A special fantasy edition Back to the Body mastery retreat is ready to open its doors to you. Are you ready to step inside? To adventure into surrender?
For 8 women who are curious and ready to drop into their deepest fantasies, we invite you to come play. This is an invitation to practice the art of letting go, of power, of surrender, of pleasure. This isn’t your average Back to the Body retreat (as if any of them are "average") -- our Back to the Body boundaries will be in place, always holding a "safe enough" container by amazing practitioners certified in our ethics & practices -- we will be exploring deeper than ever before, into untapped potentials, tastes you want to savor longer. We will journey together into the place of stories, myths, and archetypes, into a full dominance & submission fantasy.
What are the multitudes of your desires? The fantasies you long for?
Do you want to play with power, surrender, and intimacy? To explore your strength, your vulnerability, to push your capacity for pleasure? To lose yourself in the moment of impact, in stern touch or soft caress, your mind quiet? What do you crave?
You are not going to have to manage this.
Over the course of the retreat you’ll have the chance to experience what it's like to totally let go into a 24/7 power exchange, dominance & submission, fantasy. To experience submission, impact play, surrender, new sensations (from light to dark), denial (did you know that there can be extreme pleasure in denial?), and overwhelming ecstasy. When you say yes to entering our erotic storybook fantasy you’ll begin a very deep intake process, allowing each woman to fully negotiate her desires, what she wants to explore, her boundaries, and more. Each day of the retreat your team will check in with you, giving you a chance to discuss any shifting desires, the subtle expansion of exploring what you’ve always wanted to, but not had the chance before. Boundaries may shift over the course of the week as you discover the specifics of your fantasies or learn of new ones, but to hold the safety of our container they will never change in a day. You will be taught all the ways that the BDSM community has taken safety and care to a whole new level, allowing you to drop in further or ease up whenever you need. We are building a space for you to explore beyond what you were told desire should be -- to instead explore all it can be.
Back to the Body: Surrender is a way to explore intense sensuous pleasures from a safe, intimate container built to hold and support you.
To apply to our Chateau, to explore your fantasies, reserve your spot today. All who join us will be sent a special invitation into surrender, as well as a care package, with further instructions to prepare you for your journey.
Do you need a conversation before you commit? Schedule a consultation with our team!
Experiences include...
- An opportunity to leave your real world behind and drop into an erotic, immersive, D/s fantasy.
- An invitation to experience grown up role play combined with Back to the Body Method™ sensuous bodywork.
- Experiencing the difference between enduring and surrender.
- Workshops, teaching, and support are carefully blended into the immersion to assist you in identifying your desires, safely exploring them, and becoming the embodied woman you know yourself to be.
- Discovering that your sexual autonomy and authority is not lost when you surrender, but that surrender is an active state.
- Group discussions on fantasy, body image, trance states, sub space, orgasm, sexuality, speaking desire, power play, understanding boundaries, and how to open to more pleasure in our daily lives. Melt into a sisterhood experience like no other.
- Explore your strength, vulnerability, and capacity for pleasure!
- Gorgeous location in Joshua Tree featuring a salt water pool, hot tubs, hiking trails, and more!
Reserve your spot now
This retreat will be staffed by our Back to the Body™ Somatic Sex Educators and Pamela Madsen. An additional team of professional support staff will be available, and of course our private Chef.
This retreat is open to 8 women.
All staff are vaccinated and arrive with a negative covid test. All attendees are required to provide a negative Covid test result within 48 hours of the retreat or less. Please see our detailed Covid policy for more information.
Raven Suite - Private Room with Ensuite: $16,000 [SOLD OUT]
Barn Door Room - Private Room with Shared Bath: $15,500 [SOLD OUT]
Casitas - Shared Room with Ensuite: $15,000 [Three Left]
Bunk Beds - Shared Room with Shared Bath: $14,500 [One Left]
A minimum non-refundable deposit of $2,000 is required to secure your spot in the workshop. Payment can be made online with a credit card. Paying in full will secure a 3% discount off the total price. Payment plans available for those who put down deposits!
Once we receive your deposit we will send you a formal Registration Confirmation with further information about the program. You will receive 3-5 other correspondences by email prior to the retreat with information about negotiation, our stay, how to prepare, and an electronic invoice for the balance.
All who register will also receive a special invitation into surrender by mail, with further instructions to prepare you for your journey.
What is included
The complete experience of Chateau Surrender
All workshops and facilitation by the Back to the Body™ team
Complimentary bodywork sessions
Demonstrations & excursions
Meals and lodging
What is not included
Airfare, airport transfers to retreat location
Lodging prior to the retreat and after
Our Luxury Chateau of Surrender
Testimonials from Previous Chateau Attendees
Did the team hold a safe container for you to do your work?
"Safe doesn't begin to describe what it felt like. When I spoke to Casia and she talked about how high risk the retreat was I had to take a step back to register that as true because it felt air tight and safe beyond safe. It felt like you all wove together a sacred container with ritual and clarity that made us all come together as such a cohesive whole that there was no component of it that felt alone or like anyone was holding anything individually - it was all held collectively."
What was your experience with having a Dominant during this retreat?
"Fantastic. It felt incredibly clear and smooth - like we got to be in a deep process together - discovering a shared language and way of being in the D/s roles. And it allowed a kind of letting go that was really different than anything I've experienced before. The fact that it was not just in sessions that we were in the exploration together, but instead throughout the day, felt like a key part of the experience that supported my inner discovery."
"I was surprised by how deeply I fell into a dynamic of devotion, how easy that was for me to do and how good it felt. It was so relieving and nourishing to feel held with such attention and care and to be able to accept it because of a clarity of shared understanding. I felt so safe and it was the kind of safety I don't know that I have really ever let myself feel, certainly not sustained in that way. I dropped the hypervigilance that I usually wrap myself in and found beneath it an almost insatiable hunger for mutual devotion. I found a channel for my desire to serve and please because I knew it would be appreciated and respected and not taken advantage of. It was easy for me to want to give because my Dom held the highest standards of integrity and was deserving not only of my attention, but of my utmost respect. I loved the feeling of mutual attunement - to know that I was paying such close attention to my dom and he to me."
What was your experience of the 24/7 fantasy immersion aspect of this retreat?
"I loved this so much and really didn't know going in how I would respond. Fantasy has been a challenge for me, but something about the immersive 24/7 quality of Surrender allowed me to drop any self-consciousness and give myself over to the world we were creating. And what a fucking potent world it was. I have no doubt that a portal opened and we were playing with BIG archetypal energy. There was a sense of divine orchestration that I think was only available and possible because of the 24/7 fantasy immersion aspect. It was also really evident how committed we all were to being IN IT together and that commitment was also necessary for the integrity and potency of the experience. We were amazing together."
"It was much more powerful and intoxicating than I could have imagined. Instead of being in session and exploring things, it felt like I got to drop into an experience of self and the divine, so to speak, that I have always longed for. It allowed me to get out of my own way with a profundity I have longed for, and to drop into following my body's deepest inner needs, wants, and feelings, with a sort of constant feedback and encouragement, not just from [my Dom] but also from the collective. It felt as though everyone was so deeply dropped in that it became a sort of symphony, each of us allowing the archetypal energies we were longing to experience to move through us individually, in relationship with our Doms, and as a group. It felt like the constancy of it allowed something else to carry us and keep me deeply in the immersive experience. It wasn't even until we left and 5 of us spent the day together in NOLA that I really began to realize how deeply in the immersion I was, truly bringing me into an altered state."
Share any highlights of the Surrender experience?
"The de-collaring ritual [...] felt like a formal ritualizing of what was being built all week, which was that this experience is ours and lives inside us and is shared with a group of women. I've always been reluctant to words like "sisterhood" but this truly felt like a bonding together of our group of women that has a somatic interwoven quality. And what unfolded in the shared space with us women in the couple of days following the de-collaring ritual was a breathtaking healing and transformative experience where something was moving through us that was so far beyond us."
"Holy crap, how do I begin to feel like I've found adequate words for what this experience was for me. The profound safety I felt was truly beyond anything I've ever known. While I do understand it was a high risk situation, in some ways it feels like truly letting it be that high risk is what made it so safe. The environment allowed me to feel a safety in my own skin, in relationship with my Dom, in relationship with women, in relationship in a group. By letting us be as deeply honest about ourselves and our darkest and riskiest places, opened up a sense of safety and letting go that I have always longed for but didn't know what possible. And on this retreat I got to feel it in my cells, I got to feel it in astounding eye contact that soothed me rather than frightened me, I got to feel it as I let my body move, be moved, touch, be touched, see, and be seen by people - men and women and a group. What happened on this retreat is what I have spent my whole life seeking through countless spiritual and healing practices. But none of these things I've done before, sometimes for *years*, have given me access to the kind of letting go, relational safety, holistic joy, and feeling myself held and moved by the divine, the way this week did. This week gave me an experience of the ecstasy of pain, pleasure, love, and intimacy."
"I just can't adequately express the expanse of my gratitude and appreciation for all of you, for the fullness of your presence and the depth of your generosity. You are all extraordinary and it is a privilege to be in your company and learn from you. This retreat offered me an experience of myself that I couldn't have anticipated and had no idea how much I needed. Together you create a container where trust is possible and growth is immeasurable and to me there is no greater gift."
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