presents
The Return

September 18th to 23rd
Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii
Rewild yourself!
Reclaim yourself whole!
Embody your freedom and wild artistry...
You feel it—
the pull to leap…
to live more fully than you’ve allowed yourself to.
And still, something is holding you, keeping you guarded, and you play life much smaller than you are…much safer than you need.
Old Grief, Fresh Grief, Tainted Grief...
You learned ways to protect your fullness, your essence, your magnificence… even from yourself!
This retreat is a space to gently loosen that hold.
Not by forcing change—
but by meeting what’s underneath,
and allowing something new to move through you.
This is a place where you can begin to feel more aliveness returning to yourself—
and where freedom can take root.
Sometimes we ache just from living beside our own life
— the life we dreamed of and know we belong to —
We're close enough to sense it,
but not fully inside it.
Let’s mend the many heartbreaks and close the gap together.
So you can dance with your full wild self again or for the first time!
Gifting ourselves permission to feel,
choosing embodiment,
and embracing the path toward freedom from trauma-
at the deepest cellular level-
is one of the most radical and essential paths a woman can choose today.
Rewilding ourselves in nature and authenticity,
giving voice to our raw artistry,
we restore our sovereignty and aliveness.
This is your invitation to pause.
To soften.
To be held.
To breathe deep.
To grieve.
To laugh through the tears.
To dance wildly.
To feel safe in your fullness.
To reforest your mind.
To find your authentic voice and be heard.
To play with community.
The Return is a 6-day immersive retreat for those ready for
deep personal healing and full embodiment.
We offer a place where your feelings become medicine,
as you are inspired and guided to alchemize anything that keeps you small.
A place where your body becomes your trusted guide and
your wise, discerning friend.
And where your healing becomes your offering,
and your energy becomes your mastery.

Join grief and trauma expert, dancer extraordinaire, Yemaya Indira and musician and published poet Shoshana B. in Hawaii this upcoming Fall for a profound journey of embodiment, emotional alchemy, expressive arts and deep renewal.
This is not just a retreat; it’s an opportunity to dive deep with Somatic Trauma Healing Bodywork and Movement, Psychology and Spirituality, and to Embody a new level of your Soul's Artistry.
If you’re seeking deep healing, profound transformation, and/or the tools to guide others through the dance of big emotions, this 6-day immersion on the Big Island of Hawaii is for you.
To experience Wild Grace is to embrace the alchemy of transmuting your deepest challenges into
empowering
forces:
Deep Grief → Powerful Depth
Burning Rage → Courage
Apathy → Refined, Intentional Presence
Fear → Poised Strength
Together, we will laugh, cry, dance, shake, howl, chant, write, design, and connect with extraordinary humans and sea creatures, and anchor the shift of a lifetime.


You will greatly benefit from this time with an Elder of Embodiment and Priestess of Renewal — devoted to our Beloved Planet and author of The Grief Alchemy Handbook — if:

You’re ready to soften into your body, to honor grief as medicine, and reclaim the creative pulse of life.
Something in you longs to move, grieve, rage, sing, and return to the wild wisdom of your body.
You crave living with more presence, truth, and aliveness.
You carry grief—recent or ancient—and sense it may hold gold rather than something to fix or push away.
You desire a sacred space where your emotions, sensitivity, and depth are welcomed and honored.
You feel a wild feminine wisdom within you and want to express it through movement, voice, writing, or song.
You have experienced a fresh loss (or preparing to) and need a place to mourn and be held in all your feelings.
By nature or by profession, you are asked to drop deeper into your ability to feel and resolve your past traumas so you can be a better catalyst and space holder for others.
You are feeling called to be a safe space for others and to facilitate healing for your clients and your community with a somatic trauma healing method and grief mentoring of profound depth.
You are drawn to deepen your mastery into the Art of Mourning and the Art of Living.

An invitation to explore without expectation:
Held on the land of Hawai‘i—
where the elements are close, and the pace naturally slows—
this retreat invites both inward listening and outward expression.
Bare feet on warm earth
Salt air on your skin.
Your body unwinding without effort.
Days are gently structured, with space in between the somatic and embodied practices,
emotional integration, movement and creative exploration,
time in nature, rest, and nourishment.
You are guided—
but never pushed.
There is a version of you
that already knows how to live this way.
Not the one who adapted.
Not the one who holds everything together.
The one underneath—
who feels, responds, creates, and moves instinctively.
This retreat is a space to remember her.
Your Guides-
Yemaya Indira has over 3 decades of experience in the Healing Arts and Spirituality.
Her own healing path has taken her from Celtic Shamanism to Zen Centers, to Hindu Monastery to South American Plant Medicines.
She spent 8 years studying under Marion Rosen, one of the 4 pioneers of the Somatic Movement, after moving to San Francisco in the 80's to study dance and the Performing Arts, delighting into the wild rawness of company such as Contraband, after making a living as a stage actress in Paris, France.
Her Somatic practice focuses on Childhood Trauma Recovery and on the journey from Grief to Love.
Shoshana B ~ also known as DJ ELOV8TRX, is a singer, songwriter, spoken word artist, author and healing arts practitioner.
With decades of experience as a performing artist and front-woman for many bands, she has a passion for creating soundscapes that support deep embodiment and emotional release.
First introduced to 5 Rhythms by Gabrielle Roth at her NYC studio, Shoshana has since facilitated her own unique journeys called Embodying Eros Ecstatic Dance —a sensual, sacred, ecstatic dance experience that invites participants to explore their creative life-force energy and sensuality in a safe and expansive container.
Her sets are a tapestry of global bass, soul-stirring grooves, earthy rhythms, and heart-centered beats that guide dancers on a psycho-physical pilgrimage—from grounded presence to ecstatic liberation.
Whether through live music or DJ sets, her prayer remains the same: to serve as a channel for inspiration, embodiment, and the remembrance of our innate magnificence.

Yemaya Indira

Shoshana B
An Alchemical journey for self and community.
Together, we will transmute grief, rage, and fear into
powerful forces for change.
September 18th to 23rd
Somatic Trauma Healing Bodywork
Grief Ritual
Authentic Communication
Qi Gong and Freedom Dances
Breathwork and Kirtan
Emotions Codes
Sensual Yoga
Soul Collage, Ocean play, and
Community Building

" My path is so unique.
Will I experience what I've been calling in?"
It's easy to find out:
We will be hosted in Kealakekua Bay,
where you will experience incomparable snorkeling and possibly see a few dolphins and manta rays ...













* Arrive at Dragonfly Ranch September 18th
Let us know if you need a pick up from Kona Airport
* Leave Dragonfly Ranch on September 23rd
Unless you decide to stay solo and purchase some extra nights on your own
at a friendly discount rate ; )
Lodging: 5 nights in our Kealakekua Bay Sanctuary " Dragonfly Ranch "
Beautiful Healthy Food - 3 meals a day besides our final Dinner celebration in town and our around-the-island sacred tour Lunch.
All Classes, Circles, Rituals, Chanting Circles.
Grief Alchemy Handbook.
Click here to see our last November Retreat schedule
( We like Flexibility and group consensus ; )

This is a fairly intimate retreat and we want to make sure that
our group is harmonious...
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