Workshops & Retreats
An immersive space to slow down, reconnect, and do meaningful inner work in community.
Workshops
Workshops provide accessible opportunities for personal insight, learning, and community connection. Topics may include:
Inner child healing
Astrology for emotional understanding
Tarot as a mirror of the psyche
Mind-body awareness for emotional regulation
Integrating spirituality into daily life
Between the Years
Stepping into 2027 with Intention
The final weeks of the year hold a particular kind of quiet. The old year hasn't fully let go, and the new one hasn't quite arrived. Most of us rush right past that threshold, straight into resolutions and to-do lists.
In this 2.5-hour workshop, we stop there for a while. Rather than making resolutions, we'll explore the difference between goals and intentions, reflect honestly on what 2026 asked of you and gave you, and listen for what wants to come next. Through guided journaling, meditation, and oracle card pulls, you'll get clear on what you're leaving behind and what you're stepping into.
We'll close with the 13 Magical Nights, a winter ritual you'll carry home. You'll write thirteen intentions and release one each night, beginning on the winter solstice. You'll leave with a sense of how you want 2027 to feel, not just what you want it to hold.
What's Included:
— A guided participant workbook
— Oracle card pulls for the year ahead
— Everything you need for your 13 Magical Nights ritual
Investment: $111
Date and Time: Friday, December 11th 6pm-8:30pm
Location: 855 East Golf Road, Suite 2142, Arlington Heights, IL 60005
This workshop is open to women ages 21 and older.
Space is limited! Review the Terms & Conditions here.
Previous Workshops
Women’s Inner Child Workshop
A four-part, in-person workshop led by Dr. Andrea Kosten focused on healing childhood wounds through group processing, guided meditation, and astrological birth chart exploration. Participants deepened self-understanding, strengthened self-compassion, and gained insight into emotional needs using the natal chart as a reflective tool for growth and healing. Upon completion, this group evolved into what is now our Women’s Inner Child Group— thriving and going strong for over two years!
Fee: $333
Held by the Moon
A single-evening, in-person workshop led by Dr. Andrea Kosten exploring the Moon sign as a map of our emotional world. Using each participant's birth chart, the evening moved through reflective journaling, somatic check-ins, and partner sharing to uncover the core emotional needs and early wounds reflected in their Moon sign and house placement. Participants learned to distinguish between coping that numbs and self-care that truly nourishes, and left with a personalized self-care plan rooted in their own emotional blueprint.
Fee: $111
How Participants Experience Workshops at The Sacred Vessel
Participants often described these workshops as both structured and deeply emotional.
In the Women's Inner Child Workshop, many appreciated the clear framework: monthly themes, focused exploration of specific astrological placements, guided meditations, and reflective homework they could return to between sessions.
In Held by the Moon, women valued the chance to go deep into a placement most knew little about. Even those familiar with their Sun sign found the Moon opened something new. They named the reflection questions, the chart graphics, and the workbook as tools they plan to return to.
Women frequently shared that the blend of astrology and inner child healing helps them:
Better understand themselves and their emotional patterns
Access feelings that are typically difficult to reach
Make sense of why they've been feeling the way they have
Process emotions with practical tools outside of session
Leave with a clearer sense of what genuine self-care looks like for them
Feel more confident reading and understanding their birth chart
The guided meditations, somatic check-ins, and wound work are often described as powerful, meaningful and necessary.
Participants also reflected on the group space itself: feeling welcomed, seen, and heard, even when joining felt vulnerable at first. Many shared that it became easier to open up as their time together unfolded, and that the openness of the small group felt refreshing and thoughtfully held.
No two experiences are alike, yet women often describe these workshops as a way to come home to themselves, in the company of others doing the same.
Retreats
The Sacred Vessel offers one- and two-day immersive retreats at offsite locations in nature or wellness-focused venues. These experiences invite participants to pause from daily life and reconnect with themselves through guided meditation, somatic practices, group process, and ritual.
Retreats are intentionally small to preserve safety, intimacy, and depth of experience.
Retreats explore themes such as:
Inner child reconnection
Past, present, and future self integration
Healing through the elements (earth, water, fire, air)
Emotional release and renewal through movement and reflection
*Groups, workshops, and retreats, while grounded in psychological insight, are educational and experiential in nature and do not constitute psychotherapy or mental health treatment.*
