Reclaim & Rejoice
Group Program
Transform Negative Body Image and Find Vitality, Joy and Peace in the Body You Have NOW
A four month small group retreat-based program for women on a journey of radical self-love and acceptance.
Limited to 8 women.
As a creative woman committed to your self discovery, all the steps you have taken on this path of healing have led you to this moment...
You are ready to shed the layers of self-criticism and negative body image that still hold you back.
You may be entering a new life passage, or you’ve had a recent body change or illness - and that negative self-talk and inner critic is creeping in again. You hoped it was gone, but here it is again.
And so you Wait... waiting for the day you are comfortable enough in your skin to really live your life to the fullest.
But what if that day is NOW? The day you:
Find love, embark on your dream career, finally start that creative project, or simply feel contentment, ease and freedom in your body.
Imagine feeling deeply held and supported by the healing power of nature, expressing your unique spirit through your creativity, gently opening your heart, and feeling the beauty around you radiate through your being... your body right now.
We all have the right to have access to feeling joy, beauty and pleasure
no matter what size, shape, age or ability of our body.
There is no need to wait any longer...
Reclaim & Rejoice will support you to:
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Deeply nourish yourself, and finally feel at home in your body.
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Know that your value is more than your body and doesn’t change even when your body changes.
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Listen to and learn how to trust your body’s wisdom and intuition.
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Embrace creativity, pleasure, play, and joyful movement.
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Join a community of women and feel supported and empowered on this courageous journey.
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Free yourself from negative mindsets and generations of familial and societal body shame that is not aligned with your values... and was never yours to hold.
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Release stress and overwhelm and start feeling more alive.
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Set boundaries on what doesn’t feel true and give back your time and energy to what you truly love.
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Feel more comfortable to rest and nurture yourself because you feel more satisfied and at ease.
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Create more healthy relationships and meaningful work by connecting to what truly fulfills you.
Free yourself from the “shoulds” and “not enoughs” and find true Body Liberation!
In a materialistic society that promotes diet culture, we’re fed the notion that we can “take control” or “feel more confident” over our life by dieting or changing our bodies, and that we can’t trust our own instincts, hunger, desires and contentment.
The reality is that this mindset actually contributes to insecurity and shame that disconnects us from our bodies, desires, and what is truly healthy for our whole being..
There is more potential to feel calm, grounded, or confident when we are connected to our feelings, intuition, and sensations and trust what truly nourishes us- body, mind, and spirit.
Consequently, we are more able to tolerate and explore our vulnerability and ”heavy” emotions that are necessary to feel alive and authentic. We are not so frightened of becoming these feelings or blaming our body when we feel pain, because we know our beauty and worth can not so easily be taken away because it isn’t superficial or only what society deems acceptable.
We may even need to grieve for and let go of the illusion of protection of what we thought the old body image and perfectionism gave us, to slowly step into this new way of being.
And since this wound of feeling a loss of our sense of belonging, rejection, or cut off from ourselves happens through the body, it is essential to heal through inhabiting our bodies in a new way. Connecting with nature and opening up to our creativity can be great allies on this path.
This is how your journey works:
Ground
Experience the healing power of nature as you slow down into retreat time. Your body and nervous system will start to relax and feel safe to start unwinding and receiving.
Slowing down and being in nature is the medicine, the antidote to start to pause, feel, listen... You will have an opportunity to use the resources of nature to have experiences of feeling deeply rooted and held by the trees, earth, sand, and rocks...
Awaken
Through offerings that will bring you into your senses, in touch with your creativity and what inspires you.
Find flow and power dancing with the ocean, opening to your freedom as you spread your wings and glide with the birds, allowing your body to reimagine, create a new story and have a cellular experience of what you may be longing for and now have a touchstone to come back to.
Release
Old patterns of pain, stress, exhaustion, negative mindset, and coping skills that are not working anymore.
Let the power of the wind, ocean, and fire support you in creating a ritual of letting go.
Reclaim
Your connection with your body, feelings, boundaries, time, energy, creativity.
Create a dance, piece of art, or a nature altar to claim this new path of healing. Play...
Practice
You will be given yoga, mindfulness, arts, and nature practices that will help you stay in connection with the retreat and deepen your experience.
You will be introduced to the concepts of Intuitive Eating, Health at Every Size, and other resources and communities and have the opportunity to join a new movement and paradigm of healing. You are not meant to be alone in this healing journey.
Program Details
All daylong retreats are located in a beautiful, secluded location and private home overlooking the beach.
If you live outside the San Francisco Bay area, consider staying at a nearby AirBNB or hotel for the daylong retreats.
Welcome Gift
A week before your program begins, you will receive a welcome gift and journal. I will provide you with prompts and questions so you can start reflecting and preparing for your journey.
First In-Person Daylong Retreat: Ground
Friday, September 20, 2024 from 10am to 4pm
Morning Session: Opening Circle
Yoga, gentle movement and meditation to calm the nervous system and release stress in the body so that you can access and feel held by the healing power of the natural environment and support of the group.
We will gather, introduce ourselves and begin to share our stories, intentions, and desires for the retreat. We will create a safe, trusting container in which to deepen throughout the program.
Lunch: Together we will practice mindful eating and create a ritual of gratitude.
Afternoon Session
Identify the old stories, patterns and blocks we would like to shift and reimagine:
- Explore them using the resources of nature, movement, drawing and writing and to start creating support for these shifts
- End with restorative yoga practice, grounding and resourcing and other supportive practices until we meet again.
First Virtual Session
Friday, October 4, 2024 from 10am to 12pm
Share any insights, experience and questions from daylong. Integrate and support ongoing practices and resources. Prepare for next daylong.
Second In-Person Daylong Retreat: Awaken
Friday, October 18, from 10am to 4pm
Friday, November 11, 2022 from 10am to 4pm
Morning Session
Activities to open the senses, spark your creativity and sense of play in order to receive the beauty, power and life force within and around you.
Introduce intuitive and mindful eating as a practice to begin finding more peace with your relationship to food as you divest from diet culture and heal from disordered eating with Intuitive eating coach and nutritionist, Karen Scheuner
Lunch: Cooking class and meal with Karen
Afternoon Session
Continue to explore our inner blocks, fears, inner critic, negative beliefs, familial lineage of body shame that keep us from connecting to our bodies and lived experience, and collective societal blocks such as diet culture, materialism, oppression and control.
- Receive practical tools to start supporting you to work through these blocks and create new patterns of connection, acceptance and compassion.
- Complete the day with community support and sharing circle.
Second Virtual Session
Friday, November 1, 2024 from 10am to 12pm
Share any insights, experience and questions from daylong. Integrate and support ongoing practices and resources. Prepare for next daylong.
Third In-Person Daylong Retreat: Release
Friday, November 15, 2024 from 10am to 4pm
Morning Session
Yoga/Grounding Check in circle. Preparation for letting go ritual. Allowing time for grief, self-forgiveness and compassion for living in the old patterns and old protective patterns that are no longer serving us. Writing letters to our bodies.
Lunch
Afternoon Session
Create a ritual of letting go of old patterns and claiming a new relationship to your body and life.
Partner and Group sharing and witnessing. Supporting and Empowering each other as we embark on this new path. End day with restorative yoga to let our bodies digest and root into these new patterns.
Third Virtual Session
Friday, December 5, 2024 from 10am to 12pm
Share any insights, experience and questions from daylong. Integrate and support ongoing practices and resources. Prepare for next daylong.
Fourth In-Person Daylong Retreat: Reclaim
Friday, December 19, 2024 from 10am to 4pm
Morning Session
After starting to release and shift old patterns, you will now have the opportunity to explore what you would like to reclaim in your life. We will explore boundaries in relationships, new life force, connection to feelings, creativity, your time and energy, body sovereignty and pleasure, and relationships with medical providers.
Lunch
Afternoon Session
Closing ceremony and time for sharing.
Fourth Virtual Session
Friday, January 9, 2024 from 10am to 12pm
Closing Circle
As a group we will explore your insights, reflections, answer any questions and support you in your continued practice and offer resources. Share creative expressions and ideas of how to continue on your healing path.
Extend Your Retreat in Nature
After each daylong, you have the option of extending your stay and walking, journaling or resting on the beach or hiking nearby hiking trails to integrate the experience.
Create a nurturing body liberation practice
Throughout the retreats, I will offer readings, nature, yoga, breath and mindfulness practices to support you in creating a home program.
I will also supply some ideas and prompts to spark your creativity to process and deepen your experience - such as collage, poems, nature dances and a home altar.
I will also provide resources for podcasts, body-positive influencers and communities for you to join to continue to support you on this journey.
Program Cost: $1400
Payment plan available: $350 x 4 months
Are you ready to join this wonderful community of women on a journey of loving and living in their bodies right now?
Contact me to schedule a free phone consultation.
Disclaimer and Covid precautions: No movement or art experience necessary. Our use of dance movement, art and writing is more focused on the creative process rather than product. Although, my hope is that this retreat is healing and therapeutic, it is not meant to replace therapy. Your insights and experience may be used to deepen and enliven your current experience in therapy or start a new psychotherapy process.
The retreat is in a very well ventilated space as well as outside in a private nature setting. We can speak beforehand to make sure you feel completely safe and that your needs are met.
About Alecia Singer, LMFT
I help women heal their relationship to food and find peace, vitality and joy in the bodies they have now. My love and belief in the power of the arts and creative expression profoundly inform my work. I have my own arts and healing practice and enjoy dance, painting, and poetry, as well as practicing yoga and mindfulness. I am deeply nourished by spending time in nature. and have been on a lifelong journey of healing the relationship to my body and embracing my life force and creativity throughout various life cycles, body shapes and changes. I received my MA in Counseling Psychology with a specialization in Expressive Arts therapy from California Institute of Integral Studies and am also a graduate from the Tamalpa Institute in movement based Expressive Arts Therapy. I have advanced training in yoga therapy, mindfulness, Guided imagery and EMDR therapy for trauma.
I look forward to working with you!