Generating Joy Retreat

🪷 So often in our work with women we hear a very common collective core issue amongst us. “I can’t access joy in a deep and fulfilling way” The truth is our birthright is to be in a harmonious state of joy! How can we open to that more fully? What does embodiment mean and how can we become embodied joy? What is holding us back from experiencing states of ecstatic bliss within ourselves?

🌸Springtime is a clearing time. It’s our moment on nature’s clock to clear out old dusty corners and to reawaken the energies we want to have more present within us. A time to clear what makes us feel stuck and closed in on, and to make the space within ourselves to shine ✨

💕So… what does hold us back from this joy? Our work as retreat leaders and healing arts practitioners have given us a very keen understanding of what can get in the way. An unregulated nervous system that’s in a constant state of hypervigilance (fight, flight, freeze, or fawn) is normally a key factor. This is what we call a “conditioning” of the neurological and neurochemical systems being on autopilot. We are literally hardwired to feel every little thing as a threat leading to a decreased ability to feel much else, especially the mood states that we DESIRE to feel..such as pleasure, contentment and joy.

🪷In this retreat we will diffuse some of the body’s holdings and the conditioning around fear, anger, sadness and trauma stories. We will utilize many ways to work with the nervous system and have regulation tools to take home for your ultimate transformation into GENERATING JOY! 🧬 🌟

🌸 Julie, Asia and Dori are called forward to serve in the education of women to understand how to process old energy and to then liberate it, choosing and activating the joy portal within.

💕 We created the Generating Joy Retreat to reconnect to our truest essence and highest frequency in a container of sacred sisterhood, held by nature. When we join together in community and practice tools of wellness, we amplify the effectiveness of remembering our way back to wholeness in mind, body and soul. Our mission is to provide creatively curated experiences to help you access your uninhibited wild, your unbridled joy and your greatest peace.

🪷Taking place on the beautiful retreat land in Ann Arbor called Amananda, this retreat will restore and deeply serve your ecstatic joy, and sensuous nature (yes even if you think that's not you). Picture 20+ acres of land, a bonfire to gather around, high vibrational teas and food made consciously with love, ceremony, yoga, breathwork, meditations, dancing, singing and restful reflection time.

🌸 Let us come together to spiral within and REMEMBER who we truly are. Let’s support each other and have heartfelt witnessing of each woman present. With deep TRUST, know that you are worthy of such a nourishing and soulful weekend! No previous experience is needed to tap into this Divine Feminine healing, just an openness to FEEL something real and true…and perhaps unlock the door to your unbridled JOY!

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Here is our current itinerary which is

**subject to change if need be**

Possible outline:

Friday 24 Day 1:

2pm Land opens up for campers to come select spaces and set up

4:30 -6:30 Gather fireside together at Amananda Retreat center. Our Retreat Begins with introductions and intention setting.

6:30-7:15 Sound frequency attunement meditation with Dori and Julie

7:30 Dinner and open fireside tea

Saturday the 25th Day 2:

8-9am Breakfast

9-10 guided walking meditation with Dori

11:00-3pm Basket weaving workshop with Asia

3pm Lunch

4:30 Breathwork with sauna and cold plunge for nervous/lymphatic system flushing. (Clearing out) with Julie and Dori

7pm Dinner

8:30pm Drum and Dance Circle/ Ecstatic dance

Sunday the 26th Day 3:

9-10 Breakfast

10am-1 Dissolving Trauma ceremony with Julie

1-2:30 Lunch

2:30-3:30 Sense-ual stretch and nervous system regulation tools with Dori

3:30-4:15 Break or make anointing oil with Dori

4:15-5:15 Rapture yoga/dance with Asia

5:30-6:15 light dinner

6:30 closing circle

💰PRICING & 😴SLEEPING DETAILS

Our early bird pricing is $650 for all three days starts NOW UNTIL APRIL 1

Retreat cost is $750 (plus taxes and fees from Eventbrite ticketing processor) This is the total for the whole weekend which includes all of your meals and workshops.

👉🏽DAY PASSES AVAILABLE!! This is new by request.

$150 for friday evening

$300 saturday day pass

$300 for sunday day pass

DEPOSITS OF $200 DUE BY APRIL 15th for full retreat goers (staying Friday-Monday) and final payments due May 15th. *Option to pay in full on tickets icon of this Facebook invite.

You must pay in full for a day pass and it is *non refundable* email the address below 👇🏽 to be invoiced for the payment.

👌Payment Plans available upon request. Please email You can divide the full weekend total into payments of up to 3 payments.

All documents and agreements to sign will be emailed upon paid deposits.

We ask for at least a 3 week window for cancellations to fill your place should you no longer be available for this retreat. Full refunds will be given within that 3 week period. No refunds within 3 weeks of retreat unless there is a unique emergency.

⛺️We encourage our participants to camp on the land with their own supplies. This land is gorgeous and it's just far enough away from the busy-ness of the city to see the stars clearly and wake to the many sounds of nature. Talk about rest and restoration! This alone has so much value. We will have hot showers available anytime, an indoor bathroom and a handwashing station. We will provide a packing list to make sure you have what you need. If you forget don’t worry, WE GOT YOU!

👑Local goddesses, you are welcome to drive home as well, but staying within the healing container of a retreat is really WHERE IT’S AT! Sometimes going home can distract and shift any fresh energy you are bringing in.

🏩For those of you who want to stay close to the retreat, this lovely hotel is 12 minutes from the land:

Weber's Inn 3050 Jackson Rd. Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103. 734-769-2500

MEALS

Dinners will be catered by a local company providing excellent quality meals!

Our retreat team will cook breakfast and lunch. We only purchase items that are nourishing and quality. We will aim for locally sourced, plant based, organic foods.

Breakfast, lunch, dinner and all beverages provided.

⭐️Upon registration you will be given the address of the location. This is a substance free weekend so we can get centered, clear, and heal. Personal walks with medicines that you require are ok. No alcohol.

Spaces limited!! Register when you are inspired 🌹

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Our goddess energy has been squelched and yet we are becoming nourished. Our sensuality has been flattened and yet we become hilly and ripe with remembrance. Our intuition has been forbidden as witchery and yet we make magic. Our hearts have been trampled on and yet we dance to oppose the forces that would have us cave. Our wisdom has been stripped and yet we reweave our memories, as we gather the bones of the lost ways. AND WE SHALL BREATH LIFE BACK INTO OUR COLLECTIVE WISDOM. ~Julie Kouyate

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Ann Arbor, United States