Embracing Shadow: A Healing Retreat for Women
September 30, 2027 @ 2:00 pm – October 5, 2027 @ 11:00 am
Peel away layers of societal expectations and personal armor to reveal your sweet, magical Soul during this healing retreat for women in peaceful Island Falls, Maine. Inspired by a centuries-old myth — The Descent of Inanna — we’ll use guided journeys, along with movement, art, and ritual, to discover and loosen our old layers of being. Once that happens, we’ll be able to hear the wisdom of our shadows and step through the gateway of transformation.
A healing retreat for women presented by Fálki Heiðdóttir at Sewall House Yoga Retreat
Cost: $600 – Select “WORKSHOP: Embracing Shadow” as an “Extra” when you make your Accommodations reservation
Plus Accommodations – Reserve a room for September 30-October 5, 2027
Be sure to select “WORKSHOP: Embracing Shadow” as an “Extra” when you make your Accommodations reservation.
About the Sessions
Somatic Movement will play with low-to-the-ground, self-directed, non-linear, fluid motion, to encourage connection to internal cues and strengthen the mind-body connection. It’s a way of movement that encourages freedom from preconceived notions and fixed patterns. Somatic movement allows for embodied connection and release of tension.
Breathwork is a somatic practice that combines a specific conscious breath pattern with evocative, rhythmic music to induce a state of relaxation and open awareness.
Journaling will guide participants through a creative process of releasing, transforming, and igniting new energy, and documenting that process in a personal journal.
Schedule / Itinerary
Thursday, September 30 (Arrival)
- 2:00pm Arrive and Settle In
- 5:30pm Yin Yoga and Opening Ritual with Fálki
Our opening ritual will be both a welcoming, and a portal opening. We will open the doorway to the stairway that will lead us into the Underworld to face and embrace our Shadows. - 7:00pm Evening Meal
Friday, October 1 (Workshop Day 1)
- 7:30am Silent Meditation
- 8:00am Somatic Movement and Centering Practice with Fálki
- 9:45am Breakfast
- 11:15am-2:00pm Group Creative/Journal Work and Process
Workshop: Walking Down the Steps: Shedding Armor and Societal Expectations – Guided trance, journalling, and group process focused on identifying and shedding our attachment to old, worn-out habit patterns. - 2:00pm Lunch
- 2:30-5:30pm Quiet Time/Rest/Activities such as hiking, kayaking, massage, intuitive guidance session with Fálki *
- 5:30pm Yin Yoga with Fálki
- 7:00pm Evening Meal
Saturday, October 2 (Workshop Day 2)
- 7:30am Silent Meditation
- 8:00am Somatic Movement and Centering Practice with Fálki
- 9:45am Breakfast
- 11:15am-2:00pm Group Creative/Journal Work and Breathwork
Workshop: Facing Shadow – Independently and in community, we’ll name the parts of our personality, unconscious or repressed, that we’ve deemed undesirable. - 2:00pm Lunch
- 2:30-5:30pm Quiet Time/Rest/Activities such as hiking, kayaking, massage, intuitive guidance session with Fálki *
- 5:30pm Yin Yoga with Fálki
- 7:00pm Evening Meal
Sunday, October 3 (Workshop Day 3)
- 7:30am Silent Meditation
- 8:00am Somatic Movement and Centering Practice with Fálki
- 9:45am Breakfast
- 11:15am-2:00pm Group Creative/Journal Work and Breathwork
Workshop: Embracing Shadow – Using a gentle breath practice and stepping into deep connection through group process, we’ll embrace the undesirable parts we uncovered on Day 2, and seek their wisdom. - 2:00pm Lunch
- 2:30-5:30pm Quiet Time/Rest/Activities such as hiking, kayaking, massage, intuitive guidance session with Fálki *
- 5:30pm Yin Yoga with Fálki
- 7:00pm Evening Meal
Monday, October 4 (Workshop Day 4)
- 7:30am Silent Meditation
- 8:00am Somatic Movement and Centering Practice with Fálki
- 9:45am Breakfast
- 11:15am-2:00pm Group Creative/Journal Work and Process
Workshop: Rising Whole – Back to the World – Using guided trance, and creative journaling, we’ll explore what it means to bring our Shadows with us into the World. - 2:00pm Lunch
- 2:30-5:30pm Quiet Time/Rest/Activities such as hiking, kayaking, massage, intuitive guidance session with Fálki *
- 5:30pm Yin Yoga with Fálki
- 7:00pm Evening Meal
- 8:30pm Closing Ritual with Fálki
Our closing ritual will focus on celebrating our return to the Upperworld whole and powerful.
Tuesday, October 5 (Departure)
- 7:30am Silent Meditation
- 8:00am Morning Yoga
- 9:45am Final Thoughts and Breakfast with Fálki
- 11:00am Departure
* Fálki offers each retreat participant a complimentary 30-minute Intuitive Guidance Session as a part of this experience. Please book with Fálki upon arrival.
Be sure to select “WORKSHOP: Embracing Shadow” as an “Extra” when you make your Accommodations reservation.
About Fálki Heiðdóttir
Fálki is a deep-diving, edge-walking, shadow seeker and story-teller. She is a sacred witness, a deep-listener, and an embodied, human healer. Her work is grounded in 24 years as a professional therapist and life coach and 3 decades as a ritual priestess, intuitive rune reader, and shamanic practitioner.
Fálki is a certified yoga teacher, a trained breathwork healer, and a meditation teacher. She is currently studying yoga therapy under Brandt Passalaqua at Breathing Deeply Yoga in Massachusetts.
Fálki lives on the edge of Island Falls in a 100-year-old New Englander with her Sweetheart and 2 cats, Ivar Needletooth and Lou Cat. She can often be found out back talking to the Crows or in her studio creating comics about transformation and alchemy.
Visit Fálki’s website at www.falconandacorn.com for more information.