HOW IT WORKS
Retreat Photo Experience
Retreats
What I do well?
Capture transformation and nervous system shifts through imagery. This excites me most about how I photograph.
Healing retreats are not ordinary events. They are containers for transformation — spaces where people crack open, move through what has been held too long, and step back into the joy of being fully alive. What happens inside them deserves to be captured with the same reverence and intention that created them.
I specialize in photographing somatic healing retreats — the kind where real things happen. Where tears fall and breakthroughs arrive and women remember who they were before the weight of everything. I don’t just document the schedule. I feel my way through the energy of the room, anticipate the moments before they happen, and capture the ones that words could never fully describe.
From the mountains of Utah to the jungles of Costa Rica, the shores of Kauai, and beyond — I go where the healing happens.
As a facilitator, you hold space for some of the most profound human experiences imaginable. You witness breakthroughs, tears, releases, joy, and radical transformation — over and over again.
But when the retreat ends, most facilitators walk away with nothing that actually shows what happened in that room. A few iPhone photos. Maybe a blurry group shot.
I show up to change that.
My focus is on you — the facilitator — and the visible impact of your work. The moment a participant exhales for the first time in years. The circle that holds someone as she finally lets go. The aliveness in the room when people remember who they are. These are the images that tell the story of what you do better than any words on your website ever could.
Your work deserves to be witnessed. And your potential clients deserve to see exactly what becomes possible when they step into your container.
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-Heatherash Amara
Sacred Witness
Photo: Starting At $400/day + applicable tax
Video: Starting at $400/day + applicable tax
(+ travel fees if outside utah)
For the retreat facilitator who would like to capture transformation as it it happening while also capturing you in your magic.
What’s Included:
Still Waters
Goddess Portrait Sessions Standalone
For the retreat facilitator who wants to offer their attendees something sacred and deeply personal — without full retreat coverage.
I arrive solely to hold space for your women and capture them in their becoming.
What’s Included:
ATTENDEE IMAGE UPGRADES AVAILABLE:
Sacred Return
Starting At $550 + applicable tax
for up to 8 attendees
-$75 per additional attendee
Your attendees came to be transformed — this is how that transformation gets witnessed.
Sacred Return is a fully guided goddess portrait experience, gifted to every attendee as part of their retreat.
Each woman receives 5 beautifully edited images to carry home as a reminder of who she became here.
What’s Included:
ATTENDEE IMAGE UPGRADES AVAILABLE:
Inner Bloom
Starting At $350 + applicable tax
A intimate mini session just for you.
Choose 2-3 looks, step into a location handpicked for its magic, and let yourself be captured in full bloom.
You’ll receive up to 30 images — each one a reflection of the woman who showed up, opened up, and bloomed during your retreat experience.
What’s Included:
Retreat Photo Experience
One
Fill out the contact form – you don’t have to do this before you schedule a discovery call, it’s only if you’re getting that full body YES!
Two
I want to all about your retreat. How it came to be, the flow of the retreat and how you would like me to support your space.
(I offer goddess sessions as an addon)
Three
I will send you a proposal that includes the contract, your session details and your invoice.
Your retainer must be paid to reserve your session date.
Four
I arrive ready to witness, feel, and capture — blending into the space so your participants can forget the camera is there.
Five
Within 4-6 weeks you’ll receive a beautiful, fully edited gallery that honors the depth of what your retreat created.
I view myself as part of the experience. I move gently like the wind intuitively feeling where my energy is needed.
I notice if someone is in a breakthrough moment and will respect their space while also photographing.
This is up to each facilitator and if you would like to have their photos we will create a clear container for that to exist.
As soon as you can!
I do recommend booking at least 3-4 weeks in advance to allow time for our discovery call and session planning and make sure I am available for your dates.
I’m based in Utah and I will go wherever the wild things are. I regularly shoot throughout Utah and Wyoming and I am available for worldwide travel. If you have a dream location in mind — whether it’s the coast of Iceland, the beaches of Mexico, or somewhere in between — let’s make it happen. Travel fees may apply for locations outside of Utah. Reach out and let’s chat about your vision!
Your gallery will be delivered within 4-6 weeks of your session date. I take great care in the editing process — every image is thoughtfully curated and edited to reflect the mood, magic, and soul of your session. Good things take time, and your gallery is no exception. You will receive a private online gallery where you can download, share, and order prints directly.
No.
This experience is not about earning your worth through weight loss, perfection, confidence, age, or fitting a beauty standard. Many women book because they are ready to reconnect with themselves now — exactly as they are.
I do not. It has been my experience my energy is best either as an attendee or a photographer.
Absolutely!
This is actually how I got started doing what I do. There is nothing more sacred and beautiful to show up to a retreat, closed and unsure and walk away feeling empowered!
I feel like a photoshoot is able to create a tangible thing for them to refer back to as they return home to regular life.
Sessions are often held in nature-based locations such as the salt flats, desert landscapes, rivers, mountains, wildflowers, or other soulful environments that match the energy of your experience.
Only with your permission.
Your comfort, boundaries, and consent matter deeply to me.
Anything I post is delicate and respectful. I wouldn’t ever want anyone to feel like they can’t be fully present because a camera is on site.
Well, I’ll be the first to say….it’s not!
However photos have a way of capturing emotion. Emotional processing is what occurs at retreats, whether it’s anger, crying, laughing, sisterhood, safety…so photography at a retreat you hold is a way to share your gifts and make them relatable to people and when people can relate to something, that is the emotional pull to the work you do and the space you provide.
my retreat work
This is the path of the Warrior Goddess.