Sacred Rage

ALCHEMICAL WOMEN’S RETREAT

June 7-9th, 2024
at Deerfields in Mills River, NC
30 minutes South of Asheville

Rage is a tool we can wield to liberate ourselves from internalized confines, created by experiences that have challenged us. This retreat allows us to gather tools and move through somatic experiences to be able to access our full array of emotions and use them as a portal to move at a quickened pace towards embodying our pleasure, play, passion, and the joyous expressions of our being.

 

Embrace + Embody the Sacred Flame of Rage

Our ability to connect with the energy of Rage is directly proportionate to our ability to connect with our life force energy, our ability to create and manifest, our embodied joy, and our Power.

For so long, women have been imprinted with patriarchal stories which have shunned, shut down, and villainized even simply the idea of a woman in her power… and most specifically a woman connected with her ability to feel it all - including, and especially, the energy of rage. It is beyond-time to unbind ourselves from these narratives as women, and allow ourselves to experience the fullest range of our wholeness.

Enter into a space where you are not only invited - but celebrated and encouraged - to lean all the way into your truth, howl-out your griefs and longings, yell your rage into the winds, feel any big-feels that have needed to be felt, accept and embrace ALL of your expressions, and embody the fullness of your power through the big-alchemy of our carefully curated processes.

 

We will journey together, in the deep, through:

  • Beauty of Rage + Shadow Wisdom teachings

  • Parts-work practices

  • Embodied movement

  • Somatic exploration and experiencing

  • Rage release Ritual

  • Grief-tending area

  • Wild-Woman Fire Ceremony

  • Integration circle

Sample Schedule

Minor changes may be made. To build safety within the depth of this work we are doing together, you are asked to attend all the core experiences (optional evening experiences listed below). This is a closed container, so you will need to arrive on-time to each circle as there will be no late arrivals.

Friday

2:00p - Arrive onto land and orient/presence
3:30p - Opening Circle + container setting
6:00p - Dinner Break
7:30-9:30 - Invoking the inner Fire (a movement journey) - *optional, yet ecstatically recommended

Saturday

9:00a - Magical workings
Noon - Lunch Break
1:30p - Magical workings
6:00p - Dinner Break
7:30p - Wild Women’s Bonfire - *optional, yet ecstatically recommended

Sunday

9:00a - Integration Circle
Noon - Free time with the land + pack up
2:00p - Departure

 

Self-responsibility + Empowerment

For this Sacred Rage Retreat, it is vital for everyone to arrive personally-resourced, with the ability and willingness hold oneself in their own empowerment. This is a supportive environment through energetic and ritual aspects of emotional release. This is not a clinical therapy space. As the space holders, we are gathering community and creating a container where each person is welcome to be in their own alchemical process while holding self-responsibility for their own healing journey. The nature of this work can be triggering, so it is important you have already-established personal practices and tools of self-regulation. If you feel a potential for trauma patterns or triggers to arise within the context of this work, we encourage you to instead equip and resource yourself with the appropriate therapeutic professionals, since this space is not designed to process active triggered states in the body systems. We hold this with importance to ensure our space is focused on the empowerment of each individual and the group as a whole.

this space is for you, if:

  • You feel comfortable in group spaces, and are willing to hold non-judgement of others.

  • You are open to flowing with the challenges, beauty, and truth of whatever arises within you in this space.

  • You are proficient in self-responsibility (the ability to respond to dynamic situations in a way that supports yourself).

  • You have foundational tools of self-resourcing and a strong sense of personal resilience.

  • You have experience with embodiment practices and regulating your own nervous system.

  • You have the ability to self-track and articulate what is happening within your system, and know how to tend to yourself.

  • You have a strong support system outside of this container, including appropriate professionals when needed.

  • You feel safe in your own being, and know how to advocate for your boundaries and needs.

This retreat is open to 20-40 women. Let’s gather our sisters and howl it out!

Your space holders:

Ionsul Ferrin is a Healer, Bodyworker, Priestess, Witch, Author, and facilitator of transformational experiences to support deepened connection to the sacred self, intuition, and mutually supportive relationships. She has over a decade of experience in the healing realms and facilitation. Some of her favorite tools include NIASZIIH healing and body work, and Authentic Relating. She is a weaver of community, and deeply believes in Empowering ourselves back into inner-belonging. Ionsul holds Alchemical Mentorships, Women’s Circles, group connection events, and energy healing sessions that create radical shifts in those she supports.

“Ionsul, I want to thank you for such an incredible session! You are incredibly skilled! I’ve taken off the weight of the world and feel 1000lbs lighter. I’ve regained the light hearted spirit of my 12 year old self. I feel like I can finally get out of my own way.”
“Jessica is a superb leader who seems to deeply connect to each woman’s experience and intuitively know how to gently guide or augment it... Women are guided to come into their own and be celebrated in the finest rituals. So much mutual support. Grateful for her vast skill set!”

Jessica Ricchetti is a Priestess, Energy Alchemist, Mystic, and Author whose soul-work is rooted in supporting women on a journey of embodying wholeness, honoring the sacred within, and sharing their own unique magic with the world. She has led hundreds of women through transformational experiences with an Alchemical blend of Energy Medicine, Sacred Ceremony, Soul Journey Breathwork, Circles, and Mentorship. Jessica has led over 20+ retreats over the last 7 years. She is the Author of Wisdom of the Shadow, a shadow-work Oracle which has supported thousands of people (and therapists alike) in navigating and alchemizing the challenging experiences of being human (including Rage)!

 

Ionsul and Jessica have shared transformative sacred spaces, and a deep soul-sister bond, since 2016. We are so excited to bring together the magic of our shared-wisdom and the amplified field we are co-creating.

This work is close to our hearts not only as facilitators who have seen women in this alchemy in real-time year-after-year, but as women… as sisters… and as beings who live this work within our own lives. We have sat with our own rage (and continue to do so), and we invite you, sister, to gather around the fire with us to let it all out!

 

Retreat Location

To align with the primal essence of our life force, we will be gathering close-to-the-Earth among the elements at Deerfield Retreat in Mills River, NC - a 940-acre tract of family property that adjoins Pisgah National Forest. 30 minutes South of Asheville. Swim in the two fresh water lakes fed by springs and Queen’s Creek. Gather around the fire and ignite the flames within. Dance upon the Earth and shake these mountains with your voice. Breathe in the winds of change. Attune to the truth within.

Camping is included onsite if you wish to immerse with us for the whole weekend. If needed, you are welcome to stay offsite - though our experience is a closed container, so you will need to arrive on-time to each circle as there will be no late arrivals.

Food is not included. Bring your own nourishment for our time together (Friday afternoon through Sunday afternoon). Since this is a rustic gathering, there is no kitchen available.

There are just a few spaces available in a rustic cabin, for those who would otherwise be unable to join - if camping is inaccessible (i.e.: elders, those with physical-body challenges). Please email jessica@jessicaricchetti.com with your needs and we can work to accommodate (first-come, first-served). Please note, we are gathering at a rustic mountain landscape where there may be uneven terrain and short walks around the land, so there is an amount of accessibility needed as a baseline. We will do our best to support.

 
 

Energetic Reciprocity

Sliding scale - choose what feels most available to you. Suggested amounts:

$222 - covers our baseline costs to hold this retreat.

$444 - supports living wage for facilitators and support team.

$777 - supports our ease and abundance, and helps us pay-it-forward.