HEALERS ACADEMY
Reiki & somatic space holding certification retreat
San Diego | 2025
Join healer-teachers Whitney Yarnall & Lizzie Rose Reiss in San Diego for 5 nights of education, spiritual development, integration, nourishment, community and training in leadership, embodiment, space holding and reiki technique for all levels; beginner to master.
FULL SPECTRUM HEALERSHIP
We feel that the call to healership comes from a deep place within our souls, and that means that the path to soul alignment is one that challenges all of our conditioning.
As healers, we have experienced first hand the kind of support, guidance and structures that make the journey smoother and more enjoyable. It is our mission to provide that framework to those who come our way.
This retreat is designed to provide you with the skill, technique and energetic responsibility to nurture your journey of healership, and the space to practice and build relationships.
HEALING & LEADING
space holding & facilitating
Learn the foundations for creating and holding safe, nourishing, transformative space for individual healing and group containers. Understand how to work intuitively with the group field and the intelligence of the space to facilitate the most transformative healing.
energy healing tools & techniques
Begin, or continue your Reiki Healer journey, develop your intuitive skills and fill your healing toolbox with supplemental techniques beneficial to any healing offering. Aquire the skills necessary to develop your unique way of bringing healing into the world.
healing community & support squad
Find your healing besties and your spiritual support squad to make life as a healer so much easier. The people that you train and evolve with become your practice partners, your confidants and life long friends! While your path is unique to you, it doesn't need to be solitary. You can walk alongside others with similar passions and support one another along the way.
DEVELOP YOUR INNER HEALER
WHO THIS IS DESIGNED FOR
Healers with a desire to expand their healing knowledge and serve with integrity
Those looking to become certified in Reiki for the first time
Someone already certified in Reiki at any level who wants to refresh their memory, practice with other practitioners or become certified at the next level of training
Reiki practitioners who want advanced training in space holding, intuitive development, energetic technique and introduction to Somatic Healing techniques
Reiki practitioners, new or experienced, who desire to build their healing community and support system
New or seasoned practitioners who recognize a need to take excellent care of themselves and nurture their healership
Healers who want to make a difference in their homes, communities and in the world at large
For people who desire to bridge the gap between their healing life and the rest of their life
NOURISH YOUR HEALING ARTIST
Whitney Yarnall
Whitney is an intuitive somatic alchemist, breathwork journey guide and dynamic space holder. Her curation of deep group containers, transformational retreats and experiences are designed to take participants on a journey inward with the intention of uncovering and integrating their shadows, blocks, traumas, defense mechanisms that can keep us from locked out of our wholeness, truth, joy and full expression. The added component of a group, a community, allows a deep healing to take place at the roots of ourselves. She believes that because wounding often happens in family systems and communities, healing does too.
Her offerings utilize a range of healing and embodiment tools, along with the wisdom of your own body to facilitate profound transformation.
Whitney's healing journey began in her 20’s when her curiosity around healing and thirst to know more led her to gather an abundance of different healers, guides, facilitators and leaders on a mission to spread self healing to the world. In discovering these connections and a collective mission, Whitney uncovered her divine purpose; creating sacred spaces of belonging. Whitney leads international spiritual retreats, transformational healing workshops series, Somatic Healing Sessions, Breathwork, Sacred Sound Healing and customized offerings for those seeking a path of self healing and remembrance. She is also founder of Sojourn Healing Collective in San Diego; a sacred space created for people to come as they are, feel supported as they heal their wounds and discover their own medicine and gifts to share with the world.
your educators
lizzie rose
Lizzie is known by her friends, clients, students, and colleagues for her practical approach to spirituality, her passion for the mysteries and ability to weave their wisdom into everyday life. Early in her teaching career, Lizzie developed a reiki curriculum that included topics like energy hygiene, intuitive development, and invocation of guides and allies, providing a well-rounded approach to healership for all practitioners who learn from her. Devoted to integrity and truth-finding, Lizzie empowers her students and clients to become their own humble authority, abandoning the guru paradigm to support the growth of responsible and powerful healers and mystics. She is especially passionate about her work with plant and vibrational essences and the magic of nature. Lizzie owns and operates the store Everyday Magic Intentional Goods in Woodstock, NY. She has also written and published a children's book called Eversees and the Magic Tree . Her self-paced course Tree Wisdom is now available.
intuitive body and energy reading
essential oils for healing
pool, hot tub, and sauna
channeling for healers
pendulum, oracle cards, and divination
vibrational essences for healing
OPTIONAL EXPERIENCES
THE CURRICULUM
reiki 1+ 2 certification
What is Reiki? History and Lineage
Your Intuition and How to Use It
Healer's all-purpose meditation visualization
Reiki hand positions and techniques
Distance Reiki
Working with the Chakra System
Reiki for Home, Plants, Food, etc.
reiki 3 certification
Advanced Healership
Techniques for Removing Attachments and Cutting Cords
Advanced Chakra Work
somatic healing & space holding
Working with, protecting & managing your energy field
Introduction to Somatic Healing
Fundamentals of creating and holding safe energetic containers
Dynamics of group facilitation
Intuitive Development
Spaceholding for Healers
for everyone
Energy hygiene
Getting to know your guides, angels, and inner healer
Working with the hara line
How to let your calling become your living
Group Crystal Gridding
Sirian Activation and Lion's Gate Ceremony
ABOUT ROCAS RETRAT CENTER
heal in nature
Retreat Check-in, Check-out & Daily Schedule
Check-in time: 4pm - 5pm on February 22nd, 2024
Daily February 22nd-26th: Meals, Trainings, Sessions & Activities from approximately 8am-8pm (with programmed breaks and down time in between)
Check-out time: 12pm on Febuary 27th, 2024
About Rocas Retreat Center & Accommodations
Accommodations are booked separately from the retreat and training cost. Upon registration, you will receive the link directing you to book accommodations.
Located in North San Diego County, Rocas Retreat rests on 15 acres of sacred land surrounded by rolling hills, and citrus and avocado trees. They have many unique lodging options for our guests to choose from. Stay in a modern country cottage, a ranch house, tiny home, or custom yurts and are available for single or double occupancy.
Your stay is for five nights and includes use of amenities, including pool, outdoor fire feature, walking paths, hiking, meditation spaces, tree swing, labyrinth and more! The nightly cost for the retreat weekend based on the occupancy you choose. Nightly prices range from $74 to $279 per person, per night.
investment
includes trainings, certifications, electives & all meals
accommodations sold separately
title
$675 / Month
4 monthly payments
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$2,699
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All meals, trainings, certifications, electives, workshops, use of property amenities.
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Transportation to/from the retreat center, accommodations, extra services such as massages are not included.
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Nope! This retreat is available to people of all levels, including beginners. You can become certified in Reiki levels 1+2 during the retreat if you've never learned reiki before. If you're already certified in Level 1 or 2, you can become certified in Level 3 at the retreat. If you are already certified in Level 3, you have the option to re-take any classes from levels 1-3, and have practice time with other practitioners, take the electives, become certified in Foundations of Somatic Spaceholding, and enjoy some nourishing retreat time with fellow healers.
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If you are new to Reiki, you will be certified in Reiki I & II upon completing all of the necessary classes during the retreat. If you are already Reiki I & II certified you will receive a Reiki III certification upon completion of the required classes. All participants will receive a certification in Foundation of Somatics & Space Holding.
THINGS TO KNOW
REFLECTIONS FROM PAST STUDENTS
I didn’t expect such a short experience to have such an effect on my life, but I can’t help but notice that since this experience ended I have felt lighter and more in tune with my needs and where they come from. Since the container ended, I've also had less dependence on one of the biggest coping mechanisms for dissociation and have found a greater sense of peace and acceptance around my emotions. I would wholeheartedly recommend any healing group or experience facilitated by Whitney to anyone looking to start or continue their own journey toward healing and growth.
- Anne
Lizzie is the teacher + healer I have been waiting all my life to find. She is kind + compassionate. She has a very soothing, peaceful presence that immediately grounds anyone who is around her. She embodies everything I could ask for in a teacher + a healer. I have done both Reiki trainings with Lizzie and I wouldn’t have had it any other way. She creates such a safe space to learn, express + grow. She invests her heart + soul into her work + it shows. If you have a chance to work with Lizzie, I wholeheartedly recommend you do! She is absolutely amazing + I feel so blessed to have her in my life. Thank you, Lizzie, for being a witness + a friend along my healing path in this lifetime.
- AS, Reiki III Graduate
This experience and Whitney have been the catalyst of the shift I have been longing for, that I don't even think I have needed, for years now. I felt so disconnected from myself, my body, and my actions for so long but felt hopeless about where to turn or how to shake myself out of it. During this experience, coupled with my time on our Sedona retreat, I uncovered all the walls I have built up, my coping mechanisms, the patterns that have hindered me for so long, and the practices I need to show up for my inner child. She has been screaming for so long to be heard and not until this experience did I feel I had the tools to listen and answer. I am forever indebted to Whitney and the container she holds in these four weeks because it was truly something that created a lasting change for me that I so desperately needed.
- Lexi
Reiki I and II with Lizzie was one of the most transformational and empowering spiritual experiences that I've had. I've always wanted to learn a way to help me better understand myself and others, and for me this was a perfect next step on my journey. Lizzie emanates such a magical, open and powerful vibe and I feel honored to have her as my teacher! Thank you so much, Lizzie <3
- AC, Reiki 1+2 Graduate
Lizzie's reiki training was incredibly informative and healing. She makes the material easy to understand, holds space and allows for transformation of body and mind. I highly recommend training with Lizzie!
- Shannon
Being led on a journey with Lizzie as Reiki Master was purely divine. LIzzie's approach to teaching is as respectful and responsible to the material as it is inspiring, healing and even fun. Lizzie's natural ability to create safe space allowed this training to be so much more than an awakening to the power of Reiki but also an awakening of self and spirit.
- TC, Reiki 1+2 Graduate
Working with Lizzie was the most incredible experience. She is deeply knowledgable and skillfully trained in many healing modalities but leads with her intuitive nature first. She is one of the most genuine and humble spiritual teachers I've had the pleasure to work wit. I am immensely grateful to have been trained in Reiki under her guidance.
- LM, Reiki 1+2 Graduate
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