September 2-3, 2022
Aphrodite Emerges: A Tw0-Day Retreat with Susie Herrick and Elle Luna—Online
Dear Friends,
We are thrilled to share that the Aphrodite Emerges Retreat will be happening again this year. In this time of urgent need, we call on the energy of many goddesses, one of which is the explosive energy of Pele, the Hawaiian Goddess of the volcano whose flames are natural and required to create new lands, which is being asked of us at this time.
We have condensed our 4-day workshop into this two-day retreat to share the process of creating more agency and choice in our lives as women. We begin Friday, September 2nd.
With love, Susie and Elle
The Schedule
Friday, September 2, 4-8PM PT
Saturday, September 3, 10AM-7PM PT
Online, using Zoom
The Retreat Structure
The retreat is limited in size to create a safe space to dive within and really go for it. We will be looking at the training we have inherited as women, the misogynistic belief systems we have unknowingly agreed to, and the internal patterns that keep us from being in love. Using dance, sound, the breath, and group discussion, we will explore misogyny together and work with what comes up in a variety of modalities.
This work grows out of Susie and Elle’s collective work in releasing the claws of patriarchy to unearth the divine feminine.
We look forward to being with you.
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Meet Susie.
Susie Herrick MFT is a licensed psychotherapist, enneagram teacher, former academic department chair and professor, certified mediator, trainer, consultant, and author.
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Meet Elle
Elle Luna is a designer, painter, and writer, and breathwork facilitator. She is the author of The Crossroads of Should and Must, and co-author of Your Story is Your Power: Free Your Feminine Voice.
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Meet Lucy
Lucy Wurtz is a leader in the non-profit space, and has been a tarot practitioner for twenty one years. We are thrilled that she will be joining us to share her tarot practice with our group.
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Meet Brycken
Brycken Olive is a dancer, choreographer, performer, visual artist, and teacher. Brycken’s dance class was a highlight for our last retreat participants!
"We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. That's what I want - to hear you erupting. You young Mount St. Helenses who don't know the power in you—I want to hear you. I want to listen to you talking to each other and to us all: whether you're writing an article or a poem or a letter or teaching a class or talking with friends or reading a novel or making a speech or proposing a law or giving a judgment or singing the baby to sleep or discussing the fate of nations, I want to hear you. Speak with a woman's tongue. Come out and tell us what time of night it is! Don't let us sink back into silence. If we don't tell our truth, who will? Who'll speak for my children, and yours?”
— Ursula K Le Guin, from a commencement speech at Bryn Mawr College, 1986
