3 Day In-Person Retreat
Ignite Your Power
Ignite Your Power is a rigorous transformational leadership experience who are ready to pause, reflect, and take full responsibility for how they are living, leading, and responding to their lives.
Aug 14-16, 2026
California Central Coast
Vespera Beach Resort
This is not your surface-level, spa retreat.
This is a RIGOROUS Experience.
This is where awareness becomes choice—and choice becomes power...
Real Power REQUIRES Responsibility.
Ignite Your Power is a rigorous, transformational 3-day experience for women who are ready to pause, reflect, and take full responsibility for how they are living, leading, and responding to their lives.
In this retreat, participants move beyond insight into real integration through guided exercises, live coaching, and applied frameworks grounded in neuroscience and human systems.
This experience creates the space and structure to interrupt old patterns, strengthen alignment, and anchor intentional action.
Participants leave grounded, energized, and equipped with practical tools, and a level of clarity and coherence that is difficult to achieve in shorter formats.
Aug 14-16, 2026
California Central Coast
Vespera Beach Resort
White-knuckling leadership is not sustainable.
Ignite Your Power is where women leaders reset how leadership feels…so they can lead with clarity, authority, and presence without burning themselves down.
You are good at what you do. You’ve earned your seat.
People rely on you to think clearly, lead well, and hold things together. But leadership as a woman today is heavier than it used to be. You’re navigating constant change, limited resources, emotional labor, and pressure to perform—all while staying composed, decisive, and available for others.
Most women leaders don’t say this out loud, but they feel it every day: the mental fatigue of always being “on,” the weight of carrying people, culture, and outcomes, the quiet disconnect between who you are at work and who you know yourself to be.
Ignite Your Power is not a break from leadership.
It’s a recalibration of how you lead, decide, and show up, so you can do your job without burning yourself out in the process. This is where you remember, leadership and joy are not mutually exclusive.
INSIDE IGNITE you’ll tap DEEP into the level where leadership actually lives:
Nervous System
Decision-Making
Presence
Internal Alignment
The women leaders who thrive next are not the ones who push harder…
They’re the ones who can stay grounded, clear, and steady inside complexity. The ones who serve as the steady lighthouse their team can rely on, through difficult scenarios and celebrations.
They’re the ones who have ignited their true power.
Will it be you?
Are You Managing Instead of Inspiring?
At first, nothing seems wrong.
You’re showing up. You’re delivering.
But over time, something shifts.
◉ Your patience shortens
◉ You feel more tired than you should
◉ Decisions take more effort
You start managing instead of leading, holding things together. Reacting more than leading.
Your passion doesn’t disappear, it just starts to fade.
And it shows
◉ Engagement drops
◉ Innovation slows
◉ Culture gets harder to sustain
◉ Leadership feels draining
Ignite Your Power exists to interrupt this pattern, BEFORE exhaustion becomes your baseline.
THIS LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE IS DESIGNED FOR YOU , IF...
You carry real responsibility at work: for people, outcomes, culture, or all three
You are respected for your competence, but feel the internal strain of always being the one who holds it together
You’re navigating complexity, change, or growth and know your leadership presence matters more than ever
You want to lead with clarity, confidence, and grounded authority, not constant effort
You value depth, intelligence, and practical tools over surface-level inspiration
You are successful, but you know something needs to recalibrate before the cost shows up somewhere else
You’re ready to do the internal work that makes external leadership more effective
THIS LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE IS NOT DESIGNED FOR YOU , IF...
You’re looking for a relaxing getaway or wellness retreat
You want motivation without introspection or personal responsibility
You’re not currently leading or preparing to lead others
You prefer theory over real-time self-examination and practice
You’re not willing to slow down long enough to reset how you lead
Aug 14-16, 2026
California Central Coast
Vespera Beach Resort
What Changes First...
Motivation isn’t the answer. This goes deeper. The first shift isn’t your role, your team, or your workload.
It’s how leadership feels in your body.
Most leaders are constantly bracing
◉ For decisions
◉ For conflict
◉ For responsibility
◉ For being needed
Even if you’re highly capable, a system stuck on alert makes leadership feel heavy. That’s where fatigue, second-guessing, and distance begin.
The first shift is physiological
When your system resets, everything else changes.
◉ You stay calm without losing authority
◉ You think clearly under pressure
◉ You respond instead of absorb
◉ You make decisions without carrying the weight after
Leadership starts to feel lighter again.
Lead With Flow
and Feel Ease and Passion Return to Your Body
When your nervous system is calm, everything downstream has room to optimize.
Then...
Your Decision-Making Sharpens
Once you’re no longer operating from constant internal tension:
Decisions become cleaner
Boundaries become easier to hold
Conversations become more direct
Confidence stops depending on outcomes
You stop over-explaining.
You stop rehearsing conversations in your head.
You stop carrying what isn't yours.
Aug 14-16, 2026
California Central Coast
Vespera Beach Resort
Finally...
Your Presence Changes the Room, This is the shift others notice first.
You don't need to
say more.
You don't need to
push harder.
You don't need to
manage perception.
YOUR TRANSFORMATION IS A 3 - DAY JOURNEY FROM VISION TO ACTION
Day 1
You stop holding EVERYTHING together
You’ll begin to:
Settle your system without checking out
Notice where you’ve been bracing, pushing, or over-managing
Reconnect with your own internal signal instead of external noise
This is the core of the retreat…
Day 2
You rebuild from the inside out
You’ll work with:
Neuroscience and physiology that explain why leadership feels heavier than it used to
Practical tools to regulate stress, pressure, and emotional load in real time - to remain the solid leader your team needs
Frameworks for making clean decisions in moments that matter, making leading feel smoother than ever before
Day 3
You integrate and leave, optimized
All Comes Together, You’ll:
Solidify what changes from Monday morning on, not just what felt good in the room
Know exactly how you operate best as a leader, at work and at home
Leave with a grounded sense of direction and internal steadiness
YOU WILL WALK AWAY WITH:
A steadier nervous system under pressure
So you can handle decisions, conflict, and uncertainty without carrying the emotional weight afterward
Clear, confident decision making
You’ll trust yourself again, without overthinking, rehearsing, or second-guessing.
A grounded leadership presence
The kind that doesn’t rely on force, volume, or constant effort to be effective.
Tools you can use
in real time
Practical methods to reset, refocus, and re-center in the middle of your workday, not just in ideal conditions.
Stronger boundaries without guilt
You’ll know what’s yours to carry and what isn’t.
A renewed connection to yourself
Not as a concept, but as a lived sense of clarity, alignment, and inner authority.
A clear path forward
You’ll leave knowing how you want to lead next, with intention instead of inertia.
What’s Included?
Full 2.5-day immersive retreat experience
All guided sessions, frameworks, and practices
High-touch facilitation and integration
A curated, high-caliber room of women leaders
(Travel and lodging are booked separately)
Your journey is supported by deep, restorative practices designed to help you integrate the work on a cellular level.
YOGA
Integrate masculine and feminine energies through movement.
MEDITATION
Access your internal guidance system and the power of community.
BREATHWORK
Connect with your wholeness and unlock your gifts.
NATURE & SOUND
Ground yourself with silent nature walks and a Tibetan Soundbath.
Bonus
When you register for Ignite Your Power, you’ll receive 50% off the Evolve the Leader Within Seminar Series, a continued leadership development experience designed to support integration beyond the retreat.
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What women leaders say after working with Magi
MEET YOUR GUIDES
Margaret "Magi" Graziano
KeenAlignment
Founder and CEO
Magi has spent her life reinventing herself. From a single mother at 19 to leading one of the fastest growing consultancies, she has continually taken challenges and failure as lessons. Her body of work cuts through the personal and organizational malaise stifling happiness and fulfillment at work.
Mary Oreskovic
Interscholastic Coach
& Yoga Instructor
A combined 30 years experience of guiding, coaching and teaching, Mary is a graduate of Kinesiology, a Physical Education Teacher, a Certified Yoga Instructor, a Fitness Model, a Running Coach, and an International Bike tour guide. Mary is ultimately passionate about the human body, its ability to learn various forms of movement and getting stronger.
Yvonne Wong
Yoga
Instructor
Before dedicating herself fully to yoga, Yvonne spent over 20 years in corporate finance, living and working in London, Brussels, Washington D.C., and Moscow. She concluded her successful finance career as a CFO in Silicon Valley, then turned her focus to caring for the love of her life—her daughter, Giulia.
“What surprised me most was how practical this was. Nothing felt abstract. Everything translated directly into how I lead my team, handle pressure, and communicate.”
“I’ve been through a lot of leadership development. This was different. It addressed the internal pressure I didn’t realize I was carrying and once that shifted, everything else followed.”
“I came in exhausted and second-guessing myself more than I realized. I left grounded, clear, and confident in how I lead. The change wasn’t loud, it was steady. And it stuck.”
“Magi has a way of getting straight to the root of what’s actually happening, in you and in the organization. I make decisions faster now, with less emotional weight, and my team feels the difference.”
“This work didn’t just change how I lead at work. It changed how I show up everywhere. I’m calmer, more present, and far more effective, without working harder.”
Margaret Graziano
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