September 19th-23rd 2024
Located in the Black Hills Lead, South Dakota.
Meet your facilitators:
These wild women are merging for one wild and ecstatic retreat. Sarah, Jackie, and Carmen will bring their unique gifts to facilitate and create a container of deep love for you to dissolve into the gentle expansion that is you!
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LICENSED MENTAL HEALH COUNSELOREAGALA FACILITATOR
E-RYT 500
Jackie Paulson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Registered 500 Hour Yoga Instructor. She has almost two decades of experience in the helping field. She specializes in working with adults who may be experiencing a wide array of concerns; including, relationship difficulties, depression, anxiety, trauma, grief and loss, addiction, and life transitions. Her training in mindfulness and somatic work all enhance the investment of your time in session.
Ultimately Jackie offers a humanistic approach and her overall intention is to empower individuals to seek and connect into their own inner knowing. Jackie believes that each person has an innate ability to empower themselves and journey through any experience with the right support.
Jackie appreciates the diversity of humanity, a diversity which includes differences in sex, age, race, ethnicity, and national origin, range of abilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, financial means, education, and political perspective. All are welcome here.
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Body Image Coach
Empowerment Photographer
Certified Reiki Level II
CYT 200hr
With over 13 years experience as a photographer, Sarah has traveled the world while photographing and holding space for 100’s of folks. All in different stage of their journey. As a body image coach, Sarah can have the hard conversations surrounding body image and give folks tools to use towards their body image healing. She understands that there are many intersectionalities involved when it comes to body image and practices mindfulness while being trauma informed when working with clients.
Sarah uses her yoga teachings in her photography. Utilizing breath work, meditation, and embodiment practices via movement and personal touch.
A fat liberationist, queer, and loudly passionate human, Sarah celebrates and centers marginalized communities, bodies and voices in her artistry and advocacy work.
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E RYT-200
ENERGY WORKER
SOMATIC PRACTITIONER
REGISTERED NURSE
HEALER
Carmen is the owner of Awaken Yoga in LeMars Iowa and teaches several yoga classes a week as well as offers one on one Somatic Embodiment sessions. Carmen is also a Registered nurse.
Her passion has always been people whether nursing or holding space for bodies and feelings. Carmen’s classes offer a slow unraveling of the body and nervous system. Carmen holds space for the connection between the felt senses that arise inside of us and how we act or react outwardly in relationship to self and others.
Carmen’s profound ability to see the human heart in everyone is what drives her life and her business.
Join us for one wild and ecstatic retreat of embodiment and ceremony. With opportunities to become undone from the grip of centuries old conditioning that says we are too much or not enough.
There will be space for self reflection, rest and also community connection and having the brilliance of our truth be reflected back to us in the most generous ways.
What to expect:
Coming together in community. Ceremony, ritual (singing/chanting/movement) and somatic embodiment practices that offer the soul to meet the body and the body to experience its truest essence. Really allowing your own body to be the sacred temple you arrive at every day and your deepest heart truth be the jewel you worship. All while being HELD by your fellow retreat attendees.
Coming Home to Self
Dharma Talks with Jackie on the erotic, intimacy and developing a relationship with the Self. Embodiment and experiential practices to welcome the shadow into the light of the self.
Be Seen + Take Up Space
A mini photo session witnessing your power and softness. Sarah will guide you through an embodiment exercise while documenting your divinity. Raw, wild and real. Culminating with an Adornment Ceremony on the last day together.
Somatics and Embodiment
Carmen will lead class on sensations & resourcing along with somatic embodiment sessions. Possibly an invitation to tap into womb healing. Sure to be lush and heart filled.
Restorative Yoga
Restorative Yoga with Sarah after a beautiful, full day of transformation.
Meals
Attendees are invited to join us for evening meals prepared with love by Carmen and her sous chef, Jackie, as we share a community dinner each night. As a thank you for joining us, we are making pancakes on Sunday morning.
In an effort to give attendees choice over what they eat, breakfast and lunches are the responsibility of the attendee. Think of this as your home away from home. By doing this, it gives you power over what you eat. Especially for those with any dietary needs. Attendees will need to supply their own groceries/snacks during their stay. Grab food from town on your way through to the house. You can always make trips to town if you forgot or need something.
ROOMS
Upper level room with nook plus adjoining shared bathroom with one other person.
$2,400 + tax
Solo room + Jack and Jill Bathroom
Basement room with shared bathroom with bunk room.
$2,200 + tax
Solo room + community bath
Basement bunk room that sleeps 8 with shared bathroom.
7/8 Beds available
$1,800 + tax each
Bunk room + community bath
TAKE TIME FOR YOU
Are you ready to do this?!
Let’s break it down as to what is all included:
4 nights and 3 days at a luxurious modern home
Hot tub
Ceremony, ritual, somatic movement, and embodiment practices
Time away to relax and explore
Yoga + Mindfulness
Embodiment Photo Session(s)
Nature and reconnecting to your wild
Goodie Bag
Evening community meals
Pancake Breakfast
These prices do not reflect sales tax. There are no refunds. Payment plans are available.
Please contact Jackie, Sarah, or Carmen with any questions or concerns.
What else do you need to know?
This house has stairs and attendees will need to use them to get around the house.
Bring boots or tennis shoes in case of hiking.
Bring a swimsuit!
Dress comfy!
Towels are provided along with a washer and a dryer
Bring a yoga mat if you can
Bring an open mind and an open heart
Transportation is not provided. You can carpool or drive solo. Plenty of parking. There will be a facebook group to plan with others that are traveling.
The house has 2 community bathrooms
Plan accordingly for shopping trips as prices will be different for you if you are not from there.
Cell service isn’t the greatest in the mountains where our house is. However, we recommend you utilize the house wifi for communications with loved ones if the service is bad.
This retreat is not a replacement for therapy and folks should seek outside help with a provider if they feel they need it. We can share resources.
This home is private and we are the only ones using it. It sits on 10 acres of land. We may have neighbors or a road near by.
Ready to book?
You must fill out a form below to book. Forms will be handled in the order they come in. We will get you booked asap but also know we are busy bees and understand the need for balance. Please give 1-2 business days for a response just in case.
Please reach out to Jackie or Sarah with any questions.
We hope to see you soon!