Alchemy Women Rising International Retreat 2024
A six night retreat embodying true desires in a private tropical treehouse on Kenya’s Swahili coast – Watamu Treehouse with an optional three day wildlife safari in the world famous Tsavo East at Satao Camp from 17th to 25th November 2024.
THE RETREAT
Once upon a time, Nature, Women, and Goddesses were venerated. They were associated with the Feminine Energy, its power and qualities needed for a balanced and harmonious society. We knew the power of our sexual and creative energy. Living our true desires came naturally, and we harnessed this energy for the benefit of all. We were one with Nature, respecting the natural cycles and rhythms of our bodies and needs. We were one with our Intuition which guided us through life. With time, these qualities become dangerous to systems that sought control. So, we got disconnected from all of it: destroying Nature, rejecting our bodies and cycles, losing the sovereignty of our sexuality. Our inherently good desires became associated with shame and unworthiness, and more and more superficial fixes were marketed to appease the wanting self. Guidance and knowledge about our needs now coming from external sources, we forgot the power of our Intuition and stopped trusting ourselves. We are living in a time when feminine energy is devalued and repressed, and our true Nature, Purpose and Desires are threatened by external pressures. Together, we have the power to live free.
In this retreat we want to create a safe space for you to connect with the deepest self. We invite you to remember the Alchemy Woman that you are, able to transmute the wounds and pain into a catalyst back to the heart : able to Re- Create your reality and recover your true nature. You will embrace your Wholeness and connection to all things within yourself, integrating those parts and unmet needs that were repressed in order to survive. You will connect with your deepest Desires from a space of alignment, forgiveness and love, and Embody those Desires: living your purpose. By honouring what the deepest self wants, we want you to feel like you are really living the life of your dreams in this present moment.
Our Feminine Cycle and its different phases will guide us through this journey. Our body is our vehicle to experience life and through it, we can experience the different phases of our creative cycle and archetypes. We will unleash all the qualities and powers in each phase to release, heal and embrace whatever is needed. Each of those phases gives us the opportunity to alchemize our wounds into Desires. We will recover the playfulness and dreams of the child; melt the armors that closed our Heart and will open to Love. We will release the blocks, patterns and programs that castrate our freedom and sensuality, opening ourselves to feel again. We will connect with our inner guidance and intuition, remembering to trust it. We will accept and surrender to the changes of our natural cycles, and find balance and flow with the rhythms of life. We will practice living more in alignment with ourselves, adapting our reality to our needs and desires rather than living for the external. We will surrender to ourselves and our Desires.
This is an experiential retreat where we want you to really experience and find your own truth within. We don’t want you to believe anything we say, but instead to explore it and find what is true for you. We have been raised thinking that all answers are outside us, and we want to shift the focus within and build the trust in our intuition through the experience in our bodies. It is a deep healing and transformative experience where we will combine light and shadow work, with time to rest and integrate in the beautiful Nature that surrounds Watamu Treehouse.Nature is a big part of our retreat as she will be holding the space for us and helping us to process and integrate everything that will come up for us. In this experience, we will have women’s circles, different workshops, Ecstatic dance, Visualisations, Meditations, Alchemical Breathwork, Tantra practices, Aerial Yoga, Hula Hoop, Vinyasa and Yin Yoga, Womb Healing, Rituals, Art therapy, Oracle card readings, Womb Healing and much more.
This retreat is for you if you….
Are ready to Re-Create Yourself
Want to step into your Feminine Nature and Power
Want to experience Yourself fully
Want to open and share with other women and thrive together
Feel stuck or frustrated in any area of your life and need clarity and guidance
Want to stop identifying yourself with your story
Want to connect with Nature and the power of this magical land
Are a woman whether you have your blood and physical uterus or not
Are ready to look into yourself and your shadows
Feel disconnected from your Creativity
Are receiving signals from your body manifested in physical disharmonies: infertility, PCO´S, fibroids, infections…
Can hear the call within as you read the information
YOUR FACILITATORS
Paula Arranz – Mujer Naturaleza
Creator of “Mujer Naturaleza” (Woman Nature). Lover of nature, ancient wisdom, music, dancing, traveling, painting and enjoying life. Certified Life Coach specialized in women, Menstrual and Integral Cyclicality Therapist, Facilitator of Womb and Uterine Memories Healing, Certified Teacher of Ovarian Breathing, Feminine Alchemy, Feminine Sexuality, Alchemical Breathing, Sacred Sexuality, Tantra and Herbalism.
She accompanies women and men in their journeys of Self-Knowledge and Healing. These processes take us to remember our Feminine Nature, Wisdom and Healing power that each of us have within. Through this, we return to the Divine Expression that we are, connecting with our bodies: the temple where the Alchemy and Magic can happen. This journey opens us, allows us to blossom and reconnects us to our Divine Feminine and Masculine and the Sexual & Creative Energy. Through this process we open our Hearts and elevate our Consciousness, experiencing and embodying the integration of ourselves as Whole and Complete.
Paula’s work integrates meditation, archetypal wisdom and embodiment, breath-work, movement, dance, yoni eggs, medicinal herbs, oracle cards and art-therapy. She accompanies one on one processes, facilitate courses, workshops, women´s circles, transformational retreats and participate in national and international wellness festivals.
You can connect and know more about her:
IG: @mujernaturalezapau
Andrea Hartley
Andrea is a flow artist and wellness coach who specializes in aerial yoga, hula hoop, aerial silks, lyra, mindfulness and trauma informed Vinyasa and Yin yoga. Andrea studied Psychology and Aerial Arts at Louisiana State University and furthered her flow arts and yoga study in subsequent years with Nashville Circus Centre, Fly Circus Space, Karuna Yoga, Studio Goddess, CirqFit and Movement Lounge.
Her playful sessions are about liberating heart, intuition and creative power. She lived in Kenya 2014-2022 where she founded social circus AER Africa which brought aerial + flow arts to venues and schools across Africa. She continues to host international festivals, retreats, teacher trainings and classes that merge flow arts and mindfulness. When she’s not flipping in the air, she is passionate about empowering small wellness businesses through her software Flowmingo.
You can connect and know more about her:
IG: @andreachartley
LinkedIn: @andrea-hartley-16044988
Not sure this retreat is right for you?
Join our FREE Online Pre-Retreat on Sunday 14th April 12-2pm Easten. We will connect with our Desires through some practices, meet the facilitators, and learn more about the retreat.
To register for the Free Online Pre-retreat and know more about all price options, please visit our website
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