Saints, Somatics & Reclaiming Feminine Power through Creative Spiritual Retreats
For centuries, the sacred hills of Umbria have been home to fierce, visionary women mystics who dared to live beyond the limits of their time. These weren’t passive saints, silenced and meek, they were social changers, rebels, and deeply human women who embodied feminine power through spiritual devotion and radical embodiment.
This October 2025, we return to their sacred ground with our Divine Feminine Awakening Retreat in Umbria, a women’s spiritual retreat designed to reconnect you with your creativity, intuition, and nervous system regulation. Through healing practices grounded in polyvagal theory, somatic therapy, and archetypal exploration, we remember their stories and reawaken their energies within ourselves.
Why These Feminine Archetypes Matter for Modern Healing
These mystics lived in a world that feared the female body and silenced women’s voices. And yet, they dared to listen to their souls. They broke boundaries, embraced ecstatic spirituality, and helped heal their communities through deep inner work. Their lives offer a mirror: not for imitation, but for reconnection.
Today, we know through neuroscience and psychology that story and symbolism can rewire the brain. Trauma fragments us, but archetypes can reconnect us and help us become more whole. By engaging in feminine archetype healing and shadow work, we help the subconscious process stored emotion, change deep-rooted beliefs, and open up to new ways of being. It’s not just mystical, it’s biological.
This is the power of creative embodiment and nervous system healing. Our retreats aren’t just retreats, they’re transformational experiences for lasting change.
Meet the Women Mystics of Umbria and Awaken Their Medicine Within You
Here are four of the women whose footsteps we follow, and short activations to begin tuning into their energy.
✩ Saint Clare of Assisi
The Devoted Rebel
Clare walked away from wealth, marriage, and security to live in radical simplicity and sisterhood, finding spiritual freedom alongside Saint Francis. Her choice was bold, counter-cultural, and self-led. She reminds us that feminine freedom often begins by walking away from what no longer fits.
Archetype: The Rebeless / The Mysticess
Wound She Heals: The Good Girl Complex
Mini Activation:
Light a candle. Take slow breaths. Place your hands over your heart and affirm:
“I honour the part of me that longs for a deeper truth. I give myself permission to walk my own path.”
✩ Saint Angela of Foligno
The Emotional Mystic
After losing her family, Angela underwent a spontaneous spiritual awakening, experiencing visions and deep emotional healing. Her raw confessions and mystical visions made her both feared and revered. She teaches us to embrace feeling without fear and let it lead us into wholeness.
Archetype: The Huntress (Wild Woman) / The Mysticess
Wound She Heals: Fear of emotional intensity
Mini Activation:
With one hand on your throat and one on your solar plexus, exhale with a sigh. Say aloud:
“I allow myself to feel fully. My emotions are sacred messengers.”
✩ Saint Rita of Cascia
The Phoenix
Rita survived domestic violence, forgave her enemies, and later became a nun known for miraculous intercession. She turned suffering into strength and became a powerful symbol of resilience. Her energy supports us in transforming pain into wisdom.
Archetype: The Alchemist / The Authoress
Wound She Heals: The Damsel in Distress outlook
Mini Activation:
Hold or visualise a flower. Inhale its energy. Affirm:
“I transform pain into power. In suffering we find the seeds of growth. I am blooming from within.”
✩ Blessed Angelina of Montegiove
The Sacred Organiser
A noblewoman who, after her husband’s death, founded a female religious community with autonomy and purpose. She challenged the hierarchy of the Church and empowered women to lead. Her archetype helps us reclaim our sacred leadership and take up space.
Archetype: The Priestess / The Sovereigness
Wound She Heals: Suppressed leadership
Mini Activation:
Stand grounded, feet planted firmly. Feel the earth beneath you: solid and firm. Speak aloud:
“I take up space. I lead from within. I am safe in my power.”
A Feminine Spiritual Retreat with Somatic Healing & Creativity
Our women’s retreat is not just about the saints, it’s about reclaiming your own spiritual path and nervous system balance. It’s about remembering who you were before the world told you to be small.
Through this transformational experience, you’ll receive:
✅ Somatic nervous system healing practices to regulate stress + restore vitality
✅ Creative embodiment and movement to awaken feminine energy
✅ Jungian + archetypal shadow work to reclaim lost soul parts
✅ Meditative walks + rituals in the land in which these women lived
✅ Therapeutic holding by experienced facilitators + trauma-informed practitioners
We weave modern psychology with ancient wisdom, and polyvagal-informed practices with archetypal myth, to create deep transformation that is spiritual, creative, and science-backed.
Come With Us
This is an intimate retreat with limited places. If your heart is calling, this may be your time.
You can also apply for our 2025 Retreat Bursary Program in support for women in need of this work. Our mission is to make deep healing and creative reconnection accessible. Message us for the short application form.
The Mysticess within you is waiting. Let her rise.
