Dark Goddess Collaborators
This retreat is held by a carefully curated circle of facilitators, each bringing their own lived wisdom, professional expertise, and intuitive gifts to the space.
These are humans who have walked through their own shadows, done the work, and learned how to hold others with integrity, compassion, and presence.
Together, they create a container that is both grounded and expansive. One that honors nervous systems, respects personal sovereignty, and invites deep transformation without force.
You are supported here. Seen here. Held here.
On- Site Therapist
Megan is an integrative therapist who blends evidence-based therapy with intuitive and energetic work—because healing can be both science and Magick. With over 14 years as a licensed therapist and a near-lifelong relationship with intuition (she picked up her first oracle deck as a teenager), Megan brings grounded realness, zero judgment, compassion and a touch of mysticism to every session.
Throughout the retreat, Megan will offer grounded therapeutic support and intuitive presence, helping to hold a safe, compassionate space for reflection, integration, emotional processing and nervous system support as needed.
"When Grace has Teeth"
Friday February 13th @6:00pm
Nicole Sartini, M.Ed., LPCC, IMHP is a therapist, founder, and movement builder helping to reshape how health care works. She co-founded Bridge Counseling and Wellness, an award-winning integrative practice, and founded the Mental Health Insurance Reform Task Force, a national coalition uniting providers and advocates to challenge unethical insurance practices and expand access to care. Nicole uses her sacred no to confront systems corrupted by profit and extraction, and channels her anger about power over greed by advocating for mutuality respectful systematic changes with bold and genuine compassion. She is developing the People’s Solidarity Fund Healthcare Cooperative, a community-led alternative to traditional for-profit insurance, designed to improve collective well-being. Nicole allows "inconvenient" emotions to serve as inner guidance, empowering herself and others through truth-telling, fullness of self, and authentic expression rather than compliance, silence, or forced agreeableness.
"When Grace has Teeth"
Many women are conditioned to believe that safety lives in being pleasant and agreeable, even when it costs them their truth. Sweetness may have been a survival strategy at one time, but survival is not the same as empowerment, authenticity, or wholeness. Sometimes being disagreeable is how we call our power back and get our needs met. Sometimes, being "difficult" is how we look reality straight in the eye and set the temperature to rise to the occasion of what is actually needed to serve the greatest good. Niceness can feel lovely when it is genuine, but it can also suffocate us when it is a costume rather than a choice, or when we no longer recognize the difference between being kind and being hidden or harmed. This interactive workshop walks us through the shadow of “nice” and honors the wisdom of the disagreeable woman. We will explore how a sacred no can enhance self-trust and protect the heart, often revealing a sacred yes. We will honor how softness and strength can coexist. Sometimes the most loving thing we can do is show our teeth, and allow our tenderness to become powerful enough to guard what it loves. Sometimes, disruption is exactly what's called for.
"Healing Your Inner Child Archetype"
Saturday, February 14th @12:00pm
Quita Rose-Corrao is a Certified Depth Coach, Counselor, Reiki Master, and Aromatherapist. She helps women heal from emotional wounds, trauma, drama and anxiety through art therapy, depth coaching, mindfulness, and Reiki Energy Healing. She guides women through creative processes (art-making), energy healing, and re-storying of old stories to heal all disowned, fragmented, challenging and brilliant parts of the self.
Art offers access. It is the language of the soul. To enter the personal journey, she creates sacred space, then allows the stories to unfold. Artmaking becomes an agent for change. Bringing subconscious and unconscious beliefs to the surface. The possibilities for a new direction begin to emerge. Healing and Growth lead to transformation.
Depth work is journey work.
Creative Inquiry
Energy work. Dream work. Symbolism. Archetypes.
Quita believes creativity is medicine, and your emotions are sacred messengers guiding you home to yourself. Together, she helps you feel grounded, clear, and empowered to live a life aligned with your soul.
Every brushstroke, every essential oil blend, every mindful breath becomes part of a greater story — one of healing, liberation, and self-love.
Healing isn’t about becoming someone new -- it’s about remembering who you already are. ✨
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"Healing Your Inner Child Archetype"
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A 2-Hour Guided Journey of Art, Insight, and Remembering
This two-hour immersive experience invites you into a gentle, symbolic journey to meet and heal your Inner Child Archetypes. Guided by the wisdom of The Oracle of the Lost Children, art-making, and meditation, you’ll explore the subtle energies that have shaped your inner world—and begin to release what no longer belongs to you.
Through the creation of three Journey Circle Cards ™, you’ll awaken inner child archetypes and allow art to become a living language of exploration and energy. A guided meditation will lead you along a chosen inner landscape, where you’ll connect with meaningful symbols and an animal guide offering insight, protection, and support.
You’ll be invited to listen deeply and ask your inner child simple yet powerful questions—uncovering where you’ve felt trapped or held, what fears and tears are ready to be witnessed, and what remains true and alive within you now.
This is not about fixing the past, but about remembering, releasing, and reclaiming parts of yourself with compassion and curiosity. No artistic experience is needed—only a willingness to explore and reflect.
Come as you are. Leave with deeper clarity, symbolic tools, and a renewed connection to your inner world.
"Breathwork for the Dark Goddess:
Saturday, February 14th @4:00pm
Grounding Into Inner Knowing"
Jenny Dedrick is a holistic coach and breathwork facilitator who creates grounded, supportive spaces for nervous system regulation, emotional clarity, and whole-person healing. Her work weaves together breathwork, body awareness, and holistic coaching to help individuals release stress, reconnect with themselves, and cultivate greater balance and presence.
She brings 10+ years of experience as a holistic coach and is a Certified Primal Questions Coach, Certified Breathwork Instructor, retreat leader and facilitator, and host of The Holistic Coaching Podcast. Jenny loves bringing leaders in the healing community together and deeply values collaborating with other soulful practitioners devoted to this work.
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"Breathwork for the Dark Goddess: Grounding Into Inner Knowing"
This guided breathwork experience invites you to slow down, return to your body, and regulate your nervous system from the inside out. Designed to help you soften into presence and reconnect with your inner wisdom, this session offers both ritual and practicality. You'll be guided through grounding breath patterns that soothe overwhelm, restore safety, and unlock the deeper truths that live beneath the noise.​
"Sacred Rage Ecstatic Dance Journey"
Saturday, February 14th @8:00pm
Suzy Hawkfire is a healer who works with the body, mind, and spirit to guide you back to embodied wholeness. Through Ecstatic Dance Journeys Suzy guides participants to collectively weave a safe and sacred space through which they can explore their consciousness, express through their bodies, and release emotions. Suzy believes this work is sacred and aids in collective liberation of the human soul by breaking through constructs of oppression that tell us to stay “small, silent, appropriate.”
"Sacred Rage Ecstatic Dance Journey"
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Rage is an emotion that is often feared in our society because it is associated with violence, but rage is a valuable emotion with a lot of energy to fuel transformation. When it is expressed and channeled in safe and productive ways it has the power to alchemize stuck energy and fuel creation. Through this Sacred Rage Ecstatic Dance Journey we will explore this powerful emotion through music, movement, vocalization, and by accessing altered states of consciousness. Participants will be invited to adorn face paint (optional) to invoke their fierce selves, imbibe heart opening cacao, collectively weave a safe and sacred ceremonial container of self exploration, be guided through a movement lexicon, and be guided gently into a partnership with music body, and mind, intended to facilitate unbridled expression and reclamation.
Dark and Light Juicing
Sunday, February 15th @9:00am
Experience
Rooted Juice & Smoothies:
Crafted by Nature, Infused with Intention
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Paige crafts Reiki-infused potions, elixirs & herbal magic to support body, mind, and spirit integration.
Part juice witch, part plant alchemist, here to nourish deeply, ground gently, and help you glow from the inside out 🪄 🌿🔮
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Paige will be sharing 2 different Reiki-Infused Potions
🌑 SHADOW JUICE — Crimson Descent
A blood-red offering honoring grief, truth, and the power found in the dark.
🌕 LIGHT JUICE — Golden Devotion
A radiant blend celebrating pleasure, embodiment, and divine joy.
Drum Washing
Sunday, February 15th @10:00am
Christi Scoccola, creator and facilitator of DIVINE DRUMMING, is an intuitive drummer. She creates a very unique and intimate experience by focusing on drumming the Auric field, individual chakras, as well as the space. Christi is also a certified Usui Reiki practitioner, women's circle weaver, spiritual retreat leader, an Early childhood educator, and a mom of 3. She often spends time, collaborating on retreats and events around the Louisville area, mostly in Oldham county. She also offers private healing sessions, with Reiki and Drum journeys and drum washing.
Christi will be offering a sacred "drum washing" session for this retreat. Her unique sound bath experience weaves sounds of the Shamanic Buffalo frame drum, ocean drum, rain sticks, and rattles.
"Sacred Sexuality & the Dark Goddess:
Sunday, February 15th @10:00am
Reclaiming Touch, Pleasure, and Power"
Dr. Monica Hurt is a Doctor of Integrative Health, a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a certified psychedelic‑assisted psychotherapist, and an AASECT‑trained sex therapist. She owns a private practice and ketamine clinic in Louisville, KY, where she specializes in trauma‑informed care, somatic healing, and shamanic‑informed approaches to transformation. Her work bridges psychology, neurobiology, and embodied healing to support women in midlife transitions, trauma recovery, and expanded states of consciousness. Her current research focuses on the effectiveness of ketamine and HRT in perimenopausal and menopausal women.
"Sacred Sexuality & the Dark Goddess: Reclaiming Touch, Pleasure, and Power"
In this session, Dr. Monica will lead an educational, trauma-informed exploration of sacred sexuality, intentional touch, and the Dark Goddess archetype as a guide for authenticity and embodied empowerment. Participants will examine how desire, pleasure, and intimacy intersect with the nervous system, trauma patterns, and personal agency. This offering invites reflection, curiosity, and deeper self-understanding, focusing on the inner landscape that shapes our experiences in the “bedroom” of the psyche.
Goddess Chef
Saturday- Sunday, February 14-15th
Clara is the founder of Clara’s Kitchen and a certified holistic health coach. Food has always been a central part of her life, & she believes deeply in its ability to support healing on a physical, mental, & emotional level. Through seasonal, high-quality, thoughtfully prepared meals, Clara creates nourishment that feels supportive and steady, offering food as an ally as women move through the many seasons and challenges of life.
Clara will be offering grounded, intentional meals meant to support women as they move through deep inner work. The food is designed to feel steady, comforting, and nourishing, offering a sense of being held as participants explore their shadows and soften into their truth. Each meal is prepared with care and presence, meant to support moments of reflection, release, and reconnection. The intention is for the food to quietly support the journey, creating space for women to feel supported, rooted, and nourished as they step more fully into their authentic selves.
