Soul Spa One-Day Retreats

"Deep inside all of us a huge potential beckons, waiting to open us to the joy, genius, freedom and love within." Brandon Bays

Our Soul Spas are one-day retreats for women in the city. They happen twice a year during Summer and Winter. Soul Spas are an opportunity for women to give themselves a special day to nourish their feminine soul, and focus on their own healing and well-being, desires and dreams.

Summer Soul Spa 2012 for Women:
The Goddess Within

A Day of Healing and Regeneration:
25th February 2012: 10am – 5pm
with Shushann Movsessian and Gemma Summers

To contact us for registration details, click here: Soul Spa for the Goddess Within

Connecting to Goddess Consciousness
The Divine Feminine has been represented across the world as a collection of archetypal energies, typically expressed as Goddesses. Goddesses express qualities that are nurturing, open and receptive, as well as mystical, magical, transformative and powerful.

Goddess Energy in Our Lives

Goddesses can help us in our everyday lives as women by connecting us to the transpersonal and sacred, as well as by teaching us what the feminine looks like when it is empowered and in service to the world. During our Soul Spa, we'll connect deeply and personally to the energies of the Divine Feminine and to the wisdom, guidance and powers of the Goddess Within.

About Summer Soul Spa

Our Summer Soul Spa is a perfect opportunity to deepen our resolutions and ernergise our intentions for the new year. Summer is a time of light and warmth, a time when we can soak up the strong energies of nature and recharge ourselves for the year ahead. It's also a time to celebrate, give gratitude and enjoy the bounty and abundance of life.

Our Summer Soul Spa offers you a sacred space to gently focus on your goals and dreams, firm up your intentions and prepare to seed them into the world. It is a day dedicated to replenishing your spirit and deepening your connection to your own inner wisdom.Together we will create space for reflection, sharing with like-minded women, and connecting to our inner guidance.

Come, have fun and be inspired. Contemplate the questions that live in your heart. Connect with the guidance of your own soul.

Key Questions We Plan to Explore:

1. What is the balance between giving and receiving in your life?

2. What support do you need to fulfill your goals and dreams this year?

3. How do you access your inner guidance and wisdom?

4. How do you nourish the divine feminine within? How is she guiding you?

5. How do you create from the Positive Feminine?

What Soul Spa participants say about previous Soul Spas:

"I travelled 6 hours from the country to attend this day and was so glad I did. This was a day away from the hectic pace of a home and business and all it brings. A day where permission was given to “JUST BE”. Thank you Shushann and Gemma for facilitating it with a passion for women and with open hearts and open minds." Tanya

"Gemma and Shushann, thank you for introducing me to the concept of a one-day retreat. Since it was my first time indulging in a day for myself, I was a little hesitant. Upon arrival I was greeted by other women who were about to do the same thing. Within minutes of entering the room I felt I'd made the right decision. Everyone was so friendly and I thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience. I am looking forward to the next retreat." Tara

Day Overview

There will be time for rest, silence and inner journeying, as well as for conversation, laughter, pampering, and pleasure. To help you strengthen your relationship with your own soul, we provide:

Rejuvenating meditations and visualisations for your self-healing.
Gentle movement to help you feel into your body and carefully shift any blockages.
Explorations to address the questions you seek guidance for in your life.
Journalling exercises that unlock intuition and insight.
Tools to connect you to the wisdom and power of your own internal guidance.

Delicious and nutritious food is provided, allowing you to simply relax and focus on yourself. Attuned to the needs and interests of our participants, our Soul Spa is designed to move you deeply into your sacred centre for answers, energy, inspiration, and guidance.

Soul Spa Benefits

Feel refreshed in your body, mind and spirit.
Find answers to questions and challenges in your life.
Enjoy greater access to your inner guidance and wisdom.
Experience a sense of feminine empowerment.
Connect with other women and be inspired.

Your Soul Spa Facilitators

Gemma and Shushann are both highly experienced coaches, counsellors and facilitators with over twenty-five years experience. They use an integrative approach, blending Western psychological approaches with Eastern philosophy. Gemma and Shushann are bring plenty of humour, heart, and soul to their work.

Gemma and Shushann also run Women's Retreats in Bali. For more information about their upcoming women's retreat in Ubud, Bali click on: Women's Bali Retreats

Read more about Gemma and Shushann below.

Gemma Summers PhD

Learn more about Gemma below and on her website: www.goodmind.com.au

Gemma Summers: PhD (Soc Psych), Dip.Clinical Hypnotherapy, Clinical Member CAPA and PACFA, psychotherapist, coach, and author of "Resolving Your Conflicts With Power and Grace: A Woman’s Guide to Conflict Resolution." She also wrote the "Coaching Column" for the Melbourne Age between 2003-4.

Gemma has a private practice in Sydney’s Lower North Shore and is an experienced and mature counsellor working with individuals and couples. She is passionate about women’s journey in life, both inner and outer, and views women’s life transitions as doorways to deeper self-knowledge and transformation. Her vision involves helping women strengthen their relationship to their own inner guidance, wisdom, and purpose.

Gemma is currently on the teaching faculty for the Diploma Program in Holistic Counselling and Psychotherapy at the Metavision Institute, Bowral. Family and female friendships are central passions in her life, along with cultivating a meaningful creative and spiritual life.

Shushann Movessian MA

To learn more about Shushann, click on her website: www.shushann.com.au.

Shushann Movsessian: MappSc (Soc Ecol), Dip.Teach, clinical member CAPA and PACFA, psychotherapist, educator, coach and author of best-selling book, "Puberty Girl" (Allen and Unwin 2004).

Shushann has a private practice in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs and is an experienced and mature counsellor working with individuals, relationships and young people. She is passionate about supporting the significant transitions women and girls make in their lives; from puberty and motherhood through to midlife and honouring the ageing process after menopause. Her vision is to support women to believe in the power of their dreams and visions and their sense of purpose in the world.

She has worked as a senior counsellor in Relationships Australia for over 8 years and has strived to assist women and men in their self-esteem and healthy relationship choices. She is on the teaching faculty for the Diploma Program in Holistic Counselling and Psychotherapy at the Metavision Institute, Bowral. Shushann has featured in the Sydney Morning Herald’s Essentials Magazine and on Radio 2GB for her expertise on the importance of the father/daughter relationship.

About the Soulful Woman

The Soulful Woman is a collaboration between Gemma Summers PhD and Shushann Movsessian MA. Our vision is to explore and nourish women’s sacred inner life and self-care.We provide workshops and retreats designed to replenish a woman’s body, mind and spirit, and to create greater balance in the cycle of giving and receiving.