Women's retreats are cashing in on promises of transformation, but can you change your life in one self-soothing (and expensive) weekend?
-induced “ecstatic dance.” And says, Wunderman, daily group therapy sessions. The various components contributed to a transformative experience. “Doing all that yoga put me back in touch with my body and its needs,” she says. “That healthy food cleared my mind so I could think more deeply. Being with a trusted group of formerly-unknown-to-me women created the space I needed to trust my vulnerability.
“I was very angry and bitter and I knew I had to let go of something or change something,” she says. The drumming ceremony was just before a “releasing” ceremony, and as Schofield held her hands out she felt a spirit grasp them, followed by the sensation of hands on her shoulders. “I suddenly realized that I had to let go of trying to control everything,” she says.
But what happens after these retreats? Do the spirit guides and the renewed commitments to self-care remain? Can an exercise in female empowerment in the presence of accepting female strangers translate to a more nurtured, calm, healthy, whole woman walking back into her office? Sara Elise makes the case that some retreats can help prepare women for the hard work of broader social change. “If we can use the support systems in a retreat setting to make room for expansion, we often come home with a greater capacity for the emotional labor and work required of us in the world,” she says.
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