13-16 june, 2024 | afton virgInia

Redefining Pleasure

A Retreat to Cultivate Women's Sexual Wellness & Mindfulness 

Your Pleasure is your Power.

Yet so many women feel disconnected from their bodies, their sexual pleasure, voice and boundaries, and their partner(s). Culture has taught us to mistrust our bodies, to curb our desires, to override our instincts. It has cut us off from our eros - the creative life force that is our power and aligned, inner compass as women.

Redefining Pleasure is an immersive, overnight retreat for women to tune into and reclaim their bodies, pleasure, and erotic power - not only sexually, but in their evolving lives.

We are holding a safe, supportive, awe-inspiring space for you to come as you are - regardless of your sexuality, relationship status, phase of life, or cultural background. With a clinical sexologist, somatic voice coach, and life coach as your guides, we invite you to pause, slow down, and reconnect to the aliveness within you…

May we Reclaim…

  • The erotic power and sacredness of our feminine body, sensuality and sexual pleasure

  • Our capacity to slow down, to rest, and to receive pleasure 

  • The full spectrum of our self-expression, sexuality, and desires with more ease, unapologetically

  • Trust in our body’s innate intelligence

  • Our voice, our boundaries, and our fantasies

  • Self-pleasure as a fulfilling and nourishing practice that deepens our connection to our own erotic nature, and our partner(s)

  • Love for the beautifully unique body that we have

May we Release…

  • Any social or religious conditioning that has instilled shame around the feminine body, sensuality, and sexual pleasure

  • Toxic body-image, and the myth that our worth is based on how thin / young / perfect we look

  • The patriarchal notion that our bodies are primarily to please other people’s needs and desires

  • Self flagellation, self-judgement, and our inner critic

  • Poor boundaries and fear of voicing our needs and desires and are feeling uncomfortable trusting ourselves

  • Feeling stuck in self-criticism when we communicate and cultivate curiosity, courage and be aware of triggers

  • Conforming to a prescribed sense of sexual satisfaction

You deserve pleasure, join us!

Pricing includes 4-day retreat, accommodation, and meals - prepared by our private chef.

King Room

$3300 (solo) / $1850 (share with friend)

Bunk Bed Room

$1500

the ‘redefining pleasure’ retreat

2 full days, 3-nights of deep nourishment, playful curiosity and aliveness.

Thurs June 13th (4pm) - Sun June 16th, 2024 | Afton, Virginia

Our retreat takes place in a peaceful, private mountaintop home, a 35 min. drive from Charlottesville in Albemarle County. Your soul and senses will be nourished by our loving practitioners’ thoughtful, open-minded sessions, the natural beauty of our retreat, and the delicious meals prepared by our private chef.

the ‘redefining pleasure’ retreat brings together…

Embodiment

Through breathwork, meditation, movement, and nervous system care, we’ll create deeper trust and intimacy with our own bodies.

Voice

From communication with our partner(s), to self-advocating with our providers, to unleashing the primal power of our sexual voice.

Emotions

We’ll gently explore any shame, guilt, or rage that’s been holding us back from pleasure, and reclaim the wisdom that’s within our wounds.

Boundaries

We’ll feel in to our YES! and NO!, and explore how to clearly and confidently express our needs, desires and boundaries within our relationships.

Education

We’ll debunk myths and empower you with evidence-based knowledge - from hormonal health, to sexual anatomy, to pelvic floor healing.

Pleasure

We’ll explore the myriad ways we can deepen our pleasure - with ourselves and others - from toys, to mindful sex, to following our turn-ons in life.

Meet your Hosts

clinical sexologist & sex coach

Kristine D’Angelo

Kristine D’Angelo is a clinical sexologist and certified sex coach specializing in coaching women and couples towards sexual fulfillment. Kristine creates safe and comfortable spaces for her clients to explore and embrace their sexuality. She’s always exposing herself to learning in depth about human sexuality, relationships, being an ally to the LGBTQ community and volunteering for organizations that promote a sex-positive society.

Kristine holds a degree in Sociology and Community Health and certification through Sex Coach U. You can learn more about her coaching practice at doyoursexlifeafavor.com

“Watching my clients become sexually empowered is the highlight of my life’s work. I want the world to experience this level of self-awareness.”

somatic voice & breathwork

Madeline Holly Sales

Madeline is a vocalist, musician and music educator influenced and inspired by a variety of musical genres, ranging from soul to samba. She is also passionate about the exploration of our capacity for uniquely expressing our voices in the world.  We use our voices to speak our truth, to celebrate living, to express our longing, to find our way home to the essential parts of ourselves. Cultivating awareness and deepening practices with breath, sound, singing, and movement for herself and with others will be a part of her path for the rest of her lifetime.  Nature and travel are her other muses. To learn more about Madeline’s music and connecting with her:  https://www.belezamusic.com/madeline

life design coach & facilitator

Corinne Gardner

At the heart of Corinne’s work lies the belief in our inextricably connectedness, that our collective well-being depends on us honoring our own divine nature and each others’. Through 1:1 coaching, connection facilitation and social justice work, Corinne seeks to co-create retreats and workshops for our individual and collective healing. 

Corinne is a clinician, connection coach and certified facilitator specializing in designing live experiences for people to feel safe to be honest, shed shame and embarrassment, honor all of themselves, and align within to lean into their most-fulfilling desires. She created Pleasure and Mindful Motion Studios for women to normalize and develop language and ease in conversations around connection, intimacy, resonant relationships and self-pleasure as we age.

RESTORATIVE YOGA & MOVEMENT

Christina Bostic

Christina’s happiest childhood moments were spent dancing around the kitchen, beating cooking pots with wooden spoons. As an adult, Christina creates joyful and relaxing movement experiences accompanied by the rhythms of inspiring music. With over 27  yrs of bodywork and mindfulness practices, she is fascinated with the way human bodies unwind and release long-held armoring patterns. especially those held within the pelvis, where our sexuality resides.

Are you ready to redefine pleasure in your life?

Pricing includes 4-day retreat, accommodation, and meals - prepared by our private chef.

King Room

$3300 (solo) / $1850 (shared)

Bunk Bed Room

$1500

our journey

Day 1

Arrive with ease

Welcome hors d’oeurves

Connect & introductory circle

free time & rest

Day 2

immersive, fun & engaging sessions:

breath work

vocal embodiment

honoring our evolving truth(s) and boundaries

Day 3

safe, ‘redefining pleasure’ sessions:

yoga & mindfulness

sexual wellness education

intimacy coaching

Day 4

breath work

mindful movement

closing ceremony

departures

FAQ

  • Life Happens. Regardless of whether you know you will miss time, be late and/or life prevents you from joining our retreat you plan on participating in, your retreat deposit is non-refundable. Once a commitment is made to join our retreat and payment is made in full there will be a strict cancellation policy of no refunds.

  • Yes, absolutely. We will not share or document information with any individual and we will speak to everyone who joins our retreat about our expectation of keeping our talk-only conversations confidential. We also will not be taking photographs of the retreat. Women can take photographs that include participants only with the permission of fellow participants.

  • We welcome women of all experiences and relationships to engaging in sexuality, sexual communication and we are deliberately creating the retreat to encourage women to know so many women face difficulties and concerns. We need not suffer in silence nor in silos in any stage that keeps us feeling small.

  • Yes! If you’re joining us alone, a sexual wellness retreat is an amazing way to meet women who are devoting their presence, energy, money and time to prioritizing their sexual, erotic intelligence and build sexual communication skills as well as choosing to become more aware of how to cultivate practices and change patterns for creating lasting pleasure and self-expression that inherently serves the world!

  • Our group will be intimate. We envision 12 guests to build continuity of trust and reflect our desire to be small and safe for having a good teacher to guest ratio while keeping in mind the joy and community that can come from a certain size group.

  • Yes, book your flights and travel plans to reach the retreat space in Afton, Virginia. We will try coordinating carpooling as much as possible when women register.

  • We will provide all of your delicious meals with a private chef during your retreat experience and strive to include organic, fresh ingredients as often as possible. We welcome you to bring snacks, and we can find very likely find good refrigerator space too for nourishing items you prefer to pack

  • Please see the trip description for additional items, but you should generally bring: yoga mat, sunscreen, comfortable clothes and shoes, sunglasses, book, journal, water bottle, and an open mind ready to learn and imagine ways you can create pleasure in your life.

  • Our retreats include a healthy balance between group activities and solo free time to relax, read a book, take a walk, and integrate our conversations. We will complement our wellness sessions with yoga and we will build in time for participants to go off on their own or simply rest in our home

  • Upon registration, you will receive a welcome message with general trip information. As the date approaches you will receive trip reminders and specifics including the retreat address, check-in and check-out times relevant to the retreat.

  • We offer early bird discounts for the first five women who register for Redefining Pleasure, so the earlier you reserve your spot, the better your price may be.

  • Please purchase your flights and make arrangements to arrive to the Afton mountain home by 4pm or after on the evening of Thursday, June 13. We welcome you to join us on Thursday with ease. We will all depart our retreat home before or no later than 10am on Sunday, June 16. If you choose to arrive earlier or later than given day/time you will be responsible for the cost of transportation needed. We encourage you to explore Charlottesville or Afton, Virginia if that option.

It’s time to invest in your sexual fulfillment!

Pricing includes 4-day retreat, accommodation, and meals - prepared by our private chef.

King Room

$3300 (solo) / $1850 (share with friend)

Bunk Bed Room

$1500