Breathe Into Becoming: A Somatic Journey Into Your Next Self

You will step into a transformative guided experience designed to help you meet the version of yourself you are ready to embody. Through intentional breathwork, visualization, and gentle somatic movement, you will release the energetic imprint of old patterns and reconnect with the deeper wisdom already living within you.

You will explore how the nervous system shapes identity, how fear becomes encoded in the body, and how to reprogram it into self-trust, clarity, and confidence. As you anchor new beliefs somatically—not just mentally—you will experience a powerful shift into grounded presence, emotional steadiness, and alignment with the woman you are becoming.

Unlocking the Hips: A Journey into Release and Renewal
You will enter a deeply restorative Yin Yoga experience designed to open the hips, release stored emotions, and create space for fresh energy to flow through your body. Through a nourishing blend of long-held asana, intentional pranayama, subtle bandha activation, Shakti mudras, and tantric energy movement, you will soften into the deeper layers of your physical and emotional landscape.

You will explore the hips as a sacred center of creativity, sensuality, and emotional memory—inviting powerful release, increased flexibility, and a renewed sense of spaciousness within. You will leave feeling lighter, more grounded, and more connected to your intuitive feminine flow.

Sattva Kundalini Breathwork Workshop Series

You will be guided through a dynamic yet accessible breathwork journey rooted in the Sattva Yoga tradition and supported by Ayurvedic nervous system wisdom. Through rhythmic pranayama, mantra, and subtle movement, you will balance the flow of prāṇa, dissolve emotional blockages, and awaken the heart field into radiant coherence.

You will experience deep emotional release, energetic alignment, and a renewed sense of vitality as your inner Shakti begins to rise. This series offers a grounded pathway into expansion—giving you breath practices you can use daily, an embodied understanding of energy, and tools for spiritual integration long after the retreat ends.

Goddess Herbal Workshop: Tea, Pleasure Plants & Embodied Alchemy

You will be guided into a sensory-rich exploration of feminine herbal wellness, where plant medicine, ritual, and embodied pleasure come together in a nourishing, hands-on journey. You will begin by crafting your own intentional herbal tea blends, choosing botanicals that support emotional balance, relaxation, vitality, and womb-centered wellbeing. You will learn how tea becomes a daily act of healing and self-tending.

You will explore the realm of herbal aphrodisiacs and pleasure plants—sensual, heart-opening, and energetically supportive herbs that awaken softness, connection, and embodied presence. With aromatherapy oils and simple integrative massage techniques, you will learn how to create sensory rituals that soothe the nervous system, enliven the body, and reconnect you with your feminine vitality.

You will leave with practical tools for self-care and sensual embodiment—beautiful rituals you can continue practicing long after the retreat ends.

Shakti Embodiment Yoga: Awaken Your Sacred Energy

You will step into a sacred space of movement, ritual, and feminine connection as you awaken the powerful Shakti energy within your body. Beginning with a heart-opening cacao ceremony, you will shift your awareness from the mind into the womb—your deepest center of intuition, creativity, and power.

Through a soulful blend of yoga, dance, and somatic embodiment, you will explore fluid, sensual movement that reconnects you with your hips, heart, and womb alignment. You will be guided to soften, expand, and ignite your inner fire as you move with the natural rhythms of your feminine life force.

You will experience deeper presence, emotional liberation, and a renewed sense of empowerment—returning to your body as a sacred temple and your energy as a source of truth, vitality, and radiance.

You will be invited to step fully into your radiance during this sacred evening of divine feminine activation. Through movement, ritual, and shared intention, you’ll celebrate your femininity and the unique essence that makes you shine. Together in a safe and loving sisterhood, we’ll honor the goddess within—embodying radical self-love, sensual expression, and joyful liberation. This is a time to be witnessed, to reclaim your power, and to celebrate the beauty of being a woman in her wholeness.

A Journey Into Symbol, Intuition & Creative Magic

You will enter a deeply intuitive, hands-on creative ritual where imagery becomes a language of the soul. Much like dreams, symbols carry wisdom—and you will explore that wisdom by cutting, choosing, and assembling images that speak directly from your inner world.

You will be guided to let your hands lead the way, allowing the deeper mystery of what wants to be expressed to move through you. As you craft your own oracle cards, you will experience this process as a form of divination—a sacred dialogue with your intuition, creativity, and inner guidance.

You will bring to life not only beautiful pieces of art, but powerful mirrors of your own truth: cards you can return to for reflection, clarity, and support on your path.

You will also learn simple practices for interpreting the messages your cards hold, deepening your connection to your inner voice and creative flow.

You will experience a full-body and soul-level reset through daily chef-prepared vegetarian meals, herbal healing teas, and the grounding rhythms of off-grid living.

Nestled in the serenity of an eco-lodge surrounded by nature, you’ll be invited to slow down, unplug, and cleanse not only the body but also the mind and spirit. Without the constant buzz of phones, computers, and city life, you’ll rediscover what true nourishment feels like—through pure food, stillness, and presence.

This is a sacred pause to return to simplicity, recalibrate your nervous system, and reconnect with the natural flow of life.

You will sink into deep rest and connection during your free hours — soak in the hot tub beneath the open sky, wander with your journal in hand, or adventure outward into the magic of the land.

Canoe or paddleboard across still waters, hike the ancient Montgomery Redwoods trail, swim in the pristine creek, or bask in the sun as you recharge your body and spirit. Every moment of free time invites relaxation, reflection, and a touch of mystical fun.

Founder & Wellness Facilitator

Francisca has helped hundreds of women collapse their healing timeline through retreats & educational programming. She curates immersive experiences that are accessible for diverse perspectives and demystify the world of Yoga, energy work, and feminine wellness practices. Francisca curates experiences for women to integrate their shadow and light parts, activate intuitive wisdom, and fuel their higher purpose through nature.

The mission of Mystic Gardens Healing is to spread healing wisdom to more diverse populations and increase accessibility to high-quality natural wellness and personal success tools.

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Master Ayurvedic & Yogic Practitioner, Ph.D.

Justine’s path is aligned with the vision of weaving feminine embodiment, plant spirit wisdom, and nervous system healing in community.

As an expert Ayurvedic practitioner, Vedic astrologer, and cultural anthropologist (PhD, UC Riverside), she has spent over twenty years guiding women through embodied transformation — integrating myth, mantra, and somatic ritual into modern healing. Her center, The Shala in Mendocino, offers Ayurvedic bodywork, Tantrik kriyas, and trauma-informed nervous system practices that support feminine radiance and spiritual coherence.

https://justinelemos.com/

Yoga Therapist & Teacher

Originally from Brazil, a Yogini, doula, entrepreneur, circle facilitator, empowerment educator, and intuitive vegetarian chef. Certified in Traditional Hatha Yoga and Pre & Post Natal yoga she specializes in women's vitality and well-being as a Yoga therapist and full-spectrum doula with an emphasis on the BIPOC communities. Kawa’s approach involves comprehensive support through attentive listening, nurturing touch, nourishing food, and therapeutic movement practice.

Somatic Embodiment & Breathwork Coach, LMSW

Nnemoma is an expert Liberation Guide who helps women move from fear into aligned action through the art of identity shifting—releasing who they’ve been told to be and becoming who they truly are. Her work blends life coaching, breathwork, and somatic awareness to help women regulate their nervous systems, embody their power, and lead with ease instead of pressure. As the founder of Essence of Freedom, she creates experiences that invite women to slow down, reconnect with their intuition, and live from a place of flow and wholeness. Her approach helps each woman ground her visions into reality while honoring rest and softness as sacred.

https://www.essenceoffree.com/

Herbalist, Massage Therapist & Holistic Health Practioner

Mackenzie runs Healing Heart Apothecary, a mobile and holistic spa serving Sonoma County and Orange County. She is certified in polarity healing and Reiki Level 2, and also offers herbal consultations and educational talks on herbs, plant medicine, and integrating botanical remedies into daily life. Her background includes corporate wellness as well, where she has provided on-site massage and stress relief workshops.

www.healingheartapothecary.com

Artist, Tarot Artist, & Intuitive Healer

Jen Lothrigel is a San Francisco Bay Area multidisciplinary artist, healer and teacher. She is inspired by the natural world, the body, dreams, ancestral connections, and a lifelong devotion to mysticism. Her work is an invitation into the unseen realms in each of us, an entry into the intuitive creative interior. She has been working in the realm of the healing arts for over 20 years and carries the medicine of shamanic healing, expressive arts, Voice Dialogue, herbalism and aromatherapy in her medicine pouch.

www.JenniferLothrigel.com

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