FAQ

01. WHAT IS YOUR CANCELLATION POLICY?

Cancellation Policy (excluding medicine*):

1. Once you have claimed a spot and committed to joining us, in the event that you don’t attend for any reason, we will retain a $333 non-refundable deposit from what you’ve paid.

2. Your grace period for a full refund (excluding the $333 deposit) is until May 4, 2025.

3. From May 4 - May 11, 2025, if you choose to cancel you will receive a refund of 50% of the retreat cost (excluding the $333 deposit).

4. From May 12th, 2025 and later there will be no refund.

 

02. CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHAT SOMATIC PRACTICES ARE?

Soma literally means “body” and somatic means “relating to the body, especially as distinct from the mind.”

With somatic practices, we tune into sensations and feelings in the body and really focus our attention, felt sense and energy there. This allows the body to reconnect with its own innate healing ability and helps to down regulate the nervous system, which then allows those parts that had not been felt to integrate naturally. Yes we use the mind, but in support of what the body is presenting!

 

03. WHAT DOES SOMATIC WORK BRING THAT REGULAR COACHING/THERAPY DOESN'T?

Conditioning, patterns and trauma are stored in our physical, emotional and energetic bodies. Traditional therapy and coaching is amazing for supporting the mind to understand what’s happening inside of you. It’s a critical piece to the healing journey! Somatic work takes it a step deeper and allows us to get to the root of store energy (emotions, traumas, etc.) and release them.

 

04. WHAT TYPE OF FOOD WILL THERE BE? WILL IT BE STRICTLY KOSHER? WILL I BE HUNGRY IF I'M VEGAN?

We are wildly excited to introduce Chef Taylor Cohen who will be catering The Embodied Goddess retreat! In her words: My cooking style is a sensual, sensory experience, that allows you an integration of pleasure and connection to self; mind, body and soul. I love being able to nourish women, through food and energy, while they are held in such powerful containers, allowing you to feel and experience every scent, taste, sight of every bite! All of my food is Kosher, vegan, gluten free, seasonal, sensual and reiki infused. I cook following your teaching schedule, so that the right meals pair with the right sessions and spaces of growth, nourishing your women in their highs and lows through their transformation process.

 

05. I'VE BEEN IN COACHING/THERAPY FOR YEARS. WILL I STILL GAIN FROM THIS?

Yes absolutely. Traditional, individualized therapy and coaching are amazing and highly effective. AND when we enter a healing container with a group of safe others, it can support us in seeing, healing and releasing old wounds that originated in groups (ie. families). Doing this work together with like-hearted women is such deep, profound medicine that we wish every woman on the planet would have the chance to experience.

AND there’s something uniquely powerful about being fully immersed in a 3 day container where your sole focus is yourself, your healing and your inner world. Knowing you don’t have to stop after an hour, don't need to care for anyone else, and have nothing to do except be. Each workshop and practice we’ll do will just keep compounding on the ones before which creates a container where the growth is literally 10x of what you receive in weekly care. Some of our absolute most life changing experiences happened at seminars/retreats like this one.

 

06. I REALLY WANT TO JOIN, BUT I'M WORRIED ABOUT FEELING TOO SHY IN FRONT OF OTHERS. HELP!

We hear you. It’s so normal to feel nervous. Our primary intention is to create a safe and welcoming space for all of you - and that includes your shyness. It’s so welcome here. There’s nothing you’ll need to say or do that you don’t feel comfortable with, and we’re sure that once you meet the other women and enter the space, much of that nervousness will dissipate. We know from experience :) Also… a little bit of nervousness tells us that you’re exactly where you’re meant to be - at a growth edge! It’s exciting and we invite you to lean in instead of pull away. We’re here for you and we can’t wait to hold space for you!

 

07. I'VE NEVER DONE PLANT MEDICINE BEFORE, IS THIS A GOOD PLACE TO START?

Ultimately you are the authority for a choice like this one and we trust that you have the intuitive answer within you. Here’s some information that might help you make that decision. Alaya and Amanda each have 3 years of experience facilitating medicine ceremonies and 6+ years as participants. We always bring on 2 additional support women (who have their own experience + magical gifts to share!) to make sure there's enough support for each woman. Each of you will have an intake phone call with either Amanda or Alaya where we'll collect whatever information we need, hear your history and answer your questions or concerns. We are so deeply honored to hold space for you in this powerful capacity and we truly cannot imagine a safer and more sacred first journey than with the 4 of us and this group of only women. AND if this is not the right first journey for you, we trust that there is another more perfect one waiting for you at a different time. 

 

08. WHY DID YOU CHOOSE TO INCLUDE A PLANT MEDICINE CEREMONY?

Between the psyche work you’ll do with Alaya, the embodiment work you’ll do with Amanda, and the communal healing you’ll do with the other women there you’re already going to transform and heal in ways we can’t even express! And then to bring all of that into a ceremony? PURE PERFECTION. You’re already in the field of open-heart, clear body, and deep intimacy. The expansion you’ll access from there will be pure divinity and transcendence. The medicine will serve to anchor it all home and literally bring you to spaces and levels we don’t have words for. The integration circle we’ll hold the morning after brings it all full circle and as with any medicine ceremony, you integrate for weeks and even months after as your bring it all into your day to day life.  Plus we weren’t going to pass up on the opportunity to host a women’s only Goddess Ceremony; those are the BEST.