Warrior Goddess WONDERland: A Solstice Retreat for Rest and Ritual
A FREE 3-Day Virtual Retreat with Sarina Harz-Tolbert and the Warrior Goddess Mentor Team
- Transform ordinary moments into extraordinary experiences
- Emerge resourced, grounded, and lit up from the inside
- Reclaim your strength through sacred rest
Celebrate what's right in the world, lean into joy, and discover rituals you'll use all year long. This isn't just rest. It's resistance.
DECEMBER 19-21, 2025
Enter the Dark to Remember Your Light
Brave One,
How has this year been for you?
Exhilarating?
Exciting?
Exhausting?
Either way, it’s time for you to choose rest, celebrate what’s right in the world, and lean into joy.
And there isn’t a better time for this than the Winter Solstice.
Join us Friday, December 19, through Sunday, December 21, as we deepen into self-intimacy in the wilds of shadow work, steadiness that comes from being willing, and the stillness that comes with being wise and playing with what is possible.
Imagine three glorious, guided days where:
✨ Your rest is honored as revolutionary, not lazy.
✨ Your need for stillness is celebrated, not questioned.
✨ You're held by a community who understands that sometimes descending into the dark is exactly how we find our way back to the light.
✨ You move your body and embrace your most vulnerable parts, developing skills to align with Life and deepen your roots so you stay steady but fluid, still but actively open to all the possibilities and resources Life has to offer.
“Rest is Resistance” And Other Reasons Why You Need This Retreat
The Winter Solstice marks the longest night of the year… a threshold moment when we honor the darkness before the light begins its return.
In our culture, we've been taught to fear the dark, to push through exhaustion, to always be "on."
But we need the darkness to incubate, to compost what's finished, to plant seeds for joy, gratitude, communion.
This retreat is built on a simple truth: rest is resistance (credit for the “rest is resistance” phrase to Tricia Hersey and her book by the same name).
“I finally feel like I have found a circle where I can be myself, where I feel held and seen.”
Jenn B.
Over three days, you'll learn to transform ordinary moments into extraordinary experiences through Sarina's opening session on cultivating awe, ritual, and wonder.
You'll reconnect with the childlike curiosity that makes life magical, even (especially) in uncertain times.
You'll explore the ancient wisdom of Inanna's descent with Marjorie Florestal. You’ll discover how to honor your own cycles of rest and return so you can rise with your strength reclaimed and your wisdom intact. This isn't about staying stuck in the dark; it's about learning the sacred pause that makes resurrection possible.
You’ll explore how to create wholeness in dark times with Sarina Harz-Tolbert, learning to lean into the Mystery rather than fear it. Through the lens of Toltec Cosmology, you’ll discover how to balance your Warrior and Goddess energies and let the darkness become a place of renewal and possibility.
You'll learn Yule Rituals and Practices with Jennifer Germano to celebrate this turning point when the light begins its return — candle rituals, sacred activities, grounding into the present moment.
You'll journey to meet a guide or healed ancestor in Jamie Rizzo's guided session — traveling to the non-ordinary realm to receive wisdom for your spiritual practice and self-care. Whether you're an advanced practitioner or a complete novice, you'll make offerings and open yourself to the guidance that's waiting for you.
You'll compost old agreements in Elaine Michelle's joyful Ritual Circle, releasing what no longer serves and planting seeds for a new dream.
You'll unlock your voice and creativity in Laura Stack's Vocal Freedom Workshop as you sing, share, witness, and celebrate the gifts in this community.
You'll shift perspectives playfully (yes, with kaleidoscopes and cats) with Manda Wylde to discover the rainbow of stories and ever-changing views available to us in this Dream we call Life.
And on Saturday night, you'll join the Dreaming Circle… an overnight ceremony of chanting and visioning to bring in more freedom and dream a new dream from the cave of your creation.
“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 these three days, you'll be resourced, grounded, and lit up from the inside.
You'll have practical tools for honoring rest, rituals you can use all year, and a renewed connection to what's still beautiful and right in your life and in the world.
Reserve Your Free Spot in the Warrior Goddess WONDERland Retreat
Friday, December 19, through Sunday, December 21
All sessions are live via Zoom. Most are recorded (except the Dreaming Circle ceremony, which is sacred and unrecorded).
You can attend live or watch the recordings.
Show up for everything or drop in where you're called. There's no "right" way to do this.
What matters is that you give yourself permission to rest, to ritualize, and to be held by community during the darkest days of the year.
Who's Leading This Retreat
Sarina Harz-Tolbert (she/her/they/them) will anchor our container and guide two powerful sessions during the retreat: opening us into cultivating awe, ritual, and wonder in everyday life, and teaching us how to create wholeness in dark times through Toltec wisdom.
As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, certified wilderness guide, and 10-year student of HeatherAsh Amara, Sarina brings deep knowledge of trauma-informed care, somatic healing, and the sacred art of holding space.
They are a Level 3 Warrior Goddess Facilitator, Warrior Heart Facilitator, and Certified Firewalk Master Instructor.
Sarina will help us understand why we need the darkness to incubate and plant deep seeds, how to harness both our Warrior and Goddess energy, and guide us through the Toltec Cosmology so we can stay grounded even when we're afraid.
You'll also journey with other Warrior Goddess Guides & Mentors — women who have walked this path deeply and hold sacred space with fierce tenderness
Elaine Michelle
Ritual Circles and Dreaming Ceremony
Laura Stack
Vocal Freedom and Music
Marjorie Florestal
Inanna's Descent and Sacred Rest
Jennifer Germano
The Magic of Yule
Manda Wylde
Shifting Perspectives
Jamie Rizzo
Guided Ancestral Journey
This isn't a retreat where you sit and take notes.
This is experiential, embodied, and deeply communal. You'll be held, witnessed, and resourced.
“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 Winter Solstice Retreat Itinerary
Our first day opens with awe — an invitation to slow down, listen, and remember the beauty that still lives in the world.
Through ritual and story, we begin the descent: guided by ancestors, accompanied by wonder, learning to see burnout not as failure, but as initiation:
- Opening session on cultivating awe, ritual, and wonder
- Playful session on shifting perspectives
- Inanna's Descent: Understanding burnout as sacred initiation
As the day closes, may you feel the threads of your lineage at your back and the spark of your own sacred fire rekindled within.
All sessions are live via Zoom. Most are recorded (except the Dreaming Circle ceremony, which is sacred and unrecorded).
You can attend live or watch the recordings.
Show up for everything or drop in where you're called. There's no "right" way to do this.
What matters is that you give yourself permission to rest, to ritualize, and to be held by community during the darkest days of the year.