Co-Hosted by Healing in NM & Healthy Humans Move
The Empowered Woman
Come Home to Yourself
Four days to rest, learn, and come home to yourself.
Four days in the high desert outside Santa Fe. Time in the mineral waters, on the mat, and around the fire with women who get it. We built this retreat around the questions we hear most — about hormones, mood, strength, and how to actually feel like yourself again. Come rest. Come learn. Leave a little steadier.
What the Empowered Woman Embodies
A container to step away, turn inward, and come home stronger.
This is your invitation to set down the daily to-do list — the lists, the roles, the holding of everyone else — and turn the whole of your attention toward you. For four days, this retreat is the container that holds you while you open to true integrative tools that help you heal and find strength in body, mind, and spirit.
We will sit with you and help you learn, move, feel, and practice these tools — not as ideas to memorize, but as lived experiences you can feel in your own body. We will allow unhurried moments for integration and time to explore the questions you carry, so nothing is rushed and nothing is left undone.
You will leave with a personal blueprint — the practices, the rituals, and the knowledge — to embody these tools and carry them into your day-to-day life. Empowered in body. Empowered in mind. Empowered in spirit.
The Setting
The beauty & healing waters of Santa Fe
Nestled in the green Santa Fe River valley on eighty acres of cottonwoods, orchards, and meadow, Ojo Santa Fe is a serene mineral-springs sanctuary just minutes from town. Its naturally fed turquoise pools — rich in healing minerals — invite you to soak, soften, and let the land restore you.
Here the air is clear and the light is gold. The cottonwoods and the quiet do most of the work — you just have to show up and let them.
What You’ll Experience
Movement, water & ceremony
Integrated Knowledge
Midlife health, hormones, and wellness from Eastern and Western medicine.
Yoga & Functional Strength
A signature flow blending strength and grace — empowering, playful, and accessible to every body.
Soaking in Healing Waters
Restorative time in Ojo Caliente’s legendary mineral springs — the heart of the retreat.
Fireside Chats & Circle
Evening gatherings around the fire for sharing, discussion, and deep connection.
Teaching & Discussion
Learn to go deeper & flourish
Understanding Your Hormones
How estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone shift through perimenopause and menopause — what the symptoms mean, how to test, and how hormone therapy (MHT) is safely personalized. We cover the gut–hormone connection, estrogen metabolism, and why timing matters.
Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine
Ancient wisdom for modern women — how acupuncture and herbal medicine support hormonal balance, hot flashes, sleep, and mood. Katya shares how Eastern medicine sees menopause as a transition, not a deficiency, and how to work with your body’s energy.
Mental Health & Nervous System
Why midlife mood changes are real, not “all in your head.” We explore cortisol, the HPA axis, anxiety and depression, and practical tools — breathwork, vagal tone, mindfulness, and when to seek medication or therapy. You’ll leave with a regulation toolkit.
Healthy Weight & Metabolism
Why the old rules stop working. We break down insulin resistance, muscle loss, and the role of protein, strength training, and sleep in protecting your metabolism. No restriction culture — just an evidence-based, sustainable approach to feeling strong.
The Daily Flow
Four days, one rhythm
Each day moves from breath and movement into teaching, water, and fire. There is space to rest, too — nothing is rushed.
Day 1
Arrival & Opening
Arrival & Check-in
Settle into your room, wander the cottonwoods, and let the land meet you.
Grounding Breath & Gentle Yoga
A slow, restorative practice to land in your body after travel.
Welcome Dinner
A nourishing anti-inflammatory meal shared together.
Opening Fireside Circle & Song
We gather around the fire to set intentions, chant, and begin.
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Ceremony & Integration
Close the circle, carry it home
The Temezcal Plants Ceremony
On the 2nd evening we share a gentle, ceremony — with the local curandera. Ritual, ceremony, circle,
Integration
A retreat only matters if it travels home with you. On the final morning we sit together for an integration session — simple, practical tools to keep the breath, the movement, and the connection alive in ordinary life. You will leave with a plan, not just a memory.
Your Retreat Includes
Everything taken care of
3 nights of luxurious accommodations at Ojo Santa Fe
All yoga, movement, and teaching sessions
All meals — nourishing, anti-inflammatory cuisine
Traditional ceremony, fireside circle & ceremonial cocoa
Your Guides
Meet your hosts
Host · Healing in NM
Julie Murphy, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC
Double board-certified Family & Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and Menopause Society Certified Provider with 18 years caring for women. After navigating her own perimenopause without answers, she founded Healing in NM to offer integrated hormone, mental health, and weight care so every woman feels informed, supported, and empowered.
healinginnm.com
Host · Shelly Ley Moves
Shelly Ley
Holistic movement coach who blends functional strength, yoga, mobility, and flow training to help women feel strong, resilient, and at home in their bodies. A head Steel Mace Vinyasa coach and certified perimenopause & menopause coach, her mission is to empower women to embody their inner warrior.
shellyleymoves.com
Special Guest · Spirit Gate LA
Katya Mosely, L.Ac.
Acupuncturist and founder of Spirit Gate LA, offering acupuncture, herbal medicine, and holistic fertility & wellness care. Intuitive and deeply kind — a special blend of expertise and empathy — Katya brings ancient Chinese medicine wisdom to modern women’s healing.
spiritgatela.comIn Their Words
What women tell us
"I came in exhausted and skeptical. I left with my nervous system quiet for the first time in years, and a real plan for my hormones. Julie listens in a way that makes you feel like the expert on your own body."
Marisol R.
Past participant · Healing in NM program
"Shelly's movement work changed how I carry myself. I am 52 and stronger than I have ever been — not from pushing, but from learning to move with my body instead of against it."
Dana T.
Healthy Humans Move member
"The waters and the circle together were something I cannot quite name. Katya held the ceremony with such tenderness. I cried, I laughed, and I came home knowing myself better."
Priya N.
Retreat guest
"This was the first time in a long while I did not have to be anything for anyone. Four days of that, and I remembered what rest actually feels like."
Claire M.
Retreat guest
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Early Bird Rates
$2,750starting
Early bird pricing available for a limited time.
Come as you are. Leave stronger, softer, and more yourself.
We keep the group small on purpose. If this is your year, we would love to share the waters with you.
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