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An Immersive Feminine Alchemy Retreat
Thursday April 30 – Sunday May 3, 2026 When Women Awaken…
Something in you is stirring.
You feel it and maybe you've felt it for a while now. A pulling. A restlessness. A sense that who you've been living as isn't the whole story. That there is a version of you who is deeper, freer, more alive that hasn't fully come through yet.
You know you're in the middle of something real. It's disrupting your life. But you don't have a map for it. You're not sure how to move with it, or who to be in it, or if it's safe to let it all the way out. You feel a calling deep in your soul and a longing to answer it.
We aren’t here to teach self-help to women who want better lives.
We’re here to speak to the ones who already know. Who know there is more waiting for you and you are ready to let your soul receive what is meant for you. Because here’s what we know:
that longing you feel isn't empty. It's the future already alive inside you, pulling you toward itself.
THIS RETREAT IS ABOUT EMBODIED AWAKENING
OF THE FEMININE DIMENSION AND TAKING IT INTO YOUR LIFE.
The woman who arrives will not be the same woman who leaves. You will leave with the answer to this: "Who am I, truly, within form - and can I fully occupy my life?"
When Women Awaken is three days of living initiation. This retreat takes place in Tempe, Arizona in a beautiful and sacred feminine studio space. You will stay less than a mile away the venue of your choice.
The intention of this retreat is a transformation of the feminine dimension within you: the capacity to receive what is already meant for you. You will see yourself clearly as you are lovingly held and guided through sound, voice and embodiment plus hypnotherapy sessions. You will be seen and witnessed, mirrored fully in your gifts, your purpose and your Light.
Truth
You plant a seed — that's Truth.
Faith
You know what you planted will grow — that's Faith.
Trust
You tend what you planted — that's Trust.
What Happens Over the Four Days
The Threshold
You arrive. The container opens. You meet the women who will witness your becoming over the next three days — over a shared table and the first toning circle of the weekend. Your nervous system gets to settle in and register: it is safe to feel here.
Truth
You plant the seed. Through Joya's deep movement meditation process and Stacey's hypnotherapy, we go beneath the conditioned stories, all the way down to the signal that has always been true. The one that lights you up. You name it. You claim it. You write it down in one sentence — bold, unqualified, alive.
Faith
You know it will grow. Faith is not belief. It is knowing in your bones. It's intimate, embodied, gravitational. You'll feel the difference between trusting your fear and trusting your truth. And you'll learn to choose the latter as a daily practice.
Trust
You tend what you planted. You are never not trusting something. The question is only what. Through Soul Collage and a direct conversation with your Luminous One, you discover what Devotion in Motion actually feels like in your body and you learn what it is to deeply trust yourself to live from there.
Surrender
Spirit moves you. You meet the version of you that already exists and is waiting to be expressed. You discover the support that has been with you all along. And you let the drum do what the mind cannot. The heaviest thing you were carrying? You put it down here.
You Are Launched
The circle witnesses each woman as her Luminous Self. You leave with a toolkit of real practices. And the retreat closes with something you will carry in your body for years: twelve women in a drum circle, singing your luminous name back to you.
Meet Your Facilitators
Joya Sosnowski
Joya Sosnowski is a Spiritual Wisdom Teacher, Sound Medicine Woman, and Ordained Reverend with a Doctorate in Divinity in Sacred Music. She has over 20 years in the healing arts carrying multiple certifications in her quest to heal her childhood trauma. She guides women through the thresholds that change everything - from the depths of grief and loss into the luminous life waiting on the other side.
Rooted in the Mary Magdalene lineage, Joya's work lives at the intersection of ancient mystical wisdom, somatic practice, and the neuroscience of transformation. As a Sound Medicine Woman, she uses voice, drum, and sacred resonance to shift what words alone cannot reach, awakening women to the truth of who they are beneath the weight of what they've survived.
Joya believes that your joy is your purpose, and that when women awaken, they take their rightful place as leaders and wisdom keepers in the world. Her framework, Souluminous™, moves women from truth all the way through to living and giving as light.
She is a DEBx speaker, recognized by EWomen Network as North America's Next Greatest Speaker, host of the When Women Awaken podcast, and author of Practical Spirituality and the forthcoming book Awaken Through Grief.
Stacey Henry-Carr
Stacey Henry-Carr is a Jay Shetty Certified Life & Success Coach, a Marisa Peer Certified Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) Practitioner,a Gaja Institute Meditation Instructor, author, transformational speaker, and an advocate for childhood sexual abuse awareness. She believes that we already possess everything we need for a peaceful and successful life, it simply requires alignment of mind, body, and spirit.
With a background in corporate leadership and performance coaching, Stacey felt a deeper calling she could no longer ignore. In 2016, she left her corporate career to step fully into her purpose as a life coach and hypnotherapist. For over six years, she has been devoted to the art of subconscious healing, using the transformative power of hypnosis to help clients release old stories and self-defeating patterns that have kept them stuck. Since then, clients from around the globe have sought her out with a shared desire: to break free, awaken to their truth, and live fully.
She now empowers individuals to identify and interrupt their limiting patterns and programming, replacing them with the freedom to live productive, intentional lives. With a soulful and intuitive approach, Stacey guides her clients toward lasting change by helping them cultivate deep alignment in mind, body, and spirit.
Where to Stay · Retreat venue is in Tempe, AZ
Accommodation is not included in the retreat fee, so you get to choose exactly what fits your style and budget. Both options below are within a short Uber or walking distance of the space, and May in Tempe is gorgeous.
The Splurge
Marriott Phoenix Resort at the Buttes
From ~$270/night
Built into a mountainside. Pools carved out of rock, panoramic desert views, full spa. 3 miles from Sky Harbor. If you're flying in for this, make a weekend of it.
The Sweet Spot
From ~$120/night
Full kitchen suites, free hot breakfast every morning, excellent reviews. Great value for a multi-night stay and you'll feel at home.
You will be held after the retreat for integration.
In addition to the take-home practices, we will also gather or two Live Zoom Calls following the reteat on May 18th and June 1st
Founding Retreat Price · This price will not return
$1414
This is the founding run of When Women Awaken and we priced it so that flying in, staying somewhere lovely, and joining us is an easy yes for every woman who feels called.
Accommodation, travel, breakfast and lunches are separate and fully in your hands. The retreat itself and everything inside that container is included. There snacks, tea and water is supplied.
12 women only · April 30 – May 3, 2026 · Tempe, Arizona