THE INVITATION
SENSUOSA is a return to the body as a place of wisdom.
A gathering devoted to sensory intimacy with life where presence is the initiation and devotion is felt through taste, touch, breath, movement, and rest.
Italy becomes the landscape that holds us as we remember how to live full bodies within our lives with attention, reverence, and pleasure.
WHAT SENSUOSA HOLDS
A slow, embodied immersion into:
Sensuous awareness
Ritual devotion
Embodied pleasure
Presence as a living practice
Aliveness through texture, rhythm, and felt experience
This retreat centers felt life rather than striving, performing, or reaching for outcomes.
We gather to taste life.
June 19th - 24th 2027
5 Night 6 Day All Inclusive Luxury Retreat
Sensuous embodied aliveness in flavor, texture, embodiment and ritual devotion.
THE EXPERIENCE
Days unfold with a natural rhythm that includes:
Embodied practices
Somatic ritual
Sensory devotion
Guided movement and stillness
Integration time
Spaciousness for rest and wandering
There is structure and there is room to listen inwardly and follow what feels alive.
WHO THIS IS FOR
SENSUOSA is for those who feel called toward:
Depth that feels nourishing
Pleasure that is grounded and present
Embodiment rooted in devotion
Slowness, nuance, and attention
Living with senses awake
This retreat is for those who recognize that aliveness much be nurtured and tended.
A living exploration of sensuous aliveness through flavor, texture, embodiment, ritual, and devotion.
LOCATION
SARDINIA is the plan. The exact location in Italy will be shared once finalized.
ACCOMODATIONS
Shared rooms with private beds.
Private rooms may be available, but are not guaranteed at this time.
Accommodations will be simple luxury, beautiful, and aligned with the spirit of the retreat.
Luxury here lives in presence, care, and atmosphere.
WHAT IS INCLUDED
All retreat programming
Group embodiment sessions and rituals
Daily guided experiences
On-site meals during the retreat
A curated group container
Travel to Italy is arranged independently.
INVESTMENT
Early Bird: $3,500
Deposit: $1,000 to reserve your space
Payment plans will be available after early bird spaces fill.
Your deposit secure your place and is non-refundable.
A RETREAT OF THE SENSES
Each sense is a teacher.
Taste
Meals shared slowly. Flavor as ritual. Nourishment received with awareness.
Touch
Movement, rest, water, fabric, skin, and land offers remembrance.
Sound
Voice, resonance, music, silence, listening.
Sight
Beauty, experienced and created
Smell & Atmosphere
Herbs, kitchens, air, incense, bodies at ease.
Presence
Attention practiced as devotion.
Y O U R G U I D E
Jessi Marino
Jessi is an artist of primal embodiment and tender of soma gardens, who poetically pours presence over soul, whispersinging us HOME.
She curiously untangles all we think we know for sure - and crafts space for the emergent potential of limitless cycles of regeneration, creation, decay and wild soulfed living.
She’s has been guiding embodiment, and advanced energetics, while training hundreds of teachers around the world for almost 16 years. She’s mentored dozens of budding priestesses, energy workers, and wellness guides in their personal development, professional skills and conscious business practices since 2017. She’s lead sold out retreats in 4 countries and is ecstatic to be home deeply anchoring in CT after living in Costa Rica for just shy of 3 years, her husbands home place.
She is an animist who tends a deep kinship with the natural world, the seasons, and the agricultural - pagan wheel of the year. A practicing Witch, she believes that we weave our path in this life with a lot of trust and a pinch of magick.
In all of her creations, she brews a decadent potion extracting the nectars of neuroscience, somatic psychology, polyvagal theory, presencing embodiment, eclectic self-awareness, Celtic witchcraft, folk herbalism, dark feminine wisdom, and sensual empowerment.
Attuned by songs of the soul of the world - Jessi shares herself as artist, guide, poet, muse mentor, flame tender, way seeker, with trust that the greatest symphonies unfold in the deepest presence. She is the muse-creator of a continuum of home frequency we call Wild Essence, which is a mystery school of experience that hosts wellness courses online and seasonal in person gatherings.
Her gatherings are infused with intentional slowness, soma-tending, embodied aliveness, restoration, play, creativity, empowerment, gentle ritual, and a spiral dance with the cosmic mystery.
A dreamer-songstress who tastes colors and sees sounds, Jessi devotes herself as deep listener to the wild weaving of the natural world tracing fractals of eternal time between the breaths of the animal body.
