If you're an adoptee looking for a supportive space to navigate your adoption journey, we welcome you to join us for a meaningful retreat. Here, you'll find healing, connection, and empowerment among a community that truly understands your story. Our inclusive all-gender environment ensures that every voice is heard and every path is honored.
Oct 16-19 | Hudson Valley, NY
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Experience the natural beauty, serenity, and charm of New York's Hudson River Valley. Immerse yourself in nature and find healing in our restorative accommodations.
Preview our curated, four-day retreat experience.
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This fall retreat will include ancestral healing and reclamation of our ancestral wisdom through the process of making whole napa pogi kimchi with Hollee McGinnis. You will be guided through the entire journey of making pogi kimchi from salting to stuffing so that it can be a practice you can reclaim in your own heart and home for yourself and your loved ones, just like those before us made it for their families and villages.
Claire is a certified Jay Shetty Empowerment Coach, Somatic Breathwork Practitioner, and Integrated Attachment Theory Coach with a mission deeply rooted in empowering individuals who have experienced adoption, especially in the context of transracial and transnational adoption. As a Korean adoptee herself, Claire possesses a profound understanding of the unique emotional journey that adoptees face.
Laurie is a Bay Area based speaker, teacher and healer. Professionally facilitating healing for over 20 years as a Reiki Master, Emotional Freedom Technique Therapist and Craniosacral Therapist. With deep love and soul purpose she teaches others how to create sacred space and deepens one’s connection and healing with oneself.
As a bi-racial daughter of a Korean adoptee, Jolie channels her passion for identity into designing inclusive experiences. She has led multiple retreats for students at the University of Virginia and presented at the KAAN 2024 conference. Based in NY, Jolie uses her expertise in user research to enhance customer experiences in the financial services sector.
Hollee is a professor, scholar, writer and healer living in Richmond, VA. In addition to being adopted from Korea, she has almost 30 years of community organizing, policy, and research experience on adoption, complex trauma, and identity. Trained in child and adolescent mental health and a long time yoga, tai chi qigong, reiki (I & II), meditation and shamanic practitioner, she integrates western and eastern ancestral wisdoms for transformation and healing.
