A safe container for Remembering, Regulation & Renewal
Our retreats are sacred pauses from modern life — spaces to return to your body, regulate your nervous system, and reconnect with your truth.
Through breath, somatic movement, frequency, ceremony, manifestation practices and community, we create environments where healing unfolds naturally.
You don’t have to force transformation here. You just have to arrive.
Rest. Restore. Reclaim
Our retreats are intentionally small, deeply practical and heart-led. We weave movement, breath, ceremony and nature so you leave nourished, calmer and more embodied.
Stillness & Interoception
Slow down, soften the noise of daily life, and reconnect with the quiet wisdom within your body.
Breath & Somatic Release
Guided breathwork and somatic practices help release stored tension and restore balance to the nervous system.
Nature & Embodied Presence
Gentle movement and time in nature reconnect you with the rhythms of the earth and your body’s natural flow.
Nourishment & Integration
Wholesome meals, meaningful connection, and reflection help you ground the experience and carry it home.
Typical rhythm: gentle mornings, movement and workshops, midday rest, afternoon nature play, evening circles and integration.
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Small Groups. Meaningful transformation.
We cap retreats to preserve care & build a sacred container
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Why Retreat Now
You’ve been the steady one.
The capable one.
The one who holds it all together — at work, at home, for everyone.
But lately your body has been whispering.
The anxiety. The exhaustion. The subtle loss of self.
Retreat is not escape — it’s recalibration.
A sacred pause to regulate your nervous system, soften the armor, and remember who you are beneath the roles.
This is where the strong woman rests.
This is where sovereignty begins.
🌸 Meet Your Retreat Guides
Led by Dori Curtis, The Embodiment Alchemist. Dori doesn't just teach practices, she guides people through an energetic shift that changes how they experience life.
Her work integrates nervous system regulation, 9D breathwork journeys, somatic movement, emotional healing, subconscious rewiring, manifestation principles, nature-based recalibration
Her work moves people from: survival → sovereignty
And Nikki Gomez, LPTA, RYT-200, co-guide and retreat movement specialist, is a licensed physical therapist assistant, trained in somatic interventions and trauma-informed movement, dance instructor, and yoga teacher, devoted to helping others restore fluidity and embodiment through movement. Her grounded presence and intuitive flow bring a nurturing balance to each retreat, allowing participants to reconnect with their strength, sensuality, and joy.
Together, Dori and Nikki weave a safe and sacred space where nervous system regulation, spiritual connection, and embodiment meet — guiding you home to yourself through rhythm, breath, laughter, and remembrance.
A Legacy of Transformative Retreats
The seeds of this work were planted in 2006 when Dori created Vive La Femme, a women’s empowerment initiative that evolved into destination retreats in the U.S. and Jamaica. Over the years, these experiences became sanctuaries for deep transformation, helping participants move beyond their limitations and step into aligned, purpose-driven lives.
In 2018, Dori co-founded Into the Heart Retreats with long-time collaborator Julie Kouyaté, expanding the work to include transformative ceremony, sacred sound, meditation, and movement as medicine.
Rooted & Radiant Retreats are the next evolution — trauma-informed, body wisdom, somatic, spirit-led, and grounded in the belief that healing becomes possible when the body feels safe, held, and honored.
Who These Retreats Are For
These retreats are open to women who are:
Navigating major life transitions.
Ready to release stored energy creating emotional imbalances like anxiety, guilt, or self-sabotage.
Seeking nervous system regulation and emotional healing.
Wanting to reconnect with their inner strength, purpose, and vitality.
Longing for deeper presence, peace, and freedom.
The Boujee Barefoot Mama ready for full magnetic expansion.
Ready to embody their truth and access joy.
Desiring to have fun while healing and reconnecting to community.
🌺 Your Invitation
Each retreat is an offering of compassion and grace — a safe, sacred, and judgment-free space to simply be.
Come as you are. Leave as more of who you truly are.
Whether you’re just beginning your healing journey or deepening your expansion, these retreats provide a loving container to grow, release, and realign with your divine truth.
Within community, ceremony, and breath, you’ll remember what it feels like to be fully alive — at peace in your body and connected to Spirit.
Reclaim your breath.
Reignite your spirit.
Return to your roots.
You are radiant.
You always were.
🌿 What to Expect
Each retreat is a sacred container designed to help your body, mind, and spirit remember what safety and wholeness feel like. You’ll be guided through an immersive blend of breathwork, movement, ceremony, nourishment, and connection — all grounded in trauma-informed care and the language of love.
Guided Breathwork & Trauma Release Sessions
Using 9D technology and the BioDynamic Breath & Trauma Release System®, Dori facilitates deep emotional and somatic healing by gently guiding the breath to release trapped energy and stored tension in the body.
Somatic Yoga & Core Movement Practices
Restore strength and fluidity in the body through gentle somatic yoga, somatic practices, and embodied movement. Nikki’s practices awaken life force (chi), help release stuck energy from the body, realign posture, and help you feel grounded, open, and alive.
Sacred & Co-Creative Ceremonies
From intention-setting circles to sacred plant medicine offerings, these experiences honor personal thresholds — supporting release, rebirth, and energetic realignment in reverence and presence.
Nourishing Food & Holistic Living
Each retreat includes local, nutrient-rich meals prepared with love to support your physical, emotional, and energetic body — true nourishment for the soul.
Connection with Nature & Community Set in tranquil, heart-centered environments, our retreats offer time for stillness, reflection, journaling, walking, laughter, and deep connection with a conscious community. Healing magnifies when shared in safe, supportive presence.
🌸 Why Wellness Retreats Are Important
Community is essential for co-regulation — we heal in connection, not isolation.
When we gather with shared intention, the nervous system remembers what safety feels like. Retreats create a focused, immersive space for healing, transformation, and reconnection on every level — physical, emotional, and spiritual.
Unlike a typical getaway, a wellness retreat is designed for true restoration. You won’t need a vacation after this vacation.
The combination of nature, rest, breathwork, and somatic practices guides your body from the survival state of fight-or-flight into rest, repair, and renewal. This shift supports better sleep, emotional balance, and deeper presence in everyday life.
Stepping outside your familiar environment brings new perspective. As you unplug from screens, noise, and external demands, you’ll begin to hear the wisdom within.
Guests often leave our retreats with fresh clarity about what needs to shift in their relationships, careers, or patterns — and the nervous system capacity to make those changes with grace.
Healing doesn’t happen by chance; it happens by design — in safe, sacred spaces where community, breath, and intention meet.
You hold everything together for everyone else.
But when was the last time your nervous system got to rest?
Rooted Reset is a half-day retreat designed to help you step out of stress, calm your mind, and reconnect with your body through breathwork, somatic yoga, and nervous system healing practices.If you’re high-functioning but internally exhausted…
If anxiety, overthinking, or constant stress keep your nervous system on edge…
If you feel like you’re holding everything together while quietly longing to exhale…
Rooted Reset is for you.
This half-day retreat is designed to help your body step out of survival mode and return to a state of grounded presence through trauma-informed breathwork, somatic yoga, and nervous system regulation practices.
Rather than pushing for transformation, this experience gently supports your body in releasing stored tension, calming the mind, and reconnecting you to your natural rhythm.
Through guided breathwork, gentle somatic movement, intentional rest, and supportive community connection, your nervous system is given the space it needs to settle and reset.
Many participants leave feeling:
• calmer and more grounded
•released from layers of stress and tension
•more connected to their body and intuition
•clearer about what they truly need next
You don’t need any experience with breathwork or somatic practices.
Just come as you are.
Sometimes the most powerful shift begins with simply giving your nervous system permission to rest.
⏳ 10:00 AM – 2:30 PM
💰 Investment: $222
Reserve your space here:
https://session.9dbreathwork.app/join/dori/1656-rooted-reset/2026-05-09
Rooted & Radiant — Jamaica (9‑Day)
March 2027
Imagine waking to the sound of the ocean, breathing deeply under the Caribbean sun, and reconnecting with the rhythm of your body and soul.
Rooted & Radiant is an immersive retreat designed to support nervous system healing, breathwork exploration, somatic movement, and deep connection in nature. This experience is for the boujee barefoot woman ready to soften stress, release what no longer serves them, and step into a more grounded and radiant version of themselves.
The next Rooted & Radiant Retreat returns in 2027.
Join the interest list to be the first to know when registration opens.
Sacred Medicine Retreats (Jamaica)
Our Jamaica week can include intentional plant-medicine practices in held, consent-based environments. These retreats are for people who are prepared, informed and have completed the necessary screening process. If you’re curious about plant medicine, eligibility, or safety protocols — please email us.
For Sacred Medicine Retreats in Jamaica:
AllAboutAlchemyllc@gmail.com
Testimonials about retreats
Ramona
Liz
Aniko
Wendy Johnson
Logistics & FAQs
How big are the groups?
We keep our groups small — between 5 and 22 participants — so each experience remains intimate and supportive.
How long are retreats?
Our retreats range from half-day experiences to immersive 9-day retreats in Jamaica.
We also offer custom retreats and private group experiences upon request.
What about meals?
Wholesome, locally sourced menus with accommodations for common dietary needs.
Cost & scholarships?
Each retreat has its own pricing. We offer limited scholarship support — contact the team for details.