Embodying Intimacy Retreats & Online

Embodying Intimacy

In person retreats with Katie Sarra

Embodying Intimacy Retreat Consultations

I welcome you to book your first 1-hour exploratory session via telephone or Zoom.

Before booking a retreat, we meet online to create our relationship agreements in relation to what you are wanting to explore.

This is where you are free to ask questions. We will explore together where you are now what you want to welcome into your life and wh,at you want to change in relation to inhabiting new ways of being.

Inhabiting new ways of being

  • 1- 3 Day Retreats in Devon

    3 Day Retreats in Devon - October 2024

    Two or Three-Day Retreats - Early October 2024 or March 2025.

    Arrive the evening before between 5 pm - 8 pm and we meet together for a check in together or arrive on the day of your retreat in the morning.

    Days are 10am - 6.00 pm for Embodying intimacy practice. These times are flexible and extendable at the end of each day with no additional cost to make the optimum use of our time together if more time is needed.

    Financial investment for UK Retreats in £

    Three Day Retreats - £3,550

    Two Day Retreats - £2,450

    One Day Retreats - £1,350

    After we have arranged our dates and general location and I have received your payment, I go ahead and book our session space for your retreat. I book places that are nearby other BnBs or Hotels for your accommodation with nearby places for meals so you can be in choice with your diet needs. Sometimes, we might arrange together to prepare and cook food at our venue rather then eat out where there's a kitchen available. The cost of the retreat includes my professional Intimacy embodiment guidance and the session space and does not include your accommodation and meals out. I am available to assist you with links to accommodation nearby.

  • 3 Day Residential Retreats in Portugal August 2025

    Two or Three Day Retreats - August 2025

    Arrive the evening before between 5 pm - 8 pm and we meet together for a check in together or arrive on the day of your retreat in the morning.

    Days are 10am - 6.00 pm for Embodying intimacy practice. These times are flexible and extendable at the end of each day with no additional cost to make the optimum use of our time together if more time is needed.

    Financial investment for Portugal Retreats in €.

    Three Day Retreats - €3,550

    Two Day Retreats - €2,450

    One Day Retreats - €1,350

    After we have arranged our dates and general location and I have received your payment, I go ahead and book our session space for your retreat. I book places that are nearby other BnBs or Hotels for your accommodation with nearby places for meals so you can be in choice with your diet needs or depending on the venue, we might arrange together to prepare and cook food at our venue rather then eat out where there's a kitchen available.

    The cost of the retreat includes my professional Intimacy embodiment guidance and the session space and does not include your accommodation and meals out. I provide refreshments and snacks for your nourishment. I am available to assist you with links to accommodation nearby and if you are coming to my mountain retreat, I arrange this 'in-house' for you.

    Prices are for my private retreat space in the mountains in Mid Portugal.

    There is an additional payment of €300 for private quality venues near Lisbon or Porto which is convenient if you are flying in and need a retreat space and accommodation nearer the airports.

  • 3 Day retreat near Mombassa, Kenya - 2024

    Two or Three-Day Retreats - between November, 2024 - January, 2025

    You can arrive the evening before between 5 pm and 8 pm, and we will meet for a check-in, or you can arrive in the morning on the day of your retreat.

    Days are 10am - 6.00 pm for Embodying intimacy practice. These times are flexible and extendable at the end of each day with no additional cost to make the optimum use of our time together if more time is needed.

    Financial investment for Kenya Retreats in USD $.

    Three Day Retreats - USD $ 3,550

    Two Day Retreats - USD $ 2,450

    One Day Retreats - USD $ 1,350

    After we have arranged our dates and general location and I have received your payment, I go ahead and book your session space and accommodation for your retreat. I book places that are nearby other BnBs or Hotels for your accommodation.

    The cost of the retreat includes my professional Intimacy embodiment guidance and does not include your accommodation which I arrange for you which is paid for separately. Lunch here is included with a private chef but meals out are not included.

    Locations are in private quality venues along the coast near Malindi Airport and I arrange your (approx 30 minute) taxi to your accommodation and retreat space.

Embodying Intimacy Retreat information

We begin with an online consultation so you can explore what you want to welcome into your life and overcome. If that supports confidence, we may meet for a block of online sessions to establish our working relationship before meeting in person.

These intimacy training retreats support you in trusting spontaneity with your intimate self-expression and learning to co-create relationship agreements with yourself, your body, and others.

I guide you with embodiment practices tuned to what you want to explore and overcome to support you in inhabiting the new ways of being you are longing for - with your solo self or in an intimate relationship with another.

2-3 day retreats - You arrive the day before with an early evening check-in session to support your arrival, or you can arrive on the day of your retreat starting at 10.00 am

You depart the morning after or at the end of the last day with an integration session, including home practice recommendations and resources to support your self-care “going home” with updates to your versions of yourself that will influence your relationship agreements with yourself and with people who love you as you were. I do recommend you stay over for a final night’s integration sleep, and we meet together before travelling.

If you have flown in, you can extend your stay with a holiday, and I can recommend places in Portugal, the UK and Kenya. As a couple, you may wish to have holiday practice time and meet up again for a day at the end of your holiday for more integration and reflections with support practices for going ‘home’.

The schedule is 10 am - 6.00 pm each day, with options for a shared or solo lunch and evening meals to support continued reflections and integration.

Meal breaks are either eating out locally (not included in the price) or sometimes cooking or hiring a cook at the venue if there is a kitchen, which I include in your price.

Evening check-ins are available for integration support during your stay as aspects of yourself surface into your awareness and wanting recognition.

  • Why do we respond to acceptance or rejection just like water ?

    "By exposing water to a particular word or piece of music, freezing it, and photographing the ice crystals formed, Dr Emoto has shown that from beautiful words and music, come beautiful crystals, and from mean-spirited, negative words, come malformed and misshapen crystals. The adult human body is approximately 70% water and infant bodies are about 90% water."

    Dr Emoto - “The Hidden Messages in Water”

  • How can I overcome feeling self conscious with my naked body?

    I have developed creative ways of facilitating being in choice with the liberation of nakedness at the same time as being in privacy. This is a step-by-step journey into undressing that eventually feels like the most natural place to be

  • How on earth can I reach acceptance with the "Just is" when I can't see this myself?

    We all get our insides from the outside first. You might be living your life with internalised beliefs about your body from what another has said to you or you may be comodifying your body in comparison with idealised versions that are given status power. I have however witnessed people inhabiting Status power bodies that are crippled in their personal power and people inhabiting bodies that are outside of the range of idealised versions that are glowing in their personal power. It is all about self-acceptance and understanding that we are bigger than the sum of our parts. The compartmentalisation of our bodies is a left-brain specialism and a right-brain disability that western culture promotes. This is a result of the stress of over-adaption.

    The left brain is literally “blind” to the bigger picture and can only compartmentalise and commodity which is tragic when we do this to our bodies.

    These sessions are a guided journey that is unique for each person offering liberation from the holograms of projection of what we are not into receptive kindness with the just is of our naturalness.

  • From your cocoon of naked privacy

    The first part of the undressing experience is out of sight, private and in front of me at the same time.

    From your cocoon of naked privacy, I invite you to share your body story "from the outside in" acknowledging with radical acceptance where you are now and discovering new versions of yourself. The experience is completed with you listening to your Body Poem and reflecting on these new enriched versions of yourself.

    "It is a joy to be hidden and a disaster never to be found" - Donald Winnicott

  • Get it over and done with!

    How often have you taken off your clothes because that's the done thing or what is expected? How many times has it felt too much too soon and you’ve disassociated? How many times have you held your breath to get it over and done with? How many times have you only done it in the dark? How many times have you endured nakedness and feeling exposed either in intimate experiences or medical ones?

    I have successfully taught many people how to easily be in their integrity and authenticity when uncovering intimacy without disassociating or having emotional hangovers later.

  • Choice with hide and seek and only being found when you are ready

    When you are ready, the next stage is exploring the physical outer and inner landscapes of your body from the privacy of being warm and covered. You are in choice at any moment to uncover aspects of your body and be witnessed.

    Through this experience, you might discover what you hadn't "seen" before and in this process, there is the opportunity to re-frame limiting reflections into more enriched ones. Very often we are carrying around in our bodies what someone once said about us that may or may not be true.

  • "We get our insides from the outside first"

    Donald Winnicott

Testimonials from people who have worked with me

  • “Katie has facilitated my inner person to become my outer person. She has unlocked and liberated my mind and body. ”

    John Devon

  • “What I am taking away is opening up possibilities. A little light at the end of the tunnel”

    Henry

  • “Coming here is like immersing in a bath of permission”

    Jeremy

I am with you every step of the way on the journey with the internal dialogue that is limiting your expansion supporting these parts of you to feel safe enough for these protection strategies to relax. 

Through this process, you may find yourself expressing parts of yourself that might have been held in limbo. You will discover how to trust your spontaneity in welcoming into your life what nurtures, excites, and relaxes you into your naturalness.

A Spontaneous Body Poem Meditation

from a live session