Retreats & Immersions

In person experiences for embodied learning, depth and meaningful connection.

Gather in intentional spaces for embodied practice, shared experience, and learning that translates into real life. Some offerings are seasonal and return in cycles. Explore what is currently available below.

Services

1-1 Coaching & Breathwork

We work together through coaching, breathwork and creating a daily practice so you can change and transform your life. Sessions are live or online through Zoom.

 Workshops, Retreats & Trainings

400 HR Breathwork Facilitator Training w Alchemy of Breath

Microdosing Journey

Transformational Coaching

Transformational Coaching Course Online

Next Dates Coming Soon

Retreats

The Pilgrimage,

Sacred Valley, Peru

A sacred pilgrimage rooted in ceremony, embodied presence and deep inner listening. Held in community for the last 5 years, this journey supports profound connection to self, land, and lineage through intentional travel, shared practice, and guided ceremonial work.

UPCOMING DATES

  • Pilgrimage 1: August 25 to September 4

  • Pilgrimage 2: September 4 to September 11

  • Pilgrimage 3: September 11 to September 15

Trainings

Emily teaches with established international training programs including:

Kula Collective 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training,

Lago Atitlan, Guatemala

A holistic yoga teacher training offered through Kula Collective, held at Casa Kula in Guatemala.


This immersive experience supports you to deepen your practice and learn how to teach with clarity, confidence, and care. Through daily asana, breath, meditation, and philosophy, you will explore yoga as something you live, not just something you do.


Community living is part of the training, offering shared rhythm, connection, and real-life integration as you take the practice off the mat and into the way you relate, communicate, and move through the world.

Click “View Training Details” to explore the curriculum, dates, and how to apply.

Next Training Start Date

  • April 3 to April 24, 2026

Alchemy of Breath Breathwork Facilitator Training

Live Online

A 400 hour professional certification through Alchemy of Breath for those called to guide conscious connected breathing and functional breathing practices.

This training weaves deep personal inner work with practical facilitation skills. Participants experience the power of breathwork firsthand before guiding others, cultivating embodied leadership, ethical integrity, and authentic presence.

Emily has served as a Senior Trainer for seven years, guiding facilitators across multiple international cohorts.

Next Training Start Date

  • March 26, 2025

Foundation of Transformational Coaching Training

A 50-hour Foundation Coaching Training designed to build real-world skills that support others in creating meaningful forward movement in life.

Delivered live online, this program introduces transformational coaching tools rooted in ancient wisdom, modern psychology, and somatic practice, so you can coach with clarity, presence, and grounded confidence.

This training is for anyone who wants to strengthen empowered communication in client work, professional settings, and everyday relationships.

Ideal for space-holders, breathworkers, yogis, meditators, mystics, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, facilitators, and ceremonial or medicine workers.

For those who feel ready to step into the role of coach and support others in reclaiming agency, choice, and inspiration

Next Training Start Date

  • dates coming soon

My Journey

As a Wellness Practitioner and Trainer, I guide individuals who are in transition toward transformation, balance, and fulfillment through a compassionate, intuitive, and curious approach. My work integrates mind, body, and spirit to support meaningful change and inspire joy. Lifelong learning and self-reflection fuel my dedication to supporting others on their journey, grounding my work in humility and the aspiration to embody positive change.

As a Wellness Practitioner and Trainer, I guide individuals who are in transition toward transformation, balance, and fulfillment through a compassionate, intuitive, and curious approach. My work integrates mind, body, and spirit to support meaningful change and inspire joy. Lifelong learning and self-reflection fuel my dedication to supporting others on their journey, grounding my work in humility and the aspiration to embody positive change.

Immersions & Trainings

Immersions are depth oriented containers for sustained inner work and integration.

Retreats and professional trainings return in cycles throughout the year. Join the waitlist that fits your path to receive early updates when new dates are announced.

Refining facilitation skills and increasing confidence

Strengthening ethics, boundaries, and trauma aware practice

Navigating client dynamics,projection, and group field complexity

Developing your voice, leadership, and embodied presence

Stories of Change

My journey of growth has crossed paths with Emily Ray Henderson multiple times now, my last experience was the Alchemy Journey. A truly beautiful and all encompassing experience. Body, Mind and Soul.

Shasta Angel
Shasta Angel
Owner, Purple Fern Bodywork & Massage, Canada

Emily has the gift of bringing together a meaningful circle of people, with powerful conversations and love. Through her receptive and reflective approach to facilitation (and ‘life coaching’), she guided me to shed light on the core beliefs I know (now) that haven’t been serving my higher self and I learned how to create new ones that serve me on my path.

Stacey Jones
Stacey Jones
Surfer Yogi, Australia

Emily's retreat in Peru was without a doubt the most powerful experience of my life. I learned to follow my heart and instincts as opposed to over-thinking everything. It led me to change my career and increased my happiness to this day.

Louis Blais
Louis Blais
Founder, Lion's Leap Consulting, Canada lionsleapconsulting.com

Where Real Thresholds Are Crossed

Retreats and trainings are spaces where meaningful thresholds are crossed. Participants expand their capacities, build enduring relationships, and discover new ways of being that continue to shape how they live, lead and serve.

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