AWAKEN DREAMS
We are calling ladies from near and far to join us in this 3-day retreat, “Awaken Dreams”.
This is a retreat allowing you time to connect more deeply with yourself, your body, your soul, this sisterhood, and life itself. We will harness the energy of summer to birth big ideas and ignite new visions. We will have sessions around bridging who you are today and your future self. We will dine on healthy, nourishing food. We will bathe in the sounds of the forest. We will swim and lounge in the waters of lakes, rivers, and the property’s pool and sauna.
Imagine this… waking up nestled under a grove of redwoods and having your morning beverage overlooking miles of forest in every direction, getting into your body with yoga while inhaling the fresh mountain air, slowly dining on farm-fresh food that nourishes you in every way, learning life-changing tips from expert facilitators, resting in the sun next to the Yuba river, luxuriating in the sounds of a 12 instrument sound bath, dancing under the stars, and finishing the night in the wood sauna.
WE GATHER IN NATURE
Heartwoods Retreat, Nevada City, CA (just SouthWest of Lake Tahoe)
This multi-zone property has many zones for us to gather in. It is homie, down to earth, and has views of the forest for miles.. No need to travel to distant lands, AWAKEN SOCIETY brings healers, life coaches, and professional mentors who have practiced all over the world, directly to you.
WE BELIEVE IN digital detox, connecting with nature and being outside to connect with ourselves and others. These retreats are nature focused and many of our sessions are in beautiful outdoor locations. We think being in nature is the luxury we need. Most accommodations are camping and glamping.
Where do I AWAKEN?
Friday July 19, 10am to Sunday, July 21, 3:00pm
Participate in 14+ dynamic workshops focused on healing, spirituality, sexuality, women's health, business, activism, and so much more!
NOTE: This is a 3 full-day experience. Due to our strong partnership with the retreat center, we’ve been able to negotiate an extra night Thursday if you want to arrive early.
REAL TALK: While our retreats are fun and connective, they can also be challenging. New realizations can be unsettling but will ultimately help you break through to who you want to be. Transformation is never easy, but it’s so worth it.
When do I AWAKEN?
IMAGINE THIS
SCHEDULE
Thursday
Thursday is an optional day. Arrive any time in afternoon. Optional activities include:
Nature Hike & Swim
Book a Massage w/ on sight bodyworker)
Sound Healing & Voice Meditation
Early Arrivals Dinner
Free Time & Star Gazing
Friday
Awaken Body Yoga
Breakfast
Opening Ceremony
Morning Workshops
Lunch
Relax & Rejuvenate in Nature
Afternoon Workshops
Sensory Activation Dinner
Evening Workshops
Sound Healing & Voice Meditation
Saturday
Body Love Meditation
Breakfast
Morning Workshops
Lunch
Nature Hike & Swim
Afternoon Workshops
Dreams Makeup + Photo Shoot
“Enchanted Dreams” Themed Dinner
Dance: Unleashing Your Self
Sauna & Connective Games
SUNDAY
Love Legacy Yoga
Breakfast
Creating Your Legacy: Manifesting Dreams and Abundance
Lunch
The Power of Sisterhood: Building Long-Lasting Bonds
Closing Ceremony
Integration & Down Time
meet our FACILITATORS
Lisa LaCroix
Intimacy and Speaking Coach at Lisa LaCroix
Lisa is an Intimacy Coach and Communications Muse with over four decades of experience and extensive training in transformational work, speaking skills, relational tools, and embodiment training. She is deeply rooted in the belief that love, connection, embodiment, and eroticism are profound pathways to self-discovery, interpersonal connection, and spiritual transcendence. Her approach draws on diverse transformative modalities, including voice and embodied performance, film and tv acting, personal and interpersonal growth processes, tantra, dance, NVC and spiritual intimacy, sexual polarity and embodied leadership training.
Lisa will lead a powerful session on Effective Communication in Dating, Sex, and Relationships!
Leslie Mallman
Financial Advisor and Money Coach at Empowered Money
Leslie’s career has been focused on reducing the stress we carry around money through increasing access to financial literacy and financial planning. She loves the summer season for the dramatic displays of beauty and life metaphors of letting go and embracing change. Leslie will combine her strategic, business-minded brain with her attraction to spirituality to help you reflect on where you are in 2024 and where you need to focus to build your dream life along with your dream financial outcomes.
We are excited to have Leslie guiding a workshop, Money for Dreams, that will leave us feeling empowered and supercharged for financial abundance.
NIMISHA GANDHI
Ayurveda, Therapeutic Nutrition, Yoga Nidra, Psychobiology at Moon Cycle Nutrition
Moon Cycle Nutrition weaves ancient wisdom with modern medicine to help you discover your body through therapeutic, nutritional, and lifestyle work. Nimisha is passionate about Awakening your health through nutrition and ritual. In Nimisha’s immersive workshop, we will come together to heal, transform, and awaken to our highest potential as women. We will explore our moon cycle stages, hormone health, Shakti embodiment, and womb-opening practices, to feel empowered on our women’s health journey.
Aine Kimsey
Transformational Coach and Breathwork Guide at Aine Grace
Aine helps mission-driven humans elevate their inner game so they can take their outer game to the next level. Through powerful breathwork, she helps heal and clear your inner saboteur and blocks, so you can create the impact, relationship, community, and life that sings to your soul. Aine believes that when we do our inner work, take ownership of how we’re showing up in life, and start to take aligned action to make our dreams a reality, we create a ripple effect of healing and positive change on this planet. Be warned - working with her may cause some major miracles!
Aine will be leading a Breathwork Activation: Become a Magnet for your Dreams so we can harness the power of our body and breath to clear out old blocks and become a magnet for our dreams!
Tiffany Kuang
Mindset and Well-Being Coach at Healing Journey SF
Tiffany’s focus is empowering individuals to unlock their full potential by applying proven frameworks in areas such as self-love, work-life balance, anxiety relief, and building healthy habits. Tiffany brings over two decades of experience in assisting individuals and teams to thrive professionally and personally. Tiffany’s former career as a corporate executive leading diverse teams has given her the experience and insights needed to help clients address the challenges they face. Having gone through her own mid-career transition, she has seen firsthand the power and possibility of making big changes in one’s life.
Tiffany wholeheartedly supports her clients in dreaming big while taking realistic steps toward meaningful change. Tiffany will guide us in a workshop, Cultivating Radical Self-Love and Compassion, so we can dream bigger and move forward in pursuit of our dreams with confidence, clarity, and authenticity.
Amanda Elo'Esh Johnsen
International Speaker, Teacher, Author, & Medicine Womanh at Elo Esh
Amanda is the Founder of the dogma-free, sacred Entheogenic Living Wisdom non-profit, and is an ordained priestess initiated into multiple Indigenous Wisdom Medicine traditions. For over 40 years Amanda has helped spiritual seekers discover & strengthen their spiritual path. As a Spiritual Success Mentor, she helps you clear subconscious blocks & activate your spiritual gifts with Subconscious Success Repatterning, Sacred Feminine Archetypes, & Plant Medicine ceremonies.
Amanda has her master’s in Counseling Psychology & Expressive Arts Therapy and her Integrative Medicine Guided Imagery & Expressive Arts certification from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Amanda is the author of “Unlock Your Success Codes” and “Elevationship: Replace Conflict with Greater Intimacy,” and the creator of “The Go Ask Alice Oracle & Tea Party Game.” Amanda is bringing her wisdom and magic to Awaken Dreams and leading a few surprise activations.
Lisa Love Rueff
Entrepreneur, Life & Business Coach, Psychedelic Journey Guide, Sound Healer at Lisa Rueff
On a mission to spread love locally and globally and weaves magic, beauty and heart into everything she orchestrates. Lisa Love Rueff is a Multi-Faceted Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach, Psychedelic Journey Guide, Sound Healer, Yoga and Meditation Teacher, Event Producer, Wellness Expert, Collective Hearts Jewelry Founder.
Lisa Love will lead a transformative playshop as we explore and cultivate a deep, unconditional appreciation and acceptance of ourselves. Through guided interactive exercises, a group discussion and reflective practices, we embrace our uniqueness, set healthy boundaries, and prioritize creating a loving relationship with ourselves, leading to greater joy, resilience, and our hearts’s dreams.
JOANA AYALA
Group Facilitator, Sound Practitioner & Artist at Joana Ayala
Joana has been an active part of the Bay Area wellness and transformational experience space for the past ten years. As a certified sound practitioner, she completed her studies at The California Institute of Integral Studies in the Sound, Voice, and Music in The Healing Arts program. Her passion lies in creating spaces where sound becomes medicine, and the voice becomes a source of healing.
As a vocal artist, she weaves melodic and fluid vocalizations in ceremonial and therapeutic settings.
Through performance, Joana will cultivate an atmosphere of deep relaxation and transcendence, allowing participants to immerse themselves fully in a dream state experience to awaken subconscious dreams and desires.
Kate Allan
Mindfulness Meditation Guide at Healing Journey SF
Kate Allan is a mindfulness meditation guide, wildlife ecologist, and teacher, who is passionate about community, the environment, and making mindfulness and meditation accessible and approachable for everyone. She found mindfulness the normal way – seeking a way out of suffering. Struggles with mental health, divorce, and the stress of a corporate working environment led her to mindfulness and meditation with her very first teacher, Rick Hanson, in 2013. The teachings and the peace they brought her had a profound effect – she quit her consulting job of ten years to live in monasteries, complete silent retreats, volunteer, and study the causes of happiness and suffering, through both neuropsychology and Buddhist philosophy. She completed a 2-year mindfulness meditation teacher training with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, and she continues to work as an environmentalist and mindfulness guide, empowering others on their personal growth journeys.
Kate will take us through meditation and somatic work in her Radical Self-Love workshop.
Christina Fisher
Educator & Women’s Empowerment Advocate
Christina Fisher has spent the last 24 years in education studying young minds and how we learn, asking hard questions, and delving into how relationships work on a deeper, connected level. She’s happily divorced from a narcissist and consciously remarried to an empath. Her life is filled with multiple learning battles that left her with proud scars she is always willing to share with others. She currently spends her time traveling around the world, sharing her insights and stories to inspire those who are ready to look deeper into themselves and ask… and answer the hard questions.
Christina will be leading a workshop on Relational Paradigms. In it, we will examine our language and expectations regarding relationships and make adjustments that will help catapult any relationship to the next level.
Dhaya Lakshminarayanan
Comedian, storyteller, speaker, host, and actor at Dhayalive.
On a mission to spread joy and laughter and deepen dialogues, Dhaya is a renowned performance artist bringing her talent and wit to inspire the ladies of Awaken.
Dhaya’s debute album DHAYATRIBE debuted #2 on iTunes. She received the Liz Carpenter Political Humor Award (previously awarded to Samantha Bee, Wanda Sykes and Mark Russell) for her stand-up. Comedy Central Asia crowned her the Grand Prize Winner of “The Ultimate Comedy Challenge” filmed in Singapore. Bay Area PBS affiliate KQED named her one of the twenty “Women to Watch,” a series celebrating women artists, creatives and makers who are pushing boundaries. She has performed across the U.S. and Asia and is the host of the famous storytelling night, THE MOTH, in San Francisco. Prior to her endeavors in the entertainment business, Dhaya was a venture capitalist, management consultant, and two-time MIT graduate.
SURPRISE GUEST
We like to keep a little mystery at The Awaken Society. Stay tuned for an announcement.
It will be worth the wait guaranteed! ;)
MANDY HAMILTON
Life & Business Coach, Medicine and Sound Guide, at Mandy Hamilton
Mandy helps women find their purpose, cultivate their power, and be more themselves than ever. She pulls from her diverse background as psychology researcher, a junior olympian, Master Coach, and long standing career in Venture Capital and Tech. She loves nothing more than helping clients see their own greatness and find a deep sense of inner peace and joy.
Mandy’s workshop(s) will help you manifest anything and tap into your personal power. What does it mean to be in your power? How do you tap into your feminine power in a way that is satisfying, sustainable, and empowering? In Mandy’s session we will dive deep into two sources of feminine power: the body and the emotions. You will get concrete bio-hacks and cool exercises of how to help your emotions work for you, not against you. She is also a powerful sound healer and plant medicine facilitator and will share some of those gifts.
Amy vaninetti
Gatherer of Souls & Founder of Awaken Society
Amy is a community builder and curator of connected experiences. She is on a mission to enhance human connection, with her biggest passion being women’s empowerment and social change. Having a past career of 8+ years as an activist fighting for women’s rights and human rights in East Africa, she’s turned her focus to the U.S. and is currently building mental health startup ShareWell as a means to solve the global mental health crisis. Awaken Society was founded in 2018 and has been a consistent passion project and labor of love.
Amy truly believes in the transformational power of women supporting other women. Her goal is to catalyze their success through curated education programs that focus on personal and professional growth. Amy brings her community development talents to the forefront of today’s paradigm shift towards the rise of the feminine.
time to Awaken!
FAQ
Lodging
Lodging is goddess camp style, guests have three accommodation options to choose from:
Single-person glamping tent
Sunset house: private room (only 2 available)
Glamping tents are fully equipped with beds and bedding, providing a comfortable and ready-to-settle experience. Multiple shared bathrooms are available on the property for guests to use.
What to pack
Necessities: Please bring comfortable clothing you can move in, a reusable water bottle, yoga mat, comfortable shoes, sandals, a swimsuit, sarong, headlamp, and personal totem with meaning.
Workshops will be held either outdoors or in the Sunset house living area with A/C. Some of our members like to also bring a beach or stadium chair.
For Fun: Saturday's dinner theme is “Enchanted Dreams” and we encourage you to dress in the colors of romance, anything in a shade of red or pink. We will have body art to add flair to your outfit.
Can I lead a workshop?
If you have a passion or skill you would like to contribute please reach out to one of the organizers directly.
Schedule
The schedule is a set time, but not all workshops are mandatory to attend. If you need to take a break, process an emotion that came up, take a nap or just feel like solo dancing under the stars, no problem!
Special Consideration Tickets
An important part of our mission is to make Awaken Society available and accessible to as many women as possible. We have limited funds reserved for ladies who need financial support to attend. Please fill out this “Special Consideration” request.
To apply for Special Consideration click here
Cancellation policy
We do not provide ticket refunds BUT your ticket can be transferred to a future retreat, or a lovely lady who will benefit from a powerful soul-searching weekend. Our retreats always sell out and we are happy to promote ticket transfers through the Awaken network.