Upcoming Retreats

  • Reclamation: An Online Mindfulness and Writing Retreat

    Reclamation: An Online Mindfulness and Writing Retreat

    Reclamation is a body of work focused on how intuition can guide one in trusting their voice and story and a framework to support you in bringing your writing project to fruition. Reclamation, an online weekend mindfulness and writing retreat, is an opportunity for you to connect more deeply with your intuition and strengthen trust in your voice so you can listen more clearly to the story that is moving through you.

    This carefully designed online retreat will leave room for ease, focus, and productivity as we reclaim all the parts of who we are, including the part of us who is a storyteller and writer.

  • Dreamscape retreat with Michelle Cassandra Johnson

    Dreamscape: Rest, Vision, Dream, Create - Bayfield, WI

    Engaging dreams to divine our future is a practice that is old and wise. Many of us have dreams that we haven’t yet dared to bring into being. Dreamscape is an opportunity to enter a sacred dream lodge. It is an opportunity for us to dare and dream big for ourselves as individuals and our collective. During our time together, we will journey through various shamanic rest practices and dream rituals. We will invite nature to commune with us as an ally to our dreaming. We will use creative expression to inspire a deeper connection to the liminal space, the betwixt and between. We will weave what comes forth in our rest and dream practices into our waking lives. We will dream beyond narratives, constraints, and systems that fragment us. We will explore how a dream practice can allow us to harness our divine power to come up with divine solutions. This retreat will include movement, contemplative practices, nature walks, and more. This retreat is an opportunity for you to dream deeper–more potently and profoundly.

  • Rest & Refuge Restore Your Spirit - Whidbey Institute

    Many of us are being called to find places of refuge and create space for more rest in our lives. We are moving through, have weathered, and are weathering so much as we traverse tumultuous times, uncertainty, and grief, face heartbreak, and as we try to create and be beacons of hope. The Rest and Refuge Retreat is an opportunity for us to practice deep rest, restore our spirits, and remember our points and places of refuge. During this retreat, we will engage in mindfulness and yogic practices such as meditation, yoga nidra, pranayama, and self-reflection to move us into a place of peace, wakefulness, and harmony.

  • Reclamation: A Writing, Intuition, and Mindfulness Retreat – Menla Retreat Center

    Reclamation is a body of work focused on how intuition can guide one in trusting their voice and story and a framework to support them in bringing their writing project to fruition. This retreat is an opportunity for you to immerse yourself in nature, move through mindfulness and contemplative practices to support you in deepening your connection with your intuition and remove blocks that may have been in the way of your sharing and trusting your story in the past, and developing a devotional relationship with writing. During this retreat, you will have time to contemplate what writing project you want to begin or if you have already begun writing to continue your process and move your project forward.

    The retreat will include yoga, pranayama, shamanic practices, reflection, journaling, time for writing, meditation, somatic practices, community building, and small and large group discussions. Join the interest list to be notified when registration opens for this in-person retreat!

  • Healing the Hive: Yoga & Mindfulness Retreat

    Healing the Hive: A Yoga & Mindfulness Retreat - Molokai, HI

    Join author, spiritual teacher, and activist Michelle C. Johnson and owner of Castro Valley Yoga, Bridget Galli, for a restorative mindfulness and yoga retreat. Explore how, together, we can heal the hive, the collective, through practice, ceremony, and ritual. This retreat will be an opportunity for us to remember our interconnectedness and come into attunement and alignment with nature to cultivate individual and collective healing.

    This retreat will include two sessions a day led by Michelle and Bridget. In each of our daily sessions, we will offer contemplative, mindfulness, and somatic practices, yogic teachings, and practices such as meditation, yoga nidra, pranayama, and self-reflection to move us into a place of deeper connection with the collective.

Past Retreats

  • Realizing Freedom Together

    Realizing Freedom Together: Rituals & Practices for an Awakened World - Kripalu

    We are living in a time when wakefulness and compassion are essential in order to realize freedom together. Join activist, social justice warrior, and author Michelle Cassandra Johnson and meditation teacher Caverly Morgan for an on campus program that shares wisdom from their newest books, We Heal Together and The Heart of Who We Are.

  • Sanctuary Retreat

    Sanctuary: A Day-Long Retreat for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color - 18 Springs Community Healing Center; Winston Salem, NC

    As Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, many of us are searching for spaces where we can be in community with other BIPOC to experience joy and self-love, practice self and collective care, and slow down and rest. Join Michelle C. Johnson and Shakira B. Bethea for an opportunity to prioritize your well-being and the theme of what it is like to create a sanctuary within and around oneself.

    Sanctuary is a day-long retreat for BIPOC to create sacred space and creatively express our authentic selves through meditation, movement, and community connection.

    Join us for a soul-nourishing and fun day!

BIPOC & LGBTQIA+ SCHOLARSHIP FUND

This fund is for BIPOC, Queer, and Trans folks who want to participate in my retreats, immersions, long-form trainings, and workshops. Your donations will allow me to continue to hold spaces and not turn folks away. Your donations and support will allow more BIPOC, Queer, and Trans folks to access my offerings.