Vibrational Shift Retreat 2026

You may be craving this retreat if you’ve been carrying a lot and need space to finally exhale.

Maybe you’re moving through a season of change, longing for deeper connection, or feeling called back to the parts of yourself that have been quiet for too long.

This retreat is for you if you are ready to:

Rest in a way that feels deeper than a weekend away
Reconnect with your body, intuition, voice, and joy
Be held in a circle of women, sound, ritual, nature, and care
Move through the four directions as a pathway for reflection, release, embodiment, and renewal
Return home feeling more grounded, open, and connected to yourself

This is an invitation to step away from the noise and enter a sacred space designed to help you remember who you are beneath all you’ve been holding.

This retreat is designed as an intentional journey through the wisdom of the four directions and the elements, offering a pathway for awakening, embodiment, release, and integration.

Each direction will guide a different part of the experience, helping you move from arrival into deeper connection with yourself, your body, your inner knowing, and the community around you.

East | Awakening

We begin in the East, the direction of sunrise, new beginnings, clarity, and breath. This part of the journey invites you to arrive fully, set intentions, open your heart, and listen for what is beginning to emerge within you.

South | Embodiment

The South brings us into warmth, movement, joy, passion, and the wisdom of the body. Through embodied practices, creative expression, and connection, you’ll be invited to remember what it feels like to be alive, rooted, and present in your own fullness.

West | Release

The West is the direction of the setting sun, reflection, emotion, and letting go. Here, we create space to soften, feel, grieve, dream, and release what no longer needs to be carried alone.

North | Integration

We close in the North, the direction of grounding, wisdom, rest, and integration. This part of the retreat supports you in gathering what you’ve received, honoring your inner guidance, and returning home with more clarity, steadiness, and connection.

This is more than a retreat schedule. It is a sacred arc, created to help you move through the elements of your own transformation with sound, ritual, nature, rest, and community as your guides.

Johanna is the founder of Luna Serenity and the Luna Sound Lounge, where she offers private Reiki, sound healing, meditation, cacao, and ritual-based experiences. A retreat host, sound healer, yoga teacher, meditation guide, and Usui Reiki Master, Johanna creates sacred spaces where women can soften, reconnect, and return home to themselves.

For this retreat, Johanna will help hold the overall container, weaving together sound, cacao, ritual, reflection, and intentional moments of connection. Her work invites guests to move beyond surface-level rest and into a deeper relationship with the heart, body, intuition, and spirit.

Tia Marie Brumsted, LCSW-C, LICSW, NCSSW is a licensed mental health practitioner and the founder of Sweet Bay Mental Health and Wellness. Her work centers presence, emotional care, mindfulness, and nervous system support, helping people find steadiness in the midst of life’s transitions and challenges.

For this retreat, Tia brings a grounding and compassionate presence to the group experience. Her offerings will invite guests to arrive more fully, tend to what they are carrying, and reconnect with inner safety, self-awareness, and emotional resilience.

Jenn Roberts is the founder of Colored Girls Liberation Lab, where her work is rooted in racial equity, collective care, imagination, dreamwork, liberation, and rest. She creates spaces where people can connect with their inner wisdom, explore what freedom feels like in the body, and imagine new possibilities for themselves and their communities.

For this retreat, Jenn will guide guests through practices that invite reflection, sensuality, passion, elemental connection, and embodied joy. Her work offers a pathway into deeper self-trust, creative expression, and the kind of rest that makes room for dreaming.

Bri Alexander is a wellness practitioner and sound healer whose work is grounded, intuitive, gentle, and deeply restorative. Through sound, energy work, and embodied presence, she creates spaces that invite people to soften their defenses, listen inward, and reconnect with the wisdom of the body.

For this retreat, Bri brings a nurturing and calming energy to the collective container. Her offerings will support guests in slowing down, receiving care, and experiencing sound as a pathway for grounding, release, and renewal.

The Vibrational Shift Retreat is designed to be spacious, intentional, and deeply restorative. This is not a packed itinerary or days filled with rushing from one activity to the next. It is a sacred journey created to help you slow down, reconnect, and receive.

Throughout the retreat, you’ll be guided through experiences that support the body, mind, heart, and spirit, including:

Immersive sound healing experiences led by four sound healing practitioners
A powerful multi-practitioner sound bath woven with crystal bowls, voice, rhythm, and vibration
Gentle movement, yoga, and grounding practices
Breathwork and meditation for nervous system support
Cacao, ritual, journaling, and intentional reflection
Practices inspired by the four directions and the elements
Spacious time for rest, nature, integration, and connection
Nourishing meals and shared moments in community
Opportunities to soften, release, dream, and return to yourself

Every offering is intentionally woven into the larger retreat arc, guiding you through awakening, embodiment, release, and integration.

You will not be asked to perform, push, or become someone new.

You will be invited to come home to yourself, to be held in community, and to remember the wisdom already living within you.

Is this retreat for me if I’m newer to these practices?
Yes. This retreat is designed to be welcoming and supportive whether you’re newer to sound healing, ritual, and movement or already have an established practice. All yoga, meditation and movement classes will meet you where you are at, everything on this retreat is an invitation.
What is included in my retreat investment?
Your investment includes your accommodations, retreat programming, meals, and the overall curated experience throughout the retreat.
Are payment plans available?
Yes. Payment plan options are available. You have the option to split the remaining balance into regularly scheduled payments. The balance needs to be paid in full prior to September 15. Custom payment plans are also available. You will make your payment plan selection after your deposit has been received.
What will the retreat experience feel like?
You can expect an experience that feels grounding, restorative, reflective, and deeply intentional — with space for both personal transformation and meaningful connection.
Will there be free time?
Yes. The retreat is designed with flow and spaciousness in mind so that you can fully receive the experience without feeling over-scheduled.
Where is the retreat located and how do I get there?
AKERA is located at 2299 Ulster Heights Rd, Woodbourne, NY 12788 in the Catskill Mountains, 100 miles from NYC. The Catskill Mountains lie in southeastern New York State.

DRIVING:
Car parking is complimentary to all visitors. Carpool is suggested whenever possible!

From Albany and points North:

Take the New York State Thruway (1-87) South towards New York City
Take Exit 16, Harriman/US-6 (see below)
From New York City and Points South:

Take the New York State Thruway (1-87) North/West to Exit 16, Harriman/US-6. After toll, merge slightly right onto NY-17 West (towards US-6/Harriman) OR Take Palisades Parkway to Exit 18 (US-6) and merge onto NY-17 West
Travel approximately 30 miles on NY-17 West to Wurtsboro
Take the US-209 ramp to Wurtsboro/Ellenville
Turn right to continue onto US-209 North just over 13 miles to Canal St in Ellenville
Turn left onto Canal St. In a 0.4 mile turn right onto Cape rd.
Continue onto Cape Rd, which becomes Ulster Heights Rd. for just over 9 miles.
You will see a sign for AKERA on your left-hand side at 2299 Ulster Heights Rd
Proceed up the driveway to enter AKERA

BY AIR:
Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR): about 2 Hour from AKERA
3 Brewster Road, Newark, NJ 07114
(973) 961-6000

LaGuardia Airport (LGA): about 2 Hour from AKERA
Queens, NY 11371
(718) 533-3400

John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK): about 2 hours & 20 minutes from AKERA
Jamaica, NY 11430
(718) 244-4444

Albany International Airport (ALB): about 2 Hour from AKERA
737 Albany Shaker Rd, Albany, NY 12211
(518) 242-2222

Westchester County Airport (HPN): about 2 Hours from AKERA
240 Airport Rd, White Plains, NY 10604
(914) 995-4860

Stewart-Newburgh International Airport (SWF): about 1 Hour from AKERA
1180 1st Street, New Windsor, NY 12553
(845) 564-2100

There are several train and bus options.

Once you arrive by train/bus, you can reach AKERA via Uber or Lyft or by Taxi/Car Service. We have listed the approximate distance from each stop/station to AKERA below.

BY TRAIN:
Otisville NJ Transit Station - approximately 45 minutes from AKERA
NJ Transit Rail
1 Kelly Hill Rd, Otisville, NY 10963
(973) 275-5555

Rhinecliff Amtrak Station (RHI) - approximately one hour from AKERA
Via Rail Canada or Amtrak
Hutton St. and Charles St., Rhinecliff, NY 12574
(800) 872-7245

Poughkeepsie Amtrak Station (POU) - approximately one hour from AKERA
Via Rail Canada or Amtrak
41 Main St, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
(800) 872-7245

Garrison Station Metro-North Railroad (Hudson Line) - about 1 hour & 25 minutes from AKERA
Metro North Railroad
33 Lower Station Rd, Garrison, NY 10524

BY BUS:
Monticello Shortline Bus Terminal - approximately 30 minutes from AKERA
Coach USA from Port Authority
30 Sturgis Rd, Monticello, NY 12701

Woodridge bus stop - approximately 15 minute from AKERA
Several Buses Available: ShortLine Hudson, Greyhound, Trailways
13 Green Ave, Woodridge, NY 12789

CHARTER A BUS SERVICE:
Rolling V Bus Corp.
(845) 434-0511
charters@rollingV.com

TAXI/CAB:
Once you arrive by train/bus, you can reach AKERA via Uber or Lyft or by Taxi/Car Service.

Taxi/Car Service from Monticello:
We Care Taxi
(845) 295-0900 or (845) 794-5050

Yellow Cab of Monticello
(845) 794-4040

Sureway Taxi
(845) 794-5050

Taxi/Car Service from Wurtsboro:
Busy Bee Transportation
(845) 888-0888 or (845) 645-2398

Taxi/Car Service from Poughkeepsie:
A// Two Sup Taxi Poughkeepsie
(845) 418-0998

Moe Red Taxi Services
(845) 275-7924

Taxi/Car Service from Kingston:
Kingston Kabs
(845) 331-8294

Taxi/Car Service serving Mid Hudson Valley/Catskills:
Tonche Transit, Inc.
(845) 688-7350

Woodstock Town Car & Phoenicia Transport
(845) 679-6656

Is this retreat for me if I’m newer to these practices?
Yes. This retreat is designed to be welcoming and supportive whether you’re newer to sound healing, ritual, and movement or already have an established practice. All yoga, meditation and movement classes will meet you where you are at, everything on this retreat is an invitation.
What is included in my retreat investment?
Your investment includes your accommodations, retreat programming, meals, and the overall curated experience throughout the retreat.
Are payment plans available?
Yes. Payment plan options are available. You can split your payment into monthly installments. There are 3 monthly installments or 6 monthly installment options available. You will make your payment plan selection after your deposit has been received.
What will the retreat experience feel like?
You can expect an experience that feels grounding, restorative, reflective, and deeply intentional — with space for both personal transformation and meaningful connection.
Will there be free time?
Yes. The retreat is designed with flow and spaciousness in mind so that you can fully receive the experience without feeling over-scheduled.
Where is the retreat located and how do I get there?
AKERA is located at 2299 Ulster Heights Rd, Woodbourne, NY 12788 in the Catskill Mountains, 100 miles from NYC. The Catskill Mountains lie in southeastern New York State.

DRIVING:
Car parking is complimentary to all visitors. Carpool is suggested whenever possible!

From Albany and points North:

Take the New York State Thruway (1-87) South towards New York City
Take Exit 16, Harriman/US-6 (see below)
From New York City and Points South:

Take the New York State Thruway (1-87) North/West to Exit 16, Harriman/US-6. After toll, merge slightly right onto NY-17 West (towards US-6/Harriman) OR Take Palisades Parkway to Exit 18 (US-6) and merge onto NY-17 West
Travel approximately 30 miles on NY-17 West to Wurtsboro
Take the US-209 ramp to Wurtsboro/Ellenville
Turn right to continue onto US-209 North just over 13 miles to Canal St in Ellenville
Turn left onto Canal St. In a 0.4 mile turn right onto Cape rd.
Continue onto Cape Rd, which becomes Ulster Heights Rd. for just over 9 miles.
You will see a sign for AKERA on your left-hand side at 2299 Ulster Heights Rd
Proceed up the driveway to enter AKERA

BY AIR:
Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR): about 2 Hour from AKERA
3 Brewster Road, Newark, NJ 07114
(973) 961-6000

LaGuardia Airport (LGA): about 2 Hour from AKERA
Queens, NY 11371
(718) 533-3400

John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK): about 2 hours & 20 minutes from AKERA
Jamaica, NY 11430
(718) 244-4444

Albany International Airport (ALB): about 2 Hour from AKERA
737 Albany Shaker Rd, Albany, NY 12211
(518) 242-2222

Westchester County Airport (HPN): about 2 Hours from AKERA
240 Airport Rd, White Plains, NY 10604
(914) 995-4860

Stewart-Newburgh International Airport (SWF): about 1 Hour from AKERA
1180 1st Street, New Windsor, NY 12553
(845) 564-2100

There are several train and bus options.

Once you arrive by train/bus, you can reach AKERA via Uber or Lyft or by Taxi/Car Service. We have listed the approximate distance from each stop/station to AKERA below.

BY TRAIN:
Otisville NJ Transit Station - approximately 45 minutes from AKERA
NJ Transit Rail
1 Kelly Hill Rd, Otisville, NY 10963
(973) 275-5555

Rhinecliff Amtrak Station (RHI) - approximately one hour from AKERA
Via Rail Canada or Amtrak
Hutton St. and Charles St., Rhinecliff, NY 12574
(800) 872-7245

Poughkeepsie Amtrak Station (POU) - approximately one hour from AKERA
Via Rail Canada or Amtrak
41 Main St, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
(800) 872-7245

Garrison Station Metro-North Railroad (Hudson Line) - about 1 hour & 25 minutes from AKERA
Metro North Railroad
33 Lower Station Rd, Garrison, NY 10524

BY BUS:
Monticello Shortline Bus Terminal - approximately 30 minutes from AKERA
Coach USA from Port Authority
30 Sturgis Rd, Monticello, NY 12701

Woodridge bus stop - approximately 15 minute from AKERA
Several Buses Available: ShortLine Hudson, Greyhound, Trailways
13 Green Ave, Woodridge, NY 12789

CHARTER A BUS SERVICE:
Rolling V Bus Corp.
(845) 434-0511
charters@rollingV.com

TAXI/CAB:
Once you arrive by train/bus, you can reach AKERA via Uber or Lyft or by Taxi/Car Service.

Taxi/Car Service from Monticello:
We Care Taxi
(845) 295-0900 or (845) 794-5050

Yellow Cab of Monticello
(845) 794-4040

Sureway Taxi
(845) 794-5050

Taxi/Car Service from Wurtsboro:
Busy Bee Transportation
(845) 888-0888 or (845) 645-2398

Taxi/Car Service from Poughkeepsie:
A// Two Sup Taxi Poughkeepsie
(845) 418-0998

Moe Red Taxi Services
(845) 275-7924

Taxi/Car Service from Kingston:
Kingston Kabs
(845) 331-8294

Taxi/Car Service serving Mid Hudson Valley/Catskills:
Tonche Transit, Inc.
(845) 688-7350

Woodstock Town Car & Phoenicia Transport
(845) 679-6656

Getting There

Akera is located in Woodbourne, NY, about 100 miles from New York City. Stewart-Newburgh International Airport is about one hour away, and Newark and LaGuardia are approximately two hours away. Additional travel guidance will be shared after booking.

Choose Your Accommodations + Submit Your Deposit

Your deposit secures your place at The Vibrational Shift Retreat. At this stage, you’ll submit your deposit only. After your deposit is received, you’ll be guided to a short questionnaire where you can share your preferred room type, let us know who you’d like to room with, and note any dietary restrictions or important details we should know to support your experience.

Because room availability is limited and some accommodations are more limited than others, room selections will be assigned based on availability and the order in which deposits are received.

Available Accommodation Types

Premium Single Occupancy | $1,595 Private room.

Ideal for guests who want more privacy and personal space. SOLD OUT

Queen Single Occupancy | $1,450
Private glass dome glamping near Sanctuary House with shared restroom access. SOLDOUT

Shared Room with Queen Bed | $1,275
A more elevated shared accommodation option with limited availability. Shared Occupancy

Twin Room | $1,095
A comfortable shared option for guests coming solo or with a friend.

A $350 deposit reserves your space. Room selections and roommate requests are collected after your deposit is received.

Please note: This page is for deposit submission only. Final room preferences and pairing details will be collected in the post-purchase questionnaire.

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