Sacred Expression Writing and Movement Women’s Retreat / Aimee Hansen
Join this intimate circle of women for a creative inner adventure through a self-revealing writing journey, movement, yoga, and magical ceremonies on the shores of stunning Lake Atitlan in Guatemala!
You are invited to take a transparent journey into your center to connect with your intuition and express from your core. To unravel the ways you have learned to limit or deny yourself. To trust, embrace and allow your embodied presence and inherent essence. All of it. To follow divine guidance and open to the mystery of your unique path beyond your vision.
Every woman has an intuitive compass that calls her to relax into and expand from her real self. We are gathering together to embrace our wholeness and allow our self-expression. When we stop earning our worth and instead listen within, honor our essence, validate our truths and desires, and share ourselves from inspired presence and action, we are invited into a wondrous and connective adventure in life.
We are expanded by the beauty of each being coming into harmony with who they truly are. Within each of us is the call to open our hearts, step further into our courage, expand our self-acceptance and animate our own wild resonance and sacred expression.
RETREAT HIGHLIGHTS
- Intimate – there are only up to 12 spaces available!
- Inspiring lakefront location with volcano views & thatched roof gathering temple
- 8 nights stay in shared or private accommodation
- 3 delicious organic vegetarian meals/day and juice bar
- Daily guided movement, somatic or yoga and meditation practices
- Two guided self-exploratory writing circles on most days
- Mayan Fire Gathering
- Sound Healing Night Ceremony
- Sacred Sweat Ceremony
- Candlelit writing Ceremonies
- Solar hot tub, on-site spa services, pool, sauna, jacuzzi
- Breaks for swimming, hiking, kayaking, SUP, therapies, relaxing
- Optional excursions (cultural or adventure based)
What Women Say
“My experience of this retreat was nothing short of magical. I shed toxic stories that held me captive for far too long. I rediscovered parts of myself that were buried somewhere within for indeterminate amounts of time, and even discovered aspects of myself that I never knew existed. I spoke truths that I previously never dared. I danced, stomped, howled at the moon, cried, felt alive in ways I didn’t know were possible, profoundly connected to myself and other beautiful women, and emerged with a light inside of myself that continues to shine brightly.” – Ellen
“I feel I am not the same person I went into the experience as. All aspects of the retreat combined well to create a holistic journey that was transformative spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically. I felt a profound healing took place and a shift of consciousness in which I cannot view myself or life in the same way again. Overall I feel that this retreat gifted me many experiences that will remain in my heart for the rest of my life.” – Myshelle
I’m a big skeptic – especially as I’ve done other retreat types, yoga teacher training and one week retreats. Aimee is one of a kind. She’s a walking, talking poet! A combination of fairy, wild woman, magician, mother, soul sister, who can see you and facilitate change gently. She’s genuine and engaged with us. She’s real – 100%. Words can’t describe this experience.” – Nisrine
Your Guides For This Retreat
Aimee Hansen, creator of Storyteller Within Retreats and co-author of This Book Is a Retreat, will lead in facilitating this women’s retreat. Aimee is based in Guatemala and has co-created and facilitated this retreat with over 200 women since 2015, across 25 different events in Guatemala and further events in the U.S. She trusts in the mysterious sways of our hearts and the essential truth in our bodies, listening to what lights us up from within and moving, again and again, from this embodied and guiding knowing.
Kanika Batra is a soulcentric educator and mentor and has spent the last 20 years working at the intersection of art, youth, and social change. She was born and raised in New Delhi, India, and pursued her bachelors in Social and Behavioral Sciences at Soka University in California with a post-graduation in Dance Movement Therapy in Spain. She founded Camino Canicas, which works with heart-led mentoring and expressive arts education to build resilience in the Indigenous communities of Lake Atitlan, Guatemala.