Temple of Devotion Retreat

Before you serve the world, come home to you.

Marissa in a red dress beside a wooded stream and small waterfall.

The retreat

Temple of Devotion is a long weekend devoted to rest, ritual, sisterhood, pleasure, and sacred embodiment.

Women gathered in a circle on blankets in a sunlit garden, with flowers and ritual objects between them.

Through cacao, somatic and erotic practices, nourishing meals, movement, ceremony, and time on the land, you are invited deeper into your body, your pleasure, and your own devotion.

A weekend to soften, receive, awaken your aliveness, and remember what becomes possible when you are deeply tended to.

Marissa with her eyes closed, framed by soft cream lace.

Your retreat guide

Marissa Rose

I’m a women’s spiritual mentor, intimacy coach, and lifelong student of what it means to be fully alive inside a human body.

I work with the whole woman. Body and belief. Sex and spirit. Nervous system and desire. Relationships and ritual. Healing and creation.

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Dates + location

December 11–14, 2026 · Henry, Illinois

Long weekend retreat · three nights

Friday afternoon arrival, two full days together, and a Monday morning closing.

Sunlight falling on cream hammock chairs beside wooden windows at Temple of Devotion.

Four thresholds. A deeper you.

Friday afternoon

The Root

Arrival + Remembering Safety

Arrive. Exhale. Let the root of your body meet the root of the earth. We begin slowly—landing in the body, exploring embodied consent, weaving sisterhood, and creating safety.
Saturday

The Heart + Womb

Softening + Listening

We open through cacao, embodiment, guided lymphatic drainage + breast massage, releasing what no longer needs to be carried. Then we descend. Into the womb. Into desire. Into the quiet voice beneath the noise.
Sunday

Eros

Awakening + Aliveness

From the root, heart + womb, we invite the fire. Through mindful erotic practice, sensual embodiment, breath, movement + pleasure, we explore Eros as life force—the part of you that remembers how fucking good it is to be alive.
Monday morning

Devotion

Integration + Return

Before we return to the world, we gather for an early morning ritual of devotion, integration + remembrance. Not asking, “How do I hold onto this?” But rather:

What if this woman was never somewhere else?
What if I was simply coming home to her?

Charity Luce Colón smiling beside an earthen oven, holding a wooden board of freshly prepared food.

Your retreat chef is more than just a chef…

Meet Charity Luce Colón

Charity Luce Colón would describe her path as a Village Wise Woman in Training. Since her younger years in the pine forests of East Texas, she has communed with plants and foods of the forest as her friends. She thrives on cultivating community nourishment. From foraging and saving seeds to planting food forests and preparing farm-to-table dining experiences off-grid in the jungle, her aim is to facilitate a deeper relationship with our food, with each other, and with ourselves.

She walks the lifelong path of ancestral midwifery and has had the privilege of journeying with women through their birth and postpartum initiations. She loves to explore the edge of aliveness through making music, dancing, movement of all kinds, and making the most delicious and medicinal foods possible. For the last three years, Charity has resided in the mountains of Borikén (aka Puerto Rico) with her Love of fourteen years, where they continue the quest to be in right relationship with all living things and co-create the world in nature as nature.

Rooms + investment

A look inside the farmhouse

Explore the bedrooms and shared spaces. Select a photograph to see it in full.

View the farmhouse & rooms 12 photographs

A farmhouse living room with a green sectional sofa, round coffee table, dining table and wooden staircase. — Living & gathering spaces

A woman reading beside a large window in a farmhouse sitting room, with an armchair and hammock. — The picture window

Cream hammock chairs beside sunlit wooden windows. — A place to rest

A bed with white linens and an orange, cream and black crocheted blanket over its wooden footboard. — The Sisterhood Suite

The Sisterhood Queen: a black iron queen bed with white linens in the shared Sisterhood Suite, in the same room as the twin bunk beds. — Sisterhood Queen

A twin bed tucked into a wood-paneled alcove beneath a window, with a wicker chair beside it. — The Solitude Sanctuary

A wooden bed with white linens in a paneled room with framed pictures, a window and a circular wooden wall decoration. — Rose Room Sanctuary

A wicker chair beside a window and the wooden bed in the Rose Room. — A quiet corner of the Rose Room

A double bed with white linens in a bright room with white plank walls and wooden floors. — Empress Chamber

Sunlight across an antique wooden dresser topped with a glass lamp, beside a wooden-framed window. — Farmhouse details

A wooden writing desk and wicker chair beside a sunlit window and mirror. — Room for reflection

Burning logs in a circular brick fire pit on the farmhouse grounds. — Gathering by the fire

The prices shown are full retreat prices. Early bird prices through October 25, 2026. Enter the code shown for your room at checkout. Standard prices apply from October 26.

All rooms currently available. Two- or three-month payment plans available at checkout.

Sisterhood Twin

Twin bunk in the Sisterhood Suite.

Early birdThrough October 25 · with codeUse EARLYBIRD at checkout: $444
StandardFrom October 26: $555

Reserve Sisterhood Twin

Sisterhood Queen

Queen bed in the Sisterhood Suite, in the same room as the twin bunk beds.

Early birdThrough October 25 · with codeUse EARLYBIRD at checkout: $533
StandardFrom October 26: $633

Reserve Sisterhood Queen

Solitude

A private room with a twin bed, for one person.

Early birdThrough October 25 · with codeUse EARLYBIRD at checkout: $588
StandardFrom October 26: $688

Reserve Solitude

Rose Room

A private room for you, or to share with a friend. The same total room price either way.

Early birdThrough October 25 · with codeUse EARLYBIRDQUEEN at checkout: $666
StandardFrom October 26: $888

Reserve Rose Room

Empress Chamber

A private room for you, or to share with a friend. The same total room price either way.

Early birdThrough October 25 · with codeUse EARLYBIRDQUEEN at checkout: $666
StandardFrom October 26: $888

Reserve Empress Chamber

Your reservation journey

Choose your room
Review the room and reservation details.
Reserve your place
Complete your payment and receive confirmation.
Prepare for the retreat
Complete your participant agreement and onboarding.
Plan your arrival
Review your travel, room and dietary arrangements.

Before you book

Refunds are available until October 18, 2026. No refunds after that date. If Marissa cancels the retreat, a full refund will be given.

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