Heal + Vibe Retreat
✰ Trust your intuition ✰ Find your flow ✰
Previously known as "The Holistic Esthetics Retreat," this offering is now open to all those who are licensed to touch the face including estheticians, massage therapists and cosmetologists!
2025 TBA
$2500
This energy-focused retreat will be an immersive, small group experience. Price includes overnight stay, food, activities + a carefully curated bag of goodies to take back to your treatments.
Location: TX
Limit: 8 attendees
Goal: to expand our understanding of holistic care in esthetics, massage or other healing touch therapies through exploration of techniques, tools + rituals... and discover how to make them our own through intention and flow
BETHANY KRISTIANSEN
Bethany is a somatic facialist, massage therapist and facial massage specialist in Austin, TX. She has been a licensed instructor for over 15 years and now focuses her teaching on trauma-informed practices.
Bethany is your main host, planner and facial massage educator for the retreat.
AMANDA GONZALES
Amanda is a 20+ year veteran of the beauty industry and practicing sound healer in Austin, TX. Her specialty is creating nourishing sound experiences focused on regulating the nervous system and shifting into theta brainwave states.
Amanda teaches our Intro to Sound Healing certification.
Intro to Sound Healing:
Explore multiple instruments and techniques through an immersive healing lab, where you will give and receive sound healing. You will learn to curate healing experiences that focus on nervous system regulation during or in addition to your facial services from an experienced sound bath practitioner + mentor.
Featured mentor:
Amanda Gonzales @ Ethereal Sound Alchemy
IG: @amandathealchemist
Our comprehensive Intro to Sound Healing Certification day includes hands-on practice with the following tools...
- Paiste Jupiter gong
- Meinl Chinese wind gong
- Grotta Sonora gong
- Flower of Life gong
- Full chakra set of crystal bowls
- Meinl crystal practitioner bowls
- Crystal pyramid
- Various Meinl and Gongs-Unlimited Tibetan bowls
- Meinl rainsticks in small and large
- Meinl Ocean Drum
- Theta (multi-later) Ocean Drum
- Koshi chimes (all tunings)
- Zephyr chimes (all tunings)
- Meinl Therapy Tuning Forks (full unweighted planetary chakra set)
- Acutonics Tuning Forks (full weighted therapy set)
- Meinl tongue drums (mini, small and hand-held)
- Idiopan Domina tongue drum
- Space, Air and Earth flow chimes
- Meinl 27 bar chimes
- 2 types of shell chimes
- Shell shaker
Nervous System-Focused Facial Massage Certifications:
Our retreat facial massage certifications are focused on energy work and communicating safety to the nervous system. They are designed to facilitate a deeper understanding of how to blend energetics with massage to help create unique experiences, as well as using knowledge of the nervous system to ground and anchor yourself.
We build on each skill by incorporating what we learned the day before - for example, incorporating sound healing during our facial massage trainings.
Retreat Pricing
$2500
3.5 immersive class days + 4 nights
Example Schedule: Fall 2023
The goal is to provide healing experiences for you along with the practical skills to integrate them into your treatments, if you wish.
We will continue offering Intro to Sound Healing on the first day but change the certifications offered other days. They will be facial massage and nervous system-focused.
Arrival Day
Dinner + arrival ceremony
Ethereal Soundbath Experience with Amanda
Class Day #1
Certification: Intro to Sound Healing
Sound healing immersive workshop with Amanda
Class Day #2
Certification: Embodied Touch
Practice with intention by customizing your massage with energy work
Class Day #3
Certification: Somatic Facials with Shirodhara
Engage the nervous system and all the senses in a relaxing experience (includes herbal poultice massage)
Departure Day
Full treatment exchange to integrate techniques
Departure at 12pm
Behind the Scenes: 2022 Spring Retreat
Dripping Springs, TX
Enrollment
We secure spots with a low deposit of $100. We will contact you within 48 hours to discuss how you want to pay the remainder of your balance.
You will have the option of paying in full or multiple payments in a way that is best for you.
Join me for an amazing, one-of-a-kind experience.
I dreamed of doing something like this for a while and it has been one of the best experiences of my career. Some of us have made life long friends, formed connections that continue to flourish and were able to take career-changing steps after.
I can't wait to connect with you and show you what being a truly holistic, somatic practitioner is all about!!!
If you are interested in the next retreat offering, sign up for the waitlist below.
xoxo,
Bethany
