The Midlife Threshold — Full-Day Retreat for Women Navigating Perimenopause

Your body is changing. Your life is changing.

This day is for understanding what's actually happening — and building a life that fits who you're becoming.

Medicine can address your hormones. What it can't address is the identity shift underneath — who you're becoming, what your body is actually asking for, how to build a life that fits this version of you.

The Midlife Threshold Day Retreat is a full-day, in-person immersive experience for women navigating the crossroads years of perimenopause and menopause. Not a lecture. Not a workshop with a slide deck. A whole-day initiation — somatic, embodied, relational, and practical.

What you'll experience

🌿 Somatic embodiment journey — A guided session drawing on breathwork, intentional movement, and energy work to move what words alone can't reach. This is not exercise and it's not meditation. It's a direct conversation with your body.

🌿 Whole-person 5-Facet mapping — You'll be introduced to the 5-Facet Framework — Spiritual, Physical, Mental, Emotional, Energetic — and complete your own whole-person snapshot. Most women tell me the shape of their assessment tells them something the individual pieces never did.

🌿 Live coaching and integration circle — Real-time coaching in community. Women bring what's most alive for them right now, and the group witnesses. Every woman learns from every moment — whether or not it's her turn.

🌿 Practices that stay with you — You won't leave with a notebook full of insights you forget by Monday. You'll leave with a personal practice toolkit — somatic tools, breathwork anchors, and daily rituals calibrated to your 5-Facet snapshot. Tools that work on a Tuesday morning when the fog descends.

This day is for you if...

✦ You're somewhere between "something is wrong" and "I don't know who I am anymore"

✦ You've addressed the hormones — now you want to address everything underneath

✦ You've tried talk therapy or other coaching and want something more embodied and whole

✦ You want to stop managing this transition and start actually moving through it

Everything included

✓ Full-day facilitation with Jennifer Watts, Transformational Embodiment Coach

✓ Nourishing communal lunch — included, no extra charge

✓ The 5-Facet Life Assessment Workbook (valued at $38)

✓ Your personal practice toolkit — somatic tools and rituals to take home

✓ Resource packet with curated further resources

✓ Small, intimate group — maximum 16 women

The day at a glance

9:00 am Arrival, welcome tea, settling in

9:20 am Opening circle and intention setting

9:45 am The landscape of midlife — a grounded orientation

10:30 am Somatic embodiment journey

11:45 am Silent integration

12:00 pm Nourishing lunch and informal community time

1:00 pm 5-Facet personal mapping

1:45 pm Live coaching circle

2:30 pm Closing ceremony and practice toolkit sharing

3:00 pm Close (women welcome to linger)

About your facilitator

Jennifer Watts is a certified Transformational Embodiment Coach (Coaching Evolved), Reiki Level II practitioner, and the founder of Centering Journey. She brings 25 years of professional leadership experience alongside deep training in somatic practice, breathwork, and whole-person coaching. She is the Program Director for Serenity Meditations at Unity Temple on the Plaza — the venue where this retreat takes place. She works with women at the intersection of the body, the identity, and the becoming.

Pricing

🌿 Early bird: $125 — register by May 15, 2026

🌿 General admission: $145 — after May 15, 2026

Questions?

Email jen@centeringjourney.com or visit centeringjourney.com. Not sure if this retreat is right for you? Book a free 30-minute discovery call — genuinely no pressure, just a conversation.