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✨A Sanctuary for the Heart ✨This journey is for women who are ready to listen more deeply, love themselves more fiercely, and reclaim the wisdom of the heart and feeling body.
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As Autumn calls us inward, Awakening Women Sanctuary invites you to unravel worn-out stories, strengthen the ground beneath you and commit to a path of self-love. Through deep group process, embodied practice, elemental archetypes, ritual and the beautiful medicine of Cacao, we journey together through four immersive days of reclamation, connection and renewal.
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Here you will discover what becomes possible for you when you allow yourself to soften, focus on a deep cultivation of self-love, be supported, and stand more fully in your own power and self-trust.
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When you decide to join us, you will enter into a journey of:
⁕ Deepening your relationship with yourself, your body and your emotions. Reclaiming the elements as deeply supportive resources.
⁕ Space and facilitation to connect with your own intuition through your body, and experience dance as medicine and as a guide to stay in your empowering feminine flow.
⁕ Gain an eagles perspective on your life and open to big shifts in your circumstances, from creating the space you need to receive new lifelong wellbeing resources and skills.
⁕ Experiencing ceremonial Cacao as a pivotal, gentle but powerful ally for connection and presence, with comprehensive knowledge and instructions on serving Cacao.
⁕ Support in releasing emotional armour, patterns and ways of self-abandonment.
⁕ Rewriting narratives of inadequacy in relating and in feeling a lack of support by engaging in bare-honest talking circles, reflective practices, partnered exercises and powerful, witnessed group processes, leading to cultivating greater self-trust, safety, compassion and authenticity within supportive community.
⁕ Exploring voice and mantras as a path of innate homecoming medicine and empowerment.
⁕ Receive beautiful and healing sound bath frequencies each time we meet with Kinga Gutkowska from Rainbow Roots who will be with us for the whole journey.
⁕ Experiencing meaningful and healing connections with other women and ongoing support during the retreat.
⁕ Connect with pleasure, sensitivity and cyclical living as your natural feminine resources.
⁕ Feel more grounded, alive and connected to what truly matters.
This journey includes materials to take home and ongoing support to help integrate what arises throughout the process.
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🌙Who is this course for?
Awakening Women Sanctuary is for women who are ready to become more emotionally and relationally resourced — to develop inner steadiness, deepen self-trust, and feel inwardly and outwardly supported through life’s inevitable challenges.
Alongside profound personal insights, many women experience a resetting of priorities, sense of increased empowerment, clearer intentions, and a renewed connection to what truly matters.
This is for women who long for a space to slow down, reconnect with themselves, and be held in honest, meaningful community with powerful transformative tools. Whether you are navigating change, feeling disconnected, emotionally overwhelmed, burnt out, or simply sensing there is more to life than surviving, this journey offers a place to come home to yourself.
It is also a space to strengthen your voice, expression, improve communication, and cultivate the courage to live more authentically and in alignment with your inner wise woman.
You will be supported to express yourself more honestly, navigate relationships with greater compassion and clarity, and honour your feelings as potent opportunities to meet yourself and gain greater presence rather than push them aside.
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🌙Your Host
Maria is a facilitator, ceremony guide, medicine musician, somatic facilitator, mother and sacred space holder with over 17 years of experience creating transformational retreats, immersive experiences, and heart-led spaces for healing, connection, and authentic human relating. She now weaves together embodiment, relational group process, ritual, cacao, medicine music and emotional enquiry to support people in reconnecting with themselves and one another in grounded, powerful ways.
Known for creating spaces where people feel safe, seen and held, Maria’s facilitation invites honesty, courage, vulnerability, and authentic expression. At the heart of her work is a belief that healing happens most profoundly within relationship — with ourselves, each other, and when we show up in the living world around us which is why she always brings the sacred spaces back into a circle.
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🌙 Immersive Sound Healing with Kinga
We are so blessed to be accompanied by Kinga Gutkowska. Kinga is a multidisciplinary, holistic healing practitioner with extensive training across a diverse range of complementary, therapeutic, and energy-based modalities. Her work integrates counselling, sound and voice healing, EFT, Matrix Reimprinting, and Theta Healing, alongside advanced energy practices such as Angelic Reiki, Sekhem, Shambala, Kundalini Activation, and shamanic practitioner training. Drawing on this rich and varied background, Kinga intuitively weaves these approaches to create deeply personalised sessions. Her work supports emotional release, energetic alignment, and profound personal transformation, guiding clients toward greater clarity, balance, and inner harmony. Kinga will be offering immersive sound baths, designed to support deep relaxation, emotional release, and energetic realignment. Using the power of her voice alongside a range of therapeutic instruments, she will create a rich, meditative soundscape that will gently guide participants into a state of inner stillness and restoration.
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⭐When we'll meet
We’ll meet over four full Sundays: October 18th, November 1st, 15th November and 22nd November. From 10am til 5pm. A perfect time to turn inward, kindle warmth in community, and find all the resources we need before we move to the stillness of winter.
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⭐Where we'll meet
The Frances Le Sueur Centre is a stunning, bright and beautiful location. Its perfectly suited for retreats and is nestled in Jersey’s National Park, a reclaimed-timber sanctuary surrounded by woodlands, grasslands, and wetlands — just moments from the untamed beauty of St Ouen’s Bay
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🍂 Past Feedback
"This course has changed my life!"
(Awakening Women Sanctuary, formerly Cacao Wisdom Training 2025)
Lucinda Coogan
"The journey was amazing from start to finish, Maria holds an amazing space, safe loving and without judgement where its ok to be open with yourself and whatever that may bring up."
(Awakenings: 8 Part Chakra Journey)
Amanda Anna B
"It has been very healing."
Ann-Marie C
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