A private wellness retreat for women who lead · November 11–15, 2026
Ten women. One table. For once, none of it is yours to carry.
A private, fully hosted wellness retreat for women who lead — and who have quietly put themselves last for years. Four nights, somewhere beautiful in the world, where everything is handled and the only thing asked of you is to arrive. You'll leave changed. And you'll leave a founding member of something that lasts far longer than the week.
November 11 to 15, 2026· 4 nights, 5 days· Destination revealed to confirmed guests
Your deposit holds your seat. If we ever can't deliver the retreat as promised, you're refunded in full.
Why eleven.
Eleven isn't a theme. It's the size of a room where every woman is known by name.
Ten women are invited. I make the eleventh. We gather on the eleventh of November, and together we open the founding chapter of something that will return, and grow, every year after.
This is the first one. The founding cohort. The ten women who set the tone for everyone who comes after — and who will always be the ones who were here first.
You take care of everyone. Who takes care of you?
You built something real. You poured yourself into it — into the company, into the people you love, into being the one everyone can count on. You did it for years, often when no one was coming to help. And you did it well.
Somewhere in all of it, you quietly slipped to the bottom of your own list. Not because you don't matter to yourself, but because everything else was always louder, and there was never a version of "later" that actually arrived.
So now you're tired in a way sleep doesn't touch. You've gotten very good at not letting it show. And a part of you is a little done — done being the strongest one in every room, quietly waiting for the moment someone finally says, you can rest now.
Here is what I want you to hear. You are not behind. You are not too much, and you are not on your own here. For four days you'll be seen, you'll be heard, and everything will be taken care of — so the only person you have to tend to is you.
Four days that move three things at once.
Most wellness weeks fix one thing and send you home to the same life that wore you down. This is built so your body, your nervous system, and your sense of who you are all move together — because in a real woman, they were never separate.
Your body, cared for.
Movement, strength, and recovery designed for the woman you are now, not borrowed from someone half your age. Daily bodywork, spa, and sound. Food that genuinely nourishes you, prepared by a private chef. You leave lighter, stronger, and clear on how to keep it.
Your nervous system, at rest.
The reason "I'll deal with it later" became a decade is that your body never got the signal it was safe to stop. We spend four days teaching it that it is — through breath, stillness, sleep, and movement that lets you finally set it down, until calm becomes your baseline again instead of a place you visit.
Your sense of self, restored.
The quietest work in the room is the deepest. Who are you when you're no longer running on empty? Through real coaching and the identity work I've built my career on, you reconnect with the woman underneath everything you do — and you go home as her.
You're not booking a week. You're founding a table.
The four days change you. What comes after is what makes this different. As a founding member, you don't go home and disappear back into the noise. You stay connected — to these ten women, and to me — inside a private community built to protect what you started here.
This is the beginning of an ongoing circle: the founding board of a women's wellness community that gathers again, checks in, and grows year over year. You'll have a seat at that table for as long as you want it.
And there's a quieter gift inside it. The woman who arrives in November having finally chosen herself becomes someone other women can look to. What you carried, and how you came back to yourself, becomes a light for the women who are right now exactly where you've been. You don't only leave restored. You leave able to reach back.
Four nights, shaped with intention.
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WednesdayArrive
A private transfer brings you in. You settle into a room that's entirely your own, meet the women at the table, and share a welcome dinner. The only thing asked of you today is to land.
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ThursdayFoundation
Movement at sunrise, your first nervous-system reset, your first bodywork, and the coaching that sets up everything to come. Your body begins to exhale.
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FridayOpening
A deeper identity session, a curated experience you'd never arrange for yourself, and a celebration dinner under an open sky.
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SaturdayIntegration
Bodywork, quiet one-on-one time with me, and a private strategy session with our guest expert, Lizzie Swain, who helps high performers put the right modern tools to work so the busywork lifts off their plate. You go home with a simple plan of your own — a way to protect everything you found this week, and to get your time back when real life resumes. You don't just feel different on Sunday. You leave with the plan that keeps you that way.
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SundayClose
A final sunrise, a closing circle, and a goodbye that feels like a beginning.
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Book a Founders ConversationYou bring yourself. We hold everything else.
From the moment your transfer collects you to the moment you fly home, there is nothing for you to plan, book, or manage. Your seat includes:
- A private room and en-suite bath that is yours alone, never shared.
- Every meal prepared by a private chef, with premium non-alcoholic pairings throughout.
- Unlimited spa and recovery: bodywork, sound, and the full recovery offering of the property.
- Curated daily experiences you couldn't easily arrange on your own.
- Private airport transfers, both directions.
- All coaching, movement, and identity work, led personally by me.
- A personalized take-home plan, and the strategy session to protect your results.
- Membership in the founding circle that continues long after you've flown home.
- A welcome gift and your materials.
The destination is a boutique, wellness-native luxury property, somewhere beautiful in the world. We reveal exactly where once your seat is confirmed.
Who's in the room with you.
I'm Karlin, founder and CEO of Empowered Fitness & Recovery, and the author of the Get The Edge series, including an Amazon best seller. My whole career has centered on one woman: the high-capacity woman whose body and energy stopped answering to the old rules, and who is done being handed advice built for someone else's life.
I host this retreat myself. I lead the morning movement, the coaching, the identity work, and the opening and closing circles. Everything else — the bodywork, the chef, the recovery, the experiences — I've chosen from people I would trust with my own week. There are only ten seats because ten is the number that lets me know each of you by name, and by story. That closeness is the whole point.
The investment.
$25,000 per seat. Ten seats. Held with a $5,000 deposit.
You've invested more than this in things that gave back less. What you're investing in here is the one asset everything else depends on: your body, your energy, your clarity, your sense of yourself. For four days it receives the same care you've spent your life giving everyone else, and you come home with something that keeps paying out long after.
How the deposit works
A $5,000 deposit holds your seat today. The balance is due roughly 60 days before the retreat. Everything is handled securely through our card processor.
Your protection, in writing
Your deposit holds your seat. If we ever can't deliver the retreat as described, you're refunded in full. You are never risking your deposit on a promise we don't keep.
Ten seats. Then the founding table is closed.
There are ten seats, and there will only ever be ten in this founding cohort. When they're taken, this chapter closes — there is no eleventh chair waiting to appear. If you feel the yes, the kindest thing you can do for yourself is to take it while it's in front of you.
Straight answers.
Where is it?
A boutique, wellness-native luxury property chosen specifically for this group, somewhere beautiful in the world. We reveal the exact location to confirmed guests — partly for your privacy, partly because the right room matters far more than the postcard. It's reached by sensible travel from a major airport, never a string of flights to the middle of nowhere.
What kind of shape do I need to be in?
Whatever shape you're in right now. Everything is built to meet you exactly where your body is today. Nothing here assumes you're starting over, and nothing is borrowed from a 25-year-old's routine.
What happens after the retreat?
This is where the founding part becomes real. You join a private, ongoing circle with the other founding women and with me — a community built to keep what you started, with check-ins and gatherings that continue year over year. You leave with a table you belong to, not just a memory of a beautiful week.
Is alcohol included?
This is a wellness reset, so we don't provide alcohol. It's part of why you'll leave feeling the way you will. You're an adult — if you'd like a glass of something on your own time, that's entirely your call. No judgment.
What's your cancellation and refund policy?
Your $5,000 deposit reserves your seat and is non-refundable once your seat is confirmed, because confirming your seat is what lets us commit to the property on your behalf. If your plans change, you may transfer your seat to another woman one time, at no penalty. Separately, and in your favor: if we ever can't deliver the retreat as described, you're refunded in full. The balance is due roughly 60 days before the retreat.
Who is this for?
Women who lead — founders, CEOs, professionals — who are successful nearly everywhere except the one place they keep putting off: themselves and their own energy. If that lands a little too close, you're who we built the table for.
How many people will be there?
Ten guests, plus me. That's the whole table, by design.
The eleventh of November.
You already know how to do hard things. This isn't one of them. This is the four days you finally turn all of that capacity toward yourself — and come home to your body, your calm, and a circle of women who were waiting for you to arrive.
Ten seats. One table. November 11.
Refund-protected if we can't deliver · Destination revealed to confirmed guests · Balance due about 60 days prior
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