The DAUGHTER OF SWORDS lives in a world of ultracreativity & ultraviolence. She was born to forge a new path, a new language, a new way.
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She feels the impulse of her knowing, her subtle center, and picks up her sword to aim at new coordinates. You are her, and these coordinates are where we meet, for there are many daughters.
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We gather to reclaim the fierce and tender feminine wisdom of all those who come before us. Through the body, the dreams, and the group, we find joy in the gilded task of being alive.
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WHAT TO EXPECT
Three days of intuitive, shamanic, somatic, and warrior practices with Kim Krans, Adriana Rizzolo, and Kendra Smith.
WHO IS IT FOR
ALL WOMEN or femme identifying.
Daughter, mother, sister, woman, warrior, goddess, crone. Come as you are. No experience is needed. All are welcome.
WHEN / WHERE
Thursday, October 29 _
Sunday, November 1, 2026
Santa Monica Bay Women’s Club
Thursday | 6pm - 8pm
Friday & Saturday | 9am - 6pm
Sunday | 9am - 12pm
*Accommodations & food are not included. There will be a daily break for lunch.
YOUR GUIDES
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Kim Krans
SYMBOLS // DREAMWORK
Kim is the Creator of The Wild Unknown— a visionary artist, writer, and lifelong student of the archetypal image.
Kim works with what lives below the surface — the inner images, the symbols, the language that arrives before thought. Through yoga nidra, dreamwork, writing, and drawing, she teaches you to see what you already know and how bring it into the world. -
Adriana Marie Rizzolo
EROS // DEVOTION
Adriana is a somatic sex educator, artist, and founder of Body Temple and Dark Goddess Doula.
For nearly two decades, she has held transformational space rooted in embodied spirituality, shadow work, and sacred feminine practice. Adriana works at the exquisite intersection where creativity, eros, grief, spirituality, and healing meet to guide you to return to the body's intelligence, the sacredness of feeling, the essence of love that is our true nature. -
Kendra Smith
KICKBOXING // EMPOWERMENT
Kendra Scurlock has spent two decades infiltrating spaces normally reserved for men, racing toward fear, and insisting with the most ferocious love that others do the same.
Kendra will move you. She has been training women to feel their strength — inside out — for over 20 years. Martial arts-inspired group forms — katas built around our archetypes, an army of women moving powerfully together. Kickboxing. Self-defense. Elemental movement. She takes women to places they've never been for their ultimate expansion.
THIS RETREAT IS FOR YOU IF…
You are interested in dreamwork, carrying the living symbols of our world, the subtle and the contradictory.
You want to support a legacy of creativity. You’re drawn to create in relation to the mystery of the body, and channeling the depth of your feeling into art.
You want to be in a room where women gather to feel their power, move, release, channel, and alchemize.
You’re inclined to spirituality that embraces the body, and art in connection to healing.
You are ready to cut the threads keeping you from your highest potential.
SAMPLE SCHEDULE
*This is simply an example—
the flow of each day will be organic
and nourishing for all.
Morning Session
Dreamwork
with Kim
Mid Morning Session
Warrior Practices & Movement
with Kendra
Lunch
Afternoon Session
Somatics & Eros
with Adriana
Evening Session
Yoga Nidra & Symbols
with Kim
INVESTMENT
$ 999
through September 15, 2026
after
$ 1,111
Enter a powerful, collective ritual space that feels like an ancestral exhale. Awaken, remember, honor, and embody your infinite facets. Your inner poet, warrior, priestess, goddess, witch, child…all of you that exists beyond the bounds of your mind.
HIGHLIGHTS
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Symbols & Dreams
with Kim
Dreamwork, Yoga Nidra, and meditation. We’ll be traversing the liminal & visionary realms. Expect writing and art-making.
Somatics & Eros
with Adriana
Body Temple Dance, womb and voice activation, and archetypal embodiment.
Expect breath, chanting, and dance.
Strength & Empowerment
with Kendra
Warrior philosophy, elemental movement, and self-defense. Expect to move & sweat.
*No experience necessary
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Enter a powerful, collective ritual space that feels like an ancestral exhale. Awaken, remember, honor, and embody your infinite facets. Your inner poet, warrior, priestess, goddess, witch, child…all of you that exists beyond the bounds of your mind.
What People Are Saying
“Endlessly grateful for Adriana and my evolution from frozen good girl to underworld goddess to unhinged sad clown inside the body temple ritual theater collective. When you have access to your rage, you have access to the deep wisdom you're here to share with the world AND the container and boundaries to make it happen.”
— TC
“Kim put me in touch with a force inside of me I was not acquainted with previously. This changed my life! I am so so grateful, and I cannot give a higher recommendation.”
— ES
“Not only is Kendra the toughest lady in body and spirit I know, she also encourages you to push your limits, make friends with self-confidence, and reads those moments when you need to either pound it out or just breathe (and weep) at life’s curveballs.”
— CS
Questions?
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Santa Monica Bay Womens Club in Santa Monica, California
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Thursday, October 29 - Sunday, November 1, 2026
Thursday: 6pm - 8pm
Friday & Saturday: 9am - 6pm
Sunday: 9am - 12pm -
If you travel from out of town, we recommend Airbnb or a local hotel. There will be no food or accommodation provided, but there is an abundance of both within walking and Uber distance.
You’ll receive a guide of local recommendations upon sign-up. -
You need no experience to participate. You can simply do what feels good for you throughout the experience. Kendra is an expert at working with all levels and bodies and Kim and Adriana also hold spaces inclusive for all.
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We are not sure yet, so if you feel the call, sign up!
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This retreat is non-refundable. If you are unable to attend, email us at studio@kimkrans.com and we can credit your registration to a future virtual experience with Kim.
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Yes! Email us at studio@kimkrans.com
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Yes! If you are in the United States you can select “Klarna” as the payment method and pay monthly. If you are international, we can provide you a PayPal payment plan if you email us at studio@kimkrans.com.
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Due to the intimate nature of this work, the immersion is capped at 60 spots. We recommend registering as soon as possible as we expect to sell out.
