Events and Retreats
Press pause on your every-day reality and join me for a transformational experience in beautiful natural locations dedicated to reawakening your connection to your body and all it contains.
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Upcoming Retreats
ORIGIN: A New Year’s Movement Ceremony
Begins 3pm on December 31st
Completes around 10am on January 1st
Join Erin Rose Ward and Andrew Griffes for an intentional crossing into 2025 featuring a dusk ‘til dawn movement ceremony. Utilizing breath, music, guided free-form dance, and community we will co-create a powerful space to enter into this next year. Harvest the hard-won lessons from 2024 and create your vision for this next solar revolution. Step into a container that asks for stamina of presence and rewards you with a sunsrise.
This gathering is not your typical New Year’s Eve Party.
It asks of each participant a level of intention and commitment that is not for everyone.
Please read through the below information including the FAQ and reach out if you have any questions
This experience features:
Breathwork + Visualization Practice
New Year’s Eve Dinner
Movement Ceremony from 9pm - 6am
New Year’s Day Breakfast
Pre-Ceremony Group Call
Post Ceremony Connection + Integration
$350
Space is limited to ensure intimacy.
To register, fill out the form below and submit your payment.
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During the ceremony we will pulse between movement and rest.
Each hour there will be a curated DJ set followed by time allotted to lay down and rest.
From when we begin ceremony until we close, we ask that everyone stays in the container and participates so that we all tend to the group field.
Each DJ set will have a theme to support us in harvesting the gems from this past year and welcoming in the vision, stability, and grace of this next year.
At sunrise, we will close ceremony and open to the first day of this next solar revolution.
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The main component of this experience is the all-night ceremony. Though we will not be ingesting anything, we will be stepping into non-normative reality through dance, breath, music, and community.
We will have opening and closing circles to begin and end our experience.
We will also have a pre-dinner guided breathwork + goal setting experience to gather all of our intentions for ceremony.
There will also be a beautiful New Year’s dinner and New Year’s Day breakfast catered by a professional chef. -
Once you pay your deposit and complete the Participation Form, you will be registered. You will receive an email shortly after with more information.
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Spaces for this event are extremely limited. While we will do everything possible to accommodate extenuating circumstances if you wish to cancel, the Organizers do not guarantee refunds under any circumstances. Cancellations made prior to December 14th are eligible for a refund of program tuition. Cancellations on or after December 14th, 2024 forfeit all monies paid to date. Should you wish to cancel, please email us at info@andrewgriffes.com, or call us at (510) 480-5876.
No shows will be considered cancellations and will forfeit all monies paid. In the event that the Organizers cancel or change event dates, you will be given the opportunity to attend the program with the changed dates or receive a refund of your full payment. Organizers will not be liable for any equipment, travel or other costs due to cancellations or date changes.
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Please be punctual on the 31st and stay until the closing circle.
This container asks each of us to step into and hold intention, presence, and respect for each other.
When we come together in ceremony we enter into the possibility of creating a unified vision for ourselves and the planet.
We have a program packed full of wonderful experiences for you, with built-in time to integrate.
Please plan to abstain from alcohol & recreational drugs for the duration of the program.
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Absolutely! Feel free to come with anyone you feel would benefit from the event.
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We will have two farm to table meals catered meals from a local Ojai chef. A New Year’s Eve dinner and a New Year’s day brunch.
Feel free to bring other beverages or snacks for break times.
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Layers you can move in
Blanket and pillow for the resting portion
Optional yoga mat.
Reusable water bottle.
Offering for the land altar - we will be making a group altar as a gift to the land. Bring a crystal or another item you want to offer as a prayer for all those who come to the land.
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Arrival is at 3pm on New Year’s Eve
Departure is around 10am on New Year’s Day -
On a beautiful plot of land in Upper Ojai. 360 views of the majestic Ojai valley, surrounded by mountains. It is one of the most gorgeous places in Ojai.
Exact directions will be given upon registration.
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No. We will be in ceremony throughout the whole night.
Joshua Tree
Oct 17 -20 2024
Together : A Women’s Retreat in Joshua Tree
Join Erin Rose and Chelsea Didier for a transformational women’s retreat in Joshua Tree, CA.
For four days in the desert of Joshua Tree we will create art with our pain. We will see and call by name the parts of us that are in need of presence, acceptance, and are in themselves a wellspring of creative potential.
We open the circle on Thursday evening, turning away from the outer world and into the fertile territory of the within. Under the vast autumn night sky we reverence both our humanity and divinity that is held in the body. Courageously, our collective heart will seek spaciousness, grace, and liberation for the parts of ourselves we’ve held in contempt or have been the source of heavy personal shame.
Through the transformative embodied technologies that Chelsea and Erin Rose bring, we will ritualize the heroin’s journey of remembering that our power is inclusive of both our darkness and our light, our pain and our pleasure.
Upcoming Events
RESOURCE: How to stay sane this holiday season
Join Chelsea Didier and Erin Rose for two hours on Saturday Dec 7th.
This virtual gathering will be a resource for you as you navigate this holiday season.
Harness the power of your body, breath and mythic imagination. Create stability, ease, and a joy that is not contingent on halls being decked or family members aligning with your point of view.
Come as you are and leave feeling fully resourced and ready to dance through this season with ease.
$40
DATE NIGHT: An Evening For Couples
Join Erin Rose Ward and Andrew Griffes for an evening of deepening connection. Whether you and your partner have just begun dating or you have bene together for decades, this guided experience will create the conditions for more trust, vulnerability, and intimacy. An alternative to dinner and a movie, this Date Night will be a gift that keeps on giving.
Join us in-person in Ojai, CA or virtually via livestream.
$50/couple
Election Week Virtual Meditation Group
Due to this big week in the US, I have decided to extend the Autumn Sangha Virtual Meditation Group through November 8th, and I am opening up this week to anyone who would like to join for 5 days of practice.
Join me and the Autumn Sangha cohort each morning of election week for a 30 minute meditation practice.
There is such benefit in meditating in community, and we welcome those who feel like they could use a space to pause, ground, and find a bit of peace.
These meditations are designed for all levels.
All practices are recording in case the time does not work for you.
Steady As We Go: Pre-Election Movement Meditation
Join me for a community practice that will include pranayama (breath practice), guided movement, and systematic relaxation.
Come as you are and place your opinions, preferences, and predictions aside in favor of a shared place to move your energy through the body and arrive in your center - steady and awake come what may.
All are welcome to this space, whether you live in the US or not. We are all impacted by the reality of our global political climate. There will be extra time after our 90 minute practice for those who wish to share and connect in community.
Let's set our nervous system's up well so that during election week we can be the humans who hold the center, who prioritize kindness, and who can see through the illusion of separateness to the humanity that threads us all together.
Sunday November 3rd
11am - 12:30pm pst
$30
BODY: An 8-Week Virtual Circle for Women
Join Erin Rose Ward and a community of women on the path of coming home to the body and the power it contains. This group is a chance for us to connect weekly and explore through practice, ritual, and group connection all the aspects of living in a female body. From our own personal body narrative to that of culture and collective, together we will rewrite the stories we want to tell for ourselves, each other, and those that follow. This is a circle of courageous exploration, healing, and sisterhood.
Autumn Equinox Sangha: A 40-Day Daily Meditation Group
Join Erin Rose Ward for 40 days of committed meditation practice. Deepen your presence while connecting to spirit and receiving the medicine spirit. Pause each weekday to be guided through intelligently sequenced meditations designed to harness and direct energy, promoting peace, ease, and empowerment.
May Sangha: A Daily Meditation Group
Join Erin Rose Ward every weekday morning in April for a 30 minute guided meditation practice. Together through devotional practice, we set the conditions for peace, clarity, and remembrance.
BODY: An 8-Week Virtual Circle for Women
Join Erin Rose Ward and a community of women on the path of coming home to the body and the power it contains. This group is a chance for us to connect weekly and explore through practice, ritual, and group connection all the aspects of living in a female body. From our own personal body narrative to that of culture and collective, together we will rewrite the stories we want to tell for ourselves, each other, and those that follow. This is a circle of courageous exploration, healing, and sisterhood.
The 360 Emergence + Sound Healing
Join Erin Rose Ward and Natalie Valle for a guided movement and sound experience that combines the intelligence of The 360 Emergence embodiment practice with the healing benefits of sound bath.
THREAD : An evening in LA devoted to human connection
An evening of facilitated movement and brave relating.