Upcoming Events
Grief Alchemy
Retreat and Training
Mourning should be taught early on so we don't have to struggle to keep things under control.
Our bodies would be healthier, our minds would be free.
To cherish Life, honor Death, educate the children well, restore the Earth Ways, inspire intelligence and exhale deeply, Yemaya's retreats, workshops and trainings are always full of laughter, love, and graceful breakthrough moments.
It is a precious opportunity to be with other humans committed to their freedom, to heal their hearts, and to experience Acceptance and Wholeness inside and out.
Inclusivity and respect are highly promoted and modeled, fierce compassion is shared in Circle Work.
You will learn many new things and experience a deep drop within
the essence of who you are.
Location: Whalesong Sanctuary, Kealakekua Bay Hawaii
When: September 19th & 23rd 2024
Join Grief and Trauma Expert Yemaya Indira for this profound and nurturing journey in
the arms of Mother Pele, the Big Island of Hawaii.
Designed to help you reach a new level of ease and grace in your recovery from Life and in your ability to be present with losses and changes of any kind, this 5-day retreat will surely be
a pivotal point you will remember fondly.
Held in respect and with fierce compassion, you will not only have the chance to move along in your healing journey but also to learn a new way of being and to facilitate others needing to
dance with the Alchemy of Grief.
Together we will laugh, cry, dance, move our fire, pray and play, meet amazing humans and sea creatures
and have the shift of a lifetime.
Two complementary groups are invited and will GREATLY benefit from this time
with a master in transformative work:
Group 1 - You have experienced a fresh loss (or preparing to) and need a place to mourn and be held
in all your feelings.
Group 2- By nature or profession you are asked to drop deeper into your own ability to feel and resolve your past traumas so you can be a better catalyst and space holder for others.
Together, in a space held in fierce compassion and authentic, heartfelt, respectful kindness you will support, inspire and awe each other through this process of healing and liberation offered by
a longtime alchemist /teacher of the Grief Waters.
Are you ready to step out of time and be serenaded by the ocean and the coqui frogs at night while you reboot your entire navigating system ?
You will have the chance to deepen into Yemaya’s grief and trauma work :
The Grief maps helping us find our way out of the labyrinth of endless sorrow. Together,
with the power of Wisdom and Ritual, we will transform suffering into profound presence,
resistance and numbness into connection and grace.
You will be introduced to Bones of Freedom Somatic Trauma healing work,
which has the power to unlock deep-seated patterns of Body and Mind.
You will participate in a Dagara Tribe African inspired Grief Ritual and experience
the power of community grieving together.
You will learn how to listen, ask, and respond to others - and yourself -moving through healing from loss, and familiarize yourself with the Art of Mourning.
You will be held in a serene, nurturing and safe space to deepen into your own freedom and expression as a fully integrated human.
And…You also will have fun, dance, play in the water, snorkel, swim with beautiful manta rays on Fall Equinox night, eat delicious food, learn Hawaiian Prayers ( Pule ), rest in the jungle and awaken to a luminous ocean view and incomparable sunsets.
Our beautiful and potent retreat space
We will be hosted by Whale Song Sanctuary in Kealakekua Bay, a short 15 minutes walk to quite Manini Beach where you will experience uncomparable snorkeling.
Logistics:
Arrive at Whale Song Sanctuary at 4pm on Thursday September 19th
Let us know if you need a pick up from Kona Airport
Leave Whale Song Sanctuary on Monday September 23rd Around by 12noon
Unless you decide to stay solo and purchase some extra nights on your own at a friendly discount rate ; )
What is included:
- Lodging: 4 nights at Whale Song Sanctuary.
- Beautiful Healthy Food - 3 meals a day besides our Sunday night out-to-town dinner.
- All Classes, Circles, Rituals.
- Equinox Evening Manta Ray swim with local green company.
- Grief Alchemy Booklet
- Bones of Freedom Trauma Healing Level 1 Certificate for those having done Intro Workshop or Retreat
Past Events:
Big Island of Hawaii - September 2023 Offering
An Intimate and different kind of Men Circle
4 Women holding 4 different Female Archetypes will create a Space of Healing for the Heart of the Masculine with the intention to awaken the True Warrior.
The True Warrior protects Life and works with Feminine and Divine Intelligence to bring Goodness back to Mother Earth, Gaia, for the Children and the Sacredness of the Human Soul, and the Sacredness of all Life.
We are Therapists, Somatic and Embodiment Mentors, Ceremonialists, Teachers,
Mothers, Maiden and Wise Woman.
We have healed our relationships with the masculine and want to support our men during these precious, tender times on the planet.
No prior experience is necessary but your willingness to open up ( to at least yourself ) is...
You might not resonate with some of the word I use yet you are feeling
the pull to join us that day...
You are welcome to reach out to me and schedule a short call and see if
this could be something
deeply healing for you.
Here is what we are going to do:
- Create a Space of Respect and Authenticity for All Hearts to be Held in Reverence
- Create an Altar to mourn the Shattered Innocence
- Reclaim the Strength and Wholeness that is All Beings Birthright
- Drink Cacao to soften the Heart's Protective Walls
- Dance or shake a Wave of 5-Rhythms / Sweat Your Prayers to move energy and reach the feelings that live underneath the surface
- Learn about "Somatic Posturing" and how it is in the way of Authentic Vitality and Freedom
- Share from the Heart, Listen from the Heart
- Be Held by the Feminine Ritualistically
- Heal together
- Journal, possibly
Here is what we are NOT
going to do:
- Be disrespectful with one another
- Refuse to Hear what is Being Offered
- Judge Oneself and Others Harshly
- Leave in the Middle of Things
( Outside Breaks are ok but one needs to commit to the event for Healing )
- Shout at anyone present
( Shouting at someone from the past might be appropriate at some point )
- Intentionally cause chaos.
- Try to endlessly discuss our different take on grief, religion, men, emotions and healing.
" I have worked with men for over 30 years now, in my Somatic Trauma Healing Bodywork practice.
These last couple of years, men started joining my online group offerings and started getting coached individually.
Often, depression would be the motivator. Often, once we digged in, we found different faces of abuse from childhood. Violent mother or father, sexual abuse from siblings, nannies, parents, bullying in school grounds.
Sometimes pressure to perform a certain way to keep the family unit " functioning " would rob them of their authenticity.
Often it is the innocence of their hearts, their self-confidence and their ability to love themselves that had been destroyed.
Here in Hawaii, Kanaka Maoli families in addition to the excrutiating pain to have been robbed of their land and culture, deal with the weight of whatever supported them to cope
with having to defend their dignity and sanity - such as substance abuse - taking them from their true heart and strength.
This event has been brewing in me since 2020, when I moved back to my beloved island of Kaua'i, which was my home for 14 years before I left in 2015.
I was raised by a single father from age 5 on. He was my first teacher.
The pain he created between my mother and I was the gift that started me on my healing path as a young woman of 20.
We had the most extraordinary healing before he passed in 2009.
I hold a deep compassion for the Heart of the Warrior.
I come to this event with love, curiosity, innocence and respect.
I hope you will too."
Yemaya Indira, RMT. RYT, LMT
