Many retreats focus on the breakthrough.
Alchemy begins after it.
This retreat isn't about becoming someone new. It's about learning how to embody what you've already discovered.
Through breathwork, somatic practice, ceremony, silence, and relational inquiry, you'll cultivate the capacity to live with greater presence, responsibility, and embodied leadership.
Unlike many transformational retreats, Alchemy isn't designed to create another peak experience.
It's designed to help you live differently when you return home.
What Happens After the Breakthrough?
Alchemy is the art of transformation through relationship and time.
- Silence and stillness as places of truth, not avoidance
- Ceremonial work paired with intentional integration
- Breath and somatic practices that support regulation and embodiment
- Relational spaces that prioritize listening over performing
Rather than pushing for insight, the container allows patterns to surface naturally—through lived experience, contact, and what arises when nothing is being forced.
Participants are invited into:
- Staying present when it would be easier to disengage
- Holding your own experience without outsourcing responsibility
- Being in community without fixing, saving, or collapsing
- Choosing clarity over urgency
This is where leadership becomes quiet, human, and trustworthy.
What Is Being Cultivated
✨ Kambo Ceremony
• Lunch
• Somatic Bodywork
• Breathwork & Embodiment
day 1
Arrival: Friday, September 4th.
✨ Bobinsana + Psilocybin Ceremony
• Preparation
• Ceremony
• Group Dinner
day 2
Saturday, September 5th
✨ Integration
• Breathwork
• Somatic Bodywork
• Integration Practices
day 3
Sunday, September 6th
booking options
✔ Full 3-Day Immersion
(recommended)
- Kambo
- Bodywork
- Breathwork
- Ceremony
- Integration
(Day 2 is always booked together with Day 3 to ensure proper integration.)
Our full 6-Day Alchemy Immersion remains our deepest offering, and our March 2027 dates together with a dedicated Alchemy Women’s Retreat will be announced soon.
YOUR HOSTS
Ashley Ludman is a breathwork teacher, somatic practitioner, and facilitator with over two decades of experience guiding individuals and groups through embodied inquiry, nervous system regulation, and integrative healing. Her work is grounded, relational, and rooted in lived experience rather than ideology.
Ash is the founder of The Body of Breath, an online and in-person practice space devoted to breathwork, embodiment, and conscious living. She is also the Global Outreach Coordinator for the Global Professional Breathwork Alliance (GPBA) and has been training breathwork facilitators internationally since 2012.
Her approach emphasizes responsibility, integration, and accessibility—supporting people in learning how to live what they know rather than chasing peak experiences. Ash’s work is informed by years of study in breathwork, bodywork, trauma-informed practice, and psychedelic integration, as well as her background in movement and therapeutic touch.
At the heart of her teaching is a commitment to presence, ethical facilitation, and the cultivation of sustainable, embodied leadership—both in personal practice and in community.
Ashley
Natalie
The facilitators of Alchemy bring decades of combined experience in somatic education, breathwork, trauma-informed practice, ceremonial work, and relational facilitation. Each carries a deep respect for the body’s intelligence and the responsibility that comes with holding transformative spaces. Together, they create a grounded, attuned container rooted in integrity, presence, and safety—where participants are supported not through fixing or instruction, but through clear boundaries, embodied leadership, and shared humanity.
Natalie is a somatic teacher, certified trauma therapist, and devoted explorer of the human experience. Her work lives at the intersection of body wisdom, relational truth, and the reclamation of what it means to be deeply human.
A dancer by nature and a woman rooted in embodiment, Natalie moves through life with softness, fluidity, and depth—dancing with wind, swimming in water, raw with fire. Known as Cat’s Eye, she embodies sensitivity alongside wildness, offering spaces where authenticity, presence, and felt experience are central.
Natalie is a certified somatic educator for women and teaches menstrual cycle wisdom, while also addressing the impacts of misogyny and the unhealthy imprints of patriarchal spirituality on the body and psyche. She is dedicated to shame and shadow work, inviting the soma to speak through sensation, movement, and relational contact rather than analysis alone.
Her approach weaves somatic inquiry, tantric elements, conscious relating, and deep listening to body language. Natalie has studied with well-known teachers and has been a keeper of sacred medicines for many years. She is devoted to creating safe, attuned spaces and facilitates retreats internationally with a strong emphasis on integrity, consent, and embodied truth.
Who Alchemy is For:
Alchemy is for people who have already crossed a threshold and are now asking a different question:
How do I live what I know—consistently, relationally, and embodied?
This is not about becoming someone new. It’s about owning who you already are.
This experience is for you if:
- You’ve already done deep personal work
- (medicine, therapy, somatics, spiritual practice, loss, rupture, initiation)
- You are no longer seeking catharsis or constant breakthrough
- You feel a quiet readiness to step into embodied leadership
- You can be in silence without dissociating or performing
- You are curious about aliveness, not intensity
- You value maturity, humor, and grounded presence
- You are willing to be in community without fixing, saving, or collapsing
- You sense that leadership now asks responsibility, not expansion
What this is NOT:
Alchemy is designed as an immersive, relational experience for those already grounded in their own process.
To support clarity and alignment, it’s important to name what this experience is not intended to be.
- This is not a healing retreat focused on resolving acute issues or processing unresolved trauma
- This is not a training or certification program
- This is not a therapeutic container or substitute for clinical care
- This is not an entry-level experience for those new to deep inner work
- This is not structured around peak experiences or constant activation
- Alchemy is oriented toward integration, presence, and embodied leadership — not intervention or instruction.
- This immersive experience requires mental and physical health
Marianna h.
From the moment I met Ashley, I knew I wasn’t standing before just a yoga or breathwork teacher. I was standing before a guardian of invisible portals. In my search for eternal truth, she was the first to hold me with quiet power. In every session, her hands feel woven from threads of another dimension — light like breath, steady like earth. There is no fear in journeying through the breath with Ashley, because her presence invokes a deep-rooted safety, the kind that cannot be taught — only embodied.
Nosara, Costa Rica
Each of these voices carries a piece of the work we’ve shared—moments of transformation, insight, and deep remembering. These are not just testimonials; they are living echoes of what becomes possible when we breathe, move, and listen together.
BreathTide
Kelly b.
Ashley has been the kind of mentor and teacher I’ve always wanted but didn’t think existed. The kind I always imagined a real mentor was: someone that you really work alongside like an apprenticeship. Someone that knows you well and where your challenge areas are from the close contact and oversight that they have of you. Someone that cares about you and your growth. Someone that supports you when you need to be nudged or met where you’re at. Someone that really shows you the ropes in a way that you can’t get from a text book or lecture. You know, how mentorship’s and apprenticeships must have looked like in the old days and in tribes
Each of these voices carries a piece of the work we’ve shared—moments of transformation, insight, and deep remembering. These are not just testimonials; they are living echoes of what becomes possible when we breathe, move, and listen together.
Mobile, AL
Sarah C.
Through weeks of yoga training and breakwork that back pain lifted. Through moment of my body and breath I was finally able to grasp what she had repeated so many times during our training, "the answers lie within you, you are your best teacher." She was right and I learned through developing my own bag of tools to deal with it that the answers lie within each of us.