Renata Retreat
Grandmother Experience
A RENAISSANCE OF THE ANCESTRAL FEMININE WISDOM
Why this Retreat
We are at an inflection point in history, moving into a Renaissance, a new era.
A renaissance of the ancient feminine wisdom that we already carry within ourselves.
2026 is the year of speed, action and fire. And in that intensity, it’s easy to lose ourselves if we don’t stay grounded. This year, we need to anchor and nurture ourselves.
This year it is vital reconnect with the Earth, with the energy of the Grandmother.
And that's why I have created RENATA RETREAT- Grandmother Experience
Renata is the name of my maternal grandmother and she gives her name to this retreat. Her name, Renata, means “rebirth” in latin.
Renata Retreat is a Renaissance and a Sacred Return to Ancestral Feminine Wisdom
RENATA RETREAT
GRANDMOTHER EXPERIENCE
in Transylvania, Romania
an intimate, sacred immersion designed for women ready to remember the wisdom carried by their foremothers, embody the timeless strength of grandmother energy, and integrate this archetype into life, leadership, and business.
From Wednesday September 9th, 2026 (afternoon) to Sunday September 13th, 2026 (in the morning)
+ A 14-day online PREPARATION before the Retreat
+ A 14-day online INTEGRATION after the Retreat
Intention
RENATA Retreat is built on 3 pillars:
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THE EARTH ELEMENT. 2026 is the Fire Horse year. A year with a lot of fire, action and speed. When things speed up, when we feel rushed and when the collective is purging the darkness of the world, the Earth element keeps us grounded, protected and safe.
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THE GRANDMOTHER. She is the carrier of the Earth Element frequency. She is there to nurture us, soothe us and protect us.
- THE RENAISSANCE OF ANCESTRAL FEMININE WISDOM. The Grandmother is the keeper of lineage wisdom, the one who carries the memory, the medicine, and the strength of all the women who came before us. When we reconnect with her essence, something profound awakens within us. We experience a rebirth: becoming wiser, more rooted, nourished, and steady from the inside out.
In this powerful Fire Horse year, this deep feminine wisdom is essential. Essential for how we lead, how we create, how we build our businesses and projects, and how we show up in our relationships.
RENATA Grandmother Experience
An earthy, soothing retreat that reconnects you to the deeper feminine knowing within, bringing greater clarity and joy to your life and the work you offer the world.
What We Do Together
The Rhythm of the Experience
A Journey of Reconnecting, Embodying & Integrating
Day 1- Arrival Afternoon, September 9th: Landing Into Sacred Space
You arrive slowly and intentionally. This afternoon is designed to give your body space to exhale and shift out of everyday life. It’s a soft landing where your nervous system begins to unwind and open to what is coming.
Day 2 - September 10th: Reconnecting
We begin by tuning into the felt sense of the feminine roots. An immersion beyond stories, into the energetic and intuitive archive of your feminine wisdom.
Day 3 - September 11th: Embodying
The focus shifts into the body, cultivating grounded presence, slow potency, and inner authority. Through somatic sessions, creative expression, and sensory rituals, you learn not just to know grandmother energy, but to embody it in your breath, pace, and decisions.
Day 4 - September 12th: Integrating
This day anchors the transformation into your relationships, leadership, and business. You will shape your lineage-aligned way of working and living, refine your boundaries and decisions, and design the rituals and practices that will continue to guide you beyond the retreat.
Day 5 - September 13th: Departure Morning
You leave grounded, centered, and reborn, carrying grandmother wisdom into your life, leadership, and future lineage.
The Preparation and The Integration
Energetic Preparation and Integration
THE PREPARATION PHASE: Energetic preparation in the 14 days leading up to the retreat
This is the first step of the initiation. The preparation phase will allow you to enter the retreat mindfully and present.
Renata Retreat is a carefully curated group of women and everything is thoughtfully designed. You will meet the women in the group two weeks before. We will co-create a space of trust and presence. The 14 days before the retreat are very important. They prepare the energetic field of our retreat.
THE INTEGRATION PHASE: Energetic and practical integration in the 14 days following the retreat
This is the final step of the initiation. The integration phase will help you return to your daily life not with a sense of loss, but carrying the transformation you experienced during the retreat, allowing it to flow naturally into your everyday reality.
You will land slowly and gracefully back into the reality of your life, not abruptly. The 14 days after the retreat will help you integrate the experience in a practical way and gently close the energetic field of our retreat.
Lasting Impact
I am always mindful of the practicality of what I create, because I cannot imagine any path of transformation that ignores an essential dimension: providing tools that are not just inspiring, but tangible. Tools you can carry with you and use in your daily life.
True transformation, for me, must be both experiential and applicable.
That’s why I’ve designed the Renata Retreat so that the insights you gain will continue to support, guide, and empower you long after the retreat ends.
Renata Retreat is holistic experience for your body, your nervous system and your energetic frequency with a lasting impact on how you feel, lead and create.
Key Practices & Tools
Each day is structured around ritual moments, sacred women’s circles, exploratory practices, and ample time for integration, in harmony with the rhythm of nature and the group’s dynamic:
- Embodiment practices, somatic practices, yin yoga and meditation
- Initiatory rituals and sacred circles
- Sacred nature walk
- Botanical discoveries, herbal ancestral wisdom and rituals
- Breathwork and Sound healing
- Energetic transmissions and activations
- Coaching inquiries
- Practical and pragmatic tools to integrate the experience in your creative life, leadership style or business growth
- Moments of silence and presence. Time to rest and integrate.
The THRIVE Method
The Thrive Formula™ is a holistic methodology created by Cristina Pop in 2022. It blends the ancient wisdom of the 5 Elements and energetic work with neuroscience, somatic healing and pragmatic coaching tools. The THRIVE Formula™ has helped over 100 women to create transformation in their lives. We will work with the 3 pillars:
1. Returning to Inner Safety
Regulation & Stabilization
Through slowness, sensory presence, breath, and gentle embodiment rituals, we will reconnect with the calm, steady rhythm of Grandmother energy. As the body feels safer, space opens to meet and release long-held patterns.
Outcome: a regulated body, a calmer mind, and the capacity to hear your own truth again.
2. Embodying Sovereignty
Connection with the Feminine Energy
You step into the energy of the Grandmother within: steady, sovereign, intuitive, and deeply anchored in who you are. You remember the feminine wisdom you carry in yourself and you become the Grandmother of your own life. Guiding, choosing, and creating from deep inner knowing.
Outcome: embodying sovereignty & inner authority
3. Aligning and Activating
Integration of the healthy Masculine Energy for structure, direction & embodied leadership
The clarity and groundedness cultivated through Grandmother energy become the foundation for activating your healthy masculine, the part of you that brings structure, direction and aligned action.
Outcome: ability to move through the world with calm confidence, discernment, and aligned action, the union of Yin and Yang (feminine wisdom and masculine direction).
What makes this Retreat different
Renata Grandmother Experience is a remembering. It creates the conditions for realignment, softness, and deep inner knowing to rise naturally.
This experience invites a different relationship with time, with the body, and with your ancestral wisdom as a woman of your lineage. A slower, wiser rhythm that continues to guide you long after you return home.
It offers a grounded, intimate alternative to both high-intensity and overly polished retreat models. This retreat is rooted in embodiment, simplicity, ancestral connection, and lived feminine wisdom, allowing real shifts to unfold organically, at the pace of the grandmother.
This retreat is part of a genuine commitment to create an authentic and magical experience while respecting the village life, the local people and the traditions. You will pay the Agency Fee directly to the Romanian agency. Your investment will arrive directly to the local community and help supporting it.
Who This Is For
For Women who are ready to lead from wisdom, not pressure
✓ You want to feel nurtured, anchored, replenished in this powerful and intense Fire Horse year of 2026.
✓ You’re longing to reconnect with the feminine lineage of Medicine Women and Grandmothers, an energy that is calm, grounded, and sovereign.
✓ You crave practical tools for a slower pace, cyclical leadership, and ancestral support
✓ You feel a quiet pull toward rituals, ceremonies and sacred spaces
✓ You are looking for depth without intensity
✓ You want to be close to nature in a genuine, authentic space, one that feels nothing like a standardized hotel.
Hosted in Transilvania, Romania.
A preserved land where magic is lived, not performed.
I have chosen to host this retreat in Romania because I cannot imagine any path of transformation that leaves out this essential dimension: the sacred as a direct experience.
Why Romania
I didn't want to create one more retreat
Romania’s land still holds the vestiges of some of the most ancient Neolithic civilizations that have worshipped The Great Goddess: The Cucuteni–Trypillia culture, one of the most remarkable prehistoric cultures in Europe that had highly developed symbolic art and ritual life. And The Gumelnița culture: another sophisticated Copper Age civilization in the Balkans.
I believe this is one of the reasons many people feel that Romania is such a mystical land and a sacred energetic site.
Romania is also the land of the Dacians, an ancient civilization that created powerful sacred spaces such as Sarmizegetusa Regia, a site that resembles Stonehenge in many ways, though it remains far less famous. Romania remains a deeply preserved and somewhat hidden place, where many extraordinary sites are still quietly protected by the landscape. The Dacians had a deep ancestral connection to the land, nature, and spirituality.
Interestingly, Romania is one of the few European lands where witches were not burned. Romania preserved a very strong living tradition of folk magic, ritual, and mystical practices, many of which still exist today in rural areas. This is why some anthropologists consider Romania one of the European regions where ancient spiritual traditions survived with unusual continuity. Our witches have passed their knowledge and wisdom down through the generations, from mother to daughter, to our grandmothers, and now to us, the modern women of Romania.
To anyone who has ventured into Romania’s untamed lands and wild forests, the country reveals itself as mystical, enchanting, and utterly fascinating.
Renata Retreat is held in a land where sacred heritage and untamed nature are remarkably preserved, a place that carries the legacy of ancient civilizations.
What's included
Who am I?
Hi, I’m Cristina Pop
I am the holistic practitioner with roots in ancestral wisdoms, feminine mysteries and energetic healing who helps you reconnect with your true feminine essence. I'm also the strategist and the entrepreneur who went from 0 to a 6-figure business in 18 months.
What makes working with me unique is that I'm bringing both worlds into my work with you. The seen and the unseen.
The magic of the sage and the mastery of the strategist in service of your life. With multiple certifications in coaching, embodiment modalities, energy science and healing, marketing and business I bring you the best of the two worlds: the seen and the unseen.
I was born in Romania, I studied in France. I have lived on 2 continents and in 7 countries. I am currently living in Switzerland.
Since 2012... for over 14 years I have guided hundreds women through deep, embodied coaching programs, sacred women’s circle, workshops, community building, blogging, podcasting and different spaces of transformation.
My work is valued for:
- the depth it embodies and the uniqueness of its approach.
- the integrity
- the respect for my clients sovereignty
- the ability to facilitate lasting transformation
In 2022, I have developed my own holistic approach, The THRIVE Formula™. I work with leaders, small-business owners and solopreneurs, as well as with large companies and organizations.
My podcast “Stop Running Your Business Like a Man” features almost 100 episodes to date and is listened by women around the world.
Renata Retreat is the culmination of my 20 years of exploring, teaching and embodying ancient wisdom and contemporary practices.
It’s the sacred fusion of ancestral knowledge and modern ceremony.
What My Clients Say:
"Working with Cristina was the best decision I made for myself last year." Francesca Cardinaletti
" Coaching with Cristina Pop is incredibly powerful!!!”
Daphné Moreau
“I have unleashed a power that was within me”
Louise Morizot
“My coaching with Cristina Pop is my best investment of the year.”
Céleste Helias
“I believe in myself again and in my own power. I feel so alive and in control of my own life.”
Julia Kaltenbrunner
“Cristina is amazing because she is …
- complete: superb balance between rationality + focus on the mind and emotions + intuition
- holistic: she coaches on all the life topics- 360 degrees: work, relationships, health..
- practical: she offers practical tools that I can use in any situation: big topics as well as daily life
- timeless: her tools are applied to any life situation
- tailor-made: her approach is deeply personal and she has a wide range of tools that she passes on with generosity, sincerity and passion.
I have recommended her to many women in my close circle. After working with Crisina, I feel so aligned and I have the tools that allow me to face any situation in life.”
Nathalie Saidj
Life in the Countryside
An authentic experience in a historic Transylvanian Saxon village
The experience takes place in a village in Transilvania, close to the city of Sibiu. You may have heard of Sibiu because it was European Capital of Culture in 2007.
We will be hosted in two private houses in a historic Transylvanian Saxon village, reserved exclusively for our group.
The houses are 400 years old, renovated in the respect of the traditional architecture.
Life in the countryside will invite us to return to the essentials: less distraction, more presence. This is an essential part of the Grandmother Experience.
This could be exactly what your heart is craving for.
The Rooms
The rooms are authentic, offering a harmonious blend of old-world charm and modern comfort. They preserve the traditional Saxon aesthetic while providing all the conveniences of contemporary living.
Having your on room (or sharing it with a woman you cherish and choose to bring with you) will allow you to balance rest, reflection, and solitude with moments of connection and sharing with the group.
The Culinary Experience
Renata Retreat is not only a transformative experience, but a culinary experience as well. Because slow-cooked food is grounding and it nourishes both the body and the soul.
Traditional Romanian meals are often slow-cooked and made from scratch.
Romanian cuisine is rich, diverse, and deeply rooted in tradition, combining local ingredients, centuries-old recipes, and a connection to the land that makes every meal sacred and authentic. In Renata Retreat, our Romanian host and the women in the village will cook traditional Romanian food from scratch, using primarily local ingredients.
The investment
A meaningful commitment, in alignment with the depth of the experience.
- Thrive Cristina Pop Coaching fee: 1100 CHF (without VAT) + 89,1 CHF (VAT)
- + Agency fee : 995 euros (to be paid directly to the agency )
The investment includes:
Thrive Cristina Pop Coaching:
- The full energetic transmission, facilitation and coaching guidance led by Cristina during the 5 days of the Renata Retreat
- Presence, rituals, transmissions, embodiment practices, and sacred circles
- The 14-day energetic preparation
- Integration support during, and after the retreat for a period of 14 days
- 2 Online Calls: one at the beginning of Preparation Phase and one at the end of the Integration Phase
- Organisation, logistics and coordination of the retreat
This is a special Founders’ Price for this first retreat in Romania.
Agency:
- 4 nights accommodation
- Transfers between the airport and our retreat and back tot the airport.
- All meals (full board)
- Local experiences and activities included in the program
- Organisation, logistics and needed materials for activities
Because this retreat is part of a genuine commitment to create an authentic and magical experience while respecting the village life, the local people and the traditions, you will pay the Agency Fee directly to the agency. Your investment will arrive directly to the local community and help supporting it.
DUO Offer (you are bringing with you a woman you cherish- a sister, a daughter, a mother, a friend- and you are sharing the room)- only 2 rooms are available for this offer. Price / person:
- Thrive Cristina Pop Coaching fee: 990 CHF (without VAT) + 80,19 CHF (VAT).
- Agency fee : 780 euros (to be paid directly to the agency)
Do you feel the call?
If you have read until here, and if, as you read these lines, your body opened, and your intuition whispered "yes!", then ...
RENATA RETREAT might be calling you already.
There has never been a greater need in our lives for practices that bring holding, healing, support and replenishment. Renata Retreat brings the Renaissance of those practices in your life in a pragmatic way.
The first step is to book a call with Cristina
I book a Call with Cristina
Registrations are confirmed after a conversation with Cristina. The group is carefully curated. Each application will be carefully reviewed. This is to preserve the coherence of the group and the quality of the experience.
Update April 2026: 2 spots left
Questions?
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Pour moi, une grossesse était forcément un frein à ma carrière. Je pensais que cela m'obligerait à abandonner ou à reporter mon projet de manière significative. Je le vivais comme un véritable handicap. Devenir directrice de magasin était un objectif très important pour moi, mais que j'avais déjà repoussé plusieurs fois. J'avais très envie d'avoir un enfant, mais en même temps, j'avais l'impression que cela signifiait renoncer à mon projet de devenir directrice de magasin. J'étais donc extrêmement frustrée face à cette situation que je vivais très mal.
C'est à ce moment-là qu'on m'a proposé de travailler avec un coach. J'en ai rencontré deux. Le premier avait une approche institutionnelle que je connaissais déjà pour l'avoir expérimentée auparavant. Cristina, elle, avait une méthode très différente, surprenante, et j'ai eu envie d'essayer cette nouvelle approche.
J'ai débuté le coaching en me disant : "Tu vas devenir mère au foyer, c'est une catastrophe, tu vas devoir tout abandonner." Et j'ai terminé ces séances avec Cristina en me sentant plus forte que jamais.
Ce qui m'a permis de passer de "c'est un handicap" à "je ne me suis jamais sentie aussi forte", ce sont les outils que nous avons intégrés ensemble : le travail sur les pensées et les émotions, l'apprentissage du recul, et la capacité à voir une situation sous un angle plus juste. Un concept puissant enseigné par Cristina m'a particulièrement marquée : "Tu peux tout avoir, mais pas forcément en même temps." Pour moi, jusqu'à présent, c'était "je peux avoir soit ça, soit ça". J'ai compris qu'il existait un équilibre entre les deux.
Un autre changement majeur a été d'apprendre à incarner dès maintenant la personne qui a déjà atteint son objectif. Comme les sportifs de haut niveau qui visualisent leur course avant même de courir. Cette méthode m'a énormément aidée.
Aujourd'hui, je suis plus apaisée et bien moins stressée. Ces deux projets, qui me semblaient être une montagne, sont devenus un chemin sur lequel je suis concentrée, et cela m'apporte une grande sérénité. J'ai cessé de me mettre en mode produire-produire, courir-courir.
Ma to-do list, je la fais au bon moment, en anticipant et en planifianten fonction de mon niveau d'énergie. Certes, certains impératifs restent imprévisibles, mais à mon niveau de poste, beaucoup de choses peuvent être anticipées. J'ai appris à m'organiser différemment, en fonction de mon énergie, et j'ai trouvé un rythme et une structure qui me conviennent. Bien sûr, des ajustements sont parfois nécessaires et il arrive que des urgences surgissent. Mais on imagine souvent que c'est le cas 80 % du temps, alors que ce n'est pas du tout la réalité.
Je n’ai jamais été aussi performante qu’aujourd’hui, mais cette fois-ci, en définissant moi-même comment je veux être performante.
Les concepts et outils de Cristina sont extrêmement concrets et faciles à intégrer. Ses explications sont limpides, et elle a cette capacité à formuler des phrases qui résonnent différemment, même si on les a déjà entendues ailleurs. Dans cet espace dédié à moi et à mon développement, tout prend un autre sens.
Certains sujets m'ont demandé une réelle ouverture d'esprit. Certains concepts me semblaient étranges au départ, mais je me suis vite aperçue que la méthode de Cristina fonctionne. Et quand on voit que ça fonctionne, c'est une spirale positive qui s'enclenche : les choses se débloquent une à une, et on accède au niveau supérieur.
Je recommande de travailler avec Cristina sans la moindre hésitation. Son approche est unique et globale, alliant vie professionnelle et personnelle. Et c'est essentiel, car nous ne sommes qu'une seule et même personne."
