Longing to Belong Retreat
Where I end, you begin, and we still belong.
Somatic movement & embodied practice | Shamanic clearing & release | Breathwork | Meditation & sound healing | Breathtaking desert views & hikes | Experiential group sessions | Boundaries & connection practices | Rest & spaciousness | Fire & release ceremony | Ayurvedic-inspired meals | Meaningful connection & integration
April 1-4, 2027
What if belonging didn’t require you to abandon yourself?
Step into three days and three nights of connection, reflection, and transformation in the tranquil desert sanctuary of Blisstopia in Peoria, Arizona.
Maybe you’ve spent years trying to find your place. You long for deeper friendships, more meaningful relationships, or a community where you feel truly seen. Maybe you’re surrounded by people who love you and still somehow feel outside of the circle. Or perhaps you’ve become so good at being independent, accommodating, helpful, or easy to be around that somewhere along the way, you stopped asking what you need.
Longing to Belong is an invitation to explore the space between you and me, independence and dependence, closeness and distance, giving and receiving, boundaries and walls. Not to find the “right” side, but to discover what healthy, honest connection looks like for you.
Through somatic movement, breathwork, meditation, shamanic practices, group experiences, nature, ritual, and intentional spaciousness, we’ll explore what happens when you stop performing for your place and begin trusting that your needs, dreams, time, body, and boundaries matter too.
Guided by Cynthia Flynn and Raschel Biagioli, this retreat is open to men and women ready to deepen their relationship with themselves while learning new ways of being in relationship with others.
Because belonging isn’t about disappearing into the people around you.
It’s learning where you end, where another begins, and discovering that there is room for both.
A look into a typical retreat day.
Each day at Longing to Belong is intentionally designed with a rhythm of meaningful inner work, connection, movement, nature, and spaciousness—because transformation doesn’t only happen in the sessions. Sometimes it happens in the quiet moments between them.
Mornings begin slowly, with the option to greet the Arizona desert on a sunrise hike before returning for a relaxed breakfast. From there, we move into somatic movement, breathwork, meditation, and embodied practices designed to help you notice what your body has been trying to tell you—when you need closeness, when you need space, when something is a yes, and when something is enough.
Afternoons weave together experiential group sessions, shamanic practices, hiking, reflection, and plenty of room to simply be. You might find yourself journaling in the sun, resting by the pool, walking the labyrinth, soaking in the hot tub, enjoying the infrared sauna, having a meaningful conversation, or choosing a little solitude. This spaciousness is intentional. Part of belonging is learning to recognize and honor what you need.
Throughout the retreat, we’ll explore the space between independence and dependence, closeness and distance, giving and receiving, boundaries and walls, self and others. Rather than searching for one “right” way to belong, you’ll have opportunities to experience what connection can feel like when you don’t have to perform, shrink, over-give, or abandon yourself to receive it.
As evening settles over the desert, we slow down. We gather over nourishing Ayurvedic-inspired meals, integrate the experiences of the day, connect, laugh, rest, and allow whatever has surfaced to settle. Our time together will also include sound healing, ritual, and a fire + release ceremony beneath the Arizona sky.
There is work here—but there is also rest, play, beauty, laughter, nature, good food, and space to breathe.
You don’t have to fill every moment.
You don’t have to connect every moment.
You don’t have to perform your way through this experience.
Your place in the circle is already yours.
Sunrise Mountain is right outside the back gate, not driving to the trail head. This is a low impact hike.
Private Patio Retreat Villa - We have this villa to ourselves! The only other people on the property are our hosts!
Group Meditation - Each day we will go into meditation, discover new tools and new things about ourselves.
Private Pool - Right outside the private patio is this wonderful pool. Take a dip.
Shamanic Breathwork and Sound Healing - Raschel will be leading us in a Shamanic breathwork release session.
Labyrinth Meditations - Right on the property is a labyrinth, this will be for both group and private meditation.
Practice and Learn Divination - Try all the tools.
Burn & Release Ceremony - A private fireplace is on the property and we will create a traditional fire ceremony for you to release.
Private Hot Tub and Sauna - On the property is a hot tub and infrared sauna.
Views and Hiking Access to Sunrise Mountain
Group Processing in our private studio.
Sound Healing
Beautifully fresh food!
A yoga or meditation session setup on a wooden floor with people sitting on yoga mats around a central display of flowers, candles, stones, and various spiritual or ritual objects.
Women and children in a kitchen gathered around granite island counter preparing and serving food, with various ingredients and dishes on the counter.
Group of people sitting at an outdoor covered patio table, enjoying a meal together with scenic desert landscape in the background.
Lana and her magic!
Lounge or jump into the 5' deep pool.
Plate with salad, rice, tomatoes, onion, falafel, and stuffed pita with sauce, on a granite countertop.
Our own private labyrinth
Community
Deep healing
What’s Included?
Your retreat is designed so you can arrive, settle in, and immerse yourself in the experience. We’ve thoughtfully taken care of the details so you can focus on connection, reflection, rest, and transformation.
3 days and 3 nights at Blisstopia Retreat Center in Peoria, Arizona—a serene, private desert sanctuary from Thursday afternoon through Sunday morning
Exclusive use of the property, giving our group space to gather, explore, rest, and connect
Nourishing Ayurvedic-inspired meals, including flexible morning breakfast options and chef-prepared lunches and dinners
Guided group experiences including somatic movement, breathwork, meditation, shamanic practices, sound healing, experiential group work, and a fire + release ceremony
Optional sunrise hikes and desert exploration to ground, move, breathe, and experience the beauty of the Arizona landscape
Intentional time for integration, with space to journal, rest, swim, wander, connect with others, or spend time alone
On-site wellness amenities, including a pool, hot tub, infrared sauna, meditation and movement spaces, walking labyrinth, trails, fire pit, and outdoor gathering areas
Private WhatsApp community for retreat updates, travel coordination, questions, and connection before our time together
Throughout the weekend, there will be a balance of guided experiences and spaciousness—because part of this work is learning to notice what you need and giving yourself permission to honor it.
What’s not?
This list is short:
Flights to Phoenix, Arizona
Ground transportation to and from Blisstopia Retreat Center
Personal shopping, meals outside of the retreat, or additional off-site activities before or after your stay
We’ll use our private WhatsApp group to help coordinate travel plans and potential carpools as the retreat gets closer.
Is this for you?
You can be surrounded by people and still wonder where you fit.
You can love your family and still feel unseen within it.
You can be fiercely independent and secretly wish someone would meet you halfway.
Accomodations
PRICING
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$2,000
9 Available
Enjoy the retreat in our shared accommodations while having your own individual bed and personal sleeping space.
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$4,500
Only 1 available
Reserve this private room with a friend, partner, or family member and enjoy two individual beds and your own private bathroom.
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$1800
2 spots available within our shared accommodations
Share a king bed together and save $200 per person on your retreat experience.
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Meet Your Hosts
When we dreamed up Longing to Belong, we kept returning to one question:
How do we belong to one another without abandoning ourselves?
We know what it feels like to navigate the space between connection and independence, closeness and distance, giving and receiving, boundaries and openness. To want meaningful relationships while also learning how to honor our own needs, our own space, and the person we are becoming.
Together, we bring decades of experience in body-based healing, shamanic practice, intuitive wisdom, movement, and transformational work to create a retreat where you don’t have to perform, have it all figured out, or become someone different in order to have a place.
At Longing to Belong, we’ll explore what happens when you begin to trust yourself enough to name what you need—and feel safe enough to allow someone else to need something different.
There is room here for connection and solitude. Strength and softness. Independence and support. You and me.
Because belonging isn’t about becoming the same.
It’s learning where I end, you begin, and we still belong.
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I’m Raschel Biagioli, a multi-passionate healer, shamanic practitioner, and coach dedicated to helping people clear the spaces of their lives—physically, emotionally, and energetically. With over 20 years of experience in organizing, breathwork, somatic movement, and holistic transformation, I blend the practical and the mystical to create deep, lasting change.
As the founder of Edgeless Action, LLC, I guide individuals through shamanic healing, energetic alignment, and space clearing to help them reclaim their power and step into their fullest expression. My work is rooted in intuitive guidance, ancestral wisdom, and sacred rituals that support authentic, embodied transformation.
At the Return to Beauty Retreat, I bring my experience in shamanic practices, somatic movement, and mindset coaching to help you release fear, move energy through the body, and reconnect with your natural state of joy and ease. This retreat is an invitation to return home to yourself—to soften, play, and rediscover the beauty that has always been within you.
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I’m Cynthia Flynn, a coach, psychotherapist, and retreat leader dedicated to helping people create lasting, positive change in their lives. With over three decades of experience in mental health and personal development, I bring a heart-centered, practical approach to transformation—one that honors both the science of the mind and the wisdom of the soul.
I began my career as a medical technologist, running a pediatric lab in Wauwatosa before earning my Bachelor’s in Social Work from UW–Milwaukee and later an MBA from Cardinal Stritch University. My path eventually led me into the field of addictions and psychotherapy, where I discovered my true passion for guiding others toward healing and growth.
In 1992, I founded Personal Growth Associates in Elm Grove, Wisconsin, where I continue to offer individual, couples, and group therapy, as well as retreats that invite deep reflection and renewal.
At the Return to Beauty Retreat, I bring my experience in emotional healing, embodiment, and integrative growth to help you release what no longer serves you, rediscover inner ease, and remember the beauty that’s been within you all along.
After having a near death experience, it became my life's mission to teach others the healing process and Divine knowledge that changed my life. I don’t just lead the way—I empower people with the tools and wisdom to awaken, heal themselves, and bloom into their highest self- where they can manifest the life they desire.
I have nearly a decade of experience working with Shamans, Top Energy Healers, and have gained certifications in Usui Reiki Levels I, II, and Master Teacher, EFT Tapping, and Spiritual Life Coaching.
My Energy Practice – Lotus Light Energy & Healing offers a variety of healing modalities and spiritual coaching, all divinely guided by light beings and angelic forces. My work focuses on Intuitive Energy Healing, Reiki, and Spiritual Empowerment Coaching, Inner Child Healing, Past life/Inner life regression, Somatic Movement/Energy Release, Quantum Manifestation and Sound Healing.Since every soul is unique, each session is a one-of-a-kind experience.
If you're ready to step into your power, heal deeply, and transform your life, I’d be honored to support you on your journey!
Contact Us
Cynthia Flynn
ritualwoman@gmail.com
Raschel Biagioli
raschelbigioli@gmail.com
@raschelbiagioli
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