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Queer-Inclusive Spiritual Retreat with Mindfulness & Group Process North of San Francisco
This September 26–28 (Friday through Sunday), Spirit Camp in Mendocino welcomes women ages 20+ into a circle designed for safety, authenticity, and belonging. The Sacred Feminine Retreat invites participants to explore yoga, meditation, writing, and group process—but always with choice and consent at the core. The retreat is intentionally queer-inclusive and LGBTQ-friendly, celebrating diversity while offering a container where every voice matters.
Secure your place through the Sacred Feminine booking page and explore additional dates on the Spirit Camp Retreats calendar. Booking link: Sacred Feminine.
The heart of this weekend rests in shared mindfulness practices and group process. What unites the circle is not identity alone but the commitment to presence, play, and deep respect for each participant’s autonomy. This is more than a Queer-Inclusive Spiritual Retreat—it is a sanctuary where “yes” and “no” are equally honored.
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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Mystical Retreat for Soul-Curious Seekers in California Featuring Guided Meditation and Sacred Council
Have you ever sensed that life is more than what meets the eye—that beneath the surface is a mythic pulse, a calling just for you? Symposium: The First Gathering is a mystical retreat for soul-curious seekers, held November 4–9, 2025, among the misty redwoods of Mendocino, California.
This six-day immersion invites you into the space between worlds—through guided meditation, sacred council, creative ritual, and introspective exploration. It’s not about answers. It’s about deeper questions.
You don’t need a belief system or spiritual label. Just the willingness to step into the unknown, the unseen, the sacred. This spiritual retreat for seekers is a space to slow down, listen in, and walk the liminal path home to yourself.
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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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Somatic and Spiritual Retreat in the Redwoods: Movement Rituals and Sacred Council near San Francisco
There is a moment when your body says: It’s time to come home. Not to a place—but to your own presence. Symposium: The First Gathering is a somatic and spiritual retreat in the redwoods designed for those craving deep embodiment, sacred ritual, and heartfelt community.
Held from November 4–9, 2025, this six-day immersion near San Francisco offers soul-deep healing through movement, nature-based ceremony, and sacred council. Rooted in the wisdom of the nervous system and the call of the spirit, this retreat invites you to remember who you are—through sensation, stillness, and shared story.
With practices like somatic movement, sacred council, breathwork, and earth-based ritual, participants are guided into grounded presence and emotional clarity. The experience takes place at Spirit Camp Retreat Center in Mendocino County—an inclusive, forested haven that merges somatic science with spiritual depth.
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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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Personal Growth Retreat for Life Transitions Featuring Symbolic Side Quests in the USA
When life calls for a bold next step, the best answers are often whispered by your inner world—not shouted by the outside. Symposium: The First Gathering is a retreat for life transitions and personal growth, designed specifically for adults navigating change—career shifts, endings and beginnings, creative rebirths, or quiet inner reckonings.
Held November 4–9, 2025, this six-day transformational journey unfolds in a sacred arc—mirroring the classic mythic path: departure, initiation, and return. The retreat experience draws deeply from symbolic narrative, embodied ritual, and forest-based ceremony to help you uncover your own way through.
At this life transition retreat in California, guests explore personal myth through creative exercises like side quests, journaling, movement, and sacred council. You won’t just reflect on your story—you’ll step into it, live it, and return changed.
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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.
Redwood Yoga Retreat for Deep-Rest Yoga Nidra in Spirit Camp’s Magic Meadow
From Thursday–Sunday, November 13-16, 2025, Whole Hearted You invites you to lounge on bolster nests, soak in singing-bowl overtones, and gaze skyward through a copper-roof skylight. Reserve on the retreat page and meet every Spirit Camp offering on the calendar. This sanctuary yoga Mendocino immersion centers slow Restorative shapes, mantra lullabies, and circle storytelling—all curated by Rebecca Rogers’ golden voice.
Coastal Redwoods Yoga Retreat Pairing Cold-Water Courage & Campfire Kirtan in Northern California
If plunging into crisp Pacific surf at dawn, wringing out your spine under 200-foot giants, then chanting mantra around an ember-bright fire sounds electric, keep reading. Whole Hearted You lights up Spirit Camp Thursday–Sunday, November 13-16, 2025, uniting Vinyasa vitality with restorative Yin, daily cold plunges, and night-time kirtan beneath redwood crowns. Reserve your berth on the Whole Hearted You retreat page; check all future adventures on the Spirit Camp calendar →.
Designed for intrepid hearts (and toes!), this ocean plunge retreat marries thrill with therapy: cold water sparks endorphins; ecstatic dance frees fascia; chanting threads community. No prior experience—just a willingness to feel fully alive.
Self-Care Retreats California: Solo Wilderness Time & Mindful Movement in Mendocino
Seeking holistic self-care near Bay Area? The Original Medicine Earth-Based Intensive Immersion Retreat (learn more) offers one of the most rejuvenating Self-Care Retreats California has to offer, taking place in Mendocino from July 22–28, 2025. Hosted at Spirit Camp, the retreat highlights solo wilderness time and mindful movement, inviting you to experience a redwood forest relaxation retreat that truly honors your body, mind, and spirit. Check out this transformative retreat or browse Spirit Camp’s full event listing.
In a world where stress and screen-time dominate, a California self-care getaway can feel like a lifeline. This retreat immerses you in Redwood hush, blends wise teachings with playful “campy” energy, and provides daily nourishment from nature’s abundance. By the week’s conclusion, you may find yourself rested, inspired, and open to new possibilities.
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.
Ceremony & Ritual: Earth-Based Community Retreats in Mendocino’s Redwood Haven
Ready to rekindle your bond with nature through indigenous-inspired earth practices and nature-anchored ceremonies? The Original Medicine Earth-Based Intensive Immersion Retreat (more info) awaits at Spirit Camp—your Redwood Haven in Mendocino. Held from July 22–28, 2025, this retreat stands among the most immersive Earth-Based Community Retreats in Northern California. Check out this transformative retreat and explore Spirit Camp’s entire event calendar.
In this group ritual retreat experience, you’ll be guided through days filled with mindful movement, silent mornings, community council, and ceremony & ritual that deepen your connection to land and lineage. If you’ve been craving a sense of sacred belonging, Redwood forests, communal fires, and guided rites may be just what your spirit needs.
Holistic Mind Body Soul Retreat with Yoga Near Oakland
Life can feel like a perpetual to-do list—especially for those balancing professional demands in the Oakland area or the broader Bay. If you’re craving a pause button, consider the Beyond the Noise retreat or learn more about this transformative retreat taking place August 13–18. Designed as a mind body soul retreat, it invites you to connect with your deeper self through yoga, breathwork, and nature immersion in Northern California’s majestic Redwood forests. You can also explore our full retreat calendar for a variety of upcoming programs at Spirit Camp.
Time for Rest & Self-Care: BIPOC Wellness Retreat 2025 in Northern California
If you’re looking ahead to your 2025 mindfulness getaways, consider the Original Medicine Earth-Based Intensive Immersion Retreat (details here)—a BIPOC Wellness Retreat 2025 scheduled for July 22–28. Taking place at Spirit Camp in Northern California, this program offers a refreshing blend of rest & self-care, mindful movement, and Redwood forest serenity. Learn more about this transformative experience, and browse the Spirit Camp retreat calendar for more upcoming sessions designed to nurture your body, mind, and spirit.
This retreat is a healing retreat for communities of color, featuring BIPOC self-care immersion that encourages you to slow down, breathe deeply, and reconnect with your cultural, ancestral, and inner wisdom. Whether you’re longing for a break from city life or eager to deepen your spiritual practice, the Redwood forest awaits with open arms.
Contemplative & Relational Practices: Buddhist Retreats for BIPOC Communities in Northern California
Searching for safe, healing spaces to practice BIPOC-focused Buddhist meditation? The Original Medicine Earth-Based Intensive Immersion Retreat (learn more) might be your answer. Hosted at Spirit Camp in Northern California, this program runs from July 22–28, 2025 and merges contemplative & relational practices into a cohesive container for deep insight and community care. Check out this transformative retreat or browse Spirit Camp’s full retreat calendar for more offerings.
In these Buddhist Retreats for BIPOC communities, participants engage daily with mindful movement for diverse communities, silent mornings, and mindful group discussions. The retreat fosters a supportive environment where the Redwood forest stands as a co-teacher, gently reminding you that you are part of something vast, interconnected, and inherently wise.