Uluwatu Empress 2027 · 5 days, 6 nights · Bali
Imagine what becomes possible in five days.
Five days away from the demands of ordinary life. Six nights held, nurtured and looked after. Devoted to your own consciousness, body, energy and becoming.
Not to become someone new. To become more available for the life that is already yours.
WHY WE KEEP COMING BACK
Our favourite week of the year.
This will be our third Empress in Uluwatu. We keep coming back because there is something about taking women out of their ordinary lives and placing them together, in practice, in beauty and with time.
Things become clearer. The body begins to soften. Conversations go somewhere they rarely have time to go at home. And somewhere amongst the practice, the ocean, the laughter and Bali itself, something begins to rearrange.
We don't arrive knowing exactly what that will be. That is part of the point.
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DEPTH, WITHOUT FORCE
Powerful enough to change something. Held enough to let it.
Over more than twenty years Rachael's work has moved through consciousness, meditation, Kundalini Yoga, breath, energy, Spiritual Psychology and, increasingly, the body. Her training with Somatic Experiencing International has deepened how she understands what a body has capacity for, what it protects, and what it holds.
There is powerful practice: energy, mantra, breath, movement and moments that take us somewhere unexpected. And there is also more listening, more space, and more respect for the body's timing.
Depth, without force.
CONSCIOUSNESS
Five days of practice, held together.
Breath. Movement. Mantra. Sensation. Stillness. Energy.
Empress brings these practices together rather than treating them as separate experiences on a schedule. And over six days we have something hard to create in ordinary life: continuity, enough time for what opens in the morning to keep moving through the day.
There is more of you available.
More energy · More capacity · More pleasure · More clarity · More intuition · More life force · More freedom
Pleasure is part of the practice.
Beautiful food. Massages. Swimming. Shopping. Long conversations. Quiet ones. Time alone. Time together. Laughter. Sleep. The ocean. Doing absolutely nothing for a while.
Not a break from the work. Part of it.
INTO THE HEART OF BALI
A clifftop with its own charge.
Uluwatu sits on a clifftop above the ocean, on ground held sacred for generations, where energetic ley lines run through the land. You feel it as soon as you arrive. The air is different. Your system shifts without effort. It softens what has been tense, amplifies what is true, and invites you into a depth you rarely find in ordinary life.
ANCESTRY
Some of what you carry may not have started with you.
Women can carry patterns, beliefs and ways of being through family and the maternal line. It may touch relationships, motherhood, visibility, pleasure, money, power, or what it has meant to be a woman in a particular family.
Not everything carried is a wound. Strength, wisdom, resilience and love travel the same line, and there is reverence in this work too, a respect for what has been carried this far and what it made possible.
And some of what travelled the line is ready to be cleared. Both can be true, and nothing here is fixed.
You can honour where you came from and still lay some of it down.
SIX NIGHTS WITH NOWHERE ELSE TO BE
How a day moves.
Mornings are practice.
Kundalini, meditation, breath, teaching and the deeper consciousness work.
Afternoons open out.
Somatic and energy work may continue, alongside massage, healing, rest, swimming, shopping, beautiful lunches and time to yourself.
Evenings bring us back together.
Dinner, mantra, sound, Yoga Nidra, conversation and integration.
And not every minute is scheduled.
A RARE EXPERIENCE
A visit with Ibu Jero.
One of the experiences closest to my heart is your time with Ibu Jero, a fifth generation Balinese high priestess and healer with whom I have developed a very special relationship. Each woman is given her own two hour appointment, and enters her world separately.
There is water. Prayer. Ceremony. Touch. Energy. Laughter. Sometimes emotion. And often things that are much easier to experience than explain.
I don't want to tell you what you will feel there. I want to leave room for you to meet it yourself.
Rachael
MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS
What becomes possible between generations.
Some of the most beautiful women to join Empress have come as mothers and daughters. Rachael's own daughters have been part of this work too, and there is something moving about two generations stepping outside their usual roles and meeting one another differently.
You practise beside each other. You have conversations you may never have made room for at home. Sometimes women find themselves touching something older, patterns and ways of being that have travelled through the maternal line.
It doesn't all have to be healed. Some of it gets to be celebrated.
WHAT WOMEN SAY
Some of what stayed with them.
Six months on, I am still steadier. I don't reach for my phone the second something goes quiet anymore.
Empress attendee, 2025
Something released in me that week. The fear I had been carrying around my family was just gone, and so was the frustration underneath it.
I left my job three weeks after I got back. Not on impulse, it was just finally clear I had outgrown it.
Empress attendee, 2026
I sleep through the night now, most nights. That had not happened in years before Rachael and this work.
Empress attendee, 2026
JOIN US
Uluwatu Empress, 2027.
15 to 21 April 2027, arriving Thursday afternoon and departing the following Wednesday morning. Pay in full, or secure your place with a 50% deposit. Payment plans available on request.
Ocean Suite
Private room
$4,850
A private bedroom, all to yourself.
Pool Suite
Private room
$4,650
Direct pool access, a gentle connection to the elements.
Standard
Private room
$4,175
Our base rate room. Cosy and simple, and the outlook varies room to room, some with a garden view and some without.
Pool Suite
Twin share, per person
$3,650
Share with a friend, or enquire about shared room options.
Included
Breakfast daily, three lunches and two dinners, your private session with Ibu Jero, and airport transfers.
Not included
Flights, additional meals, spa and beauty treatments, personal spending, and travel insurance.
QUESTIONS
Before you decide.
No. Empress meets you where you are. There is no previous experience required, and nothing to be good at. Everything is taught, and you are invited to listen to your own body throughout.
There are moments of introducing yourself and being part of the group, but beyond that, how much you share and how deep you go is entirely your choice. You are always invited, never required, and you can pass.
That is the work, not a mistake in it. Emotion is energy in motion, and moving it is how what no longer serves you is released, so the body can find its way back to balance on the other side. It has a safe place to land here, at your pace, with support around you the whole time.
No. The practices adapt to the body in the room. What matters is willingness, not fitness.
Most women arrive on their own. Empress is built around meeting other women in the work, and many close friendships form over the five days.
Included: breakfast daily, three lunches, two dinners, your private session with Ibu Jero, 1 spa treatment in Uluwatu, and airport transfers. Not included: flights, additional meals, spa and beauty treatments at villa, personal spending, and travel insurance.
Ocean Suite, Pool Suite and Standard are all available as private rooms. Pool Suite is also available as a twin share if you would like to bring a friend or share the cost.
You remain in charge throughout. You can pause, rest, or step away at any time, and the pace of the retreat is always yours.
