Welcome to Wanderess
Step into your creative power with our women’s creative Retreat Memberships – where the healing powers of artistic expression and nervous system reset meet.
Repattern your nervous system, rebuild inner safety, and reconnect with the creative, grounded, fully-expressed woman you are – through a 5–7 day immersive retreat held within a six-month, trauma-informed integration process.
This isn’t surface-level healing.
It isn’t escapism.
It isn’t a holiday.
It’s a regulated return to yourself:
a remembering of your body’s wisdom, a reawakening of your voice, and a supported journey back into wholeness.
The Unique Wanderess Retreat Membership
Wanderess was created from founder Dr Ellie Chadwick’s commitment to offering women a form of transformation that is actually sustainable – not the quick fix of a one-week escape, and not the short-lived glow of a six-session programme.
Drawing from ritual studies, mythology, polyvagal theory, somatic therapy, and the arts, Wanderess retreats are built on one essential truth:
Real nervous system change requires time, repetition, and long-term holding.
A single week is not enough for the body to re-pattern its responses.
Consistency and safety — not intensity — create lasting transformation.
That’s why every Wanderess retreat is only the beginning.
Your immersive 5–7 day retreat experience flows directly into our six-month Wanderess Circle, a trauma-informed integration process combining somatic regulation, creative practice, and ongoing community support. This is our signature methodology: a long-term, relational, embodied path that supports the nervous system to finally soften, expand, and rewire.
Our work helps women reclaim agency, identity, and creative power by exploring the many stories and selves we each carry within us. The Wanderess archetype — adventurous, expressive, deeply alive — becomes a guide as women expand their capacity to feel, to create, to choose, and to become.
Wander with us, and return to your inner Wanderess: your most grounded, creative, powerful, beautifully complex self.
Who This Journey Is For?
The Wanderess Retreat Membership is for women who:
✔ feel overwhelmed, exhausted, or disconnected from their bodies
✔ want deeper meaning, clarity, and inner peace
✔ long to awaken their creativity, voice, and expression
✔ crave spiritual depth rooted in real cultural wisdom
✔ need trauma-informed support – not spiritual bypassing
✔ desire lasting transformation rather than a temporary escape
✔ want a circle of women to grow with over time
If you feel the pull – your nervous system is already speaking.
🌟 The Transformation 🌟
Imagine a version of you who feels:
grounded in her body. emotionally steady and clear. connected to her intuition. creatively alive. spiritually rooted. open, expressed, authentic. supported by a community of women
This is the woman Wanderess guides you back to.
Our approach blends:
🧠 science
Somatics, Jungian psychology, polyvagal theory, nervous system work
🎨 creativity
Storytelling, embodied artistic practice, archetypes
🌺 spirituality
Ritual, ceremony, shadow-work, meditation, cultural wisdom
It is transformation that honours both the nervous system and the soul.
✨ What Makes Wanderess Unique ✨
Research-Led Expertise
Trauma-informed, science-backed, and deeply transformative.
Our retreats and our membership are designed by a PhD specialising in ritual, wellbeing, and embodied creative practice, blending cutting-edge research with centuries-old wisdom. We are trauma-informed in our approach, and you’ll move through experiences that honour your nervous system, support deep, lasting healing, and cultivate lasting emotional resilience. Every session is built by expert facilitators to guide you gently, helping your body and mind recalibrate so transformation is not just fleeting: it’s real, embodied, and sustainable.
A Membership, Not a Trip
A week isn’t enough to rewire your nervous system or shift deeply held patterns.
That’s why every Wanderess retreat comes with six months of guided integration in the Wanderess Circle, including somatic therapy, creative coaching, sharing circles and peer support. With repetition, consistency, community, and a holding container, your nervous system, mind, and body have the space to absorb change fully. This is where transformation becomes permanent. Our initial membership is for 6 months + a retreat, but this can be extended on a monthly basis after that for any who wish to continue.
Creativity as Medicine
Express, release, and reclaim your full and authentic self through the power of the arts.
Within our retreats we keep equal focus on the needs of mind, body and spirit and nurturing creative energy is central. Through art, storytelling, movement, performance, journaling, and more, you’ll connect with your authentic voice, release limiting patterns, and awaken your inner power. Creativity is therapeutic, transformative, and central to our methodology for deep personal growth.
Global and Intercultural
Deep partnership with local creative, healing, and spiritual teachers.
We prioritise sustainability and interculturality by partnering with local providers and retreat facilitators across the globe. Travel with a conscience and immerse yourself in local customs and traditions while supporting the communities we visit. Enjoy a stress-free experience with comprehensive packages that cover accommodation, meals, and all activities, while knowing that you are contributing to local economies and supporting diverse culture.
We value real connection and genuine trust. If you’re curious about our retreats or membership, you’re always welcome to book a call with Ellie - including a complimentary nervous system analysis to help you understand your current state and needs. 🫶
💎 What's included in your Membership 💎
🧘♀️ YOUR CHOSEN IN-PERSON RETREAT:
a 5-7 day intensive, immersive experience
✔ Accommodation and all meals
✔ Airport transfers
✔ All somatic, creative, and healing sessions
✔ Excursions & cultural experiences
✔ Trauma-informed facilitation
✔ Around-the-clock support team
✔ Resources, materials, cultural gifts
🌙 THE WANDERESS CIRCLE:
your 6-month integration membership
✔ Bi-weekly online Somatic Therapy integrations + women’s circles
✔ Private community with monthly themes + guided practices
✔ WhatsApp group for micro-integration
✔ Nervous system assessment
✔ Creative coaching & expressive arts
✔ Personalised archetype profile
✔ Guest workshops with healers & artists
✔ Alumni pricing for future retreats
✔ 20% discount on 1:1 sessions
Upcoming Retreats (Choose Your Pathway):
Divine Feminine Awakening: Women's Spiritual and Creative Retreat Italy
In the hills of Umbria, a land alive with the spirits of mystics, saints, and visionaries, you are called to awaken your divine feminine energy.
Divine Feminine Awakening is a 5-day spiritual retreat in Italy, crafted for the woman ready to remember her power. Through creative expression, mythic storytelling, holistic wellness practices, and pilgrimages to ancient sacred sites, you’ll walk in the footsteps of the great women who came before you.
This is a creative retreat informed by research into trauma, epigenetic and nervous system healing. As you immerse in the beauty of Italian sun, cuisine, and spirit, you will reconnect to a sense of the sacred within every part of your life – and awaken the Mysticess you have always been.
The Heroine's Path: Women's Storytelling and Empowerment Retreat UK
Step into your heroine energy at a 5-day women’s retreat in the UK. On this storytelling and empowerment retreat, you are invited to reclaim the narrative of your life through the arts of storytelling, archetypal exploration, somatics, and meditation. Informed by nervous system research and led by trauma-informed, trained and certified somatic practitioners, this storytelling retreat is a call to the woman who knows she was made for more – for truth, voice, and transformation.
Whether you seek to heal the past or bring in an empowered future, here you will find the space, tools, and sisterhood to step into your fullest, most empowered self. This is your invitation to author a life that is no longer simply inherited — but chosen.
Goddess Rising: Tantra and Self-Worth Retreat for Women in Bali
Goddess Rising is a 7-day tantra retreat in Bali, exploring the spiritual concepts of tantra and Shakti energy, while rooting everything in Polyvagal-informed nervous system knowledge. Guided by Tantric practice, sacred ritual, and the ancestral wisdom of Balinese priestesses, and employing cross-cultural wisdom, shadow work, and embodied archetypal understanding, you’ll dissolve the old stories of worthlessness and remember your divine birthright of power, pleasure, and presence
Whether you’re navigating a transition, rebuilding your sense of self, or craving time to reconnect with what matters, this retreat offers space to remember who you are. This is not about escaping real life. It’s about reclaiming your place in it with more presence, pleasure, and purpose.
The Performer's Path: Women's Intercultural Performance Training, Bali
A 7-day performing arts and actor retreat in Ubud, Bali designed for women ready to expand their performance training, confidence, and creative voice. Led by experienced lecturers and practitioners, this actor training retreat for women bridges the sacred and the technical. You’ll experience traditional Balinese Legong dance and ritual theatre, alongside voice work, movement, and Polyvagal-informed somatic practices for stage presence and emotional resilience.
Whether you’re a performing arts student, actor, researcher, or creative practitioner, this Bali women’s retreat offers professional and personal development in equal measure. You’ll leave with renewed stage presence, embodied awareness, and a deeper connection to your artistic voice.