Hello, my loves. I am so excited to tell you this. It’s been a long time coming, but I can finally announce… 

I’ll be holding a feminine embodiment retreat in the Byron Bay area, in Queensland, in Australia,  from December 6^th-9^th!

This is such a fucking dream for me. If you’ve been in my world for a while, you know I’ve been talking about doing a retreat for fucking years. To have it finally come to fruition is just mind-blowing.

The space I’ve reserved is beautiful. I’m so excited to see it in person. It’s on this massive, massive property. There’s a beautiful pool. There’s a sauna. There’s a big workshop space for us to do our feminine embodiment practices. It’s going to be amazing.

This feminine embodiment retreat will be a time where you are connecting to yourself: to your power, to your eroticism, to your sensuality, to your rage, to your softness, to your everythingness, and you stop looking for anything outside of yourself. I really see it as a homecoming.

The retreat is called Alchemy; again, if you have been in my world for a long time, you all know that I used to have a program called Alchemy that went through five different feminine archetypes. This feminine embodiment retreat is going to be like that program on steroids.

Everyone is welcome, of course. If you’re in the States or you’re somewhere else and you want to come over to Australia, please do that. Obviously you would have to look after your own flights, but the price when you sign up covers the accommodation, the beautiful food, all of that.

It’s amazing. Fucking stunning. And I just know that those couple of days of feminine embodiment work are going to be extremely transformative.

Make sure you’re signed up to the email list, make sure you are following me on social media, all of those things, so you can be the first to find out when it opens…or just DM me on Instagram if you’re already like, “I want a fucking spot. Tell me the details.” I’ll get them to you.

Looking Outside Yourself

Like I said, this feminine embodiment retreat is really going to be about that true homecoming of not looking outside of yourself for anything…which is also what I want to talk to you about today, because that is something nearly every single woman that I have ever worked with has struggled with.

People really struggle with looking outside themselves for safety, security, comfort, the answers, connection, whatever it is, when they can’t actually find those things externally.

Constantly needing something from someone else in order to feel good is a very, very slippery slope to be on. If you always need X in order to feel Y…you’re always going to be waiting.

I don’t know if I’ve shared this yet, but it was so sobering for me when I got my car—the Range Rover—I got into this house, and I had been really pining for those things for so long, and I had this fucking shattering moment of ego death where I realized, “Oh, now what? Michelle, you’ve lost yourself in the pursuit of all of those things.”

And that’s not to say I was wrong for wanting or pursuing those things. But I want all of those things and a connection to myself.

All that to say, I fucking know how important that connection to self is. For the past couple of months, I’ve really been anchoring back into my practices and back into rthe foundational stuff that makes me, me. And this is what I hope for you as well, which is why the retreat centers so strongly around this homecoming to ourselves.

Out of Your Head, Into Your Body

Here’s an example: if you were to sit in a therapist’s office and go, “Okay, so this thing happened over the weekend, and I got really triggered, and I can see how that relates to when my mom did this thing when I was a child,” etcetera, etcetera.

And while the therapist going, “Oh my God, you’re so self-aware,” which is great, sure… what you’re actually demonstrating is that you’re probably really good at intellectualizing your feelings rather than actually feeling your feelings.

This happens because, when we’re living in our heads, we’re living predominantly in our masculine, and we’re not able to drop down into the feminine. And the feminine is where all the wisdom exists in the body.

So when I’m asking, “What are you feeling?” it does involve emotions, thoughts, images, colors, shapes, textures, all of those things. But it’s also about the sensations you can feel in your body.

Can you feel warmth?  Coolness?  Tingling?  Tension? Aching?  Open? Expansion?  Cramping?  Numbness?

If I were to say, “What can you feel in your body right now?” I don’t want you to say, “Anxiety.” I want you to identify the sensations Tell me what anxiety feels like.

Is your heart racing? Are you fidgety? Do you have butterflies in your tummy? That kind of thing. It’s about breaking down the sensations of anxiety.

Our Bodies Have The Answers

When we intellectualize our feelings instead of paying attention to the sensations in our bodies, we actually miss out on the magic and the wisdom of our bodies.

Our bodies have the answers we’re looking for. If I ask you, “Do you think you want to stay with him? Or do you think you want to break up?” and your body goes into, contraction and contortion, but then you go into your thoughts and find your mind is thinking you want to stay, you’re going to be confused.

You might then put it around to the people in your circle, and at that point, you’ve actually lost out on that connection to yourself and to your body because you dismissed the signals and the sensations you were feeling.

Have you ever had someone give you advice, and you’re like, “Yeah, that sounds good,” but your body is like, “Mm-mm, fuck that,” and closes right up?

Or maybe someone’s giving you advice and your ego is saying, “Nope, absolutely not. I will never do that,” but your body is like, “Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. That’s the thing,” despite what you think you want?

This is where us coming back to ourselves and connecting with our own power, with our own intuition, with our own wisdom, is so crucial. Because without that embodied wisdom, we’ll just keep existing in confusion and limbo.

Keep an Eye Out My Feminine Embodiment Retreat, Alchemy!

Circling back around to the Alchemy feminine embodiment retreat…I want to make something clear. I’ll work with anyone who’s drawn to it. But my deep yearning is to work with the woman who feels like she’s done all the work. She’s fucking read the books. She’s listened to the podcast. She’s done courses. But none of it is fucking landing.

Okay, cool. Come spend a few days with me. Let’s do this feminine embodiment work. Because I know that once we convert intellectual knowledge into embodied wisdom, everything changes.

This feminine embodiment retreat is going to be such an alchemical process of transformation and growth and expansion, and I am so excited to see you there.

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