Guatemala City (GUA)! Our retreat center is located about 4.5 hour drive from the airport. Transportation from the airport to the retreat center will be organized for participants.

The $500 USD deposit to secure your spot is non-refundable. The cancellation deadline will depend on which installment plan you choose and your first installment's billing date. Setting up your registration will involve signing a participant agreement and liability waiver. These documents will have your cancellation policy outline.

If you are unable to attend the retreat for any reason after securing your registration, we ask that you please give us a cancellation notice as soon as possible as there are limited spaces available (adhering to your cancellation policy). Completed payments made can be transferred to a future retreat. Upon transferring to a future retreat, your self-paced online learning portal access will be on hold until after the retreat you complete in person.

The self-paced online portion of this training can be purchased on its own without registering for the retreat (see the "base" price listed above). You still have to apply using the application form above & make a note in your application that you're looking only to purchase the self-paced online learning training.

The amount of time you need to commit weekly to integrate the learning materials & complete the required soul work will be completely dependent upon your own learning process & how long it takes for you to digest video, written, audio & pdf content. In past trainings, participants have needed anywhere between 5-15 hours per week of learning, studying, & embodying these teachings. Some weeks will be heavier & denser to move through depending on what surfaces for you emotionally, energetically, & physically.

Your retreat cohort will include ongoing check-ins in a special WhatsApp group where you can connect with the other women in the group, continual 1:1 support from Desi directly through WhatsApp voice notes, as well as a group check-in live calls scheduled 3x over 6 months (please note: These will not be teaching live calls covering any training material! Our periodic live calls will be an optional, non-required opportunity to be mentored in a group dynamic with your fellow cohort trainees. Dates/times will be varied depending on the group.)

Graduates of the Sensual Somatic® Facilitator Training have gone on to offer 1:1 sessions, small group sessions, large in-person & online workshops/events, as well as incorporated the medicine of Sensual Somatic® into their own retreats, festival facilitation, and therapeutic/clinical practices. Part of your process moving through this training will be to unpack how stepping into your embodied leadership as a facilitator in somatic healing feels most expansive & supportive for you.

Desi's experience as a professional dancer, yoga instructor, & somatic movement therapy specialist with 1,000+ hours of yoga, trauma-informed somatic, & energy medicine training spans over a decade collectively. During her time as a professional dancer, Desi trained in pole & erotic dance for 3 years. She received her B.A. in Traditional Eastern Arts from Naropa (primarily focused on the dharma studies of Tibetan Buddhism & somatic dance therapy) & the bulk of her somatic healing training has been with ISMETA-approved institutions. Some of the professionals she has learned from directly in her studies include Staci Haines, Arielle Shwartz, Bessel Van Der Kolk, & Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. She has been mentored by countless professors & facilitators from Naropa University, CIIS (during her time studying her Masters in Women, Gender, Spirituality & Social Justice), Institute of Somatic Sex Education, Modern Sex Therapy Institute, Levin Institute, Embody Lab, as well as many exotic/pole dancers & energy workers at various points of her life.

The Sensual Somatic® Facilitator Training only touches the tip of the iceberg in terms of exploring sexual trauma-specific material. The trauma-informed materials are meant to provide a more broad, generalized understanding of how trauma can impact the people you take through a Sensual Somatic® journey. Becoming a Sensual Somatic® facilitator, you will be equipped with tools to guide somatic release & dance-therapy-inspired practices that support the subconscious reprogramming of limited beliefs around sensual expression & feeling safe in one's body/movement expression. If you are looking to train with Desi around somatic sex education and sex-focused modalities, you are welcome to join us in the next Erotic Soma® Facilitator Training.