storyteller within
women's sacred expression retreats
Start your 2026 by deeply reconnecting with yourself!!
Gather with women in live online circles and a community space to adventure on a retreat journey, together.
"This Book Is a Retreat: 101 Soul-Nourishing Question to Reconnect with Yourself" brings the essence of a self-exploratory retreat journey—designed to help you open to your heart's guidance, receive and align with your inherent and unique self, and embrace life in its fullness—to the page for you.
For women who desire to gather and go deep together,
this is your invitation to immerse in the alchemy
of the LIVE retreat circle experience led by co-author and intuitive retreat facilitator, Aimee Hansen.
In this guided eleven week journey (with a break week in the middle), you will be guided through the themes of This Book Is a Retreat. We will be expanding upon, writing to, and embodying each as we go along.
When you circle with other women, you connect to more of who you are. The circle creates room within to breathe and expand into.
In this space, you will reconnect with your inner compass and essential nature. You will be invited to remember
and embrace your own sacred expression.
If you have never joined a retreat, this experience will bring you much closer. If you have been in a retreat circle with me before, you will still find this is its own adventure.
Join and experience the catalytic energy and magic of
this retreat circle, from wherever you are.
Aimee Hansen
I'm the creator of Storyteller Within. I'm an intuitive Pisces. I'm a sacral authority. I live my life through following gut intuition and heart-centered awareness, repeatedly returning to that space (and my aliveness), when I forget. And I forget, so I can remember, more profoundly.
Because frankly, intuition and divine guidance are far better guides towards the fulfillment of what lights me up! I've learned this (iteratively) each time I've tried to grab the wheel through exertion, fear, scarcity, self-dominance or desire hunger. I only ever end up farther from myself, whereas intuition and divine guidance not only lead me back to myself, but to becoming more of who I am. Life becomes a more expansive adventure.
Intuition has led me to take my first plane at 21 years old to London, where I could come to live for nearly a decade. Intuition has made me leap from jobs without a place to land in, because I am meant to create the landing which will birth more of me. Intuition has led me to decisions that attracted long-term relationships to me from across the world, twice.
Intuition guided me to Guatemala in 2012. Intuition inspired me to leap from a single two hour circle to offering week long retreats. Intuition is the core way in which I facilitate the Journey Into Sacred Expression Women's Retreats for nine years, and increasingly more. Intuition introduced me to the co-author of my retreat journal coming out in 2025.
Intuition has also led me towards expectation shattering lessons I've needed so I could disrupt the patterns getting in my own way (and also given me the chance to pick up the signal before I did). Intuition has thrown me on the plane more than once, told me to stay put, asked me to say the impossibly to say thing, and to let go.
I could go on... swaying with intuition is a playful enchantment of being and participating in my life, with my Self, with others, and through the mystery of guidance. Again and again, I feel in for the subtle sway of my soul. I feel it's the call towards destiny, rather than fate.
this book is a retreat
LIVE CIRCLE
With a retreat in your hands,
take a heart-opening journey,
held with love and presence,
in an online circle community.
Feb 28, 2026 - May 30, 2026
(11 circle weeks, 3 integration weeks)
LIVE SATURDAY SESSIONS 10AM - 12PM EST
AND A COMMUNITY SPACE TO SHARE WRITING EACH WEEK
OUR RETREAT ADVENTURE
ACROSS ELEVEN WEEKS AND THEMES
Saturday, January 3rd
Part One
Welcoming Your
Feelings
Meet your emotions with openness, curiosity, and compassion.
Open into the wave nature
of your emotional body.
Attune to the nuanced guidance
offered by inner messengers.
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Saturday, January 24th
Part Four
Getting Out of
Your Own Way
See self-limiting beliefs and stories as "protective" untruths.
Identify and diffuse hidden patterns based on false conditioning.
Move from self-sabotage to self-allowance and opening to receive.
Saturday, January 10th
Part Two
Being Present
In Your Body
Ground in presence and reconnect
to your physical, sensual being.
Reclaim your body awareness from within.
Heighten your senses and wonder
as an experiencer of life.
Saturday, January 31st
Part Five
Cultivating Everyday Gratitude
Bring rich, sensory awareness to small, ordinary experience.
Be present to the existing beauty
in your life here and now.
Cultivate a lens of appreciation,
faith, patience, and possibility.
Saturday, January 17th
Part Three
Expanding
Your Identity
Question your self perceptions and dare to un-know yourself.
Challenge and re-imagine the identities you have attached to.
Move in wholeness of self
and authentic belonging.
Saturday, February 7th
Part Six
Choosing Your
Perspective
Practice the art of enchanting your
perception and experience.
Recast limiting narratives and
the energetic momentum they hold.
Reclaim your power as storyteller and meaning-maker of your life.
- BREAK WEEK (Saturday, February 14th) -
Saturday, February 21st
Part Seven
Following What Sparks
Your Aliveness
Reconnect with your childlike and innately creative self.
Become aware of and heed the
subtle sways of your soul.
Move towards what sparks joy
and transcendence for you.
Saturday, February 28th
Part Eight
Remembering Your
Inherent And Unique Self
Gaze upon and remember your
self through beginner's eyes.
Reignite the essential vivid energies and gifts you carry.
Conspire in authenticity with the divinely seeded nature within you.
Saturday, March 7th
Part Nine
Clarifying Your Longings
and Soulful Desires
Listen to your compass and the creative energy alive in you.
Liberate contraction around desire and resonate with possibility.
Embrace desire as a calling
to share your gifts and grow.
Saturday, March 14th
Part Ten
Conspiring with Intuition
and Divine Guidance
Connect and listen to the guidance
that moves through your body.
Remember yourself as a part of the great mystery at work all the time.
Dance with the guidance, miracles, and synchronicities at work.
Saturday, March 21st
Part Eleven
Committing to Self-Love
Embrace, appreciate, and allow the gift of being you in this world.
Build integrity, self-trust and align your choices to your heart.
Stay with yourself on the path of
expansion and evolution.
What do you get as part of this experience?
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Weekly live writing and sharing circles (10am-1
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Interactive community space in which to share writing to the prompts with other women.
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2 x Month 2 hour live writing and sharing circles (Sat 10am EST)
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1 x Month 1 hour live intuitive embodiment sessions with Jessica Basken (Thurs 4pm EST)
How will you access it?
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Daily audio inspiration and writing prompts and community space will be delivered and hosted via a Telegram group, available as an app on your phone and desktop.
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Live sessions will take place on Zoom. Recordings will be available if you miss live sessions.
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Somatic sessions will also be recorded.
This live retreat experience includes:
Live Writing Sessions
on Saturdays
(10am - 12pm EST)
In this retreat circle writing space, we will introduce and deep-dive into the weekly themes.
(via Zoom)
recordings of facilitation will be available if you miss the live call
Interactive Community Online Space
(ongoing)
Receive more inspiration and prompt cues on themes. Share more writing in this space.
(via Telegram)
available on phone & desktop
Guest Facilitation
Sessions
(peppered into the mix)
Just like on retreat, I will bring in three or four (non-writing) additional guest sessions to complement our journey.
(via Zoom)
scheduled as we go and recording will be available if you miss
Interactive community space for sharing
writing and reflections with other members
(via Telegram)
available on phone & desktop
Aimee Hansen
As the Creator of Storyteller Within and Co-author of This Book Is a Retreat: 101 Questions to Reconnect with Yourself, Aimee chases big questions with butterfly nets, only to set them free again. She feels the soul is a compass, presence is real magic, and perception is a creative art. She has resided in Guatemala for over thirteen years, where she intuitively guides women through profound journeys—with writing, movement, and ceremonies—to remember their unique essence and sacred expression, as well as facilitates online. Her creative passion projects, including a children's book and novel, are on the way. As a lover of the questions that open us, she's inspired hundreds of women in writing their hearts into expansion for over ten years. She invites you to this special retreat journey to reveal more, and to live more, of who you truly are here to be.
This community circle will invite you to:
- Be seen and heard and held in a safe space with a group of women.
- Be open towards ever unfolding new truths and expanding insights.
- Attune to your feelings, your bodily knowing and your intuitive awareness.
- Clarify and loosen the ways we each limit, inhibit or self-sabotage ourselves.
- Listen to and live from your aliveness, heart center and soulful desires.
- Become more fluid in the powerful art of perspective.
- Engage with curiosity, beauty, mystery, poetry and divine guidance.
- Practice self-knowing to root more deeply in your authenticity.
This space will also encourage you to:
- Play freely with your creativity and bring creativity into reflective journaling.
- Fire up the muse through live prompts and override the inner critic.
- Get used to sharing your raw, initial expression and hold witness for others.
- Honor and be witnessed for your embodied and lived experience.
- Break from your routine to nurture yourself, connection and creativity.
- Access your writing channel and sensitize your awareness.
- Share in rich interaction in a casual pop-up circle of women.