Emergent Retreat

April 25, 2026
Evergreen, Colorado

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED

This day-long retreat offers non-medicine mind expansion through somatic, creative, and intuitive practices. Explore simple structures that allow for huge shifts in reality and consciousness with plenty of time to integrate and meet like-minded explorers. Creative play will support grounded and expansive connection with nature. Somatic journeys will allow you to shift into a powerful new reality with reliable inner guidance.

A forested mountain landscape with a winding road, a house among tall trees, and distant mountains under a blue sky.

A wooden house in a forested area with trees surrounding it, a stone foundation, and multiple decks, some with railings, on a sunny day.

A wooden deck with a round table and cushioned chairs surrounded by tall trees and lush foliage.

Living room with a wooden vaulted ceiling, white walls, a large window, a sectional sofa with pillows, framed wall art, a white armchair, a wooden entertainment console, and a flat-screen TV.

Bright bedroom with sloped ceiling, skylight window, and sliding glass doors leading to a balcony, with a bed, two chairs, and a small side table.

Exploring Emergent Intelligence

Coming Home

~ Reconnecting to your body and earth intelligence
~ Releasing what no longer serves you
~ Finding your true north, your center, and inhabiting a larger energy field
~ Taking up SPACE

Engaging in Creative Play

~ Finding your own unique pathways to use creative play for consciousness expansion
~Exploring intuitive connection through art materials, nature, music, movement, or voice

Opening to Guidance & Co-creating Magic

~ Co-operating and co-creating with somatic guidance and the larger energy field
~ Exploring the imaginal field and weaving new realities through felt sense.
~ Finding your keys or “return access” points to revisit your intuitive intelligence and imaginal power.

Five people sitting cross-legged on the floor of a bright, spacious room with large arched windows, engaged in a group activity or meditation, with cushions and mats.

Fees and Schedule

Saturday, April 25, 2026
Group Retreat
10:00am - 3:30pm

Q&A
4pm - 6pm

Investment
Before 4/1 $1900
After 4/1 $2400

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Overnight Accommodations
Saturday, April 25
Shared Room $200
Single Room $375

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Sunday, April 26, 2026
In-Person Individual Sessions and Consultations*
10:00am - 3:00pm

Fees range from $500 - $900. Please indicate in your registration with whom you would like to have a consultation or individual session, and we will reach out to you with scheduling options.

Living room with vaulted wooden ceiling, white walls, brown leather sofa, white armchair, glass coffee table, wall-mounted TV, large window showing trees outside, and wall art of clouds.

Living room with two dark leather couches facing each other and a large window showing green trees outside.

Your Guides

Two women outdoors, one in a blue jacket smiling in a wooded area lakeside, and another in a black top with a necklace smiling by a river with rocks.

Julie Ann Otis is a shamanic consultant working in emergent intelligence training, somatic healing, and applied metaphysics. She trains individuals and organizations in the embodied technology that is necessary to jump into completely new realities. Through emergent intelligence, her clients dream bigger and go below the neck to find out what's actually going on in their operating systems by using holistic pathways of expansion that are far beyond the analytical mind.

Susannah Horwitz, LPC, LMHC, is a Nature-Based Expressive Arts and Certified EMDR Therapist in Golden, Colorado, with over 20 years of experience guiding healing through creativity, movement, and time outdoors. She brings therapy “off the couch” and into the natural world, creating simple, structured containers where nervous systems can settle and spacious, mind-expanding experiences unfold organically through art, presence, and play.

Samana Retreat Testimonials

A person with curly hair, wearing a green headband and an orange hoodie, sitting on a carpeted floor with their hands on their knees, while another woman with black hair and bangs, wearing a white shirt, is sitting and smiling in the background.

“…a virtual oasis that invited introspection, trust, community, and love through setting space guidelines, asking great questions, and providing resources to explore.” - Kay L.

A group of women sitting on couches and chairs in a bright living room, engaging in a discussion or meeting, with sunlight streaming through the windows.

“…a potent space for healing, allowing me to rest in ease and remember what my body, on some level, already knows. If you're looking for a guide who is clear, honest, skilled and compassionate, I highly recommend Julie Ann!"” - Theresa R.

Three people sitting on a living room rug, two women on a sofa and a man on the floor, with a large TV on the wall and various pillows and decor around.

“…an inner-sanctum of healing I didn’t know was available to me. Her steady, warm, and perceptive presence created a container to grow roots and blossom simultaneously. She is a truly gifted healer!” - Christina O.