Daylong Retreats
Experience the medicine of La Tierra on 15 acres of luscious land in Sebastopol, California.
Nurture: A Self Love Retreat
August Women’s Immersion
Nurture — September 26 · 11am – 5pm · Sebastopol, California
Somewhere inside each of us is a girl who is still waiting to be held the way she needed, spoken to with softness, told that she is good and wanted exactly as she is. Nurture is a day given entirely to her.
This is a day to turn toward the parts of ourselves that have gone the longest without tenderness — the young places, the quiet places, the ones that learned to ask for so little — and to offer them the care, the attention, the sweetness they have been waiting for all along.
We'll spend the day being mothered by the land itself, letting the medicine of the earth do what she has always known how to do: hold us, steady us, remind us that belonging was never something we had to earn.
Through movement, inquiry, and guided Ayurvedic embodiment rituals, we'll practice the old feminine art of tending — anointing, softening, slowing — learning to meet ourselves with the same devotion we so freely give away, until the magic we've been reaching for out there begins to stir again within, and move outward from a body that finally feels loved.
Self-love is not a concept to be understood in the mind, it's a relationship to be practiced, a way of honoring the self as worthy: of presence, attention, and deep care.
Nurture is an invitation to practice becoming the mother you have always needed, beginning with yourself.
Tea, snacks, and simple plant based food will be provided. Please feel free to bring a dish to the circle if you feel called to contribute something to the potluck.
Schedule for the Day
11:00 am — Opening Circle and Check-in
12:00 pm — Self-Love Embodiment Practice
1:00 pm — Lunch
2:00 pm — Creative Writing Practice (Tending the Mother Line)
3:00 pm — Folk Perfume Making with Flowers (Agua Florida)
4:00 pm — Ayurvedic Self-Tending and Anointing Ritual (Abhyanga)
4:30 pm — Closing Check-Out
Thank you for registering for Nurture, a self-care & self-love workshop for womb-bodies. I will send you a follow up email after you register, with the address, information on how to prepare, and what to expect for our day together. So excited to see you soon!
Previous Daylong Gatherings
Dreamseed: Calling in the Vision
Dreamseed — June 20 · 1pm–7pm · Sebastopol(Summer Solstice!)
Dreamseed falls on the longest day of the year — and there is no more potent moment to ask: what are you growing? Arriving on the heels of Homebody, this gathering takes the rootedness we've cultivated and turns it toward the imagination. Through intuitive movement, herbal medicine making, fire ceremony, land time, and circle, we'll tend the inner garden — the place where visions live before they become real, where dreams take shape before they take form. The Summer Solstice is a threshold, a peak, a turning point. We'll use its energy to get clear on what we're planting in this season of our lives, and to give those seeds the light, the attention, and the creative life force they need to grow.
Homebody:
April Daylong Immersion
Homebody — April 18 · 11am–5pm · Sebastopol, California
Homebody is where we begin — with the body itself as the first home, the first territory, the first place of belonging.
On 15 acres of lush, wild, medicine-filled Earth in Sebastopol, we'll spend a half-day coming back to ourselves through: intuitive movement, embodied creativity, intentional connection with the land, embodiment rituals from the ancient practice of Ayurveda, and closing by sharing in circle.
This gathering is an invitation to slow down, deepen into our relationship to our Earthen bodies, and remember what it feels like to inhabit your full self with intention, presence, and joy.
This is a day to return. To arrive. To let the earth hold what you've been carrying and to find, maybe for the first time in a while, remember that you are already home.
What to Expect
01 / EARTH BASED Ritual
We gather on 15 acres of gorgeous, lush, wild, alive medicine-filled Earth that has been tended with love and intention for over 35 years. With the ground beneath your feet, the sky above you, and a circle of beloveds beside you, something ancient in you is given permission to remember what it already knows. The land holds us. We let her.
02 / INTUITIVE Movement
This is not a dance class and it is not a workout, it is an invitation to listen to your body, with all your sense attuned. Through the Nitara Intuitive Movement Method, we will follow sensation, we follow pleasure, we follow what wants to be alive in us. The body already knows how to move when we stop telling it what to do. We're just going to get out of the way and let it liberate.
03 / EMBODIED Creative Practice
After we move, we give our experience a place to live. Through writing, hands on crafting, or song — whatever wants to come through. This is an opportunity to give the body's wisdom somewhere to land, as an offering to your experience. We explore what can emerge when you stop creating from your head and start creating from your whole self, a beautiful practice that just may surprise you.
Meet your Guide
Asha Kohli
I'm Asha Kohli —
embodiment practitioner, ceremonial guide, artist, storyteller,
and keeper of the medicine ways I've been apprenticed to for the last decade.
I came to this work the way most of us come to the things that matter most, through my own unraveling, and my own return. As a first-generation woman of the diaspora with roots in North India and South America, the question of home, of belonging, of where I am from and where I belong, has been the through-line of my whole life.
It led me to the land. It led me to the body. It led me, eventually, to Way of Nitara — and to the deep knowing that the two are not so different.
My training spans eight years of study in Andean and Amazonian folk medicine under the guidance of Francisca Santibanez, Ayurvedic wellness counselor training, ceremonial responsibilities in the Lakota tradition, and a lifetime of movement, dance, and creative practice as a way of knowing myself and the world.
I have held ceremony, led ritual, guided women through thresholds both tender and fierce — and I bring all of that into every gathering I host.
What I know most deeply is this: the body is wise.
The earth is generous.
And when we gather on living land with full permission to feel, move, make, and be witnessed — something truly magival happens.
Something that is very hard to find anywhere else.
I can't wait to be with you.