THE GIVING RETREAT
WOMEN, HELD
MISSION STATEMENT
The Giving Retreat exists to create spaces where women can deeply rest, heal, and reconnect with their bodies while directly supporting the healing of other women.
Through thoughtfully curated retreats rooted in yoga, breathwork, meditation, nourishing food, and meaningful connection, we cultivate a circular economy of care: what is received here is intentionally returned to women’s mental health and women’s cancer support initiatives.
We believe healing is not meant to end with the individual.
It is meant to move gently, sustainably, and together.
ABOUT THE GIVING RETREAT
The Giving Retreat was born from a simple but powerful question: What if women were nourished first and from that nourishment, healing could extend outward?
Our retreats are immersive, carefully held experiences designed for women who are ready to slow down, soften their nervous systems, and come home to their bodies.
Each gathering blends daily yoga practices, from active, strength-building flows to deeply restorative and yin sessions with breathwork ceremonies, meditation, and embodied workshops that support emotional processing, self-trust, and genuine connection.
Food is a central part of the experience. Our meals are intentionally made, deeply nourishing, and beautiful, designed to support digestion, energy, and pleasure. Shared meals become moments of grounding and joy, another way women are reminded they are worthy of being cared for.
Beyond the practices, what makes The Giving Retreat unique is the atmosphere: unrushed, welcoming, and real. These are spaces where women don’t have to perform wellness or arrive “already healed.” Scars, transitions, grief, curiosity, and joy are all welcome here.
Each retreat also carries a deeper purpose. A portion of every gathering directly supports women’s mental health care or women’s cancer charities. This means that by choosing to rest, receive, and reconnect, participants are also helping fund care for women who may never step into a retreat space themselves.
We see healing as circular, not extractive. No one gives until they are depleted. No one is asked to disappear for the sake of others.
At The Giving Retreat, women are invited to receive fully and to be part of something that gives back with integrity, transparency, and heart.
This is not an escape from everyday life.
It is a return to the body, to community, and to a form of giving that sustains everyone involved.
Healing Recirculated: Our Giving Partners
We select our partners based on a radical transparency model. Every dollar from your retreat funds essential services for women escaping violence, navigating health crises, or seeking educational sanctuary.
Global Women’s Health
Directly funding maternal care and mental health resources for underserved communities.
The Sanctuary Fund
Providing emergency housing and holistic healing spaces for women in transition.
Empower Literacy
Supporting vocational training and education programs for young women globally.
Local Healing Collectives
Directly funding local grassroots organizations in the regions where we host our retreats.
Transparency is our foundation. 100% of the designated 'Giving Funds' are transferred within 30 days of retreat completion.
The Giving Tree Manifesto
We grew up believing that giving meant emptying ourselves.
That love looked like sacrifice.
That worth was measured by how much we could offer f- our time, our bodies, our energy often without being restored.
Many of us learned this story early.
We learned to be useful before we learned to be held.
The Giving Retreat exists to tell a different story.
Here, giving is not an act of disappearance.
It is an act of regeneration.
We believe healing is not linear, it is circular.
What is received can be returned.
What is restored can support others.
Nothing needs to be depleted for care to exist.
At The Giving Retreat, women are invited to slow down and come back into their bodies through movement, breath, stillness, nourishment, and shared presence. Yoga is practiced not as performance, but as listening. Breathwork becomes a doorway to release and clarity. Meditation offers space to remember what has always been here. Workshops invite curiosity, honesty, and integration.
Food is prepared with intention, meant to nourish, ground, and delight. Rest is honored as essential, not indulgent. Connection unfolds naturally, without pressure to explain or fix.
Each retreat is also an act of collective care. A portion of every gathering directly supports women’s mental health services or women’s cancer organizations. By choosing to receive care here, participants help fund care for women beyond this circle.
This is how healing moves forward, quietly, sustainably, together.
We do not believe women need to give more.
We believe women need to be restored.
From that restoration, generosity flows naturally without force, without loss.
This is The Giving Retreat.
This is a splace to return to yourself.
This is a way to give that leaves everyone stronger.