Events

What does a woman emerge from?
From the tenderness she has carried.
From the rage she was taught to silence.
From her sensuality, her grief, her pleasure, her wildness.
From the parts of herself she was allowed to show – and from those she learned to hide.

And what if all of them belong?
What if there is no single way of being a woman?
What if the woman within us is something we need to allow to come alive?

This is the heart of The Birth of Venus.

Not another retreat about becoming a “better” woman, healing everything that hurts, or fitting ourselves into another beautiful image of femininity. But a journey into the many faces, voices, energies and truths of womanhood – and into the question: what in me is still waiting to be born?

Venus was not born perfect. She emerged. And this retreat is an invitation to explore what wants to emerge through you – the tender and the fierce, the sensual and the wise, the playful and the powerful, the vulnerable and the wild.

In the heart of green Umbria, surrounded by ancient stone, beauty, art, poetry and the timeless Italian landscape, I will bring together the essence of my years of work and experience with women, the body and the psyche.

Four days, many dimensions

For four days, different dimensions of our experience will meet and melt into one another:

• Somatic work and TRE
• Process work and emotional release
• Expressive movement and embodied expression
• Constellation work
• Breathwork
• Journaling and inner reflection
• Time in nature and spaciousness
• Shared excursions, lunches and dinners
• And the simple, precious experience of being together as women

The place

We will gather in a breathtaking medieval estate – a place that feels almost made for this journey. A place in the very heart of Umbria, the cradle of beauty, art, literature and poetry. A place where we can slow down enough to listen to our body, our heart, our soul whisper.

The Birth of Venus is an invitation:
to soften. To release. To remember.
To desire. To create. To take up space.
To be fully, unapologetically alive.

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There are places within us we rarely enter.
The places where fear lives, the body remembers,
and the unconscious keeps strong Guardians to prevent us from feeling…

On the night when the veil between light and darkness feels thinnest, we will turn toward the shadow – an essential part of the psyche, asking to be seen, felt and understood.

And we will ask one unsettling question: what if, beneath all our fears, there is one ancient fear – the fear of death?

Through psychological and psychotherapeutic processes, bodywork, movement, breath, voice and ritual, we will enter this territory slowly, consciously and together.

Carl Jung wrote:
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

Our shadow and its darkness are not a place to be scared of, but a doorway to a deeper understanding of our patterns and to a more conscious and fulfilled life.

Are you willing to enter your fear and dance with your shadow?

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How much of who you are today
is protected by the armor you once needed to survive?

Our armor is built layer by layer – through experiences, relationships, pain, and moments when it no longer felt safe to be fully ourselves. It protects us, but it can also keep us from feeling deeply, breathing freely, expressing our truth, and allowing genuine intimacy.

Armor is an invitation to explore these layers through breathwork, movement, body awareness, and deep process-oriented group work.

A space to soften what has become rigid, meet what lies beneath the protection, and rediscover a more alive, authentic connection with yourself and others.

You don’t have to keep holding everything together. Sometimes, the first step toward freedom is allowing yourself to feel.

Come and explore with us…
maybe soften… maybe release…
maybe break through your armor.

With love,
Ivana