Awakening Joy
This retreat is a heart-opening invitation to return to yourself, your joy, your softness, your wildness, your truth. Set in the serene turquoise paradise of Bimini, this women-only retreat offers a sanctuary where you can exhale, let go, and feel deeply connected again.
Each morning begins with a soulful practice: gentle yoga to awaken your body, a joyful shoreline walk to clear your mind, or a grounding meditation to remind you of who you are beneath the noise.
As the sun rises, you’ll slip into the warm sea to meet Bimini’s wild dolphins playful, curious, and deeply intuitive beings who seem to sense exactly what your spirit needs. Swimming beside them is nothing short of magic. It opens something inside you joy, tenderness, and a sense of awe you may have forgotten.
Nourish yourself with fresh, vibrant delicious meals made with love, and savor boat adventures that stir excitement and freedom. Rest, laugh, cry if you need to, and be held by a sisterhood of women walking their own brave paths.
For those who feel called, an optional plant medicine ceremony offers profound inner healing and clarity, held with reverence and expert care.
This retreat is a loving, transformative journey, one that invites you to reconnect with your wholeness, your joy, and the parts of yourself waiting to be heard. We can’t wait to share this beautiful journey with you.
About Amy
Amy Ruffolo Quinn, LCSW, CEDS is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist based in El Segundo, California. She is the founder of Your Beautiful Beginning, LLC, where she leads Wild Dolphin Wellness Retreats immersive experiences that blend somatic and emotional healing, deep connection with nature, and the playful, transformative energy of dolphins.
Amy’s work integrates mind, body, and soul. She guides clients through healing from eating disorders, anxiety/depression, trauma, and disconnection from self, often incorporating joyful movement to release stored emotion and reconnect with inner vitality.
Her lifelong bond with dolphins deeply shapes her therapeutic approach. Their fluidity, curiosity, and joy mirror the embodied aliveness she helps clients reclaim ease in the body, trust in the nervous system, and a renewed capacity for pleasure, connection, and presence. For Amy, the heart of healing is always the same: cultivating a tender, loving relationship with yourself.
For more information, visit yourbeautifulbeginning.info
About Malia
Malia Carvalho is a somatic guide, trauma-informed tantra educator, and founder of The Dreamweaver Collective. Through a unique blend of Kundalini Fusion, somatic yoga, nervous-system regulation, sound healing, microdosing support, and integrative embodiment work, she helps women reconnect with their pleasure, creativity, and personal power.
Her approach weaves together years of experience in yoga, massage therapy, plant medicine facilitation and integration, and feminine embodiment practices. Malia specializes in helping women transform anxiety, trauma imprints, and disconnection into rooted sensuality, emotional openness, and authentic self-expression.
She leads retreats, women’s circles, and psychedelic integration programs, and co-facilitates international dolphin-assisted embodiment retreats that blend play, somatic therapy, and nervous-system restoration.
Malia’s work is deeply heart-centered, body-based, and grounded in the knowing that pleasure, presence, and connection to nature are essential pathways to healing.
About the WildQuest Team
The WildQuest Team is an international, unique community of individuals, each with their own very special flavour. They will support you on land, on the boat and in the water, creating a once-in-a-lifetime experience. You are welcomed into a safe and loving space here at WildQuest that allows relaxation to happen, the feeling of being at home.
We will be going out on the boat each day to connect with the dolphins. Usually we have a picnic lunch on the boat. We will also visit the Atlantis Stones and snorkel at coral reefs.
Everything is optional – participate if it feels right for you. There will also be some free time to relax on the beach and explore the island.
Individual massage sessions are available.
Your Team this Week
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