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Permission to Pause

A Restorative Retreat Experience

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So, who takes care of you?

For the woman who holds it all together, an invitation to bridge the gap between
what your life asks of you and what your inner knowing is asking you to honor.

In other words… it’s time to pause.

A 4-Day All-Inclusive Retreat

September 9-13, 2026​

Paradise Valley, Arizona

Invite Only

 

If you've reached this point, consider this your official invitation to say YES to

this empowering opportunity.

the desert air and quiet nights are calling

 September 9-13, 2026

We know, you are totally that woman who is managing your world beautifully, you've probably been doing that for longer than you can remember. We see you.

 

You're capable, responsible, and deeply devoted to what you've built in your business, your community, with your family, your health goals, and in your home life...and yet, you don’t often give yourself

full permission to stop holding everything together.

You may be a woman who:

  • Is reliable, competent, and often the one others lean on

  • Has learned to stay alert, organized, and “on” to keep it all going

  • Carries a high level of responsibility while quietly sidelining your own needs

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It's okay! No shame, just awareness, and time to change it up. If the above has "that's me" written all over it, then this restorative and immersive retreat understands your life. This is for you.

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The intention that guides the experience.

We open the retreat with a gentle intention exploration. This is not about goals or fixing anything, but about pausing long enough to notice what’s actually true for you right now.

You’ll be invited to reflect on how you want to feel in your life, how you want to respond when things get full or loud, and how you want to move through your days and decisions with a little more ease. It’s less about striving, and more about remembering what matters to you beneath the momentum.

That intention quietly weaves its way through the entire retreat, grounding each experience in embodiment rather than effort, and offering a touchstone you can return to long after you’ve gone home.

The Location: Luxe Lounge in the Desert

Set in Paradise Valley, AZ the home is surrounded by desert views and wide, open skies. Outdoor fire settings and cozy gathering areas invite relaxed evenings, while a playful pool offers space for rest, movement, and connection.

Inside, the open-concept layout includes comfortable living spaces, game rooms, and a spacious kitchen that flows onto balconies and gathering areas. Just 15 miles from Phoenix, the setting offers easy access while still feeling private, quiet, and tucked away from it all.

Step Into Permission to Pause

The vast desert backdrop of Paradise Valley is the perfect setting for a retreat experience designed to help you step out of constant output and return to your own rhythm. Create space in your calendar for time that is intentionally yours.

Your retreat experience includes:

  • A thoughtfully designed 4-day progression: release, regulate, reflect, and reintegrate

  • Beautiful private home accommodations in a quiet desert setting

  • Opening intention exploration and arrival gathering

  • Daily morning movement and breathwork

  • Nourishing meals prepared for you

  • Guided sessions and workshops with mindset & wellness professionals

  • Sound healing and nervous system regulation practices

  • Self-care rituals and intentional gathering spaces

  • Celebration dinner and closing circle

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There will be time to rest, swim, journal, hike, and connect with grounded, accomplished women who understand the weight you carry. And there will be space to simply be — without needing to manage, anticipate, or produce.

The deeper intention is simple: To return home with clarity, practical tools, and a renewed sense of ownership over prioritizing yourself.

Full itinerary details and list of practitioners coming soon.

Please indicate which room you are booking for when submitting your deposit.

A retreat to prioritize YOU! 
Easy access from Phoenix, and a quick flight from the West Coast. Basically, easy peasy.

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Itinerary OVERVIEW Day by Day. 

NOTE: All days include prepared meals by a local chef

Your sessions will be led by one or all of your retreat team, Nicole, Holly, and Allison.

Day 1 – Arrival + Release

Arrival and settle in | Time to land, unpack, and exhale

Opening intention setting and gathering
A guided reflection to name what you’re ready to embody

Unstructured time to swim, soak, rest, or chill

Evening celebration dinner and fireside connection

Day 2 – Regulate

Morning movement and breathwork | Nervous system awareness (Practitioner TBD)

The Third Way of Listening (Led by Alison) — a softer way of receiving and responding

Guided reflections on rest, sleep, and the patterns we carry

Spacious afternoon (on-site massages optional)
Swim, nap, walk, journal, or do nothing at all

Sound healing (Practitioner TBD)
Nourishing dinner and evening of recalibration

Day 3 – Reflect

Morning movement and grounding practices

How You Feel About You Everything (Led by Nicole)
A deeper look at identity & intuition (Practitioner TBD)

Calling in the feminine (Led by Alison) | You're amazing just the way you are!

Empowered photo session (TBD Photographer)

Celebration dinner
Honoring who you are beyond what you produce activity

Day 4 – Reintegrate

Morning movement and grounding

Designing Life with “Me First” (Led by Nicole + Holly)
Translating insight into real-life actions you can carry home

Closing circle |Returning to your original intention, naming what has shifted

Integration & Farewell by 11:00am

Itinerary
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A $500 deposit is required to reserve your spot. Please indicate which room option you are securing. 10 spots available.

Subsequent payment plans will be made individually. 

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Please submit your deposit and email us to request final payment link.

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Your Retreat Team
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Nicole is a business owner, executive leader, and retreat facilitator who brings clarity, presence, and authority to every space she leads.

As a Founder, Nicole has built and led a successful property management company for over two decades — cultivating teams, guiding operations, and making strategic decisions. Her leadership is grounded in real-world business ownership, accountability, and long-term vision.

Separately, and for over a decade, Nicole doubles as a professional Image and Style Consultant and Wardrobe Coach. Through this career she helps speakers, authors, journalists, and coaches align their outward presence with their inner authority. She teaches leaders how to cultivate both an everyday signature style and a commanding stage image that reinforces their credibility and amplifies their message.

Nicole approaches style not just as fashion, but as leadership embodiment. She guides women to dress in alignment with who they are becoming, ensuring they are prepared for opportunity in any room they enter.

Beginning in 2025, Nicole expanded into retreat leadership, bringing together her executive experience and her expertise in personal presence to co-create transformative spaces for women. For Nicole, leadership is about showing up consistently, intentionally, and full of style.

Holly is a multi-preneur and retreat curator who supports women in business and bold-hearted leaders. As the founder of two businesses, she knows the devotion and resilience entrepreneurship requires. As a producer of experiences she designs itineraries and trips that are both structured and spacious, soulful and fun, adventurous and relaxing.

Holly’s personal well-being journey began in 2001 when she attended a two-day training with the Dalai Lama, Training the Mind and The Practice of Patience, in Pasadena, CA. That experience led her to study and practice as a holistic bodywork practitioner, blending psycho-structural balancing, energy work, and somatic awareness. She trained through the school of Integrative Psycho-Structural Bodywork (IPSB) and studied cellular recall therapy under Joan Wulfsohn. This work shaped her understanding of how memory lives in the body and how ancestral patterns can be accessed at a cellular level. Holly is also certified in Ceremonies for Communities facilitator and holds a First Degree in the Usui Reiki Ryoho Tradition of Natural Healing.

Today, she draws on these modalities to help women connect to their authority, clarify their next aligned move, strengthen boundaries, and lead from an embodied center.

She held her first retreat in Oahu in 2020 and has since curated and led retreats at Tribu and Hidden Leaf in Todos Santos, Baja, Mexico, and throughout Oregon — artfully blending thoughtful logistics with intuitive discernment.

Holly believes that retreats are not a luxury, they are a time for recalibration and a return to center. She creates experiences where women can make space to listen to their intuition and move with sovereignty.

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Alison supports high performers, entrepreneurs, and business leaders in growing with clarity, confidence, and intention. Through coaching and facilitation, she helps driven professionals refine their goals, strengthen their leadership capacity, and build success that is both strategic and sustainable.

Her work blends mindset and practical action. She guides individuals and teams in aligning vision with execution, creating forward momentum without unnecessary overwhelm. Alison is known for asking thoughtful questions, listening deeply, and helping others untangle complexity into clear next steps.

A wife, mother, and dedicated triathlete, Alison understands endurance, resilience, and the discipline it takes to pursue ambitious goals while staying grounded in what matters most. She brings that same steady presence into every room she enters.

At retreat, Alison is a calm anchor and trusted sounding board. She offers steady support, thoughtful insight, and the kind of attentive listening that helps women feel capable and clear about their next move.

She believes meaningful growth does not require burnout. It requires clarity, commitment, and the right support at the right time.

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You got this far,

Consider this your permission to say YES!

We're excited to welcome you to this retreat experience, and while we can't make any specific promises for what each person will feel and take home with them, our intention is that you'll gain a deeper trust in your inner authority, and the clarity to lead your life from it.

From Your Retreat Team,

Nicole, Holly, Melissa, and Alison

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