Goddess Infusion Retreats - Byron Bay

🔥Special Offer - a taster of the retreat experience - Sunday, 5 July 🔥

This week I must close the doors to the retreat, but before I do so, I’m offering a special online mini-retreat taster, kind of like an experiential masterclass.

And, it’s just the medicine we as women need this week.

At 5pm AEST Sunday, 3 July — especially timed in with sunset — I’ll be holding a 60 minute complimentary online Zoom session where:

🌹 We will explore some beautiful practices together

PLUS

🌹 You’ll be the first to hear about the wonderful women guest presenters you’ll experience on retreat.

AND

🌹 You’ll find out the significance of running this at sunset.

I’d love to have you join me.

To reserve your place, send me a DM or sing out a YES in the comments and I’ll be in touch.

Love Sharon xo

Can I just blurt?

I still remember the first time I asked that question.

It was in a session with a therapist.

‘Of course, you can Sharon,’ her voice soft and inviting.

And the words came tumbling out. Unedited. Unfiltered. Uncensored. Imperfect perfectly.

It was soooo good. Such an amazing feeling.

For the perfectionist in me that was huge. And even more so, being a writer. I was so used to working words, making sentences appealing, making what I said appealing. I never once thought that just blurting could be appealing too.

We all need people we can just blurt too. Especially in this day and age of highlight reels.

And blurting doesn’t just mean sharing. It means being heard too. It’s a mutual exchange.

Today I had something I needed to share and I picked up my phone and recorded a voice note to my favourite person to blurt to.

TIP! Voice notes are an interesting thing. I actually think they’re really good at practicing blurting, because someone is talking and the other is listening, even if not at the exact same time.

Blurting will be a part of Goddess Infusion Retreats. Being heard, being seen, being witnessed is all part of the experience.

🔥 I’ve got a Special Offer for you 🔥

Doors to the retreat must close next week, so to give you a little taster before making your final decision, I’m holding a complimentary Mini Retreat Experience Masterclass this Sunday, 3 July.

This 60 minute online zoom session will include:

🌕 a retreat-style taster experience
🌕 PLUS you’ll be the first to find out who the guest presenters will be.

It’s going to be a perfect way to spend a cold winter’s early evening, timed in especially with the sunset 🌅

Direct message for details.

‘If you don’t do your dance, who will?’

~ Gabrielle Roth

I was never good at following instructions.

It always felt as if I was trying to step into another’s shoes, rather than remain in my own.

I’d be worried I wasn’t keeping up or that I was getting it wrong.

This persisted despite the endless classes my mother took me to as a young girl and the grown up attempt by me many years later.

Sometimes I thought I was just rebelling against authority, but really I was simply trying to remember my own.

So when I discovered free-form movement and embodiment practices, I came to life.

I could move like me.

I could feel what there was to feel.

I could connect with my rhythm, my beat, my tone.

I could dance my dance 💃

Are you ready for your dance?

I wasn’t always like this.

Teaching embodiment classes. Passionate about natural fertility and women owning our menstrual cycles. Living in the bush with kookaburras as my morning alarm. Walking barefoot on the grass. Wild foraging. Following the moon cycle. Chanting mantra. Studying Ta**ra. Talking about the Goddess…

On the contrary, I have a strong mind. I’m a Gemini and I have mainly AIR in my astrological chart. That means I’m a creative, but it also means I have the tendency to spend a lot of time in my head — thinking, planning, analysing, worrying. I studied commerce at University and worked for 12 years in a corporate office in a marketing and communications role. Plus I’m a writer.

I had that much AIR in me that I crashed, I got very sick and I turned to AIR — my lowest weight being 37kg.

The transition to where I am now didn't come easy. I was forced into it through a health crisis. Or what my mentor called at the time, a spiritual crisis.

So I get the hesitation. I get the ‘this isn’t for me’. I get the ‘it’s easier to stay where I am’. I get the resistance. I get the repulsion. I get it all.

That’s why my work and my retreat is for women like me.

The ones who are curious yet unconvinced.

Women who didn’t gravitate naturally to an embodied existence. Women who followed the intellect trajectory and who find this whole sensuality thing a mystery. Women who like me, probably were on some form of oral contraception for many years and never had a chance to connect with their own natural cycle.

Women who find it easier to stay in the intellect as turning to the body sometimes just becomes way too painful.

But that’s only because we were never taught how to turn towards, how to embrace, how to honour our body and that the key to our power, our vitality, our wellbeing, is all found in the body.

This is what you’ll discover on Goddess Infusion Retreats, my six day immersion in the hinterlands of Byron Bay.

It’s for the woman who is tired of fixing herself and just wants to be with herself.

It’s for the woman who is tired of turning away from her body and is ready to turn towards it.

It’s for the woman who is tired from fast-paced modern day life and is ready to tap into something old, sacred and knowing.

Are you this woman?

If so, I invite you to join me.

https://sharonsztar.com/retreats/

Someone asked me the other day what problem I solve for women. Aka, how will my business help another woman solve her problems. It’s not the first time I’ve been asked that question and I’m sure it won’t be the last.

I know, that’s marketing talk. I know, I was in marketing for 12 years. I know, I “should” have a problem I solve.

However I don’t like that talk. I don’t want to solve problems. Because I believe most of our problems as women are because we’re trying to solve problems.

The solving, trying, fixing, exhausts us. Leaves us depleted and on a road that has no end.

I know it did for me.

Instead I’d like to see my work as opening us up to a life beyond problems. Where the fixing stops and where the being starts.

How can we be more of ourselves?

How can we be with our bodies, our life, our dreams, our desires, our feelings, our essence?

How can we be with all of this?

And how can this being expand us?

In trying to solve our problems, we’ve forgotten our beauty, our power, our source, our essence.

We’ve forgotten who we are under it all.

This is what I call a Goddess Infusion. A remembrance. A connection. A reclaiming.

This is why I created my retreat. To do this. To stop solving problems and to start being who we were born to be.

Join me: 7-12 August, Byron Bay

Next week I will be going LIVE on FB to respond to FAQ's on the upcoming Goddess Infusion Retreat in Byron Bay. If you have a question please shoot me a DM and I'll ensure I cover it. Have a lovely weekend. 🤍

This retreat will take you on a journey, so no one day will look and feel the same. It is a deep dive into the essence of who you are as a woman.

But to hold space for flow we also need a container, and this daily schedule will be ours…

🌕Morning Sunrise Ritual and Gentle Movement Practice
🌕Breakfast
🌕’Goddess Infusion’ Class
🌕Morning Tea
🌕Embodiment Class
🌕Lunch
🌕Guest Presenter or Nature Excursion
🌕Free-time
🌕Sunset Fire Ceremony and Circle
🌕Dinner
🌕Evening Program
🌕Relaxation & Sleep

Goddess Infusion Retreats
Byron Bay
7 - 12 August 2022
Early bird price available until 7 June.

When I first lived in Byron Bay 10 years ago and began to heal from my chronic illness, I would dream about one day facilitating a retreat where other women could experience the gifts this sacred land had bestowed on me.

In 2019 when I walked in to Soma Byron, a lush 22 acre forest sanctuary in the Byron Hinterlands, I knew I had found the perfect venue. A glass-house building not unlike my own ‘tent with walls’, it has this dual benefit of luxury accommodation while still feeling like you are part of the wild nature around you.

And then slowly all the pieces fell into place until I created what I’ve chosen to name ‘Goddess Infusion Retreats’. A six-day immersion, each day representing a key learning from the six years I lived in my own healing sanctuary. One day for each year.

I call it a Goddess Infusion because that’s what I believe I received…

🌹 An infusion from Mother Nature on how to live a well life aligned with her cycles and rhythms.

🌹 A schooling like no other on what it means to be a woman and embrace a woman’s body.

🌹 A deeply embodied knowing of my own self-healing potential and an invitation into meeting my wild, wise woman.

The retreat is being held from 7-12 August. Today marks the two week countdown till the Early Bird rate expiration, so with it I will begin a two week exploration into the retreat, what you will experience there and who you will meet.

I’m so excited for this, a true reminder that dreams do come true ✨✨✨

❤️ Sharon

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