Dive into your craft.

Focus on your music.

October 19 - 21

in Nevada City, CA

Experience workshops from seasoned feminine artists who have mastered their particular sound. Get the support you need to break through to your next level of sonic excellence and ignited artistry.

  • Learn about the how to create your own sound design from a place of embodied authenticity and pleasure.

  • Learn how to make your musical, business, and creative choices with clarity, healthy boundaries, and fierce focus.

  • It all starts from the body. Your muse is pulsing through your very breath and bones; experiences new ways to break through barriers and delight in a lifelong love affair with your own creative brilliance.

Meet the Team

  • Heather Christie

    Part DJ, producer, vocalist, songwriter, mentor, music label founder, and mama, Heather Christie is a leader in a new wave of uninhibited musical feminine creators. You can hear her music across the world on Ecstatic Dance floors, in commercials, and on the winds of inspiration. Find her DJing + singing live, while breastfeeding her daughter Naya at a festival stage or dancefloor somewhere by the sea or mountains. With a strong eclectic background, Heather weaves world instruments from her collaborators. She sprinkles into that mix her ethereal synth forests, jazz-soul stylings in minimal sultry vocals, and organic house + downtempo beats.

    Her mission is to midwife music (her own and that of other women) into the world ceremoniously, and help usher in a new consciousness: one that begins at the crossroads of music and motherhood.

  • Diamonde

    The multi-faceted vocalist/producer Diamonde draws from a rich musical background to craft refined live-electronic compositions with stunning vocal tapestries on top. Diamonde weaves lush guitar and piano melodies with progressive, minimal production to create a vibe that is somehow familiar but fresh all the same. Her voice maintains an intoxicating space that draws you into a realm where the dark meets the light; pure to the core with a bit of grit like a diamonde in the rough.

    Her projects include Siren & Seer (co-producer, singer/songwriter), Diamonde (producer, singer/songwriter) & SIIKA (producer, singer/songwriter). She is currently working with Ayla Nereo on her next album & crafted electronic beats to her biggest hits for recent tours. She’s collaborated with saQi, Equanimous, Kr3ture, Morillo, Moontricks, Ayla Nereo & the Polish Ambassador.

  • Arula

    Arula is a singer-songwriter, electronic music producer, DJ, & sound healing facilitator. She views music & movement as sacred expressions of a universal language; a language that unites and empowers people from all backgrounds.

    As a musician and movement artist she values expression as a path to awakening; a gateway to exploring the different parts of ourselves, the light & the shadow, exploring duality as a path to unity.

    She is the founder of Urban Mystic Movement & Sound and currently resides in San Francisco and where she makes music, facilitates monthly Moon gatherings, and co-creates events focused on vocal expression, somatic movement, live music, and sensuality.

  • Shawna

    Shawna began performing as a DJ in 1999 while living in the San Francisco Bay area, brewing eclectic fusions of global/future bass, moombahton, dancehall, cumbia, house, techno, disco, minimal, and tropical. She quickly became a favorite DJ on the west coast and beyond, performing at some of the most respected festivals including The BPM Festival, Miami Music Week, Garbiscz, Amsterdam Dance Event, Lightning in a Bottle, Global Eclipse, Art With Me, Summit Series, Air Festival, Art Basel, Symbiosis Gathering, Shambhala, Wonderfruit, The Gardens Of Babylon, Subsonic, Meadows in the Mountains, and legendary Burning Man art cars such as Robot Heart, Mayan Warrior and Abraxis. She has also played noteworthy venues The Brooklyn Mirage, Flash Club, Klein, The Grand Factory, Scorpios, The Midway, Monarch, 1015 Folsom, Public Works, Katerblau, Open Studios, and Sisyphos.

    Since 2013, Shawna has combined forces with Italian DJ/producer Tooker as the group KMLN (pronounced “chameleon”), known for their coveted hybrid/live performance that pioneered the organic house sound thriving today. The duo’s releases on major labels like Sol Selectas, Crosstown Rebels, Ouïe, Touch of Class, and Bar 25 , have received support from artists such as Solomun, Acid Pauli, Damian Lazarus, &ME, Rampa, David Meyer, and Bedouin.

  • Magdelion Moondrop

    Moondrop is merging the worlds of Producer, Vocalist, Violinist, DJ & Ceremonialist in her unique approach to creating her sets as a Ritualistic journey.

    Moondrop’s original offerings are an alchemical mix of multi instrumental self produced and collaborative tracks, invocations carefully crafted for the experience, the occasional ritual theater performance choreographed to her original compositions, electro-acoustic sound baths and DJ sets arranged for any occasion.

    Blending the Feminine Frequency of the Natural world with the ever evolving edges of bass and world music. Her sets are simultaneously a Prayer and an Invocation for the greater journey we are on as individuals and an opportunity to get down, deep and Dripping in the Juice of what it is to Fully Embody.

All classes located at the Siren&Seer (SaQi + Diamonde) recording studio in Nevada City

Nourishment

Enjoy 2 locally-sourced, Organic & vegan and gluten free friendly lunches, desserts, & tea

Choose our “full package” option and have your accommodation taken care of in this Chic Modern Victorian Farmhouse located just 10 minutes from town and the studio/workshop spaces.

Please note:

Minimum number students to run: 8 Maximun number of students: 15

Refund policy: No refunds. If there is a climate crisis (like a nearby fire), the retreat will be rescheduled the Spring, and all registrations will be allocated to the future retreat dates.

We do not discriminate. This retreat is for all femme-identified individuals.

If you have any questions, please reach out to hello@mindbodymusic.co