The Becoming RetreaT
August 13~16 2026
It's time for one bigexhale
DOES THIS SOUND LIKE YOU?
You can feel that something in you is shifting.
The ways you’ve been moving through life don’t fit as cleanly anymore.
The hyper-independence.
The overthinking.
The constant self-monitoring.
The pressure to always be composed, productive, emotionally aware, easy to understand.
At one point, those patterns protected you.
Now they’re exhausting you.
You can feel yourself getting less willing to perform your way through your own life.
Less willing to keep gripping so tightly.
Less willing to abandon yourself just to stay liked, successful, needed, or safe.
You want more depth.
More honesty.
More space to actually hear yourself again.
You want to trust yourself without spiraling first.
To stop feeling “on” all the time.
To stop carrying so much alone.
To stop managing everyone else’s perception of you before you even consider your own truth.
You do not need another place to optimize yourself.
You need space to exhale long enough to hear what’s actually true for you.
Imagine this
Waking up without immediately reaching for your phone or mentally scanning through everything you need to manage or do.
Drinking your coffee slowly while your nervous system finally starts to unclench.
Being around women without constantly editing yourself or wondering how you’re being perceived.
Laughing so hard your body softens.
Crying without feeling like you have to "make sense" or "fix" something.
Having conversations that feel honest instead of performative.
Feeling your creativity, desires, and aliveness come back online after spending so long in survival mode.
Letting yourself be held for once.
Not because you’re falling apart.
But because you’re finally allowing yourself to stop carrying everything alone.
INTRODUCING
The Becoming Retreat
This is for the woman walking through the fires of her own becoming. The one who can feel that her life is changing. That she is changing.
You’ve outgrown old patterns, old ways of relating, old versions of yourself that once felt necessary for survival.
And even when the change is deeply right for you… there’s still that subtle disorientation of:
“Who am I now?”
This retreat is for the version of you standing in that in-between space.
Not fully who you used to be anymore.
Not fully who you’re becoming yet.
Our ITINERARY
This retreat is intentionally designed to be spacious, yet structured. Each day will provide an opportunity for rest, connection, and growth.
MEET YOUR GUIDE, LAUREN RUSSELL
Hiiii, I'm Lauren.
Let's get straight to it -- I’m not here to teach you quick nervous system hacks so you can push harder, do more, or numb what’s truly asking to be felt.
My work isn’t about becoming more efficient, productive, or perfectly regulated.
It’s about descent. Into your body. Into your bones. Into the places you’ve learned to leave behind, the grief, the rage, the tender cracks where your power hums beneath the surface.
I’m a somatic practitioner, shadow guide, and space-holder for women who want to remember what it feels like to be fully alive.
We go into reclamation, expression, devotion, play, and the messy, sacred process of becoming human again.
I weave together nervous system healing, shadow work, somatics, parts work, and spirituality, not to fix you, but to help you remember yourself.
Your body is the altar. Your desire is holy. Your expression is medicine.
If you’re tired of intellectualizing your healing, if you want to soften, scream, grieve, laugh, and create new patterns in real time — this work is for you.
FAQS
Testimonials
This retreat cracked me open, quite literally. I feel like a new woman. I have more confidence, I see my value, I realize my ability to connect to other humans on the deepest of levels.
This retreat stirred up a lot of feelings inside of me - both good and uncomfy. It gave me the space and time to really sit with my feelings, and with some things that I’ve been running from for a while. It felt heavy at times, but in the way that feels like a huge transformation is coming, and I feel like that’s exactly what’s in store for me. This retreat opened my eyes to what’s possible for me, if I stop letting fear and doubt run the show, and get out of my own way.
The retreat was deeply recharging mentally, physically, and emotionally because it was the first time I slowed down + took a step back out of my life in over 9 months (I got home from 1 year of travels and hit the ground running and never stopped). In that spaciousness I had the gift of perspective change and realizations of changes I needed to make in "normal" life to support myself differently, so now POST-RETREAT I have new practices and boundaries in place that have SIGNIFICANTLY positively impacted my well-being in all realms.
Most women come here at the point where they can no longer pretend the way they’ve been living actually feels good.
The hyper-independence.
The performing.
The overthinking.
The constantly managing themselves into exhaustion.
Not because they’re weak.
Because some part of them knows there has to be another way to move through life.
If it's a fuck yes...
Please fill out this form below and I will reach out via email / dm's to finalize your spot
