retreat curatorby milena chernomorets

Kauai women’s retreat · completed July 31 — August 4, 2026

Where the ocean holds you

Five days on Kauai with Evgenia Arkhipenko, closed to outsiders, ocean and jungle, quiet inner work far from everything familiar.

Your guide

Evgenia Arkhipenko

Evgenia leads Universal Therapy — a contemplative, energy-based practice for coming home to yourself. She works in the lineage of Leonid Talpis, whose student she is.

A practising psychologist-therapist and constellations facilitator. Consultant on family relationships and ancestral patterns; training instructor in metaphorical associative cards and practical psychology.

Evgenia Arkhipenko, the retreat guide

The practice

What Universal Therapy is

Universal Therapy is a spiritual, contemplative practice — a way to slow down, listen inward, and meet what you carry with more space and less noise.

Quiet inner work, at your own depth

Held one-on-one and in the shared field

Space to meet yourself, at your own depth

You choose how far you go, always

Retreat resort on Kauai

What’s next

Where the next retreat gathers

This retreat has taken place: 5 days on Kauai, $3,500 per person. The next retreat — Miami, Florida, April 2027.

In their own words

Six women came back and wrote this

From the group chat after the retreat, shortened and not rewritten. First names as they signed them.

  • I dropped out of ordinary life so completely after this trip that I lost track of time — I was sure it was Wednesday. My head fully switched off from every worry, and it was incredible. Deep gratitude to the organizers, and a special one to Evgenia for this experience. I felt comfortable, calm, joyful, and truly well.

    NataliaKauai retreat

  • Girls, thank you all! I didn’t want to leave. I’m easing back into daily life and work slowly — giving myself time to adapt to a new life, and giving myself rest.

    YuliaKauai retreat

  • Thank you for your very human care. Honestly, I haven’t felt this calm and quiet inside for a long time. May the path of our souls continue on this frequency and in this state of trust. Thank you all for a magical retreat.

    KatyaKauai retreat

  • I rebooted so completely! I switched off from every everyday question and thought and simply stayed in the moment. Of course it’s the perfect combo — the nature of Hawaii and the practice.

    DashaKauai retreat

  • Milena, Evgenia — I carry so much gratitude inside. I feel my inner processes have started moving; I’m learning to act differently and catching myself in the moments I now notice. Hugs to everyone — you became truly close.

    SashaKauai retreat

  • Thank you, you bright soul — you did something very, very important for all of us.

    Retreat guestKauai retreat

On video

What they said when they came home

Yulia · after the retreatKauai retreat · July 2026
Yulia · about the retreatKauai retreat · July 2026
Angelina · San FranciscoKauai retreat · July 2026
Retreat guestKauai retreat · July 2026
Yulia · MiamiKauai retreat · July 2026
Natalia · New YorkKauai retreat · July 2026
Milena and Evgenia
Curated with Milena

Curated with Milena

Two women who hold the space

With Evgenia you go inward. With Milena everything around you is already arranged, so 5 days ask nothing of you but arriving.

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