Oceans of Compassion
Oceans of Compassion
A Journey to the Heart of the Lotus
June 3–5, 2022
San Diego, California
Oceans of Compassion
Oceans of Compassion
A Journey to the Heart of the Lotus
June 3–5, 2022
San Diego, California
WElcome Sister
Let the waves wash your worries away.
Enter the magic beyond time and space.
Dive into the depths of your whole self.
And discover the jewel at the heart of the lotus.
We invite you to North Pacific Beach, San Diego for a nourishing and gentle journey to awaken your lotus heart of compassion. Blooming into bliss, you can look forward to 3 days of intimate connection with the ocean and other soulful womxn, deep heart shares, nourishing food, poolside adventures, and magical ceremonies.
Our Home Away From Home
Our Home Away From Home
Our Home Away from Home
Welcome to paradise! You’ll feel right at home in this sweet little beach house in sunny San Diego, California. It’s bursting with color and life, while still evoking a sense of calm and peace.
Just a short walk away from Law St Beach, you’ll be able to enjoy the ocean in a matter of minutes. Or if you simply can’t wait, the spacious saltwater pool and jacuzzi in the backyard are sure to make a splash. You’ll find everything you need for endless hours of fun in the sun.
Whether you’re looking for rest and relaxation or a sanctuary to connect with soul sisters and chosen family, this Salty Air Retreat home provides it all.
Throughout our time here together, we’ll find our flow in the energy of water through meditation, movement, and frequent trips to the beautiful bodies of water all around us.
What to Expect
What to Expect
What to Expect
This is a sample itinerary for our time together. Daily activities are subject to change based on inspiration, group desires, and flow.
Friday June 3, 2022
Arrival
Arrive to our beachy retreat home. Settle into the space and meet your new friends and soul sisters.
Opening Ceremony
We’ll gather in Circle, as women have done for centuries. We’ll open our sacred journey with dance, sisterhood, and magic led by Amanda and Mona.
Dinner
Delight in a loving meal with our soul family and reflect on the day.
Saturday June 4, 2022
Sunrise, Silence, Solo Time
Watch the sunrise in silent introspection. This is a time for morning ritual, journaling, reading, coffee, tea.
Embodiment Movement Practice (Dance or Yoga)
We join together for an ecstatic dance meditation led by Amanda or juicy yoga class led by Mona to anchor into your body.
Brunch + Oracle Cards
Nourish our bodies with a meal made with love. While we eat, we’ll pull oracle cards to connect even deeper with our higher selves.
Free Time
Head to the beach, take a nap by the pool, create art, dance, move, play! This is your time to unwind or explore in whatever way feels most aligned.
Temple Space
Gather for a magical ceremony and circle led by Mona and Amanda.
Dinner
Delight in a loving meal with our soul family and reflect on the day. We’ll slow down to stargaze, tell stories, and listen to the sounds of nature.
Sunday June 5, 2022
Sunrise, Silence, Solo Time
Watch the sunrise in silent introspection. This is a time for morning ritual, journaling, reading, coffee, tea.
Closing Ceremony
We’ll gather to reflect on our transformation and set intentions for our road back home to ourselves.
Brunch + Oracle Cards
Nourish our bodies with a meal made with love. While we eat, we’ll pull oracle cards to connect even deeper with our higher selves.
Departure
It’s just see you later, sayonara, until we meet again – in this lifetime or the next.
What’s Included
2 Nights Accommodation
Disconnect from your regular day-to-day and live out your sunniest SoCal dreams in our Salty Air Retreat home.
Nourishing Meals
You’ll be able to dive deep into our practices knowing that your body and soul are taken care of with creative, colorful, and health-conscious vegan food full of flavor and made with love by our private chef.
Soul Embodiment
We practice the art of presence through our bodies. Amanda will guide us through ecstatic and meditative dance journeys, and Mona will lead us through a constellation of healing yoga practices that range from relaxing to activating.
ceremonies + circles
We gather together in the starlight consciousness beyond time and space to build energy, set intentions, celebrate love and life, release what no longer serves and manifest our dreams into reality. In ceremony, we access mystical states by bringing our energy together for a sacred purpose. In circle, we connect deeply and create space for one another to be fully seen and heard.
Pure Love and Sisterhood
After meeting on retreat in Greece in 2019, Mona and Amanda are a testament to the true friendship that can be formed during this type of experience. The container we co-create invites us to get to know each other far below the surface, and can even be described as a soul reunion.
Reconnect To The Ocean
Allow yourself to be held in the Ocean Mother’s embrace and release what you no longer need to carry into the waves. With Pacific Beach just a short walk away, you’ll be able to soak up the sand and sea as much as you want!
Our practices are the bedrock of our retreat, creating the foundation for us to expand spiritually, physically, emotionally and beyond.
Please be prepared to show up every day for our sessions and ceremonies with a willingness to dive deep, ride the waves of emotions, and be with any discomfort that may arise. When we commit to healing ourselves, we create a ripple effect that reaches out to heal the collective.
This is for you if…
You feel stuck in urgency and constant pressure to keep doing, doing, doing.
You’re longing to slow down and remember it’s okay space to go at your own pace. To move with a slower rhythm to feel your feelings and access your intuition. To give yourself a big dose of self-love, compassion, and forgiveness.
You’re a water lover and fellow mermaid who wants to be held in a container of tender, loving kindness.
About Your Guides
About Your Guides
About your Guides
Amanda Marie
Amanda Marie is an embodiment priestess and cosmic dancer sent to Earth to awaken you to your true divine nature. Through conscious movement and transcendent dance experiences, she guides you home to the innate wisdom of the body, providing space to explore, express, and embody the wholeness of all that you are.
She is passionate about serving her communities, leading magical ceremonies and moon circles that honor the cycles of nature and take participants beyond time and space. Her spiritual seeking has taken her all over the world to study ancient wisdom traditions and various healing modalities, including Tantra, Witchcraft, Ayurveda, Mystical Dance, meditation, and Pilates.
Dancing since the age of 5, Amanda also performs acts of devotion to the divine as her alter ego Blue Lightning. A beam of brilliant light, she is lightning personified.
Mona Luna
Mona Luna is a priestess, coach, and yoga teacher. With love and playfulness, she takes you to the depths of your soul and inner being where you can find the courage, confidence, and freedom within to create your own wild path. She creates sacred spaces that bring you home to your body and your inner wisdom. She connects powerful, loving, and supportive women to each other in sisterhood.
Through magical women’s circles, peaceful yoga classes, meditation, and coaching, Mona brings her whole self and all the knowledge she has gathered. She is a lifelong student, seeker of knowledge and truth, and loves studying topics including yoga, spirituality, psychology, business, coaching, branding, energy healing, and trauma.
Mona is devoted in service to you as an individual so that we may all rise as a collective.
Benefits of Our Journey
Benefits of Our Journey
Benefits of our journey
Create space to heal + integrate
Surrender in self trust, compassion, and forgiveness
Be held in the nurturing embrace of the ocean
Feel more connected to your body and inner wisdom, knowing that the answers are all already within
Connect with your soul family and build lasting friendships
Celebrate how far you’ve come and cultivate self-love
Release what you no longer need to carry
Testimonials
I had the pleasure of being a part of the moon circles that Mona facilitated at Inner Sense Healing Arts in Chicago. I had never been to a moon circle before, but Mona created such a therapeutic environment that I immediately opened my heart to the process. These circles became a second home and a refuge for me. Mona is truly gifted. She is able to create a loving container each time she facilitates, and that can be hard to do. Mona listens to the trends of the room and moves with us. She brings all her light to this process. Real connections are often developed from these circles, and that’s living proof of Mona’s gift of bringing women together. If you found your way here...go. Go to anything and everything she is offering.
~ Lauren C.
Amanda creates a magical, safe container for women to be vulnerable and boldly speak their truth. Her circles are a safe haven, a place where sisters are given the opportunity to come as they are and just BE. Through the power and rawness of circles, I have been able to experience true transformation. Amanda facilitates such a warm, beautiful, compassionate, loving and supporting space for exploring the Self. She always brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the group and leads with such grace and humility. I highly recommend her circles to any sister looking to connect, dance wildly on the breath of creation and awaken her Highest Self.
~ Candice S.
I've been in a bunch of circle spaces with Mona and her energy is one of my favorites to be around. Whether in person or online, the potency of her magic is palpable. She brings so much intention, love and light to her work. Every time she has led a meditation or vision quest I receive so much wisdom, healing and empowerment that I know was already within me, but she created the container for it to be revealed. If you have not experienced a circle or service of hers before, do yourself a favor and make that a sacred goal for 2020. Your heart and soul will thank you for it.
~ Alessandra F.
Amanda has helped me heal some very deep wounds stemming from losing my mother when I was young. Through her monthly circles, I was able to dive inward and breakdown blockages that were built up from years of repression. When I first began working with Amanda, I could barely talk about my mother without crying. Though, through sharing, community, and life-changing embodiment practices - all led by Amanda - I have never felt more connected to her spirit and myself in general. I feel loved, held, and seen when Amanda holds space for me and others. She cares so genuinely for her participants and their journey. She has deep roots and experience in her craft and is committed to honoring the traditions that have come before her. She is a wealth of knowledge, wisdom, and light in this world and I could not recommend her more.
~ Polly C.
Mona has an exceptional gift creating healing spaces. I consistently left every new Moon Circle feeling grounded, connected and empowered. Mona brings her warm and energetic spirit to her work — it’s contagious and recharging. Because she’s in tune with her intuition and spiritual gifts, she’s able to gently guide others to their inner wisdom. What’s stood out most to me is Mona’s ability to create a safe container for folks to be really seen, heard and acknowledged. If you’re looking to connect your wild self with your conscious self, Mona is your person!
~ Gabrielle V.
You come to return to your body, to honor your senses. You come to let your spirit soar and sparkle and burn its (sometimes fearsome) brilliance without judgement. To be held, to be seen and heard, to be felt by your sisters. You come for the magic—for the permission to take up space, wholly (and holy) as you are.
Amanda has an undeniable talent for creating and holding safe sacred space for all our bigness—our wildness and vulnerability, our fears, our hurts, our chaos and our Love. Actually coaxes it all out! Through soul-nourishing embodiment practices, spirited invocations and powerful rituals, she is a reverent and playful guide to the Divine within. Sun or moon, shadows or light, there is space to truly connect. Amanda can show you there is space for it all!
~ Dinavie S.
Cost + FAQs
Cost + FAQs
$555
Soul Camp cost
The angel number 555 signals that positive change is on the horizon. It is a reminder that divine guidance is on your side the whole way. Trust where your intuition is leading you.
FAQ
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A: We are calling in up to 13 sisters to join us.
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A: Yes, a $255 non-refundable deposit to hold your spot and the remaining payment due by May 15, 2022. Text Shari at (858) 361-5312 to set up a payment plan.
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A: No experience is necessary. All of our movement practices will be guided with plenty of instruction and be focused on embodying our soul, in other words, bringing our awareness into our body. This is a divine feminine soul retreat where we will be journeying into the depths of our inner world while connecting in sisterhood. While no experience is required for our movement practices, this is for women who have begun a spiritual journey and are committed to their personal and spiritual growth.
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A: The retreat house is in North Pacific Beach, San Diego, about 20 minutes from San Diego International Airport.
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A: Yes, there will be ample free time in between Brunch and our evening Temple Ceremony and Circles. Our free time invites you to journal, nap, explore, and connect with yourself and each other.
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A: Please arrive on Friday, June 3 between 1-3pm. Our opening ceremony will start at 4pm. If you need to arrive earlier, please let us know so we can make arrangements.
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A: Check-out is Sunday, June 5 at noon. We will have a morning practice and a send-off brunch!
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A: Transportation to and from the retreat house and activities during free time outside of the retreat house.
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A: This is your opportunity to unplug and disconnect from the mundane and day-to-day and enter the magical portal of retreat space. Internet will be available only in case of emergency.
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A: No, this is a drug, alcohol, and smoke-free house and retreat.
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A: Due to limited space and booking fees, all payments are non-refundable and non-transferable. In cases of emergency, a partial balance may be transferred to a future retreat on a case by case basis. We want to ensure this is a full body YES for you before signing up in order to gather the women who are ready for this level of transformation.
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A: Yes! We have the honor of staying at a lovely Salty Air Retreat home in Pacific Beach, San Diego. You will get to choose the type of room you’d like to stay in and we will do our best to accommodate.
Please email us at mona@monalunalove.com with any additional questions.