Unleashed Wisdom: An Equinox Retreat to Compost Comparison, Critique, and Control
A FREE 3-Day Virtual Retreat to Harvest Your Wisdom and Come Home to Your Inner Knowing
- Compost the voices of comparison, critique, and control
- Replenish your inner resources and practice wise self-care
- Strengthen your ability to hear and trust your own knowing
At this potent moment of equal day and night, gather in community to explore what balance really asks of you.
September 19–21, 2026
Can’t make it live? Register anyway. You’ll receive access to the retreat recordings through September 27.
Unleashed Wisdom: An Equinox Retreat to Compost Comparison, Critique, and Control
A FREE 3-Day Virtual Retreat to Harvest Your Wisdom and Come Home to Your Inner Knowing
- Compost the voices of comparison, critique, and control
- Replenish your inner resources and practice wise self-care
- Strengthen your ability to hear and trust your own knowing
At this potent moment of equal day and night, gather in community to explore what balance really asks of you.
September 19–21, 2026
Can’t make it live? Register anyway. You’ll receive access to the retreat recordings through September 27.
What If You Already Know More Than You Think You Do?
There are so many voices telling us what we should be doing…
Do more.
Try harder.
Get it right.
Keep up.
Be better.
And then there are the quieter voices inside us…
I need to rest.
Something here doesn’t feel right.
I’m ready.
Wait.
Go.
The more comparison, critique, and control fill our minds, the harder those quieter voices can be to hear.
And yet, your inner wisdom hasn’t gone anywhere.
This Autumn Equinox, we’re gathering for three days to turn down some of the noise and practice listening again.
To notice what is draining your resources and what replenishes them.
To explore the balance between your mental and emotional worlds, between tending and doing, between waiting and moving.
And to remember that wisdom isn’t always about knowing exactly what comes next.
Sometimes it’s knowing what this moment is asking of you.
Compost What’s Taking Up Space. Harvest What’s Already Yours.
Autumn is a season of harvest.
It’s also a season of letting go.
The trees don’t hold onto every leaf. The garden doesn’t keep everything it grows. What has finished becomes nourishment for what comes next.
What if we could do the same?
Comparison. The constant measuring of ourselves against someone else (or who we used to be or thought we’d be).
Critique. The voice looking for everything we’ve done wrong.
Control. The exhausting belief that if we can just manage everything perfectly, we’ll finally feel safe and free.
You don’t need to fight these parts of yourself or make them disappear.
You can compost them.
You can get curious about what they’ve been trying to do for you, loosen your grip on what no longer serves, and reclaim the energy they’ve been consuming.
This retreat is an invitation to explore another way of moving through your life: with greater discernment, devotion, replenishment, and trust in yourself.
“It felt so good to simply leave stress behind and spend time with like-minded people... incredibly valuable and beautiful!”
THERESA, RETREAT PARTICIPANT
Over three days, Sarina, HeatherAsh, and an incredible circle of Warrior Goddess mentors and guest teachers will guide you through experiences designed to help you quiet outside noise, replenish your resources, and strengthen your relationship with your own wisdom.
Compost Comparison, Critique, and Control
Explore the inner voices and patterns that pull you away from your own knowing, and begin turning what drains you into fertile ground for something new.
Balance Your Mental + Emotional Worlds
Practice noticing when your mind is running the show, when emotions are pulling you under, and what becomes possible when the two can work together.
Replenish Your Resources
Explore wise self-care that goes deeper than adding another “good for you” task to your list. Listen for what actually restores and sustains you.
Discover Devotion
Shift from obligation and pressure toward a more intentional relationship with what you choose to tend, honor, and give your energy to.
Sacred Song Circle: Singing as Devotion
Join Laura Stack for an evening of voice, song, and shared devotion as we use sound to connect more deeply with ourselves and one another.
Build Your Energetic First Aid Kit
Begin building your own energetic first aid kit with practical tools and personal anchors you can reach for when old patterns take hold and finding your ground feels especially difficult.
Play with the Elements & Your Creativity
Explore your inner world through movement, water and fire, gratitude, doodling, and seasonal ritual, discovering new ways to soothe yourself, honor what has carried you this far, and make space for what comes next.
Dreaming Circle + Dreamboard
Enter the invisible realm with Sarina and Sue through an overnight dreaming experience designed to deepen your connection with intuition, imagination, and inner wisdom. (Portions of the Dreaming Circle will not be recorded.)
“Warrior Goddess has blown through my life and added profound self-realizations, living in a ritual-centric way, and sassiness that I thought I had lost.
I am so grateful to HeatherAsh, Sarina, and the Pixie team for the opportunity of reclaiming lost parts of myself and growing into the Goddess I am becoming.
The love and friendships I am developing were an unexpected bonus, but have given me a new "life" support system... I have found my people!!”
Allie D.
By the End of the Retreat...
You may not leave with every answer.
That isn’t the point.
Our hope is that you leave with something much more useful: a clearer relationship with the part of you that knows how to listen for the answer.
You’ll have explored what depletes you and what restores you.
You’ll have practiced loosening the grip of comparison, critique, and control.
You’ll have spent time tending the invisible parts of yourself that are so easy to ignore when life gets loud.
And you’ll have experienced three days of ritual, reflection, community, song, dreaming, and practice alongside people who are asking some of the same questions you are.
So when the next choice comes...
Do I rest or act?
Do I wait or speak?
Do I hold on or let go?
…you can meet it with more space to hear your own inner wisdom.
Join Us for Unleashed Wisdom
A FREE 3-Day Autumn Equinox Virtual Retreat
September 19–21, 2026
Come gather with us as we mark the turning of the season, replenish our resources, and explore what becomes possible when we trust our own inner knowing.
All sessions will take place live on Zoom. Sessions will be recorded unless otherwise noted, and registered participants will have access to available recordings through September 27, 2026.
Who's Leading This Retreat
Sarina Harz-Tolbert LCSW
Sarina is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, ritualist, certified wilderness rites of passage guide, and longtime student and apprentice of HeatherAsh Amara.
For more than a decade, Sarina has supported people navigating chronic medical conditions, trauma, transition, and the messy, beautiful process of getting free in their lives.
Their work brings together trauma-informed care, ritual, embodied practice, nature-based wisdom, and the Warrior Goddess teachings to create spaces where people can listen more deeply to themselves and reconnect with their own knowing.
Throughout Unleashed Wisdom, Sarina will serve as your primary guide, helping weave the weekend’s teachings and experiences into a deeper exploration of balance, intuition, self-care, and wisdom.
HeatherAsh Amara
HeatherAsh (aka Ash) is the bestselling author of Warrior Goddess Training, The Warrior Heart Practice, Wild, Willing, and Wise, and numerous other books.
For more than three decades, HeatherAsh has guided thousands of people in releasing old patterns, deepening their relationship with themselves, and meeting life with greater clarity, courage, and compassion.
Her teachings weave together Toltec wisdom, earth-based practices, and ritual, with an invitation to stop looking outside ourselves for who we should be and deepen our trust in our own inner wisdom.
As the founder of Warrior Goddess, HeatherAsh’s teachings form part of the foundation we’ll explore throughout Unleashed Wisdom: listening beneath the noise of comparison, critique, and control to recognize what is truly needed in each moment.
You’ll also journey with Warrior Goddess mentors and guest teachers who bring years of practice, lived experience, and their own unique gifts to our community.
Elaine Michelle
Seasonal Wisdom & Astrology
Laura Stack
Sacred Song & Devotion
Steph Flude
Grounding & Energetic First Aid
Lara Rosenberg
Somatic Reset & Regulation
Manda Wylde
Magical Movement
Jamie Rizzo
Wise Self & Devotional Practice
Aylish Steed
Water & Fire Magic
Sue Reed
Gratitude, Patterns & Dreaming
Amanda Eadrick
Creative Self-Care & Moon Cycles
This isn’t a weekend of sitting in front of your computer taking notes.
You’ll sing.
You’ll reflect.
You’ll connect.
You’ll dream.
You’ll explore practices that bring the teachings out of your head and into your lived experience.
And because this is a virtual retreat, you get to do it from your own space. Bring your journal, your tea, your blankets, your altar, your pets, your messy hair, your whole self.
There is nothing you need to prove here.
Come as you are.
“Sarina is a truly gifted intuitive teacher and has beautiful magic which she freely shares.
The ceremonies Sarina led were transformative on many levels as well as opened my eyes to being guided in creating ritual. Sarina crafts such a unique and beautiful flow of teachings.
Like so many warrior goddess events, the teachings, tools and exercises were right on point with what I was navigating. I left equipped with new tools I can also use in my day-to-day life.”
Renee R.
A Peek at Your FREE Autumn Equinox Retreat Itinerary
Our first day begins by composting comparison, critique, and control, then bringing that work into the body and setting our intentions for the season ahead.
- Composting Comparison, Critique, and Control with HeatherAsh Amara — turn familiar patterns into greater awareness, discernment, and curiosity
- Somatic Reset When Controlling and Pleasing Takes Hold with Lara Rosenberg — recognize these patterns in your body and practice moving toward regulation
- Intent Setting with the Warrior Goddess Mentors — clarify what you want to explore, release, and cultivate
- Your Seasonal Warrior Goddess Forecast with Elaine Michelle — explore the energies of autumn through Toltec teachings and wisdom from the stars
We’ll close with more space to hear your own knowing and meet whatever autumn brings.
Our second day takes us deeper into the body, creativity, devotion, the elements, and eventually, the Mystery.
- Magical Movement with Manda Wylde — reconnect with your body’s wisdom through playful, accessible movement
- Start Building Your Energetic First Aid Kit with Steph Flude — create personal anchors for the moments when grounding feels hardest
- Access Your Wise Self Through Devotional Practice with Jamie Rizzo — connect with your Wise Self and create a devotional practice for the season
- Integration Sharing — connect, reflect, and let the weekend’s teachings land
- From Ice to Fire: Purifying Your Vessel with Water and Fire Magic with Aylish Steed — explore emotion, safety, and the wisdom of water and fire
- Sacred Song Circle: Singing as Devotion with Laura Stack — connect through a spiritual practice of song and poetry
- Dreaming Circle + Dreamboard with Sarina Harz-Tolbert and Sue Reed — enter an overnight ceremony of chanting, dreaming, and visioning
As night falls, we’ll enter the Dreaming Circle and open to the wisdom that can emerge when we surrender to Mystery.
Our final day brings us back from the night’s dreaming to integrate, soothe, and carry what we’ve discovered into the season ahead.
- Closing the Dreaming Circle — complete our overnight ceremony in the quiet hours before dawn
- From Survival to Service: Balancing Gratitude When Old Patterns Take Hold with Sue Reed — honor what once helped you survive while releasing what no longer serves
- Soothing Self: Doodling Over the Season to Commit to You with Amanda Eadrick — use creativity and moon cycles to stay connected to yourself from Equinox to Solstice
- The Healing Power of Water Rituals with Sarina Harz-Tolbert — close with water as a sacred mirror for transformation, healing, and seasonal change
We’ll close our circle with practices and wisdom to carry with you into autumn.
All sessions are live via Zoom. Most are recorded (except the Dreaming Circle ceremony, which is sacred and unrecorded). Schedule subject to change.
You can attend live or watch the recordings. You’ll have access to all available retreat recordings through September 27, 2026.
Come for everything or drop in where you can.
There is no perfect way to retreat with us.