Satsang Project

03/16/2026

🚨New Offerings Through Satsang Project 🚨 Over the past year my work has been evolving in a really natural way as I’ve continued to hold space for retreats, circles, and gatherings centered around healing and connection.

I’m really excited to begin offering a few new types of gatherings through Satsang Project. Each of these is designed to create intentional space for people during meaningful life transitions.

Here are the new offerings I’ll be facilitating:

✨Private Cacao Ceremonies
Guided ceremonial gatherings centered around cacao, intention, and meaningful connection. These can be hosted for individuals or private groups and are shaped around the purpose of the gathering.

Cacao ceremonies can be held for many different reasons, including life transitions, celebrations, healing spaces, or simply meaningful time in community. Some examples may include:
• Life transitions (career changes, moving, new chapters)
• Relationship transitions (uncoupling, divorce, deepening commitment)
• Celebrations and joyful gatherings
• Healing or reflection circles
• Friendship or community connection
• Bridal party ceremonies

✨The Healing House Immersion
A private weekend experience for individuals or small groups seeking deeper rest, reflection, and guided support during a season of change or healing.

✨Private Grief Circles/Grief Ceremonies
A supportive ceremonial space to acknowledge and process grief. These circles allow individuals or groups to gather in community to honor loss, share stories, and move through difficult transitions with compassion and presence.

✨Mother’s Blessings
Ceremonial gatherings honoring pregnancy and the sacred transition into motherhood.

Ceremony has been a part of human life for thousands of years. Across cultures and traditions, people have always gathered in community to mark important moments, births, losses, transitions, and new beginnings. Ceremony gives us a chance to pause, acknowledge what is happening in our lives, and be supported by others as we move through it. Whether someone is celebrating something joyful or navigating a difficult season, these gatherings create space for reflection, connection, and healing in community.

I’ll be sharing more about each of these offerings over the coming days so people can better understand what they look like and who they might be for.

If something here resonates with you, feel free to reach out and start a conversation.

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Photo by: Cheyenne Mckay
Retreat guide: Satsang Project

03/15/2026

Now that I’m offering mothers blessings, I wanted to share a Substack. I wrote about my mother‘s blessing that was guided for me.  I am eternally grateful for all of the love and intention that went into this day from every single person that was there.

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Photo by: Christian Dawn Photography

Being held while becoming a mother

03/14/2026

03/13/2026

Today marks one month since our Rising Through the Muck retreat.

I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting on that weekend and the beautiful moments we shared together. One that has stayed with me deeply is the fire ceremony that Jo guided.

I wrote a reflection about it and about the one piece of paper that was left for me to tend to.

If you feel called to read it, you can find it here:

https://open.substack.com/pub/charleenstokes/p/what-the-fire-ceremony-left-me-with?r=73i9wb&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=post-publish

Retreat guide: Satsang Project
Workshop guide: Jo Bjork
Retreat photographer: Cheyenne Makay
Retreat location: White Lotus Eco Spa

At the last retreat we held a fire ceremony that I have not stopped thinking about since.

03/12/2026

I’m really excited to share that I’ll be adding a new offering through Satsang Project.

Mother’s Blessings 🤰✨.

You may have heard them called a few different things, a Blessingway, a womb blessing, or a mother’s circle. Different traditions have different names, but the heart of it is the same.

A Mother’s Blessing is a gathering held in honor of a woman who is preparing to welcome a baby. Instead of the traditional baby shower that focuses on gifts for the baby, a Mother’s Blessing centers the mother herself, her body, her journey, and the powerful transition she is moving through.

It’s a time for the women in her life to gather around her with intention, support, and love.

These gatherings can include things like sharing stories and wisdom, blessing the mother, creating meaningful keepsakes, gentle rituals, laughter, tears, and a lot of heartfelt connection.

Every Mother’s Blessing looks a little different because it’s created specifically for the mother being honored.

The ones I facilitate will focus on creating a warm, supportive, and meaningful space for women to gather in community and celebrate the sacred transition into motherhood.

I’ll be sharing more about this offering soon, but for now I just wanted to say how excited I am to begin holding these circles.

There is something incredibly powerful about women coming together to support one another through life’s biggest transitions.

If you or someone close to you is preparing to welcome a baby and this resonates, I would love to help create something meaningful. These gatherings can be organized with the mother herself, or by friends and family who want to honor her during this special transition. Feel free to reach out if you’d like to learn more or begin planning a Mother’s Blessing together.

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Photos by: Christian Dawn Photography

03/09/2026

Today’s piece is about something I’ve been thinking about a lot: the difference between pioneers and settlers when it comes to building intentional community.

Both roles matter.

If you’re curious, you can read it here: You can subscribe there if you want future writings sent directly to you.

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Over the past few months, as I’ve spoken more openly about the idea of building an intentional community, people have been reaching out with excitement.

03/08/2026

Morning light, fresh air, and a slower start.

Since getting back from the retreat, I’ve been trying to hold onto a few simple practices that help keep me mentally, physically, and spiritually grounded.

Nothing complicated. Just small rhythms that feel good in my body.

One of the biggest shifts has been how we start the morning.

When we wake up, I don’t turn on the lights in the house. Our electric fireplace gives off just enough ambient light while we wake up. My son usually wakes up around daybreak, and the first thing we do is walk to the front door and open it.

We let the early morning sunlight hit our eyes.

We take a few deep breaths of fresh air after being inside all night.

And we say a few things we’re grateful for.

The birds we hear.
The breeze.
The sun coming up.
Another day to be here.

Early morning sunlight is incredibly regulating for the body. That first light of the day helps set our circadian rhythm, supports hormone balance, improves sleep later that night, and signals to the nervous system that it’s time to wake up naturally.

So we just stand there for a moment and breathe.

Inside the camper, I try to keep the lights off as long as possible. LED lights can be harsh on our nervous system and our eyes, so instead I open the windows and doors and let the natural light fill the space.

Right now the weather is warm enough that we can keep everything open, which means fresh air moving through the camper and sunlight pouring in.

Another small shift I’ve been experimenting with is keeping my phone on airplane mode most of the time. It’s been that way for about two weeks now. I take it off airplane mode when I need to use it, but that pause before turning it back on has been really helpful.

Before I do, I ask myself:

Why am I picking this up?
What do I actually need to do?
How long do I want to spend here?

That small moment of intention changes the whole interaction.

When I look back on my life, the times when I’ve felt the most mentally clear, physically energized, spiritually connected, and emotionally steady all seem to have a few things in common.

Less screen time.
More time outside.
More sunlight.
More quiet.

I’m going to write more about this soon.

For now, I’m just enjoying these simple mornings.

Light.
Fresh air.
Gratitude.
And a slower start to the day.

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Retreat guide: Satsang Project
Retreat photography: Cheyenne Mckay

03/04/2026

Celebrating my 1st year with my business Facebook. So crazy to think that this time last year I was preparing for my first retreat that was coming up in April . Thank you for your continuing support. I could never have made it without you all. 🙏🤗🎉

03/03/2026

This has been living in my body for years.

After the last retreat, the question kept coming:
“What does intentional community actually look like to you?”

So I finally put it into words.

Puerto Rico is where we’re looking next.
Nothing promised. Just direction.

If you’re curious, it’s here.

FYI, at the bottom of the write up, there’s a short video of one of the properties we’re gonna take a look at Warren Puerto Rico. 🥰

On land, belonging, and building something slower on purpose.

02/28/2026

Every spiritual teaching points to the same thing: You are not a person having awareness.

You are awareness having the experience of being a person.

Get that backwards and you suffer.

Get it right and you're free.

02/28/2026

Intentional community isn’t about perfection. It’s about what happens after the rupture.

I had three moments at my last retreat where I needed to circle back, clean up my own energy, and take accountability.

That’s the culture I’m committed to building, in retreats, in my home, and on the land we’ll one day share.

The full piece is on Substack if you want to read it.

The practice I’m bringing into retreat spaces, my home, and the land we’ll one day share

02/26/2026

I’m in a season of really paying attention to my energy. noticing patterns. I’m realizing I’ve always been someone who pours freely. Into friends. Into family. Into ideas. Into conversations. Into dreams. I don’t gatekeep. I share. I get excited and I bring people with me.

And I’m not changing that about myself. I love that about myself. But I am getting more selective about where my energy lives. There’s a difference between generosity and leakage.

I understand that relationships ebb and flow. Some days I give more. Some days someone else holds me more. That’s normal. That’s healthy. But in general? I’m paying attention to whether it feels reciprocal over time.

And I’m also noticing this with my phone. This past week I’ve been putting my phone in airplane mode anytime I’m not actively using it. It hasn’t been in my bedroom at all. I switched it to grayscale and have left it. I’ve been physically putting it out of reach.

And the shift is wild. I’m more present with my kids. More patient. More grounded. I’m getting things done around the house without that constant low-level pull. Our days feel softer. Easier. Less fragmented.

It’s like I didn’t realize how much micro-energy I was handing out all day long. I’m not disappearing. I’m not isolating. I’m just protecting the current that runs through me.

Energy is currency. And I’m learning to spend it intentionally.
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Retreat guide: Satsang Project
Retreat location: White Lotus Eco Spa Retreat
Retreat photography: