Daily Yoga Practice: Somatic Release and Breath Work
Each day opens with a practice designed to bring you fully back into yourself. These practices will be tailored to the experience level of the group. Through somatic release, breathwork, and seated meditation, the body unwinds, the nervous system settles, and your energy begins to circulate with ease. You leave feeling clear, open, and quietly energized
Cacao Ceremony: Colombian Cacao for Opening the Heart and Forgiving Old Patterns
Using high-quality ceremonial cacao from Colombia, this guided session supports emotional release, forgiveness, and heart opening. It’s an opportunity to connect with others and with yourself in a deeper, more compassionate way. The effect of cacao on the body and mind promotes deep and rapid change.
Mindful Living: Turning Daily Life into Ritual
We will focus on how to move through your day with more clarity and purpose, rather than reacting on autopilot. We’ll look at how intention can be applied to your habits, decisions, communication, and relationships in a practical way—including how you eat and experience the amazing food prepared for you.
Attachment & Attraction Mapping
A clear look at how you tend to show up in closeness—whether that’s pulling in, pulling away, or moving between both. We’ll connect this to your experience of masculine and feminine energy, not as labels, but as lived patterns in your body and nervous system. Most people leave this with a kind of relief—things start to make sense
Meditation & Guided Inner Work
Each day includes silent meditation with clear, supportive instruction, so you can begin to build a practice that stays with you beyond the retreat. We also offer guided meditations designed to help you meet your true essence. In these sessions, you’ll lie down, relax deeply, and begin to access the subconscious and unconscious layers of the mind—where insight, clarity, and real shifts tend to emerge.
Masculine & Feminine Energy: From Imbalance to Alignment
This workshop breaks down the difference between healthy, embodied masculine and feminine energy and the ways these can become suppressed or imbalanced. We’ll identify how these patterns show up in your behavior, communication, and relationships, and bring awareness to where adjustment and balance are needed.
Creative Movement & Art: Embodying Masculine & Feminine Energy
These sessions use movement and art to explore how masculine and feminine energy live within you. Through guided ecstatic dance, you’ll experience dynamics like leading and following, opening and holding, and expression versus structure. You’ll leave with a clearer, felt sense of how these energies move in your body and how to embody them more consciously.
Chosen Family: The Power of Being Together
This retreat is also being in community—a place where strangers become family. Through shared meals, silence, movement, tears and laughter, we’ll remember the quiet power of being together. You don’t have to share anything, but if you do, you’ll be met with presence. Every part of you is welcome here.
Full description:
The energy you embody shapes your life.
It changes how you feel.
How people perceive you.
How attractive you are.
Some people carry a natural magnetism—they don’t force it, and they don’t question it. Others find themselves caught in familiar patterns, overthinking, holding back, or pushing people away without meaning to.
How you hold yourself changes everything. And people can feel when it’s a performance.
After this weekend, you’ll be embodying your masculine and feminine energy in a way that feels grounded, genuine, and steady. Instead of looking at someone who’s shining and feeling envy, you’ll be able to meet that energy with openness—because you no longer feel threatened by someone in their power. As a group, we’ll begin to unlock this presence in each other.
The retreat begins Thursday evening. We’ll organize carpools so everyone can travel to Brewster, New York together. Please plan to arrive by 5:00 PM, when we’ll come together for an introduction and shared dinner to begin the weekend.
Brewster, New York is a small town in the Hudson Valley area with lots of greenery, lakes, and quiet residential space. It’s known for being clean, calm, and easy to settle into, with access to nature, walking trails, and a more relaxed pace overall. We’ll spend time outdoors, including visits to nearby mini waterfalls and wooded areas, using the environment to reconnect with a more natural rhythm—both physically and mentally.
Each morning begins in silence, giving you space to wake up without immediately stepping into conversation. From there, we move into daily yoga, followed by breathwork and seated meditation. These practices are designed to help you feel more in control of your mind and more connected to your body.
No prior experience is needed, but if you’re completely new to yoga or meditation, it’s a good idea to reach out beforehand so you can learn a few basics. This helps the group move more cohesively once we’re together.
Throughout the retreat, we’ll explore masculine and feminine energy in a practical way—how it actually shows up in your behavior, your communication, and your relationships. You’ll begin to see where you may be overcompensating, holding back, or repeating patterns that don’t serve you.
We’ll also go into the things people usually avoid talking about—attachment styles, codependency, emotional patterns, and attraction dynamics—so you can understand how you show up in connection with others and how to shift it.
There will be a cacao ceremony designed to support emotional openness and connection, followed by a guided ecstatic dance where you’ll explore masculine and feminine energy through movement—leading, following, opening, and holding. This tends to unlock a more instinctive and natural way of expressing yourself.
The days are structured, but with space for rest, journaling, and integration. You’ll be guided through writing exercises that help you process what’s coming up and begin forming practices you can take home with you.
By the end of the retreat, you’ll leave with tools you can actually maintain—a seated meditation practice, journaling practices, and a more intuitive relationship with your body through yoga and somatic awareness.
More importantly, you’ll leave with a clearer understanding of how you move through the world—how your masculine and feminine energy show up within you, how they interact, and how you relate to others from a more grounded and conscious place.
This is for someone who wants to feel more powerful in their own skin, more secure in how they show up, and more aligned in how they connect with others.
When you sign up: You can Join BK Honest Yoga Online Classes for free for the month of May. I'm giving this offering because I'd like you to be fully prepared for the weekend.
Getting To Thompson
The retreat is best reached by car, either by driving yourself or joining a carpool. Many guests will be coming from nearby areas, and we’ll help coordinate shared rides so the travel feels simple and connected from the start. If you’re coming from farther away, the easiest option is to fly into New York and rent a car. You may also be able to join a ride with another guest depending on timing. If you prefer not to drive, you can take the train from NYC to Brewster, which is about 1.5–2 hours. From there, we can help coordinate a short pickup if needed. As the retreat gets closer, I’ll create a WhatsApp group so everyone can coordinate travel, share rides, and arrive with ease. Address: 1391 Route 22, Brewster, NY 10509, USA
Food and Housing
Food All meals are vegetarian, thoughtfully prepared by a local chef who will be cooking specifically for our group. The food is fresh, nourishing, and designed to support the experience of the retreat. Before arrival, I’ll send out a short questionnaire to note any allergies or dietary needs so everything can be prepared with care. Accommodations The home has 14 beds, with a mix of private and shared room options. Shared Bed (with a partner or friend) If you book a shared bed with someone you know, you’ll receive a private room together. You’ll either have a private bathroom or share one with one other person or couple. Shared Room Shared rooms are with one other guest (two people total), each in their own twin bed. These rooms share a bathroom with up to three other guests. Private Room Private rooms include a queen or king bed. You’ll either have a private bathroom or share one with one other person or couple. Guests who book early will be more likely to receive rooms with private bathrooms. If you have specific preferences, feel free to message me and I’ll do my best to accommodate you.
General Rules
Attendance Only in very special circumstances do we allow someone to begin the retreat a day late or leave a day early. Please arrange to attend the whole retreat. Its encouraged that you come to all activities, but if you need to step out, please let a facilitator know or we will come looking for you. Substance While retreats can be very nourishing spaces for those seeking sobriety, this is not a place for detox or drug or alcohol use. If there's something you take for health reasons, or need to take, please let a facilitator know, otherwise substance is extremely prohibited and you will be asked to leave. All deposits are non-refundable within one month of the retreat start date, as funds are committed to non-refundable expenses. If you need to cancel more than two weeks in advance, or in the case of unforeseen circumstances, your deposit can be transferred to a future retreat. For guests who have paid in full: Cancellations made more than 30 days before the retreat are eligible for a refund minus the non-refundable deposit. Cancellations made within 30 days of the retreat are non-refundable. If you cancel more than two weeks in advance, you may transfer your payment to a future retreat (minus the deposit), depending on availability.