Return to Essence Retreat
Reclaim Your Feminine Power
August 22-25, 2025
Bali, Indonesia
Join us for the 3rd edition of Return to Essence—a soul-deep retreat for women ready to reconnect with their feminine energy in a grounded, embodied, and nurturing way.
Held in the lush mountains of Bali, this four-day journey weaves together a powerful and unique blend of somatic healing, tantra, and breathwork to help you release what no longer serves you and return to your inner clarity, wisdom, and power.
This journey is for you if you long to…
Reconnect with your feminine energy and intuition
Release past hurt, emotional blockages, and limiting beliefs
Expand your confidence, clarity, and capacity for joy and pleasure
Learn science-backed, trauma-informed practices to self-regulate and navigate life
Awaken your sensuality and inner wisdom in a safe, grounded space
Cultivate a deeper and radical sense of self-love
Say “yes” to yourself, your healing, and your fullest expression.
Each day unfolds with workshops, practices, and ceremonies thoughtfully designed to connect you with your feminine power.
Our seasoned facilitators will safely and lovingly guide you through…
Beginner-Friendly Tantra Foundations: Awaken your inner wisdom through embodied practices like womb meditation, intuitive art, breast and Yoni connection, and the Four Pillars of Tantra.
Breathwork Journeys: Experience profound healing, release stuck emotions and trauma, and reclaim the parts of yourself that have been forgotten or lost.
Healing and Empowerment Workshops: Reconnect with your inner child, cultivate radical self-love, and learn to set clear, compassionate boundaries through a series of experiential workshops.
Somatic Trauma Healing and Nervous System Regulation Practices: Learn grounded, science-based tools to support emotional regulation and help you feel safer and more at home in your body.
Rewilding Ritual: Reclaim your Wild Woman through a shamanic-inspired ceremony featuring a clay bath, sacred waterfall rebirth, and oil anointing.
Cacao Ceremony with Live Musical Alchemy: Celebrate all that you’ve moved through and become with the medicine of cacao, dance, music, and connection.
Sacred Sisterhood and Community: Heal past wounds with women and remember the strength, safety, and joy that comes from being held in authentic sisterhood.
“The most powerful moment for me this weekend was being encouraged to embody my femininity in an untamed way; through dance, tantra, breathwork, and truly embodying the magic and duality of what being a woman is; delicate and powerful, dark and light, fierce and gentle, strong & soft… with a lil’ spice. Think warrior spirit mixed w/ nurturing healer. Bottom line: Women are a force to be reckoned with & when we come together we’re unstoppable. Pure magic. That’s all.” Chelsea B.
"USA, China, Vietnam, Korea, Brazil, Switzerland, Latvia, Ukraine - so different, but so unique and so united!
It was an amazing and beautiful experience with you, ladies! I wish every woman in the world could have such a support and unconditional love from other women. And now I feel that I can contribute it to the world, because I have you." Julia F.
What Makes This Retreat Unique ✨
Led by trauma-informed facilitators with international experience.
A powerful blend of somatic healing, tantra, breathwork, and shamanic practices. An integrated approach to healing that addresses the body, mind, and spirit.
A deep, embodied understanding of the feminine - not as a performance or aesthetic, but as a cyclical, feeling-based, and instinctual power that lives within every woman.
Grounded, science-backed tools woven with intuitive feminine wisdom.
An all-inclusive experience in an authentic Balinese mountain sanctuary.
Intimate group size for personalized support.
Beginner-friendly, welcoming, and deeply supportive container.
An educational and experiential journey — walk away with practices, insights, and tools to support you long after the retreat ends.
Day by Day
Friday: Arrival & Soft Landing
Welcome and Check-In
Opening Circle & Fire Ceremony
Nourishing Dinner
Rest & Integration
Saturday: Healing & Embodiment
Feminine Embodiment and Somatic Reset
Breakfast
Inner Child Healing Workshop & Breathwork Journey
Lunch
Rewilding Ritual at a nearby waterfall
Dinner
Intro to Tantra and Feminine Healing
Sunday: Self-Love & Sensuality
Early Morning Trek through the famous Jatiluwih Rice Terraces
Breakfast
Tantric Experience: the 4 Pillars of Tantra
Lunch & Rest
Radical Self-Love Workshop & Breathwork Journey
Dinner
Cacao Ceremony & Live Musical Alchemy
Monday: Closing & Farewell
Breakfast
Closing Ceremony & Departure
What’s Included
4 day, 3 night stay at an eco-sanctuary in the Balinese mountains
3 nourishing, home-cooked Balinese meals per day
Fresh drinking water and tea and snacks during the day
Arrival transportation to the retreat site
All sessions, workshops, and ceremonies
Guided treks to the UNESCO Jatiluwih rice paddies and nearby waterfall
All transportation within Jatiluwih
Post-retreat integration call
Welcome gift
The Location
Our retreat will take place at a thoughtfully crafted boutique property, nestled high on the southeastern slopes of Mount Batukaru, away from Bali’s crowds and tourists. Here, you’ll be fully immersed in nature, surrounded by stunning views of Bali’s second-highest volcanic peak and the UNESCO-protected Jatiluwih rice fields.
The property consists of 11 beautiful rooms built by local craftsmen, using only natural materials such as bamboo and wood. The buildings are constructed in a manner that fully respects the natural terrain of the mountains and vegetation. All interior furnishings are lovingly adorned to ensure that guests experience comfort while being immersed in nature.
INCLUSIVE RETREAT PACKAGES
Book early and enjoy $100 USD off—until July 4, 2025!
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Full Package - Private Suite
$1,600 USD
Including Full Meal Board.
These boho-chic suites are equipped with a plush queen size bed and a private ensuite bathroom, as well as a cozy lounging area where you can unwind, read, and fully immerse yourself in the natural beauty that surrounds you.
Payment plan available.
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Full Package - Shared Double Suite
$1,300 USD per person
Including Full Meal Board.
These suites feature either two twin beds or one queen and one twin, complete with an ensuite bathroom. Step onto your private terrace and soak in lush, open views—the perfect sanctuary to relax and unwind.
Payment plan available.
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Full Package - Shared Triple Suite
$1,200 USD per person
Including Full Meal Board.
This spacious suite offers a comfortable king-size bed and two single beds, complete with an ensuite bathroom and a private deck. Nestled higher up the mountain, it provides ultimate privacy and breathtaking views of the Jatiluwih Valley and the Southern Ocean, best enjoyed from your secluded deck and lush garden.
Payment plan available.
Meet Your Hosts
Marina Niehues
Nina Niehues is a Holistic Intimacy Coach for women, specializing in trauma-informed, embodied approaches to sexuality, sensuality, and feminine empowerment.
Originally from Brazil and now based in Bali, Nina guides women through 1:1 coaching and retreats that weave together tantra, taoism, natural gynecology, herbalism, and somatic healing practices. Her work gently supports women in reconnecting to their bodies, reclaiming their pleasure, and awakening a deeper sense of aliveness.
With a background rooted in yoga, theatre, and a decade of personal healing and study, Nina creates sacred spaces where softness and transformation coexist. Her retreats are safe, powerful portals for women to come back to themselves — fully, unapologetically, and joyfully.
Thi Ho
Thi is a trauma-informed healing practitioner, artist, and facilitator of ceremonial healing spaces. Her work is grounded in Clarity Breathwork, Somatic Experiencing, and Family Constellation Therapy.
Thi’s journey began with healing from childhood and transgenerational trauma - initiating her spiritual journey and setting her on a path of service. With a deep commitment to transformation, she guides others through their own healing journeys with presence, compassion, and care.
Thi's work is deeply rooted in the belief that everyone has the power to heal themselves. She creates a safe and nurturing environment where people can explore their inner worlds, release past traumas, and reconnect with their true selves. Thi is a passionate advocate of self-love and empowers people to look inward to find the answers they seek.
Based in Bali, she facilitates women’s retreats and leads breathwork classes at The Yoga Barn, a globally recognized center for yoga and healing in Ubud.
As women, we’ve spent far too long dimming our light in a world that refuses to honor our power, our magic, our divinity. We’ve been conditioned to hustle, to overgive, to ignore our inner voice and mold ourselves to expectations that were never ours to begin with. We’ve sacrificed our truth, seeking validation in our appearance, careers, relationships, and productivity—forgetting that our worth is not something to be earned. It is inherent. Untouchable. God-given.
But the time of forgetting is over. The work now is to remember—to reclaim our magic, our softness, our fire. To embody our full-spectrum as women, the light and dark, wild and holy, soft and powerful. And we don’t have to do it alone. When women gather, when we shed the old stories and step boldly into our power, we become unstoppable. The world is shifting. The paradigms of the old hyper-masculine world are giving way to one in which women can live in harmony with the Earth, each other, and our divine nature.
This retreat is your invitation to come home to yourself. To shed what no longer serves you. To awaken, embody, and rise into the woman you were always meant to be.
FAQs
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Yes, we do. You can make the room deposit upon booking and pay the remaining retreat fee up to 30 days prior to the start date. Please contact us in case you would like to proceed with a payment plan.
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Our opening ceremony will begin on Friday 4pm. Ideally you should arrive at Bali DPS airport by 12pm Friday. We will provide airport shuttle from Bali Denpasar Airport or your preferred pickup location.
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The main activities will take place in the beautiful open shala in the retreat center. In your spare time you are free to explore the property and surroundings.
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We will provide the shuttle from the airport to the property. If you are at another location in Bali we can try and arrange pick up as well.
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4 days & 3 night accommodation in a double or single room
Healthy and delicious breakfast, lunch & dinner
Fresh drinking water and tea, fruits and snacks during the day
Wifi throughout the property
All workshops, classes, and activities
Airport pick-up
What is not included:
-Your airfare
-Visa-related costs
-Departure transportation
-Food not stated above
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Yes!
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The cancellation policy below will apply to all scenarios, with no exceptions. This cancellation policy has been designed to be as compassionate as possible in the case plans change, whilst also understanding our commitment to and cancellation policies with our vendors.
-Hold deposits are non-refundable.
-Hold deposits are transferable to another new attendee found and assigned by original attendee.
-Full balance due 30 days before start date of retreat unless otherwise noted.
-Cancellation requests submitted within 30 days of retreat date, 50% of total amount (less deposit) will be refunded.
-Within 14 days of your retreat: sorry but no refunds given, no exceptions.
-Any refunds allowed will incur a 3% processing fee.
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The breathwork sessions will be conducted in the style of Clarity Breathwork, a gentle, conscious, connected breathing approach. This is a powerful process of healing and transformation that supports the clearing away of old energies, patterns, conditioning, negative thoughts, and emotions and creates room for new life and expanded consciousness.
Terms & Conditions
Please note the following terms and conditions for all payments towards your retreat experience:
To secure your spot, a $600 non-refundable deposit per person is required.
Deposits are NON-REFUNDABLE. However, deposits can be transferred to another new attendee found and assigned by the original attendee.
Payment plans are available.
Full balance of payment is due 30 days before the start date of the retreat unless otherwise noted.
Cancellation requests submitted within 30 days of the retreat date, 50% of total amount (less deposit) will be refunded.
Cancellation requests submitted within 14 days of the retreat: sorry but no refunds given, no exceptions.
Any refunds allowed will incur a 3% processing fee.
Feeling the call but have more questions?
Don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions about this journey together!
