Guiding women through meaningful life transitions with depth, continuity, and care.
Joy Gabriel is the founder of Sedona Goddess Retreats and the primary guide for the majority of retreat sessions. For over 20 years, she has supported women through pivotal life transitions — helping them restore self-trust, reconnect with their authentic self, and regain traction in their lives when an old chapter is ending.
Joy’s work weaves together intuitive facilitation, embodiment-based practices, and integrative personal development. Rather than separating these into distinct modalities, she works with the whole person — guiding each woman through a clear, grounded process that supports insight, integration, and meaningful change.
Joy personally facilitates the majority of each retreat experience. This allows her to work closely and continuously with each woman — tracking what is emerging, identifying what is needed, and guiding the work with precision and care across the full arc of the retreat. The retreat is designed as a cohesive experience, allowing depth and momentum to build in a way that supports real traction.
A central thread woven through Joy’s work is the restoration of feminine embodiment and inner authority. She understands how deeply many women have been shaped by a culture that has not honored or informed the feminine architecture of who we are — biologically, emotionally, or intuitively. Over time, this disconnection can erode confidence, mute intuition, and distance women from their own power, passion, and clarity. Joy’s work gently restores this missing link, helping women reconnect with their body-based wisdom and natural capacity for self-trust. When this feminine architecture awakens, powerful shifts become possible.
Additional practitioners will be invited into a retreat when appropriate, always intentionally and in service of the woman’s overall journey.
Joy’s approach is informed by decades of lived experience, spiritual inquiry, and a deep reverence for the natural world — including many years living and working in Sedona.
Sedona Goddess Retreats is an invitation to step fully into your next chapter—where inner wisdom is restored, passion returns, and confidence is embodied.
About Joy Gabriel:
How Sedona Goddess Retreats is Guided.
Joy personally facilitates the majority of each retreat experience. This allows her to work closely and continuously with each woman — tracking what is emerging, identifying what is needed, and guiding the work with precision and care across the full arc of the retreat.
The retreat is designed as a cohesive experience, allowing depth and momentum to build in a way that supports real traction. Additional practitioners may be invited into a retreat when appropriate, always intentionally and in service of the woman’s overall journey.
Honoring the Feminine Architecture of Women’s Lives
Much of Joy’s work is rooted in restoring connection to the feminine intelligence of the body — an aspect of women’s wisdom that has been undervalued, misunderstood, or overlooked in modern culture. When women reconnect with this inner architecture, they often experience profound shifts in confidence, intuition, self-trust, and vitality. Passion returns. Decision-making becomes clearer. Life begins to feel responsive again rather than effortful. This reconnection is not something to “learn” intellectually. It is remembered through embodied experience, presence, and relationship — and it is woven into every retreat Joy guides.
Our Mission at Sedona Goddess Retreats
We are dedicated to offering a sacred journey where women can fully embrace their unique feminine spirit and experience profound healing and transformation.
Sedona Goddess Retreats exists to create a safe, nurturing environment where women can reconnect with their authentic power, rediscover their inner wisdom, and express themselves more fully and truthfully. Through personalized retreats, we support women in restoring self trust, confidence, and a deeper relationship with their body and inner guidance.
At the heart of our work is the remembrance of feminine intelligence and embodied wisdom that has often been overlooked or undervalued. As women reconnect with this inner architecture, they begin to experience greater clarity, vitality, self love, and trust in their own timing and direction.
Our retreats are designed to support women in coming home to themselves, awakening their passion, and stepping forward with confidence into the next chapter of their lives, rooted in authenticity, presence, and connection to what truly matters.
If you’re navigating a meaningful transition and feel called to step into work that can create profound shifts over a short period of time, the next step is a conversation. Each retreat begins with a complimentary discovery call to explore whether this level of personalized support is right for you.
Is This Retreat Right for You?
This retreat may be a strong fit if you are:
Moving through a meaningful life transition and feel ready for a real shift, not just insight
Seeking personalized, steady support rather than a series of disconnected sessions
Willing to engage honestly with your inner experience and take responsibility for your growth
Able to care for yourself emotionally between sessions, with curiosity and self-responsibility
Open to embodied work that includes the body, intuition, and feminine wisdom alongside clarity and structure
Ready to show up for yourself and participate fully in a process of change
This retreat is designed to support women who are stable enough to engage in deep personal work and who feel called to step into a new chapter with intention.
If you are currently navigating acute trauma, active addiction, or a mental health crisis that requires immediate clinical support, this retreat may not be the right starting point. In those cases, appropriate therapeutic or medical care is an important first step — and you are welcome to return to this work when more stability is present.