Retreats | Workshops | Training
Exploration for Spiritual Athletes
Samana retreats, workshops, executive training, and professional development dive deeper into the reality you most desire.
Our teachings, practices and channeled guidance immediately impact your path as a spiritual athlete.
Retreats
Facilitated and self-directed retreats allow you to dive deep into your inner wisdom and spiritual guidance with time for meaningful integration and creative forming.
Workshops
Workshops focus on one aspect of Samana’s core literacy: the laws of ease, pleasure activism, somatic (body) wisdom, intuitive and emergent intelligence, ancestral guidance, sacred masculine and sacred feminine work, energy healing, and ethical AI.
Professional Training for Coaches, Healers, and Therapists
Release old “dominator” contexts and begin orienting around pleasure and your unique, full-body “YES.”
Executive Training in Emergent Intelligence and Ethical AI
Release old “dominator” contexts and begin orienting around pleasure and your unique, full-body “YES.”
This cornerstone somatic training supports you in coming home to your body, finding your internal navigation, and gaining direct experience of your somatic guidance. You’ll tap into your unique somatic wisdom and erotic energy and naturally observe how they resource your creative, relational, spiritual, and sexual expression.
Learn practices for re-opening pathways to your body's intelligence in ways that aren’t “woo-woo,” but are most definitely “holy s*%#!”
Our retreats, workshops, and trainings are both safe and powerful, full of humor and real-world applications. You’ll not only tap into your somatic intelligence, you’ll learn how to protect it and partner with it.
“By working with with Julie Ann, I turned up the dial on embodying delight, spiritual confidence, inner attunement, and courage, and redefined what work, leadership, service, and healing means to me.” - Ashley D.
Where Did Our Bodies Go?
We did not inherit a lot of thinking that supports an authentic and erotic experience in the the body. Most systems (patriarchy, capitalism, puritanism, Calvinism, racism, sexism, and gender norms) actively shut down, shame, or subvert the body and cut us off from erotic experience.
But an experience of the erotic -- the braid of creative, spiritual, and sensual experience -- is as natural to our bodies as it is to the Earth.
Just at the Earth is designed for pleasure, interdependence, and endless creativity, bodies are also designed to balance and re-balance in enjoyment and ever-expanding expression.
This energy is not just sexual energy, it’s life-force energy. It’s the source of our creative expression, spiritual experiences, sensuality, and sexual desire. Erotic energy fuels our interest, arousal, and desire in all areas of our life. By unshaming our bodies and reconnecting with our somatic guidance, we allow more attuned and accurate decision-making processes to flourish.
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Everyone’s relationship with their body is unique, with different experiences of somatic guidance and erotic energy.