W O V E N
Weaving women together
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What does it mean to fully tend to and nourish your body? Not to fit a “type”, not to fit a societal beauty standard, but simply for your own wellness- for your own holy wholeness?
What would it feel like to eat from this place? To breathe from this place? To move and dance and sing from this place? A place of such deep acceptance of your essence, your holy vessel, as woman, as lover, as mother, and as friend that all the things you were ever taught about how you “should” look, feel, act, or love-become background noise.
Woven is an opportunity to explore this type of self love, all while gently held within a community of sisters who are also weaving together their own healing stories.
Together we will create a symphony of color and texture.
Each of us a unique thread in the tapestry of our collective fabric of healing.
Together we will redefine what it means to be in sacred sisterhood and what it means to be in devoted relationship with ourselves.
This is an immersion designed for each of us to step into the power that lies within our bodies through community, touch, education, and unification of energies.
This is an opportunity to feel refreshed and empowered by our time together, taking on a newly invoked sense of vitality with concrete skills to help you take care of your own body outside of this container while building lifetime bonds with other like minded women that will be forever rooted in the magic within this sacred container.
We will be weaving together the transition of the warm season and long days with the cold, dark, inward months.
When the seasons shift externally as they do, it is important to treat our bodies with accordance, and honor the seasonal shift that occurs internally.
We do this by embracing the “yin” cycle of the year and doing things like eating more cooked foods, taking hot baths, sitting by the fire, doing self oil massage to nourish our skin and tissues, taking time to gestate what will become birthed once more in the spring.
This is a time for cultivation of our purpose in life. we are gifted these incredible few months to take the time that we need to slow down and really sit with what we are dreaming up, to give it the intention that it deserves, to let it blossom into all that it wants to be as it comes through infused with our essence.
Woven is an opportunity to learn these skill sets of how to deeply nourish, tend, and listen to our bodies so we can be hollow vessels for which our life’s purpose can be deeply channeled while weaving together the sensuality that life holds for us in each simple moment. All the while acknowledging our sovereign choice to explore the mystery in the world.
We are coming together to learn how to hold each other as we maintain our own sense of deeply rooted self.
Unrelenting — like the winter wind that allows spaciousness for new life to make way.
Everything has its purpose.
How we’ll weave our days together…
Day One | Thursday November 10th
3:30-4:30 Arrive at Nevada City retreat house
6:30 Organic whole foods dinner
7:30 Opening ceremony
Day Two | Friday November 11th
8:30-10:30 Organic whole foods breakfast
10:30-12:30 Tree Qi Gong teaching and connecting with the 240 acre retreat space land
12:30-1:30 Organic and whole foods lunch
2:00-4:30 Breast Massage & Abhyanga workshop
6:00 Organic and whole foods dinner
Day Three | Friday November 12th
8:30-10:30 Organic whole foods breakfast
10:30-12:30 Cyclical living and nourishment workshop
12:30-1:30 Organic and whole foods lunch
2:00-4:30 Womb care workshop
6:00 Organic and whole foods dinner
8:00 Embodiment Journey
Day Four | Sunday November 13th
8:30-10:30 Organic and whole foods breakfast
10:30 Acupressure and Moxabustion Workshop, healing circle, and closing ceremony
12:30-1:30 Organic and whole foods lunch
2:00 Pack up and head to the Yuba River for play and connection (optional)
PRICING
Shared community room with twin beds in the house :: $1000 paid in full or $1100 split between monthly payments.
Shared room or cabin with 2 twin beds :: $1200 paid in full or $1300 split between monthly payments.
Solo cabin or room with queen bed in the house :: $1500 paid in full or $1600 split between monthly payments.
$400 deposit for all spaces paid on confirmation.
All sales are final. In the event of cancellation, our policy is that refunds for the entirety of payment (less a $100 processing fee) will be given if we are able to fill your space with another attendee. We retain the right to use our discretion in the event of last minute cancellations and emergency scenarios. Doors close 11/03/2022.
Payable by Venmo, Paypal, check, card, or cash. Payment plans available.
(Payments via credit card or Paypal are subject to additional processing fees.)
LOCATION
Sierra Friends Retreat Center is a beautiful & secluded space near the Yuba river & Tahoe national forest in Nevada City, California.
We’ll stay in a circular stone house with ample space to gather on this beautiful and carefully tended land which features 240 acres of trails, streams, woods, & meadows.
What women are saying:
The RITUALS were the most enriching part of this retreat! These healing women held space for us with a fierce call to nature. If your intention is inner freedom and giving yourself the care you would gift your favorite person-then come to one of their retreats! You’ll feel in your body a new beginning and see yourself reflected in another and sense belonging. I left feeling ease, grace, and acceptance. Strong magic. If you are tired of the inner dialogue inside that holds you back from love and growth come to this retreat and get crazy with your sacred self! Also-I absolutely loved the food!— Amber Heard, Traverse City, MI
Something new opened within me. I am profoundly grateful to have met these wise women and for their divine connection to the earth-this experience brought awareness and an entirely new level of respect. If you are considering attending one of their retreats I would encourage you to do it. It was empowering and really took me to my edges-and completed a cycle for me because I was held by other women in moments of pain. I feel many women could use this. — M. S., Traverse City, MI
Thank you for this wonderful experience! I loved being around other beautiful (inside and out), kind, and loving women. I loved the rituals, the songs, the dancing and embodiment practices. If you are feeling called to one of their retreats-I would tell you to do it! It has inspired me to find friendships like this in my local community. — J. C., Boulder, CO
This unique opportunity will open you to the depths and heights of yourself in nourishing, loving ways with other beautiful women. If you long for connection and freedom this experience is for you! — Hilary Lake, Petoskey, MI
[This retreat] helped strengthen my connection with my womb and expand my roots and sense of grounded-ness. Being loved and witnessed by these dear sisters has allowed me to reprogram and work through sister wounding from childhood. By tending to myself and the triggers that came up around this retreat, I gained a compassionate perspective on some of my shadowy elements that have limited my expansion in the past. — Danielle Zick, Traverse City, MI
I feel emotionally worked but deeply nourished! This was the first retreat I’ve ever attended that I could actually drop into. They did an amazing job modeling how to support yourself in experiences like this. Their teamwork and beautiful love for each other was inspiring and hopeful to see. Quality time with amazing women in a beautifully held container centered around herbalism, honoring the hearth, and each other. The food was local and organic, plenty of time to rest and take care. They cared deeply about everyone and celebrated each of us. — Brooke Watkins, Gainesville, FL
Glimpses from our previous immersion: COALESCE
Here to support you & empower you through
this sacred portal between dark & light:
Tori Poloski
Tori is an intuitive bodyworker, craniosacral therapist, herbalist, & student of Ayurveda. Blending sacred energetics with the ecology of the body, her work is multifaceted & experiential, guiding you home to your deepest knowing.
Gabrielle Sisson
Gabrielle Sisson is a green witch, body worker, energetic healer and herbalist. Her work centers on the nourishment of all aspects of your being-and the lived understanding that acceptance of ourselves and our pasts is necessary for us to act from a place of holy wholeness.
Cierra Dunn
Human body enthusiast. Seeker of truth, art, & beauty through conscious play, touch, and connection with all living beings.
All graduates of Crestone Healing Arts Center’s 2018 massage & healing arts certification program, we women have grown together, studied together, and certainly lived many lives together in the past. We so look forward to embracing you & welcoming you into this sacred space of sisterhood we’ve created.