The 8:8 Portal Retreat: The Catskills Vortex
Awaken Your Power. Anchor Your Next Timeline
Catskills, New York
August 7–10, 2026
Set in the quiet luxury of the Catskills, this four-day immersion invites you into a different rhythm of life… one that is spacious, magnetic, and deeply aligned. Hosted by spiritual teachers Alexandra Hanly and Pamela Chen, this retreat blends energetic work, embodiment practices, and intentional ceremony during the potent 8:8 Lion’s Gate Portal. Rather than simply observing this astrological moment, you will learn how to work with it… anchoring clarity, expansion, and tangible shifts across your life and business.
Surrounded by old mountains and mineral rich waters, the Catskills offer a grounding yet expansive container for transformation. Over four days, you’ll move through a curated journey that includes:
- A full day 8:8 portal ceremony
- Blue Lotus dreamwork and visioning
- Elemental manifestation practices
- Cosmic embodiment sessions
- Daily mentorship and integration circles
- A guided cosmic contact experience
Each experience is designed to support you in releasing old patterns and stepping into a more aligned, expansive version of yourself. While many focus only on Lion’s Gate, this retreat also incorporates a Vedic perspective, working with the Cancer constellation during this time to support emotional grounding alongside energetic expansion. The result is transformation that feels both powerful and sustainable. Participants often leave with greater clarity, renewed energy, and a deeper connection to their path… along with tangible shifts in areas such as business, creativity, relationships, and lifestyle. If you’re ready to step out of repetition and into a new timeline…this is your space to do it.
The Rhythms of Scaling and Sangria Retreat
~Design a Soft Life and a Strong Business~
Madrid, Spain
September 18-25, 2026
Are you an experienced woman entrepreneur longing for a business that scales with ease and a life that hums with soulful rhythm?
Join the Rhythms of Scaling and Sangria Retreat, an 8-day immersive experience in Madrid where you’ll live like a local, an authentic Madrileña, not a tourist. The city itself, with its unique rhythms and rich culture, will guide your transformation.
You’ll leave feeling that Madrid is home, carrying its soulful rhythms into your life and business for 2026 and beyond. From learning to dance flamenco, cooking quintessential Spanish dishes like tortilla española, to savoring scrumptious foods, wines, art, and music you will experience the authentic flavors and pulse of Madrid—nourishing your soul as deeply as your business.
Guided by Kerry-Ann Powell, an American expat who has called Madrid home for nearly 10 years and is a seasoned business strategist and trauma-informed leadership coach with over 20 years of experience, you will develop a deeply aligned and soulful roadmap for your growth.
The carefully curated, intimate group of diverse and experienced women business owners adds a powerful sense of community and connection, fostering lifelong friendships that support your transformation. Step into the dance of purposeful living where your business thrives in harmony with your heart—and your soul hums with every step.
Trip Tuition: See website
The Ultimate Reset: Access Your Inner Power Through the Essence of Bali
September 26-October 3rd, 2026
Are you the woman everyone depends on, yet quietly you long to reconnect with the version of yourself that feels alive, grounded, and fully you? If so, join The Ultimate Reset, an 8-day immersive retreat in Bali designed for women who are ready to step away from constant responsibility and return to themselves. This experience is a pause, a recalibration, and a powerful reset for your mind, body, and spirit.
Set within the lush beauty and healing energy of Bali, you’ll experience a different rhythm of life where you are invited to soften, slow down, breathe deeply, and listen inward again. Surrounded by sacred temples, emerald rice fields, waterfalls, jungle landscapes, and rich Balinese culture, the island itself becomes part of your transformation. From water purification ceremonies and rice field immersions to transformational breathwork, cultural experiences, rest, laughter, and meaningful connection, every part of this journey is intentionally curated to help you reconnect with your body, intuition, joy, and inner power.
Guided by psychotherapist, transformational retreat leader, and trauma-informed breathwork facilitator Natolie Warren, you’ll move through experiences designed to support emotional release, nervous system restoration, self-discovery, and embodied transformation. Throughout the retreat, you will experience:
- Transformational breathwork and somatic healing sessions
- Sacred temple and water purification ceremonies
- Balinese cultural immersion experiences
- Reflection circles and guided inner work
- Deep rest, restoration, and spacious free time
- Sisterhood and authentic connection with like-minded women
Participants often leave feeling lighter, clearer, more connected to themselves, and deeply empowered to make decisions from alignment instead of obligation. The carefully curated intimacy of this experience creates a safe and powerful container for transformation, allowing women to soften, reconnect with their truth, and form meaningful connections that continue long after the retreat ends. This is your invitation to step beyond the norm and into a more self-led, grounded, vibrant way of living..
Trip Tuition: See website
Sacred Bhutan
Ancient Pathways to Clarity, Vitality & Purpose
October 20-29, 2026
If you’re an adventurous soul seeking to unplug, reconnect with nature, and immerse yourself in the spirituality and culture of magical Bhutan, then join us for an unforgettable journey of a lifetime through sacred landscapes nestled in the Himalayas. You’ll hike ancient trails, discover Bhutanese traditions, and return home with a renewed sense of clarity, vitality, and purpose.
Your adventure begins with an exhilarating landing into Paro, with heart-pounding moments weaving between mountains and breathtaking views. You step off the plane and breathe in the crisp, pure Himalayan air. It feels different here — charged with something mystical and timeless.
Colorful prayer flags dance in the wind, carrying blessings across the mountains. In the distance, whitewashed monasteries cling to cliffsides, their golden spires catching the morning light. Everywhere you turn, the landscape feels alive — soaring peaks, emerald valleys, and rivers that sparkle with the clarity of untouched nature. You exhale deeply. Your shoulders drop, the tension you didn’t even realize you were holding melts into the breeze. You hear the low soothing murmur of a mantra carried in the air that grounds you in the most extraordinary way. You’re fully here. Present. Alive.
WHAT are the highlights?
Flying into Paro you’ll fly over eight of the ten tallest peaks in the world – including Mt. Everest.
Experience 4 different districts: Paro, Punakha, Gangtey, and Thimphu.
A total Hiker’s paradise! Enjoy sacred trails through the lush valleys of Bhutan including the takin reserve.
Pilgrimage to the legendary Tiger’s Nest (Taktshang) that is absolutely breathtaking!
Visit the stunning Punakha Dzong – a magnificent architectural masterpiece nestled between two rivers.
Traditional farmhouse experience, where you’ll learn how to prepare a Bhutanese home-cooked meal.
Explore the capital of Bhutan, Thimpu – the only capital city in the world with no traffic lights!
Meditation session and butter lamp offering at monasteries, attend evening prayers with monks chanting Buddhist prayers.
Attend the Dechenphu Mask dance festival.
Royal Kemet Pilgrimage: Walk Through the Temples, Return as the Leader You Already Are
Egypt: Luxor, Aswan, and Cairo
November 3–18, 2026
Set within the sacred lands of ancient Kemet, this fifteen-day initiatory journey invites you into direct relationship with one of the most powerful spiritual landscapes on earth. Facilitated by Taheera Saahir and Barbara James, this pilgrimage moves through Kemetic energy work, shamanic practice, and embodied ceremony across some of the most significant temple sites in the world. Rather than simply visiting Egypt as a tourist, you will enter these spaces with intention, presence, and a clear energetic framework designed to support lasting transformation.
Spanning Luxor, the Nile, the Nubian lands, the desert, and the Giza Plateau, each location holds a distinct frequency that supports a specific phase of inner work. You will move from grounding and attunement in Luxor, through integration along the Nile on a private Dahabiya, into stillness and solar clarity in the desert, and finally to completion at the pyramids and the Sphinx in Cairo. The environment itself becomes part of the container.
Over fifteen days, your journey will include:
- Private access inside the Great Pyramid and extended presence at the Sphinx
- Guided temple visits through Luxor, Karnak, and additional sacred sites
- A three-night private Dahabiya sailing the Nile from Luxor to Aswan and the Nubian Village
- Desert immersion with local facilitation
- Daily Kemetic and shamanic energetic practices
- Ritual, ceremony, and intentional integration work
- Pre and post journey support calls
- A curated kit with selected tools for your energetic work
- Access to a private community for connection and communication
This pilgrimage is preceded by the Temple Code Frequency Certification, a four-week online energy healing training running October 5 through November 1, 2026. This phase prepares your body and awareness before you arrive on the land, so that when you enter the temples, you are ready to receive at a deeper level. Participants leave with more than memories of the land. They leave with a recalibrated relationship to their energy, their leadership, and their capacity to hold expansion without fragmentation. The work you do here settles into your nervous system and your daily life in ways that are practical, grounded, and lasting. If you are ready to move through Egypt not as a visitor but as someone in full relationship with what these lands carry, this is your invitation.
Create Your Fabulous Big Project:
Bring Your Vision to Life in Paradise!
Costa Rica
January 17-22, 2027
There’s a version of your life where your big idea already exists. This is the space where your dreams become reality!
Set in the lush, electric-yet-grounded energy of Costa Rica, where everything feels alive, expansive, and more possible, this retreat is designed to pull your vision out of your head and into reality. Not someday. Not “when you have time.” Now.
During the Create Your Fabulous Big Project retreat, the days are intentionally crafted to create momentum. Deep, focused sessions where your ideas sharpen and take shape. Uninterrupted space to actually work on the thing…not just think about it. Conversations that unlock clarity you couldn’t find on your own. Moments in nature that reset your nervous system so you can create from a place that feels clear, grounded, and powerful.
Then there’s everything in between… the warmth, the beauty, the laughter, the late-night conversations with creative women and men who are ready to take their inspiration to the next level. Every fresh meal nourishing your body becomes a new layer of releasing decision-making fatigue. What once felt overwhelming suddenly becomes inevitable all while the sounds of tropical birds and waterfalls hum in the background.
The course. The book. The offer. The work of art that keeps nudging you but hasn’t fully landed yet. You don’t need more information to get started. You need space, support, and structure. The right environment to finally move and become the version of you who no longer questions whether this is happening. It already is. Led by Marie Crystal Kueny and David Rackoff, this retreat, surrounded by the fresh jungle air, and colorful tropical flowers, is not just a beautiful experience… it’s part of your legacy.
Tuition: On the website
La Dolce Presenza: Savoring Beauty, Serenity & the Art of Living Well
Sardinia & Rome, Italy
May 20-27, 2027
The full moon rises over ancient lands as you step into a world where beauty, presence, and feminine power are tangible. This is not a typical Italian vacation, it’s a return to your body, your heart, your essence.
We begin in Rome, walking sacred sites that have held the energy of devotion, art, and feminine reverence for centuries. Then, we journey to the breathtaking island of Sardinia, one of the world’s five Blue Zones, where life slows, deepens, and expands.
Retreat Experience Highlights
- Private group exploration of Rome’s most energetically significant sites
- Transition into Sardinia’s serene, untouched coastal beauty
- Catamaran tour along crystal-clear Mediterranean waters
- Italian cooking class rooted in tradition and pleasure
- Spacious time for rest, reflection, and integration
The Energy of This Retreat. This experience is designed for the woman who is ready to:
- Exhale from performance and pressure
- Reconnect with her body, sensuality, and intuition
- Experience luxury as presence
- Surround herself with other powerful, expansive women
Allow Marie Crystal Kueny, Founder of Goddess of Light Retreats and author of “Messages from Your Future Self” to guide you on this incredible journey to be present to this transformative experience.
Tuition: On the website

I received an email from your organization. On the email it indicates a retreat to Teotihuacan in October 2024. I can see the trip in the email but I don’t see it on your website “Trips at a Glance” page.
Can you clarify if this an actual retreat that you are offering in 2024?
Hi Angela!
We don’t have the trip up yet – we are catching up from the holidays. But the trip is a go and the page is here:
https://www.wanderlustentrepreneur.com/teotihuacan-mexico-retreat-2024/
Let us know if you have any questions at all – we’d love to have you!
xox Sheri
I would like to partner in order to make a retreat in Mexico. I am from Mexico, and would be happy to colaborate.
Thanks Ingrid! Think about joining our FB groups where you could meet other retreat leaders here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ILoveTransformationalDestinationRetreats
Congrats on such wonderful services! as a tour company in Morocco, We think we have some unique inspiring tours!
When will you have the trips for 2020 uploaded to your site? Interested in Greece and Nepal…
Probably later this year Margo and you can also contact me directly if you would like to have a customized itinerary to any fo the destinations you would like to travel to.
For example, we often arrange private trips to Nepal and have our clients taken care of by our local guides and contact.
For more information, please don’t hesitate to contact me directly:
ales@journeysofthespirit.com
1866 866 5566
Any trips to New Zealand?
Hello Gina,
We currently don’t have any group trips to New Zealand but we can always customize a trip for individual travel as well.
If this is something you are interested in, please feel free to contact us at:
ales@journeysofthespirit.com
I would then discuss the options with you and put together a custom itinerary.
– Ales, Director of Travel @ Journeys of the Spirit
Hi! Still wondering about a possible Ireland/Scotland trip in 2018. Don’t see an answer to my previous request. Thanks. Shirley
Hi Shirley,
I am sorry that your question hasn’t been answered yet. Right now we don’t know yet if or when the Ireland/Scotland trip will be running for 2018 but please do keep checking back on this site as we are always keeping our trips up to date.
You can also send me an e-mail to ales@journeysofthespirit.com and I will keep you updated on any possible trips to Ireland and Scotland in the new year.
Wishing you all the best,
Ales
Hi,
Really interested to do a Hawaii retreat.
Is there one this year?
Would love to join if there’s a scheduled one line up.
Many thanks
Hi Rita!
We don’t have anything to Hawaii this year love – so sorry!
Blessings, Sheri
Hi Rita!
We don’t have anything to Hawaii this year love – so sorry!
Blessings, Sheri
Do you have plans for a magical/mystical trip to Ireland/Scotland anytime next year (2018)?
I too am interested in an Ireland trip in 2018 or 2019
Any singles trips
Dear Lisa,
We do not have any singles trips at this time. We found that they were not popular as most folks who go on retreats do not go as a couple anyway. They are there to improve themselves not to find a partner.
Blessings, Sheri
What about people over 65? Are there any trips that especially cater to us elderly who are in good enough physical shape and still on the spiritual journey?
Dear Mary,
The average person on a spiritual journey is probably around 50 so you would not feel out of place. As long as you are in good shape – why not? We had two people who were 70 join us in Bhutan last year and they did great.
Blessings, Sheri
@Sil: I agree 🙂 I am wondering where to find the couple’s trips here on the site?
@Sheri: My fiance and I interested in locating a spiritual trip here. Even more intriguing is if you have spiritual wedding ceremony information that you’d be happy to share! Any ideas would be greatly appreciated <3
Dear Cindy,
We don’t have an couples trips right now – but I’ll email you regarding a spiritual wedding. 🙂
Blessings & love, Sheri
Hi Sheri,
We talked a while ago, had a nice connection, and you said you would be interested in exploring a mutually supportive relationship between JOTS and the Evolving Conscious Health Community Cruise that I am organizing for the non-profit OxyGenesis Institute, of which I am director. I am finally up and running with the website launched and all, but would like to follow up on our earlier conversation. Please visit the website and contact me from there? http://myholisticcruise.com
Thank you!
In Joy,
Lois Grasso
Dear Journeys,
I have some amazing photos of the blue whales in mexico taken from a boat very similiar to the one on your website.
I am wanting to publish one of the photos and urgently need to find the photographer…
can you help me by perhaps providing me with the company name who does the whale trip and perhaps an email address or website ?
Kind Regards
Melanie Spears
Dear Melanie,
Gosh angel I just don’t know. I purchased my pictures from iStockphoto.com.
xoxoSheri