Reconnect to your honest hell yes and envision a life that feels deeply true, alive, and aligned with who you are.
This seven-day retreat is for women navigating transition, burnout, reinvention, or simply sensing that life is asking something new of them.
Come spend a week immersed in beauty, creativity, honest conversation, and spaciousness—so you can hear your own inner voice again and return home ready to live what is true for you.
For women ready to reclaim time for themselves ...
This is your invitation
Something inside you has been asking for your attention. Maybe you've heard it for a while. Maybe you've been too busy to listen. Either way, this retreat is an opportunity to pause, step away from the noise, and give yourself the time and space to hear what is true.
Over seven days in Paros, we'll alternate between creativity, conversation, quiet reflection, delicious meals, sea swims, laughter, rest, and time to simply be. There is no pressure to perform or become someone new. Instead, we create the conditions for your nervous system to settle, your creativity to awaken, and your own inner knowing to become easier to hear.
When we slow down enough to truly listen, clarity often arrives on its own. From that place, the next step doesn't have to be forced—it becomes easier to recognize.
Why We Believe in This Work
We know the value of this work because we've lived it ourselves.
This retreat brings together what has helped us navigate seasons of transition, reinvention, grief, creativity, leadership, and becoming more fully ourselves—along with many years of professional experience guiding individuals, organizations, and communities through meaningful change.
While we're grateful for the training and experience that allow us to do this work well, that's not the heart of why we're here.
Our why is simple.
What we offer isn't something we've figured out or perfected. It's the natural overflow of what continues to nourish and transform our own lives.
This isn't simply what we do. It's how we're learning to live.
Sharing it with others isn't an obligation. It's our privilege.
We're so grateful you're here.
It is our honest hell yes.
We're creating the kind of week we long for ourselves: one rooted in beauty, creativity, honest conversation, deep listening, laughter, rest, and the courage to live what is true.
These are challenging times. More than ever, we believe the world needs people who are willing to live with greater love, honesty, creativity, and connection. This retreat is one small way we hope to contribute to that.
"The sea is blue poetry written in a language the soul somehow understands."
Unknown
Rest. Release. Reimagine.
This retreat is intentionally designed with spaciousness, support, beauty, and choice.
All activities are invitations. You are always welcome to rest, take a run, take space, or keep working with more support. Do what feels right for you. We celebrate that you are the one who truly knows what you need.
When You Arrive
You will arrive on the beautiful island of Paros, where we will help you settle into your home for the week. Paros is safe, gentle, beautiful, and easy to navigate — all reasons we chose to create this retreat here.
We will orient you to the town and introduce you to our beautiful home base at the Aegean Center.
Day One
Our first day together is simple and gentle.
We meet at the Aegean Center for tea, connection, and a welcoming gathering, followed by a delicious dinner together by the sea, sunset, and deep sleep.
The goal of this first day is not productivity.
It is exhale.
Arrival.
Safety.
Rest.
Day Two - Rest, Restore, Reconnect
The first full day of the retreat begins slowly:
coffee, hot pastries or Greek yogurt and fruit, quiet walks through town, sunlight on the sea.
We gather in the morning for connection, intention-setting, creative practice, and practices designed to help the nervous system soften and settle.
The afternoon is intentionally spacious.
You might nap, explore the town, continue your creative work, get a massage, wander to the sea, read, journal, or simply do nothing at all.
Later in the day, we gather again to swim in a hidden cove in the Aegean Sea, take a sunset walk, laugh, and connect.
Although these first days may seem simple, they are deeply intentional.
Before we can hear ourselves clearly, the body needs rest.
Days Three & Four —Release What No Longer Serves
Once we are rested and grounded, we begin the next part of the process.
Through creativity, practices that support relaxation of our nervous systems, honest conversation, individual support, and group work, we identify where we are stuck, move through it, and let go of what no longer serves us.
This work brings clarity, honesty, release, and internal freedom.
We balance this work with nourishment and gentleness woven throughout the day: beautiful meals, naps, wandering, sea swims, massages, sunsets, wine, chocolate, and laughter.
Day Five —
Integration & Delight
After meaningful inner work, it is important to take a full day of rest and integration.
This is wisdom, not luxury — although it is also pretty fabulous.
We spend the day together on a private boat in the Aegean Sea: swimming in quiet coves, floating in turquoise water, eating beautiful food, resting in the sun, laughing, breathing, and letting everything settle more deeply into the body.
Yes, this day is beautiful.
It is also an intentional and important part of the process.
Days Six & Seven —
Vision, Clarity & The Hell Yes
Once we have rested, released, and reconnected to ourselves, something naturally opens.
From this place, we begin hearing what feels deeply true.
Our hell yes becomes clearer.
Our vision becomes more specific and doable.
Our next chapter begins to feel possible.
Through creative process, reflection, conversation, and support, we name what this looks like for each of us.
We get to be witnessed, celebrated, supported, and cheered on while doing the same for the other brave women beside us.
And although the retreat ends here, this is actually a beginning.
The real work is returning home and living what we know to be true for us.
We return with clarity, support, vision, tools, and each other's support.
But we do not return alone.
Gradually the magic of the island settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen."
- Gerald Durrell
If You’re Reading This Thinking, “Yes. This.”
This retreat is for thoughtful, capable women who know something inside them is asking for attention.
Women who are tired of carrying everything alone.
Women craving a real pause, meaningful support, beauty, honesty, creativity, possibility, and space to hear themselves clearly again.
You do not need to arrive with everything figured out.
You simply need a willingness to show up honestly, rest deeply, and listen to what is true for you now.
If you are reading this thinking, "Yes. This.", and you can come, wahoo!. We are so excited.
Click the YES, THIS button, fill out the form and then we can talk and answer any questions you may have.
Yes, this
If you are listening inside and are hearing "Yes, but not now...", we got you. Click the link below to receive information about our upcoming retreats.
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About Molly and Mehera
Okay, But Who Are These Women?
This retreat is guided by two women who bring different — yet fundamentally aligned and complementary — forms of care, creativity, leadership, and support.
We are also soul friends who have walked with each other through many of the biggest transitions of our lives. We know how the other person shows up in hard, beautiful, scary, and joyful seasons of change. We trust each other deeply, and honestly, we both feel so lucky to get to do this together.
Mehera Kleiner
Mehera brings laughter, truth-telling, creativity, beauty, and the ability to hold joy and sorrow at the same time. She weaves the creative and somatically informed transformational arc of the retreat.
As a coach, artist, retreat leader, storyteller, and founder of Your Knowing Self, her work focuses on helping women reconnect to themselves through honest self-reflection, creativity, somatic awareness, nervous-system support, and meaningful life transition work.
She has spent years guiding women through grief, reinvention, burnout, leadership, healing, creativity, and discovering what feels genuinely true.
Molly Irani
Molly brings warmth, beauty, grounded leadership, delight, and a profound understanding of what it means to help people truly thrive.
She is the exact person you would want beside you if your world was falling apart — or if you wanted to sit on a couch, drinking tea and laughing until you cried.
As the author of Service Ready and co-founder of the beloved Chai Pani Restaurant Group, Molly has helped lead extraordinary transformation — not only within individuals, but across teams, organizations, leadership cultures, hospitality, and an entire industry.
Where Mehera’s work has largely focused on guiding deep one-to-one transformation, Molly’s work has focused on guiding large groups of people toward more humanity, creativity, care, connection, courage, and meaningful change.
She has a rare gift for helping people feel deeply welcomed, genuinely at ease, fully human, and encouraged to become more fully themselves.
Your Home In Paros
Women are welcome to book:
an Airbnb
a boutique hotel
a guesthouse
or shared accommodations with another participant if desired
Once registered, we will send recommendations for places to stay in different price ranges, along with guidance about the best areas to book.
We intentionally chose Parikia because it is easy, welcoming, beautiful, and allows women to feel both supported and free throughout the week.
The Practical Stuff
Seven days of retreat programming in Paros, Greece
Group workshops, creative practices, and somatic-aware support
One individual one-to-one support session during the retreat
The full-day private boat experience in the Aegean Sea
Creative supplies and retreat materials
Transportation for all retreat group activities on the island
Breakfasts, lunches, and most group meals
Opening and closing dinners together
Ongoing support, guidance, and facilitation throughout the retreat
Your retreat experience includes:
Airfare to and from Greece
Flight or Ferry transportation to and from Paros
Accommodations
Four dinners during the week
(Those four dinners are intentionally left open so women have space to explore the many incredible restaurants on the island — either on their own for quiet time, or shared with others however they choose.)
Travel insurance
Optional massages or personal excursions
Not Included
Retreat Investment
If You Feel The Pull
This includes the full retreat experience: group workshops, creative practices, one-to-one support during the retreat, the private boat day, retreat materials, transportation for retreat activities, and most meals throughout the week.
Accommodations, airfare, ferry transportation, and four dinners are not included.
Because we intentionally keep the group small, we personally connect with each woman before registration.
Once you fill out the form, one of us will reach out to answer your questions, share more about the retreat, and talk with you about joining us.
We hope to see you soon!
(We understand)
$ 3,000 USD
A Final Note
We Hope You Join Us
If something inside you is reading this and quietly saying, “Yes. This.”
Trust that.
You do not need to have everything figured out before coming.
You do not need to arrive perfectly rested, perfectly healed, or perfectly clear.
You simply need the willingness to pause, listen honestly, and allow yourself to be supported.
We created this retreat because we believe women deserve spaces that are beautiful, intelligent, restorative, emotionally honest, and genuinely alive.
And we would be honored to share this experience with you.
Yes please
Yes Please
What many women tell us:
"Molly Irani embodies hospitality, grit, and grace." - Chef Maneet Chauhan
"First of all, Mehera is a bundle of love. You feel the warmth of her genuine care from the very first moment... You feel profoundly safe, fully accepted- even celebrated - for exactly who you are. Her presence invites you to soften. The outcome is an abundance of constant gifts: lightness and freedom." - Esera, client
When asked to describe Molly's leadership style, her mother responded with: "Yoda."
"I haven't felt this free in decades..." - Spring retreat participant
"Molly Irani is both a big-hearted storyteller and a brilliant leader..." - Shauna Niequist, author
"It was more deeply restorative, reaffirming and enlivening than I could have imagined..." - Lydia, Spring Retreat participant
Stay Connected
Perhaps this retreat isn't the right fit, the right timing, or the right season of life for you.
That's okay.
If something about this work speaks to you, we'd love to stay connected.
This list is specifically for future retreats, workshops, programs, and other offerings that Molly and Mehera create together.
While this retreat is designed primarily for women in midlife transition, our larger vision is much bigger. We hope to create experiences for many different people, communities, and organizations in the years ahead.
If you'd like to hear about future offerings, please sign up below.
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I once asked a bird, how do you fly in the gravity of darkness? And she replied Love lifts me.”
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