THE TEMPLE
WITHIN
A WOMAN’S HEALING ARTS RETREAT FOR RECLAIMING SELF-DEVOTION
A Sacred Autumn Journey
OCTOBER 22–25, 2026 | HEARTWOOD MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY | HUMBOLDT COUNTY, CA
LATE ENROLLMENT SPECIAL OPEN NOW:
USE CODE SACRED FOR $100 OFF
The Temple Within is a four-day women’s healing arts retreat devoted to awakening your deepest desires and embodying the woman you are becoming.
Surrounded by the forests and mountains of Southern Humboldt, we’ll journey inward, into the body, the heart, and the truths that can become quiet beneath responsibility, relationships, and expectation.
A sacred return to the most important relationship you will ever tend, the one you hold with yourself.
Cedar Sauna + Mountain-View Soaking Tub | Feminine Embodiment | Breathwork | Somatic Healing | Gentle Yoga | Emotional Alchemy | Ritual | Integrative Bodywork | Play | Sisterhood | Nourishing Meals | Nature + Deep Rest
Limited Space Available
Soften. Open. Receive.
This experience is for you if you:
You are craving space to slow down, turn inward, and hear your inner wisdom more clearly.
You are ready to release patterns that have outgrown their purpose.
You want to reconnect with your true desires.
You desire a deeper relationship with your body, intuition, pleasure, creativity, and feminine nature.
You are ready to expand your capacity to receive nourishment, rest, support, beauty, love, and possibility.
Discover the woman you are beneath the noise.
The Retreat Package
Registration Includes:
A 4 day, 3 night, all-inclusive retreat experience
Three daily nourishing meals, spacious sauna & soaking
7+ workshops, spacious free time, 4 leaders, a harmonious curriculum, safe sisterhood, and long breaks for personal free time
Optional private one-on-one massage and healing sessions during the retreat
A JOURNEY INWARD
The Workshops
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Frequency of Your Desire with Sarah
Expanding your capacity for more of what you desire allows you to receive more of it. In this 75 minute workshop, Sarah guides you on a Journey into your body when you will access a the vibrational frequency aligned to your deepest desires. You will grant your body permission to allow this energy to move and expand so you can feel it fully. Then, you will receive the wisdom and guidance from this energy so you can be more conscious of how your desire wants to manifest in your life now. Journaling + Coaching will follow the Journey.
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Hunger as Holy: Shakti Embodiment Ritual with Kawana
Through ceremonial cacao, breath, somatic movement, and dance, descend beneath the thinking mind and into the body, womb, and pelvis. An invitation to meet desire as embodied intelligence—listening to what your body still wants and creating space for what has been waiting to move, awaken, and be felt.
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Gentle Yoga & Medication with Francisca
A slow, nourishing practice weaving therapeutic alignment, somatic healing, yogic dharma, breath, and deep restorative release. An invitation to soften into the body, soothe the nervous system, create spaciousness within, and reconnect with the quiet wisdom that emerges when we slow down enough to listen.
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Sister Circles with Francisca
Honor your inner mystic and ancestral lineage through the portal of sister circles. Through safety, connection, and reflection Francisca guides us to integrate the retreat experience and return to deep listening, inner voice, and spiritual connectivity.
Through deep reflection and embodied practice, we begin moving from I want toward:
I am ready to hold my desires.
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Sacred Silliness with Heather
What if play is a pathway back to yourself? Through playful movement, expressive arts, improvisation, and mask-making, step beyond your usual roles and reconnect with the silly, spontaneous, creative, and wonderfully unpolished parts of yourself. An invitation to laugh, experiment, and remember how freeing it feels to simply play.
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Vow of the Wild Feminine with Kawana
Through movement, ritual, meditation, and the archetypal wisdom of the Mahavidyas, meet the face of the Divine Feminine calling you forward now. Each goddess carries her own medicine for loving, creating, destroying, protecting, surrendering, and becoming—an initiation into deeper self-devotion and the wild feminine wisdom already living within you.
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Breathe + Release with Heather
Through conscious breathwork, somatic awareness, music, and intentional rest, you’ll be guided out of the thinking mind and deeper into the body. A gentle yet powerful invitation to soften, feel, release what you’ve been carrying, and create space for what is ready to move through you.
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Alchemizing Outdated Blocks with Sarah
Sarah will guide you through an Emotional Alchemy Journey where you will more fully understand the emotions, beliefs and behaviors that have been keeping you stuck so that you can more fully let them go and notice what wants to happen instead. Journaling + Coaching will follow the Journey.
What Participants Are Saying
A Healing Mountain Embrace
The sanctuary feels remote and deeply connected to nature while still offering the comforts and amenities that make it easy to settle in, relax, and receive.
Heartwood Mountain Sanctuary
Heartwood Sanctuary is a tranquil retreat property & lodge nestled in the rolling hills and redwood forests of Humboldt County.
The sanctuary feels remote and deeply connected to nature while still offering the comforts and amenities that make it easy to settle in, relax, and receive.
Heartwood Mountain Sanctuary | Garberville, CA
Nestled on 200 acres in the mountains of Southern Humboldt, Heartwood Mountain Sanctuary is a wilderness eco-retreat, learning village, and community sanctuary devoted to cultivating deeper relationships with self, community, and the earth.
Surrounded by forest, mountain landscape, and open sky, Heartwood offers the rare opportunity to truly get away from it all while still enjoying the comforts and amenities that allow you to soften, settle in, and receive.
During your stay, you’ll enjoy:
A beautiful meditation temple for yoga, workshops, ceremony, and sacred practice
A spacious cedar sauna for deep relaxation and cleansing
A warm soaking tub beneath the open sky with mountain views
A seasonal outdoor swimming pool
Miles of hiking trails across 200 acres of wilderness
Rustic cabins, bungalows, and lodge accommodations
Outdoor patios for movement, music, connection, and quiet reflection
A cozy library and peaceful spaces for journaling or contemplation
A welcoming lodge with expansive views and shared dining spaces
On-site massage and private healing sessions available by appointment
High-speed internet access
Here, the land itself becomes part of our retreat journey—inviting cleansing, slowing down, receiving, and remembering.
Travel:
Approximately 4.5 hours north of San Francisco (Extend your stay to accommodate your travel plans if needed).
50 minutes from the nearest town of Garberville to the sanctuary
Enter a place that naturally invites cleansing, slowing down, and remembering. This creates the conditions where truth naturally rises to the surface.
In the sauna she becomes purified.
In the soaking tub she surrendered.
In the wilderness she remembers.
In the temple she connects to her inner channel to spirit.
The Wilderness → stripping away noise
The Temple → listening deeply
The Sauna → purification and release
The Cold Water / Fresh Air → awakening
The Soaking Tub → receiving
The Night Sky → perspective and wonder
The Native Spirits & Portals → ancestral wisdom
the temple
A dedicated sacred space for gathering, workshops, ceremony, contemplation, and practice. Throughout our retreat, the Temple becomes a place to turn inward, listen more deeply, and reconnect with the wisdom already living within you.
the cedar sauna
Step into the warmth of Heartwood’s large expansive cedar sauna—a sacred space to sweat, soften, cleanse, and release. Let the heat invite you deeper into your body as you surrender what is ready to fall away and emerge renewed.
the tub
Sink into warm water beneath the open sky, surrounded by sweeping views of the mountains. A large soaking space for softness, pleasure, and deep receiving—where there is nothing to do but soak, breathe, and take in the wild beauty around you.
the lodge
Gather around the table in Heartwood’s warm, rustic Lodge, where sweeping ridgeline views meet the simple ritual of nourishment. Here, we’ll share wholesome breakfasts, lunches, and dinners prepared by Heartwood’s culinary team—meals created to nourish body, mind, and soul as we connect, receive, and savor the magic of gathering together.
Wildlife Sanctuary
Heartwood’s 200 acres are alive with wildlife. Deer, wild turkeys, birds, and other animals are frequently seen and heard throughout the property, adding to the feeling of being immersed in a living mountain sanctuary.
Forest, Meadow & Mountain Views
Wander between forest groves, open meadows, and expansive mountain landscapes. Heartwood’s remote setting offers a beautiful sense of spaciousness, with wide views, fresh air, and star-filled skies.
Diverse Woodland Surroundings
Douglas Fir woodlands, Madrone forests, big trees, and meadow landscapes create a rich natural tapestry across the property. The varied terrain invites slow walks, quiet observation, and deeper connection with the land.
200 Acres to Explore
Heartwood is set across 200 acres of serene coastal mountain terrain with hiking trails, forests, wildlife, and scenic overlooks—offering plenty of space to wander, unplug, and experience the restorative rhythm of the natural world.
Accommodations
Heartwood offers a collection of cabins and shared spaces nestled throughout the property, allowing you to experience the beauty and quiet of the wilderness while still enjoying comfort and community.
Both shared and private accommodation options will be available.
Whether you choose a more communal experience or a private space to retreat into at the end of the day, our intention is for your room to become another place to soften, restore, and receive.
Each guest enjoys:
A comfortable twin, full, queen, or king bed
Access to shared lodge areas
Private or shared bathrooms
Communal kitchen spaces
Personal storage & room patios and outdoor lounge areas
Have special needs or requests? Retreat host Francisca at mysticgardenshealing@gmail.com as she is happy to support your comfort and care.
The Meals
High-quality, delicious food is an integral part of healing and regeneration.
Gather around the table in Heartwood's warm, rustic dining atmosphere, surrounded by wild mountain views. Three nourishing meals each day are included in your retreat experience.
Heartwood's culinary team specializes in wholesome, inspiring meals designed to feed body, mind, and soul, creating another opportunity to slow down, receive, connect, and be cared for.
Meet The Leaders
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Francisca Crutchfield
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.
YTT-200 | M.A. in Ed
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Sarah Trapkus
Sarah has 25+ years experience in energy work, shamanic healing, and somatic practices she is the creator of Emotional Alchemy™️ - a methodology that moves beyond mindset and strategy and into embodied transformation. She works with coaches ready to go deeper in their work, and privately with women who are ready for profound, life-changing shifts.
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Kawana Barbosa
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.
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Heather Graham
Expert in helping women and mothers deal with food, body, anxiety, & depression challenges. Through somatic practices, she guides women to master emotional and energetic states, enabling them to resource themselves effectively. Trauma-Informed Breathwork Facilitator, Certified Embodiment Coach, MA Expressive Art Therapy.
Intuitive Bodywork + SoulSpeak Sessions with Ali Madrid
Ali offers private 1:1 sessions that invite you out of the thinking mind and into deeper connection with the wisdom of your body. Choose from deeply restorative integrative bodywork or a bodywork + SoulSpeak experience weaving therapeutic touch, fascia release, nervous-system support, and intuitive guidance. Each session creates space to soften tension, receive, listen within, and reconnect with the intelligence already living in your body.
Retreat Agenda
Coming Soon.
In addition to the immersion, you are encouraged to make the experience your own by attending what calls to you and resting when you desire. Our four days together follow an intentional rhythm of inner work, embodiment, nature, nourishment, rest, and connection.
Spaciousness is intentionally woven throughout the experience, giving you time to integrate, explore the land, soak, sauna, receive a private session, connect with other women, or simply be.
Traveling From Afar?
Heartwood Mountain Sanctuary is located in the mountains of Southern Humboldt County, approximately one hour from Garberville.
Nearby Airports
ACV – Humboldt County: 2–2.5 hours
STS – Santa Rosa: 3.5–4 hours
OAK – Oakland: 4.5–5 hours
SFO – San Francisco: 4.5–5 hours
SMF – Sacramento: 4.5–5 hours
Rental cars are recommended.
Drive from Garberville
The final 20-mile drive takes approximately one hour along winding mountain roads, including some unpaved sections. Plan to arrive before dark and save Heartwood’s directions in advance, as cellular service can be limited.
Check-in on Thursday is between 12:00 and 2:00 PM, and our opening gathering begins at 4:00 PM.
The Big Picture
You arrive in the mountains and step away from the rhythm of everyday life.
And slowly, you begin to hear yourself again.
Over four days, we move through reflection and release, uncovering what has been hidden beneath the identities and patterns you have carried. We listen for desire.
We move, breathe, rest, soak, gather, wander through the forest, sit in ritual, laugh, eat beautiful meals, and share space with women doing their own brave listening.
The Temple Within is an invitation to return to the sacred space inside yourself from which your choices, boundaries, desires, relationships, creativity, and becoming can emerge.
Step into a deeper relationship with the woman who has been there all along.
Your Invitation
Come into the mountains.
Step away from the noise.
Listen for what is asking to be released.
Listen for what is asking to be desired.
Listen for the woman underneath all the roles, responsibilities, and expectations.
And give yourself four days to practice choosing her.
The Investment
Retreat & Program Valued Over $2500
SPACE IS LIMITED
LATE ENROLLMENT SPECIAL OPEN NOW:
USE CODE SACRED FOR $100 OFF
Deposit To Join: $250
Registration ranges between $800-$1100 (depending on room choice).
Includes:
4 Days + 3 Nights at Heartwood Mountain Sanctuary
Your chosen accommodations
Three nourishing meals daily
Full healing arts curriculum
Optional private healing sessions + massage available separately
Email Francisca at mysitcgardenshealing@gmail.com with questions.
The Temple Within
OCTOBER 22–25, 2026
HEARTWOOD MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY | HUMBOLDT COUNTY, CA
NOTE: Mystic Gardens Women’s Holistic Alignment Program & Yoga Retreat is NOT personal therapy or a detoxification program from recreational or pharmaceutical drugs.
Most of our leaders are not trained psychiatrists and do not carry clinical backgrounds in PTSD, addiction or other mental health concerns. If you have a history of PTSD, addiction or other mental health concerns, it is important that you arrive at our program in a stable state with the intention of using the program for self regulation, personal healing, respectful community, & spiritual growth.