Rooted & Returned

There is something in you that has never forgotten.

Underneath the roles you've learned to play, the ways you've learned to be small or acceptable or strong enough — underneath all of it — there is a woman who knows herself through her body, her relationships with other women, her connection to the land, and her own living spirit.

That knowing was not lost by accident. Patriarchy and colonization systematically severed us from it — from our bodies, from each other, from the earth beneath our feet. What we are reclaiming is not new. It is original.

Our real safety and security has always lived in land, women, body, and spirit.
This weekend, we return to all four.

The Retreat

Rooted & Returned is an intimate weekend retreat held at Sunrise Ranch in Loveland, Colorado — a small circle of women coming together to do the real work: not performance, not spiritual bypassing, not more ways to manage or optimize ourselves, but genuine return.

Return to the body, to honest relationship with other women — including the parts of those relationships we've been taught to hide. To grief, to life force, to passionate desire, to our inherent sexuality, to our true boundaries, to the dark and the radiant feminine. To ourselves as women who are essentially, irreducibly of the earth.

We will not be bypassing the hard parts. We will be walking directly into them — together, with care, with skill, and with the understanding that what has been named can begin to be healed.

We'll name the ways women have been turned against each other. We'll make space for real feelings — not curated ones. We'll move, rest, speak, and be witnessed. And we'll leave with a commitment not just to ourselves, but to the circle of women we've become.

If something in you recognized itself here — that's your answer.

What You'll Leave With

You will leave this weekend with something that cannot be forgotten. A deeper relationship with your body — her wisdom, her hunger, her grief, her power. A new fluency in what you actually feel, and the capacity to say it.

A thread of real connection to a circle of women who have seen you — maskless, raw, open, fierce, vulnerable, true. Not the version of you that's learned to be acceptable. You will leave with a living commitment — not a resolution, but a vow you made out loud, to yourself and to your sisters.

You will carry home a felt sense of what it means to be safe in your own skin and what it means to be safe among women. Not the safety of managing and containing yourself, but the safety of being rooted — in your body, in the earth, in the truth of who you are as a woman before the world told you who to be.

Over the course of the weekend, you will:

Develop a more honest, embodied relationship with your own body — her anatomy, her energy, her felt experience
Gain tools and practices for working with grief, rage, and life-force energy rather than repress or suppress them
Understand your attachment patterns and begin to step outside the ones that no longer serve you
Experience what authentic sisterhood feels like — including the shadow parts we're usually taught to hide
Leave with an accountability buddy and a concrete commitment you will make to yourself and the circle
Carry home somatic and meditative practices rooted in the body that you can return to daily
Reclaim parts of yourself that patriarchy and colonization taught you to abandon

The Venue & Details

We'll gather at Sunrise Ranch in Loveland, Colorado — a stunning retreat center nestled in the foothills. All meals are included in the retreat price, and the food is truly outstanding: abundant, farm-to-table buffet-style meals prepared by world-class gourmet chefs. Every meal includes delicious vegan and gluten-free options, thoughtfully crafted to nourish and delight.

Participants will reserve and pay for their own rooms separately, directly through the venue.

Weekend Schedule

Friday, June 26th

2–5pm arrival · Get settled into your room · Dinner · Welcome circle

Saturday, June 27th

9am–5pm · Full day of practice

Sunday, June 28th

9am–3pm · Full day of practice · Closing circle at 3pm

All meals included throughout the weekend.

Your Facilitators

Sarah Barab

Sarah Barab is a transformational teacher, astrologer, and retreat guide devoted to deep, embodied healing. She holds a BA in Buddhist Psychology and an MA in Physical Theater from Naropa University. Her path was shaped by the teachings of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and years spent in Nepal studying Tantric Buddhism in monasteries and retreat settings with esteemed Lamas.

A professional astrologer since 2003, Sarah is the founder of Somatic Astrology, an integrative approach that weaves together astrology, the body, and emotional insight. She maintains a private practice and offers sessions, workshops, retreats and mentorship for individuals, couples and groups.

Sarah is also trained in Core Energetics and has spent over a decade apprenticing with Fleet Maull, co-facilitating immersive trainings and resilience-based programs in diverse settings, including prisons and community initiatives across North and South America. Based between Hawai'i and Boulder, Colorado, she leads intimate, high-impact retreats designed to support profound healing, integration, and personal transformation.

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Rachel Balkcom

From childhood, Rachel Balkcom has been a keeper of secrets — the one people turn to when something feels too heavy to say out loud. That thread has followed her into adulthood, shaping both her personal and professional life. She is deeply attuned to the dynamics we create with one another, and she often sees clearly the patterns that lead to suffering in relationship. Her instinct is to help people stay in the relationship and the inquiry — not because staying is always the answer, but because "together" can take many forms, and those forms are worth exploring with honesty, care, and courage.

Her work is rooted in a wide lens on relationship: not just romantic partnership, but our relationships with ourselves, our bodies, each other, society, and the living world. She works primarily with women, creating spaces for deep listening, embodied awareness, and honest exploration. She holds a Master's degree in Philosophy and a Certification in Somatic Sex Education from the Institute for New Paradigm Intimacy, accredited by the SSEAA. With over 20 years in education and leadership, her work bridges intellectual and embodied practice, exploring how inherited systems shape the ways we love and relate. She brings both professional training and lived experience — including work with attachment dynamics and intentional community — into spaces designed to support deeper awareness, authentic expression, and a grounded sense of belonging.

Truth Circle

The Retreat

What We'll Move Through Together

What You'll Leave With

Over the course of the weekend, you will:

Investment

Early Bird

Standard Rate

Redistribution

The Venue & Details

Weekend Schedule

Your Facilitators

Sarah Barab

Rachel Balkcom