Reclaiming Eros | Women’s Sexual Healing Retreat

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Women’s embodied sexual healing workshop at Kripalu.

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In-Person workshop at Kripalu: Jan 30-Feb 1, 2026

Reclaiming Eros: An Alchemical Path to Embodied Healing and Creative Power

You have carried the echoes — the dissonance between what your body knew and what the world told you. The memory of sensation colliding with the silence around it. The resonance of desire reverberating against a culture that asked you to mute it.

So many women and female-bodied people bear the invisible weight of both personal and collective sexual wounding in how we touch, how we love, and in our very sense of presence. Even when we’ve done inner work, the ambient hum of cultural rupture—misogyny, abuse, denial—still sings in the nervous system, pulling at the subtle edges of our expression.

This is your invitation: to rise from beneath, to return home to your body, to reclaim the right to desire—not as a performance but as an integrated force.

This journey is for the soul-seekers who sense that their relationship to boundaries, desire, voice, and creative expression still carry old stories. It is for those ready to walk the spiral back into themselves, with courage, tenderness, and radical sovereignty.

What You’ll Experience:

A mythic and embodied rewiring of the map of your personal healing arc, rooted in the immersive 4D Wheel method developed by sex therapist and visionary Gina Ogden.
Confidence in your sexual truth and a deepened sense of personal power that is not performative, but integrated at every level.
Shamanic journeying and embodied practices of aliveness.
Arts-based practices and ritual object work to help root your healing, emergence, and a felt sense of movement, direction, and possibility.
In-depth transformation through the four-part alchemical arc grounded in Jungian alchemy: dark matter, lunar reflection, yellowing release, and EMERGE.

A Place of Transformation

Your Stay At Kripalu

Kriplau is nestled in the heart of the Berkshires, MA, where you’ll find 100+ acres of forest, fields, lakefront, and sacred stillness designed to help you reconnect.

Your investment in this ritual container includes: Daily yoga & movement classes hosted by Kripalu, three nourishing meals per day, access to the Kripalu grounds, walking trails, quiet corners, a safe, held container for deep internal work, nourishing rest, integration time, and optional solitude. You’ll also have access to shared ceremonial spaces and community field.

“The most dynamic healing experience I’ve had! Roxanne’s approach works you at every level.”

— workshop participant

“Breakthroughs I never through were possible…. thank you.”

— Workshop Particpant

“Wow. Roxanne is a force. The space she created for the group was itself so powerful. I’m so grateful I found this.”

— WOrkshop participant

“I wish everyone could do this. I wish all women could come together like this a heal these wounds that are so personal and also shared.”

— workshop participant

“This workshop has reconnected me to something I thought was lost forever.”

— Workshop Participant

Neuroscience meets ancient wisdom traditions and mythic living.

Join Dr. Roxanne Partridge, arts-based depth psychologist and certified 4-D Wheel practitioner, in an immersive ceremonial retreat that brings alchemy into the marrow of your being. This is not just a workshop—it is a threshold. A sacred rewiring. A reclamation of your embodied wholeness.

Using the 4-Dimensional Wheel, a pioneering integration of somatic wisdom, neuroplasticity, and soul work—developed by Roxanne’s mentor, the late revolutionary sex therapist Gina Ogden, you will restore coherence of mind, body, heart, and spirit.

Jungian Alchemy: The Deep Structure Of Transformation rooted in eros

The word alchemy gets tossed around a lot these days — usually as shorthand for “transformation” or “manifestation.” But the alchemy at the heart of this weekend is not metaphorical self-help language.

It comes directly from Jungian depth psychology, which draws on the lineage of the ancient alchemists: those who tracked psycho-spiritual change through symbol, matter, body, and image. Their work wasn’t about turning lead into literal gold. It was about transforming the raw, conflicted material of a human life into something more whole, more vital, more truthful.

In this workshop, alchemy is the map we use to understand how Eros actually moves through us — how desire dissolves, clarifies, ignites, and integrates.

Not as an idea. As a lived, somatic process.

The four phases of alchemy

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The Nigredo

The darkening, the descent, the honest confrontation with what is no longer working.

Here the old structures fall apart: roles, identities, defenses, erotic patterns that once protected you but now constrain you. Nigredo feels like confusion, grief, stagnancy, or a loss of desire — but in alchemy, it’s the prima materia, the raw material that begins every genuine transformation. In the room, we learn to stay close to this phase in the body. To let it speak. To not abandon ourselves at the threshold.

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The Albedo

The cleansing, the clearing, the first inner light.

This phase brings spaciousness and reflection. Insight returns. Imagination stirs. You begin to hear the quieter truth under the noise. The psyche shows you where desire wants to move next — not in a rush, but in images, sensations, and subtle self-recognition. We tend Albedo by giving those reflections shape without forcing them: through writing, symbol-making, relational exploration, and creative process.

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the Citrinitas

The quickening, the warming, the moment insight becomes embodiment.

Here, something in you starts to reorganize. Desire returns with texture. Energy rises. Courage flickers. You feel yourself re-entering the world with a different posture. What was only an idea begins to change your nervous system, your voice, your boundaries, your choices. In the workshop, this is where movement, breath, and creative ritual deepen the shift.

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The Rubedo

The reddening, the living integration.

Rubedo is where transformation becomes real — not dramatic, but lived. New feeling. New movement. New relational clarity. You begin to inhabit Eros from a deeper center. The erotic self becomes embodied, not theoretical. We close the weekend by ritualizing these Rubedo threads so that the change doesn’t evaporate once you leave Kripalu.

Why Alchemy matters for reclaiming eros

Most women have never been given a framework for the initiatory rhythm of erotic life and a life lived embodied with eros streaming free, safe, and empowered. When desire goes quiet, when confusion or ambivalence arises, when old ways of relating fall apart — our culture calls this a problem. A deficit. A crisis. Something to fix.

Jungian alchemy offers something radically different: a dignifying language for the depth process already underway. Instead of questioning yourself, collapsing into self-doubt, or trying to push your way into feeling more “alive,” alchemy helps you understand: that dissolution has meaning, that insight and imagination need tending, that new desire emerges from the body in its own timing, and that integration is a slow, embodied ripening — not a performative breakthrough.

Over the weekend, alchemy becomes the subtle structure beneath your experience. Not as a diagnostic map, but as a holding architecture — a way to make sense of what arises emotionally, somatically, creatively, and relationally. It gives you a way to stay in relationship with Eros as it reveals what’s ready to change in you… and what’s ready to be reclaimed. Ultimately, this work helps you trust your erotic energy again — as a source of intelligence, direction, power, and self-knowing.

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