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Dance & Group Process Women’s Retreat with Yoga & Mindfulness near the Bay Area
From September 26–28 (Friday through Sunday), Spirit Camp invites women ages 20+ into a Dance and Group Process Retreat designed for authenticity and agency. Across the weekend, practices include yoga, mindfulness meditation, reflective writing, ecstatic dance, and group process. Every activity is optional and choice-centered, allowing you to engage in ways that honor your own rhythm.
Secure your spot through the Sacred Feminine booking page, and explore more programs on the Spirit Camp Retreats calendar.
This retreat celebrates connection without pressure. Whether you thrive in group energy or prefer moments of solitude, the container supports both. You can join a dance, sit in circle, or step away for quiet reflection. Here, your autonomy is not just respected—it’s celebrated.
Dance & Group Process Retreat for Women in Mendocino, California
From September 26–28 (Friday through Sunday), Spirit Camp hosts women ages 20+ for a weekend of movement, reflection, and shared presence. This Dance and Group Process Retreat invites you to explore ecstatic dance, yoga, reflective writing, and group process—all designed with consent and choice at their core.
Book your place through the Sacred Feminine page and view more dates on the Spirit Camp Retreats calendar.
Here, dancing is not performance but presence. Group process is not obligation but invitation. Across two nights and three days, you are welcome to show up as you are—to step in, to step out, to listen, to move, and to rest.
Yoga and Sound Healing Retreat Weekend on the Mendocino Coast
Ground & Glow offers a four-day sound healing retreat woven with yoga, community, and nature at Spirit Camp on the Mendocino Coast. Each day includes morning yoga, restorative afternoon sessions, and evenings enhanced by sound journeys that deepen relaxation and presence.
Discover more on the Ground & Glow retreat page: Ground & Glow Retreat & Booking. You can also browse the full retreat calendar at spirit.camp/retreats.
Mindfulness Retreat with Meditation & Reflective Writing in Mendocino’s Redwoods
From September 26–28 (Friday through Sunday), Spirit Camp in Mendocino invites women ages 20+ into a circle of reflection, rest, and renewal. Over two nights, this Mindfulness Retreat offers yoga, guided meditation, reflective writing, and gentle group process—all optional, all invitational. The goal is not performance but presence, not output but authenticity.
Reserve your place via the Sacred Feminine page, and browse additional programs on the Spirit Camp Retreats calendar.
This retreat was born out of a desire to give women permission to pause, to sit quietly under redwoods, and to discover what emerges when silence meets the page. If you are longing for a space where your “yes” and your “no” are both honored, this weekend is for you.
Northern California Yoga Retreat Surrounded by Redwoods and Coastal Beauty
This autumn, step into Ground & Glow, a four-day Northern California yoga retreat designed to ground, restore, and inspire. Held at Spirit Camp on the Mendocino Coast, this experience blends daily yoga, restorative practices, community connection, and time in nature.
Discover more on the Ground & Glow retreat page: Ground & Glow Retreat & Booking. You can also explore the full Spirit Camp calendar at spirit.camp/retreats.
Movement Retreat with Ecstatic Dance & Yoga on the Mendocino Coast
From September 26–28 (Friday through Sunday), the Sacred Feminine community welcomes women ages 20+ to the redwood forests of Mendocino for a weekend where movement becomes medicine and rest becomes renewal. Across two nights, this Movement Retreat blends yoga, ecstatic dance, mindfulness, and playful group connection. Every activity is an invitation, not an obligation: you may step fully into dance, linger in stillness, or rest in journaling.
Secure your place via the Sacred Feminine booking page and browse more opportunities on the Spirit Camp Retreats calendar.
This retreat is designed to remind you that you are both rhythm and repose. Whether you are seasoned in yoga or curious about free-form dance, the weekend honors your pace. The invitation is to listen inwardly and let both motion and stillness shape your healing.
Embodiment Retreat with Yoga & Mindfulness in Mendocino, California
If you’ve been longing to come home to your body with tenderness, the Embodiment Retreat at Spirit Camp offers a weekend of gentle return—yoga, mindfulness, movement, singing, writing, and invitational group process, designed for those who identify as women, ages 20 and up. Held September 26–28 (Friday–Sunday), this gathering is hosted by best friends and collaborators Dr. Hillary McBride and Lisa Gungor, the co-creators of Sacred Feminine. Learn more and reserve your spot via the Embodiment Retreat listing on the Sacred Feminine page, or browse the full calendar at Spirit Camp Retreats. Over two nights, in the hush of redwood forest wellness retreats on the Northern California embodiment retreat coastline, you’ll be invited to listen for your “yes” and your “no,” honoring self-leadership with care.
The way of the sacred feminine, as envisioned by your facilitators, is a weaving of what was never meant to be apart: mind and body, vulnerability and power, the intimate present and the vast unknown. Each activity is optional and invitational, honoring the agency of your nervous system and the wisdom of your pacing. This is a playful, down-to-earth weekend—affectionately known as “grown-up lady camp”—where transformation sits beside laughter, and tenderness is welcomed as a teacher.
Inclusive All-Genders Retreat on the Mendocino Coast with Creative Expression and Group Dialogue
Come As You Are: A Retreat Without Boxes
Some retreats ask you to conform. Symposium: The First Gathering asks you to unfold. Hosted from November 4–9, 2025, this inclusive retreat for all genders on the Mendocino Coast invites you into a brave, beautiful space of creative expression, spiritual dialogue, and identity celebration.
Open to all gender expressions, sexual orientations, body types, and spiritual paths, this gathering is a sanctuary for those who have often felt on the edges of traditional retreat spaces. Here, queer inclusivity isn’t an add-on—it’s a foundation.
Through modalities like ritual art, storytelling, sacred movement, and group dialogue, you’ll be supported in reclaiming parts of yourself that have been waiting to be seen, expressed, and honored.
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Narrative Coaching Retreat for Self-Discovery in Northern California Through Journaling and Myth Work
Every transformation begins with a story—and too often, that story goes untold. Symposium: The First Gathering offers a sacred space to revisit, rewrite, and re-author the narrative of who you are becoming.
This six-day narrative coaching retreat for self-discovery unfolds November 4–9, 2025, beneath redwood canopies in Northern California. Through journaling, visualization, symbolic side quests, and coaching-style reflection, guests are invited into a mythic space of renewal and revelation.
If you’ve been feeling stuck in an old identity—or are standing at the edge of a new chapter—this self-discovery retreat in California helps you find the words, wisdom, and will to move forward. You don’t need to be a writer or a seeker. Just willing to sit with your truth, and let it speak.
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Nature-Based Ritual and Ceremony Retreat on the Mendocino Coast with Forest Offerings and Threshold Rites
There is a place where the veil thins. Where redwood roots mirror your own, and breath carries the memory of something older than words. Symposium: The First Gathering is a nature-based retreat with ritual and ceremony, held November 4–9, 2025, in the coastal forests of Northern California.
Designed for seekers who feel the call to reconnect with the earth, this immersive experience blends forest offerings, grounding practices, and threshold rites into six days of sacred becoming. Whether you’re marking a life change, tending ancestral wounds, or simply feeling called to ritual, this ritual retreat on the Mendocino Coast offers a powerful container.
The journey unfolds within the sanctuary of Spirit Camp Retreat Center—a queer-owned, earth-honoring spiritual hub just ten minutes from downtown Mendocino.
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Creative Expression and Embodiment Retreat in California with Intuitive Art and Ecstatic Dance
If you’ve been craving a space to move without rules, paint without judgment, and reconnect to your body’s own wisdom, Symposium: The First Gathering invites you to step into an immersive playground of creative expression and embodiment.
Taking place November 4–9, 2025, this six-day embodiment retreat in California is made for feelers, visionaries, and seekers who want to unlock the art and movement held within their bodies. No training required—just curiosity and a willingness to let go.
With a focus on intuitive painting, journaling, ecstatic dance, and creative ritual, the retreat offers a safe and spacious container for personal expression. Think paint-streaked fingers, wild barefoot twirling, and quiet moments of reflection as you write, draw, and breathe your story into form.
Set in the redwood sanctuary of Spirit Camp Retreat Center, the environment mirrors the energy of the experience: alive, grounded, inclusive, and full of creative potential.
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Immersive Healing and Storytelling Retreat with Guided Visualization & Tea California
There are moments in life when we ache not for more doing, but for more meaning. Symposium: The First Gathering offers a sacred pause—an immersive healing and storytelling retreat where guided meditation, narrative exploration, and quiet reflection invite you back to your center. Held November 4–9, 2025, this six-day experience is designed for soul-curious seekers yearning to reweave their personal myth in a safe, symbolic, and creative space.
The retreat welcomes individuals of all backgrounds, ages 18 and up, into a shared journey of inner transformation and narrative healing. Through practices like guided visualization, storytelling circles, and journaling rituals, participants gently peel back the layers of noise to hear the quiet truth beneath.
Each afternoon, you’re invited into Tea Time 1:1 sessions—a uniquely intimate reflection ritual where your voice is deeply witnessed and your process lovingly held. Hosted at the magical Spirit Camp Retreat Center just outside Mendocino, this small group retreat in the Redwoods blends myth, movement, and meditation into a transformative week of reconnection.
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Wisdom Talks & Healing Justice Retreats in Mendocino’s Redwoods
If you’ve been looking for a social justice healing retreat that honors both your call to activism and your need for holistic care, the Original Medicine Earth-Based Intensive Immersion Retreat (details here) awaits. Hosted at Spirit Camp near the town of Mendocino, this program is among the leading Healing Justice Retreats in Northern California. Check out this transformative retreat and browse the Spirit Camp retreat schedule to explore the synergy of Redwood forest energy, Wisdom Talks, and communal healing.
Running from July 22–28, 2025, the retreat merges daily meditation and mindful movement with earth-based activism immersion and in-depth dialogues on social transformation. Whether you identify as an organizer, educator, healer, or simply someone seeking a just world, your presence is welcomed and needed.
Transformational Somatic Retreat in Northern California: Rituals & Narrative Myth-Making Among the Redwoods
Are you standing at a threshold in your life—feeling the pull toward something deeper, yet unsure how to cross? This transformational retreat in Northern California offers a mythic, soul-sparking immersion where personal growth meets creative ritual. Symposium: The First Gathering takes place from November 4–9, 2025, a six-day sanctuary for seekers 18 and older ready to explore their stories through somatic healing, sacred council, and symbolic expression.
Designed for those facing creative pivots, spiritual longing, or personal change, this retreat for personal growth in California invites participants to access emotional clarity, intuitive wisdom, and inspired vision. Guided by a circle of expert facilitators, the week includes immersive practices like guided visualization, storytelling yoga, womb ritual, ecstatic dance, and narrative "side quests."
Set within the lush redwood forest of Spirit Camp, the experience delivers not only transformation—but deep reconnection to your essential self.
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Northern California Yoga Retreat Uniting Yin & Sound Bath in Coastal Redwoods
Pack cozy layers and curiosity: Whole Hearted You returns Nov 13-16 2025 with nightly crystal-bowl concerts, sunrise chanting, and afternoon Yin melts amid blooming lavender. Reserve on the retreat page; browse the calendar for all yoga holidays Northern California coast.
Northern California Yoga Retreat Blending Vinyasa & Breathwork near Sonoma County
From Thursday–Sunday, November 13-16, 2025, Whole Hearted You transforms Spirit Camp into a sanctuary of breath, sweat, and stillness. Secure a mat on the retreat page and skim every upcoming journey on the Spirit Camp calendar →. Expect sunrise Vinyasa beneath cathedral-high trunks, midday pranayama labs inside sun-striped Redwood Lodge, and silent hikes where every inhalation syncs with birdsong. This redwood breathwork weekend welcomes beginners who know a Sun Salutation and veterans chasing nuanced edge—no competition, only curiosity.
Northern California Yoga Retreat for Mindful Movement & Sound Healing near Mendocino
From Thursday to Sunday, November 13-16, 2025, Whole Hearted You returns to Spirit Camp’s redwood campus for a soul-soothing escape. Reserve your spot on the Whole Hearted You retreat page to blend vigorous Vinyasa, restorative Yin, and transformational Yoga Nidra—all wrapped in live sound-bath journeys. First-time movers and long-time yogis alike are welcome; this mindful movement getaway champions inclusivity and joyful experimentation. Discover more retreats on the full Spirit Camp calendar →.
Expect sunrise stretches beneath 200-foot redwoods, afternoon Sanctuary siestas, and sunset gongs that melt muscles into gratitude. By day four you’ll head home lighter, clearer, and carrying forest stillness in your cells—proof that a Northern California coast wellness reset is only a scenic drive away.
Deeply Connected Mind Body Soul Retreat with Community Meals Near Sonoma
Few things bring people together like gathering around a table for a meal—especially when that table is set in a Redwood clearing. If you’re seeking a mind body soul retreat that places communal dining at its heart, consider Beyond the Noise: a retreat or check out this transformative retreat from August 13–18 at Spirit Camp. Situated in Northern California, close to Sonoma, this unique experience will have you breaking bread with kindred spirits, practicing mindfulness in Redwood groves, and nurturing every layer of your being. Explore our full retreat calendar for more opportunities to deepen your holistic path.
Mindful Movement & Buddhist Mindfulness Retreats in Northern California’s Redwood Forest
Immerse yourself in the serenity of the Redwood Forest during our Buddhist Mindfulness Retreats in Northern California. From July 22–28, 2025, the Original Medicine Earth-Based Intensive Immersion Retreat (details here) unfolds at Spirit Camp, a redwood-based Buddhist retreat dedicated to synergy between mindful movement and Vipassanā-style meditation. Explore this transformative retreat, or view Spirit Camp’s full event calendar for more ways to deepen your mindfulness practice in nature.
Whether you’re a seasoned meditator or new to contemplative Buddhist practice outdoors, you’ll discover that Redwood synergy and guided movement sessions amplify inner awareness. Prepare to unplug from daily demands and reconnect with the still, wise presence that animates each breath and step.
Awaken Your Potential Mind Body Soul Retreat with Movement in Mendocino
What if you could break free from limiting patterns through dance, breathwork, and Redwood-infused quietude—all in one place? Beyond the Noise, a retreat or see this transformative retreat happening August 13–18, offers exactly that. Hosted at Spirit Camp in Mendocino, this mind body soul retreat seamlessly weaves yoga, breathwork, and movement practices to inspire authentic self-expression. Browse our full retreat calendar for more immersive programs in Northern California.