About the Team
Your Spiritual Stewards
We’re the people who hold you as you take a journey toward your true self.
Joey is the mastermind behind the luxury retreat and is the yoga instructor, Reiki practitioner, spirit guide, medicine woman, and general life enthusiast.
Brooke is our chef who makes delicious food that makes you feel special. She’s also our second guide, lending a fun, strong, stable presence.
Scooter is Joey’s doggo, but he has an important role to play in comforting people when they’re in their work. While he’s not a very big creature, he has great intuition and can tell when you might need a little comfort and will often find his way to laying on top or beside you. If you don’t like doggies, it’s ok, we will keep him apart.
Joey Bothwell
Medicine Guide/ Somatic Specialist
Joey has been working in the healing space guiding medicine journeys for the better part of the last decade. She got her start and hands on training learning from some of the most knowledgeable therapists and psychologists at a progressive addiction recovery center in Venice, CA. As a former actress and professional dancer, the pursuit of her dreams, unwavering self discovery and commitment to following her joy, amalgamated towards a path of helping others find their own authentic freedom and unique place in the tapestry of life.
Reiki master. Mycologist. Somatic specialist. Yogi. Breathwork guide. Medicine guide. Presence coach. Care bear and hockey enthusiast.
Brooke Lawrence
Personal Chef / Facilitator
Brooke is a private chef specializing in healthy eating and 18 year owner of Pangaea River Rafting. She spends her summers in Montana rafting, and winters in Bend, Oregon cooking and playing outside. In addition to cooking and rafting Brooke loves helping empower others to be the greatest version of themselves. As a space holder she is a permission giver and helps guide others to embark on their own transformative journeys and guides them towards healing and empowerment. When she's not rafting, cooking or on retreat, you can find her adventuring outside; skiing, running, hiking, biking, dancing to live music or deep in conversation with one of her adventure buddies. She is a mom of two teenagers and cherishes her time spent together as a family.
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Joey's Backstory
Joey's Backstory
While you might find traces of a past life in film and dance if you Google Joey, what defines her far more deeply is the path she has walked in relentless pursuit of joy, curiosity, and what it means to truly be herself.
Joey Bothwell’s path to the healing community has been anything but a linear one. Joey's 30 year career as a professional dancer and actress sparked her curiosity for the exploration and the understanding of the body and the human psyche. Studying the craft of acting went hand-in-hand with studying the understanding of what it means to be human as well as her elite relationship to her body being one of a professional dancer. There’s a certain embodied understanding and unique wisdom that these two crafts have provided that is rare to say the least and incredibly potent.
Before Joey became a guide she was teaching a dance class in Los Angeles when a psychologist from a progressive addiction recovery center attended her class then immediately approached her. The psychologist opened with “I’ve never met anyone who genuinely loves their body the way that you do and how you communicate it with such joy and reverence is unparalleled. Would you be willing to create a somatic program for addicts at a progressive addiction recovery center?”
Joey jumped at the chance and embraced the opportunity to explore and grow as a practitioner in the somatic space. Her generous knowledge of breathwork, Reiki yoga, dance, stretching, and self regulation therapy allowed Joey to create a unique space for people to embrace their wisdom and encourage a relationship to the body that is generous and sustainable.
Joey then started being welcomed into the medicine space and had the privilege of sitting next to some of the best therapists and psychologists on the planet, learning, listening and holding space for eight years of intensive therapy. A truly guided education that cannot be bought or earned at any university or college.
Joey‘s hands-on experience for over a decade in the medicine space and the therapeutic container makes her not only a knowledgeable resource but a gifted practitioner and space holder for deep, sustainable healing to emerge. Her playful approach, lack of confinement and commitment to the joy enable her access to limitless practices and teachings that can only be embodied by a truly gifted teacher.
Through laughter, tears, healing practices, and plenty of trial and error, Joey has shaped a way of living that helps others shine from the inside out.
Joey offers grounded presence & compassionate support. There’s no shortcut to becoming who you’re meant to be, but you don’t have to walk the path alone.
Joey has become the kind of human who helps others remember the best parts of themselves, feel safe in their own skin, and reclaim their right to authenticity.
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Located in Los Angeles, CA
Email: sentienceretreats@gmail.com
Phone & Text: (310) 993-3793