Black Warrior women Retreats™

Rewrite the Narrative of Your Life

We must recalibrate our life’s path by taking control of the narrative and creating the life we were born to live and move into our empowered future. Choose Black Warrior Women Retreats™ to guide you on a path that normalizes your wellness and self-care. We must incorporate emotional, personal, physical, professional, psychological, and spiritual wellness into our everyday lives that brings us internal comfort, insurmountable joy, and overall peace.

Black Warrior Women Retreats™ foster safe spaces that embrace authenticity, camaraderie, and create everlasting bonds for Black women. On Black Warrior Women Retreats™ you will embark upon a transformational journey of self-discovery that promotes mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual healing from the inside out. As a Black Warrior Woman you will master the art of establishing stronger boundaries while improving self-awareness and self-management skills to bring you internal balance and harmony. You will ascend to the ranks of empowered Black Warrior Women who have an unconquerable growth mindset in all aspects of their lives while practicing abundant self-care.

Join journey women Dimitria, Catherine, and Shanda for an unforgettable transformational experience. Warrior women of the African Diaspora are breaking shackles and forging lives of authenticity, strength, and power. Renew your spirit and rewrite the narrative of your life!

  • Embark on a Path of Self-Discovery

  • Rewrite Your Personal Narrative

  • Recalibrate Your Soul

Mind evolution artist

Dimitria is Founder and CEO of Building Beyond Belief®. As a mind evolution artist, she uniquely guides Black women in redefining their personal narratives around identity, empowering them to pursue authentic lives. Her credentials as an International Coaching Federation Associate Certified Coach (ICF-ACC), certified money coach, and senior trainer allow her to help individuals break through personal barriers and realize their visions. Through her book, 21 Reflections of the Inner Soul, Dimitria leads readers on a transformative healing journey. Her Building Beyond Belief® self-alignment card deck specifically supports individuals in strengthening their connection to others.

“Coaching is my passion. Guiding individuals into their empowered future is my calling.”

-Dimitria L. Cook

Body and Spiritual Healer

Catherine retired from the Army as a full Colonel in Financial Management after 31 years of Active Service. She has extensive experience in coaching, teaching, mentoring, and counseling individuals. As a body and spiritual healer, Catherine guides you to become the best version of yourself. She helps you train your body, mind, and spirit to increase resiliency and live a life of joy and abundance. She is a Certified Yoga Instructor with over 500 hours of training in Vinyasa Yoga, Yin Yoga, Arm Balancing, and Meditation.

Architect of Kinetic Surrender

Shanda is a spiritual force of Divine Power and Love who helps people expand their capacity to experience Love and Liberation. Whether as a Soul Artist, muralist, photographer, writer, or relationship consultant and coach, she walks alongside people as they Journey Home to Self and their true Natures. After nearly two decades in the mental health field, Shanda is a retired therapist and trauma-responsive trainer. As the Architect of Kinetic Surrender, she now journeys intimately with people and families who seek to surrender to their purposes, callings, and liberated paths.

What People Are Saying…

"I am recharged and more ready to readjust my life to what I desire. I have to deal with me. I have to deal with G." — Glenetta P.

"I loved the camaraderie and genuine love shown to everyone. I could be myself and speak openly in a safe space. We were women from different backgrounds who had similar experiences in our lives. It was good to know I was not alone in my experiences. I am so excited about my life now. I have my life back!" — Joslyn S.

"I have gained effective tools and practices for self-reflection, healthy forms of stress relief, and a bond with women who I feel provide a safe space for healing the mind and heart." — Marjorie B.

"The bonds that we formed were incredible. We have this sisterhood. What I view now after the retreat is that I need to be consistent. It is ok to take some moments off." — Lolli L.

Luxury Vineyard accommodations

Every moment during the Black Warrior Women retreat at the Allegretto, you will practice abundant self-care. From the moment you make the decision to join us, to the drive from San Jose to Paso Robles or the drive from Burbank to Paso Robles, exploring the enchanting grounds of the resort and vineyard, spa treatments, enjoying olive oil tasting, learning about different wines during wine tasting, to a ladies’ night paint and sip, you are moving into your empowered future. You are here to rewrite the narrative of your life and embrace wellness as an everyday part of your life! Come back to the Allegretto with us, release your inhibitions about practicing daily self-care, and make self-care routines a part of your daily life.

Immerse yourself in luxury with access to beautiful grounds with a vineyard, go on a self-guided walking tour, enjoy a full indoor gym, and a wine tasting room.

Discover hidden gems as you explore the grounds.

Appreciate spectacular room views and journal your thoughts around the lighted fountain at night as you reinvigorate your soul.

Option to enjoy delicious on site breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

AGENDA

Day 1 - Welcome and Informal Meet & Greet

Check-in and meet your retreat Journey Women Guides

Day 2 - The Breath of My Life

  • Breathe

  • You chose you

  • Exhale

Day 3 - Who Am I?

  • Find your center and realize how it shapes the woman you are today

  • Learn to lead with love for yourself and compassion for others

Day 4 - Loving Me

  • Disconnect from negative self-talk and embrace your Warrior Narrative

  • Establish your Black Warrior Woman Sacred Feminine Agreements that protect your inner peace and soul

Day 5 - Black Warrior Woman Ascension

  • End of Retreat Survey

  • Departure

past Black Warrior Women Retreats

Palm Desert, CA August 14 t0 20, 2025 Marriott Desert Springs Villas

Previous Sponsors

  • Bold Kulture Beauty

  • Always Sunday Shop

  • The Academies

  • Producer james productions

  • Anonymous Donors

Available Workshops, classes, Masterminds and retreats

  • When you understand self, you step into your empowered journey. Begin to bloom into who you were always meant to be. Enjoy 2-hours of self-discovery of who you are from the inside out on your journey of becoming.

  • Designed to provide techniques and strategies to move you into a better YouZone. Learn strategies on how to move from the frustrated red zone into the calmer blue zone. Learn how to build a bigger, stronger, and more impactful “you.”

  • Spend 4-hours on a journey of becoming and move into embracing differences while discovering the many forms of vital self-care to keep you moving forward.

  • It’s time to discover “who am I” and find your guiding center. Enjoy 5-days of self-discovery and self-care routines that help create healthy boundaries and normalize abundant self-care as you build incredible bonds with like-minded women.

  • Your story defines you! Over the course of 3-months, build community and gain insight into what is holding you back from healthy family and work relationships. Takeaway resources that will help you move into the next phase of your life. The program culminates in a 3-day self-care retreat.

  • Founders, Entrepreneurs, and senior level executives spend 6-months in a small cohort building community with their peers, working through challenges, enhancing leadership skills, learning from industry leaders in areas of life balance, imposter syndrome, and glass ceiling break through while going on a journey of self-discovery. The mastermind culminates in a 5-day self-care retreat.

Whatever it is, the way you rewrite the narrative of your life, makes all the difference!