Radiant Resurgence Women's Retreat

Retreat Highlights

• 4-week pre-retreat course (Becoming the One)- This 4-week pre-retreat course is designed for you to explore your habits and patterns in relationships so you can discover your heart’s truth and transform your love life. Through readings, powerful meditations, breath-work, visualizations, clarifying journaling exercises, somatic practices, and facilitated sharing circles, you will recognize and release your hidden inner obstacles to love, so you may bring more clarity, love, and intimacy into your life. Becoming the One is an invitation to date (and LOVE) yourself and become intimate with your own barriers, so you may cultivate healthier, lasting relationships with yourself and others. Before coming to the retreat, the Becoming the One virtual course will be from 6-8 pm MST on July 23rd, July 30th, August 6th, and August 13th.
• Self-care activities- Mala making, guided journaling, and group hikes
• 1 breathwork and sound healing ceremony- The Embodiment Guide will facilitate attendees through a deep healing experience to tap into their inherent power through sound healing, meditation, energy work, intention setting and breath work.
• 3 yoga sessions- The Yoga Instructor will guide attendees through a series of basic Hatha Yoga poses along with mantra work. The Hatha Yoga flows are intended to facilitate the process of letting go, which is broken into four main parts: Acceptance, Release, Finding Gratitude, and Moving On.
• 1 empowering self-talk workshop-The Yoga Instructor, will guide attendees in an empowering self-talk workshop utilizing her book “A Year of Self Motivation for Women.” All attendees will receive a copy.
• 1 mushroom journey (Optional)- The Psychedelic Guide will provide harm reduction services to attendees and facilitate attendees through a healing mushroom journey in a peaceful atmosphere of cozy blankets, pillows, and curated music to deepen the experience. A journey may last anywhere from 4-8 hours. Attendees will retreat to their rooms following the journey. There is no charge for the mushrooms as part of the retreat and the mushrooms are obtained through Proposition 122 compliant sharing among adults at the retreat.
• 1 Zen Den experience- Denver’s first sober psychedelic clinic. Zen Den will bring their experience to the retreat where attendees will participate in a transformational experience using accessible technology to reset your nervous system and inspire the mind in a single session.
• Private link to the post-retreat online community- All attendees will be added to a unique link specifically for their retreat dates to encourage ongoing support, community, and shared resources.

About this Retreat

Your Guides

Ashton

Bodhi

Courtney

Emily

Michael

Vanessa

Ashton August: Yoga Instructor, Motivational Speaker and Author

Ashton August has been teaching guided meditation and visualization, yoga, and breathwork for the past 12+ years to students around the world both in-person and online. She is the founder of the wellness website YouAligned.com as well as YA Classes, a yoga and meditation app. Ashton is the author of Learn.Grow.Shift. 30 Days of Personal Growth, and A Year of Self-Motivation for Women. She is dedicated to creating an impactful + supportive container for exploration, motivation, and growth through every class she teaches, workshop she leads, word she writes, and talk she gives. Her students love her welcoming, calming, and inspiring energy. A Denver, Colorado native, Ashton now lives in sunny Tucson, Arizona with her husband and their two rescue dogs. Connect and practice with Ashton online, find her books on Amazon.com, and say hi on Instagram, Facebook, or Tiktok!

Bodhi Calagna: Psychedelic Guide

Being a DJ since the early 90s, Bodhi founded Remix Your World in 2016, for LGBTQ+ journeyers to explore identity, life transitions, creative blocks, and As a sacred space holder, they bring joy, light, and playfulness into deep, dark, and edgy spaces of transformation within a safe and supported container. Bodhi has completed Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy training with Medicinal Mindfulness in Boulder Colorado, Clinical Hypnotherapy, and Life Coaching Certification.

Courtney Love: Life Coach

Courtney is an astrologer, life coach, yoga and meditation teacher. She created the course Becoming the One. This 4-week pre-retreat course is designed for you to explore your habits and patterns in relationships so you can discover your heart’s truth and transform your love life. Through readings, powerful meditations, breath-work, visualizations, clarifying journaling exercises, somatic practices, and facilitated sharing circles, you will recognize and release your hidden inner obstacles to love, so you may bring more clarity, love, and intimacy into your life. Becoming the One is an invitation to date (and LOVE) yourself and become intimate with your own barriers, so you may cultivate healthier, lasting relationships with yourself and others. This group program is adapted from the bestselling book Calling in ‘The One’ by Katharine Woodward Thomas and is open to all individuals, regardless of your relationship status - single, newly committed, situationships, multitionships, married, and even it’s complicated. This program will increase your self-awareness and give you tools to foster a sustainable relationship, wherever you are, because it really all starts with you on this forever journey of connection.

Emily Wikel: Breathwork Facilitator – Embodiment Guide

Emily Wikel (500HR RYT, Embodiment Guide, and Breathwork Facilitator) is here to guide you in finding deep unconditional love, freedom, and Spirit through the medium of the body. Her mission is to connect you to the love and truth that is intrinsically inside yourself. Upon discovering the practices of yoga and breathwork, she began her journey as a dedicated student, taking 1000’s of hours of training in yoga, trauma awareness, breathwork, psychic development, somatic healing and energy work. She has been teaching yoga for 7 years and supporting others in awakening their own channel through her ceremonies for 2.5 years. Her spaces are deeply coded with intentions of safety, integrity, healing and embodied wholeness; this is her primary work & objective! At HeartQuarters, she facilitates breathwork and yin sound bath ceremonies. She is the HQ Marketing & Implementation Director, lending her vast energy in support of program development and community building. She has a deep passion for natural medicines and is both excited and grateful to help actualize the HQ mission of sharing psychedelic education/resources, magical classes/events, and safe community spaces.

Michael Pottern: Zen Den Experience Guide

Michael Pottern's journey began in the heart of Denver, CO. His entrepreneurial spirit took root during middle school with Phozzie's Playpen, a bulletin board system dedicated to conversations about music discovery, new technologies, and connecting people. After achieving rapid success in real estate in his 20s, Michael experienced physical, emotional, and spiritual burnout, leading him to seek a more meaningful and sustainable path to happiness. Embarking on a cross-country road trip, Michael explored the open road, met new people, and discovered healing modalities. This adventure inspired the creation of his wellness-focused company, Find My Zen, originally launched in 2016. Over the years, the company evolved into a platform connecting curious seekers with wellness spaces in 12 cities across the country. The Denver Zen Den reflects Michael's personal journey, emphasizing the importance of "being" rather than just "doing." Through introspection, he recognized the significance of presence and its impact on his life. This realization led him to seek deeper connections with both himself and others, shifting his focus from external markers of success to internal fulfillment. Michael's exploration of various offerings and workshops over the past five years revealed recurring principles that apply to most of them. Additionally, he uncovered emerging technologies that complement and enhance these ancient practices. The journey itself became the destination, fostering personal and collective fulfillment, and aligning with the desired expression of the soul.

Vanessa Cruz: Licensed Practical Nurse, End of Life Doula, and Psychedelic Guide

Vanessa began learning about plant medicines from her grandmother and great grandmother in the mountains of New Mexico at 5 years old. Since that time, she has been immersed in various healing paths through herbalism, curanderismo, yoga, breathwork, meditation, and earth medicines. As an Indigenous woman credentialed in Mindfulness Based Psychedelic Guiding, Vanessa supports individual’s direct experience of the sacred through ceremony, ritual, and spiritual connection. Inviting in practices and ceremonies held for generations allows an opportunity to celebrate, give gratitude, or prepare for various struggles or difficulties in life and death. Returning to ancestral knowledge and earth-based practices creates a conduit of transformation from fear to awe, pain to beauty, and anger into gratitude through a decolonized approach. Vanessa received her practical nursing education through Concord Career Institute in Denver, CO, and has taken advanced nursing courses through Colorado State University – Pueblo. Vanessa completed MAPS MDMA Therapy Training Program, Ketamine Nurse Guide Training through KetaMD, and advanced training in Mindfulness-Based Psychedelic Therapy through the Center for Medicinal Mindfulness. She has completed 40 plus continuing education hours as a Nurse educator supporting individuals exploring as medicine. Vanessa co-facilitates a monthly group Herb & Bones encouraging conversations about death and psychedelics.

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