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Emerging divine
reclaim your sacred light & the healing power of love
September 24–27, 2026 | Buena Vista, Colorado
Nestled among towering pines, flowing creek waters, and the healing mineral hot springs of southwest Colorado, Emerging Divine is an invitation to return home to yourself.
This is more than a retreat.
It’s a reclamation.
A sacred remembering of who you were before the world told you who to be.
If you have experienced loss, transition, heartbreak, burnout, or disconnection from your true self, this space was created for you. Together, we gather in community to honor your soul’s call to awakening, authenticity, self-love, and a return to wholeness.
For four transformative days, you will be held in nature, healing practices, sisterhood, movement, stillness, and deep inner connection and return home renewed with hope for a bright future — personally, and collectively.
Bring your story.
Share your gifts.
Shine your light.
A JOURNEY THROUGH THE ELEMENTS
Each day of the retreat is intentionally devoted to one of the four sacred earth elements—Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether—guiding you through a powerful journey of grounding, emotional healing, transformation, and spiritual expansion.
To deepen the elemental experience, each day will also feature thoughtfully curated herbal teas and nourishing snacks inspired by that day’s element, inviting you to fully embody the energy, essence, and medicine of each sacred force of nature.
Earth — Root & Remember
Ground into safety, stability, and belonging. Through nature immersion, embodiment practices, and deep connection to the physical body, we cultivate rootedness and reconnect with the truth of who we are beneath conditioning and survival.
Water — Flow & Feel
Water invites emotional release, softness, intuition, and healing. Through hot springs, sound therapy, meditation, and sacred feminine practices, emotions will move and space will be created for restoration and renewal.
Fire — Transform & Rise
Fire awakens courage, passion, truth, and personal power. Through ecstatic dance, cacao ceremony, movement, and a transformational writing workshop, we release what no longer serves and reclaim the radiant light within.
Air — Expand & Awaken
Air represents breath, clarity, freedom, and higher wisdom. Through meditation, stillness, integration, and intentional ritual, we rise into greater alignment with our inner knowing, sovereignty, and divine truth.
The elements become sacred teachers and tools for harmonizing the Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine within, helping you embody wholeness, balance, and authentic self-expression.
Your retreat experience
Over the course of this immersive mountain retreat, you will experience:
Yoga & Meditation
Vibrational Sound Therapy
Ecstatic Dance & Cacao Ceremony
Ancient Ritual & Sacred Ceremonies
Reiki Healing
Interactive Writing Workshop
Women’s Circles
Private Coaching Sessions
Therapeutic Massage
Hiking Adventures
Soothing Natural Hot Springs
Element-Inspired Herbal Teas & Nourishing Snacks
This experience is designed to gently peel away the layers of conditioning, striving, and survival so you can reconnect with the truth already living within you.
No reaching or grasping.
No searching outside yourself.
Only being. Feeling. And listening for the quiet whisper of your soul.
Allow the subtle messages to land somewhere deep inside where you fully remember your own inner wisdom — the wisdom that has never abandoned you.
Root Deep. Rise Wild.
Here, you are invited to root deeply into your truth and rise wildly into the fullness of who you are: free, uninhibited, sovereign, and alive.
HarmonizE the Divine Feminine & Divine Masculine
Within each of us lives both the Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine energies.
The feminine invites receptivity, intuition, softness, rest, creation, and trust.
The masculine offers direction, structure, grounded action, protection, and power.
Healing occurs when these energies no longer compete, but dance together in harmony.
Through ritual, embodiment work, movement, stillness, and sacred connection, we explore the union of yin and yang as a pathway toward:
Personal autonomy
Authentic expression
Inner safety
Self-worth
Agency
Spiritual sovereignty
a return to sovereignty
Sovereignty is not separation.
It’s liberation.
A detachment from identifying with people, places, roles, achievements, wounds, or material things as the source of your worth.
It is the ability to stand fully in your truth, connected to your inner divine guidance rather than external validation.
As your frequency rises, coherence emerges.
You begin to trust yourself again.
You soften into your own knowing.
You remember source within.
Accommodations & Investment
Choose the experience that best supports your retreat journey:
Triple Occupancy Creekside Suite — $999 per person
Double Occupancy Creekside Suite — $1,499 per person
Single Occupancy Suites — Available Upon Request
Wake each morning to the sounds of flowing creek waters, towering pines, and mountain stillness from your private patio or balcony.
Space is intentionally limited to foster intimacy, connection, and personalized support throughout the retreat experience.
Reserve your spot today with a 50% nonrefundable deposit. Balance due 9/1/26. Additional payment plans available upon request.
Return guests receive 10% off.
This Retreat Is For You If…
You feel disconnected from yourself, others, or your purpose
You are ready to reclaim your voice, worth, and authenticity
You are navigating grief, loss, or a major life transition
You desire healing in mind, body, and spirit, and space to breathe again
You long for deep rest, nature, sisterhood, and soul connection
You are seeking alignment with your inner wisdom and trust
Come Home to Yourself
In the stillness of the mountains, beside healing waters and under open skies, something ancient awakens.
A remembering.
A rising.
A return.
You are not here to become someone new.
You are here to soften into who you have always been.
Emerging Divine awaits.
September 24–27, 2026
Buena Vista, Colorado
Space is limited.
AMANDA MCKOY FLANAGAN
A native New Yorker turned Coloradan, I masterfully combine urban insights with a nature-inspired philosophy in my approach to love and loss. Certified intuitive loss + empowerment coach, writing coach, energy healer, and workshop & retreat leader, I am the author of the bestselling inspirational memoir Trust Yourself to Be All In: Safe to Love and Let Go and host of the award-winning Sol Rising podcast. Empowering individuals to navigate life's toughest transitions with clarity, healing, and creative expression, I focus on holistic wellness, guiding clients toward emotional recovery by releasing trauma, regulating the nervous system, and regaining spiritual alignment. Offering a transformative approach to living fully, I provide actionable insights for overcoming challenges by embracing the power of one’s own inner wisdom, natural resilience, and capacity for change.
Featuring guest facilitator
Missy Snell
Missy Snell is a RYT 500 yoga instructor, RPYT prenatal yoga teacher, certified sound healing practitioner, mindfulness coach, and somatic healing coach accredited through IAYT. She currently teaches at Peace Out Yoga studio in Castle Rock, CO, where she guides vinyasa flow, yin and restorative yoga, meditation, yoga nidra, sound healing, and seasonal ceremonial gatherings. With a background in anthropology and archaeology, her teaching weaves together movement, ritual, nervous system awareness, and human connection in a grounded and accessible way. As a mother of boys and lifelong student of embodied healing, she brings warmth, depth, humor, and authenticity to every space she holds.
signature all In on you mountain retreat
Mt. Princeton Hot Springs RESORT
BUENA VISTA, CO
Thursday, 9/24-Sunday, 9/27, 2026
“The insight that I received helped clear away questions and concerns that I had been carrying, and I felt lighter and healthier. I would highly recommend this trip to anyone who is looking to meet new amazing women, breathe in fresh mountain air, find peace of mind, and gain the wisdom to look within to create and discover a new destiny or vision.”
-Joanna S.
Every Creekside Suite boasts this stunning balcony!
“Whether you have been on a retreat before or not I must tell you that the energy work, guided meditations, and guiding prompts to speak upon and share were totally life changing for me. I needed the support to feel my emotions and to release them, but most importantly for myself to be witnessed in that release too. The group of women as a whole supported that more than I could ever put in words.”
-Clare W.
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The Next Chapter: Virtual Writing Workshop
Writing Through Loss: Honoring the Past, Nurturing the Present, Envisioning What Comes Next
Join Amanda McKoy Flanagan & NIcci Scimone for a gentle, guided writing experience exploring transition due to a loss event, transformation, and healing through mindful reflection and creativity. Together, we’ll expand on three writing prompts centered on the past, present, and future, with space for optional sharing and connection in community.
A Symphony of Loss: A Collective Journey of Sound, Writing, and Community
A half-day intensive workshop presented by Amanda McKoy Flanagan and Jessica Goldmuntz Stokes will explore the many faces of loss through intentional somatics, creative expression, and group harmony.
Together, these elements cultivate connection, meaning-making, and shared healing in a nurturing environment where grief can be explored, expressed, held, and transformed into hope, healing, and gratitude.
One Story, Many Hearts: A Collective Writing Journey Through Grief
Each participant in this supportive space will write one paragraph, consecutively, that becomes part of a shared story exploring grief — weaving together multiple perspectives into one unified narrative. Amanda & Jessica will offer various prompts to which the group will select one to build upon. They will lead you through a short somatic exercise to ground into the moment, followed by writing. A volunteer will read the completed story aloud and the group will reflect on the passage.
Teaology Winter Bazaar
Join us for a warm cup of tea and preview our upcoming 2026 Sol Rising retreats!
Experience:
Mini-Chakra Balancing Sessions with me: 10 minutes for $15
Intuitive Oracle Card Readings with me: 10 minutes for $15
Mini-Chakra Balancing & Oracle Card Reading: 15 minutes for $25
Frequency Reset with Tuning Forks with Amber LaRusso
Custom Winter Grounding Essential-Oil Mist for purchase
Winter Somatic Ritual Kits for purchase
Signed Copies of my book Trust Yourself to Be All In for purchase
No sign up required. Just show up!
Embrace the StillNESS One-Day Retreat
A sacred gathering to be, listen, and honor all of you.
As the world quiets under a blanket of winter, we invite you to do the same.
This season, give yourself permission to pause. To soften. To slow down. Let this be a time to gently turn inward — not to fix or force, but to witness. To be present with what is, and trust what may come.
Presented by Sol Rising Retreats
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This special day will culminate with a powerful roundtable discussion – Your Holiday, Your Way: Honoring Your Needs This Season.
VIRTUAL Memoir Writing WORKSHOP
Everyone has a story to tell. What’s yours?
As a writing coach and award-winning, bestselling author with a #1 new release on Amazon, I know how to craft an excellent memoir, how to stay committed so you finish it, how to market your book, and the path to publishing.
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Relationships & Grief 4-Week Group
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Tending to Your Grief One-Day Grief Retreat
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Breakout workshops will include Gentle Tai Chi, Mindfulness Walk, Art, Writing Your Grief, and more!
Reimagine: Paths to Support
Grief support goes beyond therapy. Join us for a heartfelt panel on coaching, grief circles, and finding care in community. You’re not alone.
This free virtual panel will explore the growing world of grief coaches, educators, and peer-led communities. Together, we’ll demystify the roles of certified grief professionals and share real-life ways people are finding meaningful support in grief circles, coaching relationships, and communal spaces that honor loss without rushing healing.
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memoir writing level I
Want to write a book in 2025? As an award-winning author and writing coach I know the ins and outs of how to write, market, and publish an excellent memoir, and most of all, how to stay committed so you finish it! Join me at Tri Arts Project in Castle Rock for the Basics of Memoir Writing.