Inanna: Descent of the Goddess, held by Chameli Gad in Boulder, Colorado October 29 to 31, 2026.
A warm home to share with your circle in Longmont, the quieter town just northeast of Boulder, for far less than a Boulder hotel.
You are coming to Boulder this October for Inanna: Descent of the Goddess, Chameli Gad’s three-day retreat into the story of the great goddess who descended to the underworld and rose again, and into the deep, embodied work of the feminine soul. Work like that asks a lot of a body and a heart. When the day is done, there is a gift in having somewhere soft to return to, and someone to return there with.
This is that place. Soul Medicine Sanctuary is a home retreat space in Longmont, the first town northeast of Boulder. While Longmont has about the same population as Boulder, it is quieter here and the traffic far lighter than in Boulder proper. It’s an easy drive to Congregation Nevei Kodesh and a lovely exhale at the end of each day. Boulder itself can get pretty jammed up, and hotels and short-term rentals inside the city run high. Here you get a whole home to share, at a gentler price, in a calmer place to come home to, where you will be nurtured and attended to.
For the women coming to sit with Chameli
If you have been called to this retreat, you already feel the pull. Chameli Gad has spent more than thirty years walking the path of devotional, earth-honoring women’s spirituality, and she has a rare gift for making the old myths breathe again. This October she guides women down into the story of Inanna, the great descent and return, as a living map for our own thresholds and losses. It is embodied, mythic, tender work, the kind that asks you to bring your whole self and leaves you changed.
And if you have worked with her before, you know. You know how she can hold a circle of women in prayer and story until something ancient wakes up in the room. You know that a day in her presence stays in the body long after, and that what you will most want when it ends is somewhere soft and quiet to let it all settle.
That is what this home is for.
More than a place to sleep
I am Sabrina, and this is my home and the space where I hold retreats, ceremonies, and gatherings. I work as a spiritual doula and elder, holding space for people moving through thresholds, grief, and transformation, so I know something of the territory you will be walking these three days. I will be at the retreat as a full participant, so in the depths with you and in the circle beside you, though I will also be supporting the retreat at Nevi Kodesh and here in the sanctuary when you return each evening. Inanna’s descent is not generally gentle work, so there is something steadying about coming back from it to a house held by someone who spent the day in that same descent, and who knows what the body longs for when it is done.
Come together, and share the cost
There is a particular sweetness in not scattering to separate hotel rooms at the end of a days like these. When you stay here as a group, the retreat does not end when you leave Nevei Kodesh. It carries into the evening, into the kitchen, into the quiet before sleep, and you get to keep tending the bond you are weaving in the circle.
It is also simply kinder on the wallet. A home shared between several of you costs far less per person than a hotel or Airbnb for each of you, and staying under one roof means you do not each need your own car. You can ride to the retreat together, a car or two instead of five, and the drive itself becomes part of the container, a chance to arrive together and land together.
A place to land
The downstairs is yours to share with the others staying here for the retreat. You will find:
- A kitchen, for slow mornings and warm meals together.
- A great room to gather in, or to be quiet in
- A full bathroom with a walk-in shower and a double vanity, plus a powder room. A second full bathroom upstairs for spillover shower times.
- A wood fire to gather around on the cool October evenings
A space for gathering and creating
The downstairs is a mixed space, made for ceremony, yoga, movement, and rest as much as for sleep. Many of the things here are yours to use while you stay, so if you want to close your evenings with a little movement, a shared practice, or simply candlelight and a cup of tea, the room is ready for it. You can see more of what lives here on the Space and Equipment page.
Choose your preferred bed
Rooms are booked bed by bed, so you can come as a pair or bring your whole circle:
- A bunk: $50 a night
- A private queen room: $125 a night, or $175 for two of you sharing the queen
- The sofa bed in the great room: $100 a night, or $150 for two of you
The minimum stay is the two nights of the retreat itself, Thursday and Friday, October 29 and 30. From there you are welcome to add nights as you like, arriving Wednesday to settle in before it begins, and staying through Saturday, or even Sunday, to let it all land before you travel home. Because your bed is not finalized until everyone has been matched to a supportive bed (see How We Schedule Beds below), you reserve with a deposit rather than a fixed room rate. Your deposit is $60 per night plus a $25 room and bedding cleaning fee, and it holds your place while we settle the final assignments. Deposits are nonrefundable, with one exception: if another woman takes your spot, your full deposit is returned to you, less a 20 percent administration fee. A $125 cleaning fee for the shared common areas is split evenly among all guests and settled on arrival, once our final numbers are known. These fees are how we pay our cleaners a fair and sustainable wage, an ethic we are committed to.
How we schedule beds
This is community housing, a shared home where we hold the needs of everyone under this roof with care and with equity. That means the beds here are not handed out simply first come, first served. They are matched, thoughtfully, so that each woman is rested and safe and can give herself fully to the work of the retreat. When we lead with equity, the whole house is more at ease, and the closeness we are weaving in the circle carries into the evenings we share here. So here is how it works. Needs come before preferences. You are always welcome to tell me the bed you would love, and I will honor that wherever I can. But some bodies genuinely need a particular bed, and those needs come first.
A few of the things that shape where you land:
- Height: the twin XL beds in the NW room are longer, so taller women, roughly 5’9″ (175 cm) and up, are placed there first.
- Getting in and out: if climbing to a top bunk is hard on your body, or a physical issue makes a lower bed important, you are prioritized for a lower bunk.
- Weight: our twin bunks hold up to 175 pounds (79 kg), and the twin XL bunks hold up to 250 pounds (113 kg) on top and 300 pounds (136 kg) on the bottom. Anyone above a bunk’s limit is placed in a bed built to hold them.
- Rest: because sleep matters for all of us, heavy snorers are moved to the queen room or the sofa bed, away from the shared bunk rooms, so the whole house sleeps well.
Once needs are met, your preferences and the order of reservation guide the rest. Everything you share with me, the bed you hope for and the order in which you reserved, is written down and kept. So if five of you long for the queen and none has a medical, weight, or sleep need that calls for it, the first two to reserve are the ones who receive it.
The kindest thing you can do is tell me honestly what your body needs. Nothing you share is a burden. It is exactly what lets me place each of you where you will rest best, so that all of us are held.
Stay a little longer
Colorado in late October is its own kind of medicine, and it seems a shame to fly in and out of it in a single weekend. The cottonwoods along the creeks are turning gold, the foothills sit right at the western edge of town, and the mornings come in long and clear. Rocky Mountain National Park, the Boulder foothills, and a scatter of quiet mountain towns are all a short drive west, and there is something to be said for letting deep work settle slowly, with a few unhurried days in a beautiful place before you head home. The space is held for our group across these days, Wednesday through Sunday, and if you find you would like to stay longer still, you are warmly welcome to inquire and I will tell you what is possible.
Meals, made easy
The retreat runs long days, and the program does not include meals, so a home base with a warm kitchen is worth a great deal. You are welcome to cook for yourselves in the full kitchen. If you would rather be cared for, I may be able to arrange home-cooked meals, or a helper to keep the kitchen stocked and the coffee going, for an added fee. Tell me what would serve you, whether that is a warm dinner waiting when you come home in the evening, or simply a fridge that is full.
Little comforts
Because I hold retreats here, the house is already set up for a body and spirit that has spent all day in deep work. A few things you will find waiting:
- Yoga mats, if you want to move or stretch the day out of your body before bed (though we may be bringing them to Nevei Kodesh, you can always bring one home for the evening)
- Small things for the road, like electrolytes, lara bars and simple self-care, some kept out by contribution
- Slow coffee or tea in the morning before you head back to the circle
Getting there
The retreat is a short, easy drive from the house, out of Longmont’s quieter streets and down into Boulder. Because you are all under one roof, carpooling is simple to arrange, a car or two instead of five, which saves on gas and on the scramble for parking near the venue. I am happy to have a few of you ride along with me when there is room, though I will be arriving earlier and heading back later than the group, since I am both participating in the retreat and tending the space at Nevei Kodesh, so my hours will not suit everyone. The rest is easy to sort out among you, and the drive together can be a soft way to open and close each day.
Sharing the home, gently
This is a living, shared home, and we care for it together with love. A few tender things to know:
- This stay is held for women, in keeping with the circle you are joining. There is a particular safety and sweetness in a house full of women resting between days of deep work, and I want to protect that for you.
- I live on the upper floor with my housemate Kevin, and from time to time a guest of my own. In the spirit of full honesty, Kevin is a man, and while the downstairs is a women’s space and you are unlikely to cross paths with him as he works hours that make crossover unlikely, I would rather you know he is here than be surprised. He is a steady, trustworthy presence who knows how to show up. As a person who has had to, necessarily, caring far more masculine energy than I’d like to, its nice to have him around.
- You come in through the main door with your own keypad code, into a shared entry, and the whole downstairs is yours to settle into. Upstairs is my private home, though you may be invited to share the space.
- Shoes come off at the racks by the front door, so bring soft socks or slippers if you like something on your feet downstairs.
- We keep soft hours between 10pm and 6am, simply out of tenderness for the sleeping ones above. Not silence, just gentle voices and gentle sound.
Caring for the space
I open my home to you with a lot of trust, and I ask for the same care in return. Treat this place as you would a home you love, clean up after yourself, and leave it as you found it. The cleaning fee lets me reset the space between guests so it is fresh for the next weary traveler. It is not a license to leave a mess, so please be gentle with what is here. Wifi runs throughout but is least strong in the back rooms, and the bunks hold up to 175 pounds on the twin frames and 250-300 pounds on the twin-XL frames.
Reserve your beds
The retreat fills the days of October 29 to 31, and the beds here fill up alongside it. If a warm home to share with your circle sounds like the right way to end each day of the descent, reach out early to reserve your spots. The space has just completed renovations – pictures coming soon
What happens next
Once you have sent your request and I have confirmed a bed is available for you, I will email you to confirm your reservation, your deposit amount and the link to pay your deposit, though the link is also noted below. All guests must sign the Understandings and Agreements upon arrival – a link to that is included below so you know what you’re consenting to. And as always, if you have any more questions, just email me.