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Embodiment, Vitality, Empowerment Retreat

5 Day Residential Retreat for Women in the Healing Professions

For therapists, body and energy workers, medical professionals, teachers, chaplains, and others. How do we guide others in finding their own expressions of greater ease, wholeness, and freedom, while also nurturing our own vitality? Join us for a deep exploration of psyche, soma, spirit, and the profound question of what healing is. Uncover layers of your own embodied experience through somatic and experiential practices and group process, to help you show up more fully, vitally, and powerfully to yourself and those you serve. 


  • Inhabit your body with more awareness, presence, and sensation.
  • Learn to “listen”’ to your body as a source of guidance in your daily living. 
  • Become more consciously the author of your life.
  • Discover the power in your desire. 
  • Fine tune your capacity for touching desire and establishing/communicating boundaries so you can fulfill it.
  • Embody your sexuality, using it as an engine for your vitality.
  • Uncover what you need to fuel and sustain your full participation in the world.


* Continuing Education Units will be offered through Utah Mental Health Counselors Association 


Where: Tasting Life Temple, Nevada City, CA

When: 8/28/25 - 9/1/25

Cost: $900 to $1100, depending on lodging option (meals included) 

Facilitators: Ilana Grace and Annette Ephroni

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WHAT IS TANTRA?

FEAST ON LIFE!

EMBODIMENT: BODY - PSYCHE - SPIRIT

Embodiment means expanding the ability to fully experience each moment. It’s not just about thinking or feeling but sensing with your entire being—vibrant, present, and awake. It means tuning into your body as a sensitive instrument, one that guides you, informs you, and can transform each moment into the table on which you are composing the feast of your life.  As we become more embodied, we feel more—both the beauty and the discomfort. This heightened awareness sharpens our ability to discern what truly nourishes us. We won’t love every sensation, just as we don’t love every flavor. Embodiment gives us the power of choice, the ability to move toward what enlivens us and step away from what doesn’t.  


Imagine yourself as a wild, complex, fantastically tuned instrument capable of turning every moment, every sensation, every breath into nourishment that could unlock new depths of feeling, meaning, and connection.  What if your life could be a vivid composition, constantly evolving and full of unexpected flavors?

EXPAND YOUR MENU

For the body, healing is the transition from dysfunction to function. Healing the psyche, however, is different. We define it as an expansion of one’s range of choices—especially in moments of activation. There is no single "right" way for the psyche to respond to life, but there are states of greater and lesser internal freedom. The more freedom we have, the more agency we possess.


Responsibility = the ability to respond.  We see it as our responsibility to cultivate this ability—to expand our capacity to choose how we respond to life, rather than react without our own conscious participation. The broader our range, the more adaptable we become.


Like a menu, the options for how you respond to life can grow. Sample new possibilities, recognize what constrains you, and understand what draws you in. You get a chance to feel things you may have missed, and try new responses to them. By expanding your internal menu, you develop greater freedom in how you engage with life.


ABOUT US

Annette Ephroni, PMHNP, ABS

Annette studied Women's Studies as an undergraduate and earned her master's degree from Yale School of Nursing. She is a psychiatric and mental health nurse practitioner, a psychoanalytically trained psychotherapist, an intimacy and embodiment coach trained in the Somatica® Method, and an ABS Certified Sexologist Diplomate.  She has studied with EntheoCare, LLC, and is a SkyDancing Tantra teacher in training.


My passion is working through obstacles that keep us from the wonder, awe, gratitude, and praise that I believe are our most natural response to the shimmering web of Life. 

Ilana Grace, LMT, ABS

Ilana is a Licensed Massage Therapist, a certified Somatica® Method coach, a certified Sexologist with the American Board of Sexology and a SkyDancing Tantra Presenter. She weaves together her specializations in massage therapy, Tantra, sex coaching, and conflict resolution to create  a trauma-informed and compassionate container, in which she invites an environment of curiosity, consent, creativity and play. 


I'm passionate about helping people access more pleasure, self-trust, and relational freedom, supporting them in living a life of more truth, turn-on, and aliveness, where the full spectrum of being human is welcome. 

Ilana Grace

ABOUT ILANA

I’m devoted to freedom, aliveness and harmony—within myself, in my relationships, and throughout my life. For over two decades, I’ve brought this passion into my work as a healer, teacher, and facilitator. But this wasn’t always my reality. There was a time when harmony felt completely out of reach. I lived in constant internal conflict and dissonance in my marriage, my relationships, and (it felt like) with the world at large.  Life felt painful, often disappointing and utterly exhausting.


Through the unfolding of my personal, professional, and spiritual journeys, I found the path that turned everything around. Drawing from deep training in Tantra, conflict resolution, massage therapy, and sex and relationship coaching, I now guide others into the very transformation I once longed for. My life today is filled with nourishing relationships, met desires, everyday ecstasy, and a profound delight in being human.


It’s my greatest privilege to support and guide others—through touch and words, presence and attunement—as they awaken to their own vitality, rhythm, and delicious, embodied, life-affirming harmony.

GROUP RETREATS

TASTING ALIVENESS - INTRO TO TANTRA

TASTING ALIVENESS - INTRO TO TANTRA

TASTING ALIVENESS - INTRO TO TANTRA

Meets prerequisite for SkyDancing Tantra Love and Ecstasy Training. 

Love and live more blissfully and learn to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary! Tantra is a spiritual orientation that offers a way to experience cosmic connection through the encounter with our own body, other people, and ordinary life. Join us in this experiential laboratory, a structured container where we’ll create safe, sacred, and playful opportunities to explore different tools, weaving together your conscious awareness with your physical and energy bodies. Learn practical skills to increase your capacity for deeper, fuller, authentic relationships-- with your own body, with others, and with the energy pulsating throughout all of life.


  • Tap into somatic wisdom and recognize your body’s yes and no
  • Understand and cultivate full presence
  • Tune into your desires, and what you need to reach for them
  • Learn to create the conditions/containers for deeper intimacy
  • Embrace the possibility of surprise: new ways of relating in old and familiar contexts
  • Unlock the power of your sexuality to fuel your vitality
  • Experience an expanded sense of union with Self and Other


When: Friday, 02/13/2026 - Sunday, 2/15/2026

Cost: $750 - $1000, depending on lodging option 

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FLAVORS OF DESIRE - INTRO TO KINK

TASTING ALIVENESS - INTRO TO TANTRA

TASTING ALIVENESS - INTRO TO TANTRA

Meets prerequisite for SkyDancing Tantra Love and Ecstasy Training. 

This Tantra laboratory provides an opportunity to deepen your relationship to power, pleasure, intimacy, and play. This workshop is designed for beginners and the curious, whether solo or partnered. Come discover, learn, and awaken new dimensions of desire, freedom, and sensation in a welcoming, boundaried, and judgment-free space. Join us for a guided exploration weaving our experience as energy bodies with the fundamentals of kink and the everyday. Designed for those seeking to bring more intentionality, safety, impact, and freedom into their sensual and erotic expressions.

  • Learn how to establish 'containers of safety' to maximize freedom
  • Explore your relationship to giving, receiving, taking, denying, and submitting
  • Understand your relationship with "NO" -- speaking or hearing it
  • Uncover what your "NO" is a "YES" to and vice versa
  • Learn to engage with presence, power, and purpose
  • Sample a range of power dynamics and sensations; discover what truly turns you on; and learn how to ask for it
  • Raise your potential for satisfaction by getting to know your kink-nature, giving it expression safely in the everyday realms of life


When: Friday 01/09/2026 - Sunday 01/11/2026

Cost: $750 - $1000, depending on lodging option 

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GROUP CLASSES

POWER OF TOUCH (3 HOUR CLASS)

EMBODIMENT, EMPOWERMENT, VITALITY

EMBODIMENT, EMPOWERMENT, VITALITY

TOUCHING WITH INTENTION & IMPACT 

To touch another person can be a powerful conversation, a delicious, rich and decadent meal that nourishes both sides. As a giver, do you want your receiver's body quivering or deeply relaxed? As a receiver, do you know how to communicate your experience so that you can receive the touch you desire? 

Learn to:

  • Create a container that amplifies the impact of touch
  • Attune energetically and touch the nervous system, as well as the physical body
  • Increase pleasure in giving and receiving


When: Thursday, February 12, 2026, 6-9 PM

Cost: $75 per person 

Where: Tasting Life Temple, Nevada City, CA

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EMBODIMENT, EMPOWERMENT, VITALITY

EMBODIMENT, EMPOWERMENT, VITALITY

EMBODIMENT, EMPOWERMENT, VITALITY

8 WEEK CLASS FOR WOMEN 

This class is designed to help you cultivate embodiment skills to nurture your authentic and empowered engagement in life. Find your voice and step into ever increasing self-sovereignty.  

Learn to:

  • Shift from a reactive to a self-authorized mindset
  • Ensure that you know when you are making choices for you or for others 
  • Harness your desires as a primary vehicle for generative, loving interaction with others
  • Increase the ease with which you identify, communicate and negotiate your desires and boundaries 

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INDIVIDUALS, COUPLES & GROUP COACHING

OUR HOURLY FEE IS THE SAME FOR INDIVIDUALS, COUPLES AND GROUPS

Expand your freedom to live and love with depth, connection, and joy. Step into a space where you are seen, safe, and deeply held. In this work, you are invited to explore your desires and to discover, honor, and express your boundaries. Through playful, embodied practices, attuned presence, and authentic communication, we’ll clear old blockages, release the patterns that stand in the way of intimacy and vitality, and uncover what truly brings you alive—in your sexuality and beyond. As you strengthen your ability to communicate and connect, you’ll cultivate the structures and agreements that create both safety and freedom, opening the path to greater potency, pleasure, and authentic expression in every part of your life.

 Coaching Fees

  • Coaching with either Ilana or Annette — $175/hour
  • Coaching with Ilana and Annette together — $300/hour
     

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MASSAGE SERVICES

MASSAGE THERAPY - $130/HOUR

In my massage practice, touch becomes a pathway back to yourself. Blending massage therapy with energy work, I listen deeply to the rhythms of your body—finding where tension lives and inviting it to soften, melt, and release. Each session is slow, intentional, and attuned, creating space for you to drop into an oceanic state of relaxation where healing can naturally unfold. Here, you are met with presence, safety, and care, so your body, mind, and spirit can reconnect in harmony. Together we honor your boundaries, your process, and your readiness, allowing your whole being to awaken to freedom, vitality, and the quiet joy of embodiment.

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SEXOLOGICAL BODYWORK - $500/2 HOUR SESSION

Awaken to increased sensation, pleasure, and aliveness through a deeply integrative full-body experience. With the space to move at your own pace, you’ll be supported in finding and honoring your boundaries, feeling into your responses, and learning your way to relaxation, trust, safety and pleasure.  By gently releasing long-held physical and emotional blockages, you'll create space for greater freedom, expanded sensation, and renewed vitality. Each session is carefully framed with time at the beginning to prepare and set intentions, and closed with integration to support lasting change.

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4 HANDED MASSAGE - $300/1 HOUR SESSION

Twice the touch, twice the flow—four hands moving in harmony to dissolve tension, quiet the mind, and invite you into exquisite surrender. A rare, nurturing indulgence that carries you beyond relaxation into pure presence.  

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KETAMINE ASSISTED PSYCHOTHERAPY - $350/SESSION, SOME INSURANCE ACCEPTED

Ketamine-assisted therapy offers a pathway of support for individuals facing challenges such as depression, anxiety, and trauma-related disorders. Treatment for appropriate patients can provide new perspectives, a window of symptomatic relief, and neurological openings for meaningful therapeutic work and integration.

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PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES

MEDICATION MANAGEMENT - RATE VARIES, SOME INSURANCE ACCEPTED

Psychiatric medication management can help reduce the severity of symptoms associated with conditions such as depression, anxiety, mood disorders, OCD, PTSD, sleep disorders, psychotic disorders, and substance use problems. When needed, medication management creates breathing room, making it easier to rest, connect, and feel more present. With that foundation, people often find they have more space to engage in therapy, self-discovery, and healing practices.  Medication can serve as a supportive companion on the path toward growth, insight, and deeper self-knowledge.



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