The Remembering: A Witch Retreat
A 4-Day Witch Retreat | New Orleans, Louisiana | October 9–12, 2025
New Orleans does not forget its witches.
The soil holds centuries of conjure, folk magic, and ancestral power. The cemeteries are still speaking. The lineage of those who practiced in the shadows (who were feared, hunted, and refused to stop) is woven into the streets, the bayous, the thick Louisiana air.
This years annual witch retreat was chosen to be held here for a reason.
This October, Vi and Jenn of Senseful Wellness are calling in a small, intentional coven for four days of ritual, healing, and deep magic in one of the most spiritually charged cities in the world. This is not just another yoga retreat. This is a container of remembering.
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Meet Your Guides
Jennifer Wilson
Founder & Lead Healer
A body witch in the truest sense. With 13 years as a physical therapist and a decade of yoga teaching, she understands the human body as a living, breathing vessel of memory, magic, and medicine. Her healing gifts extend beyond the mundane. Jenn is clairsentient, meaning she doesn't just assess the body, she feels it. The places it's holding on. The places it's ready to let go. She works at the intersection of science and spirit because to her, they have never been separate.
She is also a professional interpreter of the planets and stars. Over eight years of devoted study, Jenn has developed a rare fluency in Astrology. Weaving whole sign, placidus, and evolutionary astrology into readings that don't just describe who you are, but illuminate why. She has a gift for making the cosmos accessible to everyone. Whether you've been studying your chart for years or have never heard the word placidus in your life, Jenn will help you find yourself in the unique constellation that is birth chart.
Vi Swain
Co-creator & Chaos Witch
A natural born witch who’s psychic connection is not learned, but remembered. A Florida swamp witch with an Irish-Celtic blood line. Vi has been communing with the unseen since childhood, when candlelight became a doorway and stillness became a language. Vi's channel is wide and multi-dimensional a simultaneous current of downloads, guides pressing forward, and the quiet certainty of what someone in front of them needs to receive. They are a chaos magic practitioner and a medium who walks comfortably in the in-between, they do not choose between the light and the dark. They have always lived where the two become one.
Swamp magic is not just growth and bloom. It is decay and shadow and the dark wet stillness that makes new life possible. Vi carries that knowing in their bones. There is a beauty lives in the decomposition, that turns our hardest seasons into the fertilizer which feeds what comes next.
Together Jenn and Vi are certified Reiki masters, energy healers, yoga teachers, and astrologers who have spent years holding space for people to remember who they are beneath the weight of the world.
This is the coven you've been looking for.
What we'll do together
This weekend is soul-led, body-rooted, and ritual-centered. Expect:
Daily trauma-informed yoga and meditation woven with energetic healing
Ritual and ceremony honoring the ancestral magic of Louisiana
Workshops exploring your own gifts and your practice
Tarot readings with Vi + Astrology readings with Jenn
New Orleans excursions — including the sacred spaces that hold the city's history
Nourishing plant-based meals to keep your body resourced through deep work
A held, intimate container where you can cry, rest, rise, and be witnessed
"The first trip I've taken for myself in a very very long time — and it was the best investment in my heart and spirit I've ever made. I feel stronger, lighter and unapologetically myself. You created such a safe and creative space. I'll see you at the next one."
— Katie, retreat attendee 2021
"They have helped me have such an acceptance and non-judgmental love for myself. I appreciate that you both keep me in your energy field."
— Yvonne, retreat attendee 2026
"To hear all the stories and to see my kids empowered is beyond. This is truly your calling."
— retreat parent, Asheville 2025
A note on the word “Witch”
If that word made you pause, stay with us for a moment.
Feminist writer Mona Chollet, in her celebrated work In Defense of Witches, spent years researching who the women accused of witchcraft actually were. What she found was not what fairy tales taught us.
They were independent women — widows, unmarried women, women who owned property and ran businesses outside of male control. They were women who understood their own bodies, who held knowledge of healing, of herbs, of birth. They were elderly women who carried too much wisdom and not enough apology. They were women who lived on their own terms and refused to make themselves smaller.
They were not dangerous. They were free. And that, Chollet argues, was the unforgivable thing.
Centuries later the word still carries that charge, that faint warning that a woman is perhaps too independent, too knowing, too comfortable in her own power. We think it's worth reclaiming.
You do not need to identify as a witch to belong in this space. You do not need a practice or a particular belief system. What you need is a willingness to come home to yourself, to your own knowing, your own body, your own quiet power that the world has spent a long time asking you to doubt.
The women who were called witches were simply women who refused to shrink. This weekend is an invitation to do the same.
Good to know before you book
This retreat may include room sharing to keep the container intimate
(Friends welcome to request a room together)
Explicitly safe and welcoming space for the LGBTQIA+ community
No spiritual background or prior practice required ~ just your willingness to show up
A pre-retreat form will gather any dietary needs, allergies, or sensitivities
Full schedule and airport coordination sent once the group is finalized
Deposit is non-refundable. No cancellations within 30 days of the retreat
Additional payment plans available ~ reach out and we'll work with you
To Join Additional Details:
Sign up by paying the deposit to reserve your spot as soon as possible; our coven is already half way to full!
Have questions? Email Jenn and Vi at sensefulwellness@gmail.com
