A sacred, intimate ceremony of deep healing and spiritual connection guided by experienced facilitators. This private retreat is now sold out — stay tuned for the next one!

Dive deep into heart-centered healing.

This transformative retreat combines the power of therapeutic MDMA with integrative healing practices to support profound breakthroughs. Designed as a safe and nurturing space, it invites you to explore deep healing and personal growth.

Participants often experience enhanced emotional connection, reduced fear and anxiety, and heightened empathy, allowing them to confront personal challenges and embrace their shadow with understanding, compassion, and acceptance.

Whether you're seeking relief from emotional wounds or physical symptoms, deeper self-awareness, healing from past trauma, healthier relationships, freedom from limiting beliefs, or a renewed sense of creativity and purpose, this retreat offers a genuine path to transformation.

What’s Included

• Free 1:1 Call: Start your journey with a friendly chat with Josie, where she takes the time to get to know you and introduces a medical intake to ensure suitability and safety. It's also the perfect chance to ask any questions or share any concerns you may have.

• Pre-Retreat Preparation: Engage in two 60-minute online sessions with Josie to establish rapport, set clear intentions, and prepare for the transformative journey ahead.

• Shadow Journey Retreat: Held at the beautiful Vikara Center, this two night retreat creates the ideal environment for deep introspection and personal growth.

Retreat Inclusions:

• Gentle yoga

• Meditation & breathwork

• Guided journaling

• Sound healing

• Intimate group ceremony

• Hands-on bodywork

• Nourishing, organic meals

• Overnight accommodations

• Sharing circles

• Post-Retreat Integration: After the retreat, receive an additional 60-minute online session with Josie to help integrate your experiences into daily life. In this focused session, Josie will support you in transforming your insights into actionable steps for growth, resilience, and self-empowerment.

Your Guides

• Josie Kramer, MA, LMT, CYT, CHC, PhD Candidate

  Josie is a Therapist, Somatic Practitioner, Yoga & Meditation Teacher, Health Coach, Bodyworker, and Co-founder of Vikara Center. She creates a compassionate and supported space for healing and transformation.

• Brian MacLaggan

  Brian is an Entrepreneur, Transpersonal Support Guide, and Co-founder of Vikara Center. He ensures the safety and well-being of each participant during their retreat, grounding the journey in empathy, authenticity, and his own lived experiences.

Details

• Suggested donation: $1,500

• Limited to a maximum of 6 participants

• Book your free 1:1 call today! (310) 736-5856 | josie@josie-kramer.com

Step into a transformative journey that combines the healing power of plant medicine with chakra balancing, fostering a deeper connection to your inner self. Participants often experience a dissolving of mental and emotional barriers, granting them access to deeper layers of their psyche, opening doors to higher states of consciousness, and connecting them with profound insights.

Whether you're seeking relief from emotional wounds or physical symptoms, deeper self-awareness, a new direction in life, healing from past trauma, healthier relationships, freedom from limiting beliefs, or cultivating spiritual growth and creativity, ou Seven Realms Retreat offers a unique and holistic path to awakening mind, body, and spirit.

What’s Included:

• Free 1-1 Call: Start your journey with a friendly chat with Josie, where she takes the time to get to know you and introduces a medical intake to ensure suitability and safety. It's also the perfect chance to ask any questions or share any concerns you may have.

• Pre-Retreat Preparation: Engage in two 60-minute online sessions with Josie to establish rapport, set clear intentions, and prepare for the transformative journey ahead. During these sessions, Josie will introduce Somatic Experiencing - a body-based form of psychotherapy.

• Seven Realms Retreat: Held at the beautiful Vikara Center, this two night retreat creates the ideal environment for deep introspection and personal growth. Under Josie’s guidance you'll experience the transformative power of plant medicine.

Retreat Inclusions

• Beach walks

• Gentle yoga

• Meditation & breathwork

• Sound healing

• Guided journaling

• Spiritual rituals

• Intimate group ceremony

• Hands-on bodywork

• Nourishing, organic meals

• Overnight accommodations

• Sharing circles

• Post-Retreat Integration: After the retreat, receive an additional 60-minute online session with Josie to help integrate your experiences into daily life. In this focused session, Josie will support you in transforming your insights into actionable steps for growth, resilience, and self-empowerment.

Your Guides:

• Josie Kramer, MA, CYT, CHC, LMT, PhD Student

  Josie is a Transpersonal Therapist, Somatic Practitioner, Yoga & Meditation Teacher, Health Coach, Bodyworker, and Co-founder of Vikara Center. She creates a compassionate and supported space for healing and transformation.

• Brian MacLaggan

  Brian is an Entrepreneur, Transpersonal Support Guide, and Co-founder of Vikara Center. He ensures the safety and well-being of each participant during their retreat, grounding the journey in empathy, authenticity, and his own lived experiences.

Details:

• Suggested donation: $1,000

• Limited to a maximum of 6 participants

• Book your free 1-1 call today! (310)736-5856 | josie@josie-kramer.com

Heart Medicine + Somatic Healing

Step into a transformative journey that blends the healing power of heart medicine with somatic practices, fostering deep emotional and physical breakthroughs. Participants often experience enhanced emotional connection, reduced fear and anxiety, and heightened empathy, making it easier to confront personal challenges and embrace their shadow self with understanding, love, compassion, and forgiveness.

Whether you're seeking relief from emotional wounds or physical symptoms, deeper self-awareness, a new direction in life, healing from past trauma, healthier relationships, freedom from limiting beliefs, or cultivating spiritual growth and creativity, our Shadow Journey Retreat offers a unique and holistic path to awakening mind, body, and spirit.

What’s Included:

• Free 1-1 Call: Start your journey with a friendly chat with Josie, where she takes the time to get to know you and introduces a medical intake to ensure suitability and safety. It's also the perfect chance to ask any questions or share any concerns you may have.

• Pre-Retreat Preparation: Engage in two 60-minute online sessions with Josie to establish rapport, set clear intentions, and prepare for the transformative journey ahead. During these sessions, Josie will introduce Somatic Experiencing - a body based form of psychotherapy.

• Shadow Journey Retreat: Held at the beautiful Vikara Center, this two night retreat creates the ideal environment for deep introspection and personal growth. Under Josie’s guidance, you'll experience the transformative power of heart medicine.

Retreat Inclusions:

• Gentle yoga

• Meditation & breathwork

• Guided journaling

• Sound healing

• Intimate group ceremony

• Hands-on bodywork

• Nourishing, organic meals

• Overnight accommodations

• Sharing circles

• Post-Retreat Integration: After the retreat, receive an additional 60-minute online session with Josie to help integrate your experiences into daily life. In this focused session, Josie will support you in transforming your insights into actionable steps for growth, resilience, and self-empowerment.

Your Guides:

• Josie Kramer, MA, CYT, CHC, LMT, PhD Student

  Josie is a Transpersonal Therapist, Somatic Practitioner, Yoga & Meditation Teacher, Health Coach, Bodyworker, and Co-founder of Vikara Center. She creates a compassionate and supported space for healing and transformation.

• Brian MacLaggan

  Brian is an Entrepreneur, Transpersonal Support Guide, and Co-founder of Vikara Center. He ensures the safety and well-being of each participant during their retreat, grounding the journey in empathy, authenticity, and his own lived experiences.

Details:

• Suggested donation: $1,000

• Limited to a maximum of 6 participants

• Book your free 1-1 call today! (310) 736-5856 | josie@josie-kramer.com

This is not a wellness retreat, it is a revival. It is an invocation, an initiation, and a reclamation of the birthright that is your life.

Shed your identity, dive into the depths of your shadow, and emerge feeling embodied in your sovereign soul. This powerful journey will draw you face to face with fear, guilt, old patterns, and traumas, allowing you to shatter limiting beliefs and transcend whatever stands in the way of your highest Self. Through ceremonial community, curated workshops, yoga and meditation, deep breathwork sessions, and a guided sacred medicine journey, you’ll be put in touch with your own divinity, your own noble truths, and your own inner healer. Step forward on your path, empower your voice, and find firm root in the infinite Now. This is a transformative process that, if surrendered to, will leave you changed forever.

Principles:
We will support and uplift each other during the retreat, immersing in a vital community while expanding our individuation. We will hold values and space for radical inclusion, free expression, and absolute honesty. Upon arrival, our normal names will be released, taking on a different identity during this transient state in order to fully detach from tethers to the past self and outside world. Phones and electronics will remain in your possession, but will need to be kept on airplane mode or switched off throughout the weekend. Participation being another core tenant, everyone will share the responsibility of creation and clean up for meals to foster group cohesion. Meals will be plant based/vegetarian, inclusive of some eggs and dairy. Dietary restrictions can be met upon request.

Application:
Due to the dynamic nature of this retreat and the limited spaces available, an application will be required. The application will serve as a tool to distill your intention and identify any barriers that may impact your journey, as well as a proclamation of your will and desire to grow. A medical screening will also be required to attend this retreat.

Apply using the link below:

https://forms.gle/THtywUBEsRY58Aq36

Investment:
In order to perpetuate a world that exists on free exchange and reciprocity, this retreat will be hosted on a donation only basis. My mission is to provide access to healing for everyone, regardless of their access to physical wealth. I ask that by attending this retreat you come in full earnest, and that afterwards you carry forward the lessons, changes, and values you have discovered, sharing them with others in whatever ways you are personally able. Guidelines for a recommended donation amount that would cover the basic costs of your stay will be provided following your application. A deposit will need to be paid upon confirmation of attendance to secure your space, and will be fully refunded upon your arrival at the retreat center.

Inclusions:

• 3 nights and 4 days lodging at Vikara Center

• Nutrient dense and nourishing meals

• Profound workshops to inspire deep thought and growth

• Daily yoga, pranayama, and meditation (appropriate for any ability level)

• Ecstatic dance and Cacao ceremony

• Transcendental Breathwork session

• Sacred Medicine journey

• Ceremonies with fire, movement, and sound

• A personal journal and yoga mat will be provided as yours to keep

About your facilitator:
Evan is a world traveler, spiritual leader, and passionate ceremonialist. He is a certified breathwork teacher, yoga instructor (RYT-200), a cultivator and guide for sacred medicines, and has spent years abroad studying life, religions, and purpose across cultures. Having served in the US Navy, worked in alpine rescue, battled forest fires, and summited Mt. Everest, he is intimately familiar with the tools required to navigate fear and limitation on the physical plane. His ambition is aimed at reconnecting humanity with forgotten wisdom, and forging a mind, body, and soul experience that invokes one into their Infinite Now.

Currently, he is studying Behavioral Neuroscience in Boston and seeks to architect the bridge between science and spirituality.

For any questions, please email Evan at ekenny2812@gmail.com.

Heart Medicine + Somatic Healing

Embark on a transformative journey that blends the healing power of heart medicine with somatic practices, fostering deep emotional and physical breakthroughs. Participants often experience enhanced emotional connection, reduced fear and anxiety, and heightened empathy, making it easier to confront personal challenges and embrace their shadow self with understanding, love, compassion, and forgiveness.

Whether you're seeking relief from emotional wounds or physical symptoms, deeper self-awareness, a new direction in life, healing from past trauma, healthier relationships, freedom from limiting beliefs, or cultivating spiritual growth and creativity, the Shadow Journey Retreat offers a unique and holistic path to awakening—mind, body, and spirit.

What’s Included:

• Free 1:1 Call: Start your journey with a friendly chat with Josie, where she takes the time to get to know you and introduces a medical intake to ensure suitability and safety. It's also the perfect chance to ask any questions or share any concerns you may have.

• Pre-Retreat Preparation: Engage in two 60-minute online sessions with Josie to establish rapport, set clear intentions, and prepare for the transformative journey ahead. During these sessions, Josie will introduce Somatic Experiencing - a holistic approach designed to deepen your mind-body connection and support your healing process.

• Shadow Journey Retreat: Held at the beautiful Vikara Center, this one night retreat creates the ideal environment for deep introspection and personal growth. Under Josie’s guidance, you'll experience the transformative power of Heart Medicine.

Retreat Inclusions:

• Animal interactions

• Nature immersion

• Mindful movement

• Meditation & breathwork

• Guided journaling

• Spiritual rituals

• Intimate group ceremony

• Hands-on bodywork

• Nourishing, organic meals

• Overnight accommodations

• Sharing circle

• Post-Retreat Integration: After the retreat, receive an additional 60-minute online session with Josie to help integrate your experiences into daily life. In this focused session, Josie will support you in transforming your insights into actionable steps for growth, resilience, and self-empowerment.

Your Guides:

• Josie Kramer, MA, CYT, CHC, LMT, PhD Student in Psychology

  Josie is a Transpersonal Guide, Somatic Practitioner, Yoga & Meditation Teacher, Health Coach, Bodyworker, and Co-founder of Vikara Center, dedicated to empowering individuals on their healing journey. Through her compassionate and experienced approach, she creates a nurturing space for profound transformation.

• Brian MacLaggan

  Brian is an Entrepreneur, Transpersonal Support Guide, and Co-founder of Vikara Center. He ensures the safety and well-being of each participant during their retreat, grounding the journey in empathy, authenticity, and his own lived experiences.

Details:

• Suggested donation is $1,000

• Limited to a maximum of 5 participants

• Book your free 1:1 call today! (310) 736-5856 | josie@josie-kramer.com

Join us for a weekend of honoring the loved ones we have lost and celebrating the lives they lived, as we learn to move with grief. 

Retreat offerings: 

• Overnight Accommodation

• 4 nourishing meals 

• Nature and animal immersion

• Mindful Movement 

• Meditation 

• Walking labyrinth

• Transformational Breath Work Session (facilitator - Kayli Gibbs) 

• Sharing Circle

• Celebration of Life (Music and dancing) 

Pricing:

Saturday only: $333

Weekend: $555 / Early bird special is $444 (before September 27th)

About the facilitator: 

Elizabeth Tebo, LCSW is a licensed mental health therapist who specializes in grief and trauma. She takes a holistic approach to healing. She believes in the power of community to help guide and support one another.