Thursday, May 8 Dinner – Sunday, May 11 Breakfast

Join Nichole DeMent on a profound journey back to your Creative Divine Self. Over this transformative weekend, we’ll explore tools to help you reconnect with your inner voice and deepen your relationship with the greater spirit that connects all life. Nichole brings years of experience in guiding individuals toward self-discovery and alignment with their soul’s true purpose, allowing each participant to uncover insights unique to their authentic path.

Workshop Focus  

This retreat is an invitation to recognize the sacred in the everyday and to listen deeply to the desires of your soul. Through reflective exercises, sound healing, art-making, and nature connection, Nichole will guide you to awaken your intuition, embrace your inner wisdom, and connect with your authentic purpose. You’ll gain valuable tools to navigate life with greater clarity, peace, and alignment with your truth within a heart-centered community and on the healing grounds of Indralaya.

What to Expect: Each day offers an opportunity to explore intuitive approaches to your Authentic Divinity & Purpose

• Intuitive Sound and Voice Work: Experience sound, movement and voice as transformative tools for reconnecting with the deepest aspects of self.
• Journaling and Reflection: Guided writing practices help uncover layers of inner wisdom and bring your soul’s purpose into clearer focus.
• Sacred Creativity: Through art and creativity as a spiritual practice, you’ll learn to create from a place of openness and intuition.
• Nature as Healer and Mirror: Engage with the natural world as a living, breathing reflection of your own spirit, building a relationship of reverence and attunement.

Saturday’s Mandala Creation Workshop will be an especially potent aspect of Divine Creative Alignment, allowing participants to connect with their creative energies as a means to discover symbolic expressions of their personal journey. Nichole will guide you to embrace intuition and let the mandala process unfold naturally, revealing what your soul most needs to express.

Each day will include a combination of grounding meditations, interactive workshops, and community-focused activities designed to help you reconnect with aspects of yourself that long for expression. We will journey through sound, sacred art and celebrate together in joyful experiences like Saturday evening’s ecstatic dance party.

The structure of the weekend is intentionally designed to hold space for reflection, engagement, and expression in a peaceful, restorative setting. Participants will leave feeling renewed, inspired, and more connected to their authentic selves and the world around them.  

Weekend Workshop Itinerary Highlights:   

Thursday, May 8, 2024: 

• 3PM – 6PM: Arrival, Check-in, and Unwind
• 6PM: Dinner and communal clean-up
• 7:30PM: Welcome to Awe – An Introduction to the Weekend Workshop + Sound Opening Experience Begin your journey with a gentle introduction to the weekend, opening your heart to a collective experience of awe of Oneness through sound.

Friday, May 9, 2024: 

• 7:30AM: Morning Meditation in the Library
• 10AM – 12:29PM: Going Within – Using Voice & Journaling for Inner Connection Discover the power of your voice and written expression to reconnect with your inner truth.
• 2PM – 5PM: Engaging with Self in Community Reflect in community on your morning experiences, followed by a meditative connection with nature using sound instruments. Bring any personal instruments to play during a communion and healing with the earth. (Outdoors as weather permits.)
• 7:30PM: Sound Bath & Silence Relax deeply in a one-hour sound bath, followed by a time of silence to absorb and reflect. (Yoga mats and comfortable attire recommended.)

Saturday, May 10, 2024  

• 10AM – 12PM: Vocalizing Desire: Sharing Gaia’s Wisdom Delve into the Akashic Records of Gaia, exploring our poetic truths and opening to the possible within the impossible.
• 2PM – 4PM: Creatively Going Within – Mandala Creation & Automatic Writing Engage in creative flow by crafting a mandala, allowing art to guide your inner reflections.
• 7:30PM: Ecstatic Dance Party! Celebrate the fullness of your journey with an evening of uninhibited movement and physical expression of Joy.

Sunday, May 11, 2024 

• 7:30AM: Final Morning Meditation & Gratitude Practice
• 9:30AM: Closing Meditation & Reflection Complete the weekend with a grounding gratitude meditation, setting intentions to carry your weekend’s insights into daily life.

What to Bring:

• Comfortable clothing, yoga mat, and journal
• Any personal sound instruments for outdoor meditative play (e.g., drums, rattles, bells)
• An open heart and a readiness to explore This long weekend retreat is a unique opportunity to experience transformation in a supportive community surrounded by the beauty of Orcas Island. Reserve your spot to reconnect, recharge, and rediscover the awe that resides within.

Program Fees:

Program fees are all-inclusive and cover accommodation, food, and program specifics for the entire program. Participants may choose their accommodation type preference (Plumbing, Non-Plumbing, RV/Tent)  and may select to work on daily staff (3 hours commitment per day) for a substantial discount. Children under 6 are free.

See Accommodation Types here: https://www.indralaya.org/home/guest-information/accommodation-types-indralaya/

Non-Accommodation rates are for program and meals only. Daily Staff discounts for non-accommodation rates cover meals.

In the table “Std” is standard rate; “DS” is Daily Staff Rate.

Registration Instructions:

1. You may register one or more persons in a single registration. To register more than one, select multiple persons for your accommodation type.
2. If you are selecting Daily Staff please indicate in notes who in the party is taking the daily staff discount (available to adults, young adults, teens). Daily staff discounts (except for No-Accommodation rates) are indicated by checking Daily Staff as an additional item. The discount will be applied on checkout.
3. You have an option of making a donation to Indralaya as part of your registration.
4. On checkout, please indicate if you are a “friend of Indralaya” (if you are not you can become one by selecting this option) – this will confer a 5% discount on your camp accommodation fees.

Cancellation Policy

1. Free cancellation through April 9 – $0
2. Cancellation fee April 10-April 23 – $50
3. Cancellation fee April 24 and later – $100

Additional info from Nichole (some will repeat above info):

Connecting to Your Awe-thentic Divinity with Nichole DeMent May 8–11, 2025 | Indralaya, Orcas Island

4 day retreat of creativity, inner guidance, sacred space, & divine connection

Why Awe? Why Now?

Life is loud—obsessed with doing, producing, and proving. And somewhere along the way, we stop listening. Not to the noise… but to our rhythm.
We dissociate from the wonder that lives just beneath the surface. We forget how to be.

The ‘awe-thentic’ self is the part of you that remembers who you truly are when you’re in alignment with your inner wisdom, You AS Creator—and that which is greater than yourself.

My 4-day retreat, Connecting to Your Awe-thentic Divinity, will be a guided journey through thresholds of sound, nature, creativity, intuition, movement, while silently embodied in your divinity. Each day is designed to help you gently return to yourself and remember what it feels like to be connected—within and beyond.
Experiencing awe, whether through nature, sound, creativity, or sacred silence actually changes the brain. It helps quiet the inner critic, slows down the mental noise and opens us to connection, peace, and presence. It invites us into a more expansive view of ourselves and the world. Awe has the power to restore what’s been scattered; it is our soul’s deeper truth.

The rhythm for the weekend was lovingly created to give you space to reflect, express, connect, and integrate, guided—yet also go at your own pace—with deep care and an open heart.

I hope you will join me for this journey back to awe, back to you. The first 10 people that sign up before April 20 receive a free 1:1 mini session with me.

Register at www.indralaya.org/2025-programs-and-work-parties/521/connecting-to-your-awe-thentic-divinity/

Gratitude, peace & love,
Nichole DeMent | www.cosmiccreativelife.com

Retreat Schedule Overview

Thursday, May 8 – Arrive, Unwind & Open to Awe

We begin by arriving on Orcas Island in beautiful 78 acres of Indralaya—not just physically, but energetically. This evening invites you to settle, exhale, and open your heart to the weekend ahead. We’ll gather in sacred space with sound and intention, softening into presence and community.
● 3:00–6:00 PM: Check-In & welcoming each other
● 6:00 PM: Organic, vegetarian dinner & communal clean-up
● 7:30 PM: Opening Circle & Sound Journey Welcome to Awe – An introduction to the weekend with a heart-opening sound experience to realign you in your rhythm of refl ection, expression, and integration, gently guiding you back to the truth of who you are.

Friday, May 9 – Remembering through Resonance

This day is about returning to the Self through the medicine of sound. Before we can hear our own inner wisdom, we must fi rst feel how sound moves through us—shaking loose what’s stuck, softening what’s guarded. Sound is the bridge that carries us back to stillness.
Through guided expression using the voice, journaling, and nature connection, we’ll explore how vibration and silence help us feel again, speak our truth, and remember who we are—beyond the noise of the world and the distractions of daily life.
This is a day to come home to yourself. A necessary re-tuning. A sacred pause for your remembering.
● 7:30 AM: Morning Meditation in the Library (optional) followed by organic, vegetarian breakfast
● 10:00–12:30 PM: Journaling + Voicework Reconnecting to inner truth & writing to deepen self-connection
● 2:00–5:00 PM: Community Refl ection + Earth Sound Healing Meditative nature time with sound instruments at guided space on Indralaya’s beautiful grounds including the labyrinth (bring your own instruments if you wish!)
● 7:30 PM: Sound Bath & Silent Inner Reverence Rest and receive through vibrational healing and quiet contemplation. Reflecting in silence as we return to rooms and rejuvenate for the night.

Saturday, May 10 – Sacred Creativity & Joyful Embodiment

Today we step into sacred expression—where creativity becomes a vessel for truth, healing, and connection. We begin by tuning into intuition through an intuitive journaling or automatic writing, with Nichole’s guidance on entering the Akashic Records. After an organic, vegetarian lunch we move into manifestation of a collective mandala, sharing and painting the words or intuitive messages, each mark an offering, a symbol of our inner tapestry woven into community.
After an organic vegetarian dinner and time to relax and commune together and/or in nature, we return to the body that evening. Our ecstatic dance begins in Shavasana, lying in stillness, grounding deeply into the earth. From that quiet, spacious place, we allow movement to rise naturally—guided by Spirit as your breath and flowing with your natural rhythm. This dance is a sacred honoring of you-as-vessel, a celebration of your realignment and an invitation to move freely as a beautiful embodied Being of light in form.
● 10:00–12:00 PM: Vocalizing Desire & Gaia’s Wisdom Akashic insights through voice, poetry, and truth-telling
● 2:00–4:00 PM: Community Mandala + Automatic Writing Connect through sacred creativity—no art experience needed
● 7:30 PM: Ecstatic Dance Party! Celebrate your journey through joyful movement and embodied freedom

Sunday, May 11 – Integration & Gratitude

Our final day is not an ending—it’s a return to the self you’ve always been, beneath the noise and expectations. Through morning meditation and refl ection, we’ll ground the weekend’s insights, off ering gratitude for the beauty we’ve reclaimed. You’ll leave with tools, clarity, and a quiet confi dence—not that you are perfect, but confi dent because you are showing up for yourself—again and again. Journey forward feeling a renewed connection to your awe-thentic divine self and rooted in your own sacred rhythm.
● 7:30 AM: Final Meditation & Gratitude Practice
● Organic, vegetarian breakfast
● 9:30 AM: Closing Circle & Reflection Integration, intention-setting, and farewell blessings

Add to your comfort and bring these items:
● Journal & pen
● Comfortable clothing + layers
● Personal sound instruments (drums, rattles, bells)
● Yoga mat, pillow, comfy blanket, etc. for sound baths
● An open heart & willingness to explore

💗 First 10 people signed up before April 20 will receive a free 1:1 mini session with Nichole!

Program Fees & Accommodations
Program Fees Overview
✔ All-Inclusive Pricing Program fees include:
● Lodging (accommodation types listed below)
● All vegetarian and organic (whenever possible) breakfast, lunch and dinner made with love, fair trade coffee and herbal teas from the Indralaya garden. Indralaya’s orchard of 100-year-old apple, plum, and pear trees are the fruits in the cider, compote, and crisps created for participants.
● Full access to all activities plus 78 forested and waterfront acres of Indralaya, including a labyrinth, kitchen, dining room, lounge, library, bath house, and trails.

💗ENTIRE 4-day RETREAT only $450!💗 
💗 First 10 people signed up before April 20 will receive a free 1:1 mini session with Nichole!