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!
May 4-8, 2025
$2800
This somatic and 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: Central TX (Austin / Dripping Springs)
Limit: 8 attendees - we found this to be a good group size while still respecting the nervous system and preventing overwhelm
Goal: to expand our understanding of holistic and somatic 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 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
- Tingsha
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
$2800
3 immersive class days + 4 nights
Example Schedule: Spring 2024
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. Since we customize and add new classes based on the need of attendees, the schedule will not be available until after enrollment.
Arrival Day
Dinner + arrival ceremony
Ethereal Soundbath Experience with Amanda
Class Day #1
Intro to Sound Healing
Sound healing immersive workshop with Amanda
We play literally every instrument!
Class Day #2
Craniosacral Training and Intro the Nervous System
Led by our guest speaker + Bethany, this day is all about integrating energy and the power of resting touch
Class Day #3
Somatic Facials with Sculpting Massage
Practice sculpting and integrating everything we learned on each other into treatments
Departure Day
Final action plans and goodbyes
Departure at 11am
Behind the Scenes: 2022 Spring Retreat
Dripping Springs, TX
See more highlights on Instagram!
Enrollment is open!!!!
We secure spots with a low deposit of $200. 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, as long as the full balance is paid by April 1, 2025.
Join me for an amazing, one-of-a-kind experience.
I dreamed of doing something like this for a while and it has resulted in some of the best experiences of my career. Attendees (including myself) have made life long friends, formed connections that continue to flourish and were able to take career-changing steps afterwards.
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
