Creative Empowerment Dance & Yoga Retreat

Breitenbush HotSprings Retreat Center, Oregon

October 27th ~ November 2nd, 2025

Join Us for a Transformative Journey at Breitenbush Hot Springs Retreat Center in Oregon.

You’re Invited to the Creative Empowerment Retreat

Are you craving a deeper connection to your evolving, authentic self?

Can you envision moving through life with strength, grace, and grounded confidence?

Join us for a transformative journey where you’ll build stability in your body, awaken your inner fire, and remember what it means to be fully alive. Through dance, ceremony, and yoga, we’ll receive a creative transmission of the elements—earth, water, fire, air, and space—guiding us into embodied expression and soulful alignment.

This retreat is a call to all men and women ready to ignite their power, awaken their truth, and move with purpose.
Come home to your body. Come home to your essence.

Over the course of 6 transformative days, we will explore each of the 5 Elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Space. Each day will focus on the unique energy and qualities of one element through conscious dance, playful yoga, fascial movement principles, breathwork and ceremony. When we learn to balance our elements, we can enhance our physical and energetic bodies. This creates a harmonious connection to our chakra system and super-charges our whole life. The elemental map that guides this retreat leads you to a treasure chest filled with the light of your own inner healer and somatic wisdom.

This Fall, we invite you to the Breitenbush Retreat Center for an immersive experience that will awaken your creativity, embodiment, and connection to the sacred wild feminine.

Medicine of the 5 Elements

If you are interested in Creative Empowerment and would like to learn more about what is being offered within each of the elements follow this link.

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What awaits you~

Artistry of your expressive body~

Learn to become an artist of your own movement, exploring the depths of your expressive potential. We will develop an understanding of our fascial anatomy as a pathway to greater levity in your body and your spirit, so you can live into and expand your movement vocabulary.

WildCore Discovery

Unearth the untamed qualities of your wild core, fostering a deeper connection to your authentic self. Dance with the biomechanical landmarks and function of your core to hold posture integrity and wise movement patterns on and off the yoga mat.

Choreography and Conscious Movement

Engage in weaving choreography with conscious dance and yoga practices that honor your body’s innate wisdom.

Remember your sacred Wild Feminine

Through movement, meditation, ceremony and breathwork we spark our birthright of belonging, wholeness and discover our inner healer artist.

Somatic Linguistics

We will flow from the microcosm to the macrocosm and embody meaningful metaphor and movement to enhance your personal practice, creativity and teaching skills.

Program Overview

The Creative Empowerment retreat serves as a foundational experience for the WildCore™ Teacher Certification and Soma Flow 300 hr YTT Whether you are a seasoned practitioner or new to this pathway of embodiment, you are welcome.

Over the course of 6 transformative days, we will explore each of the 5 Elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Space. Each day will focus on the unique energy and qualities of one element. In support of this we will create a living nature mandala that will unfold throughout the whole experience. Learning to balance our elements, we can enhance our physical and energetic bodies, creating a harmonious connection to our chakra system and super charge our whole life.

What you will gain~

*An opening to your wellspring of inner, authentic, creative energy

*Personal tools and experiences that connect you to the wisdom of your wild core -

*A deeper understanding of how the 5 Elements influence your life and practice

*Nervous system restoration

*Healing Waters

*Nourishing Food

*Sisterhood

Take me to the healing waters

Daily outlook

*Imagine waking up within the tranquil forest and beginning your day relaxed by the healing hot waters.

*Then you roll out your mat and within the sacred yurt walls, surrounded by your new friends, gently guided to listen to the voice of your body.

*You are now ready for your first nourishing meal of the day that requires zero cooking or cleaning from you.

*Now you are curious to learn about the element of the day and explore it's qualities, sensations, and aliveness within your own body through WildCore Movement.

*Time to nourish your body with delicious food.

and rest.

The afternoon weaves in embodied anatomy and time to journal, walk in nature and spark your creativity.

*Dinner time

*The evenings will follow the energy of the elements and will be different each night:

~free time

~hot water

~facials

~fire ceremony

~creative explorations

Are you ready?

Save my sacred space HERE

Meet your guides:

Brietta Leader and Elizabeth Ruff

Brietta and Elizabeth have over 50 years of combined experience in the healing arts of dance, yoga, myofascial techniques, shamanic energy medicine, ceremony and mindfulness. They are devoted to their path as healing artist's and are passionate about empowering you to feel at home in your body and connected to your purpose.

Additional Training

Participants interested in furthering their journey can also explore our comprehensive 300-hour Ayurveda, Goddesses of Yoga, and Biomechanical Fascial Awareness Yoga Teacher Training. Creative Empowerment is a prerequisite---followed by a Winter Online Mentorship and an in person Teacher Training May 30th- June 4th, 2026. If you resonate with this invitation, we would love for you to join us in this sacred space of learning, movement, and connection. Together, let’s embark on this journey of creative empowerment and self-discovery. Reserve your spot today and step into your wild core! — To learn more about continuing, please go to the Teacher Training section within the 'Teach' menu option.

Cost Details

Cost: $1700-2600 depending on your accommodation choice.

Includes all meals, lodging, hot springs, dance/yoga instruction.

The link to register HERE!

Please contact Brietta with any questions: moondancermoves@gmail.com

Cost Details and Registration

For Creative Empowerment

Reserve your space HERE