Women’s Energy Healing Retreat
Bougie Bond Camp
Break Cycles. Break Bread. Break Through.
STARTS MARCH 20-23 2026
Join us for a Women’s Retreat where laughter, self-discovery, and a renewed sense of purpose await those ready to leave behind feelings of being lost, underappreciated, and burdened by past traumas.
Fear, guilt, shame, self-doubt, unworthiness, and negative self-talk are patterns of trauma, and it’s time to release and shine!
Rooted & Radiant
🌿✨ Our 2026 Theme is Rooted & Radiant ✨🌿
Welcome to a space of deep discovery and radiant renewal — a place where you can exhale, soften your shoulders, and feel at home within yourself. Rooted & Radiant is a gentle, guided experience shaped by facilitators who bring deep awareness of trauma-informed care, burnout, compassion fatigue, and the subtle language of energy. Everything here is designed to support rest, reflection, and real-life healing — the kind that honors safety, choice, and nervous system ease, without requiring you to push, perform, or “fix” anything. This is the kind of space where transformation unfolds naturally, often while you’re wrapped in a blanket with a candle lit and a cup of something warm nearby.
This year, Bougie Bond Camp is gently shifting to a virtual experience. As our hosts move through real and tender seasons — caring for aging parents, tending to family health needs, and walking alongside our beloved Tonya during her ovarian cancer journey — we felt called to choose a path rooted in care and grace. This virtual format allows us to gather with the same depth, ritual, and connection, while creating more room for rest, flexibility, and a little extra softness. It’s a loving choice for this season, and one that reflects the true meaning of being Rooted & Radiant. ✨
📍 March 20-23, 2026 | Virtual Opening Ritual
The Rooted & Radiant Experience
Rooted & Radiant invites you to slow the pace, soften your shoulders, and come home to yourself — without leaving home at all (or choose any bougie space you feel will serve). This is a virtual retreat experience designed to unfold gently, allowing you to create sacred space right where you are, in your own time, in your own rhythm.
Our journey opens with a cozy, candlelit opening weekend, where guided reflection, ritual, meditation, and healing sound invite you to settle in and listen inward. From there, Rooted & Radiant continues to unfold across the weekend and year, through seasonal gatherings aligned with the Equinoxes and Solstices, offering ongoing moments of pause, integration, and renewal as the seasons shift around and within you.
There is no rushing here. No catching up. Just an invitation to arrive — again and again.
What Awaits You
✨ Guided Meditation & Sound Healing
Gentle practices that support nervous system regulation, release what no longer serves you, and create space for clarity and ease — whether you’re resting on the couch or curled up under a blanket.
✨ Theater-Based Reflection & Shared Experience
Thoughtfully guided exercises that invite insight and connection, without pressure to perform or share beyond what feels right.
✨ Seasonal Candle Circles
Four live virtual gatherings throughout the year, aligned with nature’s rhythms, offering continued support, reflection, and community well beyond the opening weekend.
✨ A Touch of Bougie, Delivered
A curated package arrives at your doorstep — your ritual candle, a printed seasonal journal, and creative materials — so you can create a sensory, meaningful experience at home.
✨ Space to Rest, Reflect, and Integrate
Built-in spaciousness for journaling, creative expression, and rest, allowing insights to land gently and naturally.
A Gentle Invitation
Rooted & Radiant is not about doing more or becoming something new.
It’s about remembering what’s already within you — and giving it room to breathe.
If you’re longing for a retreat experience that feels nourishing, accessible, and deeply human, we would love to welcome you into this seasonal journey.
Light a candle. Get comfortable.
We’ll meet you there 🤍
Why?
The story of a woman:
She is tired — not the kind of tired that sleep fixes, but the kind that settles into the bones.
The tired that comes from carrying so much, for so long, without setting it down.
She is the one who keeps things moving.
Who notices what needs to be done before anyone else does.
Who remembers appointments, emotions, birthdays, details, worries.
She holds space at work, at home, in relationships — often quietly, often invisibly.
She does what needs to be done because someone has to.
Because she can.
Because she always has.
And most days, she doesn’t even question it.
She pushes through exhaustion.
She tells herself she’ll rest later.
She convinces herself this is just how life is right now.
But the truth is, the giving never really stops — and somewhere along the way, she stopped being included in it.
She offers patience, compassion, and care to everyone else.
She shows up even when she’s running on empty.
She keeps going, even when her body and heart are asking for pause.
And what hurts the most is not that she gives —
it’s that the giving rarely turns back toward her.
She has learned how to be strong.
She hasn’t always learned how to be held.
And yet… beneath the exhaustion, beneath the doing, something still lives.
A quiet knowing.
A soft light that hasn’t gone out — only been buried under responsibility and expectation.
There is a part of her that remembers what it feels like to rest without guilt.
To be without proving.
To receive without earning.
This is the moment that part is invited forward.
Not to fix her life.
Not to add one more thing to her list.
But to let her be human again.
To set the weight down — even briefly.
To breathe without bracing.
To remember that she was never meant to carry everything alone.
This is not a demand for change.
It is a permission slip.
A remembering that she is allowed to turn toward herself.
Allowed to soften.
Allowed to receive the same care she so freely gives.
And in that remembering, something gentle begins to rise —
not urgency, not pressure, not performance.
Just her.
Still here.
Still whole.
Still quietly radiant.
This is not just a story. It’s a remembering — yours, unfolding.
About Your Coaches
Deanna Salles-Freeman
Deanna infuses gratitude, love, and confidence into those who feel broken and lost. With several coaching certifications and a Master NLP, she provides a proven framework and the tools to help you find your laughter after trauma.
Deanna is a speaker, educator, coach, and #1 international bestselling author, bringing light and lightness to the heavy topic of trauma. Her area of expertise is intimate partner violence, which extends to interpersonal trauma. “We all have the power to self-heal and triumph; my mission is to provide hope, awareness, connection, and community, sharing that there is laughter after!”
Deanna creates memories and experiences with her husband, two grown kids, and five grandkids when she is not working. “Linner” and travel are her favorite ways to make memories.
Tonya Booksh
Tonya Booksh is a Certified Oola Life Coach, Traditional Naturopath, Master Sound Healer, and certified in several other alternative health modalities. She is passionate about helping others on their own wellness journey and inspiring women to listen to their inner voice.
Tonya is a wife to her husband of 32 years, mother to 3 grown children, and YaYa to 3 amazing grandchildren. In her spare time, you may see her dancing down the street with the Mande Milkshakers, a 30-and-over dance Krewe or simply enjoying life with friends and family. She likes to live by the motto, “There are no mistakes, only learning opportunities.”
Aimee Baudier
Aimee is a Certified Oola Life Coach and specializes in work-life balance. After her 30+ years in the corporate world, her marriage disintegrated, and she lost her zest for fun. This led her on her own healing journey and to becoming a coach to help others avoid falling into the trap of all work and no play.
Aimee is a speaker who advocates bringing whole health benefits into the workplace, providing business owners and leaders with programs and products that elevate the work environment and make for happy employees. When not coaching, you will find her with the love of her life, her bonus son, and her family, soaking up precious time together or chatting with her birds.
5 Reasons to Sign Up Now
- This is the first step to healing.
- Community of like-minded women.
- Transformational tools that carry into your life.
- Immersive sound healing you will never forget.
- You are worthy of self-care.
Register yourself or as a group.
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