A Financial Therapy Retreat with Bari Tessler and Danielle Cohen

Money is far more than numbers in accounts or symbols of status—it's one of our most intimate daily companions. For some of us, it's a constant whisper in our minds; for others, it lingers in the background until suddenly demanding our attention.

It's there as we pause before initiating a delicate money conversation with a loved one, as we dream about our next career or life move, as we decide whether to help a friend in need. It joins us for morning coffee decisions, accompanies us through daily purchases, and sits beside us during late-night online shopping contemplations. Money witnesses our struggles, our dreams, our celebrations, our fears, and our longings—and yet it’s a relationship most of us were never taught to truly understand or nurture.

Join Somatic-based Financial Therapist Bari Tessler and Trauma-Informed Visibility Coach Danielle Cohen—your guides and trusted companions for this transformative journey designed to reshape your relationship with money and invite new possibilities into your life.

Over the course of this immersive experience, we'll take you through our 3-phase method of Money Healing, Practices and Visioning. You'll be held in a skillful, compassionate, and loving space where powerful teachings, embodied practices, and rituals converge to bring real, lasting shifts.

Together, we will explore the money stories that shape our financial lives, gently uncover and tend to old wounds, learn how to be resourced by our family lineage, get to know our money strengths and challenges, and craft new narratives rooted in dignity, clarity, and empowerment. Through thoughtful reflection, meaningful dialogue, and practical rituals, you'll develop a whole new way of being with and about money that is rooted in your own authority, authenticity, and agency.

Expect innovative teachings, enriching conversations, supportive community, and practical guidance—all designed to help you leave feeling more aligned, and empowered. Oh, and as important as all of that – expect to have a fun and connected time!
Program Highlights
Foundational Practices

Opening Circle: Ground yourself, meet your guides and fellow travelers, and enjoy being led through an orienting practice that will ensure you know what to expect and help you connect with the intentions that called you here.
Rooting in Embodiment Practices: We'll teach you somatic-based practices like the body check-in and other tried and true practices that will support you during our journey together and in your day-to-day big and small money moments.

Healing & Integration

Healing Money Wounds: Explore old financial identities and family money patterns with Bari and Danielle by your side, providing compassionate guidance and stories of worth, visibility, and identity.
Practical Money Healing Work: Explore how to have more open and honest money conversations with your partner, parents, kids, teams, and collaborators.
Money Healing Ritual: We'll take you through a Completion, Letting Go, and Moving Forward Ritual to release what's been stuck and make space for what's new and now.

Money Practices

Learn Self-Care Money Practices: We'll teach you how to bring right-for-you self-care practices into your money relationship; How to craft and incorporate daily, weekly, and monthly practices that will help you turn your money work and tasks into an enjoyable, rich, and meaningful part of your life.
Cultivate Spiritual Money Practices: Learn to deepen your relationship with money through practices of trust, gratitude, and generosity—transforming your everyday money interactions into opportunities for spiritual growth and reclaiming the sacred.

Vision & Implementation

Crafting Your Money Vision: This is where you'll have a chance to envision a life where money aligns with your values, emotions, and desires and identify the capacities, practices and supports you require and the actions you need to take to bring your vision into reality.
Money Vision Ritual: We'll guide you through a treasure hunt and altar-building practice designed to call in the support and skills you need to create the money relationship you crave.
Closing Circle: Celebrate your journey, acknowledge what you've released, and honor the path forward.

What You'll Take Home

A transformed relationship with money that feels authentic, empowering, and aligned with your values
Somatic practices that help you stay grounded in money decisions big and small
Practical tools and embodied practices for navigating daily money moments with grace and clarity
New ways to approach money conversations with loved ones and colleagues
Ritual practices that turn money management from a chore into a sacred practice
A clear vision for your financial future and the roadmap to get there
A supportive community of fellow travelers on this journey

This retreat welcomes both individuals and couples ready to step into a new chapter with money. Together, we'll cultivate a supportive, judgment-free, and risk-worthy space where you will find yourself seeing what needs to be seen and filled with hope and healing—so you can leave feeling peaceful, powerful, and prepared for what comes next.
Click here to listen to "Visibility Medicine: Bari Tessler Interviewing Danielle Cohen"
Testimonials
"I've done all kinds of deep inner work for years. But money?! No way. It was the final frontier. A shadow realm I had never learned much about, and somehow thought everyone else had an education I was missing. While walking on the Art of Money path, I discovered that next to no one gets a great money education, and all of us have healing and learning to do, whether we’re deep in debt or deep in a big inheritance. I adore Bari’s compassion, enthusiasm, somatic sensibility, practical skills, and vast heart. I can’t imagine a more kind-hearted guide in this exploration of such an important topic, so ridden with stress and shame for many of us." —Erin Geesaman Rabke

"Since beginning my work with Bari, I've gone from chronically under-earning to confidently earning a solid living with ease. My debt has come down, my credit has improved. The biggest gift has been feeling less anxious about money--even with big changes afoot like having a child and getting divorced. I know much more about what my money is doing at any given moment, and I feel relaxed and confident about my ability to take care of myself and my family financially." —Sonya Brewer, Somatic and Trauma Therapist

"I think what Bari does more than anything is un-shames us around money. It’s the combination of nuts and bolts financial knowledge and practices, with compassionate attention — not only on the numbers, but past baggage, emotions, and heart. . . . . It was the combination of rigor — and frankly love — that made this work land with me like nothing before." —Kristen Wheeler, Corporate Consultant
Daily Schedule
A detailed schedule will be emailed to you about 30 days prior to your program. Click here to view a sample program schedule.