DIVORCE HEALING & EMPOWERMENT WOMEN’S RETREAT
March 16-19, 2023
BE HEARD
You’ll be heard and seen in our women's heart-centered, deep-dive dialogue. And you’ll have time to listen and discover the whispers of your heart during quiet guided journaling and personal reflective time.
BE NURTURED
Touch and movement are powerful healing modalities, but so too is healthy, organic food. You’ll enjoy delicious snacks and meals tailored to your dietary needs and tastes. You’ll be guided through gentle yoga and employ somatic movement and breath work that will support and sustain your healing journey. You’ll also receive one 90-minute massage that incorporates breath work and loving self-talk.
BE EMPOWERED
Step back into your power with an ocean self-love ceremony, a fire release ceremony, tapping release techniques, and personal guidance to change your limited thinking.
BE YOUR OWN HERO
Use journaling to rewrite your old story. You’ll come to see your past as a stepping stone toward self-realized empowerment where you create your best life.
YOUR TRANSFORMATIVE 4-DAY RETREAT
Your September 1-4, 2023 retreat includes:
Intention Setting Ceremony
Group self-empowerment guidance
Reflective & quiet guided journal time poolside
Self-Empowerment Ocean Ceremony and Fire Ritual
Time to wander downtown St. Pete or St. Pete Beach
Welcome gifts that nurture and enliven your experience
All meals, served with coffee, teas, water, or mocktails
Transportation to and from the airport
$1097*
*$500 deposit due now, the balance on the first day of the retreat
HOW TO PREPARE:
Contact us with any questions!
Book it! Register and pay your $500 deposit. You’ll also be asked about your dietary needs and tastes.
Make your travel arrangements. Fly into either St Petersburg’s (PIE) with Allegiant or Tampa International Airport (TPA) with all major air carriers. We’ll come for you either way.
Choose your accommodations. We’ve assembled a helpful lists from Central Oak Park, all just steps away from your retreat at Casa Guilia, the home of BreathWorks. There’s a range of accommodations from the budget-friendly and cozy trailers to luxury pool properties.
Get a jumpstart on your retreat by answering the dietary and self-reflection questionnaire. You’ll be prompted to answer these questions after you pay your deposit. Please meditate on them for a bit before answering. It’ll help us better prepare for your visit and give you greater insight into what you’ll want to focus on during the retreat.
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MEET YOUR HOSTS:
Julie and Melissa have both been divorced and they both are actively doing the inner work to heal and thrive. Julie is a retired Ancient History professor turned massage therapist and retreat host, and Melissa, divorce attorney and mediator. For over 20 years they gave gathered tools that activate healing and awakening within. They will take you on an inner journey to remember your light and claim your powerful essence.
Family Law Attorney and Mediator, Author
Melissa is not your typical divorce attorney. Her greatest satisfaction is helping her clients walk through fear toward personal growth. She inspires people to see divorce as a catalyst for their own self-discovery. She shares her personal journey of transformation as a divorced parent. Her powerful insights will inspire you to live the extraordinary life that awaits you.
From her book, Courageous Wings Within: Growing Through Divorce to Live an Extraordinary Life”
“Any painful experience is an opportunity to transform our lives. As the years go by in an unhappy marriage, we often ignore the pain as we try to hold the family together for the sake of the children or financial necessity. So fearful of change, we blow out our inner light. Eventually, alone in our own darkness, sorrow becomes greater than fear. But is there a way to experience joy again? Are there powerful wings of courage within us to move beyond any challenge? The answer is YES!”
MELISSA ROCCI
PhD, RYT-200, LMT, LPN Certified, Author
Julie specializes in using reiki, yoga, and massage to alleviate trauma and PTSD. She teaches her clients to employ breath work and loving self-talk in order to amplify the effects of yoga and massage. She firmly believes that when we address our own physical and emotional pain, we can more easily feel compassion for others.
How beautiful would the world be if we could all feel compassion for others?
Julie’s healing journey began at age 50 when she traveled to Rishikesh, India to study yoga, meditation, and breath work at the Vinyasa Yoga School. At the time, she was a tenured professor at the University of South Florida and had a thriving career publishing, presenting at international conferences, and teaching a wide variety of classes. But she wasn’t healthy.
When she arrived in Rishikesh, her fingers and toes were gnarled and she had developed a hump between her shoulders. Her neck was so tight that she could barely turn her head. Soon after arriving, she learned about marma massage. The combination of yoga practice with marma massage allowed her relieve her pain and inspired her to learn these techniques as well as yoga therapy.
Julie retired from USF in May 2022 and in August of 2022 she received her massage therapist license in Colorado and Florida. She’s also received her certificate to assist people as they undertake psliocybin trips to treat trauma and PTSD. She’s since been combining these techniques in working with chiropractors, yoga teachers, life coaches, aestheticians, and medical marijuana doctors.