As boudoir photographers we are often healers in artists clothes.
This retreat is a space for the healer to heal –
and the artist to become the art.
We all get started in this field for different reasons, but often it’s because we feel called to this work to help others in some capacity. We spend our days pouring our hearts and souls back into our businesses – and it’s time to pour some of that back energy into your art, your soul. To better serve your clients, but also because you deserve to feel the way you help others feel.
self portrait workshop: the art of seeing yourself
MINDSET, MANIFESTATION, ABUNDANCE & CLIENT EXPERIENCE WITH ANDI BOUDOIR
outdoor boudoir session with hair and makeup
GUIDED GROUP ACTIVITIES & MASTERMIND
using your voice & artistry to navigate social media as a creative soul
5 nights accommadation & family style meals
your retreat experience includes:
Self Portrait Workshop & Selfie Day
Connecting to your Creativity, Artistry, Inner Voice, and Slow Social Media Workshop
Mindset, Manifestation, Abundance, and Client Experience Workshop via Zoom with Andi Boudoir
5 Nights Accommodation with hot tub, sauna, and river front access
Family Style Meals
Booty Shaking Burlesque Class with Misty (move those emotions AND your bod!)
Group Evening Activities for Connection and Creativity
Group Mastermind
Art & Soul Workbook
An outdoor empowerment boudoir session with Misty, with professional hair and makeup (option to add on headshots)
Photos purchased separately in retreat exclusive digital collections:
10 for $800 (normally $2000), one outfit/look
30 for $1200 (normally $3250), three outfits/looks
80 for $3000 (normally $6,400) five+ outfits, includes complimentary head shot add on
MISTY IS AN IMPECCABLE TEACHER AND SEES ART AND BOUDOIR AS ON IN THE SAME. HER TEACHINGS ARE PURE GOLD, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND HER WORKSHOPS!
– Jade
the itinerary
day one: arrival
Arrive, get settled, and meet your community for the next 5 nights. We will start the retreat off by guided journalling, introductions, and a fire ritual to release anything that needs to be left behind before we spend our time together.
day two: The Art of Being Seen & Celebrated
We start our morning with a Self Portrait Workshop with Misty. We will be covering the technical toolkit (how to), and the emotional toolkit (why to), as well as the power of seeing yourself, feeling through the uncomfortable feels, and the importance of cultivating a self portrait practice as a means of coming home to yourself, and how it can also help you provide a deeper experience for your clients.
Our evening workshop will be a group Burlesque Booty Shaking Class to help release emotions we’re storing, as well as just having FUN wigglin’ and jigglin’ our bods together.
Day Three: Mindset, Manifestation, Abundance, And a Deeper Client Experience with Andi Boudoir
For our third day together we are bringing in a guest educator! Andi will be zooming in with us for a 90 minute workshop. Break out your notepads, and open your minds as well as your hearts for everything she has to speak on. We will be diving into topics connected to the spiritual side of running a business: mindset, limiting beliefs, manifestation – and how all that ties into creating a client experience that comes from a place of abundance, transformation, and life changing experiences.
Our evening group activity will be all about connecting back to your inner playful artist – colouring books, play doh, glitter, making a big ol’ mess, and creating art just for the sake of creating art.
Day Four: Using Your Voice, Artistry to Navigate social media as a creative soul
We aren’t made to be posting content day after day, to be trying to force our art to fit into algorithms that don’t even really want our art there. In a world where social media is a necessary evil to connect our businesses to potential clients – how can we find our unique genius, unique magic, and unique voice to connect with those that need our work? This workshop will explore honing in on what makes you unique, what brings you joy, and utilizing social media in a way that works FOR you, instead of leaving you drained and resentful.
Day Five: Putting it all together – group mastermind
By day five, we’ve done a lot of reflecting, playing, resting, and growing. It’s time to put it all together. The morning we will spend together in a group mastermind – because there is nothing more beautiful within our community than our ability to support one another through our own unique strengths. Come with your questions, come with your own answers, and let’s grow and uplift one another together.
Our evening group activity will be a talent show, or a show and tell! It doesn’t matter what you show us, but you have to show us something. You can read us a piece of poetry you are proud of, or show us a self portrait you took during the retreat and tell us what you learned and why you’re proud of it. Anything goes!
Day Six: Farewell
Check out time is 11AM, and we will say au revior!
our forest oasis
in port alberni, vancouver island, canada
october 2-7 2024
come learn, play, frolic, and create art with this beautiful community surrounded by the nurturing Canadian rainforest.
Amenities include: a hot tub, a sauna, river front access, double occupancy rooms, family style meals, and a seasonal pool.
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Vancouver Island is located a 2 hour ferry ride away from Seattle, or a 1.5 hour ferry ride from Vancouver.
You can also reach Vancouver Island by two international airports, located in Victoria, or Nanaimo.
We highly recommend renting a car, as Vancouver Island is huge. For comparison, the Vancouver Island land mass of 32,134 sq. km (12,407 sq mi) is about equal to that of the Country of Taiwan. In North American terms, the Island is considerably larger than states such as Vermont, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.
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Port Alberni is located a 3 hour drive from Victoria, or a 1 hour drive from Nanaimo.
It’s a small town nestled in an inlet, with access to many beautiful hiking trails, mountains, and waterfalls.
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Get outside! The world famous town of Tofino is located near Port Alberni – if you’re renting a car we highly recommend extending your stay on the island and checking out the beaches in Tofino or Ucluelet.
You can also visit the capital of BC, Victoria, which is located a 3 hour drive from Port Alberni. If you’re flying in or taking the ferry there is a good chance you’re passing through Victoria anyways. If you are interested in exploring the city, let us know and we can send you our city guide!
All I have to say is FRICKING DO IT!! It’s worth every penny, you will make more money, but you will never have these moments again! This was the best thing I could have done for myself. I came home a better, mom, partner and friend. Honestly one of the best experiences of my life, I cannot recommend it enough. You deserve it and should totally go!!!
– Jess
resinspire & reconnect to yourself
As photographers, we specialize in helping other people tell their story. We often wear our hearts on our sleeves, and pour ourselves into our work in so many ways that the outside world never sees. It’s your turn to pour that love and attention back on yourself. Celebrate your own story, embrace the art of seeing yourself, sit in the uncomfortable spaces with your own inner world and feelings so you can work through them and transmute them, and be the art you wish to see in the world.
THE NEXT RETREAT IS OCTOBER 2-7 2024
The investment
$2,750 CAD +GST
+ your chosen digital collection of choice
payment options
Pay In Full at Time of Booking for a free headshot add on
Deposit of $500, and a payment plan of your choosing up to 60 days before the retreat
*all spots are nonrefundable, but if you can not make it you can sell/transfer your spot at the retreat
*all prices are in Canadian Dollars and subject to applicable taxes
the fine print
This retreat is intended as a container for us as artists to come together to grow, challenge our limiting beliefs, and work through our own inner bullsh*t so that we don’t accidentally project it onto our clients. This retreat is a guided experience to help you as an artist, and as a human being. This retreat is not a substitute for professional therapy.
FAQ
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This retreat is open to any photographer who identifies as a woman, or as a marginalized gender.
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Attendees are welcome to pay in full, or a $500 deposit and then breaking the remainder into a payment plan leading up to 60 days before the retreat.
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We only have our venue for 5 nights, but I am happy to help you plan a solo adventure on the island if you wish to extend your stay.
