The Ocean of Devotion 

A Sacred Women's Retreat on a Private Catamaran
 Sea of Cortez, Mexico | October 27–30, 2025
6 Women .  4 Days .  1 Sacred Vessel  

 

 

 

 

  

Devotion is a path home, back to the Source of Being.
As you gently step onto this path, you are invited into the depths of recognition, a profound remembering of who you truly are.

 

Devotion is an endless well that deepens as you awaken to the beauty within you and the beauty that surrounds you. During our days together aboard a private catamaran in the pristine waters of the Sea of Cortez, you’ll be guided into a deeper embodiment of love, not through effort or striving, but through surrender. 

I'm Ready to Enter the Ocean of Devotion

Wave after wave, we will soften.
We will melt the armor.
We will dissolve the doubts.
We will remember. 

This is not a retreat for self-improvement.
This is a sacred act of surrender to the truth that already lives inside you.

 

"To be devoted is to let the heart become an ocean—deep, surrendered, and endlessly giving."
 — Inspired by the Bhakti tradition

At the heart of this offering is the presence of Saraswati, goddess of wisdom, creativity, art, sound, and sacred flow. She is the river of intuition, the keeper of mantra, the embodiment of refined devotion.

In this retreat, we connect to Saraswati as a living presence within:

  • The discipline and sweetness of spiritual practice

  • The sacredness of living in reverence & presence

  • The flowing intelligence that arises when we attune to beauty, silence, and grace

Her current will guide our days: subtle, intelligent, creative, and profoundly still.

What We’ll Explore

 

Through devotional and sacred practices inspired by Saraswati, you’ll begin to experience life not as a series of challenges, but as a living celebration.
Each moment becomes a gateway.
Each breath, an offering.

PRACTICES INCLUDED:

  • Devotional embodiment practices

  • Traditional Tantric rituals and body-honoring practices

  • Guided inquiry + sacred sharing

  • Gentle ceremony and acknowledgment of the body as divine vessel

  • Deep remembrance as a child of God/Goddess

  • Time for rest, journaling, and communion with the sea

  • Spontaneous moments of reverence, wonder, and sisterhood
     
  • Online Welcome call & Integration call post-retreat
Yes- I'm Saying Yes to Sacred Devotion

Together, our devotion becomes the rudder of our lives.

Your Vessel: The Sea + The Self

As we sail through the Sea of Cortez, our catamaran becomes both cradle and altar. The ocean is our teacher, its movement, our metaphor.

We are held by the waters.
We are guided by the winds.
We become women who live by the flow of devotion.

 

Who This Is For

This intimate retreat is for women who:

  • Long for a deeper connection to the sacred
  • Have done healing and integration work and have a longing to go deeper
  • Are ready to move beyond performance and perfection
  • Feel called to live in reverence, presence, beauty, and embodied grace
  • Crave softness, stillness, and sacred sisterhood
  • Wish to explore devotion as a living, embodied path, not apart from their lives, but woven through them
  • Desire practices that can be carried into daily life, especially as mothers, partners, and women in service

These practices are not something you leave behind on the retreat, they become living anchors you can return to even in the chaos of parenting or the intimacy of relationship. They invite you to return again and again to presence, to beauty, to the breath that connects you to all.

No prior experience with spiritual practice or devotion is required, only a willing heart.

 

“Whatever you love with presence becomes your path.” — Unknown

What’s Included

  • 3 nights / 4 days aboard a luxury private catamaran - October 27th - 30th, 2025

  • All meals lovingly prepared (vegetarian-friendly)

  • All guided practices, ceremonies, and sacred materials

  • Snorkeling, paddle boarding and exploration of hidden, uninhabited islands

  • Sacred rest, integration, and reflection time

  • Intimate circle of only 6 women

Investment & Payment Details

 

Early Bird Price: $2,749 USD
 – Hold your place with a $500 deposit by July 15, 2025
 – Followed by 3 monthly payments of $749

Regular Price (after July 15): $3,249 USD
 – 3 monthly payments of $1,083

By Invitation Only. Limited to 6 women.
 Spots are limited and will fill quickly.

*All meals and lodging included. Flights and ground transportation not included.

 

Reserve Your Place

This is an intimate journey.
If you feel the sacred call to join us, we invite you to hold your place today.

Reserve My Spot – $500 Deposit

What Is Your Devotion?

You don’t need a defined spiritual path to be here.
 Devotion already lives within you, in your love for your children, your craft, your home, your land.

In this retreat, we will honor what already flows through you.
 We will explore how every act, from cooking to prayer, from touch to silence, can become a sacred offering to the Great Mystery.

YOUR GUIDES

AUDE BARRAS - Tantric Lineage Practitioner, Pilgrimage Guide, Devotee of the Rose

 

Having found solace in yoga and meditation from a young age, Aude has spent the last 15 years seeking an authentic connection to delight and the deep nectar known to pulse and flow within the heart of the essence of life.

After exploring various spiritual paths, she was graced with the ƚrÄ« Vidyā lineage, under the guidance of Maa Uma-Parvathi Natha, which opened a doorway to an intimate relationship with the divine. For the past seven years, this path of devotion has become the very breath of her life, an immersion in teachings that continue to fulfill her deepest longing: the merging of masculine and feminine, human and divine, and how to incarnate as love and delight.

Beyond the realm of the mind, Aude surrendered to a relentless call, walking the trails where Magdalene is said to have journeyed after her exile. This journey of devotion, a mystery still unfolding, led her to a winter solstice in Avebury, a site dedicated to the Goddess, where a stone whispered, “It is time to bring people on the land to simply be Love.”

Since then, Aude has guided intimate pilgrimages of remembrance, inviting participants to rediscover their own inherent beauty and reawaken the long-forgotten lines of the Rose in southern France.

Aude’s life is deeply immersed in the worship of Devī, the Goddess, and she dedicates herself to preserving ancient wisdom through the creation of temples of beauty. A student of the arts of beauty under the guidance of masters worldwide, she serves as a channel for love, guiding others to remember their divine essence. Her vision is to create spaces where pleasure is revered as sacred medicine, offering safe havens for students and devotees of the divine feminine.

Half Swiss-Canadian, Aude currently divides her time between India and Saint Baume in Southern France, offering a steady and integrated path for others to cultivate an intimate relationship with devotion and the truth of being, fostering a sangha, a community of kindred spirits walking together with unwavering integrity and love.

 

LESLIE L. BOST - Spiritual Director, Retreat Leader, Devotee of the Rose & Mother of Four

 

Leslie is a nomadic mother, mystic, and spiritual director who lives between Mexico and France with her husband and four children. As the founder of Casa Damara and Sabios Parenting, she is devoted to the path of sacred feminine embodiment, conscious family living, and devotional service.

Her work is rooted in the belief that devotion is a way of life, not something we do, but something we are. As a mother of four, devotion is not just a practice, but the pulse of her every breath. It is the sacred thread that has deepened her connection to God, Goddess, her beloved, her children, and herself. Presence has become her greatest ally, guiding her to relate with more grace, awareness, and compassion in all her relationships.

With a background in trauma healing, spiritual psychology, intuitive intelligence, sacred parenting, meditation, Leslie brings over a decade of study with teachers like Dr. Shefali Tsabary, Dr. Gabor Maté, Suzi Lula, Ricci-Jane Adams, and Yvonne Laborde. Most recently, she has been immersed in Tantric lineages that honor the Goddess, with a heart deeply devoted to Saraswati, the muse, the discipline, and the silence behind every sacred word.

A community builder at heart, Leslie weaves connections wherever she goes, whether hosting retreats in France, California, or Mexico, or gathering women in sacred circles. Her nomadic life has taught her to see the sacred in the everyday and the divine in all. She believes every woman holds a wellspring of wisdom within her, and that when we come together in presence, we remember who we truly are.

This retreat is an offering from her heart, a space for you to soften, open, and return to the quiet knowing already living inside you.

 

Count Me In, With an Open Heart