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We want to honor those who move through time like a slow, flowing creek and those who live inside the realities of jobs, travel, and schedules shaped by the colonial construct of time. We also want to honor the facilitators by giving them the space they need to offer the wisdom we are gathering for. This retreat brings many truths into one place, and our agenda is designed to hold all of them with care.

Please consider our time together as ceremony. In ceremony, arrival matters because we are entering a shared vessel of intention. The opening circle is the one moment when we ask everyone to arrive on time. This is where we begin to build trust, take gentle risks, and create the intimacy that helps us feel safe together. Once we begin, think of the agenda as a bowl rather than a clock, something that holds us rather than directs us.

The flow of the retreat will move like the tide. There is shape and rhythm, and there is also space to breathe, pause, and listen. Meals will be served at set times because food preparation and serving require coordination, labor, and attention to safety. All other activities are invitations, not obligations. If you need rest or solitude, we encourage you to honor that need and receive whatever is calling you in the moment.

We have intentionally created spaciousness between sessions so we are not moving from one thing to the next without time to integrate. These pauses are for digestion of body and spirit. Facilitators will also respond in real time to the needs of the group, so the agenda may shift with the wisdom and energy of the circle. Nothing is fixed.

The retreat will formally close at the scheduled time, though participants are welcome to take their time leaving the space. If you wish to linger in conversation or find a quiet moment before returning to daily life, you are invited to do so. The official hosting will be complete, and the space will remain gentle for your departure.

Dra. Serina Payan Hazelwood (Dra/She/Ella) is a queer, Indigenous Chicana scholar, educator, and community gatherer. Steward of The Elsewheres, she creates spaces for learning rooted in ceremony, storywork, and embodied practice. She holds a PhD in Sustainability Education and an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Prescott College and is currently pursuing a second master’s in Regenerative Design. As an AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator, Organizational Provider, and Supervisor in Training, her work bridges professional education with Indigenous and decolonial pedagogies. Living on Kumeyaay lands in Playas de Rosarito, she teaches from a core truth: violence to the land is violence to our bodies. Guided by the Nahui Ollin, her work re-animates Chingonisma as a body of knowledge that restores voice, memory, and communal power. Through The Elsewheres, Serina stewards spaces where people remember themselves, practice accountability, and build futures with land, body, and ancestors in right relation.

Serina will guide participants through somatic grounding, movement, and voice practices that reconnect the tongue, womb, and fascia as sites of remembering. She will offer teachings on Malinche as archetype, experiential work on embodied voice and Chingonisma, and a music circle that invites collective sound as medicine. Her facilitation centers ceremony, intimacy, and embodied truth.

Kellie Ryan (she/her) is a Certified Sexuality Educator, somatic practitioner, and Licensed Massage Therapist whose work centers the body as a source of wisdom, pleasure, and truth. With nearly two decades of experience in embodied practice, Kellie creates spaces where people can explore sexuality, intimacy, and self expression without shame, performance, or stigma.

Kellie’s approach is grounded in the belief that the body holds knowledge that cannot be accessed through cognition alone. Through movement, breath, imagination, and mindful presence, she supports people in reconnecting with their erotic intelligence as a healing force that strengthens intimacy with self and others. Her work invites curiosity, play, and gentleness, allowing participants to meet themselves with honesty and care.

As an AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator, Kellie is committed to culturally responsible, consent based, and non stigmatizing sexual education. She works with individuals, groups, and professionals, supporting exploration around pleasure, desire, changing bodies, identity, and relational patterns. Her facilitation style is warm, irreverent, and deeply relational, grounded in the understanding that liberation and laughter often travel together.

Kellie is queer, poly, and kink affirming, and she brings a clear ethical framework to her work that prioritizes agency, embodied consent, and respect for complexity. She does not position herself as the source of transformation, but as a skilled witness and guide, trusting each person’s body to lead its own unfolding.

In Mole and Movement, Kellie facilitates somatic movement sessions that invite participants into the sacred erotic through sensation, breath, and presence. Her offerings support participants in restoring intimacy with their bodies, expanding relational capacity, and remembering pleasure as a source of resilience, creativity, and connection.

Chef Silvana Salcido Esparza (Chef/She/Doña) is an award-winning chef, visionary, and cultural warrior whose work has redefined Mexican cuisine in the United States. Born into a family of bakers with an 800-year legacy, she blends ancestral traditions with fearless creativity and a lifelong commitment to justice. After studying at the Scottsdale Culinary Institute, she traveled across Mexico learning from traditional cooks, a journey that shaped her mission to reclaim and elevate Mexican gastronomy as art, history, and resistance. Founder of the renowned Barrio Café in Phoenix and its sister projects, Chef Silvana has earned nine James Beard nominations while centering food as activism. She created Taller de Cocina Mexicana in Playas de Rosarito, a free culinary program teaching youth ancestral and contemporary cooking as pathways to empowerment. Her book, La Hija de La Chingada: Chronicles of a Mexican Chef, is available in Spanish and English. Through flavor, art, and radical love, she continues to protect culture and nourish her communities today.

Chef Silvana will nourish the circle through meals prepared with ancestral intention, creativity, and deep cultural memory. Her food is ceremony, crafted to honor the wisdom of the tongue and the generative power of the womb. Through her artistry and presence, participants will experience nourishment as teaching, as healing, and as a form of love that sustains both body and spirit. Her meals invite guests to slow down, savor, and remember the lineage carried through flavor, texture, and care.A seasoned chef and baker with a rich background in the restaurant industry, she has worked in many fine dining establishments, including the Ritz Carlton in 2017. As of 2023, Jessenia has transitioned to the role of an educator. Currently shaping young minds at a Seattle, WA title one school, she has become a beacon of light and support for both students and staff, pushing the boundaries of culinary education and increasing opportunity for all students. Her journey reflects not only her personal success but a commitment to being a safe space for others. 

Passionate about giving back to the migrant communities similar to those who helped raise her, Jessenia has realized a career milestone as a culinary instructor. Her goal is to empower Latinx and other students of color coming from disadvantaged backgrounds and showing them a mirror of possibility and potential. Jessenia’s story is one of triumph, resilience, and the embodiment of breaking barriers.