‘THERE'S A VERSION OF FEMININE SPIRITUALITY THAT ISN’T FLOATY OR PRETTY. THAT'S AS GROUNDED AS IT IS MYSTICAL. THAT ISN’T SOMETHING TO REACH FOR OR GAIN. THAT'S HERE, RIGHT NOW, SPEAKING TO YOU FROM THE UNSEEN, FROM YOUR SOUL, THROUGH YOUR HEART, YOUR INTUITION, YOUR EMOTIONS, YOUR BODY, INTO THE WORLD’
T H E I N V I T A T I O N
Join us on a 6 day journey into self-nourishment, intimacy, feminine embodiment, ritual, polarity work and transformation, blossom into your radiating essence and magnetise the life your heart so deeply yearns for.
Beyond the stories, the patterns, the programming. Stripped off identity, armouring, pushing, pretending. Deeply into the feminine heart and soul, we find the essence of the feminine; a state of being, an intuitive wisdom, an inexhaustible creative inspiration, a fierce sensuality; our feminine radiance.
It is here, we become the living embodiment of our deepest longings and are naturally magnetic; to life, our men, our dreams. We touch our wholeness – our inner union of masculine and feminine energy – and move, dance, work, love not from a place of exhaustion but overflow. A wholeness that is remembered, not earned.
We share our unique gifts not from our mind-ratio but from our direct channel to the divine. We transmute staying small to harmonise or numbing into feminine fire. We no longer withhold our emotions, but learn to be widely expressed women, seeing emotions as spiritual practice, keeping our hearts open and reveal her truth artfully into the world.
Are you ready to allow the fires of transformation to shed what is not your true self, to walk away from this portal a well-nourished woman, a turned-on woman, an awakened woman, a tender woman, an abundant woman, an authentic woman, a raw woman? This is how the world needs you – and she’s ready for us.
Mothers, sisters, daughters: our bodies, hearts and voices know the way. They wake the world up from the veil of unconsciousness and connect it back to the path of love. Will you walk with us?
T H E L O C A T I O N
Tierra Iris isn’t only a luxurious, bohemic heaven, what makes it so special is that it’s charged with the warmth of a community. A community who aims to live in harmony and sustainability with nature, infusing their hearts, talents and souls into the physical space.
The land is spacious with plenty of time in between sessions to enjoy the mountain views, have a dip in the pool, enjoy the yoga deck or outside ceremony space, take a stroll in the woods, visit the large veggie garden and play with all the animals on the land.
‘Last summer, I stayed at Tierra Iris twice. Both times, it nourished me with a sense of luxury and beauty. I felt recharged by the stunning nature, authenticity and purity of the land. Tierra Iris has both soul and comfort. I knew right away this is where the next retreat would be. I could visualise all the women enjoying the space. I could see the magic the ritual space would hold.’
‘Deep down we want to feel whole. We want allowance to express it all, accepted and perfect in our raw truth, expensive depth, lush beauty. There are unfortunately limited spaces for that. The spaces Sarah creates -and I get the honour to co-create at times - are those portals.
Invitations to all of you; the messy, the darkness, the too-muchness and loudness. Also the shy, gentle, fragile you is allowed here. Wide and deep, soft and sharp, foolish and wise, princess and queen. All, truly all of you. How liberated we become together! How we flourish, play, dance with the stars and sing with the endless. How we rejoice in the vastness of the Universe, the complexity of our tiny perfect bodies, perplexed by our proud ego’s, impressed by our brave souls. What a gift this path is.’
- Lisa, Sweden
T H E S I S T E R H O O D
We all need a sisterhood, a community, a coven. A group of women who mirror, reflect and inspire us. A circle to discuss what is present in the world and our hearts. A temple that offers a sacred pause in the busyness of life, where we are nourished - WHERE WE CAN SOFTEN. A space where all of us is welcome - as we are. A place to shed, embrace, cry, laugh, learn, question, shake, embody, awaken. A safe landing where we are held, can drop the masks – and return to ourselves.
We receive many amazing reviews after our retreats. One thing that touches women the most, is the sisterhood they become a part of. Connecting to like-minded women in a space void of judgement, rich in encouragement awakens a power, a remembrance, a love in us that we simply can’t touch just by ourselves. Many women in the community have been in it for years, keep coming back to the retreats year after year. Whether you’re already immersed in or new to the medicine of sisterhood, there is a place for you here.
T H E S T R U C T U R E
We’ll start the day with silence and yoga. After breakfast, we break the silence and go into our first workshop. After lunch, there'll be another workshop. We aim to offer a space rich in both transformation and nourishment.
The workshops will range from practices like visual meditations, ceremonies, feminine embodiment through breathwork and dance, voice activations, sound healing, heart-opening practices, sisterhood connections, poetry, expression, inner-child-, Tantric-, womb-, polarity and archetypal work.
Some days, there'll be an evening ritual. If not, we’ll build a fire and share songs or take time to relax, read or enjoy nature.
All food will be Ayurvedic, organic and absolutely delicious.
SARAH
WARNAAR
HOST
Sarah is a mentor, artist and women’s work facilitator who supports women in embodying their sensuality, opening their hearts in relationship and creative expression, connecting to their power and awakening their soul path and work. She creates spaces for others to heal conditioned and habitual patterns and re-align with their true power and essence. Sarah serves as a bridge from the ground-work of trauma, co-dependency, masculine/feminine work - to archetypal, Tantric, Soul, plant-medicine, polarity and purpose work. As a Rose Priestess, she walks the path of the awakening of the feminine spirit and the Path of Love. Sarah will be your host.
ASHLEIGH
MCKENZIE
YOGA TEACHER &
CO-FACILITATOR
Ashleigh is a mindful movement facilitator, a birth doula and breathwork and Craniosacral therapist. She brings people into deeper connection with the infinite power and divinity within. Her work as a space holder creates a safe container where you can open to shed layers that no longer serve you to come back to your true essence, to the unique and magnificent expression of life that you are. Her deepest passion is to bring people into deeper connection with themselves and one another through embodiment and multidimensional healing. Ash will give the morning yoga and will help hold energetic space with Sarah.
LISA
ÅKESSON
CHEF
Just as in all of our prior retreats, Lisa will be nourishing our bellies with beautiful Ayurvedic food and grace us with her warm presence. Her food is healthy and soothing, thoughtful and pure and gives just the appropriate energy for every unique day or workshop. Her approach is playful and nourishing, taking both the physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing into account. She’s passionate about supporting others in finding freedom in their relationship to food, others and themselves.
Lisa will be your chef and will help hold the musical and ceremonial space.
Pillars of the Feminine
Along the course of the six days, we’ll work with Sarah’s five Pillars of the Feminine: Embodiment, Devotion, Pleasure, Longing & Receiving through guided visualizations, ceremonies, embodiment & polarity-work.
Embodiment
It all starts with dropping out of the mind and into the body. An embodied woman takes responsibility & welcomes all that she feels. She dares to feel it all, & through that, heals it all. She lives from the moment to moment expression of love, which is through the heart, whatever colour that may be. Our body is our greatest tool for guidance, creation, magic & transformation.
Devotion
A woman with a strong connection to Source is unshakable. She flows with life, changes the word discipline for devotion, creates freely from her womb-space & lets her intuition guide the way. Your natural spiritual gift as a woman is the energy, your devotion the energy beam. Re-kindle your connection to Gaia & to the Great Goddess. For you and her are one.
Pleasure
Your true essence, the language of your soul, is excitement, curiosity & joy. The feminine lets pleasure be First, Then adds the masculine structure to support the feminine, not the other way around. It is aliveness first, then work. What excites you? Ignites you? Pleasure also awakens our sexual potency, sensual radiance & unique beauty form within.
Longing
Your longings are the portals, the guiding way to your deepest soul-desires - & are absolutely sacred. They are the yearning of Life itself to evolve more wholly into unity, into the One. Do you dare to honour your longing and follow it all the way? Don’t dismiss your longings, for they will turn into neediness. Let your longings reveal through every vessel in your body.
Receiving
The feminine essence is naturally receptive, the masculine penetrative. Receiving requires trust & surrender, which may feel scary in this world. It requires us to let go of the ‘I can do it all by myself attitude.’ It asks us to have a community of women who support us. It calls us to open instead of close, to live with a cracked open, daring heart, instead of playing it safe.
Watch reels of last year's retreat
'The retreat changed me and still today is very alive in my heart. A deep portal of remembrance and awakening - releasing and opening. Tears of pain and tears of gratitude purified and caressed my heart.
I tasted how it feels to embody my full femininity and sensuality, experienced the most beautiful sisterhood, connected to my womb and primordial energy, showed up raw and vulnerable, danced and sang from my soul, met my shadows as well as new versions of myself. These five days ignited my heart with joy, deep love and devotion to the path of the feminine once more.'
- Sarah, Germany
‘When I traveled across the ocean from America to Holland, I did not know I was actually returning home. Home to my body. Home to my sisters. Home to my circle. Home to my Soul.
The connections I was shown within and the sisterhood remembered without have served as beautiful seeds sown to guide my mission here in this life.
Whenever I feel the urge to rush or force, I check in with my heart, drop into my breath, feel into my womb. I slow myself down and remember my home, that is no place, but a state of being Awakened Woman.’
— Maddy, USA
‘The retreat was the most powerful, profound and potent portal to my remembering, of who I truly am; my power, my connection to the divine and to all women throughout time.
It cracked me open to heal and to shine. I cried tears of releasing pain and danced to the rhythms of bliss, peace, love and acceptance.
Sarah is a Priestess who weaves her wisdom in threads of light and dark, intuitively knowing what each participant and our collective circle needs in that moment. She empowers us to align to our sovereign self to hold our own space while concurrently creating the most loving container that we can all come home to knowing we are holding each other with grace, forgiveness and love love love.’
— Emily, USA
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‘I've never felt a shift so strong since returning home from the retreat. I feel the strongest sense of sovereignty. This portal is a magical divine feminine retreat and I cannot wait to return!’
— Sonia, Ireland
