The earth is waking, the fire is rising, and something within you is ready to bloom.
Held at Beltane—the ancient festival of bloom, fertility, and flame—Bloomfire is an intimate gathering to honor the beauty, power, and life force that lives within each of us.
This retreat is a space to step away from the noise of daily life and enter something slower. Softer. More intentional.
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Together, we'll gather in a circle, as women have always done. Create with our hands. Sit aside fires beneath an open sky. Move our bodies. Connect with our power. Recieve and remember. ​
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Bloomfire is a sacred weekend of healing, embodiement, sisterhood, and feminine devotion.
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imagine...
You arrive just before evening, the road winding through trees until the castle appears, tucked quietly between forest and water. It feels almost unreal at first — like something discovered rather than booked.
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And immediately, something in your body softens. The air feels different here. Slower. Thicker. Alive. Before you even step inside, your nervous system begins to settle.
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You unpack your bags as light filters through stained glass windows, scattering color across the walls. Candlelight flickers in quiet corners. Outside, the lake reflects the sky. For the first time in a long while, there is nowhere else you need to be.
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No one needs anything from you. Over the next few days, you begin to move inside a different rhythm.
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Mornings arrive gently. Bare feet on cool floors. Coffee in hand. Soft conversation or comfortable silence as the house slowly wakes around you.
Later, you gather in circle with women who know you, who see you, who are walking beside you in their own unfolding.
The land calls you outside. You wander the forest trails that lead toward the waterfall. Later you sit beside the lake, watching sunlight ripple across the water. Perhaps you even get to float quietly, letting the water hold you as you breathe deeper than you have in months.​
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In the afternoon, you sit across from a woman as your hands rest lightly on her shoulders, learning to channel Reiki. You feel warmth move through your palms. Subtle at first, then undeniable. A quiet reminder that the power you’ve been searching for has always lived within you.
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Your hands stay busy — creating art with pressed flowers, pouring candles, creating small, beautiful objects that carry the energy of the weekend within them.
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There is time to dress in beautiful clothes simply because it feels good. To be photographed. To laugh. To see yourself reflected through the eyes of women who recognize your beauty without hesitation.
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Evenings gather everyone back together for shared meals at candlelit tables. Plates are passed hand to hand while stories unfold between bites and rising laughter. Deep conversation stretches late into the night.
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And when darkness settles in, you find yourselves outside again — drawn toward the fire. Flames rising against the open sky.
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Alongside a circle of women, you release what no longer belongs to you and ignite the next season of your journey. ​​
This is how women have gathered for centuries.
This is our coming home.
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The Heart of Bloomfire
Bloomfire is rooted in the ancient energy of Beltane—the seasonal threshold where the earth blooms into fullness and the sacred fire is lit to honor life, fertility, creativity, and passion.
Throughout the weekend, we will gather in ritual and ceremony to honor the fire within and around us.
We will work with the elements:
Fire, for release and ignition.
Water, for emotional flow and renewal.
Earth, for grounding and nourishment.
Air, for breath and expansion.
This is a space for:
Sacred sisterhood
Creative expression
Energy healing
Rest and restoration
Beauty and pleasure
Ritual and devotion
This is a return our honored, cyclical, creative ways of being.
the setting
Bloomfire will be held on a private 100-acre lakefront estate located about an hour south of St. Louis, Missouri.
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The property features a Bavarian-style castle surrounded by forest, water, and open land—creating a setting that feels both peaceful and expansive. With private access to an 18-acre lake for boating and fishing, forest trails leading to a hidden waterfall, and a quiet lakefront beach, there is plenty of space to explore, rest, and reconnect with nature throughout the weekend.
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Inside the home, you’ll find beautiful Old World details including stained glass windows and hand-painted ceilings, along with cozy gathering spaces designed for both connection and solitude. The estate also features a boat house and dock, a wood-burning fire circle, outdoor dining spaces, a covered porch overlooking the water, and even a private indoor pool.
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The nearest major airport is St. Louis Lambert International Airport. Many attendees choose to coordinate arrival times so they can share the drive to the property together.
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This setting offers the perfect balance of comfort, beauty, and immersion in nature—allowing us to gather, rest, and experience the retreat fully without distraction.
reiki attunement
At the heart of Bloomfire is a sacred energetic initiation: Reiki Level 1 attunement, guided by Reiki Master Jada Dobesh.
Reiki is universal life force energy—the same intelligence that moves through nature, through the seasons, through the essence of all living things.
During attunement, your energetic channels are gently opened, allowing you to consciously access and work with this current for the rest of your life.
Many women experience a deep sense of remembrance—not because something new is given to them, but because something ancient within them is reawakened.
Throughout the weekend, you will both receive and practice Reiki in an intimate, supported environment.
Jada will guide you through this process with extraordinary care, reverence, and safety. Her work creates a grounded, accessible bridge between the physical and energetic worlds, helping women reconnect with their intuition, their sensitivity, and their innate healing capacity.
By the end of the retreat, you will carry this attunement with you.
Not as a certification alone—but as a living relationship with your own life force energy.
A tool for grounding.
For healing.
For self-devotion.
For returning to yourself again and again.
This is a permanent opening.
A quiet, sacred flame you will tend for the rest of your life
This Experience Includes
Throughout this immerse retreat weekend, you’ll be guided through experiences intentionally designed to nourish your body, awaken your energy, and support your becoming.
Reiki Level 1 Training & Attunement
Receive attunement from Reiki Master Jada Dobesh, opening your channels to life force energy and empowering you to practice Reiki for self-healing and healing others.
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Creative Expression Sessions
Hands-on experiences including candle making, pressed flower art, and photography to reconnect you with your creative essence.
Fire Ceremony & Beltane Ritual
Release what no longer serves you and ignite your next chapter through ancient fire ritual and intentional ceremony.
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Women’s Circles & Ceremony
Sacred gatherings for sharing, witnessing, reflection, and deep connection.
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Somatic & Embodiment Practices
Gentle yoga, breathwork, meditation, hiking, and nature immersion to support nervous system regulation and embodied presence.
Beautiful, Nourishing Meals
Curated dining experiences and shared meals designed to nourish both body and soul.
Nature & Elemental Connection
Private access to 100 acres of forest, waterfall trails, and lakefront for reflection, grounding, and restoration.
Integration & Spaciousness
Unstructured time to rest, reflect, gather, explore, and simply be.
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This Gathering Is For You
For the woman who understands that gathering like this is essential to our very life force. The woman who has spent years tending to others, holding space, carrying responsibility, moving through the world with steady strength… and who now finally feels the call to be held herself.
For the woman who misses the feeling of being fully present in her own life. Who longs for beauty and slowness — for candlelight flickering across a table, for conversations that stretch long into the night, for time in nature, in ritual, and in her own body.
For the woman who recognizes the medicine of sitting beside a fire with other women. Who knows there is something sacred about hands creating, energy moving, and being witnessed without needing to explain or perform.
This is for the woman who is no longer interested in proving, pushing, or performing her way through life… the woman who is ready to soften, receive, and remember the very essence that makes her feel alive.
Something within you that deserves tending. That deserves beauty. That deserves to be honored in circle.
Bloomfire is where we stand side by side in that remembering and reclamation— held in the kind of sisterhood that doesn’t ask you to be anything other than exactly who you are.
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How Bloomfire Lives Within The Wild & Waking Journey
The Wild & Waking journey is not a linear path. It is a cyclical return to yourself.
It begins with The Unraveling—the moment you realize the life you’ve been living no longer fully fits.
Then comes The Remembering—a quiet reconnection to your intuition, your truth, your inner voice.
Followed by The Reclamation—where you begin to release what isn’t yours and reclaim what is.
And eventually, The Rise—not as performance, but as embodiment. As presence. As rooted, lived truth.
Bloomfire exists inside this sacred rhythm.
It is not about pushing you forward. It is about creating the conditions where your body, your energy, and your spirit can integrate what is already unfolding.
This retreat is a place to pause inside the journey.
To gather with other women walking the same path.
To honor what you’ve shed.
To nourish what is emerging.
To tend the fire that sustains you.
For some, Bloomfire will feel like a moment of integration.
For others, a moment of ignition.
For many, it will simply feel like coming home—to themselves, and to each other.
Whether you are newly stepping onto the Wild & Waking path or have been walking it for years, this space meets you exactly where you are.
Because the journey was never about becoming someone else.
It was always about remembering yourself.
join us
Bloomfire is an intimate, ceremonial gathering held during Beltane—the ancient fire festival honoring fertility, creativity, pleasure, and the full expression of life force.
For four days, you will step out of your daily roles and into a sacred container designed to nourish you from the inside out.
You will be held by the land.
Held by the fire.
Held by the circle.
You will move slowly. Create freely. Receive deeply.
You will sit at candlelit tables without needing to care for anyone but yourself.
You will walk through forest and water and feel your nervous system soften.
You will place your hands on another woman and feel energy move between you.
You will be witnessed—in your beauty, your truth, your presence.
Not asked to become anything other than yourself.
There are only a small number of spaces available, intentionally, to preserve the intimacy and sacredness of this experience.
I cannot wait to sit around the fire with you.
bloomfire
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​Dates: April 30 – May 2, 2026
Location: Private lakefront estate & castle Approximately 1 hour south of St. Louis, Missouri Airport: St. Louis Lambert International (STL)
Your Retreat Experience Includes:
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• 3 nights accommodations at a private 100-acre lakefront estate
• Group coaching, facilitation, and guided ceremonial experiences with Emily Reuschel
• Reiki Level 1 training and attunement with Reiki Master Jada Dobesh
• rituals and Beltane fire ceremony
• creative expression experiences
• women’s circles and group gatherings
• yoga, meditation, hiking and somatic practices
• portrait and group photography sessions
• access to forest trails, lakefront, and nature immersion
• nourishing shared meals and community dining experiences
• spacious time for rest, reflection, and connection
my love,
Let this be your invitation to come home—to the parts of you that have been waiting patiently beneath the noise, beneath the expectations, beneath the constant tending to everything and everyone else.
Let this be the place where you lay it all down at the edge of the fire—the roles, the pressure, the pieces that were never truly yours—and watch as they soften, as they release and return to ash. From that sacred ground, let something new rise, blooming in its own timing, in its own truth.
This is where your aliveness is rekindled. Where your body remembers. Where your joy, your desire, your voice begin to take up space again.
You simply have to be willing to step toward yourself—to be seen, to be held, to be met in the becoming. We’ll be here, tending the fire with you.