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Where Expansion Learns How to Root.
Nervous-system-rooted, soul-led retreats for women (and their animal loves) who are ready to grow without burning, lead without bracing, and live what their souls already know.
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Sacred Immersive Retreat Experiences
Where nervous system science
meets metaphysical medicine —
and your soul finally comes home.
🌹 The Rise & Return Retreats
Two Sacred Thresholds. One Remembered Self.
The Invitation
You’ve done the work. You’ve gathered the tools. You’ve risen, fallen, risen again.
You’ve healed, hustled, and held it all together.
But beneath the polished surface, your body still braces. Your soul still aches.
And still… something hasn’t landed.
Not because you’re doing it wrong.
Not because you need more discipline, devotion, or another modality.
But because your body has been carrying expansion without enough support.
The Rise & Return Retreats are an invitation to stop struggling in survival and start living — to rise in resonance and return to your sovereign fire.
This is not another “retreat” to escape your life.
It’s an invitation to come back into it — with your nervous system on your side.
(translation: no more breakthroughs your body can’t cash in on.)
Let’s create something magical & meaningful together
Before you read on… let me (Dr. Angela) be crystal clear…This Is the Moment the Spiral Turns
You don’t need another weekend-high that fades the moment monday loom.
You don’t need another glow-up that collapses the moment real life touches it.
You need safety. You need sequence.
You need to feel your feet on the earth while your soul opens.
You need to remember what it feels like to be held.
These Rise & Return Retreats exist because, after over a decade of doing this type of work, I know in my bones that most women KNOW how to rise… rapidly thrusting themselves back into the fire, only to phoenix again.
but they were never taught how to RETURN.
And without the return, the spiral stays open.
So does the cycle of burnout. Self-Sacrifice. And Soul Death.
Created by Dr. Angela Martin-King, Doctor of Chiropractic, creator of the NEST Technique, and founder of SoulFire Sisters, these sacred recalibration experiences bridge the gap between your body’s limited capacity and your soul’s infinite calling.
Through nervous system repair, animal-guided wisdom, and metaphysical medicine, you’ll remember who you are beneath the performance — and rise as the woman who leads, loves, and lives from her steady, sovereign fire.
Upcoming Retreats in California
The Rise Experience: A 2-Day Immersive Retreat of Sacred Soul opening work
For the woman who’s ready to awaken her fire and rise into embodied leadership.
Here, you’ll shed old skins, release the bracing, and remember your innate brilliance.
You’ll experience:
Deep nervous system recalibration through Spinal Flow and Inner Alignment Method™
Animal Totem & Equine Communion, learning coherence and trust through direct connection with horses and wolf-dogs
Sound journeys and sacred movement to awaken your body’s natural rhythm
Voice and visibility activations to reclaim your expression and confidence
Sisterhood resonance that mirrors your power back to you
You’ll walk away with:
A regulated nervous system that supports expansion
Embodied clarity in your purpose and leadership
The ability to rise without burning out
Investment: $500 USD (rising to $550)
Deposit; $200 USD
Link to Purchase in USD available by request
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A 5-Day, 4-Night Private VIP Retreat with the Hounds, Hills & Hot Springs
For the woman who’s ready to hold her rise — to live, lead, and love from her steady sovereign fire.
This is a bespoke recalibration — an intimate, co-creative immersion crafted around your soul timeline and nervous system.
You’ll experience:
10–12 Spinal Flow Sessions to dissolve survival codes in your body and soul
Personalized ceremonies, rituals, and sound journeys to anchor your breakthroughs
Nervous system mapping and coaching for sustainable expansion
Quantum healing activations and soul reweaving to integrate your higher self
Elemental experiencing and orienting in the wilds of California
You’ll walk away with:
A body that no longer braces against life
A soul that leads with clarity and ease
A sustainable rhythm of expansion that holds through chaos
Investment: $1,950 USD (rising to $2,200)
Deposit: $700 USD
Link to Purchase in USD available by request
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What Sets Our Retreats Apart
The Essence of the Work
This isn’t another retreat. It’s a soul initiation — a cocoon for your nervous system, a sanctuary for your spirit.
(translation: this goes deeper than a few good yoga stretches, a breathwork playlist, and a meditation sesh you forget the moment you hit traffic.)
Through The 7 R’s Framework — Remember, Reveal, Recalibrate, Reclaim, Resonate, Rise, and Return — you’ll dissolve survival codes, restore your body’s natural rhythm, and rewire your system to hold expansion without collapse.
You’ll be guided through a living spiral of transformation, where science and spirit merge, and where animal and elemental energy, sound, silence, and ceremony awaken your deepest truth.
01/ Sacred Environment & Accommodation
Intentionally chosen spaces that feel lived-in, reverent, and supportive of nervous system settling. These are not hotels or venues — they are homes and lands that actively participate in the work.
02 / Experienced Facilitation & Innovative Methods
Led by experienced guides who know how to hold space, encourage participation, and keep things moving with purpose. This work is held with precision, trauma-awareness, and deep nervous system expertise. You are guided by a practitioner who knows when to lead, when to pause, and how to support transformation that lasts.
04/ Animal, Elemental & Environmental Support
Animals, land, water, and elemental forces are active participants in this experience. Their presence supports instinct, safety, and integration — so you are not doing the holding alone.
05/ Nourishment & Co-Care
Here, food is shared and intentional. In shorter immersions, we gather around a pot-luck style table where you bring what nourishes you and may choose to share; in longer retreats, meals are prepared together as a ritual of giving and receiving care. Dietary needs and sensitivities are honored in advance so nourishment feels safe, grounding, and inclusive.
03 / Co-Regulated Connections
Connection is a core part of the process. Small, curated groups create a field of mutual acceptance, welcome, and resonance. You are invited to belong without explaining yourself — and without carrying the emotional weight of others.
The Rise
Retreat
Sacred Souls Circle Immersion
2-Day Experiential Retreat | Portal Opening
Rise is where you arrive.
Not as the version of you who holds it all together, but as the one who’s been waiting to exhale.
Rise is held at Monika’s Wolf Den Sanctuary in Martinez, California.
A home — not a venue. A place that feels like visiting an artistic, slightly eccentric friend who understands instinct, beauty, and truth.
Shoes come off easily here.
Tears and laughter are both welcome.
The walls have heard real stories before.
Weather permitting, our time unfolds both indoors and outdoors —
in the yard with the wolf-dogs and ponies, on land that invites presence without effort.
Here, animal energy is not symbolic. It’s relational. It’s shared resonance.
Inside Rise, you’ll experience:
Deep inner-divine connection work, including higher-self hypnosis and energetic and emotional clearing, strengthening your internal guidance channel
Spirit animal and totem sessions that mirror instinct, boundaries, and truth without words
Direct time with the wolf-dogs, whose nervous systems model coherence and grounded power
Daily NEST sessions to ground all changes in the body and gently open your nervous system for expansion
Sacred circle and co-regulation that dissolves isolation
Rise doesn’t ask you to change your life.
It asks you to open the door.
You leave Rise feeling:
grounded
clearer
back inside your body
connected with ease & grace
And most importantly —you leave with a yes that doesn’t come from pressure.
RISE is held at Monika’s Wolf Den Sanctuary—a home where wolf-dogs, ponies, and open sky naturally settle the body and open the deeper channel of knowing.
Through animal attunement, inner-divine journeys, and grounding NEST work, you reconnect with the part of you that trusts without force.
Quiet. Clear. Rooted.
This experience is designed to breathe.
Guided journeys, open space, and moments of stillness are woven together so your system can open without force and integrate without rush. Nothing is rigid. Nothing is rushed. The rhythm meets you where you are—and gently invites you further.
❋ Intentionally Expansive Structure❋ Collective EnergyTransformation doesn’t happen in isolation.
In sacred circle, something ancient awakens: resonance, reflection, recognition. You’ll feel yourself mirrored, supported, and softened by the presence of others walking a similar edge—often learning as much through shared energy as through words.
This space is held with precision and reverence.
Guidance here is attuned, embodied, and responsive—knowing when to lead, when to pause, and when to let what’s unfolding do the work. You are supported without being managed, guided without being rushed.
(translation: you’ll be held by someone who knows the terrain, and doesn’t need to prove it.)
❋ Expert FacilitationSafety is not an afterthought—it’s the foundation.
Every element of this retreat is curated to support nervous system ease, consent, and trust, so you can arrive as you are and stay present with what’s real. This is a space where nothing needs fixing—and everything belongs. Consider this your sanctuary for soul.
❋ A Sacred Space
The Return
Retreat
The Soul Expansion
4-Night, 5-Day Immersive | Embodied Integration
Return is where your Soul becomes livable.
This is for the woman whose intuition is already awake —
but whose body hasn’t yet learned how to hold what’s coming next.
Return is held in the hills of Northern California, near Wilbur and Harbin Hot Springs, at a private villa nestled into the land.
This space is devotional.
Sacred pools. Ancient foests.
Hot tubs under open sky.
Acres of land inviting walking, wandering, and quiet contemplation.
There is time here.
Real time.
This is not a “luxury retreat.”
This is a sacred sisterhood journey.
We cook together. We clean together.
We care for one another — not from obligation, but from presence.
(SoulFire translation: devotion without burnout. Competence without hierarchy.)
Accommodation is included, and the environment is beautiful —
but the true richness is relational.
Inside Return, you’ll experience:
1–2 sacred sessions per day, held in both group and individual formats
Daily NEST sessions to integrate expansion into the nervous system and anchor it soul-to-soul
Day trips to Wilbur and Harbin Hot Springs, where mineral waters help the body release what words cannot
Spacious self-time for walking, soaking, journaling, resting, or simply being
Elemental ritual and contemplation where fire, water, earth, and air become teachers
Here, expansion doesn’t rush.
It settles.
Your body learns it can open…and stay open.
You’ll finish RETURN feeling:
at home in your body, even as your life expands
steady in your intuition, without second-guessing, doubt or override
clear in your boundaries, without hardness or withdrawal
connected to your soul in a way that informs daily & divine decisions
capable of holding more — without paying for it later
Not because you’re trying harder.
But because your system now knows how.
Most importantly, you’ll leave knowing how to carry yourself — your truth, your intuition, your expansion —
with a body that trusts it and a nervous system that no longer braces against your life.
RETURN is held in the hills of Northern California, where mineral springs, open land, and quiet horizons invite the body to expand and then integrate what has already been awakened.
Through elemental immersion, higher transmissions, and daily NEST grounding, your system learns how to hold more without strain.
Expansive. Integrated. Embodied.
❋ Expansive & Integration StructureThis retreat opens what is ready to download, and creates the sacred pause for it to fully inhabit you. Experiences, ritual, and integration are sequenced so expansion becomes embodied coherence, not something you visit and leave behind. What arrives here is meant to live in you…. and become part of you.
❋ Co-creative EnergyThis is a shared field of resonance, not a room of spectators. Each woman contributes her frequency, presence, and becoming — shaping a collective intelligence that deepens the work for everyone. Transformation here is relational, alive, and mutually reinforcing.
(and yes that means you’ll take your turn co-crafting delish meals and washing a few pots. we take CARE of each other)
❋ Divinely-Led DirectionThis journey is led from within, guided through attunement, never agenda. Each moment unfolds in connection, with the land, the group, and the higher current moving through you, allowing transmission from your Higher Self to meet embodiment in real time. Your inner channel clears, direction arises through your own soul and the Divine Connects — steady, trustworthy, and embodied, so you can stop seeking guidance and begin moving from it.
❋ Sanctuary SpaceThis experiential retreat is not only about being held in sacred space, it is about becoming one. Through elemental immersion, nervous system integration, and soul-level transmission, you cultivate an inner sanctuary that remains intact long after you leave the land. RETURN exists so sanctuary, devotion, and reverence live inside you — no matter where you go.
Join Both Sole-to-Soul Experiences:
Rise & Return Retreats
For the woman who’s ready for the full spiral — to rise in resonance and return in sovereignty.
This magic-filled journey includes both the Rise Retreat and the Return Integration, weaving together community, ceremony, and one-on-one recalibration.
You’ll receive:
Full access to both retreats (accommodation options for Rise may be available)
The complete 7 R’s Framework & Experience
Animal-guided healing and Divine Soul activations
Sole-to-Soul Healing sessions
You’ll walk away with:
Nervous system coherence that sustains your expansion
A deep, embodied sense of belonging — to yourself and the world
The ability to lead, love, and live from your sovereign fire
February 14 & 15 plus February 18-22, 2026
Investment: $2,300 USD ($3150.00 CAD)
Why This. WhyNow. Why You.
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You’ve risen before. You’ve fallen before.
But this time, you’re not meant to collapse.
You’re meant to return — whole, rooted, and radiant.The doorway is open.
Your body is ready.
Your soul already said yes.Claim your Rise & Return today.
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Nothing dramatic happens if you don’t.
You’ll keep functioning.
You’ll keep helping others.
You’ll keep being capable.And quietly…
your body will stay on alert.
Your intuition will stay second-guessed.
Your expansion will keep outrunning your capacity.You’ll keep circling the same edge —
knowing more is possible, but never quite landing there.The cost isn’t failure.
The cost is delay.Delay of ease.
Delay of embodiment.
Delay of living from the woman you already know yourself to be.(translation: postponing the return doesn’t make it cheaper — it just makes it louder.)
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This is not about choosing the “bigger” option.
It’s about choosing the right doorway.If your system is asking for safety, connection, and reconnection → Rise
If your body is ready to hold your magic and embody expansion → Return
If you know initiation and integration are part of your path → Rise & Return togetherYour body already knows.
My role is simply to hold the door open — and meet you with reverence when you step through. -
Most programs end at the rise — the glow-up, the breakthrough, the high.
But The Return holds the Return — the sacred integration that seals your transformation.This is where your nervous system learns to hold your expansion.
Where your body and soul stop fighting for airtime.
Where your leadership becomes sustainable, embodied, and real.And through the wisdom of animal, elemental and divine energy, you’ll learn what it means to trust instinct, presence, and connection — the way your soul always intended.
A Sacred Yes
If your breath slowed while reading this…
If your chest softened…
If you could already feel the land, the animals, the warm water, the quiet mornings…
That’s not pressure.
That’s recognition.
This way, love.
Your body remembers.
I’ll meet you there, Angela
Frequently Asked Questions (the deep ones)
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Yes — that is the foundation of this work.
Rise & Return is designed around nervous system capacity, not peak experiences. Everything you open here is intentionally integrated so your body can keep it, live from it, and move forward without collapse or recovery cycles. -
You won’t leave “high.” You’ll leave changed at baseline.
Clients notice steadier intuition, cleaner boundaries, less internal bracing, and a deeper trust in their timing and decisions — not just in the weeks after, but in how they lead, love, and live moving forward. -
This is a strong, intelligent container — without control or hierarchy.
You’ll be guided within a field that is regulated, attuned, and responsive, so you don’t have to manage yourself or others. Nothing essential is missed, even when the work unfolds organically. -
Yes. That is part of the medicine.
This space is designed for women who are often the most capable or regulated person in the room elsewhere. Here, you get to arrive fully — without translating, proving, or holding the emotional weight of the group. -
When the call comes, it’s not casual — and it doesn’t disappear just because you ignore it. Most women don’t collapse or fall apart; they keep functioning, leading, and carrying on… while the inner tension grows louder and the cost of holding it alone increases. The call doesn’t soften with time — it intensifies — until you finally choose to meet it. Reaching out to me is how we discern how and when to answer it in a way your body can actually hold. (My contact info is at the bottom of the page)