Self-Directed Retreats
Space, Nourishment, and Guidance for Spiritual Athletes
Samana self-directed retreats are hosted in our Earth Room in Medford, Massachusetts.
1-7 days
Optional lodging, meals, and guidance.
For many practitioners and yogis, what’s missing isn’t more learning and more expansion, but more…
SPACE
TIME
SOLITUDE
SUPPORT
Breathe.
Move.
Rest.
Dive deeper into your own practices of meditation, creative forming, or shamanic journeying. Take time alone with your own energies and expression in a nourishing and safe container. This is time for just you.
Our self-directed retreats support you in integrating, resetting, and exploring what is emerging n your somatic and spiritual wisdom. We are committed to your experience of ease and pleasure.
A retreat that is shaped around what your body and heart need now, in this moment.
Time
Retreats can be 1-7 days in length.
Space
Meditate, move, rest, and journey in our Earth Room. Use our study room to create art and write. Overnight accommodations and meals are available.
Support
Channeled oracle sessions and more casual guidance may be scheduled so you can contextualize and integrate your experience.
Our Request to You
We ask that all retreatants abstain from cell phone, drug, and alcohol use for the duration of their retreat. Our daily retreat fee is on a sliding scale, based on an intake form taken from N. Oumou Sylla, LMFT .
All or Almost All Yes’s ➤ Full Redistribution: $200-$300
Mostly Yes’s ➤ Moderate Redistribution: $125-$200
Equal Yes’s and No’s ➤ Full Fee: $75-$125
Mostly No’s ➤ Accessible: $50-$75
“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.