ELEMENT RETREAT™

    AUGUST 11-17TH, 2025
    LAGO D'ORTA, ITALY


    SOLD OUT

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    Sometimes those of us with a natural desire to heal get lost in the idea that we need to be fixed. But, beloved, we are not broken. We are not blocked.

    We are always in the process of remembering and becoming more of who we truly are.

    If you are ready to put down the illusion of perfection and the attachment to overcomplicated ideas of what it means to be spiritual, and instead, make space for the natural ability within you to heal and be healed, I invite you to join me in the mountains of Italy.

    Take space away from the constant distraction of modern life, the cultural obsession with doing more and getting more, and the lie we are unworthy exactly as we are.

    In this week long container dedicated to connecting to the elements to Be Your Own Healer, you will receive the space to feel your extraordinary presence and find within you a resplendent grace that revives your connection to all that exists.

    “I went on the Element retreat with no set expectations and it turned out to be beyond anything I could have imagined.

    Thinking back now I am brought to tears at how wonderful the whole week was. I learnt so much about myself, the elements, nature, about life! I have returned back home feeling more grounded and also more aware and trusting in the mystery and in myself.

    I feel a strength waking up that has been dormant and I know it's because of the Element Retreat.”

    – Melody F

    TRUST YOURSELF, WILD ONE

    Receive the nourishment of nature’s beauty, the power of silence, and the confidence that we so naturally embody when we give our soul the space it needs.

    Learn to make healing magic with the elements.

    Receive the blessing of your inner child’s fire, the intuitive healing depth of your waters, the immense wisdom of the air element within you, and the incredible perseverance and magic
    woven into your beautiful earthen body.

    Cry cleansing tears as you watch a baby fox among the lavender.

    Laugh with wild abandon as you make new soul friends overlooking a crystal clear blue lake beneath the moon.

    Allow your spirit to recover, restore, confront what holds you back, expand and evolve into a powerful bouquet of elemental magic.

    DISCOVER YOUR
    BALANCING ELEMENT

    Take off the illusions that cause you to forget; you are nature, and you belong here.

    The elements are calling.
    Will you answer?

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    HOW TO HEAL WITH THE ELEMENTS

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    ELEMENT RETREAT IS THE FIRST OF ITS KIND
    TO HOLD A CHILDREN’S RETREAT

    Our retreats teach children to connect with the elements, each other, and their own creative lights.
    Children are in supervised programming during all scheduled retreat activities (except our optional 7am meditation).


    WHAT TO EXPECT
    This year, we will host two separate retreats for children based on age.

    Our tween/teen retreat (for children ages 10+) will include more in-depth classes on things like elemental healing, charting the stars, working with flowers, stone medicine, vibrational medicine, honoring creativity, a song circle and more.

    Children 3-9 will also work with age-appropriate classes on creativity, weaving and strengthening their own light, elemental magic, and more.

    MEET THE CHILDREN’S RETREAT HOLDERS

    • XENIA MARIE ROSS VIRAY is an Imagination Healer, Frequency Artist, and Emergence Facilitator.

      Xenia works with sensitive and creative people to develop and share their unique gifts and transmute the patterns that hold them back from emanating their creative frequency. By blending storytelling, science, mysticism, and a gift for synthesizing an eclectic array of wisdom traditions, Xenia's work weaves thoughts, communities, and parts of ourselves that have been fragmented back together. Xenia's work focuses on the embracing of one's authentic nature to serve the collective, reimagining systems, and embracing multidimensional ways of knowing. 

    • ALEX COPP is a nurse, an artist and a weaver who created a modality for kids called Life Weaving. 

      Alex teaches kids how to feel their strength and shine through weaving the webs of light  around them through movement, sound and art.

      After a decade of nursing experience and seeing energy, Alex noticed that when we disconnect from our unique creative nature and imagination we can become sick. To prevent this, she has been working with kids to help them cultivate, strengthen and express their unique light in the world.

      Last year, she opened her first space called The Rainbow Weavers, an artistic day camp and gallery for kids on Cape Cod. At camp, Alex guides kids to express their light through art and share it with the world.

    • "It was an honor to share in the co-creation of healing discovered at the Mama Medicine 2022 Element Retreat in Italy. The event is unique in its ability to hold space and foster change while simultaneously creating a sacred container for transformation to occur. Deborah selflessly and freely offered her gifts with grace, dignity, and respect. The retreat is one I will not soon forget. An experience for which I hold immense gratitude to have experienced."

      ~ Erin

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    ELEMENT RETREAT CONTRIBUTORS

    We’re happy to be hosting a web of heart-centered contributors that will be bringing their gifts to the sacred mountains of Italy to help make this year one of the most beautiful Element Retreats yet.

    • Julie from JM Brand Photography will be offering private photo sessions during the retreat—images that honor your becoming and soul’s quiet evolution.

      Whether you're marking personal transformation, aligning your business presence with your soul’s vision, or stepping into a fuller expression of yourself, these sessions are designed to hold and reflect your essence. Each includes a meditation and reflection guide, planning call, and supportive resources.

      JULIE MAGNUSSEN is a manifestation photographer, energy guide, and intuitive brand visionary. Her signature approach blends energetic embodiment with transformational photography to help visionary entrepreneurs be seen in their fullest expression. Through her unique lens, she’s helped hundreds of leaders step into their next-level presence—and magnetize the life and business they’re here to lead.

    • Kami will be bringing a collection of her channelled clothing and plant dyed wraps.

      KAMI SPEER is a healing couturier.  

      Her work is dedicated to honoring and reclaiming the ancient wisdom of intentional dressing. Infused with love and beauty, her work serves to enhance the true essence of the wearer.

      The pieces she creates are channeled from spirit and from the earth. They carry the unique signature of the healing plants, animal spirits, and natural fibers that combine to form a garment. The end result wraps the wearer in a glow of protection and aligns them with the frequency of the earth.

    • Sarah Clark of Stillpoint Beauty will be offering 60 min Craniosacral Therapy and Custom Facials.

      Craniosacral Therapy Through supporting the structures of the body, fluid dynamics, and bioenergy, this light touch encourages the body to regulate and heal. A treatment can help reduce pain, regulate the nervous system, speed up recovery from injury or surgery, and increase feelings of wellbeing. The core of this work is to return the body to a greater relationship with its inherent health. 

      Facial Understanding and connecting not only to the skin tissues, but the deeper anatomy can enhance this in-depth face massage. Combining years of experience and a variety of methods including gua sha, intra-oral work, lymphatic drainage and more, this face massage brings clarity, tone and strength to your skin health. 

      Learn more about her services here.

      SARAH CLARK is an esthetician and biodynamic craniosacral therapist. 

      Her goal with her treatments is to connect to your innate intelligence of healing, supporting and amplifying your health and state of being. Through skincare, craniosacral work or distance healing sessions, she listens and guides you to your highest self. That is where true beauty radiates from.

    • Arizona will be bringing a collection of her energetically charged artworks made within ceremony for purchase. She will also be offering Sacred Art Readings with the preliminary readings taking place at the retreat.

      The Sacred Art Reading is a powerful tool for guidance, clarity and talismanic alliance. The wisdom which comes through is both oracular and of the poets sense - it is a kind of healing that lands straight into the unconscious, the body and the inner centres of wisdom, often bypassing the mind. ​

       This is a magical offering for those deep on their spiritual journey as well as people who feel they are just beginning. The artwork is highly charged and can be used as a talisman for you to meditate with, bringing love, luck and wisdom and a reflection of the support within and around you for years to come and to be passed on to future generations.

      ARIZONA SMITH is an artist and healer who specialises in working ceremonially with the tarot, talismanic artworks, and energetic healing.

      Her intention is to facilitate connections that bring clarity, resonance, and a greater sense of meaning. Moving from the heart to reconnect you with your deep, wild, inner-power and natural ability to self-heal. 

    • Samantha Boersma of The Spiral Path will be bringing her collection of Signature flower essence Formulas and will be offering a very limited number of 30-min Flower Readings.

      A Flower Reading is both a healing experience and an offering of Feminine Form Herbalism™ tools to help you navigate the world as a sensitive person.

      In a reading, we work 1:1 to create balance in your energy field with the help of the flowers. There are always plant guides waiting in your aura to help you heal. In our time together, you'll receive messages and information from them, along with an effective plan for continued work on the physical or spiritual planes.

      SAMANTHA BOERSMA is a visionary, intuitive, and creatress moved by the magic available to us in every moment.

      She speaks the language of the flowers, acting as a bridge from spirit to physical to remind you how connected, supported, and nourished you really are. Through a collaborative process, she formulates flower essences for spiritual and emotional healing.

    • Savanah King will be offering a collection of her talismanic jewelry.

      SAVANNAH KING is an artist and healer whose work is dedicated to bringing ancient wisdom and craftsmanship into modern life.

      The jewelry she creates is guided by spirit and charged with intention. These are pieces hand wrought as personal talismans of healing, magic, protection, and manifestation. Savannah honors stones and metals as healers, teaching and practicing Stone Medicine from a Daoist lineage.

    • Stacey Mundt of Kindling by Stacey will be bringing her singing bowl sets, embroidered sweatshirts and pillowcases, and ritual elemental tools.

      Get sneak peek of her collection.

      STACEY MUNDT is pushing the boundaries of frequency through her creation, Kindling by Stacey.

      Kindling by Stacey offers a collection of frequency focused, frequency forward - functional works of art. She creates ceremonial tools intended to inspire and to stir a sense of play.

      Her work is intended to honor wholeness, by pairing nature’s ancient and rising frequencies with our own inner frequencies. Each work comes with an invitation to ground into the true reciprocity of frequency, into the freedom of the label-less, into the magic, and into the abundance of simplicity.  

    • Melody Fisher of Sophia of Sound is offering Song Healing sessions.

      A channelled Song Healing is a sacred journey where you are held in song attuned to your unique rhythm, creating resonance with your emotional and energetic body to encourage balance and healing.  Song Healings are led with the intention of empowerment, reminding you of your inherent wisdom and strength.

      MELODY FISHER is the singer, space holder and artist behind her stage name ‘Sophia of Sound’, which is a nod to the deep wisdom and healing carried through song. 

      For Melody, music is alchemical and she reveres it as so, grateful for the healing received from songwriting and singing, and for the opportunity to sing others’ stories. 

       Song Healing is Melody’s healing modality where she attunes to one’s heart and channels songs, intuitive insight and loving support to gently encourage honest expression of oneself.

    • Kate Murphy will be leading her signature elemental yoga and meditation classes within the Element Retreat programming this summer. 

      KATE MURPHY is an entrepreneur, founder of The Feminine Code, Investor, Business Advisor as well as an Initiated Priestess. 

      Kate’s work is focused on raising the feminine - both through the path of the priestess and through business. As a priestess, she walks the path of priestess with women in her 1:1 mentorship containers.

      Her passions are on both sides of the spectrum: the power of masculine strategy and the mysticism of divine feminine wisdom. It is her life's work to help guide and weave the feminine and masculine together, in business and inner worlds.

    FAQs

    • You will be asked to pay a $50 application processing fee to submit your application. Within the application, you’ll find information about the starting cost based on your accommodation preferences.

      The cost will reflect the retreat fee ($3500) + accommodation for shared rooms (starts at $1000) and for single rooms (starts at $1800).

      Your final invoice will be sent to you via email detailing the fees based on accommodation preference/availability and any add-ons you select. Upon acceptance, your application will be deducted from your final cost.

    • Yes, we will have a Children’s Retreat taking place during all official retreat sessions (excluding our 7AM meditations) for kids from age 3-16.

      Moms with children under 3 years old should plan to have a caretaker available to look after their child during retreat activities.

      *At this time we only have capacity to accept fathers attending to help care for their children. Please note, male partners will not be able to join the retreat sessions. This is a women’s-only retreat.

    • The closest airport is Malpensa (Milan). Mandali is about 1 hour north of Milan. When we get closer to the retreat, Mandali gathers all the guests flight information and groups them into private vans to drive to Mandali. This greatly reduces the fee of transportation to Mandali. Please note this is an out of pocket expense.

    • Please reach out to: events@mamamedicine.com and we will get back to you shortly!

    • Unfortunately, we cannot provide a payment plan. Please coordinate with your credit card provider or bank.

    • Full retreat tuition is due upon acceptance of your application and 30% of that total is non-refundable and non-transferable once paid. From May 15, 2025, your full retreat tuition is non-refundable and non-transferable. We highly recommend purchasing travel insurance in case unexpected incidents prevent your from attending.