Reclaiming Ritual: A Rooted Retreat in Joshua Tree

Oct. 28 - Nov 1

For the leader, executive, facilitator and entrepreneur woman— exhausted by the endless doing, who is ready to remember herself:

The world tells women that rest is optional. That perfection, productivity, and endless giving are the price of being seen, loved, or “enough.” It tells us that our role as mother, caretaker, fighter, organizer, achiever requires our energy to be endless… with no replenishing. Hustle culture thrives on our sacrifice. The invisible labor of caregiving, creating, and managing everything leaves us depleted, burnt out, and disconnected from our own rhythm.

Our western world has conditioned us to believe that daily rituals and check-in practices are frivolous, woo-woo, or silly. But ritual and rest are not frivolous... they are necessary. And this retreat is a place to reclaim both.

This retreat is a radical pause for women to reclaim their bodies, energy, and inner wisdom.

In a world that is profiting from our exhaustion and intense fear, we strip away surface-level self-care and return to what truly restores: slowing down, listening to your body, and embracing ritual (and magic!)

designed for women who are burnt out by their life and roles:

Joshua Tree, California

October 28th - November 1st

$3,600 - Shared Double Room

only 5 spaces left: we cap this retreat on purpose — the container only holds if the room stays intimate

You deserve this

to join us, fill out the form below. it takes four minutes and it's possibly the first real thing you'll do for yourself this year:

what happens next: we hold your spot the moment it lands in our inbox! you'll hear from us within 24 hours with your contract and deposit link x this deposit secures your space, and payment plans up until the trip are accepted on your terms

$3,300 — $3,600 payment plans available

five nights in the high desert. you show up burnt out. depleted. not sure anymore who you are underneath the roles you've been performing, or what you actually want versus what you've been told to want. you’re not alone in that x

you’ll leave here in the highest version of yourself…. the one who knows what she's manifesting for this life and isn't apologizing for wanting it.

in the desert you experience : womb ceremony. guided work that takes you past the noise and into your own subconscious, sound bath and cacao ceremony held under Joshua Tree sky. mornings of yoga and meditation, then the choice of a private pool, a cold plunge, or a labyrinth walk — whatever your body's asking for that day. all nourishing meals cooked for you by our private chef. written workshops and rituals shared in a community you will never forget x

will you spend your one and precious life fully disconnected from yourself and your power?

or will you make the choice to come home?

“It was an absolutely amazing trip, and I think I will cherish the memories for as long as I live. As a mom of 2 I feel like I am always prioritizing everyone else’s needs above mine and the retreat was literally the reset I needed. I don’t think we could have had a better group. I feel like I had a connection with everyone and I could have never have dreamt the female camaraderie and support I would experience..”

- Rooted Retreat Attendee

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When you are a high-functioning woman, it takes a long time for your body, your nervous system, and your mind to settle from all of the tabs you have open:

Being a leader, an executive, a facilitator, an entrepreneur– means you get to determine where the path leads, and are simultaneously creating a better future by setting an example of heart-led leadership.

But there’s one problem: who's taking care of you? 

As women of ambition, high-level performance, and visionary leadership… there is always more to get to on the never-ending to-do list. There is forever a problem to solve, a team to coach, a deliverable or meeting to run, and an endless stream of consciousness running through your head in the shower each night.

If there is one thing we know, it’s that women can continually push through, no matter the weight they are carrying– and outperform the normal standard. We can build the businesses. We can hit the target revenue and care for our families and uphold the world.

But one thing we are consistently horrendous at… is actually resting. Many of us don’t even know what true, deep rest actually feels like.

And that’s where this Joshua Tree Retreat steps in. A space to learn how to be in deep-relationship with your body, formulate new rest rituals and habits… and most importantly– be fully catered to, cared for, and held… by someone else.

You deserve to be taken care of the way you take care of your team, your business, your mentees. This rooted retreat is designed specifically for the woman who believes if she leaves her post, the world may crumble. That if she steps out of her role of managing, fixing, upholding…things will come to a halt.

We have to remind our bodies that it is safe to rest. And it starts by teaching our nervous system that the world will in fact, not crumble if we take the time we need to replenish ourselves.

Every decision and experience of this retreat is designed to guide you in reclaiming your own energy and cycles. You’ll learn to recognize the subtle ways your body signals depletion, and how to respond before exhaustion takes hold. You’ll practice slowing your mind so that creativity, clarity, and intuition can surface. You’ll reconnect to your natural rhythms and discover that rest is not passive… it is active, deliberate, and transformative.

    • Premium lodging with high-quality amenities

    • All daily meals ~ Fully Vegetarian Menu

    • Transportation to the National Park

    • Guided wellness treatments & meditations

    • Supplies for all activities

    • Ample time for rest & reflection

    • 1-2 Yoga Classes a day

    • Daily Yoga Nidra

    • Joshua Tree Excursion

    • Sound Bath in Joshua Tree

    • Cacao Ceremony

    • Womb Ceremony

    • Tea Ceremony

    • Daily connection and writing activities

    • Self Massage Workshop

    • Creating Individualized Sacred Ceremony Sensory Items

  • Morning
    Slow mornings with guided meditation and writing rituals find our most coherent state

    Coffee and Tea surrounded by the desert magic
    Gentle yoga and breathwork
    Guided ritual workshop + meaningful group conversations
    A nourishing breakfast shared in community

    Afternoon
    Restorative workshops + intentional rituals
    Ceremonial tea, cacao, and herbal blend experiences
    A light, grounding lunch
    Unstructured free time to rest, swim, soak in the hot tub, read, nap, wander the desert, or solo time

    Evening
    A slow communal dinner beneath the desert sky
    Gentle movement, sound healing, or restorative practices
    Fire pit conversations, stargazing, and moments of stillness
    Nightly yoga nidra to settle the nervous system into deep rest

  • Choose a Retreat
    Browse our upcoming events to find the one that feels right for you. We host events year-round in all different locations and climates.

    Reserve Your Space

    Apply below and we will respond if you are a good fit! You will then be sent a contract and deposit to complete.

    Review the Welcome Packet
    After booking, we'll send you a Welcome Packet with everything you need to know—detailed schedules, packing list recommendations, add-ons to consider, and more.

    Book Your Travel
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    Get Packed & Join Us
    Now all that's left to do is pack your bags and get excited for your new adventure.

    • Airfare

    • Transportation to / from the Palm Springs Airport

    • Additional spending money

Join Us in October

You can arrive here without knowing how to be you again:

On this retreat, you are not running on the world’s timeline— you are utilizing the space to create your own. Every ritual, every yoga class, every experience, every pause, every breath is designed to restore you, and to remind you that your body, your presence, and your life deserve attention, care, and reverence.

Real, impactful self-care rituals come from what’s already accessible to us. Real, radical self-care is learning to slow down, to inhabit your body fully, and to honor the rhythms you’ve ignored for too long. That’s exactly what we will cultivate here:

  • You arrive carrying the weight and roles of your everyday life.

  • The wide-open space, quiet support, and communal connection begin to soften the tension you’ve been holding and bracing

  • Through shared meals, honest conversations, and time spent alongside other women, you remember what it feels like to be seen without needing to perform

  • If you don’t yet know what your own rhythm is, there is space here to explore it—gently, without pressure—and begin to reconnect with your identity beyond what you’ve had to be

  • Slowing down in this environment naturally brings you back into your own rhythm, or helps you discover one for the first time. Your mind, body, and nervous system begin to reset. You become reconnected to the signals inside yourself that you started to ignore.

  • Your body softens, creating space for deeper presence, joy, creativity, and meaningful connection.

  • By the time you leave, you feel lighter, clearer, and more connected—to yourself, to others, and to the subtle, powerful energy of the world around you.

Deepening Our Experience:

01 / Deeply Restorative Rest

We will journey inward together and experience the gentle unfolding that comes with complete surrender and they joy of non-doing.

As decompression from the regular flow of life can take time, we will be practicing Yoga Nidra each day to facilitate the opening and unwinding into a state of deep, grounded calm.

02 / A Return to Ceremony

We will invite ceremony back into our lives through differing practices that will remind us how to create ceremony in our daily lives. Through the practices of Yoga, Tea and Womb Ceremonies, you’ll be invited to slow down, listen inward, and release tension or stored emotions - there’s nothing to do “right,” simply an opportunity to soften, feel, and deepen the connect with yourself.

03 / Uniquely Catered to You

We will be listening to ourselves and fully catering to our own desires by creating individualized ceremonial blends of tea, massage oil, and aromatherapy that meet our specific needs. We can learn how to continue this practice at home and leave with a “starter kit” of these essential ingredients to creating an individualized sacred space.

Our private and intimate villa is perfectly suited for rest, ritual, and connection, with expansive indoor and outdoor areas for moments of deep inner reflection and communal support.

  • Enjoy the desert magic and landscape:

    • Swim and unwind in the saltwater pool with grotto waterfall, or soak in the 7-person spa with state-of-the-art massaging jets.

    • Find stillness with labyrinth walking meditation

    • Move, stretch, and flow in the outdoor yoga pavilion, or gather around the large fire pit for stories, stargazing, and connection.

    • Savor meals and conversation from the outdoor kitchen, lounge on the rooftop patio with fire pit and sweeping desert views, or enjoy fun and games like Bocce Ball, Cornhole, and more across multiple patios and the expansive backyard.

  • Each time we visit, we remember how nature mirrors our own inner world: where strength, rest, and resilience can exist even within the sparse conditions. The desert reminds you that strength and beauty can emerge even in the quietest, simplest spaces….and that you, too, are part of that resilience. And more importantly, part of that beauty.

    The desert is vast, quiet, and… open. It’s spiritual. With fewer distractions and a grand sense of space stretching to the horizon, it’s easier to drop the mental noise and tune into your body, your breath, and your inner voice. It’s easier to connect. It’s easier to sleep, create, and play.

    For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples and ancient cultures have recognized the desert as a space of vision, ceremony, and deep transformation. The rhythm of sun, wind, and sky create a natural container for reflection… one we have become disconnected from in our daily lives. Rituals, intention-setting, and reflective practices are always amplified here.

  • Throughout our time, a private chef will take expert care of our body’s needs by offering a delicious fully vegetarian meal plan to nourish our bodies and souls during our stay.

    We will also be supported by a wonderful healing and guide through the Joshua Tree National Park. Leading us through a cacao & sound ceremony in the beautiful park.

Meet Your Hosts!

  • Rachel Priest

    Rachel has been teaching yoga and leading retreats for over a decade. She is an explorer at heart, inspired to adventure the world from a place of curiosity and joy. Through life, she has collected travel stories, underwent self discovery and built a community that continues to support her through life’s many adventures. Rachel is a student of the body, its ability to move throughout the world and celebrates this mind-body connection through many expressions.

  • Meg Sutton

    Meg Carolee Pearl is the founder of She Through Tea, a living temple devoted to women’s cyclical wisdom, ritual, and embodied care. Through tea ceremony, herbal medicine, TCM based movement, and ceremonial bodywork, she guides women back into connection with their bodies, rhythms, and inner knowing. She has been a licensed massage therapist for nearly a decade.

Who This Retreat is For:

  • The woman who feels emotionally exhausted from always being the one holding everything together

  • The woman who has spent so much time caring for others that she no longer knows what she needs herself

  • The woman who feels disconnected from her body, intuition, creativity, or sense of self

  • The woman moving through burnout, transition, grief, or quiet overwhelm

  • The woman who longs for slowness in a world that constantly asks her to move faster

  • The woman who is tired of surface-level self-care and craving something more honest and sustaining

  • The woman who wants space to hear herself think, feel, and breathe again

  • The woman who misses softness, joy, play, and ease in her life

  • The woman who feels lonely in her experience and craves genuine communal connection with other women

  • The woman seeking a deeper relationship with herself outside of productivity and performance

  • The woman who wants to explore who she is beyond the roles she has been carrying

  • The woman ready to reclaim her own rhythm instead of living by everyone else’s expectations

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Please book your travel in and out of the Palm Springs International Airport (PSP). The airport is about 40-60min away from our retreat center so please book flights with the below timing in mind.

    Arrival: 10/28

    Please plan to arrive midday on 10/28. We will be welcoming you to the retreat center at 4pm on 10/28 for settling in, dinner and our opening ceremony. Allow enough time to arrive, gather luggage, and Taxi out to the center by 4pm.

    Departure: 11/1

    We will be checking out at 10am-11am from our retreat center on 11/1. Please book flights anytime after 2pm on this day as this will allow ample time for you to get to the airport to make your flight journey easeful and non-stressful.

  • No, Attendees are responsible to book their own airfare and, depending on the retreat, may be responsible for their own transportation to/from the airport. Please review what's not included on the specific retreat page.

  • All bodies require different things to feel good, just as ours do. Please note important restrictions and allergies when submitting your payment, we will make sure you’re taken care of.

  • Yes! It is important to us that everyone has the option to attend. Payments can be made in installments, chosen at check out. The first payment is needed to reserve your space and note, this first payment acts as your deposit and is non-refundable. If you are unable to complete the retreat payments, your space is given to another attendee after several attempts to resolve.

  • It may have been a little bit since we’ve all shared a bedroom with siblings, college dorm friends, or roommates— but we promise stepping outside of your comfort zone is worth it! We ensure that if we are in lodging where we share a bed, at least a queen-size mattress is provided!

    Don’t worry, we won’t be spending much time in our rooms. We will be adventuring the world together through the activities of the retreat and our rooms a quiet oasis to return to and rest.

  • If the retreat is outside of the United States, then yes you will need a passport. Please ensure that your passport does not expire within 12-months of the retreat date. Some countries will not allow re-entry

    If you need a new passport, don’t wait to get it. Passports can take 4-6 months to process.

  • We will share a packing list for all retreats after you book the experience so you don’t need to worry about figuring out what to bring, we’ve got you!

  • Every group is different, but we always have a wonderful, diverse mix of age ranges on each and every trip: from late 20’s to late 60’s. All ages are welcome! (beyond age 18)

Healing is never a solo journey. Since 2019, we have had the privilege of hosting retreats all around the globe, guiding a community of 200+ women, coming from our previous company- Ember and Solis. As we gather on each new experience, the same outcome prevails each time: we remember transformation of connection. 

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Why Choose Wise Women Retreats?

  • We know how exhausting it is to be a woman in today’s society. To make all the plans, cover all logistics, have to be on top of all the details so things don’t fall through… These retreats are an opportunity for you to take off this hat and just receive.

    We do the planning, we make the reservations, WE take care of YOU. All you need to do is show up with your heart and ready to experience incredible change together.

    As artists, facilitators and travelers of 10+ years, we have the experience and expertise others may be missing x

  • Rooted in the belief that The Body is the Blueprint, our retreats create sacred spaces where women come home to themselves through movement, creativity, nature, and presence. This is where wounds soften, stories are honored, and the impossible feels possible again. Together, we cultivate resilience, spark joy, and rebuild trust — in our bodies, in each other, and in the journey ahead! We laugh, we cry, we play, we explore.. together x

  • We believe that all women and those identifying as women deserve safe spaces to explore themselves and the world. We are a zero tolerance company and our commitment to you is to create a safe experience to unfold. If at any time there this policy is not respected, we handle the situation immediately to ensure that all attendees are treated with loving kindness, inclusion, and opportunity.

Additional Offerings:

If this offering doesn’t feel aligned to what your body currently needs, review other upcoming experiences below. All designed to support you and your journey! x

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