THE WISDOM WITHIN
October 9 - 12th, 2025
Joshua Tree, CA
You walk up to the Gaia Villa for the first time and say to yourself…
You have built a beautiful life by following your passions, taking bold risks, and walking a path different to most. And as the deep-feeling, courageously creative woman you are, you feel so connected to your gifts.
Yet there’s a feeling in your body that's impossible to ignore anymore.
YOU KNOW YOUR BODY IS COMMUNICATING
SOMETHING
and you are ready to understand the meaning inside its messages.
The Wisdom Within is a sacred space dedicated for you to come back to your truth and meet yourself in a way you never have before. Learn to welcome your emotions, body sensations, life’s challenges, and things called 'symptoms' as the intelligence that they are, aching to be heard, by YOU.
You will walk away from The Gaia Villa with a deeper, aligned, loving relationship with your body and yourself that allows you to move through every aspect of your life wildly embodied, unapologetically expressed, and undivided.
You can’t wait to step back into your life with this unwavering trust in your body's ability to lead you into the choices, the creations, the relationships, and the impacts you are meant to have in this life.
“My current relationship with myself, my body, and my life has completely changed. I'm so much more open. I've had a lot of clarity, but most importantly allowed my body a lot more grace."
“It was amazing, the best thing I ever did.”
“Transformative. It's hard to put into words what we were able to experience, but I am so grateful to have been a part of it... I don't feel so alone anymore. I feel supported. I feel held."
“I send you gratitude every day. You've guided me so much and given me the tools I need to grow into the woman I have always wanted to be. I am forever grateful."
“Now it feels more like a direct dial to my innate wisdom...My confidence level and ability to relax into, rather than resist life/challenges, has increased."
This is not just another transformational weekend.
You will go home equipped with practical skills that you will be able to use in your daily life, for the rest of your life. These tools can be applied in any circumstance, with whatever time is available - even if 1 minute is all you have.
This is an experience that shifts the very foundations of how you view and interact with yourself, your body, and your relationships.
I use this work ALL THE TIME….to create the wildly intimate relationship I have with my husband, to grieve devastating losses of loved ones, to prepare myself when I’m afraid to do something new, to experience true ecstasy, to unapologetically claim my desires, to parent my son and reparent myself every day….and on and on…
This will be an incredibly nuanced and intimate journey for you to connect with all the different parts of yourself that are ready to be met, unconditionally loved, and tenderly held in this circle of true sisterhood. Each practice will build on the one before it as we move through the very intentional journey of somatic unshaming process work.
We prioritize following your own unique process, always leading from inner safety, boundaries, and consent.
⁂ Accommodations
4 days, 3 nights on the beautiful Gaia Villa 3.5 acre property.
⁂ Movement Meditation
Journey through moving into your physical body’s current needs and desires.
⁂ Learn the map
Interactive lecture on somatic unshaming, how the body intelligently stores unprocessed emotions, and how to engage and learn from your body’s wisdom.
⁂ Stand your ground
Somatic practices to embody Strength / Protector / Nurturer for boundaries, autonomy, consent.
⁂ Reclaim your voice
Empowered movement + dialogue workshop to meet the inner critic from worthiness and express your truth.
⁂ Alchemize emotions
Reconnect with your core emotions through a new lens - everything belongs
⁂ Restore and Receive
Downtime to rest, reflect, bathe in the sun, the saltwater pool, the hot tub, the cold plunge, or under the stars and let the earth hold you in the process.
⁂ Nourishment
Fully catered meals, mostly organic and locally sourced, customized to your dietary needs.
⁂ Integrate
Group Integration zoom call with w/Liana after the retreat.
Lifetime Access to Liana’s monthly somatic based Heart Talk community Zoom call
Full Body Yes Please!WHAT IS SOMATIC UNSHAMING PROCESS WORK?
It is the art of following what's happening within you and unfolding it through your body using movement, voice, imagination, or dialogue, and discovering its deeper meaning, power, and gift through an unshaming perspective.
You have been pushing your needs aside for long enough!
This is where you ...
⁂ stop outsourcing expertise, validation, and advice for what you KNOW and FEEL to be true within.
⁂ allow yourself to receive and be taken care of by your body, the quiet hush of nature, nourishing foods, and deep, authentic connections.
⁂ free yourself of daily responsibilities, chasing to-do lists, completing projects, and needing to show up for everyone else.
⁂ truly attune to your unique language and unmet needs by taking a pause on trying to stay on top of life so that you can get into your body.
⁂ create lasting sisterhood that is dripping in depth, support, and belonging.
Liana Blackburn is a somatic embodiment guide and globally-celebrated dancer/choreographer with over 30 years of experience working intimately with the body.
After 15 years of performing, creating, and traveling the world with top recording artists like Selena Gomez, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, and The Rolling Stones, Liana now devotes her work to helping others unshame their emotional landscapes, reconnect with the intelligence of their bodies, and step into the wildly embodied, authentic, and unapologetically expressed version of themselves.
Blending somatic therapy, embodied movement, dance, unshaming process work, and a deep reverence for the full human experience, Liana creates spaces that are compassionate, transformational, and rooted in radical self-trust.
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They asked her, “How do you guide yourself”
She answered, “Close your eyes and you will find three guides that are always within you: your intuition, your values, and your nervous system. Feel your truth and it will make the way forward clear. You have to trust that no one knows you better than you do.”
~ Yung Pueblo
