375 Panterkill Road PO Box 70 Phoenicia, NY 12464 United States
July 16 - 19, 2026
About this Retreat
Alison Sinatra has been teaching yoga and facilitating healing retreats and spaces for women for over 25 years. Her work supports people in remembering their connection to Spirit.
Drawing on her studies with North and South American Indigenous traditions, Alison weaves prayer, ritual, embodiment, and lightheartedness into all that she offers.
She recently completed Dr. Gabor Maté’s year-long Compassionate Inquiry training, a deep immersion in trauma, addiction, somatic dialogue, and inner-child work. Alison is also a current student in The Portal, a six-month Gabor Maté–inspired program supporting pregnancy and postpartum through consciousness and trauma-informed care.
Lynn Schauwecker has spent more than 25 years immersed in healing paths rooted in Indigenous traditions and in collaborative partnerships with Indigenous communities worldwide. Her work deepened in 2003 during her time in the Amazon rainforest, where she apprenticed with Grandmother Maria Alice Campos Freire of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers and trained in Florais da Amazônia, a system of Amazonian flower essences that supports emotional balance, spiritual insight, and energetic healing.
She is trained in Compassionate Inquiry, the trauma-informed therapeutic modality developed by Dr. Gabor Maté, and offers CI-based sessions alongside her work in somatic, spiritual, and nature-based traditions. For many years, Lynn has also led sweat lodges passed down to her by Native American elders.
In addition to her healing practice, Lynn has dedicated more than two decades to Tibet House US and currently serves as Managing Director of Menla Retreat & Dewa Spa. She is also the co-founder of the Floresta Project, a nonprofit supporting Amazonian Indigenous communities through cultural preservation, traditional healing practices, and sustainable, community-led initiatives.
Details of this retreat
Awaken the feminine witness. Ignite the sacred fire within.
Dragon Heart is an immersive women’s retreat dedicated to descending into the deepest chambers of the heart — where truth, instinct, and ancient feminine wisdom converge. In many traditions, the dragon is not a creature of fear, but a guardian of untapped power, the keeper of hidden realms, and the protector of the heart’s most sacred truths.
Here we call upon the Sacred Dragon as a guide, an ally, and a mirror — one whose fearsome gaze pierces illusion, dissolves old narratives, and invites us to stand in the unshakable truth of who we are. Through guided inquiry, ceremony, embodiment practices, breathwork, and circle work, we soften the layers of the self while awakening the fierce clarity that lives beneath.
This transformation is amplified by the land itself. Menla, long regarded for its potent healing energies, carries the presence of the Naga — ancient serpent-dragon beings connected to water, medicine, and unseen realms. Tibetan Masters and Indigenous elders who have visited Menla describe these Naga as protectors and guardians of profound esoteric wisdom. Throughout the retreat, we honor and attune to these subtle forces, inviting their guidance as we navigate our own inner landscapes.
We will also enter the sweat lodge, a sacred space of purification and prayer. Held by earth and fire, we shed what no longer serves, open the heart through humility and courage, and call forth the ancient knowing that has always lived within us.
Together, we explore how to hold softness and strength, stillness and power, tenderness and truth, allowing each to inform and transform the other.
Return with a renewed sense of purpose, clarity, and inner fire — connected to your Dragon Heart and supported by the women who walk beside you.
Schedule:
Thursday, July 16
3 - 5 pm Check-in
6 - 7 pm Dinner
7:30 pm Opening Circle
Friday, July 17
8 - 9 am Breakfast
9:30 - 11:30 am Serpent Movement Class
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 - 3 pm Free Time
3 - 5:30 pm Inquiry & Breathwork
6 - 7 pm Dinner
7:30 pm Night Forest Circle
Saturday, July 18
5 am Sweat Lodge
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 - 4:30 pm Spa Appointments and Free time
4:30 - 5:30 pm Intuitive Movement
7:30 pm Celebration Dance
Sunday, July 19
8 - 9 am Breakfast
10 am - 12 pm Closing Circle
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch
*Please note this schedule is subject to change any time.
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