Remembrance
A Wholly Woman Retreat
Remembrance is a four-day gathering for a small circle of women, built around a simple, old truth: when you meet your experience, or another's, exactly as it is, the alchemical power of life itself is activated. Life itself carries you and each other into evolution and change.
Through embodiment practices (yoga, dance, breathwork), relational exercises, mythic storytelling, and the magic of community, we'll practice how to meet the truth of our experience with compassion and ownership, for an empowering orientation and true ability to respond to life.
When we leave, you'll carry experience, relationship, and practice that can support the decisions you're ready to make, the creative work you're ready to bring into the world, and a life you are remembering to treat as your nourishment.
This is for you if:
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You're tired of fixing yourself and ready to actually listen instead
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You're done letting old patterns be the reason you never create
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You want to practice tending and befriending your experience in the body, through movement, breath, dance, and relationship
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You're drawn to myth, ritual, and story as ways of understanding your life
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You're ready to practice real honesty with yourself and other women
Time & Location
Thursday, October 29th 5:30 pm to Sunday, November 1st, 1 pm.
Includes:
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Three-night stay in Berkeley Springs, WV.
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Vegetarian Meals
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All workshops, classes, and evening gatherings.
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Two 1.5 hr Integration Call
Where We'll Gather...
Remembrance will be held at a private retreat house in Berkeley Springs, WV, with sweeping mountain views, several decks, room to find real solitude, and an outdoor fireplace and lily pond for evenings by the fire.
Sleeping arrangements: six individual rooms downstairs (shared bathroom, full kitchen), one upstairs primary bedrooms with private baths (comfortably shared by two), and a third-level room with two queen beds, a bath, and a balcony.
Rooms are first-come, first-served. Coming alone and want to share? Reach out and we'll help coordinate a pairing.
Meet Your Guide
Raisa
I'm Raisa, founder of Wholly Woman and creator of Heart Compass Coach.
My work lives at the intersection of Jungian depth psychology, somatic awareness, Authentic Relating, and myth — practices I've spent years weaving together, both in my own life and alongside the women I work with.
I'm a trauma-informed yoga teacher and Authentic Relating facilitator, and I lead Wholly Woman, an ongoing community of women gathering around fairytales, myth, and embodiment. Remembrance grew out of the same question that's guided all of this work: how do we meet our experience — the hard parts and the sacred parts — with dignity, instead of trying to fix or bypass it?
I am a mother of three amazing teenagers that continually teach me how to love what is constantly changing and how to keep placing all that life provides at the service of connection.