A Soulful Equinox Retreat for Women
A Soulful Equinox Retreat for Women
Twin Creek Ranch, Ojai, Ojai Road, Ojai, CA, USA
Up to 15 in group
September 18 - 21, 2025
Retreat Highlights
- Imagine interrupting the noise of everyday life & nourishing yourself -mind, body, heart, spirit.
- Imagine being met exactly as you are - with no masks, no expectations.
- Imagine being held by a supportive community where you can be yourself.
- Imagine leaving with a deeper sense of coherence and clarity. A new rhythm. A new beginning.
About this Retreat
With over 13 years of experience leading transformational work for women and hosting more than 50 retreats, Melanie is a devoted guide for those ready to reconnect with their authentic essence. Her approach is rooted in the belief that true transformation comes not from adding more, but from shedding the layers that no longer serve, allowing the light within to shine freely.
Melanie walks beside each woman she serves, helping her uncover her deepest “why,” her longing, her vision, and her unique inner medicine. Through movement, light, and purposeful presence, she creates sacred space for women to awaken, reclaim, and rebirth themselves in full alignment with who they truly are.
Her work is steeped in unconditional love and radical acceptance. Melanie offers a steady hand and open heart, guiding women to feel safe enough to be raw, real, and radically themselves. This is where healing happens, where truth is not only welcomed, but celebrated.
Melanie holds a degree in Sociology and Exercise Health Science from UCSB and is a certified 500-hour yoga teacher with advanced training in Bhakti Yoga, Kirtan, and sound healing.
She brings deep somatic wisdom to her work, with over a decade of mentorship in Sacred Depths Coaching and 7 years of training with the Hendricks Institute in somatic and emotional health. Her guidance is informed by earth-based wisdom, authentic movement therapy, and her current immersion in Mayan mentorship and the sacred "Red Road" path, a spiritual way of life rooted in indigenous tradition.
Melanie’s retreats are more than a getaway. They are a sacred invitation to return home to yourself. Come as you are. Leave as more of who you truly are.
Toltec Mayan Staff Holder & Wisdom Keeper
Ricardo brings his ancestral Mayan lineage and wisdom as a keeper of the calendar and ceremonial plant medicine traditions. He will offer soulful guidance, teachings on the trecena, and his connection to these wisdom teachings.
Details of this retreat
You are being invited back.
Back to the land, your body, the quiet knowing of your own heart for a soulful experience.
In a world that is overflowing with noise, expectation, and information it can feel almost impossible to hear yourself anymore, or at least on a consistent basis.
Our minds scatter, our hearts ache for something deeper, something real. We scroll. We try. We keep up. We tend. We care. But something deeper still calls.
The soft yet steady voice of our own hearts, our own true nature calling us home.
This retreat is a space created for you - the woman who knows something is shifting beneath the surface. The woman who is ready to shed what no longer serves and weave a new & deepened way of living from her heart and soul.
This is also a space for the woman who carries much - who may know herself well, yet longs to root even more deeply into her own heart. A place to return to your inner voice, reinforce your purpose, and live in greater coherence with what truly matters. In a world that pulls us in many directions, this retreat invites you back - to yourself, to your center, to what’s real. All in soulful community.
We will gather during a potent energetic window in the Mayan calendar, from 1 Chuen B’atz to 13 Aq’ab’al - a 13 day period that opens the door to creative rebirth and heart-led visioning. Together, this 13-day cycle supports clarity, renewal, heart wisdom, and the weaving of a new timeline - one aligned not with what the world asks of you, but with what your soul is longing to express. This is about returning to who you were before the world shaped you, and reconnecting to your inner child, your pure heart, your authentic self.
This is not a workshop.
This is not a seminar.
This is a sacred container to feel, move, shed, and emerge with embodied wisdom.
Back to the land, your body, the quiet knowing of your own heart for a soulful experience.
In a world that is overflowing with noise, expectation, and information it can feel almost impossible to hear yourself anymore, or at least on a consistent basis.
Our minds scatter, our hearts ache for something deeper, something real. We scroll. We try. We keep up. We tend. We care. But something deeper still calls.
The soft yet steady voice of our own hearts, our own true nature calling us home.
This retreat is a space created for you - the woman who knows something is shifting beneath the surface. The woman who is ready to shed what no longer serves and weave a new & deepened way of living from her heart and soul.
This is also a space for the woman who carries much - who may know herself well, yet longs to root even more deeply into her own heart. A place to return to your inner voice, reinforce your purpose, and live in greater coherence with what truly matters. In a world that pulls us in many directions, this retreat invites you back - to yourself, to your center, to what’s real. All in soulful community.
We will gather during a potent energetic window in the Mayan calendar, from 1 Chuen B’atz to 13 Aq’ab’al - a 13 day period that opens the door to creative rebirth and heart-led visioning. Together, this 13-day cycle supports clarity, renewal, heart wisdom, and the weaving of a new timeline - one aligned not with what the world asks of you, but with what your soul is longing to express. This is about returning to who you were before the world shaped you, and reconnecting to your inner child, your pure heart, your authentic self.
This is not a workshop.
This is not a seminar.
This is a sacred container to feel, move, shed, and emerge with embodied wisdom.
Schedule
Somatic Healing, Soulful Coaching & Embodiment with Melanie:
Through somatic coaching, intuitive movement and dance practices, soulful guidance, meditation, yoga and rituals you will come home to your body, open your authentic expression, return to the wisdom of the Earth medicine, and listen deeply to your felt wisdom through the journey we will go on during the retreat. A weaving of sacred feminine wisdom, earth-honoring practice, and soul remembrance.
Connection the Mayan Calendar, Mayan Wisdom, and Qigong with Ricardo:
Ricardo brings his ancestral Mayan lineage and wisdom as a keeper of the calendar and ceremonial plant medicine traditions. He will offer soulful guidance, teachings on the trecena, and his connection to these wisdom teachings.
Sacred Ceremonial Evening:
On one of our evenings together, we’ll sit in a sacred ceremony with Ricardo, supported by a microdose of psilocybin -a gentle, heart-led medicine from the waters, known as the little niños.
María Sabina, the renowned Mazatec curandera from Oaxaca, Mexico has referred to the mushrooms as "los niños santos" - the holy children - illustrating the way in which they lovingly guide and reveal truth from the heart, like innocent children illuminating the path.
It’s subtle, feminine, and deeply reverent. Ricardo will facilitate this sacred ceremony, led by the wisdom of his lineage and in connection with the elements. We will build an altar to support and honor the space, and you will be held with the deepest care by him and by me. We will also add in the power of community, song, and expression during this ceremony.
NOTE: It will be optional whether or not you choose to take the plant medicine, so that it’s inclusive for all.
Nature immersion, rest, and reflection
Sisterhood & Community:
The safety and support of an intimate group held in beauty and care
Through somatic coaching, intuitive movement and dance practices, soulful guidance, meditation, yoga and rituals you will come home to your body, open your authentic expression, return to the wisdom of the Earth medicine, and listen deeply to your felt wisdom through the journey we will go on during the retreat. A weaving of sacred feminine wisdom, earth-honoring practice, and soul remembrance.
Connection the Mayan Calendar, Mayan Wisdom, and Qigong with Ricardo:
Ricardo brings his ancestral Mayan lineage and wisdom as a keeper of the calendar and ceremonial plant medicine traditions. He will offer soulful guidance, teachings on the trecena, and his connection to these wisdom teachings.
Sacred Ceremonial Evening:
On one of our evenings together, we’ll sit in a sacred ceremony with Ricardo, supported by a microdose of psilocybin -a gentle, heart-led medicine from the waters, known as the little niños.
María Sabina, the renowned Mazatec curandera from Oaxaca, Mexico has referred to the mushrooms as "los niños santos" - the holy children - illustrating the way in which they lovingly guide and reveal truth from the heart, like innocent children illuminating the path.
It’s subtle, feminine, and deeply reverent. Ricardo will facilitate this sacred ceremony, led by the wisdom of his lineage and in connection with the elements. We will build an altar to support and honor the space, and you will be held with the deepest care by him and by me. We will also add in the power of community, song, and expression during this ceremony.
NOTE: It will be optional whether or not you choose to take the plant medicine, so that it’s inclusive for all.
Nature immersion, rest, and reflection
Sisterhood & Community:
The safety and support of an intimate group held in beauty and care
Note: Schedule is approximate and may change
Getting Here
Melanie Elkin, Twin Creek Ranch, Ojai, Ojai Road, Ojai, CA, USA
Directions
The closest airport to Ojai, California is Santa Barbara Municipal Airport (SBA). It is approximately 34 miles from Ojai. Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is another option, it is significantly further away, around 85 miles.
Accommodation
The main house is over 4,000 SQ feet. It has 5 bedrooms, a loft and 4 bathrooms (3 king beds, 1 queen, 6 twins, 5 daybeds and 1 twin sofa-bed). The spacious loft is upstairs. All other 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms are on the main floor. The loft has 3 twin beds, separated by privacy screen partitions, and 3 daybeds.
Beauty Room
Rose Garden Room
Serenity Room King Bed
Serenity Room Day Bed
Joy Room King Bed
Joy Room Day Bed
Gratitude, Private Room
Prosperity, Private Room
Venue & Amenities
A/C in Rooms
Free Wifi
Spa
Sauna
Pool
Towels
Free Parking
Kitchen
Tour Assistance
Hot Tub
Coffee/Tea
Cafe
Restaurant
Fitness Center
Yoga Studio
Housekeeping
Bicycles For Rent
Twin Creek Ranch is a modern farm house situated on 10 acres of land in upper Ojai, 10 minutes from the Ojai village. It is surrounded by the sacred mountains of Ojai with a panoramic view of the Topa Topa Mountains.
Meals
Menu Types
Vegan
Vegetarian
Pescetarian
Ayurvedic
Includes Meat
Organic
Gluten Free
Dairy Free
Nut Free
Nourishing, high-vibrational meals prepared by a private chef
What's Included
- 3 nights/4 days accommodations
- All meals cooked by a private chef (nourishing, high-vibrational) - starts w/ dinner on the 18th and ends with breakfast on the 21st
- All guided sessions, movement, ritual, and ceremony & our support throughout
- Medicinal mushroom microdose (optional) to support ceremonial session
- Pre-retreat group call to support your journey
- Post-retreat group integration call to support your experience
What's Not Included
- Airfare
- Transportation
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