About this Retreat
Dana Mistretta's vision is to contribute to raising the vibrational frequency of the planet through holistic healing, education, and service. Her mission is to guide humanity back to the sacred remembrance that the body is a temple and that the kingdom lies within.
As a certified Reiki Master Teacher and Intuitive Guide, Dana brings a wealth of expertise in emotional intelligence, transformational workshop facilitation, guided meditation, sound practitioner, and life coaching. She is a former elite-level athlete, educator, and fitness professional with over 27 years of experience in the health and wellness field.
Dana’s deep commitment to holistic healing and wellness coaching has led to her being featured in more than 20 national and international media outlets, including CNN, MTV, Healthy News Digest, and Authority Magazine. She is also a published curriculum writer and artist.
Currently, Dana serves as the President and Co-Founder of the Sanctuary of Consciousness, a spiritual church that honors plant medicine as a sacred sacrament. Her journey as a plant medicine ceremonialist and Medicine Woman began over five years ago. Her practice has since flourished through her commitment and with the guidance of her Indigenous teachers. She walks the Beauty Way with reverence, humility, and a lifelong devotion to growth.
Dana is a graduate of Bloomsburg University and the Ascension Leadership Academy, and she has completed the Mastery of Leadership Program with a focus on coaching and facilitation. Above all, she lives a life of service, drawing her greatest joy from motherhood and time spent with friends, family, and her pups. Her deepest knowing is that the pathway forward is through the heart and expressing love authentically.
Details of this retreat
The spark is still there. Now is the time to bring it back to life.
Somewhere between careers, children, and the work of running a life, the connection that once came easily went quiet. You became good partners in logistics. You once drove 200 miles for a kiss. Now you can’t remember the last real one.
Sacred Union is six days away from every role you play at home, for couples who are not in crisis and not willing to settle. This is not a vacation. It is intentional work on yourself and your relationship, done with your safest person.
✦Talk that stays on the surface. Schedules, kids, bills. Rarely what you actually feel.
✦Date night that is just dinner. Time together that no longer feels like being together.
✦Intimacy on a schedule. Touch that became routine, pressured, or rare.
✦Two people managing a life. Partners in logistics, missing the ones who chose each other.
Two ceremonies. One practice of touch.
Ceremony I · Thursday evening · Coming Home to Yourself
Partners sit side by side, each on their own inner path. Before you can meet each other, each of you returns to who you are beneath the roles.
Ceremony II · Saturday at 5 AM · Meeting Each Other
Our dawn ceremony, held with crystal bowls, drums, and sound as the sun rises over the Pacific. You sit as a couple, with one shared intention.
Sensate focus
Sensate focus is a structured practice of gentle, non-sexual touch, first developed by Masters and Johnson to help couples release performance pressure. There is nothing to achieve. You slow down and experience one another again, with curiosity instead of expectation.
Bodies change. Desire changes. Parenthood, stress, aging, and life transitions all shape how intimacy feels. Cathi teaches the practice in the group. You practice it privately, in your own suite, at your own pace.
Six days, one arc.
First you come home to yourself. Then you meet each other. Then you celebrate what you rebuilt, on Valentine's Day, with no medicine at all.
Day 1 · Wednesday, Feb 10
Arrival and landing
Liberia airport pick-up, welcome, opening circle with the couples and team, dinner, an evening to yourselves.
Day 2 · Thursday, Feb 11
Opening the heart
Morning cacao ceremony, ceremony preparation, individual dosage consultations. Ceremony I at 6 PM.
Day 3 · Friday, Feb 12
Integration and play
Integration circle, men’s circle with Logan and women’s circle, sensate focus teaching and private practice, couples cooking experience, early rest.
Day 4 · Saturday, Feb 13
Meeting each other
Ceremony II at 5 AM with sound healing, fruit offering, quiet rest, couples massage, beach walk, private practice.
Day 5 · Sunday, Feb 14
Valentine’s Day, re-choosing
Communication workshop with Cathi and Logan, sensory experience, re-choosing ritual, sunset sail, celebration dinner.
Day 6 · Monday, Feb 15
Carrying it home
Closing circle and your go-forward agreements, breakfast, your post-retreat consultation scheduled, departure.
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