Our retreats and events aren’t just escapes from real life, they’re laboratories for it.

The Chrysalis Collective grew from a reverence for protected spaces in which to grow and reconfigure and find novel, new ways of being on our glorious, gritty Earth. We share a desire to dream up new worlds while we party in the present. We find god in the group chat. We come apart on purpose and make things from whatever’s left. We welcome sensation even when it means flailing and wailing through it. We support becoming more niche and less palatable. We reject the concept of spiritual purity and connect with the Divine through pleasure, movement, catharsis, and sensory experience.

We value accessibility and equity and aim to grow in how radically we can express these values. We aren’t fans of systemic hierarchy and favor collaborative functions. We are pro-experimentation and pro-failure as a life process. We see embodied creativity as a somatic inquiry practice that guides how we shake loose what’s stuck, remind ourselves what it feels like to be alive, and find fresh ways to move forward in fulfillment.

If you’re looking for guru vibes, that’s not us. But if you’re craving days filled with transformational art, uninhibited movement, whimsical play, unapologetically real connection, radical curiosity, and a healthy helping of ass shaking, then we are about to connect in a wild way.

Who’s behind the scenes? Emmy and Geneva (YTT-500). Once upon a time we found each other in the ocean, little baby mermaids floating in the waves as we studied therapeutic somatics in the Pacific tides of Mexico. Now we’re all grown up as the movers and makers of the fluid, feminine future, here to nurture immersion and hold space for emergence. At most of our events we’re joined by Kyle (YTT-200) who specializes in guiding yin practice and yoga nidra.