About this Retreat
Chen Lizra, one of the foremost somatic healing experts in the world, has honed her skills and practices in the genre of body healing for over two decades. Chen has studied natural healing and bodywork around the globe with world-renowned masters of their craft. From spending nearly two decades intensively training with Cuba’s top professional dancers, learning Cuban embodiment practices, training for over two years in transformational coaching on how to heal trauma and generational trauma naturally from the body through somatic practices, to studying Zen meditation practices and Buddhist living in Japan under the guidance of Gudo Nishijima, Chen’s expansive life experiences have supplied her with transformational wisdom on how to heal and grow through embodiment. She’s taken that embodied wisdom and developed the 5 Elements of Somatic Intelligence, an innovative treatment to heal, through bodywork and through being deeply felt, the traumas trapped in the body.
Chen’s passion for somatic healing was born from her personal story. When she was a young child, her mother became mentally ill which in turn affected Chen’s own emotional foundation and spurred her dedication and research over two and a half decades into the effects of trauma on the body and how to heal it. In the process, Chen gained incredible and unique wisdom that she now practices with clients around the world causing profound shifts in 3-6 months.
Through Somatic Intelligence, her personally developed method of embodied wisdom, Chen has worked to coach and heal hundreds of clients, in particular successful women, suffering from deeply rooted traumas such as emotional abandonment, rejection, abuse, and neglect. It is estimated that 70% of adults have suffered trauma in their lives which can result in feelings of insecurity, fear and in feelings of being blocked or stuck. Chen’s methods offer an alternative to mainstream talk therapy through somatic coaching, freeing those traumas that are trapped within the physical body and releasing what is blocked.
Details of this retreat
Join international Somatic Intelligence coach, TED Speaker, and the founder of the 5 Elements of Somatic Intelligence method - Chen Lizra - for a special 10-people retreat of plant medicine, plant dieta, and deep shamanic healing.
The retreat includes pre-during and post somatic support to prepare you for the emotional journey and help you integrate the wisdom into your life after, created around the plant medicine retreat to support you every step of the way so you can have a powerful, safe, and transformative journey.
This retreat offers a profound immersion into the rejuvenating power of the plants and the ancestral healing skills of the maestra, interweaving ritual, and holding sacred space for deep inner work.
This is for you if you wish to:
✔ Dive deep into what has been holding you back for years – you feel called to look deeper within than ever before so you can heal and let go.
✔ Deep healing of an old-rooted trauma – by drinking the medicine you wish to be guided by the feminine divine love and wisdom of Mother Aya (the plant medicine) in order to heal your body and your trauma.
✔ You feel blocked in an area or more in your life and crave guidance and wisdom – you might feel like your life is in a mess, or you might be in a great place in your life and wish for more. What you crave are deep answers and wisdom to guide you through what feels blocked or not in flow with ease in your life – it might be around love, work, or another area, where you wish to experience a deep shift.
✔ Connect with ancestral wisdom and get answers – you wish to ask questions and get wise answers and don’t know how to ask. You are feeling a draw or curiosity to sit with the medicine and connect with wisdom.
✔ Detox from day to day life and need a reboot – you are ready to disconnect completely for a week from the world, deposit your phone, get off the grid, and be fully with yourself and your inner process, so you can truly hear the wisdom communicated specifically to you.
✔ Be supported every step of the way – you wish to do this journey with support every step of the way – before, during, and after – feeling truly supported, held and guided.
To ensure a safe and transformative experience, participants must begin a preparatory dieta at least 4 weeks prior to the retreat. Therefore, the deadline to join is one month before the retreat date. This allows time for proper preparation and alignment with the medicine. We encourage early registration to secure your spot.
Additionally, to ensure alignment between you and the retreat's depth and commitment to the inner work, we require a Zoom call with potential participants before completing your registration. This call will help ensure that you are fully prepared and ready for this life-changing experience.