Healing Retreat with Creative Movement and Fire Ceremony Near the Bay Area

Creating Space for Deep Healing and Nervous System Restoration

When was the last time you allowed yourself true rest? Not just a weekend off work or a few extra hours of sleep, but genuine restoration—the kind that happens when your nervous system finally feels safe enough to release the tension it's been holding for months or even years? If you're carrying exhaustion in your bones, if you feel disconnected from your body's wisdom, if you long to return to yourself but don't know how to begin, Witches in the Woods: A Somatic Awakening offers the container you've been seeking.

This healing retreat takes place October 21-25, 2026 (Wednesday through Sunday, four restorative nights) at Spirit Camp in Mendocino County, Northern California. Designed specifically for women-identifying individuals (18+), this transformational experience focuses on nervous system restoration through the powerful combination of presence, spaciousness, and rest alongside active healing modalities including somatic awakening, creative movement, vocal expression, and earth-based ritual. This is not a retreat that asks you to push through or power over—it's an invitation to feel your body as home, to strengthen your foundation from within, and to remember the resilience and wisdom already alive in your cells.

The healing retreat California journey unfolds across four intentional days where you'll engage in practices specifically chosen to support deep transformation. You'll experience refining your intuition through somatic listening, somatic awakening and ritual that honor your body's intelligence, creative artistic expression that gives form to emotions words cannot hold, vocal activation that reclaims the power of your authentic voice, deepening devotion to personal practices you can sustain beyond the retreat, immersion in ancient Redwood forest that grounds and restores, embodying your inner witch or unique archetype through ceremony and play, expanding your capacity to hold both yourself and others with compassion, cultivating lineage and legacy within supportive community, and most essentially, allowing profound restoration of your nervous system through spaciousness, presence, and the medicine of rest.

This retreat welcomes mothers who've poured everything into caring for others and forgotten how to receive, caregivers whose empathy runs so deep they've absorbed others' pain as their own, working women exhausted from performing competence while feeling hollow inside, entrepreneurs whose bodies bear the weight of holding vision and responsibility, and any woman longing to return to her voice, her knowing, her authentic expression after years of accommodating others' needs and expectations. Whether you recognize yourself as the witch trusting body wisdom, the priestess holding sacred space, the gatekeeper protecting inner truth, or the creative midwife birthing new versions of self—you belong here.

The format honors the reality that deep healing requires time. Four nights (Wednesday through Sunday) allows your nervous system to genuinely downregulate rather than simply experiencing temporary relief before rushing back into daily stress. By the second day, most participants notice their sleep deepening, their breath slowing, their minds quieting in ways that didn't feel accessible when they arrived. By the final day, many report feeling more present in their bodies, more connected to their intuition, and more resourced to meet life's challenges than they have in years. Begin your healing journey at Witches in the Woods or explore the full healing retreats calendar.

How Four Days of Somatic Practice and Ritual Can Transform Your Relationship with Self

What distinguishes this holistic healing retreat from spa weekends or wellness getaways? It's the integration of evidence-based somatic practices with ancient ritual wisdom, held within an intentional container specifically designed for women's transformation. The healing here doesn't happen through a single modality or technique, but through the synergistic interaction of multiple approaches working together—somatic awakening that teaches you to listen to your body's messages, creative movement that releases energy stuck in tissues and fascia, vocal activation that reclaims expression silenced by fear or trauma, meditation and breathwork that calm the mind and regulate the nervous system, sharing circles where your story matters and is witnessed without judgment, fire ceremonies that ritualize release and transition, and nature immersion that reminds you that you are part of something vast, ancient, and inherently whole.

This emotional healing retreat approach recognizes that healing isn't linear. Some days you might need vigorous movement to discharge activated energy, while other moments require stillness and held space to process what's surfacing. The facilitators understand this and create programming that offers both structure and flexibility, ensuring everyone receives what they need while honoring the collective journey. You're never forced into practices that don't feel right for your body in that moment, and you're always encouraged to listen to your own wisdom about what serves your healing.

The emphasis on nervous system restoration means the retreat intentionally balances active practices with spaciousness. Between scheduled sessions, you'll have time to rest in your accommodation, walk alone through Redwood forest, journal by the fire, or simply sit in the Sanctuary letting your system integrate the deep work happening. This spaciousness isn't "filler" between the "real" programming—it's essential medicine allowing your nervous system to process, metabolize, and consolidate the healing occurring. Many participants identify these unstructured hours as some of their most transformative, when insights suddenly arise, emotions finally release, or they simply experience the unfamiliar sensation of being rather than doing.

The transformational healing retreat Northern California setting amplifies every practice. The ancient Redwoods themselves support healing—their grounding presence, the quality of silence they create, even the beneficial compounds called phytoncides they release into the air. The forest teaches patience, perspective, and the wisdom of slow, steady growth. When you practice yoga beneath Redwood canopy, dance around fire surrounded by ancient trees, or share vulnerably in circle while forest sounds provide soundtrack, the natural world becomes not just setting but active participant in your healing journey.

Understanding Trauma-Informed Healing and Nervous System Regulation

Contemporary neuroscience has revolutionized our understanding of trauma and healing, particularly through Dr. Stephen Porges's groundbreaking polyvagal theory developed in the 1990s. Porges demonstrated that our autonomic nervous system—the unconscious regulatory system controlling heart rate, breathing, digestion, and stress responses—operates through three distinct pathways: the ventral vagal pathway associated with social engagement and feelings of safety, the sympathetic pathway governing fight-or-flight activation, and the dorsal vagal pathway producing freeze, shutdown, and collapse responses. Understanding these pathways explains why trauma survivors often feel stuck in hypervigilance or numbness, why talking about trauma doesn't always resolve it, and why somatic approaches that work directly with the nervous system prove so effective.

Trauma—whether acute events like accidents or assaults, or chronic experiences like ongoing stress, emotional neglect, or oppressive environments—becomes encoded not just in memory but in the body's tissues, nervous system, and even cellular functioning. When the nervous system perceives threat (whether real or imagined, present or remembered), it automatically activates survival responses. But unlike animals in the wild who naturally shake off stress after escaping predators, humans often suppress these discharge mechanisms due to social conditioning, leading to chronically held tension, anxiety, depression, dissociation, and various physical symptoms. This stored survival energy doesn't simply disappear with time—it requires specific practices that allow the nervous system to complete interrupted defensive responses and return to regulated states.

Somatic practices work precisely because they address this embodied reality of trauma. Rather than trying to think or talk your way through healing, somatic approaches help you sense into your body's actual experience moment by moment, notice where you hold tension or numbness, and provide safe pathways for releasing stored survival energy. Creative expression through movement or art bypasses the verbal, analytical brain to access deeper emotional layers. Nature immersion naturally calms the nervous system through sensory richness, beauty, and the inherent safety of natural environments humans evolved within. Ritual and ceremony provide culturally resonant containers for marking transitions, releasing what no longer serves, and calling in new possibilities. Learn more about trauma-informed healing and polyvagal theory.

The spiritual healing retreat near Bay Area programming at Witches in the Woods specifically incorporates these insights. Practices begin gently, establishing safety and connection through group agreements, sharing circles, and grounding exercises. Movement starts with simple awareness—noticing breath, sensation, subtle internal shifts—before gradually inviting more expressive, energetic forms. Facilitators watch for signs of nervous system dysregulation and offer modifications, reminders to resource (finding calming anchors), and permission to pause whenever needed. The emphasis on spaciousness and rest recognizes that healing doesn't only happen during active practice but often in the quiet integration periods afterward when the nervous system can consolidate new patterns. Fire ceremonies provide structured ritual containers where release happens safely, witnessed by community, with clear beginnings and endings that help the nervous system recognize completion. Everything is designed with understanding that true healing requires feeling safe enough to drop defenses, which only happens in environments of genuine acceptance, attunement, and respect for each person's unique process and timeline.

Photo of Deer Haven, one of the our many unique cabin spaces. This cabin has three beds. Cabins have between 1 to 8 beds each and provide several different sleeping arrangements for Healing retreat. All cabin spaces are included in Healing retreat California.

Photo of Group Glamping Tents Setup in Sunset Meadow.  We have 10 Glamping Structures that can be added with 1to 3 beds each. This can increase bed capacity of campus to 50 guests across 20 unique accommodation spaces.  

Experienced Healing Facilitators - Kirin Power and Magalí Clazon

Kirin Power brings her training as a holistic hypnotherapist alongside her extensive background as yoga and meditation teacher, creating unique capacity to work with both conscious intention and unconscious patterns that shape our lives. Her dedication to healing arts extends beyond techniques and certifications into genuine reverence for the mysterious, transformative power of nature, ritual, and human connection. Kirin's approach emphasizes creating spaces where participants feel held, seen, and supported exactly as they are—no performance required, no spiritual bypassing tolerated, no pressure to have specific experiences or insights. She understands that healing happens in its own time and way for each person, and her role is simply to hold steady, loving presence while your own wisdom guides the journey.

What distinguishes Kirin's facilitation is her ability to alchemize multiple healing modalities—yogic technologies, movement, music, mantra, meditation, hypnotherapy techniques—into seamlessly integrated offerings where each element supports the others. Her teaching invites you to awaken to the wonder and awe of being alive and embodied while honoring wherever you are in your healing process, whether that's grief, anger, confusion, or joy. Participants consistently describe feeling permission to be fully human in her presence—to cry, laugh, rage, dance, rest, or simply sit in silence as needed. Her focus is less on achieving particular outcomes and more on cultivating the quality of presence, self-compassion, and authentic expression that allows healing to unfold organically.

Magalí Clazon complements Kirin's approach with her background as Ontological Senior Coach—training specifically designed to support profound personal transformation through examining how language, emotions, and embodiment shape our experiences. Combined with her 15 years dedicated to somatics and movement learning, Magalí brings sophisticated understanding of how body and psyche interweave, how old patterns live in posture and gesture, and how conscious movement practices can rewire these patterns. Since 2020, she has been deeply immersed in practices involving nature and shamanism, integrating her mind-body work with spiritual realms through direct experience of ceremony, plant medicine (non-psychedelic), and earth-based ritual traditions.

Magalí's Wolf Womb women's circle work demonstrates her particular gift for holding sacred space where women can access and express the fullness of their being—fierce and tender, wild and wise, grieving and celebrating. She understands the healing power of ceremony and creates ritual containers where symbolic acts become gateways to genuine transformation. Her integration of carefully curated music throughout every experience reflects her understanding that sound and rhythm can bypass cognitive defenses to touch deeper emotional and somatic layers. Participants often mention how her playlist choices seemed to perfectly match and support whatever was moving through them in that moment.

Together as soul sisters, Kirin and Magalí create healing retreat for women experiences marked by safety, authenticity, and devoted care. Previous participants describe their space-holding as "weaving deep, deep magic," creating environments where profound healing becomes possible. Their commitment to trauma-informed practices, their own ongoing personal work, and their genuine love for supporting women's transformation ensures you'll be held by facilitators who understand the sacred responsibility of witnessing another's healing journey.

The Healing Environment of Spirit Camp's Redwood Forest

Located on 27 acres of second-growth Redwood forest in Mendocino County, Spirit Camp offers a natural healing sanctuary where the environment itself participates actively in your restoration. The ancient Redwoods—some over 200 feet tall and hundreds of years old—create an immediate physiological impact on the human nervous system. Scientific research demonstrates that walking in forests lowers cortisol levels, reduces blood pressure and heart rate, strengthens immune function, and improves mood more effectively than urban environments. The Redwoods specifically release phytoncides (natural compounds that protect trees from insects and decay) which, when inhaled by humans, increase our natural killer cells and boost immune function for days afterward.

Redwood Energy and Grounding - Nature as Healing Ally

Beyond the measurable scientific benefits, most people report experiencing something less quantifiable but equally profound when spending time among ancient Redwoods—a quality of presence, timelessness, and deep peace that seems to emanate from the trees themselves. Many participants describe arriving at Spirit Camp feeling scattered, anxious, or numb, then noticing within hours how their breath deepens, their shoulders drop, their racing thoughts begin to slow. The forest creates container that supports nervous system downregulation simply through its inherent qualities—the soft, filtered green light; the cushioning quiet broken only by bird song or wind through branches; the way massive tree trunks provide visual anchors for grounding; the ancient, patient energy that reminds you that your small human struggles exist within much vaster timescales and cycles.

The property's 27 acres extend into hundreds of acres of undeveloped wilderness, offering private hiking trails that wind through the forest, cross small bridges over seasonal streams lined with sword ferns and redwood sorrel, and open into hidden clearings perfect for solo contemplation. Walking these trails becomes moving meditation—the gentle exercise releasing tension, the forest sounds and scents engaging your senses and pulling you into present moment, the solitude offering space to process emotions or insights surfacing during group sessions. Wildlife encounters—banana slugs in their varied colors, ravens calling from the canopy, occasional deer moving silently through the understory—remind you that healing doesn't only happen in formal practices but also through simple presence to the living world.

Sacred Spaces for Healing Work and Integration

The Sanctuary serves as Spirit Camp's primary healing space—600 square feet thoughtfully designed with 20-foot south-facing windows, central skylight in the copper roof, and a wood-burning stove creating cozy warmth. The architecture itself supports healing: abundant natural light helps regulate circadian rhythms disrupted by stress, the south-facing exposure provides solar warmth without harsh glare, the skylight creates sense of openness while maintaining shelter, and the circular layout naturally invites group circles where each person can see and be seen. The space holds up to 25 people comfortably, allowing for both intimate dyad or triad work and full-group practices. Many participants describe the Sanctuary as feeling like a womb—protected, nurturing, lit from within—where they felt safe enough to access and express emotions they'd been holding for years.

The Redwood Lodge's 1,500 square feet provides larger gathering space for group healing practices like ecstatic dance, creative movement, or circle processes requiring more room to spread out. Six skylights maintain bright atmosphere even during coastal fog, important because natural light exposure helps regulate mood and energy. The stone fireplace and wood-burning stove create multiple focal points and the comforting presence of fire—an ancient healing element that humans have gathered around for millennia to share stories, process experiences, and mark transitions. The lodge seamlessly accommodates both high-energy practices and quiet activities, with comfortable seating options and the flexibility to rearrange as needed.

Magic Meadow, where the Redwood canopy parts to allow year-round sunlight, features two fire pits that become central to evening healing ceremonies. Fire ceremony represents one of humanity's oldest ritual practices, and for good reason—watching flames dance, feeling warmth on your face, placing symbolic objects or written intentions into transformative fire, sitting in circle while firelight flickers on faces creates conditions where profound release and renewal become possible. The meadow setting surrounded by ancient trees, under stars if weather permits, grounds these ceremonies in nature's rhythms while the contained fire provides focus and structure for the work.

Rest and Restoration in Healing Accommodations

Quality sleep proves essential for healing—during sleep, the brain processes emotional experiences, consolidates learning, and literally clears metabolic waste products that accumulate during waking hours. Spirit Camp's accommodation options prioritize the elements that support deep, restorative rest. Private Redwood cabins offer queen beds with luxurious cotton and linen bedding, oak hardwood floors, and most importantly, blue-blocking lights that don't disrupt melatonin production the way regular LED lights do. Each space includes individual heating control, allowing you to create optimal sleep temperature for your body. Shared cabins maintain the same quality and comfort while offering the option of sleeping near friends or new connections formed during the retreat.

The bunkhouse provides more economical accommodation without sacrificing the cleanliness and care Spirit Camp is known for. Regardless which tier you choose, every space receives both physical and energetic clearing between guests using all-natural botanical sprays, ensuring you step into an environment that feels fresh and welcoming. Many participants report sleeping more deeply at Spirit Camp than they have in months or years—attributing it to the combination of physical exertion from movement practices, nervous system regulation from somatic work, the absence of urban noise and light pollution, and most essentially, finally feeling safe enough to truly let go.

Plant-Based Nourishment Supporting the Healing Process

The gut-brain axis—the bidirectional communication between digestive system and central nervous system—means that what you eat directly impacts your emotional state and healing capacity. Spirit Camp's organic, locally-sourced, plant-based cuisine is designed with this understanding, emphasizing foods that reduce inflammation, stabilize blood sugar, support gut health, and provide nutrients essential for neurotransmitter production. Meals are timed to avoid heaviness before movement practices while providing sustained energy throughout active days, and prepared with obvious care and intention that participants consistently mention as highlighting their experience.

The kitchen accommodates virtually any dietary restriction with advance notice, ensuring everyone feels nourished and cared for. Communal dining in the Redwood Lodge or gardens creates healing opportunities beyond nutrition—the practice of eating together, sharing gratitude for food and those who prepared it, having easeful conversations that deepen connections, and experiencing how nourishment extends beyond calories into the quality of presence and attention you offer each other.

Mendocino's Healing Landscape - Where Forest Meets Ocean

Spirit Camp sits within Mendocino County on Northern California's dramatic coast, where ancient Redwood ecosystems meet the Pacific Ocean to create uniquely potent healing conditions. The coastal Redwood forest represents one of Earth's rarest and most resilient ecosystems—these trees thrive specifically in the narrow band where coastal fog provides moisture during dry summers, creating the microclimate that allows them to reach extraordinary heights and ages. This same fog that nourishes Redwoods creates the mystical, otherworldly atmosphere many describe as "witchy" or "enchanted," particularly during morning hours when mist weaves between trees and everything feels hushed and liminal.

The property occupies a ridge-line position creating microclimates that offer both cool Redwood shade perfect for contemplative walking and warm, sunlit meadows ideal for outdoor practices. This variety means you can choose environments matching your needs in any given moment—seeking the grounding, introspective energy of deep forest, or the expansive, energizing quality of sun-drenched open spaces. The Pacific Ocean lies just minutes away, adding the healing elements of negative ions generated by crashing waves, the rhythmic sound that naturally entrains slower brainwaves, and the vast horizon that provides perspective when you feel small or stuck.

Located just three hours north of San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, and other Bay Area communities, this healing retreat destination offers accessibility rare for such pristine natural settings. Rather than requiring extensive travel adding to pre-retreat stress, you can leave work Wednesday and arrive in time for opening dinner, immediately dropping into healing space. Three airport options serve the area: San Francisco International (SFO) and Oakland International (OAK) approximately three hours away, plus Santa Rosa Airport only two hours from Spirit Camp, making this accessible for participants flying from other regions.

The location just 12 minutes from Mendocino village provides convenient access to supplies, cafes, or simply a change of scenery while maintaining the forest sanctuary quality essential for deep healing work. Many participants choose to arrive a day early or stay an extra night to explore Mendocino's coastal headlands, art galleries, and beaches, extending their healing journey beyond the formal retreat container. Browse additional healing and transformational retreats offered throughout the year at Spirit Camp.

Healing Retreat Questions and Answers

1. I'm dealing with trauma or significant emotional pain - is this retreat right for me?
   The facilitators create trauma-informed environments and use practices specifically designed to support healing from trauma and emotional pain. However, it's important to understand that this retreat is not therapy or a clinical treatment program. If you're currently in acute crisis, experiencing active suicidal ideation, or struggling with severe mental health symptoms that require professional intervention, we encourage you to establish care with a licensed mental health provider before attending. For those in ongoing therapy or healing work who feel relatively stable and resourced, this retreat can provide powerful complementary support—a container for integration, community connection, and accessing your body's wisdom in ways that talk therapy alone sometimes cannot reach. Many participants are working with therapists and find the retreat accelerates or deepens their healing process. If you're unsure whether this retreat suits your current needs, the facilitators offer brief discovery calls to discuss your situation and help you make an informed decision.

2. How does healing happen during the retreat?
   Healing unfolds through multiple pathways working synergistically rather than through any single technique or moment. Somatic practices help you notice and release tension patterns held in your body, creating more ease and flow. Creative expression through movement, art, or sound provides pathways for processing emotions that bypass verbal language, particularly valuable for preverbal trauma or experiences that feel too big for words. Nature immersion naturally calms your nervous system and provides perspective, beauty, and reminder of your connection to something larger than personal struggles. Ritual and ceremony mark transitions, honor losses, and call in new possibilities in ways that touch deeper archetypal and spiritual layers. Supportive community offers witnessing, reflection, belonging, and the healing that happens simply through being seen and accepted by others.
   Perhaps most importantly, healing happens through the spaciousness between formal practices—the quiet hours when your system integrates and metabolizes the work, when insights suddenly arise while walking alone in the forest, when emotions finally release while sitting by the fire after everyone else has gone to bed. Each person's healing journey is unique, and the retreat honors this by providing multiple modalities and plenty of space for your own wisdom to guide what you need. Some people experience dramatic breakthroughs or releases, while others notice subtler shifts that only become apparent in the weeks following. Both are valuable, both are healing.

3. What if I need alone time during the retreat?
   Absolutely honor that need. While the retreat emphasizes community and shared practice, the facilitators understand that healing sometimes requires solitude for integration, processing, or simply resting your nervous system from social engagement. The property offers numerous opportunities for alone time—private hiking trails through the forest, quiet spaces in the Sanctuary when not in use for group sessions, your personal accommodation, benches in the gardens, or simply finding a spot under the Redwoods where you can sit undisturbed. The schedule includes some unstructured time specifically for personal practice, rest, or solitude.
   If you need to skip a session to take care of yourself, that's completely acceptable—your self-awareness and self-care serve the entire group by modeling authentic listening to your needs. The only request is that if you're struggling significantly or notice yourself wanting to completely withdraw from all connection, please let the facilitators know so they can check in and ensure you're supported rather than isolating in distress. The value of returning to community after time alone often surprises people—many find that solitary processing followed by reconnection creates powerful integration and deepens rather than diminishes their sense of belonging.

Extending Your Healing Journey in Mendocino County

MacKerricher State Park - Beach Walks and Seal Watching

Just north of Fort Bragg along Highway 1, MacKerricher State Park offers eight miles of sandy beaches, coastal bluffs, dunes, and headlands where land meets sea in dramatic, ever-changing displays of natural power and beauty. The park features a wheelchair-accessible boardwalk winding through dunes and wetlands—perfect for gentle walking meditation where you can observe shorebirds, seasonal wildflowers, and the intricate ecosystems thriving in this transition zone between land and water. The sound of waves provides natural white noise that many find deeply calming, and the negative ions generated by crashing surf have measurable mood-lifting effects similar to antidepressants but without side effects.

At the park's north end, a harbor seal rookery provides year-round opportunities to observe these marine mammals hauling out on rocks to rest, birth pups (primarily in spring), and interact in their complex social groups. Watching seals go about their lives—basking in sun, nursing babies, barking at each other, slipping into waves—offers healing perspective and simple joy. There's something profoundly settling about witnessing other mammals simply being, reminding us that rest, play, and connection to our own kind represent natural, essential activities rather than luxuries to feel guilty about. Many healing retreat participants choose to spend time at MacKerricher after the retreat concludes, walking the beaches while integrating insights, collecting stones or shells as physical reminders of their transformation, or simply sitting on driftwood logs watching waves roll in with the timeless rhythm that predates human existence and will continue long after.

Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens - Plant Medicine and Beauty

The Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens represent California's only public garden situated directly on the ocean, featuring 47 acres of thoughtfully designed gardens, native Redwood groves, coastal bluffs, and dramatic ocean views. Various themed gardens showcase different plant communities—medicinal herb gardens where you can learn about traditional and contemporary plant healing, succulent gardens demonstrating desert adaptation and resilience, rhododendron collections exploding with color in spring, and native California plant gardens teaching about local ecology and indigenous relationships with the land. Walking these diverse gardens provides living education in plant wisdom, beauty, and the extraordinary creativity of natural selection.

The healing quality of wandering garden paths, connecting with plant diversity and seasonal changes, finding secluded benches for contemplation or journaling, and simply immersing yourself in beauty cannot be overstated. Gardens have been recognized as healing spaces across cultures for millennia—Japanese healing gardens, monastery cloister gardens, hospital therapy gardens all attest to humans' deep need for connection with growing things. The botanical gardens offer this medicine in concentrated form, where every turn reveals new colors, scents, textures, and forms. Year-round beauty ensures meaningful experiences regardless of season—even winter brings its own stark elegance, and the gardens' ocean bluffs remain dramatic and awe-inspiring whether draped in summer fog or sparkling under winter's clear skies. Supporting this special sanctuary through admission fees honors your commitment to preserving healing spaces for current and future generations seeking solace, inspiration, and connection with the more-than-human world.

Your Healing Journey Awaits

You've been carrying so much, for so long. You've been strong, capable, present for others while maybe forgetting how to be present for yourself. You've survived—and that survival deserves honoring. But perhaps now, you're ready for something more than survival. Perhaps you're ready to remember what it feels like to truly inhabit your body, to trust your knowing, to express yourself without self-censoring, to rest without guilt, to belong to yourself and to community that sees and celebrates you.

Witches in the Woods: A Somatic Awakening offers the healing retreat container you've been seeking—where ancient Redwoods hold space for your unfolding, where skilled facilitators understand trauma-informed healing, where other women mirror your courage and vulnerability, where you can finally exhale and let the healing you've been postponing begin.

Space is intentionally limited for this intimate gathering, ensuring each woman receives the attention, care, and support essential for deep healing work. Join Kirin Power and Magalí Clazon October 21-25, 2026 in Mendocino County's healing landscape where forest meets ocean, where ritual meets science, where you can finally come home to yourself. Register for Witches in the Woods or discover all healing and transformational retreats at Spirit Camp.

The Redwoods are waiting. The fire is lit. Your healing is ready to begin.

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