Sacred Vessels Wild Clay Retreat
Sayulita, MX
Jan 28 – Feb 2, 2026
A 6-day sanctuary for nervous system healing, creative reconnection, and elemental ritual—guided by the ancient, soul-centering process of creating with wild clay.
Timed with the full moon and magic of whale season, this retreat is for women ready to return to stillness and reclaim their rhythm, their dreams, their voice—and take new form.
Leave with a vessel of what you’ve gathered—shaped by your own hands and soul.
A talisman of your wholeness.
Formed in earth.
Fired in flame.
Carried home as a symbol of all you’ve reclaimed.
Clay Curriculum
IDENTIFY
Wild clay is everywhere! Explore and learn how to recognize clay in a variety of landscapes.
TEST
Learn how to determine if clay is suitable for creating by testing of workability & plasticity.
CLEANSE
Preparing your clay is vital—learn two methods for cleansing impurities from your foraged clay.
Create
Learn techniques and considerations for hand building and surface treatments.
Adorn
Learn about natural glaze options with demos covering a variety of materials enhance your work.
Fire
Learn techniques for building a successful pit fire + considerations / how to mitigate mistakes.
Born from the healing journey of wild clay, this retreat offers a shift—away from doing for the sake of doing, and toward intentional creation, nervous system restoration, and soul clarity. For women ready to slow down and remember what truly matters—through breath, ritual, community, and clay.
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Remember Your Way
Our retreats are a sanctuary—an invitation to reconnect with the parts of yourself that have been quieted, forgotten, or waiting to be heard.
Through hands-on clay ritual, creative process, and intentional reflection, you’ll uncover clarity about what matters most—and begin shaping a life centered in your values, rhythm, and truth.
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Regulate and Remember
Through yoga, breathwork, meditation, and reflective journaling, the retreat offers a return to your body and nervous system—a way to ground, center, and soften.
These embodied practices support not only healing, but a deeper connection to your creativity, intuition, and the desires shaping your life.
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Reclaim Your Creative Flow
The experience isn’t just about technique—it’s about remembering the part of you that knows how to create without pressure or performance.
Through the slow, sacred process of wild clay, we guide you back to intuition, embodiment, and trust—where inspiration flows and your creative voice can rise without force.
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Connect with Community
In the pace and pressure of modern life, it can be challenging to find spaces where we can truly slow down and connect.
Our retreats are a space to remember. To gather in sisterhood. To be met with honesty and presence—and to experience what it feels like to be seen, heard, and held in with the love and acceptance.
What happens During the Retreat?
Over six days and five nights, we move through the sacred rhythm of creating with wild clay—gathering, cleansing, hand-building, and pit-firing vessels shaped by our own hands, hearts, and process—both internal and external. This retreat is more than learning a ceramic technique—it’s an invitation to reconnect with your body, your breath, your creative force, and your sense of self.
Each step mirrors the inner journey:
Slowing down. Letting go. Softening control.
Being with what is.
Allowing shape to emerge.
And discovering the wisdom in acceptance.
Through somatic practices, breathwork, reflection, and ritual, we create space for what’s been held in or hidden—burnout, grief, clarity, desire—to surface and be honored.
We don’t push.
We listen.
We create alongside one another in a container of presence, reverence, authenticity, and shared humanity.
You’ll leave not only with a wild clay vessel fired by the elements, but with something far more meaningful: a sense of groundedness, spaciousness, nourishment, and reconnection to your inner rhythm.
To what truly matters.
To what’s next.
Pro·cess
\ ˈprä-ˌses , ˈprō-, -səs \
(n.1): a natural phenomenon marked by gradual changes that lead toward a particular result
(v.1): to integrate sensory information received so that an action or response is generated
(v.2): to subject to examination or analysis
Attendee reflections…
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“The experience was a lot more than I expected. It was transcending. I don’t think it can be explained unless you experience it. You can give a gist overall of like feeling really close to the earth and people, strangers, who are also on a healing path. But, you just have to experience it.”
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“It is gorgeous. It was empowering and calming. A wonderful balance of the work we put in with time to be calm, which I think is extremely important. A really beautiful job of incorporating it all and aligning the process with the meditations and emotional reflections.”
—Emily, 2023
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“This was an opportunity to reconnect with nature, with art, and ultimately with myself, in a space among such strong and inspiring women. I hope to live my life as my vessel - resilient and imperfect, filled to the brim with love that pours from the spout and ripples into others.”
— Ruth 2022
