Luxury physician-led experiences for women's regenerative health, rooted in the living landscapes of Hawaiʻi.
Founding Retreats · Applications Opening · First Cohorts Forming
Embody Retreats are not isolated events. They are chapters in a larger story. Each retreat corresponds to a season of the Embody Medicine calendar.
Women may attend a single retreat or move through the entire arc over time.
The Thirteen includes four seasonal retreat experiences each year. Embody Retreats allow women outside The Thirteen to participate in individual chapters of that same journey.
The body changes when it is taken out of the environment that is hurting it. A retreat is not a luxury; it is the clinical setting where a different kind of work becomes possible.
Embody Retreats are physician-led, intentionally small, and structured around a real clinical arc — testing, interpretation, somatic practice, community, and integration — held inside one of the most regenerative landscapes on the planet.
They are not wellness weeks. They are the in-person chapters of a longer relationship.
The Big Island is still being made. Regeneration is the literal geology underfoot.
The Pacific regulates the nervous system in ways no protocol can replicate.
Microbial density, plant medicine, humidity, sound — a reset for what indoor life depletes.
Deep traditions of healing, kinship, and reciprocity. We work in respect of them.
A first descent.
Women new to this work, or returning after time away.
A weekend in Hawaiʻi structured around nervous-system regulation, somatic practice, and a clinical conversation about what the body has been carrying. The first chapter of a longer arc.
A longer arc.
Women ready to integrate clinical work with embodied practice.
Five days of physician-led teaching, advanced lab interpretation for those who arrive with testing, somatic and ecological practices, and a small community moving together through land, ocean, and rest.
A full immersion.
Women ready for the architectural work of return.
A full week. Comprehensive testing, deep interpretation, integration of hormones, sleep, metabolism, and story. The retreat becomes the inflection point of the year — the place the rest of the work organizes around.
Every retreat is led by a board-certified physician. Clinical questions get clinical answers.
Advanced testing — genomics, hormones, microbiome — interpreted as one continuous picture of you.
Retreats are chapters in a longer relationship, not a weekend transaction.
Cohorts kept intentionally small so nothing important gets missed.
We meet you where you are. Rest, regulation, orientation. The body settles before any work begins.
Clinical conversation. Story, history, testing where it is part of your arc. A picture begins to form.
Somatic practice, breath, ocean, walking. The nervous system learns a different baseline.
Interpretation, planning, community. The work becomes durable, not theatrical.
A documented plan, a community, and a physician who is still there when the retreat ends.
An illustration, not a schedule. Every retreat is shaped to its cohort.
Ocean. Breath. Movement. The nervous system arrives before the mind.
Physician-led teaching. Lab interpretation, biology, the long view.
Long meal, slow conversation, time on land or water.
One-to-one clinical sessions or small-group somatic practice.
Council. The day metabolized in the company of other women.
Sleep treated as medicine. Cool, dark, unhurried.
Embody Retreats is designed to partner with luxury hospitality groups whose properties match the seriousness of the medicine — on the Big Island and, in time, beyond it.
Founding retreats are small, considered, and forming now. Tell us what's drawing you and we'll respond personally.