Island retreats with Mama Moon
Reclaiming Me!
Small, intimate retreats for women who have carried everything on their own, and are ready to come back to themselves.
A personal invitation
Hear it from Mama Moon
Before you read another word, let her tell you why these retreats exist — and who they were built for.
Why these retreats exist
I give people what
I wish I'd had.
When my marriage ended, I had zero support.
It was my idea, so I was supposed to be fine. My circle was deeply religious and nobody around me had been through it. My parents weren't happy. My sister was too young to understand. I walked away from the marriage and from a family I loved, and I did all of it by myself. I was drowning.
What I needed was somewhere warm to go. Real conversations with women who had lived it. Time in nature, good food, and enough space to not lose myself in the middle of it.
That wasn't the only time:
The hard years with my daughter.
The day my last grandparent passed.
The business I walked away from, completely burned out.
Eventually I took myself to an island for ten days. It was the best thing I had ever done, and it changed my life. Then I went and got the training, the resources, the nervous system work — and put it all together into this.
There comes a time
when making do
just won't do.
Mama Moon
This is not like anything you've been to.
What it isn't
Working the entire time.
Crying the entire time.
Rehearsing the same story you already know by heart.
A pile of new tools and a plane ride home alone with them.
What it is
Recharging from the inside out.
Yes, we do the work — and you also laugh, and rest.
Deep bonds with women from all over the world.
Coming home already integrated.
THE PHILOSOPHY
I don’t want a workaround for my own life.
Growing up, when something broke at the house it just never got fixed. Not because the repair was expensive. We simply made do. So the day I had a place of my own, I decided everything in it would work — something breaks, I call someone.
I hold my inner life to the same standard. I want to feel good in my own skin. I want to stop getting hijacked when someone says the wrong thing at the wrong moment. I want to be as healthy, as happy and as integrated as I can be — and do the work I was called to do in a way that’s actually fun.
If you’ve been telling yourself I don’t want this to be like this anymore, this is the chance to stop making do.
What the days hold
THE PLACE — An island
Beaches, warmth, and the places Mama Moon chose herself. There is something healing about being in nature — the islands do half the work.
THE CIRCLE — Kept small
Mama Moon hosts small-size retreats on purpose. Intimacy is what lets the room go deep.
THE WORK — The deep part
Nervous system work, honest conversation, and the tools she gathered after her own ten days away.
THE REST — Hiking, nature, doing nothing: Time outdoors, time to breathe, and time where nothing is required of you at all.
THE TABLE — Delicious food
Long meals, incredible food, and the conversations that only happen around a table.
WHAT YOU KEEP — Friendships and pictures: New friendships with women from all over the world — and photographs, so you remember who you were here.
Come on your own, it will be a blast and it will be healing. Or bring your bestie and rest together. Both work.
Retreat dates
When we gather.
January 17, 2027
through
January 23, 2027
Location:
Dominican Republic
May, 2027
Location:
Lisbon, Portugal
Tell Mama Moon in your application which dates call to you. If none of them work,
apply anyway, one-on-one retreats are arranged around you.
A glimpse
See it for yourself.
A few moments from the retreat, so you can picture yourself there before you apply.
A PERSONAL NOTE
Hey! I'm Cat Storing… but you can call me Mama Moon.
I know you.
You are the one everyone calls when they are falling apart. And you are exhausted in a way that sleep doesn’t fix.
I was you. Helping everyone heal while quietly running myself empty.
What changed was not another framework. It was the moment I stopped trying to think my way out of patterns that lived in my body.
I am Cat Storing. Certified somatics facilitator, seer, TEDx speaker and author. At 50 I came home to the woman I had always been.
That is what I am here to help you do. Not understand. Not cope. Come home.
Mi vida, your body was never the problem. It was always the way home.
I am ready when you are.
In their words
What women find on the other side.
Stepping into sovereignty, by letting yourself be held
“What happened at the immersion was me stepping into my sovereignty, and I couldn't do that by myself. I had to let myself be held. I had to rest… So much of my life has been spent thinking I need to do everything alone.”
- Inmersion Participant
Finding your voice, through the question your soul was waiting for
“Mama Moon, you asked me, ‘what's the real reason you did that thing?’ And that was the right question to ask me. Because I was not entirely sure. I was confused. I had a vague sense of why I was called to do it. But that question, in the moment you asked it, really pushed me to come forward with what I had remembered.”
- Inmersion Participant
Naming the wound, and discovering healing is an act of self-love
“After lying in the presence of these guardian spirits working together to heal me, I found my voice. I found the courage to name a traumatic childhood experience my memory had protected me from, and once I could name it, I could begin to forgive. It showed me that forgiveness is a form of self-love. That I have the ability to heal myself.”
- Inmersion Participant
How it works
The application is simple.
You apply: Mama Moon reads every application herself. Not an assistant, not a team, her.
You talk: A real conversation. She answers all of your questions, and you leave it with more clarity either way.
She invites you: If it’s a fit, you decide together: one-on-one with Mama Moon, or in a group — and which retreat, and when.