Unlocking Eros

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In-Person workshop at Kripalu: November 11-13, 2026

Connect to Your Current of Aliveness

Unlocking Eros invites women to reclaim the erotic as a source of power, presence, and creative authority. The erotic is more than sexuality; it is the current of aliveness that runs through the body, connecting us to desire, creativity, truth, and vitality.

When that current becomes muted through personal experience and cultural conditioning, many women find themselves living inside roles of coping and surviving—holding everything together while feeling quietly drained or disconnected from their own fire. Unlocking the erotic is therefore not only personal; it is liberational. It restores embodied sovereignty and reconnects us with the deeper intelligence of the body-soul.

“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

What You’ll Experience:

Over the course of the program, we move through the four phases of Jungian alchemy using the 4D Wheel framework developed by sex therapist Gina Ogden, working across the dimensions of body, emotion, mind, spirit, and center.

In this retreat, you will experience:

Arts-based ritual
Shamanic journeying
Symbolic object work
Embodied movement practices

Before the workshop, you will receive a welcome letter inviting you to bring two meaningful objects. These objects enter the wheel with us and become companions throughout the alchemical journey—revealing the stories we have carried and the possibilities waiting to emerge.

During the program, you will encounter both shadow material and unexpected insight. Old narratives begin to loosen. Inner figures that once held the work of coping and protection come into view, while new archetypal energies lead the way toward fuller erotic expression and aliveness.

Knowing begins to land not only as insight but as embodied truth felt in the body itself. We will gather the wisdom of the journey and return to the center of the wheel, where a felt resolve emerges and new movement becomes possible. Held within a sacred sisterhood container, the work unfolds in a field of shared courage, recognition, and support.

The closing evening culminates in a guided journey, followed by authentic sensual movement and a dance ritual honoring eros as creative life force. Leave with your ritual objects, a workbook filled with reflections and practices, and a renewed sense of erotic sovereignty, embodied clarity, and creative direction.

Special Bonuses for Participants

Voxer Group for integration support and community after the workshop completes.
Discounted 90 minute follow-up 1:1 Zoom Session with Roxanne ($444 in value).
Sisterhood Group Zoom call a full moon cycle post-workshop lead by Roxanne.

Feeling called to join Unlocking Eros and have questions?

Book a free 30 minute discovery call with Roxanne here.

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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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.