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, Jackie Cantwell & Moun D’Simone

This weekend is for women navigating change, heartbreak, reinvention, grief, creativity, desire, friendship, and the beautiful mess of being alive, and not playing it small but dreaming the dreams your grandma would be giggling to hear you dream!

A weekend devoted to the messy beautiful art of dreaming up new visions together.

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.


How do you dream from a well that is new and that this world has yet to imagine? 

How do you dream boldly? Audaciously?

Leaving nothing on the table for this one wild life you have.

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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, And this is where the magic and mystery begins.

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 BIG again.

As we change, the dream changes too. Not because we've lost our way - but because we've become someone new.  And it’s our work to update the visions, compost the old ones, and pull the dreams from the realms we know to be true, even if we don’t see them yet in this world.

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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.


We know we are dreaming the dreams of the deepest parts of ourselves when our eyes well up with tears, when we giggle with glee, when we whisper with delight.  When we touch the vulnerable core of TRUTH and the truths we must live into before we die.

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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 NYC.

We'll move. We'll lie down and listen to heart and soul and body. 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?

Over the weekend, we'll spend time with the questions most of us are too busy to ask:

  • What dreams belong to me, and which ones did I inherit?

  • What have I outgrown?

  • What have I been grieving without realizing it?

  • What am I dreaming toward now?

  • What dreams scare the shit out of me?

  • What dreams make me squeal?

  • What dreams do I dare not admit?

That's what we're here to practice.

Because life doesn't stop asking us to participate just because it becomes difficult, it asks for more baby!

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 and Dare to Feel, transformational coach, and teacher whose work explores the intersection of spirituality, sexuality, creativity, and healing. 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. 

She is a mother to a vibrant 2.5 year old girl, and has been on a lifelong healing and spiritual journey since meeting her first teacher who taught her about karma at age 12.  She’s worked through healing sexual trauma, being a child raised in a home with mental illness and addiction and lots of other healing curriculums through tantra, shamanism, conscious kink, ayahuasca and other plant medicines, decades of therapy and spiritual practice, but mostly through creativity and expression and feeling it all.

Moun D’Simone is a Brazilian-born Buddhist practitioner, artist, and teacher whose work is rooted in Tibetan Buddhism, inner child healing, somatic practice, and art. She’s the founder of the Dakini House, an online temple and global community of women. Her work was recently featured on the Oprah Insider App.

For over a decade she’s guided women back to themselves, teaching at Omega, Kripalu, Maha Rose, and training with some of the masters of our time on extended retreats in India, Nepal, and Indonesia. Heartfelt and experiential, mystical and practical, her teachings are playful, relatable, irreverent, and deeply rooted in community. Moun's path has been shaped as much by loss as by study. The death of her mother Patricia cracked her open in ways no teaching could, and it’s from that place that her deepest work was born. To the women she works with, she becomes more than a mentor. She’s a spiritual big sister who guides you back to your own power, truest expression.

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.

Because life is emotional, spiritual, relational, and most of all here for you.

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The Dream is two and a half days in New York City to find the thread back to yourself and learn to hold it through anything.

SEPT 11th - 13th

(EARLY BIRD PRICE UNTIL JULY 17th)

ONE TIME PAYMENT

$1000

3 x MONTHLY PAYMENTS

$333

  • The retreat investment includes expert led sessions, shared group experiences, and a full weekend of practice, community, and expression in New York City.

  • Here's a sample structure for two and a half days:

    Friday evening
    Welcome gathering, introductions, opening circle with all three teachers and the full group.

    Saturday
    Morning sessions. Lunch break. Afternoon sessions. Evening group connection.

    Sunday
    Morning sessions. Lunch break. Afternoon sessions. Evening gathering. Integration, connection, farewell.

  • Once you register you will receive the full schedule, location and everything you need to prepare for the weekend. If you have any questions please reach out to Jackie at jackienicolecantwell@gmail.com

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • No prior experience is needed. This weekend is designed to meet you exactly where you are, whether you have been doing this kind of work for years or you are walking into a room like this for the first time. The only thing required is a willingness to show up honestly. It can be emotionally real. We will be working with real dreams, real grief, real desire, real truth. But depth is never forced here. You will always have agency over how far you go, and you will not be alone in it.

  • Each day moves between individual sessions with each teacher, shared group experiences, and time to integrate, rest, and connect with the women around you. Breaks for coffee and lunch. Expect mornings that ground you, afternoons that open you, and evenings that bring the group together. The full schedule will be shared upon registration.

  • We will share suggestions for hotels and Airbnbs in the area, and connect you with other attendees in case you want to explore shared housing options.

  • Yes, the options are listed at check out.

  • Yes, all three of us will be present for the full weekend. You will have dedicated sessions with each of us individually as well as time together as a group.

  • Most retreats offer one teacher, one method, one lens. This weekend you get three women who have each spent decades doing this work, approaching The Dream from different directions. Buddhist psychology and parts work, embodiment and desire, grief and creativity and sound. Together they tell a story no one of them could tell alone.

    This retreat also grew out of a real friendship. Alexandra, Jackie, and Moun did not meet at a conference. They have lived life together, traveled together, fallen apart and put themselves back together in each other's company. That history is in the room with you all weekend.

    And the premise itself is different. This is not about arriving somewhere better or becoming a new version of yourself. It’s about learning to stay connected to the dream through all of it, the grief, the change, the uncertainty, the beautiful mess of being alive. That is a different orientation and container than most retreats.