Women’s retreat · Sedona, Arizona · October 25–30, 2026
A WEEKthat belongs to you
Five nights in Sedona among the red rock, with practice from the first morning to the last evening. Lexa guides the work. Milena Chernomorets curates the week.
A small group, five nights, and practice from the first morning to the last evening. Everything but the flight is in the price.
Who this week is for
Nobody comes home a different person after five nights. What changes is what you notice, and how quickly you catch yourself — one of the women below puts it better than we can.
Frames from past retreats. Sedona has not happened yet.
From women who have already been
I feel my inner processes have started moving. I am learning to act differently, and I catch myself in the moments I now notice.
SashaKauai retreat
Honestly, I haven’t felt this calm and quiet inside for a long time.
KatyaKauai retreat
My head fully switched off from every worry. I lost track of time — I was sure it was Wednesday.
NataliaKauai retreat
I didn’t want to leave. I’m easing back into daily life slowly, and giving myself time.
YuliaKauai retreat
These four are from our Kauai week, which Evgenia Arkhipenko guided — so they speak for the container and the care rather than for Lexa's practices. Lexa has led two weeks with us, Miami in March and Mount Shasta in September, and we have not published a word from either yet. Sedona has not happened at all.
Why the week is built this way
Not talking it through. The week is put together so the body settles before the head does — that order is the whole point, and it is why nothing here is built on forcing anything out.
Lexa leads with her voice. She works with sound, breath and attention, and the room usually goes quiet long before anyone has been asked to try.
Breath, sound and slow work with the body lower the alarm before anyone asks you a question. What comes up after that comes up without being forced.
Red rock on every side, nights that are properly dark, and no reason to check the time. Sedona does a share of the work before a word is said.
In short
A women’s retreat in Sedona, Arizona, from October 25 to October 30, 2026 — five nights. The days hold breath work, kundalini yoga, body practice, hypno-meditation, sound healing, sensory energetics, ritual at the red rock sites, and art therapy with cards. Lexa guides the practice programme and Milena Chernomorets curates the week. Accommodation, transfers, breakfasts and dinners and the whole practice programme are in the price: $2,600 per person. The flight is the only thing on top.
The axis of the week
Sedona works here as an instrument. The red rock stands vertical on every side, the nights are properly dark, and in that kind of quiet it is easier to let the pace drop.
Nothing is asked of you. You put the bag down, you eat with women you do not know yet, and the noise starts coming off you before anyone has worked on it.
The body settles first and the head follows it. Sound, breath and slow work take the volume down, and whatever comes up after that comes up without being pushed.
The head is quieter. You start noticing the gap between something happening and your reaction to it, and that gap is what you take with you.
Practices
Eight lines of work, held through the week. Every one of them is led as an invitation, and you keep the right to sit any of them out.
For a head that will not switch off
You breathe on her count, and the pace drops before you notice it happening.
For a body that has been braced too long
Repetition and breath together, until the body stops negotiating and simply lets go.
For shoulders and a jaw you stopped noticing
Slow work with what they have been carrying since spring.
For a decision you cannot hear yourself make
You follow her voice down into a very quiet state and stay awake the whole way. What surfaces there is yours, and sometimes it is not what you went in looking for.
For the noise that follows you into the evening
Bowls, gong and voice fill the room. You lie down and listen; it asks nothing else of you, and it is the most passive practice of the week.
For the part that words keep circling
Slow work through the senses, with attention on what the body notices first. No technique to learn and nothing to get right.
For a loss you have not put down yet
The canyons and the mesas are the room for this part. The ground does half of the work.
For what you cannot say out loud yet
Paint and a deck, and talking stays optional.
No practice of this week asks you to believe in anything, and you can sit any of them out. Most of the women come on their own; the group is small, and the first evening is built around meeting each other slowly.
The shape of the week
The week runs from the 25th to the 30th of October. Each day carries the same three movements, and how deep you go in any of them stays your decision.
Morning
The day opens through breath and the body, while the canyon is still cold.
Daytime
Out to the sites, where the ground carries half of the work.
Evening
The deepest shared part of the day, and then a table people come to on their own.
What we hold to
At any point in the week, without explaining yourself. We will help with the road back. Money follows the terms below, but nobody is kept here.
Nobody has to share anything in the circle. Sitting through it in silence is a full way to be there.
Lexa and Milena are in the same house all five nights. If the night goes badly, you knock — you do not wait until breakfast.
About your health, your medication and what you are going through. An honest answer is not a reason to be turned down; it is how we know what to watch for.
The first two often are. Strong practice brings up strong states, and you can step out of any of them at any moment.
Who leads
The practice programme is Lexa’s, and this is her week in Sedona. Retreat Curator holds the rest of it: the house, the road, the group and everything you pay for.
Practice guide
Lexa leads with her voice. Behind her are a retreat centre in Bali, more than 130 retreats and fourteen years of putting together the practices that work with the body, with attention and with state. She guided the practices in Miami in March 2026 and at Mount Shasta in September, and the free meditations on this site are in her voice.
Lexa’s profile
Curator
With Milena nothing lands on you. The house, the rhythm of the days and the warmth between the women are already there when you arrive.
About MilenaPlaces of power
Sedona keeps its sites spread across twenty kilometres of canyon country, and each one is walked for a different reason.
Grounding and strength.
The heart opens, and the way into change begins.
The masculine and the feminine come level. Silence, and harmony inside it.
Perspective and clarity.
A symbol of the new self being born.
Gentle integration of the whole week, closing with gratitude by the water.
Plainly, about vortexes
Sedona is the world capital of the vortex idea, and the places on this page are the ones that idea names.
No instrument has ever found an anomaly in the ground here.
We work with attention and with breath, and we hold ritual on ground that has been walked for exactly that for a very long time.
Sweat Lodge
Stones heated in a fire, water poured over them, and a dark round space where the group sits together in the steam. It is hot, it is close, and it lasts as long as you choose to stay.
The ceremony is led by M.H. Black Wolf, who carries the traditions of his people rather than only knowing them. He found his way back to them in the hardest stretch of his own life and has kept to that road since.
Price and rooms
One figure, the same for everyone. It covers the house, the transfers, breakfasts and dinners, and every practice of the week. The flight to Arizona is the only thing you add.
3 rooms
King bed and your own bathroom.
2 rooms
Queen bed, bathroom shared with one other room.
2 rooms
King bed, bathroom shared with one other room.
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A bedroom in the house, for the five nights.
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Meals for the whole stay.
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Every line of work, and the ceremonies with it.
Seven bedrooms across the main house and the casita, so the group stays small by the shape of the building. A place is held by a deposit and the rest is paid in parts.
The house
A private estate in West Sedona — a main house and a separate casita, five minutes from the Boynton Canyon trailhead. Seven bedrooms, so the group stays small by the shape of the building and not by a promise.
From the archive
These frames are from Lexa's own past retreats, not from the October week — that one has not happened yet. They are here because they show the real thing: the same guide, the same rock, the same kind of group.
October 25 to 30, 2026, in Sedona, Arizona. Five nights, and four full days of the practice programme between the day you arrive and the day you leave.
Accommodation and meals, the whole practice programme, the ceremonies and the work at the Sedona sites. Flights to Arizona stay on your side.
In the house: seven bedrooms of three kinds — three with their own bathroom, two connected through one door, two sharing a bathroom with the room next to them. The price is the same whichever one you get.
$2,600 per participant. That covers the house, the transfers, breakfasts and dinners and every practice of the week. The flight to Arizona is the only thing you add.
A place is held by a deposit, and the rest is paid in parts. If you do not come, the deposit and the payments already made are not returned.
The ceremony is voluntary and you may leave the lodge at any moment. It is not suitable during pregnancy, or with cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, epilepsy, claustrophobia, or a condition that needs regular medication. If any of that is yours, speak with your own doctor first. The rest of the programme stays open to you either way.
Most women arrive alone. The group is small by design, and the first evening is built around meeting each other slowly.
A vortex is what people here call a handful of spots around Sedona — Bell Rock, Cathedral Rock, Boynton Canyon, Airport Mesa — where visitors have long reported feeling something shift. There is no instrument that measures it, and no belief is required of you. We walk to those places early, practise there, and you keep your own opinion about what happened.
No. You are met at Phoenix Sky Harbor and driven — the transfer is in the price — and every drive during the week is arranged. Sedona sits about two hours from the airport.
Russian and English. Lexa and Milena both work in either.
Breakfasts and dinners are laid on at the house, with the whole group at one long table. Lunch on the trail days stays flexible — tell us about allergies and what you do not eat when you write, and it is arranged in advance.
The first two days often are. Strong practice brings up strong states, and that is the work rather than a side effect. You can step out of any practice at any moment, and Lexa and Milena are in the house all five nights.
No. Nobody has to speak. Sitting through a circle in silence is a full way to be in it, and no one will ask you why.
Yes, at any point and without explaining yourself, and we will help with the road back. The money follows the terms: the deposit and the payments already made are not returned.
You knock. Lexa and Milena sleep in the same house, and nobody expects you to wait until breakfast.
Nothing is scheduled. What stays with you is whichever practice worked, and the three meditations in Lexa’s voice on this site remain free.
None is needed. Every practice is led as an invitation, and you choose your own depth at each step.
Sedona gathers October 25–30, 2026. Five nights, a small group, practice from the first morning.
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