Retreats
Enjoy bonding with an intimate group of sisters who are on the same journey of seeking deeper connection with self.
Deep Rest Retreat | Bali | 2025
Rest is the response to chaos.
This is an invitation to step away from the clamor of everyday life, and to step into the sanctuary of your own being. Together, we will embark on a journey of Meditating, Aligning, and Enlightening – a journey that promises to illuminate the path to your truest self. A relaxed, week-long experience with daily massages, private chef created meals, ayurveda healing treatments, sisterly connections, and off-site cultural experiences.
- January 5 - 11, 2025 | Bali
Self MAED Day Retreat
Meditate. Align. Enlighten. Discover
You’re invited to our 4-part series mini-retreat in Ithaca, NY. Enjoy a spa day exclusive for Self MAED women to enter into the de-stressing practice of yin yoga, communal brunch, 1-hour massages, sisterhood, and more! This is a small and private event, book your spot now and join us in a day of exhale!
- March 24, 2024
Our Signature Retreat Styles
Domestic
In country retreats focus on themes that add value to your everyday way of living. These themes can include: financial investing and money management, yoga and meditation for beginners, spa retreat, connecting with nature, self-care, embracing silence, healing from systematic racism, and more!
International
International travel can have a positive impact on your life and how you see the world. Our international retreats are perfect for women looking for a healing, restoration, and spiritual awakening. This experience is a good fit for women seeking a deep and profound experience.
Virtual
At a distance retreats offer you an opportunity to choose the destination, rather it be in the comfort of your own home, or anywhere in the world. This is perfect for women who may not be able to attend a retreat physically, who may have budget restraints, or choose to move at their own pace.
Our retreats are a good fit, if you need to:
- Disconnect from life’s demand
- De-stress
- Exploring new self-help practices
- Connect with other sisters on the same path to wellness
- Manage anxiety
- Travel the world
- Build a deep spiritual practice
- Learn more about meditation & yoga practices
- Inward exploration and spiritual awakening
- Spend reconnecting with yourself
- Want to experience a retreat
Testimonials
The biggest benefit of coming on this retreat was having the opportunity to just focus on me and release a lot of my emotional baggage. It was a time of healing and relaxation. I was provided with the opportunity to bond with some of the most beautiful, accomplished, and talented black women I have ever met in my life. The environment created by Shannon Mae at the villa allowed us to establish sisterly bonds and presented us with the opportunity to express our feelings and opinions in a healthy safe space. It was a time where I was heard, supported and felt included. I had the opportunity to let my hair down and just be me, and that was okay.
Being around like-minded black women and hearing affirming stories made me realized that my issues aren’t unique. I realized that I needed to lean on my support system. I needed to ask for (and accept) help.
A Self MAED Retreat is where you can learn, share, bond and unify without judgement. It brought together women at the right time for the right reasons with the right process. An amazing experience that I will never forget and a connection with other sisters that will continue to grow after the retreat.
This time last week I didn’t want to be here. I just wanted a weekend to not do anything and I tried to talk myself out of this. I had a supporter remind me that this is what I wanted and this is what I have been waiting for and I am really glad I came. The things I learned this past weekend have just been really eye opening and the ability to just have a space to focus on growth and confronting the things that have held me back was enlightening. Giving myself a space to make concrete goals and write down what I want in life and how I am going to get there. I am pretty sure that if it were me at my house I wouldn’t be able to see the same results. At home, I would write in my journal every once in a while, about what I want to manifest, but even when I write it down I didn’t feel the passion behind it, the emotion behind it. Being surrounded by other like-minded women talking about their goals, their visions, and their dreams not only reignited the passion I have for my own dreams, but just rekindled that love for others.
I’ve experienced peace and progress together in a way that I never have. I really needed a space to be able to just be…in a space and not have expectations and not have a long agenda or timeline, or list of things to do, and it was very helpful for me to just be. Just breath, to walk around, and be present with no strings attached. It’s nice to do it in this space because sometimes when you try to meditate or just be in your own space it’s easy to get distracted, or you unintentionally put some type of restraint on it.
It’s nice to hang out with a group of women who look like you and understand your struggles, so we didn’t have to necessarily have to go there. I didn’t have to put on airs because I’m not sure if you understand where I am in this body. We all look alike in some form or fashion and we all get it. Spaces like this are needed to heal and to just be. I now have new lifelong connections.
You changed my life! Gave me a whole new perspective.
