Ubud, Bali, 23-29 May 2027
Lit Within: Ignite Your Feminine Wisdom
A retreat for midlife women ready to reconnect with their wisdom and come home to themselves
When did you stop listening to yourself?
That inner knowing that once gave you clarity. An instinctive yes. That certainty about which direction to take or what to do next. The part of you that didn’t need permission, validation, or a second opinion.
Somewhere along the way, that voice faded, but it didn’t disappear.
Because if you’re honest, there’s a longing inside you that hasn’t gone away. A deep, soulful ache for more of you. More time, more peace, more purpose, and more presence.
Something has been whispering to you. Maybe it's a nudge, a spark, or a memory of who you are beneath the roles, the responsibilities, and the constant doing.
You feel it. You’ve always felt it.
This retreat was built around that inner knowing.
For six nights and seven days in Ubud, Bali, you’ll step away from the noise and into a sanctuary designed for women who are ready to reconnect with their inner knowing.
A world away from your inbox, your calendar, your many roles.
You’ll decompress, rest deeply, regulate your nervous system, and remember the woman you’ve been yearning to be.
This is where you will ignite your feminine wisdom.
This is where you will come home to yourself.
This is where your next chapter begins.
Your invitation
Feminine wisdom is your inner knowing,
the part of you that trusts and leads from your intuition.
- you're not ready to do the inner work.
- you'd prefer to sit by a pool and drink cocktails.
- to nourish your mind, body and soul.
- to slow down, and finally hear yourself again.
- to stop playing small and step fully into your light.
- to claim the life you know you deserve.
- to release old fears, negative patterns, and limiting beliefs
- to lead a more empowered life.
- to learn how to embody the power of your femininity.
- to embrace your feminine wisdom.
- to tap in to the highest version of yourself.
- to find your sisterhood
- to transform your life
- Time to pause and reflect on your life
- An opportunity to release old patterns & beliefs that no longer serve you
- Space to reconnect with yourself
- An ability to hone into your intuition
- Techniques to embody your feminine wisdom
- A chance to reclaim your feminine power
- Practical tools to help you integrate and transform your life when you return home
SECURE YOUR SPOT
Your experience will give you
- Your flights to Bali
- Airport transfers to accomodation
- Travel insurance, and
- Optional add-ons (spa treatments, meals off site, extra excursions).
- 6 nights' accommodation at The Shala Bali
- Daily vegetarian breakfast, lunch and dinner (except excursions day)
- A welcome gift to help settle you in
- Daily yoga, breathwork and meditation
- Daily workshops, group coaching sessions, yin yoga, and yoga nidra
- Water purification ceremony at local temple
- Sound healing at Pyramids of Chi
- An open-air yoga shala overlooking the rice fields
- A 20-metre pool surrounded by gardens, with a bale for lounging
- An on-site Ayurvedic spa
- A vegetarian café serving fresh, thoughtful food, including your daily breakfast
- Rooms are private and peaceful
- Rooms vary and are on a first to book basis.
8.15am Breakfast
9.30-11.00am Workshop
11.00am Break
11.15-12.45pm Workshop
12.45pm Lunch
1.30pm Free time: massages, spa, rest
5.30-6.30pm Yin Yoga or Guided Meditation
7.00pm Dinner
sECURE YOUR SPOT
A Typical Day
Upekha Suraweera
Jacqui Hawkins
After witnessing the fragility and urgency of life, I stepped out of the courtroom and into a new calling: human behaviour, neuroscience and transformation. I'm now an Empowerment Coach and founder of Lit Within, guiding midlife women through transition, burnout and identity shifts, helping them find their way to live a more meaningful life.
A qualified coach, yoga and meditation instructor, and a trained hypnotherapist and NLP practitioner, I help rewire the subconscious mind, while integrating mind, body and spirit through deep somatic healing and feminine wisdom. My own meditation and yoga practice has deepened my sense of a higher consciousness, and shaped me into a far more intuitive practitioner — someone who trusts what I sense as much as what I've studied.
It's the same instinct that brought me back to Bali for this retreat — a place that has a way of slowing my nervous system the moment I arrive. Bali gives women something so many of us have forgotten how to give ourselves: space to create, reflect and heal. This retreat offers a sacred place to find your own way back to yourself.
After working with me, my clients tell me they feel more connected to themselves, more certain about their future, more empowered, and are living a more meaningful life. What they often discover is that the wisdom they'd been searching for was inside them all along. It's an enormous privilege to work with women and watch not just their individual transformation, but the ripple effect it has on their partners, their families and their colleagues.
My work is about guiding people home to themselves. Beneath the noise, the conditioning, and the stories we collect over a lifetime, I believe every one of us carries an inner wisdom that never really leaves — it just gets harder to hear. Through spiritual soul integration, intuitive guidance, NLP, hypnotherapy, energy healing and deep subconscious work, I help people reconnect with that inner knowing and rebuild their relationship with themselves — exploring the beliefs and patterns that have quietly shaped a life, and making space for more clarity, peace and alignment.
My sessions blend grounded therapeutic technique with intuitive spiritual guidance, working with mind, body and soul together rather than one at a time. There's no fixed script — each session is intuitively guided and shaped around exactly where you are, so the work meets you rather than the other way around. Together we release limiting beliefs, heal emotional wounds, and reconnect with your intuition, creating shifts that last because they happen from the inside out.
Clients leave feeling lighter, calmer and more like themselves — with real clarity on why certain patterns keep repeating, and practical tools for navigating life with greater self-trust. Many describe a renewed sense of purpose and inner steadiness that stays with them well after the session ends. It's a privilege to walk alongside people as they reconnect with their own wisdom and build a life that actually feels like theirs.
Meet Your Retreat Guides
If you'd like to know more, email me at jacqui.hawkins@litwithin.com.au with any questions.
Or book a 20 minute call.
Retreat with all accommodation, meals, excursions and workshops included: Total cost: $4,500
Payment plans available
Pay in full by 28 February 2027.
To secure your spot, all you need to do is pay $1000 deposit.