Retreats &
Sacred Gatherings
In a world that often moves too fast, these gatherings offer a sacred pause—a return to what matters most. Whether nestled in the forest, circled around a fire, or woven into an afternoon in community, these retreats invite you to reconnectwith your body, your creative spirit, and the mystery that lives within and around you.
Each retreat is an immersive experience rooted in ritual, earth-based wisdom, intuitive art-making, and collective healing. Through practices like altar-building, sacred crafting, voice and movement work, ancestral storytelling, and elemental connection, we tend to our thresholds—personal, seasonal, and communal.
These are not retreats of escape, but of return.
Spaces of Ceremony, Creation, Community
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What Makes This Different
Each retreat is a collaboration—shaped in conversation with you, your community, and the land itself. These gatherings are adaptable and deeply resonant, designed to meet the unique rhythms and intentions of those they serve.
Offerings move fluidly between the logistical and the mystical—held with the same care whether they’re large-scale events or intimate circles. What’s created is not just an experience, but a memory that lingers: rooted, real, and lasting.
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Types of Gatherings
Guided Rituals & Ceremonies
Sacred Arts Workshops
Somatic Practices
Nature Connection
Nourishment & Rest
Community & Witnessing
Ancestral Remembrance
Creative Threshold Work
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Interested in hosting?
Amanda Ma is available to co-create custom retreats, lead workshops at wellness centers, summer camps, or community spaces, and facilitate intentional gatherings that bring art, ceremony, and transformation to your people.
Each experience is co-created with care, blending your vision with ritual depth, soulful presence, and grounded logistical support.
Retreats & Sacred Gatherings
Whether sacred or celebratory, intimate or expansive, each gathering is crafted with intention, beauty, and care. I offer facilitation and ritual design for:
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Immersive, soul-rooted experiences that blend ritual, creative expression, and sacred pause. These retreats are designed as thresholds—times to release, remember, and reclaim. Grounded in nature, ancestral wisdom, and intuitive arts, each gathering offers space for personal transformation within collective ritual
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Spaces for women and femme-identifying folks to gather in remembrance, celebration, and support. Whether you're marking a personal threshold—birth, death, marriage, job transition, or spiritual awakening—these ceremonies create meaning through ritual, witnessing, storytelling, and shared beauty-making.
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Part studio, part sanctuary—these gatherings center sacred arts, embodied creativity, and inner exploration. Workshops may include altar-making, spirit dolls, storycloths, dreamwork, or sound and movement practices, offering deep nourishment for the soul and senses.
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Gatherings aligned with the turning of the Wheel—solstices, equinoxes, new moons, or fire festivals. These communal rituals honor the earth’s cycles through song, altar-building, offerings, and elemental work, helping us attune to the larger rhythms of life and spirit.
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Rooted, soulful offerings woven into public events and cultural festivals. I create intentional space within the buzz—earth altars, community rituals, workshops, and installations that invite presence and participation. Whether for thousands or a small circle, the experience is always meaningful.
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Customized ceremonies for couples seeking a heartfelt, intentional experience. Whether in the wild, a backyard, or historic venue, I co-create unions that reflect your love, ancestry, and vision—infusing your vows with ritual, nature, and beauty.
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From birthday blessings to retirement rituals, I help weave sacred threads into personal milestones. These gatherings may include fire ceremonies, altars, symbolic crafts, or story circles—honoring not just the event, but the deeper meaning beneath it.
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Held in wild or rural places, these retreats are shaped by the land itself. We engage in practices like earth altar building, nature walks, river offerings, and foraging for materials—cultivating reverence, listening, and embodied connection to the more-than-human world.
UPCOMING EVENTS
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UPCOMING EVENTS |
September 26-27, 2025
Medicine Doll Workshop
Tucson, Arizona
A two-day workshop for women and femme-identifying folks to enter into sacred relationship with the art of doll-making as ritual. Participants are guided through the intuitive, hands-on process of crafting Medicine Dolls with wool, cloth, and natural materials, infused with intention, story, and ancestral connection.
Together, we gather in a ceremonial container of song, reflection, and creative expression to make visible what lives within us. This is a space of reclamation, tenderness, and deep presence. No prior experience needed—only a willingness to meet your own medicine with reverence.
January 7-11, 2026
Art of the Womb Retreat
Aravaipa Canyon, Arizona
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Together we’ll build a living altar of offerings—natural elements, ancestral symbols, and personal tokens—to root our retreat in beauty, reverence, and shared intention.
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A meditative handcrafting session using wool and intention to shape symbolic womb totems. A journey into softness, creation, and embodied storytelling.
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Reclaim your voice in a devotional soundscape of shared song, ancestral chants, and vocal expression. Let your voice rise as a sacred instrument of truth and connection.
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Work with natural clay to shape sacred vessels that embody your creative essence and inner waters. A tactile ritual in honoring the body’s wisdom and fertility.
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We’ll craft botanical-infused oils with intention—blending dried herbs, flowers, and sacred carrier oils. Then, in a tender scent-filled ritual, you’ll learn to anoint the body and connect to your womb space through self-touch, breath, and a sound healing.
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Create devotional adornments and womb wraps using natural fibers, charms, hand-stitching, embroidery, and intuitive design. A ritual of beauty and care, inviting you to clothe your body in symbolic meaning and sacred expression.
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Release what no longer serves and lift your deepest desires into the flames. Be witnessed in a potent ritual of transformation and aliveness, culminating in a powerful fire dance performance by Venus DelMar.
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A guided experience of being seen in your essence. Sacred styling, soft direction, and soulful portraiture that reflects your inner wild, your softness, your strength. Photographed by Vanessa Wingerath of Wild Rose Project.
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A celebratory evening of music, story, laughter, and sweet delights. Be held in the warmth of community as we gather for an intimate concert, followed by an open invitation for creative sharing.
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Each day begins with a somatic experience of gentle empowerment. Venus leads a fusion of fluid movement, intuitive dance, and embodied awareness practices—awakening presence, soft strength, and shared connection. Sessions culminate in a light collaborative choreography that honors self and sisterhood.
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Craft herbal dream bundles, sip soothing tea, and enter the dreamtime through gentle sound healing. With guidance from Venus DelMar, weave your prayers and intentions into fragrant pouches to accompany you through the night.
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We’ll honor the threads we've woven together. Gather in gratitude to reflect, anchor insights, and weave the retreat threads into your heart. Leave with a final blessing, a small ritual gift, and the remembrance that you are never alone on this path.
This five-day retreat is nestled within the red canyon walls and wild waters of the Aravaipa Wilderness—an immersion in ritual, remembrance, and creative embodiment. The Art of the Womb honors the sacred womb space as both origin and oracle: a source of creativity, intuition, and deep knowing.
Open to women and femme-identifying individuals, this gathering welcomes up to 25 participants into a ceremonial container of deep listening, creation, and community.
Through sacred crafting, dreamwork, song, elemental connection, and guided ceremony, we weave personal ritual with collective healing. Together, we will tend the cycles of life, death, and rebirth through a rich tapestry of experiences, including: