375 Panterkill Road PO Box 70 Phoenicia, NY 12464 United States
August 22 - 25, 2024
About this Retreat
Annelle Taylor (she/her) is a nurse witch of alchemical healing circles and a shadow pleasure integration guide who uses heartwork and gentle non-cathartic breathwork to support transformational trauma healing. A stage IV cancer diagnosis in 2018 led her to seek healing and meaning by sitting in many circles with a wide range of healers and teachers within and without the medical system; thus, her consciousness integrates the world of science and that of spirit. The healing she witnessed in circle spaces inspired her to create Circle Alchemy, which began as healing circles for healthcare workers during the COVID pandemic and has since morphed into a framework for collective liberation.
She supports healthcare workers and folx identifying as Bitchez to cultivate capacity for more joy and pleasure in order to feel free, be sovereign and, thus, live a purpose-filled joyful life. She works with the archetype of The Bitch to reclaim denigrations as expressions of radical love for disowned parts of self and to disrupt social conditioning that perpetuates systemic harms. Annelle brings a plethora of knowledge, certifications and her own unique understanding of medicine, science, embodied somatic healing, trauma-informed psychology, collective liberation anti-racism, yoga, occult philosophy, mysticism and pleasure coaching alongside breathwork to her uncanny ability to live fully in the present and feel free amidst the deep uncertainty of life. She lives in Brooklyn NYC with her partner, their cute dogs and her own glorious versions of The Bitch. She is excited to bring B. Camp to Menla this summer with her beautiful team!
Jules X. Grace (they/them) joined the Circle Alchemy team in February 2023 to offer administrative support and the dream weaving of their organizational skills and activism experience to support the foundation of this vision. They have quickly become an outstanding circle co-facilitator offering embodied, heart-centered guidance.
Jules is a multi-disciplinary artist currently training in the arts of healing and language. They believe that until we are all free, none of us can be truly free. They aim to live a life filled with liberatory practices and walk alongside others on their own path to liberation. Through movement, play, song-sharing and fighting with love for justice, Jules desires to join together with others to create the new transformative ways we all can choose to be in community. Jules lives in San Diego, CA and is excited to be joining B. Camp as a sound and movement guide and circle co-facilitator.
Yeyen Gunawan (she/her) is the founder of La Vie Wellness Inc. She is an adventurer at heart and loves flying planes, yoga, travel, and savoring great food. Some of her impressive brags include being a national swimmer from Indonesia and swimming across Lake Tahoe and in Alcatraz.
Yeyen's newest passion is supporting people to find healing through Breathwork. This practice has helped her to navigate challenging transitions in her life including relationship separations and menopause. Yeyen also manages retreats and programs at Paradise Gardens retreat center in Santa Cruz, CA where she lives and breathes in a deep love for life. She is excited to join B. Camp as a participant and as a breathwork ceremony support guide.
Details of this retreat
Are you a womxn of high presence?
Do you give your all at work, at home and in the other spaces you frequent?
Do folx depend on you for your leadership, your guidance, your presence?
Do you feel like you carry too much stress, too much pressure, too much overwhelm . . . and yet you cannot stop doing it all?
Do you want to have more fun AND heal old stories and patterns?
Do you want to feel free to live a life filled with fun and joy even amidst all the chaos and challenge?
What if the answer to our collective liberation requires first that you feel free?
What if the answer to systemic injustices lies within the space where you show up for yourself in pleasure and with love for all the parts of you before you do so for anyone else?
What if you could alchemize the stress, overwhelm, and pressure you feel into something meaningful and miraculous?
From the creatrix of Circle Alchemy, a healing circle space for processing the COVID pandemic through story and emotional authenticity, comes a new vision of fun for womxn for our collective healing. Welcome to B. Camp where we play with the archetype of The Bitch to bring more joy and pleasure to a world filled with gloom, doom and way too much stress by learning to love all of the parts of ourselves (so that we might do the same for others) by finding the feeling of freedom from within without bypassing the hard stuff.
Through ceremony, ritual, shadow-pleasure integration practices and breathwork, B. Camp will teach you how to begin to feel free to live the life you deserve.
Come B. free with us!
What does the B. stand for?
Be You
Be Your Bitch!
Be Free
by
Being Embodied
and
Breathe.
B. Camp is for you if:
You are feeling overwhelmed, burnt out, and/or filled with mortal exhaustion about anything and everything (work, systemic oppression, your mother, your life purpose, your stuckness, etc).
Therapy has not worked or does not seem to feel like enough for what you really need in your soul to feel alive.
You like to laugh and wish you had more time to FEEL fun, BE fun, and DO fun things.
Traditional methods of mindset practices to resolve stress and overwhelm have not worked; you seek something deeper and more embodied.
You are intrigued by the idea of working with both shadow and pleasure practices.
You want science + lived experience to inform your transformation.
You identify as a Bitch! Or you are Bitch-curious!
-What is a Bitch? A Bitch is the archetypal representation of the divine feminine warrior. She stands for her divinity and the divinity of all beings. She knows clearly when to state her "Yes" and when to state her "No,” and she deeply upholds this in others. A Bitch is royal and she freely feels all of her emotions with discernment of how and when to express them. (This is unsavory to those who disdain freedom in others and, thus, she is infinitely sovereign.) A Bitch is the embodied reclamation of the patriarchal denigration of this term. While her pronouns are most often she, a Bitch is not bound by gender, a bitch is beyond gender and she lives within womxn and all humxns.
Join us to find out why we do deep work with The Bitch and honor her many forms within us all!
This 4-day camp retreat will offer a digestible amount of information for you to better understand the science of stress, the benefits of breathwork, why the intellectualization of liberation is not working and why subconscious awareness and heart-centered embodiment are required for individual and collective transformation. B. Camp is an interactive process that will invite you into the experience of transformational breathwork and heart-centered practices to feel the transformation that is possible when you feel free and connected to your inner Bitch.
You will leave with a renewed sense of self, an understanding of what freedom feels like and why feeling free is so necessary for a better world, and you will come away with connection to a burgeoning community of Bitchez dedicated to doing this deep liberation work so that we might all be free.
Using a gentle, non-cathartic style of breathwork as the principal healing modality to integrate and cultivate spaciousness (freedom) within, we will play and practice together with shadow-pleasure integration practices and heartwork alchemized and synthesized from anti-racism collective liberation, trauma-informed psychology, somatic embodiment, and mysticism. We invite you to invite your own authenticity to be the guide that reminds you what freedom feels like and what is possible for you, those around you and the world when we begin to feel free.
If, like us, you desire for all beings to be free, we invite you to join us to learn how to feel fully free and liberated from within.
B. Camp is the beginning of the transformational inner work required to feel free.
And . . It will be as much fun as it will be deep!
This retreat is for folx identifying as womxn.
B. Camp will be led by a multi-generational, multi-femme expressing team of Bitchez and we are so excited to welcome you to the best summer camp experience you know you want and you definitely deserve.
This space is for those of you who loved summer camp, who never went to summer camp, and for those of you who have any lingering PTSD from summer camp.
All of YOU is welcome here.
Retreat space is limited to 11-20 participants to preserve the container of this sacred work.
Sign up now to secure your spot.
For logistics and booking information, please reach out to Menla.
For questions about the retreat itself, please reach out to Circle Alchemy and please join one or both of our free offerings (The Bitch 101 and Breathwork 101) to understand the scope and intention of this work better!
Welcome! We cannot wait to meet you!
All sales are final, no refunds.
Schedule
Thursday, August 22
Theme: Rest
3 - 5 pm Arrival and Check-in
5 - 6 pm Welcome to B. Camp! (Intros & Community Agreements)
6 - 7 pm Dinner
7:30 - 10 pm Opening Ceremony (Honoring Table + Grounding Practice)
Friday, August 23
Theme: Resource
7:30 - 8 am Meditation+Movement+Music for Collective Awakening
8 - 9 am Breakfast
9:30 am - 12 pm The Bitch 101 + Orientation to Embodied Heartwork
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 - 4 pm Free Time (Time for Nature, Pool, Massage and more!)
4 - 5:45 pm The Bitch says No! How to feel your No, resource your Yes and have fun doing it!
6 - 7 pm Dinner
7:30 - 9:30 pm Breathwork Ceremony + Favorite Frames (Integration + Digestion)
Saturday, August 24
Theme: Reclamation
7:30 - 8 am Meditation+Movement+Music for Collective Awakening
8 - 9 am Breakfast
9:30 am - 12 pm Pleasure 101 + Embodied Heartwork
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 - 4 pm Free Time (Time for Nature, Pool, Massage and more!)
4 - 5:45 p Meet your Bitch with Heart Listening & Body Mapping
6 - 7 pm Dinner
7:30 - 9:30 pm Breathwork Ceremony + Favorite Frames (Integration + Digestion)
Sunday, August 25
Theme: Rejuvenate
7:30 - 8 am Meditation+Movement+Music for Collective Awakening
8 - 9 am Breakfast
9 - 10 am Check-out of Rooms + Free Time to Re-member
10 a - 12 pm Closing Circle + Celebration
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch
***Please note: Every offering on the schedule is optional and subject to revision as we work in flow with our intuition and with the group needs as they arise. We invite you to also be in flow and to check in with your heart and your body regarding your own capacity to be present at any of the group offerings. This is the practice of being sovereign and we love it!
We will create smaller nurture&support groups of 2-3 participants to support you feeling safe, seen, supported and connected and we do ask that you participate to support the collective cohesion of our B. Camp container.
We will have what we hope feels like ample free time scheduled during each full day. Free time is your time to explore what you need to feel free. You can sleep, sit in silence, connect with others, visit the spa, hike trails, swim in the pool (or swimming hole!), sunbathe, read, journal, dance; you are invited to do whatever your body needs to integrate what we will be discussing, playing with and practicing during our time together. We will offer themes to ponder during your free time which are, as always, only suggestions.
B. Camp is all about Being Fully You and having Fun just as you are!
Welcome!
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