, breathe, and surrender - together. It will be a unique journey each time we practice. 

Sienna SmithC-IAYT, E-RYT, CAPP is a certified Yoga Therapist,  host of the Breathe Better Podcast, Physical Therapist Aide, and Wellness Coach for 22 years. Sienna owns Yoga & Wellness, a yoga therapy clinic in downtown San Anselmo. She is an expert in yoga therapy and guides people back to improved range of motion, strength, stability, fluidity, and youthfulness in their bodies. Sienna teaches a dynamic, alignment-based Hatha Yoga Flow practice, which includes physical therapy techniques, breathing, chanting, and meditation to deepen one’s embodiment and connection to the self and the soul.

WEB: www.SiennaSmith.com