A weekend for staying open
to your life.
For the dreamers, the grievers, the lovers, the heartbroken, the weird ones, and the people in the middle of becoming.
Led by Alexandra Roxo, Moun D’simone & Jackie Cantwell
This weekend is for women navigating change, heartbreak, reinvention, grief, creativity, desire, friendship, and the beautiful mess of being alive.
Over two and a half days, we'll explore what it means to stay connected to yourself (and to the dream of your life) as you and everything around you continue to change.
it starts with a dream
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it starts with a dream 〰️
We ALL start with a dream. Some we choose, and some we inherit. And then life asks something different of us.
Maybe someone died. Maybe someone left. Maybe your body changed, maybe you became a caretaker. Maybe you woke up one day and realized the life you'd spent years building no longer fit the person you were becoming.
This weekend isn't about chasing a perfect version of yourself or manifesting a better life. It's about staying in relationship with your dreams as they evolve.
It's about grieving the dreams that didn't happen, celebrating the ones that did, questioning the ones that were never really yours, and finding the courage to dream again.
As we change, the dream changes too. Not because we've lost our way - but because we've become someone new.
Better Together
We've been taught to think of dreaming as something deeply individual — as though we're supposed to figure it all out on our own.
But we don't become ourselves in isolation.
We become ourselves in relationship.
That’s what this weekend is all about.
Some of the most meaningful dreams are shaped in relationship. Through friendship. Through the people who hold up a mirror and help us see ourselves more clearly.
Sometimes another person's courage expands our own. Sometimes grief clears away the dreams that were never really ours... sometimes it takes sitting in a room full of people telling the truth before we remember what we're dreaming toward.
what to expect
Imagine spending a weekend with a full room of women who aren't trying to impress each other. Women willing to tell the truth. Women who have lived enough life to know pretending is exhausting. Women who will dance with you, witness you, challenge you, make you laugh, and remind you of parts of yourself you forgot were there.
We'll gather in beautiful rooms with breathtaking, panoramic views of the Manhattan skyline.
We'll move. We'll lie down and listen. We'll tell stories we've never said out loud. We'll laugh and cry. We'll wear the outfit. We'll dance, and we'll make something. We'll tell the truth. We'll feel it all.
How do you keep making art, falling in love, laughing with your friends, taking risks, dancing, grieving, creating, and dreaming new dreams after the old ones fall apart?
That's what we're here to practice.
Because life doesn't stop asking us to participate just because it becomes difficult.
Expert Led Sessions
Alexandra Roxo
Alexandra guides deeply embodied experiences that weave together breath, sound, movement, emotional opening, and partner practices. Bridging the spiritual, the relational, and the sensual, her work invites a reclamation of your emotions, your body, your sensuality, and your erotic aliveness. Together, you’ll explore the places you’ve learned to hold back, soften what has gone numb, and move closer to the edge of your own truth—so you leave feeling more alive, more expressed, and more fully yourself.
Moun D’Simone
Moun's sessions bring together Buddhist psychology, parts work, and inner child healing in a container that’s both precise and deeply tender. Through visualization, journaling, storytelling, and partner work, you will meet the parts of you that have learned to survive at the expense of the dream. Here you befriend your inner world, practice being witnessed, and find your way back to the part of you that is resilient, and willing to move through anything.
Jackie Cantwell
Jackie creates experiences that bring people back into relationship with themselves through sound, storytelling, creativity, reflection, and honest conversation. Her sessions make space for grief and joy, uncertainty and possibility, quiet and laughter to exist side by side. Together, you'll explore what it means to stay connected to yourself as you continue to change, reconnect with your own creative voice, and remember that being fully alive isn't about having all the answers - it's about having the courage to keep participating in your life.
Our Friendship Story
Between the three of us, we've spent decades teaching, facilitating, creating, performing, writing, mentoring, and guiding hundreds of thousands of people around the world through moments of change, awakening, grief, creativity, healing, self-discovery, leadership, and BECOMING.
But the truth is, this retreat didn't start in a classroom. It started with friendship.
A few years ago we found ourselves together in India saying yes to life over and over again.
Meditating in caves.
Driving 14 hours through mountain roads toward Tibet.
Swimming naked.
Praying.
Laughing until we cried.
Freak dancing in ashrams.
Starting dance parties in tiny restaurants.
Falling apart.
Putting ourselves back together.
Getting lost.
Finding ourselves.
And learning, again and again, how to stay open to life while it was happening.
That trip became a reminder of something we all teach in different ways: Life is not something you figure out from the sidelines.
It asks to be LIVED.
Our Bios
Alexandra Roxo is an artist, bestselling author of F*ck Like a Goddess, transformational coach, and teacher whose work explores the intersection of spirituality, sexuality, creativity, and healing. Her latest book, Dare to Feel, guides readers through the emotional blocks standing between them and a deeply intimate, passionately alive life.
She has spoken at festivals worldwide, appeared in two seasons of Netflix's Too Hot to Handle, and been featured in the New York Times, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, The Guardian, and Playboy. Known for her raw, honest approach, she is a fierce advocate for every human's right to meaningful love, juicy deep sex, and the reunion of spirituality and sexuality — healing that collective shadow by starting with ourselves.
Moun D’Simone is a Buddhist practitioner, mentor, and founder of The Dakini Method. For over a decade, she has guided women in reclaiming their voice, power, and creative expression through a raw, poetic, and embodied approach that merges psychology, spirituality, and art. Her work was recently featured on the Oprah Insider App, and her life and practice serve as a living example of the depth, compassion, and creative power she teaches.
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Jackie Cantwell is a speaker, artist, facilitator, and Director of Sound for The Big Quiet. Over the last decade she has guided experiences for audiences ranging from intimate circles to arenas of more than 15,000 people through collaborations with Oprah, Nike, Lady Gaga, and other leading organizations. She is the creator of Audible best-selling meditations featured on American Airlines and the founder of Bowl Club, a facilitator training program dedicated to helping people create meaningful experiences and lead with authenticity.
Her work explores the intersection of grief, creativity, community, and presence. Following the death of her father and years spent caregiving for her mother through a rare neurological illness, Jackie became deeply interested in what it means to keep participating in life as it continues to change us. Through sound, storytelling, conversation, and gathering, she invites people to reconnect with themselves, with one another, and with the life that's unfolding in front of them.
Walk Away
Remembering who you are. Feeling more connected to your creativity, your sensuality, and your own inner knowing.
Leave more willing to tell the truth, make peace with change, dream bigger, change your mind, and participate FULLY in your one precious life.
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Napa Valley
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Vieques
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Cork
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