3 Day Dark Goddess Retreat In Scenic Kentucky

Katie Ward is a wellness facilitator, functional movement coach, and event curator with over a decade of experience supporting embodied awareness, emotional wellbeing, and personal growth. Her work centers on helping people reconnect with their bodies, release long-held tension, and cultivate greater self-understanding through movement, reflection, and intentional community spaces. Katie’s background includes functional movement education, trauma-aware facilitation, and extensive experience designing immersive wellness events and retreats. She is the founder of Realigned Body and the creator of Body Mind Soul Space, a mobile wellness project and event framework that integrates body-based practices, meaningful dialogue, and contemplative experiences. Known for her grounded presence and thoughtful approach, Katie creates environments that are inclusive, consent-based, and supportive of individual pacing. Her retreats emphasize nervous system regulation, honest self-exploration, and practical tools that participants can carry into everyday life. The Dark Goddess Retreat reflects her commitment to creating spaces where people feel safe, seen, and empowered to reconnect with their inner strength.

Nicole Sartini, M.Ed., LPCC, IMHP is a therapist, founder, and movement builder helping to reshape how health care works. She co-founded Bridge Counseling and Wellness, an award-winning integrative practice, and founded the Mental Health Insurance Reform Task Force, a national coalition uniting providers and advocates to challenge unethical insurance practices and expand access to care. Nicole uses her sacred no to confront systems corrupted by profit and extraction, and channels her anger about power over greed by advocating for mutuality respectful systematic changes with bold and  genuine compassion. She is developing the People’s Solidarity Fund Healthcare Cooperative, a community-led alternative to traditional for-profit insurance, designed to improve collective well-being. Nicole allows "inconvenient" emotions to serve as inner guidance, empowering herself and others through truth-telling, fullness of self, and authentic expression rather than compliance, silence, or forced agreeableness.  "When Grace has Teeth" workshop description: Many women are conditioned to believe that safety lives in being pleasant and agreeable, even when it costs them their truth. Sweetness may have been a survival strategy at one time, but survival is not the same as empowerment, authenticity, or wholeness. Sometimes being disagreeable is how we call our power back and get our needs met. Sometimes, being "difficult" is how we look reality straight in the eye and set the temperature to rise to the occasion of what is actually needed to serve the greatest good. Niceness can feel lovely when it is genuine, but it can also suffocate us when it is a costume rather than a choice, or when we no longer recognize the difference between being kind and being hidden or harmed. This interactive workshop walks us through the shadow of “nice” and honors the wisdom of the disagreeable woman. We will explore how a sacred no can enhance self-trust and protect the heart, often revealing a sacred yes. We will honor how softness and strength can coexist. Sometimes the most loving thing we can do is show our teeth, and allow our tenderness to become powerful enough to guard what it loves. Sometimes, disruption is exactly what's called for.

Quita Rose-Corrao is a Certified Depth Coach, Counselor, Reiki Master, and Aromatherapist. She helps women heal from emotional wounds, trauma, drama and anxiety through art therapy, depth coaching, mindfulness, and Reiki Energy Healing. She guides women through creative processes (art-making), energy healing, and re-storying of old stories to heal all disowned, fragmented, challenging and brilliant parts of the self. Art offers access. It is the language of the soul. To enter the personal journey, she creates sacred space, then allows the stories to unfold. Artmaking becomes an agent for change. Bringing subconscious and unconscious beliefs to the surface. The possibilities for a new direction begin to emerge. Healing and Growth lead to transformation. Depth work is journey work. 
Creative Inquiry
Energy work
Dream work
Symbolism
Archetypes Quita believes creativity is medicine, and your emotions are sacred messengers guiding you home to yourself. Together, she helps you feel grounded, clear, and empowered to live a life aligned with your soul. Every brushstroke, every essential oil blend, every mindful breath becomes part of a greater story — one of healing, liberation, and self-love. Healing isn’t about becoming someone new -- it’s about remembering who you already are. ✨

 Workshop Description: Healing Your Inner Child Archetype A 2-Hour Guided Journey of Art, Insight, and Remembering This two-hour immersive experience invites you into a gentle, symbolic journey to meet and heal your Inner Child Archetypes. Guided by the wisdom of The Oracle of the Lost Children, art-making, and meditation, you’ll explore the subtle energies that have shaped your inner world—and begin to release what no longer belongs to you. Through the creation of three Journey Circle Cards ™, you’ll awaken inner child archetypes and allow art to become a living language of exploration and energy. A guided meditation will lead you along a chosen inner landscape, where you’ll connect with meaningful symbols and an animal guide offering insight, protection, and support. You’ll be invited to listen deeply and ask your inner child simple yet powerful questions—uncovering where you’ve felt trapped or held, what fears and tears are ready to be witnessed, and what remains true and alive within you now. This is not about fixing the past, but about remembering, releasing, and reclaiming parts of yourself with compassion and curiosity. No artistic experience is needed—only a willingness to explore and reflect. Come as you are. Leave with deeper clarity, symbolic tools, and a renewed connection to your inner world.

Kelly is a facilitator in the Louisville community with a passion to create containers that share knowledge and experiences to practice a balanced mindset in the face of challenges and grief. She leads reflection and sharing circles, shadow workshops, and is launching her tarot and astrology practice.

Suzy Hawkfire is a healer who works with the body, mind, and spirit to guide you back to embodied wholeness. Through Ecstatic Dance Journeys Suzy guides participants to collectively weave a safe and sacred space through which they can explore their consciousness, express through their bodies, and release emotions. Suzy believes this work is sacred and aids in collective liberation of the human soul by breaking through constructs of oppression that tell us to stay “small, silent, appropriate.” Workshop Description: Sacred Rage Ecstatic Dance Journey Rage is an emotion that is often feared in our society because it is associated with violence, but rage is a valuable emotion with a lot of energy to fuel transformation. When it is expressed and channeled in safe and productive ways it has the power to alchemize stuck energy and fuel creation. Through this Sacred Rage Ecstatic Dance Journey we will explore this powerful emotion through music, movement, vocalization, and by accessing altered states of consciousness. Participants will be invited to adorn face paint (optional) to invoke their fierce selves, imbibe heart opening cacao, collectively weave a safe and sacred ceremonial container of self exploration, be guided through a movement lexicon, and be guided gently into a partnership with music body, and mind, intended to facilitate unbridled expression and reclamation.

Christi Scoccola,  creator and facilitator of DIVINE DRUMMING, as an intuitive drummer, and creates an experience very unique and intimate.  She focuses on drumming the Auric field, individual chakras, as well as the space.  Christi is also a certified Usui Reiki practitioner,  women's circle weaver,  spiritual retreat leader, an Early childhood educator,  and a mom of 3. She often spends time, collaborating on retreats and events around the Louisville area, mostly in Oldham county. She also offers private healing sessions, with Reiki and Drum journeys and drum washing. Christi will be offering a sacred "drum washing" session for this retreat. Her unique sound bath experience  weaves sounds of the Shamanic Buffalo frame drum, ocean drum, rain sticks, and rattles.

Dr. Monica Hurt iis a Doctor of Integrative Health, a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a certified psychedelic‑assisted psychotherapist, and an AASECT‑trained sex therapist. She owns a private practice and ketamine clinic in Louisville, KY, where she specializes in trauma‑informed care, somatic healing, and shamanic‑informed approaches to transformation. Her work bridges psychology, neurobiology, and embodied healing to support women in midlife transitions, trauma recovery, and expanded states of consciousness. Her current research focuses on the effectiveness of ketamine and HRT in perimenopausal and menopausal women.   Sacred Sexuality & the Dark Goddess: Reclaiming Touch, Pleasure, and Power In this session, Dr. Monica will lead an educational, trauma-informed exploration of sacred sexuality, intentional touch, and the Dark Goddess archetype as a guide for authenticity and embodied empowerment. Participants will examine how desire, pleasure, and intimacy intersect with the nervous system, trauma patterns, and personal agency. This offering invites reflection, curiosity, and deeper self-understanding, focusing on the inner landscape that shapes our experiences in the “bedroom” of the psyche.