A Nature Inspired Immersion in Coming Home to Your True Self
Ojai, CA | Nov 13-17, 2025 | Registration is FULL.
The Soul Essence Retreat is a sacred invitation to slow down, soften, and return to the truth of who you are.
Over four transformative days in the mystical energy of Ojai, you’ll be guided into deep rest, real connection, and powerful remembrance.
This isn’t just time away… it’s a portal back to your Soul Essence.
Held inside an impeccably curated space of safety and sisterhood, you’ll be supported to open your heart, access your innate gifts, and awaken what’s next in your evolution — with ease, grace, and joy. Yes, really.
Here, you’ll experience what’s possible when women gather with pure intention:
✨ Spaciousness that nourishes
✨ Shared ceremony that awakens
✨ Soulful connection that heals
And you’ll be supported by the sacred land in Ojai known for its spiritual energy and ‘pink sky’ sunsets, long known as a sanctuary for creatives, seekers, and soul-led entrepreneurs.
At Soul Essence, we’re devoted to holding you in your becoming… with love, laughter, and wholehearted presence.
We’re so honored to welcome you.
Fall back in love with life again...
November 13-17, 2025, Ojai, California
With Your Guide
MICHELLE SORRO
+ Special Guests
JOURNEY HOME TO YOURSELF
Embody Your Soul’s Gifts.
Embrace Love, Joy & Receptivity.
Step Into Empowered, Excited, Expansive Leadership.
During this transformative heart opening experience…
Love yourself with an all-inclusive immersion at a luxury hilltop healing portal…
… on 110 acres of tranquil private property in Ojai, CA with breathtaking views, just minutes from the Pacific Ocean, and a day trip to downtown Ojai.
When you join us at Soul Essence, you'll experience heart opening workshops, nature inspired ceremonies, and integrative circles to receive and remember the magic of your soul.
Come journey home to your authentic self.
Special Guests
Ground the soul-deep transformation with incredible guests including:
Lead Space Holder & Soul Work Guide
Michelle will be guiding the journey through sacred ceremony, somatic embodiment, and divine remembrance — holding the space for truth, transformation, and communion.
Sacred Medicine & Integration
Psychotherapist + medicine woman Farrah Diani will be co-facilitating our night of sacred medicine and offering an educational ceremony on microdosing for ongoing healing and integration.
Culinary Alchemy
Enjoy vibrant, locally sourced organic meals, thoughtfully crafted by Chef Foluke to be gluten, sugar, and seed-oil free so you can nourish your body and feel fully alive throughout the retreat.
Ceremonial Support + Earth Song Guide
Songkeeper School founder, Reya Manna, will be leading earth-based rituals with song, breathwork, mandalas, and ancient attunement practices that awaken deep connection to yourself and nature.
Plus you’ll…
Connect with fellow visionary women in a way that goes so far beyond the surface. Experience a safe and supportive space to be yourself with other wonderful women who truly see you.
Nurture yourself with ample time for sacred rest, integrate, and receive Ojai’s beauty and do what your heart longs for. Fill your cup with ease, grace and play so that you can hear the call of your own inner guidance.
Feel supported to move forward after this retreat with a post-retreat group integration session led by Michelle. So you can carry everything you receive with you into your life.
This is your warm welcome into a heart-centered retreat that will forever change your life. You’ll feel more like you and access the woman you most love to BE.
Are you feeling the call on your heart?
JOURNEY home to your TRUE ESSENCE
80% of our participants return for multiple retreat experiences…
“Michelle has this way of not only holding sacred space but also being fully immersed, so it's this dualistic bridge that opens up other dimensions that wouldn't otherwise be accessible. She embodies a motherly/sisterly love that's so rare yet so needed in these days and quite frankly, required for the leadership being called forth to bring to the world.” — Corinna H.
If you've been feeling the weight of the world, trying to be everything for everyone, or you just know you need to step into your mission more deeply…
NOW IS YOUR TIME TO RETURN TO YOUR INTRINSIC NATURE
You deserve a nurturing retreat experience to connect with your divine inner child and essence of your soul in true community…
This is your invitation to step into deeper self love, confident ease, and heart centered connection…
The fact that you're reading this page is no small thing. It means you're on the path of awakening and that you’ve been doing your soul-deep work (even if it doesn't always feel like it).
Whether you've just started seeking or you've been on this path for a while… you're ready to go so much deeper and increase your capacity to love your whole self. And you know that loving yourself and life with every fiber of your being is essential to your purpose on this planet.
You also know deep down that greater potential and possibility are available to you. You're tired of watching your old patterns play out, tired of having your boundaries tested, tired of feeling alone, and maybe you're also just plain tired of being tired.
It's time to hit pause on feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and like you have to hold up every single spinning plate all by your lonesome.
You're ready to leave burnout behind and move forward with an open heart and calm nervous system. You really want to love yourself – all parts of yourself and live ignited in that state. Create from that state. Influencing instead of letting everything influence you. So you can step into the flow that up until now you've only been catching in glimpses.
But how do you put those desires into action?
Is it really possible to live from an embodied, empowered, highly aligned state, listening to the messages from your true self?
Fully trusting that everything is unfolding perfectly, and that you are exactly where you're meant to be… as you answer the highest call of your soul?
Whether burnout is at your back, you feel like you're on the precipice of a major shift in your work, or you want to show up in every aspect of your life with a whole lot more presence and ease, you're ready for a soul-led immersion.
The truth is: you are powerful beyond measure, and you know you're ready to return to your deepest sense of self – so that you can move from that authentic place in all the ways.
You can live by your highest vision, activate your highest expression, step into the highest calling of your soul.
In order to become? We have to allow ourselves to BE.
To surrender some of the patterns you've been holding onto in service of the aliveness that comes from slowing all the way down, aligning with your mission by accessing your gifts, and loving all parts of yourself. That's where the Soul Essence Retreat comes in.
The combination of you showing up as yourself, being seen by other like-hearted women, and feeling fully supported creates a magical alchemy – growth with support, action with ease, nourishment with new energy and fresh ideas.
You'll embody what it means to stand strong in your unique soul essence as you're held by fellow amazing women growing right by your side.
YOUR HIGHEST CALLING in LOVE & JOY is JUST AROUND THE CORNER…
We’re honored that Dr. Cheri has joined us on retreat three times and is coming back for more…
“The essence words that come to mind when I think about my experience of Michelle’s gifts are: relentless pursuit of Divine inspiration and connection, curator of transformational experiences, courageous truth speaker, and channel for Divine love and wisdom.” — Dr. Cheri
Here's what happens inside this soulful immersion:
RETREAT SCHEDULE*
And privately nestled on a 110 acre luxury property in Ojai and minutes from the Pacific Ocean— ideal for nurturing beautiful beginnings…
The retreat begins: Thursday, Nov 13, 2025 at 5pm
The retreat ends: Monday, Nov 17, 2025, at 10am
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Welcome Ritual for All Guests
Arrive, settle, and connect with the land and one another.Organic Farm-to-Table Welcome Dinner
Share a nourishing meal prepared with love and local abundance.Intention-Setting Ceremony
Clarify your heart’s prayer and open the space for the journey ahead. Together we’ll begin to weave our relational field, attuning energetically, somatically, and through shared words, to create the foundation of trust, connection, and sisterhood that will hold our time together. -
Morning Meditation
Begin the day in stillness and connection.Organic Farm-to-Table Brunch
Nourish your body with fresh, local offerings.Ceremony with Reya
Mandalas, foraging, and ancient attunement practices to deepen your communion with the yourself, one another and the land.Optional Excursion
Visit the serene Meditation Mount in Ojai and enjoy a gentle stroll through town.Educational Microdosing Ceremony with Farrah
Learn about microdosing as a tool for healing, creativity, and future integration.Sacred Journey with Michelle, Farrah, and Reya
An immersive heart-opening experience guided by presence, song, and natural wisdom. -
Integration Circle with Michelle, Farrah, and Reya
Gather in reflection and share insights from your journey in a circle of presence and support.Organic Farm-to-Table Brunch
Nourish your body with vibrant, seasonal offerings from the land.Spaciousness to Integrate Your Highest Self
Rest, reflect, journal, or simply be — allowing your experience to settle and root within you.Optional Gentle Trail Walk
Explore the beauty of the land with a mindful walk among the trees.Organic Farm-to-Table Dinner
Close the day in community with another nourishing meal from the earth’s abundance. -
Sunrise Meditation, Breathwork, and Gentle Movement
Awaken your body and spirit with practices that center presence and gratitude.Organic Farm-to-Table Brunch
Enjoy a nourishing meal crafted from fresh, local ingredients.Ceremony Circle
Gather in sacred community to honor what’s been awakened and received.Time for You
Rest, journal, walk the land, or simply be — integrating at your own pace.True Self Ceremony
Connect with the fullest expression of your truth and embody the wisdom that’s unfolded.Organic Farm-to-Table Dinner
Savor one final evening meal together in reflection and gratitude.Closing Circle
Complete the journey in community, anchoring the insights and love you’ll carry forward. -
Light Breakfast
Gather for a simple, nourishing meal before departure.Pack Up and Farewell
Close the retreat with gratitude and heartfelt goodbyes as you return home renewed.
Plus, you get personal access to Michelle’s spirit pup Samson on retreat. 🐾
Please note, additional events & surprises will be added to the schedule, and slight shifts might occur to accommodate the highest JOY and most aligned experience of the group.
Step onto your highest timeline as the heart centered leader the world truly needs.
Join the Soul Essence Retreat
AT A MAJESTIC 110 acre private ESTATE in OJai california just west of ventura beach
Semi Private Rate is $3995
10 Guests Only.
SEMI PRIVATE ROOM - 2 GUESTS PER ROOM
Our spacious shared rooms provide a comfortable accommodation designed for two people to share a queen size bed allowing for a private space for you to rest and recharge. $3995
The intimacy of sharing space is a conscious aspect of our retreat experience. At Soul Essence, we’re here to grow and nurture new stories by allowing ourselves to be fully seen — and remember that the divine hand is in everything.
Our guests often discover that their roomies becomes their new besties!
PRIVATE ROOM - 1 GUEST PER ROOM (NOT AVAILABLE)
Private rooms will be offered with a King sized bed to those who have made prior arrangements, allowing for privacy and solitude.
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4 nights/4 days at a 110 acre luxury private property in Ojai, CA
Semi-private accommodations
Nourishing, locally grown organic farm to table meals with no seed oils, gluten or refined sugars by our private chef
Heart opening workshops, nature ceremonies, and sacred circles
A visit to Ojai—the perfect place to experience Mother Nature’s creative energy in this quintessential spiritual town.
A medicine journey + integration circle
Sound bath healing
Restorative movement + meditation
True Self Ceremony
Note: Plant Medicine, Flights + Transportation are not included in the price of the retreat
To Join, You'll be asked to EITHER PAY IN FULL OR Monthly payments ARE AVAILABLE
Save $1000 when you book NOW
Michelle Sorro
Transformation mentor + spiritual guide
A note from Michelle
Let me share a little about myself…
I’ve spent the last decade building a soul-aligned, multiple seven-figure business… guiding thousands of purpose-driven individuals to step into their truth, make the impact they’re here for, and generate over $20M in revenue.
But when the world began to shift… so did I.
In 2021, I experienced a profound spiritual awakening that cracked me open and led me back to my Soul Essence.
Now, everything I create (especially these retreats) is an invitation into that.
A living, breathing portal for women who are ready to shed what no longer fits, soften into what’s true, and remember the woman they came here to be.
This is holy work.
Not because it’s lofty or far away… but because it’s intimate. Earthy. Real.
I don’t hold this space as someone who’s arrived, but as a woman who’s walked through the fire and emerged with a deeper devotion to truth, to community, and to the divine unfolding of it all.
It would be an honor to journey with you as you return to your Soul Essence.
Because we’re not meant to do it alone, love.
As Ram Dass so beautifully said, “We are all just walking each other home.”
This is a sacred space to be yourself. You can show up as the version of you that you most love to be, and you'll still be held for the totality of you (messy parts included).
This is a space to redefine and remember yourself, with women who are here to lift you up, elevate you, and grow by your side.
A special thing happens when conscious women who are walking this path gather together in true community.
Because when one woman ignites her soul’s gifts … she creates a path of limitless possibility for all women.
REDEFINE FEMALE FRIENDSHIP
Dedicating time with heart centered and growth-minded women nourishes some of the deepest parts of us.
The women that Soul Essence attracts and the depth we are able to create together in being who we truly are and letting ourselves be seen and heard in our full capacity is boundless.
If you've been wondering what authentic connection really means, you're in the right place.
Ellen’s words touch our heart…
“The Soul Essence Retreat changed my life for the better. I worked through many fears, including the fear to even go, to be there with women I barely knew, and have new experiences I could only imagine before this weekend. These experiences were empowering, supportive, loving, and elevated my consciousness with a new thirst and hunger to go deeper..” — Ellen C.
The Soul Essence Retreat is in alignment if any of the below are true for you…
You're seeking a deeper connection to your truth, personally and/or professionally
You've been feeling disconnected, overtired, like you have too many responsibilities. You'll be able to return to your radiance so you can move forward with more ease and joy
You're already on the path to change, transform, grow, expand and evolve… and you want to actually integrate the great work that you've been doing
You're just starting to awaken spiritually and want your life to align with your highest inspiration
You'd love to reset and truly nourish your mind, heart and nervous system
You long to feel more clear about your mission and have your outward work reflect your soul’s essence
You know you need to practice the art of sacred self care
You're ready to meet other like-hearted women who can grow by your side
You can't wait to relax in the magic of Ojai and feel more vibrantly you as you have fun with women who truly see you
You're feeling the call within (the energetic transmission of this retreat is real)
Does the above sound like you?
GIFT YOURSELF THE SOUL ESSENCE RETREAT
Calling All Divine Feminine Leaders
It's clear that we are in a moment of monumental change – and the changes you've been going through are a ripple of that collective wave toward true alignment.
Truth is, you're here to lead the charge. To help usher in the next stage of life on Mother Earth.
This is your call.
We can't do it alone and it's much more fun when we gather together to connect in nature, laugh our hearts out, and step into purpose driven creation.
YOUR HIGHEST CALLING AWAITS.
Retreat pics/videos by Milla Kuhto, Mickaela Tombrock + Morgan Burton from various Soul Essence retreats
If you have any additional questions, please email us at: michellesorro@gmail.com
We're honored you're considering joining us on retreat and happy to clarify any questions you have.