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October 10 Weekend  |  Northern California

Soul Return

A 3-Day Immersion in Creativity, Connection & Coming Home to Yourself

Explore the Experience

Three full days  ·  9 AM–8 PM  ·  Investment $1,500

Space is intentionally limited to a small circle of women.

There comes a moment when doing more is no longer the answer.

When the deeper invitation is to return.

To your creativity.

To your body.

To your joy.

To your inner knowing.

To the woman underneath all the roles you carry.

Soul Return is an intimate three-day experience created for women ready to step outside ordinary life and enter a space devoted to beauty, creativity, connection, reflection and renewal.

Perhaps you’ve been longing for

I want to remember myself.

You know how to accomplish things.

You know how to take responsibility, create, lead, care for people, solve problems and keep moving.

But perhaps another part of you has been whispering.

  • I want to feel alive again.
  • I want room to create.
  • I want deeper connection.
  • I want to be witnessed without having to perform.
  • I want beauty, nature, laughter and meaningful conversation.
  • I want to remember myself.

Soul Return was created for that woman.

Not because anything is wrong with her.

Because sometimes even extraordinary women need somewhere beautiful to put everything down.

What if you could return to yourself?

This is not a workshop. It is a carefully created experience.

Over three spacious days, you move between creativity, meditation, movement, nature, nourishing meals, intimate conversation, witnessing and ritual.

There is nothing you need to accomplish.

You do not need to know how to paint.

You do not need to be an experienced meditator.

You simply need to arrive willing to be present, curious and open.

An abstract painting on a wooden easel inside a bright room with glass doors open to a lake and mountain view

Your Soul Art

Create What Cannot Be Put Into Words

Each woman creates her own abstract Soul Painting during the retreat.

Through intuitive painting, color, movement, layering and fluid pouring techniques, you are invited to move beyond making something “good” and instead allow something authentic to emerge.

No artistic experience is required.

The painting becomes both part of the process and a tangible piece of the experience you carry home.

You don’t come to Soul Return to learn how to paint. You come to discover what wants to move through you.
Women painting together at easels in a sunlit art studio during a Soul Art session

To be seen

What happens when someone simply listens?

You’ll be introduced to simple practices inspired by co-counseling, conscious listening and mirroring. These create an opportunity to speak without being fixed, advised or interrupted — and to experience what happens when another human being simply listens and witnesses.

No fixing.No performing.No advice giving.Just presence.

This work helps create genuine connection among women who may arrive as strangers.

Nourishment

Light. Luscious. Nourishing.

Food is part of the experience. Throughout Soul Return, Caitlin will create beautiful plant-based meals designed to feel vibrant, abundant and nourishing.

  • Fresh smoothies
  • Colorful salads
  • Seasonal soups
  • Fresh fruit
  • Plant-forward entrées
  • Herbal teas

Simple, gorgeous whole foods, served slowly.

Saffron water and bowls of fresh vegetables on a light wooden table

The rhythm of your days

Spacious enough to breathe inside of.

Morning

  • Meditation
  • Gentle yoga and movement
  • Nourishing breakfast or smoothie
  • Opening intention

Day

  • Soul painting
  • Witness practices
  • Beautiful plant-based meals
  • Nature and spacious reflection
  • Conversation, creativity and play

Evening

  • Integration
  • Meditation
  • Connection
  • Ritual
  • Reflection beneath the Northern California sky

The exact rhythm will remain intentionally spacious so the retreat can respond to the energy and needs of the women who gather.

A multi-level wooden deck overlooking a lake and mountains in Northern California

Nature

A private home surrounded by Northern California.

We gather across outdoor decks and indoor rooms open to the trees and light. There will be walks, hikes, and long unhurried moments of solitude.

The closing ritual

Sometimes we remember ourselves through the eyes of another woman.

At the end of the retreat, the women gather in circle.

After three days of creating, witnessing and connecting, you are invited to reflect back what you have seen and appreciated in one another.

Not accomplishments. Not résumés. The woman herself.

Her beauty.

Her courage.

Her tenderness.

Her creativity.

Her power.

Women in flowing dresses gathered in a desert landscape at sunset, arms raised toward a glowing sky

What you may leave with

Something you already had, returned to you.

Your Soul Painting

A physical expression of your three-day journey.

Renewed Creative Energy

Permission to create without needing an outcome.

Deeper Connection

The experience of being genuinely witnessed and witnessing others.

Space Inside Yourself

Three days away from the relentless pace of ordinary life.

New Friendships

Connection with an intimate circle of remarkable women.

A Return

Not to a new version of yourself, but to something already there.

Your hosts

Held by two women who love this work.

Portrait of Rachel Balunsat in her studio

Rachel Balunsat

Rachel is an artist, transformational guide, Alchemical Hypnotherapist, wellness practitioner and longtime facilitator of deep personal-development work. She brings together creativity, conscious communication, witnessing, meditation and transformational practices.

At Soul Return, Rachel primarily guides the Soul Art experience and Witness Work.

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Portrait of Caitlin Naramore in a sunlit kitchen

Caitlin Naramore

Caitlin is a chef, chocolatier, artist, women’s empowerment and business mentor, healing practitioner, and longtime retreat leader with nearly three decades of experience creating spaces for nourishment, beauty, connection, and transformation. Her work lives at the intersection of culinary artistry, ritual, creativity, healing, and the sacred practice of gathering, shaped by years of leading and supporting retreats and transformational experiences around the world.

At Soul Return, Caitlin tends to the food, nourishment, and ritual elements of the weekend, helping shape the sensory and ceremonial container that holds the deeper work. Through food, beauty, hospitality, and intentional ritual, she brings care and intention to the spaces between the practices, inviting participants into greater presence, pleasure, belonging, and connection to themselves.

Your retreat setting

Northern California

Soul Return takes place at a private residence surrounded by the natural beauty of Northern California.

Retreat programming runs approximately 9 AM–8 PM each day.

Participants arrange their own overnight accommodations. Guests may choose to stay nearby, including at Harbin Hot Springs if accommodations are available.

Lodging is not included in the $1,500 retreat investment.

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Investment

Soul Return

Three-Day Women’s Retreat

$1,500

  • Three full days of retreat programming
  • Soul Art experience and all art materials
  • Meditation and movement
  • Witness practices
  • Ritual experiences
  • Plant-based meals during retreat hours
  • Nature experiences
  • Your completed Soul Painting

Lodging and transportation are not included.

Soul Return is intentionally intimate. You’re warmly invited to request an invitation, or to have a brief conversation with Rachel or Caitlin before enrolling.

Sunset over a Northern California lake, with layered mountains and a glowing sky reflected on calm water

Perhaps You Don’t Need to Become Someone New.Perhaps It’s Time to Return to Who You Already Are.

Three days.

A canvas.

Nature.

Beautiful food.

Women willing to be real.

Space to listen.

Space to create.

Space to remember.

Welcome to Soul Return.

October 10 Weekend  |  Northern California  |  $1,500