Retreat to Your Root: A Pelvic Centered Wellness Retreat

with Dr. Casie Danenhauer Humble, Veronica Rottman, and Dr. Uchenna Ossai as special guest

In Santa Margarita, San Luis Obispo County, Central Coast California  

January 6 - 9, 2022

Dr. Casie Humble, DPT is thrilled to be returning to Sagrada and co-leading Retreat to Your Root with Veronica Rottman and special guest, Dr. Uchenna Ossai, DPT. Retreat to Your Root is a unique pelvic-centered wellness retreat. The retreat is deep immersion focused on pelvic health, womxn’s wellness, community building, and self (and community) -care as the ultimate strategies to maximizing whole system health. The weekend will feature engaging lectures, yoga and gentle embodiment/movement practices, group discussion, special guest speakers, and connection with community. Dr. Casie and Veronica will offer creative activities centered around womb wellness and awareness of the menstrual cycle with an aim to promote empowerment and presence through connecting one’s center.  Retreat to Your Root is open to all people with wombs (past or present) who are comfortable in a woman-centered environment. The content will be geared towards biological anatomy, the menstrual and menopausal experience and is appropriate for those of all ages with interest in pelvic health and the mind-body connection.

Dr. Casie will lead discussions and lectures mapping out the anatomy and the physiology of the pelvic floor and core systems- both from an allopathic medicine point of view and an esoteric one. She will discuss pelvic floor function and coordination as well common "conditions" that may benefit from more pelvic floor awareness. The lecture material will be followed by mindful movement practices and exercises aimed at embodying the information into physical form.

Veronica will teach menstrual fluency and pelvic embodiment and the anatomical, physiological, emotional, and energetic systems of the root. This will be an embodied re-education with movement, breath-work and self-palpation exercises to generate a felt-sense of what we learn in the body.

Dr. Uchenna Ossai will be adding to the program with a special offering focused on developing and understanding the sensual and sexual self. There will be dance moves, lots of laughs, and a very fun discussion about all things “sexytime”.

About our teachers
Dr. Casie Danenhauer Humble is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, yoga instructor, and owner of Enlighten Physical Therapy in Culver City, CA. Her mission is to provide conscious care for her pelvic health clients through education and embodiment practices. She combines her skills as a pelvic floor PT and yoga instructor to facilitate a unique and holistic path towards healing both individually and in group settings. Her philosophy maintains a balance between evidence-based science and an integrative consideration of yoga therapy including the physical, emotional, energetic, and spiritual systems for maximizing whole person wellness.

Dr. Casie leads workshops, retreats, and teaches pelvic health internationally. She has a one year old daughter and has dedicated her career in pelvic health towards empowering people by connecting to their roots. 

VERONICA ROTTMAN is a Holistic Pelvic Care Practitioner, a birth doula trainer, yoga teacher, and womb healing guide. Her aim is to hold space for healing through a trauma-informed lens, guiding her clients through embodied re-education of the pelvic bowl, the menstrual cycle, birth and more. She integrates her experience working with clients along the full spectrum of pelvic and womb care with her skills as a yoga teacher and doula to help guide clients back to balance and embodiment. Veronica engages in healing from a root-cause approach that considers all realms including the body, mind and spirit.
Veronica holds space for private clients, classes, immersions, and retreats internationally. She is a mother of two little boys and is very passionate about her career in helping others find well-being through pelvic embodiment and womb healing.

Special guest,Dr. Uchenna “UC” Ossai of YouSeeLogicis a sex-positive pelvic health physical therapist and sexuality educator and counselor. Dr. UC is assistant professor at the University of Texas Dell Medical School and also serves as pelvic health program manager at UT Health Austin. She is on faculty for the University of Michigan, School of Social Work’s Sexual Health Certification Program. Dr. UC is one of few licensed physical therapists in the world with an AASECT certification in sexuality counseling; as well as the only Black physical therapist with this specific designation. Dr. UC spends her days treating people with both sexual and pelvic floor dysfunction, and her evenings educating the masses on everything that has to do with “sexytime”. When it comes to sexual intelligence and great sex education, UC embraces always being unapologetically real, happily crunk, and deliciously kind.

Retreat investment includes all meals (the food will be vegetarian), lodging for 4 days/3 nights, full access to the yoga room/props, hot tub, walking trails, and all retreat programming.

Check in will be around 2:30pm on 1/6/22, check out around 12pm on 1/9/22.

There are a few room options including singles, shared rooms, shared bed (if you bring a friend). All rates include tax. 

Single king or queen bedroom: $1675

Shared king or queen bed: $1320 each (bring a friend and get a discount)

Full bed in shared room: $1220

Twin bed in open loft/semi-private: $1220