Retreats & Workshops

Sometimes you need to step completely away from your life—onto different ground, under a different sky.

You’ve been holding a lot. The to-do list. The caregiving. The performing. That comes with a quiet accumulation of emotions pushed through or pushed down — because there’s never time or space to feel them. Maybe there’s some low grade anxiety. Some unrest. Maybe even a discontent you can’t quite name — and you’re wondering why.
Maybe you’ve done therapy, read the books, tried to take care of yourself. And still something feels missing—a deeper hunger that daily life simply doesn’t satisfy.

Sometimes you need to step completely outside of daily life—onto different ground, under a different sky, in a circle of women who know what you mean —guided by someone who can open an entirely new pathway to nourishment, to inner peace, to gentle self-acceptance you didn’t know was available..

Past Events

Touch the Earth… Re Claim Your Wild Sacred Spirit

A WOMAN’S WEEKEND VISIONING RETREAT led by Florence Gaia, RN, M.Ed.

Date & Time

• Friday: 4:30 PM – 8:30 PM
• Saturday: 9:00 AM
• Sunday: Until 4:00 PM
• June 26–28, 2026

(1 night at home/hotel, 1 night outdoors for the solo experience.)

Location

• WILDE Spirit Retreat
• Durango, Colorado

$450 tuition only, cash/check

Ready to awaken your unchained feminine spirit – trust your intuition, speak & live your truth, move in the world with vitality and freedom?

What Awaits You

This is where women gather, go deep, and emerge more fully themselves – a little rebirth.

Nestled in the ponderosa pines of Florence’s 35 acres in the LaPlata Mountains, this tipi was blessed by a Southern Ute elder—consecrated as sacred space before a single session was ever held within it.

All breathwork, shamanic journeying sessions and ceremonies take place inside the tipi. Meals are shared together up the hill at Florence’s home.

A Typical Retreat includes: Transformational Breath™️, deep imagery “shamanic” journeying with animal spirit allies, somatic release, drumming around the Mother Drum. This is different than talk or thinking. It goes directly to where healing happens in your body and soul.

Time alone with Mother Earth —
Some retreats include an overnight solo on Florence’s 35 acres of Colorado mountain land—overnight under the full moon, sitting in silence, letting the land whisper to your soul while your mental chatter begins to quiet. Space to touch into your heart, feel your own depth and anchor to it.

Not a reset to who you were before. Emerging into a fuller, wilder, more authentically alive version of yourself that’s waiting quietly for your attention beneath roles, responsibilities, everyday life. It’s like the soft twitter of birds, heard only when you’re mind quiets, your heart can breathe, your soul is seen.

How Retreats Are Designed:

Florence keeps retreats intimate—typically 6-7 women maximum. A circle. Where genuine connection happens — you’re seen, heard, and held. Every retreat is designed with a specific theme and intention—not a generic “wellness weekend” but a carefully crafted journey of the heart and soul.

A typical retreat includes:

Somatic release and conscious breathwork
Multiple shamanic journeying sessions to meet your animal spirit allies
Drumming around the Mother Drum
Solo time on the land (day or overnight)
Shared meals and sacred circle sharing
Closing ceremony where each woman states what she’s reclaimed

Why Journey with Florence?

There’s a particular kind of knowing that comes from sitting alone on the land under an open sky—waiting, listening, hoping for something different than your thinking mind can come up with. Something that gently touches your heart and invites you further. Florence knows that. Her first vision quest over 35 years ago deepened her sense of self, what you could experience when you’re willing to get quiet enough to listen within.

That experience lives in how she guides every retreat. Not as a teacher delivering content, but as a woman who has sat in the same uncertainty you’re sitting in—who found her own answers in the silence, the land, the drum, the animal allies who come forth when called — each one bringing exactly what is needed… and continue to accompany her in life.

She creates the environment. She holds the space and walks beside you.

But what emerges? Waiting to arise within you – that’s always been Your Spirit.

Your Next Step

Something in you found this page for a reason. Maybe it’s restlessness for something “more”. Maybe it’s hunger or uncertainty or questions… or simply that “doing” isn’t enough anymore. You’re ready to Be, to take the next step… and you don’t have to know where you’re heading.

The land is here. The circle is forming around the Mother Drum. Your animal allies are waiting in the wings.

The first step is simply a conversation with Florence to see if this is a good fit for you.