The resistance is a dance party
Hi Friend!
Who were you before the world told you who to be? Before you learned the rules that you should be responsible and ambitious and nice and good and devoted and generous and grateful and (excuse me while I 🤮)—who ACTUALLY were you?
On my recent retreat to Peru, this was part of my mission: to reconnect to the essence of me BEFORE (the trauma, the mother wounding, the conditioning, the three kids, the entrepreneur, the PANDAS diagnosis, etcccc). My friend and retreat host, Tracy, challenged me to tap into my “medicine”—the thing that’s uniquely MINE to offer the world.
I thought my medicine was women’s circles and helping women heal their ancestral trauma and being an experienced masterful coach and facilitator. But Tracy stopped me. THIS IS WHAT I DO, NOT WHO I AM. (Don’t worry, I’m good at that stuff too.😆)
She asked me about the untouched-by-conditioning me. The little G before she had an inkling of who she should be or what was missing or what her interests and gifts were…
And all I could see? A little girl with a blindingly bright light, smiling and dancing.
Poor quality photo of me, my brother Thomas and my dad circa 1990ish
I am embarrassed to tell you this, but I don’t think I really genuinely felt and understood the value of that version of me until I shared it with my retreat sisters in Peru. And while there, I did not facilitate a women’s circle (Tracy had that covered, anyway) or lead everyone in some life-changing hypnosis or meditation (someone offered that, too). I led a dance party. I put lipstick on everyone and we had so much FUN as I shared what I now really, genuinely see is my medicine: PLAY.
You want a coach that will help you take life super seriously with rules and habits and a guru-like devotion to fixing your problems? I’m not for you.
You want a coach who will tell you that healing only happens when you spend a straight year doing shadow work and crying and rehashing your trauma? I’m not for you.
You want a coach who will teach you to touch your joy, your light, your pleasure and your oh-so-regulated nervous system EVEN AS the world around you is burning as THE strategy for your healing . . . Hi! IT’S ME!
And right now? We ALL need this medicine more than ever.
Because here’s what I know: One of our best weapons of resistance is joy.
The revolution does not need more blood. It needs dance parties.
It needs a collective of people who can balance the grief with the laughter.
Who aren’t afraid to turn UP the wattage on their light so we can see our way through the dark.
Dance parties? Essential.
Sisterhood? Non-negotiable.
Nature? The church.
You can’t make a difference when you’re over-burdened by the collective pain, suffering and trauma. You CAN make a difference when you have the tools and experience to alchemize that darkness into light.
The ROI on your laughter is impossible to predict, and the spark of your fire can never ever be put out. Embodied, fully alive and connected women will change the world. I just fucking know it.
If that’s you, or you sense that’s who you are underneath the layers of mud the world put on you…
MEXICO RETREAT: SPRING EQUINOX 2025
This is where we put all of this into practice.
We’re gathering in Mexico over the Spring Equinox—nature’s new year—to release the heaviness and reconnect to our blindingly bright light. The you before the world piled on all its expectations.
Here’s what we’re doing:
Dance parties (obviously)
Women’s circles that will drop you into your quiet mind and open your heart
Ocean swims and sunrise movement
Somatic practices to get you back in your body
Laughter until your face hurts
The kind of sisterhood that makes you feel ready for whatever is next
This isn’t a “fix yourself” retreat. This is a “remember who the fuck you are” retreat.
We play. We cry. We alchemize. We come home different.
March 18-22, 2026 | Tulum, Mexico
Private King:
PIF $4,695 or 4 payments of $1,229
Shared Double Room or Shared King Bed:
PIF $3995 or 4 payments of $1,049
If you’re reading this and feeling that quiet “yes”—that’s your little one talking. Let's get reconnected to her. Let’s go play in Mexico and be the ones the world needs when we return.
I love your wild hearts so much <3
Gervase
PS: Hit reply with any Qs at all or you can always schedule a quick call with me to see if this retreat is a fit or if something else might be better:
WILD AWAKENING RETREAT
MARCH 18-22, 2026
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