June Staken, DragonFly Healing Adventures

About DragonFly Healing Adventures

The purpose of my project is to help women dive deeper into the SELF while fostering a connection with nature, culture, and like-minded women through a transformative travel retreat experience

About June Staken

Formidable adventurer born to Jamaican parents and raised in the United Kingdom, Theresa Powell, also known as Akua Boahemaa, is the CEO and Co-Adventurer at Dream Catcher Global. Her mission is to help women live the lives of their dreams by realizing their full potential through transformational travel experiences.

Akua has traveled extensively across the globe to over 80 countries meeting indigenous cultures, trekking remote routes, climbing mountainous terrains, and exploring the limits of her own perceptions.  On her adventure to the Asante region in Ghana, a village chief gave her the honorary name, Akua Boahemaa which means helper and leader. 

June’s Capstone Project

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This adventurous week-long retreat is designed to help you to dive deeper into your SELF while fostering a connection with the land, culture, and like-minded women.  We accomplish this through a balance of hikes, reflective inner work, laughter, yoga, healing, and ceremony.  If you are looking for clarity, feel stuck, have experienced a life transition, yearn for community and connection, want a new perspective or are seeking a new adventure this retreat is for you!  Upon completion of the program, you have the tools and practices to continue at home.

No yoga experience is necessary.  We practice Svaroopa® yoga during the retreat.  This style of yoga is gentle yet facilitates subtle and profound changes in body and mind.  Svaroopa ®yoga dissolves spinal tension, quiets the mind and can facilitate a change of perspective.  It is not a gym-style yoga workout.  Poses are mostly done lying and sitting down.  The only requirement is the ability to get on and off the floor.  Hikes are tailored to individual and group fitness levels; however, the altitude of Taos is 7000 feet, and it is strongly encouraged that you begin a fitness program before the retreat.  Most hikes begin or climb above 7000 feet.

The retreat is in a home setting in Ranchos De Taos, located 4 miles from Taos Plaza.  Participants get to experience an authentic residential Taos community neighborhood.  You have a 360-degree view of the mountains, sprawling vistas and all that includes.  Lodging will be within a yurt, tepee, or ecofriendly house.