In Person Retreats
These retreats are an opportunity for us to leave the demands of day to day life and gather with like-minded community. Through story, movement, discussion, art, and reflection, we explore ways of being and practices that support us in living more freely from our deepest knowing..
NEXT RETREAT:
Journey Into the Creative Wild
April 23rd - April 26, 2026
Monroe, WA
Enrolling Now ~ Spots Still Open!
What comes up for you when
someone brings up creativity?
I have found through years that this word has often been colonized and occupied by ideas that steal away our primal relationship with what we are made of, and what we are made of is creative.
Some of these ideas that have become curses include stories like:
Creativity is for some special elite group
Creativity is about the product
Creativity is about money
Creativity is a luxury
Creativity is optional
As a result of these and many other lies, we may feel tension, shame, frustration, or a sense of failure when we think about creativity.
This occupation is a deep and sorrowful theft.
These stories and experiences steal away our primal connection with life, distort our vision, and sever us from our sense belonging.
We are all creative.
Every moment you live, you are creating something.
Returning to creativity as birthright and elemental aspect of what we are made of will help us reconnect with our vitality, re-member us back into our sense of belonging, and deepen our meaningful participation with an ensouled responsive world.
Also, it will strengthen and equip us to respond wildly and powerfully to the collective moment we are in right now. We are part of Something that is always making us and that we are always making. To reclaim our birthright as Creatrixes is to remember that we make worlds.
Now is a powerful moment that calls for the re-creation of our worlds.
During our time together we will weave story, song, movement, artistic expression, depth and archetypal sensibilities, and even quantum physics to create a place of remembering ourselves back to our creative love, freedom, and joy.
From that creative joy, we live and love.
From our creative liberation we respond to this moment, we participate in the creation of a new sacred dream not only for our intimate inner lives but also for our global community.
During our three-day retreat we will explore:
Creativity as Communion and Intimacy
Creativity as pleasure and rest
Creativity as resistance and transgression
We will eat good food, rest unapologetically, dance, sing, ask brave questions, shed old stories, and witness our deep wild lives and each other as we softly call back our belonging with and to Creativity.
That is the invitation: to come explore and play with these questions in a loving and intimate container.
And of course, we always remember that the greatest medicine of all is in the gathering itself.
If you are interested, please schedule a phone call with Vanya to talk about it further!
You can schedule below ~ if none of these times work for you please send a message expressing your interest and we will be in touch!
Meet the Team!
Words from a past participant...
"There is no group of women I would trust more to run a retreat than Vanya, Noosh, and Ava. I
have been impacted by Vanya’s incredible wisdom and invitation to the wildness of womanhood
for several years now, and when I heard she was offering a retreat I immediately said yes before
ever reading what it was about. It was an easy yes, because I know the healing and grounding
that comes from simply being in her orbit. However, what I gained was much more than that.
This retreat was one filled with an invitation to wholeness, a return to your wild self, all
grounded within the gift of a story long forgotten. Vanya, Noosh, and Ava created a space that
was safe for us to play in unique forms of artistic expression and to let ourselves be changed by
the power that myth and story offers us.
It is rare in these times to find a safe space for a room full of women. To rest with each other,
knowing we are each carrying far too much. They created a space that not only returned us to
ourselves, but also allowed us each to deeply rest. To rest within the nest of community, the
nourishment of delicious food, and the comfort of abundant play. If ever you should have the
opportunity to walk with any of these women, I hope you say YES."
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Jessie M.
Ava Swift
Ava Swift is an artist, psychotherapist, and astrologer bringing her love for the creative process to our weekend together.
Weaving elements of play, attunement to the body, and a reverence for image and symbol, she will support us as we welcome our creative lives to speak to us.
You can learn more about her work at www.avaswift.com and
Noosh Black
Noosh Black is a yoga teacher, writer, community builder, and devoted student of the inner life. Her work and approach are rooted in a simple philosophy: our bodies hold deep, wild wisdom that lives beneath the noise, and we are each called to find our way back. For more than twenty years, yoga has been the practice she has returned to through grief, motherhood, reinvention, and spiritual seeking.
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Today she guides experiences, retreats, and classes in Yin and Restorative practices, breathwork, and meditation with a focus on nervous system repair and embodied awareness.
Vanya Leilani
Vanya Leilani is a depth psychologist, writer, teacher and storyteller. She has spent decades exploring the threshold where the external “shoulds” in our lives encounter our own wild knowing and un-knowing.
She is passionate about helping us cultivate deeper friendship with our own lives as we learn to live from nature, rather than from obedience to the status quo.
Vanya devotes herself to this work through individual accompaniment, sacred gatherings, storytelling, teaching, and writing.