What Actually Happens at a Women's Embodiment Retreat
— And Why Most Don't Go Deep Enough…
RECLAIM | A 3-Night Immersive Retreat for Women in May 2026| Yanada Retreat, Sydney
When most people hear "women's retreat," a particular image assembles itself: linen clothing, herbal tea, someone gently suggesting you breathe into your heart space. Maybe a sound bath. Definitely a lot of journaling prompts. And look, there's nothing wrong with any of that. Rest is medicine. Stillness matters. But if you've ever come home from a weekend like that feeling vaguely refreshed and also somehow... untouched, you'll know what we mean when we say there's a difference between a retreat that soothes you and one that actually meets you.
RECLAIM is built for the second category.
So What Is an Embodiment Retreat, Really?
Embodiment is one of those words that gets used so often it starts to lose its edges. So let's be specific.
An embodiment practice is any practice that brings your attention back into the body, not as a concept, not as something to be optimised or assessed, but as a living system that holds experience, memory, sensation, and intelligence. Somatics, breathwork, movement, nervous system work, these are all ways of accessing what doesn't easily come through talking alone.
Most of us have spent a long time learning to live from the neck up. We became very good at reasoning our way through things, managing our responses, knowing the right answer intellectually while something in the body stayed braced, or numb, or quietly hungry. An embodiment retreat doesn't fix that in a weekend. But it does give you a felt experience of what it's like to come back and once you've felt that, you can't really unfeel it.
At RECLAIM, the practices are varied and layered: somatic listening, guided breathwork journeys, ritual, movement, shadow work, integration circles. Each one is designed to work at a different depth, and together they build something more than the sum of their parts.
What About the Sexuality Component? Is That Going to Be Weird?
This is the question people are actually asking when they look at a retreat like this, and it deserves a straight answer.
No, it won't be weird. But it also won't be nothing.
Sexuality is not a separate department of your life. It's woven into how you relate to desire, to pleasure, to power, to your own body's signals and limits. Many women carry years of messages about what their sexuality should look like, how much of it is acceptable, and which parts of themselves are too much or not enough, and those messages don't live in the mind. They live in the body. They shape how you breathe, how you hold your shoulders, how much space you allow yourself to take up.
What RECLAIM does is create a consent-rooted, trauma-aware container where those layers can be looked at, with curiosity rather than judgment, with company rather than in isolation. Nothing is obligatory. Every practice is invitational. You navigate at your own pace, with two skilled, experienced facilitators holding the space with care and with humour.
There's also a Temple Night on the final evening, a ceremonial closing space that is sacred, playful, grounded in consent, and entirely yours to move through however feels right. It is not performative. It is not a spectacle. It's an invitation to meet yourself at the edge of what you usually allow.
Who Actually Goes to Something Like This?
Women who have done enough personal development to know that something is still missing. Women in long-term relationships who love their partners and also feel a quiet disconnection from their own desire. Women in transition, post-kids, post-divorce, post-career shift, who are ready to reclaim something that got set aside. Women who have never been to a retreat like this but have felt drawn toward this kind of work for years and kept waiting for the right moment.
The right moment tends not to announce itself. It tends to look a lot like now.
No prior experience with breathwork, somatics, tantra, or sexuality spaces is required. What's required is genuine curiosity and a willingness to show up.
What Does a Weekend Like This Actually Look Like?
You arrive Thursday afternoon. The land at Yanada Retreat does something to the nervous system almost immediately, open skies, bush, space to breathe. You settle in, meet the other women, share a meal, and open the container together.
Friday and Saturday move through their own arcs, depth and lightness, structured sessions and genuine rest, moments of laughter woven through the harder material because that's how humans actually integrate things. The food is taken care of. The facilitation is attentive. The group is intentionally small.
Saturday evening is Temple Night.
Sunday morning you close. And then you leave carrying something with you not a certificate or a new productivity framework, but a felt sense of yourself that you didn't have four days ago.
Why Sydney, Why Now?
Rachel and Nikkiema have been hearing the same thing from women in their communities for a while now: I've been craving a space like this. Something deeper than surface connection. More embodied than talk alone. More real than performance.
RECLAIM is their answer to that hunger a space that is sacred and also alive, trauma-aware and also a little wild, carefully held and genuinely transformative.
It's at Yanada Retreat, just outside Sydney. It runs across four days and three nights, from Thursday afternoon to Sunday late morning. The group is small by design.
Early Bird tickets are $1,599 AUD. General Admission is $1,799 AUD. Payment plans are available, and a small number of discounted tickets exist for BIPOC women and those experiencing financial hardship.
If you've been circling this kind of work for a while, this is a good container to start with. If you've done this kind of work before and know what you're looking for, this is a good container to go deeper in.
Either way you're welcome here.
RECLAIM is facilitated by Nikkiema and Rachel, founders of Eden Events. Find them at @its.edenevents on Instagram, or email its.edenevents@gmail.com for enquiries.
