A 5-day in-person immersive retreat with Kendra Cunov and Kimberly Ann Johnson
September 18-22, 2024 • Boonville, CA
Magic happens when women gather.
Listen to the wisdom of the earth, the quiet whispers of your body, and truth of spirit. Lean into the most luscious support as you discover the unique weave of your passions into reality, and share the stories only you can tell.
Yes, we all need solo time & quiet — but I don’t think we are meant to wake alone, eat alone, get ready alone, work alone, and come home alone to try to ‘self-care’ ourselves into feeling better about living in a way that is antithetical to our human & our woman nature.
What I have witnessed time & again over the 20 years I’ve been gathering women in intentional ways, is that it is essential to our well-being as women to gather; to tend to space & each other together; that our deepest gifts for the world are birthed when we come together.
Connect to your depth & weave a life of vibrant authenticity
This is a space for true deepening, where we can go beyond what we are able to do online or on our own, to forge and strengthen relationships within ourselves and to each other with greater maturity in sacred practice space.
Together, we’ll sit at the feet of the great web of interdependence and attend to the intimate truth of our relationality with all things through deep explorations of our connection with ourselves, with each other, with earth & with spirit.
We know — cognitively — that we are connected.
We understand that our lives are about more than ‘just us’. We can feel that we need each other, that we need a deeper connection to place & land, that our relationship with spirit must be more than simply a place we go to ‘get’.
But most of us still struggle with how to bring this awareness into our lives in a meaningful way.
This retreat is an opportunity to explore what this means as a lived practice.
The deepest self-trust comes from trusting the innate wisdom of our animal bodies, without needing to make up stories about what those responses mean.
This is the realm both Kimberly Ann Johnson & I have been studying and teaching in for decades.
We each have decades of experience with embodied, somatic, relational, and spiritual practice & teaching.
We draw on a wide variety of movement, dance, yogic & therapeutic modalities, as well as land-based practices; equally, we draw on our own lived experience and devotion to how best to serve the web itself.
This will be a deeply experiential retreat in which you will not be a passive participant, but an active part of the web.
During the retreat, you will experience a wide range of practices that cultivate & strengthen your capacity to feel, listen to, and respond to the wisdom of your animal body. You will know how to process the wisdom your body offers — from pleasure & desire, to boundaries & discernment — with clarity & ease.
Through this 4 night, 5 day experience, you will…
Call in your dreams
Vision. Dream. Move. Speak. Create.
Connect
Honor your animal body within a loving pack. Dive into sharing, practicing, playing & revealing with like-minded creative humans, deep thinkers, feelers, artists, and lovers.
Receive Earth
Take long meandering walks into the woods. Truly rest with the heartbeat of the Northern California rolling hills & ancient trees. Bask in the Pacific Coast sunset every evening.
Be held in ritual and ceremony
In the magic of sharing circles, embodiment practices, breathwork, and nature rituals, you’ll exhale and discover what wants to move through you.
Rediscover more of YOU
Who you are on retreat is not separate from YOU. Through guidance & community, you can allow these parts to come out more – and explore new ways to bring them back into your everyday life.
This is a space to be nourished…
…through rest, healing, laughter, grief, expression, joy, deep connection, good food, play, being with what is so, desire, wonder…
The world I want to live in includes plenty of time & space for slow connecting, for laughter, for sharing around a fire under the stars; the world I want to live in has cozy beds, good food, and creative exploration; the world I want to live in honors the wisdom of elders, includes a web of support for youth, and returns us to the land to hold our hearts & bodies.
We will be on gorgeous & care-fully tended land, being fed delicious & nourishing food, staying in cozy accommodations, and gathering in beautiful meeting spaces — perfect for the kind of deep & restorative work Kimberly & I offer.
You will come away freer & more able to meet every aspect of your life.
May we all know, viscerally, our own belonging in the great web of all things.
The Land
We’ll gather at Whispertree Retreat (formerly Bell Valley Retreat) in Boonville, California. Whispertree is nestled between two ridges and makes up a sub-watershed of the Navarro River, offering miles of trails and expansive, pristine views of Anderson Valley.
Only 2.5 hours from San Francisco, CA, this gorgeous retreat center gets you up close and personal with Nature – and yourself again. Let your nervous system regulate to the pulse of the earth, turn off your cell phone, and feed your eyes, mind, body, and spirit with the beauty of Nature.
Listen to the wisdom of the earth, the quiet whispers of your body, and truth of spirit.
Lean into the most luscious support as you discover the unique weave of your passions into reality, and share the stories only you can tell.
Join Kimberly Ann Johnson and Kendra Cunov in person for:
- Guided embodiment
- In the moment somatic work
- Guided and co-created ceremony & ritual
- Expressing grief & joy
- Rewiring your nervous system
- Tuning in to your pleasure as a guide
- Listening to your Wild Body
- Practices for self-regulation, co-regulation & regulating with the more-than-human realm
- Deep, nourishing rest
- Discovering & expressing your truth
- Being held
- Listening to Land
- Connecting with the Wild Bodies of other women
- Following your Yes & your No
- Expressing desires relationally
- Having a visceral experience of your boundaries
- Exploring the mystery together
- Magic
The honest to God truth is: as powerful as Kimberly & my teaching is online, our real magic lives in the in-person. Those that join us will not leave the same — energetically, physically, emotionally, or at a nervous system level. The power of transformation we can offer in-person is exponential.
Join Kendra & Kimberly for Apprenticing the Web
September 18-22, 2024 | Boonville, CA
When: Arrival is on Wednesday afternoon, September 18, 2024. Our closing circle will complete by 10:30am on Sunday, September 22, 2024.
Where: Whispertree Retreat Center in Boonville, CA. (Only 2.5 hours from San Francisco, CA.)
Your registration includes:
- 4 Nights, 5 Days of gorgeous, cozy shared accommodations
- Delicious, Healthy Catered Food — Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner & Snacks
- Breathwork, Movement Sessions & Ceremonies
- Access To 650 Acres of Trails & Hikes During Your Stay — including a swimming pond & cedar hottub!
Pricing includes lodging, nourishing meals & snacks, all teaching, full use of Whispertree Retreat Center, access to swimming pond. All rooms are shared. We will take care of room assignments. It does not include transportation to/from the retreat location.
Enrollment for Apprenticing the Web is currently closed.
Please join the waitlist to be the first to know if any spots open up, or email info@kendracunov.com with any questions:
About Kendra Cunov
Kendra is a truth-speaker & a magic-maker…
Fiercely devoted to the earth, and deeply caring for all beings, Kendra has a profound love for the human experience in all its forms.
She has been walking the path of authentic expression, embodied leadership, and devotional practice for over 20 years.
Kendra founded The Collective: A Global Web of Women Devoted to Embodied Wholeness. She also co-founded Authentic World, as well as The Relationship & Intimacy Training Salon and The Art of Fearless Intimacy (with John Wineland), and pioneered the practice of Integral Circling and the Authentic Relating Movement.
Kendra has worked with thousands of men, women, and couples in the areas of embodiment, authenticity, leadership, and full self-expression.
Kendra brings a deep and genuine care for people, as well as an extraordinary depth of insight, in service of people living truly fulfilling lives.
About Kimberly Ann Johnson
Kimberly Ann Johnson is the author of Call of the Wild: How We Heal Trauma: Awaken Our Own Power and Use It for Good (HarperWave, 2021). A full-time yoga teacher and Structural Integration practitioner for ten years, after having a baby, Kimberly has dedicated her work for the last ten years to women’s health, training yoga teachers, bodyworkers, and somatic practitioners and helping women heal from birth trauma, gynecological surgeries and sexual boundary violations.
She is also the author of the early mothering classic, The Fourth Trimester: A Postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions and Restoring Your Vitality (Shambhala, 2017) which has been translated into 8 languages. She has ushered thousands of women into their full voices and sexual expression through her signature courses Activate Your Inner Jaguar, Forging a Feminine Path, and MotherCircle. She is the host of the Sex Birth Trauma podcast.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does "shared accommodations" mean?
You can see more about the various accommodation options on the Whispertree site HERE.
Each participant will have their own bed, but will share a room. And there are shared bathrooms for all rooming options.
Some of the lodging options are more secluded & immersed in nature, some are closer to the dining & practice area. Please let us know if you have any physical needs or limitations we should be aware of when making room assignments.
While we may not be able to accommodate all preferences (and all options are very cozy, with beautiful amenities), we will do our best to meet any physical needs participants may have when assigning rooms.
What airports are nearby?
The retreat is located in Boonville, CA. Nearby airports include:
- Santa Rosa (STS)
- Sacramento (SMF)
- San Francisco (SFO)
- Oakland (OAK)
By car, Boonville is about 2.5 hours from San Francisco and about 3-3.5 hours from Sacramento.
What time does the retreat begin and end?
Arrival is on Wednesday afternoon, September 18, 2024.
On Sunday, September 22, we will have breakfast and then our closing circle will complete by 10:30am.
Are you able to accommodate dietary restrictions?
Still have questions?
Send a message to info@kendracunov.com