The Alchemy of Being: A 6-week Manifestation Cohort
Retreat Highlights
- Daily Breathwork - taps the vagus nerve, lowers cortisol, and resets your nervous system. It is a proven way to release stress, restore balance, and reconnect to your radiant self. Our breath is our sacred medicine. This retreat will show you how to use it to heal and reveal just how magical you really are. 9D Breathwork is a whole next level of traditional breathwork. You will not be disappointed by these daily journeys.
- Yoga - calms the nervous system, supports overall well-being while strengthening the body, improving balance, flexibility and posture.
- Somatic Movement - rewires the brain-body loop by releasing stored tension, improving vagal tone, and restoring presence-so you feel safe, strong and fully alive again.
- Island Adventures - explore hidden waterfalls, snorkel in turquoise coves, and forage plant medicine on jungle hikes - each island adventure reconnects you to nature, wonder and wild wisdom.
- Caribbean White Party - We end the week dancing under the stars in all white as a local DJ spins island-infused grooves form the 70s, 80s, 90s, and today. A soulful celebration of joy, rhythm, and radiant release.
- Sacred Space and Slowness - our schedule honors your nervous system-balancing guided practice with open space to rest, reflect, and simply be. Integration is where the true magic takes place.
- Daily journal prompts - tune your frequency through focused gratitude. This daily practice aligns your thoughts with abundance, helping you attract the people, places and purpose you desire.
- Laughter as Medicine - healing doesn't have to be heavy. Through laughter, movement, and play, we activate the body's natural medicine-boosting immunity, mood, and soul level joy.
About this Retreat
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Regulate. Align. Embody. Create.
Manifestation begins in the body.
What if the life you desire isn't something you have to chase—but something you learn to meet from a different state of being?
The Alchemy of Being is a six-week journey into nervous system regulation, embodied peace, ancient wisdom, modern neuroscience, and the art of intentional creation.
Because before we ask, What do I want to manifest?, there may be a more important question:
Who am I being while I wait for it to arrive?
Many of us are trying to create love while bracing for rejection. Abundance while worrying about lack. Peace while living in a body accustomed to urgency. A new future while unconsciously rehearsing the emotions, beliefs, and protective patterns of the past.
This work begins somewhere deeper.
“Seek ye first the Kingdom…”
The Kingdom is not somewhere outside of you. We begin by turning inward—toward the breath, the body, awareness, stillness, and the safety that allows us to soften our grip on survival.
Over six weeks, we will explore six simple but profound principles that weave together ancient spiritual teachings, nervous system science, embodiment, and manifestation.
You'll learn how to recognize the patterns keeping your body in protection; interrupt cycles of worry and overthinking; cultivate greater inner safety and stillness; release attachment to old identities and emotional patterns; consciously practice the states you want to live from; and become more comfortable stepping into the unknown.
And this is where manifestation becomes something very different.
Rather than simply thinking positively, making a vision board, or trying to force yourself into a “high vibration,” we'll explore manifestation as an embodied practice.
You'll learn to clarify what you desire, feel into the emotional experience of that reality, create greater coherence between your thoughts, emotions, body and actions, loosen your attachment to exactly how it must happen, and begin living as the version of you who is capable of receiving and participating in that life.
Breathwork is the bridge.
Each week includes a carefully chosen 9D Breathwork journey designed to take the week's teaching beyond intellectual understanding and into lived experience.
Because we can understand something with the mind and still carry an entirely different story in the body.
Through breath, movement, awareness, meditation and somatic practice, we create opportunities to meet what has been held beneath the thinking mind—to feel, release, regulate, reconnect and practice a new way of being.
We will explore what ancient traditions have called the Kingdom Within, what Abraham-Hicks describes as alignment and the Vortex, and ideas popularized by Dr. Joe Dispenza around moving beyond the familiar self and intentionally rehearsing a new future—while grounding our work in what neuroscience teaches us about attention, conditioning, neuroplasticity, emotional regulation and the nervous system.
Week by week, we move through:
Safety → Stillness → Release → Coherence → Creation → Embodiment
Not to become someone else.
But to peel away enough noise, fear, conditioning, and protection to remember who you are beneath it.
By the end of our six weeks together, I hope you don't simply leave knowing more; you leave knowing how to return to yourself.
How to meet worry without becoming it.
How to find stillness when the world feels loud.
How to listen to your body.
How to shift your state.
How to choose differently.
How to hold a vision without gripping it.
How to feel peace before circumstances become perfect.
And how to participate consciously in the creation of your life.
Because perhaps the greatest manifestation isn't getting everything you've been asking for.
Perhaps it is becoming so deeply rooted in yourself that peace is no longer somewhere you're trying to get to.
It is where you create from.
Welcome to The Alchemy of Being.
Come home to yourself. Become the frequency. Create from there.
Schedule
Theme: Arrival, Connection, Decompression
Day 1: Touching Down
Guests arrive to the healing hum of jungle and sea. A soft landing with fresh juice, gentle movement, and a sacred opening circle helps everyone ground into the land. This day is about orientation and exhalation, meeting the group, and connecting with nature’s rhythms.
Day 2: From Hustle to Hum
We begin unplugging from hypervigilance and "doing mode." Breathwork opens the body and vagus nerve, yoga and somatic movement session begins moving energy. With nourishing food, ocean breeze, and time to rest, guests begin to transition from beta brainwave busyness to slower, more grounded awareness. Old Hits Sunday Beach Day.
Day 3: Deepening Awareness
A sunrise 9D breathwork journey guides the group inward—releasing stress, trauma patterns, and overthinking. Guests start to feel their bodies again, reinhabiting sensation, slowing down to listen. Emotional layers may rise to be met. The day includes yoga, integration, and journaling. Medicinal Herb Hike after lunch. Surprise programming after dinner.
🔥 Days 4–6: Surrendering, Shedding & Reclaiming
Theme: The Sacred Middle – Transformation & Ceremony
These are the core alchemy days—when the nervous system softens enough to surrender, when hearts open, and the sacred container deepens. Here, we enter theta states more often: intuitive, dreamy, creative, and emotionally fertile.
Breathwork journeys deepen, touching grief, joy, and ancestral memory. Guests are supported through emotional releases, body tears, and full-on embodiment breakthroughs.
Yoga and movement become restore balance, ease, and connection between the body, mind and spirit. Water rituals and island adventures reconnect participants to the living Earth. Ceremonies under the stars invite people to release what no longer serves and reclaim what was lost.
The group becomes family. Silence, laughter, tears, and freedom are all part of the landscape.
🌺 Day 7: Integration & the Inner Return
Theme: Wholeness, Celebration, and Coherence
This day is devoted to coherence—weaving the transformations into daily being.
A final long breath journey/yoga nidra oceanside invites guests to come home to themselves—not as a persona, but as essence. We anchor the shift, set intentions for re-entry, and hold space for softness.
The night culminates in a barefoot white party celebration: joy, community, music, dancing, and remembering that healing can also be fun.
🌞 Day 8: Closing the Circle
Theme: Gratitude & Transition
After a gentle breakfast, we gather for a closing circle. The group offers reflections, blessings, and goodbyes.
Each guest departs more rooted in their body, more radiant in their energy, and carrying not just memories—but tools for integration.
Getting Here
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Accommodation
Stay in chic well-kept villa infused with island charm. Each offers ocean views, airy verandas, and cozy interiors designed for rest and retreat. Options range from private rooms, shared rooms for couples and friends willing to share a bed, or dorm style same sex cabins. Villas and cabins include kitchenettes and open-air showers.
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What's Included
- Daily Breathwork & Somatic Practices: calm the nervous system, lower stress hormones, and rewire the brain-body connection. Over time, they increase presence, resilience, and emotional balance—helping you move through life with more ease, clarity, and vitality.
- Sunrise Ceremonies
- Wild Nature & Ocean Dips
- Fresh Juices, Tropical Meals & Soulful Connection
- Island adventures
- Evening Activities, Ceremonies & Sacred Fire
- 3 meals daily - savor fresh island smoothies made from sun-ripped fruit, and indulge in soulful Jamaican home cooking, farm-to-table goodness, nourishing your body with roots, rhythm, and real flavor.
- Cozy cabin for 8 nights - Nestled in the jungle by the sea, our beautifully kept, rustic-chic cabins blend island charm with rootsy comfort-think ocean breeze, wood floors, and soulful simplicity that grounds you.
- Round-trip transportation is included from Montego Bay or Ian Fleming airports. Relax as you're guided through lush island landscapes straight to our sacred retreat space.
What's Not Included
- Flights - flights should be booked to Montego Bay or Ian Fleming airports. Airfare is not included. Arrival times must align with our scheduled group pick-up windows.
- Air conditioning - while some suites do have air conditioning, not all do, ceiling fans, open air design, and ocean breezes keep the space naturally cool, comfortable and aligned with island living.
- Travel insurance - is not included in the retreat cost. We recommend securing coverage for trip delays, cancellations, medical needs, or unforeseen circumstances.
- Optional Body Work - receive hands-on healing from skilled local practitioners offering massage, energy work, and intuitive touch to unwind tension, restore flow, and nourish your whole being.
- Some of the more expensive & Optional adventures like ATV rentals.
Customer Reviews
Testimonial for the Rooted and Radiant Retreat
It’s been almost a week since I returned from the Rooted and Radiant retreat in Jamaica, and I am still completely under its spell. Every day, I find myself reflecting on those moments, trying to process and integrate everything I’ve learned to help me move forward in my life.
In today’s fast-paced world, being in such a beautifully slowed-down environment was a true blessing. Even though my daily life is trying to suck me back into the usual rush—balancing work and family—I still feel that inner stillness. It’s a wonderful, surreal feeling... the world is spinning fast around me, but I am still moving at that gentle, peaceful pace we found there. I truly hope I can hold onto this feeling for a long, long time.
From the very beginning, Dori and Nikki created a space wrapped in safety and love. As someone who finds it incredibly difficult to open up about my trauma—much of which I’m still processing and even struggling to remember—I was worried about feeling pressured. But Dori, who led our meditation and daily breathwork, guided us with such unbelievable care and devotion. I am so deeply grateful for every hug and for those moments when they both looked into my eyes and truly saw me.
I will never forget one particular moment during breathwork when I was shaking from the cold and feeling overwhelmed. They noticed exactly what I needed and covered me with a warm, soft blanket. It was such a small act, yet it meant the world to me... in that moment, I truly felt loved and cared for.
I am especially thankful for Dori’s magical, healing touch during our sessions. At the beginning of the week, every touch brought up deep wounds, intense emotions, and pain. But as the days went by, I felt increasingly safe, and by the end, those same touches were reaching down to my very cells, bringing me back to a place of peace. They both deeply honored my need for space, never pushing, only protecting. I felt seen and safe in every single moment.
Nikki led our movement and yoga sessions with the same mindful energy. She was incredibly kind and went above and beyond, putting in extra work and care to help me with my movements and mobility. I want to personally thank her for her dedication and for making me feel that I was capable of every exercise within my own limits.
The flexibility of the program, the perfect choice of location, and the kindness of the local people made this experience a true Jamaican miracle. I am still at the beginning of a long road toward healing, but this retreat showed me the light. I walked away with practical tools for my everyday life and the comfort of knowing I can always turn to Dori and Nikki with trust.
I recommend their programs from the bottom of my heart. If you have the chance to join them, do it. It is a gift of healing that everyone deserves.
With deep gratitude and love,
Aniko M
P.S. Just a little fun fact... Dori mentioned that many Jamaicans in the small village where we stayed have nicknames. On the second day of our arrival, I had an accident, but I miraculously escaped with only minor injuries and earned the nickname "Hollywood"... I also have to mention that DORI’S RECOVERY RUB is a true treasure... it’s still unbelievable to me, but thanks to it, my injuries have almost completely healed in just one week.
❤️✨🙏🏻
Rooted and Radiant—Awaken Your Goddess
Our hosts, Dori and Nikki, welcomed us at the beautiful villa by the sea where our lodging and the healing journeys took place. I felt safe, heard, and respected during the whole week. The 9D breathwork can bring up many uncomfortable issues, and it was so nice to be held by these wonderful women. We never had to share anything about our traumas; that wasn’t a requirement. For the first time in my life, I felt like I was able to be there for myself only, focus on my own healing, and not try to fix others. Our bodies were nourished by locally grown foods, prepared by a local woman, Jackie. She understood that love is an essential ingredient in every dish that promotes healing. Her daughter, Jheanette, offered a massage for whoever needed one.
Yoga, daily walks, beach time, snorkeling, excursions, and partying with the locals were part of our weeklong program. The hosts were very accommodating; they were flexible and understanding with all of us.
What did I learn? I learned to trust my breath, that stillness is never empty, and that I am always enough.
Thank you all from the bottom of my heart for showing me that just like you, I am a goddess too, and everything I need to heal is already in me.
My wish is to radiate the soft and gentle light that attracts only good and ultimately will inspire others to become more conscious and positive, so they can keep this essential light alive by passing it on.
My Unbelievable Experience
The food was nothing short of nourishing for both body and soul. Having a local cook prepare our meals made it even more special, and venturing downtown to enjoy meals made by the community was such a beautiful and authentic experience.
Our leaders, Dori and Nikki, were absolute gifts. They each had an incredible ability to see and support every woman exactly where she was. Dori’s breathwork sessions were transformative — I never imagined how powerful something as simple as breathing could be. Her wisdom, love, and guidance are truly beyond words. Nikki’s yoga and movement practices were just as amazing, adapting each pose with so much care so everyone felt comfortable and included (even those of us who aren’t the most flexible 😄). Absolutely love the belly dancing part.!!!
The music during breathwork touched me deeply. It reminded me — and I know many others — to be gentler with ourselves and to embrace healing with compassion.
One of my biggest personal breakthroughs was finding my voice. I’ve always been quiet, shaped by years of feeling like I had to change who I was. This retreat helped me realize that being soft-spoken is not a weakness — it’s simply part of my authenticity, and that is more than enough.
This retreat was nothing short of remarkable. It reconnected me to my inner light and reminded me of the beauty within all of us. I wholeheartedly recommend this experience to anyone seeking healing, growth, and renewal. It is truly a journey back to yourself.
Love,
Liz ❤️✨