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Walking with the Goddess in Recovery
Archetypes of Strength, Compassion, and Inner Guidance
A retreat experience exploring goddess archetypes as companions on the recovery path.
No prior experience required; all are welcome in this recovery-centered space.
August 27 - 30, 2026
About This Retreat
Walking with the Goddess in Recovery is a thoughtfully held retreat experience that explores feminine archetypes drawn from diverse spiritual traditions. Rather than focusing on belief or doctrine, this retreat invites participants into reflection, embodied practice, and shared inquiry, using goddess archetypes as symbolic companions on the recovery path.
Each archetype represents qualities such as strength, compassion, and inner guidance, offering a framework for personal insight and integration. This experience is grounded in recovery principles and designed to be accessible, inclusive, and respectful of many spiritual paths.
Who This Retreat Is For
This retreat is for you if you are:
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In recovery and seeking a reflective, recovery-centered experience
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Curious about goddess archetypes as symbolic guides
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Open to embodied practices such as movement, meditation, and journaling
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Looking for connection without pressure or performance
What You’ll Experience
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Guided movement and embodied reflection
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Meditation and contemplative practices
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Journaling and personal inquiry
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Group discussion held in a recovery-centered container
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Exploration of multiple goddesses from distinct cultural traditions
Why Goddess Archetypes in Recovery?
Goddess archetypes offer a symbolic language for qualities that support recovery, nourishment, compassion, discernment, protection, and inner guidance. Calling the feminine divine forward does not mean softening strength or diminishing action.
Across traditions, feminine archetypes embody both tenderness and ferocity, the capacity to nurture life and to fiercely protect what matters. This retreat honors the feminine as an active, powerful force, inviting a form of empowerment rooted in care, courage, and balance rather than domination or self-abandonment.
How We’ll Work Together
This retreat is held in a recovery-centered container that emphasizes respect, choice, and personal agency. All practices are offered as invitations, allowing participants to engage in ways that feel supportive and appropriate for their own recovery process.
Our time together weaves embodied practice, reflection, and shared inquiry. Movement, meditation, journaling, and group discussion are used as tools for exploration rather than performance or attainment. The emphasis is on presence, integration, and lived experience.
Modalities We’ll Use
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Embodied Movement
Yoga and accessible movement practices to support awareness and integration. -
Meditation & Contemplative Practice
Guided experiences designed to support inner listening and reflection. -
Journaling & Personal Inquiry
Structured prompts for private reflection and meaning-making. -
Group Dialogue
Facilitated conversations held with confidentiality, respect, and choice.
Location
Himalayan Institute
952 Bethany Turnpike
Honesdale, PA 18431
Nestled in the rolling hills of northeastern Pennsylvania, the Himalayan Institute offers a peaceful, grounded setting that naturally supports reflection, presence, and integration.
Dates
Thursday, August 27, 2026 — Sunday, August 30, 2026
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Arrival: Thursday afternoon
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First session Thursday evening
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Finaly session Sunday morning
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Depart: Sunday afternoon
