Meet the Women of the Let's Get Free Retreat
The Let’s Get Free Retreat is more than your average getaway — it’s a space to come home to yourself and recenter pleasure. This July, we’re gathering women who are ready for the amazing power of sacred sexuality and feel what freedom really feels like in our bodies and lives.
Creating this experience is a team of intergenerational, powerful, and magical Black and brown women who are dedicated to healing the world through sexuality. Get to know the women helping shape this year’s retreat and the energy they’re bringing with them.
Falilah “Aisha” Bilal - Transformative Movement Consultant, Founder of WaterFLowLife
Falilah “Aisha” Bilal has worked for over 30 years creating innovative strategies to transform, empower and develop individuals, systems, and organizations nationally.
As a leader in the field of gender based trauma, Falilah has developed numerous culturally based strategies to help people heal from sexual assault and trauma. She was born with a string connection to her sacred sexual self and throughout her life has participated in Bay Area communities that lift up sexual expression, sexual healing and sexual liberation. WaterFlowLife is her gift to this world.! Curating and nurturing people, spaces and events to lift up sacred sexuality, Ms. Bilal leads and supports all of us to live fuller lives!
Bilal holds an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and a B.A. in Theater Arts and Child Psychology from San Francisco State University.
Aiyisha Monique Castillo Somatic Therapist, Intuitive Bodyworker, Ceremonial Movement Guide
Aiyisha’s intention is to move through life from an embodied perspective. Co-creating meaningful experiences that promote the integration of body, mind and spirit, light her up. Her classes and workshops reflect the body’s capacity for stillness and grounded expansion. She calls on the earth, her ancestors, movement, dance, breathing exercises and meditation practices to rehumanize. Aiyisha’s offerings are naturally imbued with her studies in somatic psychology, child development, massage therapy and yoga.
Christina “Krea” Gomez, Educator and Organizer
Krea has over 20 years experience in youth development, community organizing, and program management. In addition to being a case manager, community organizer, and director, she is also a former educator, school administrator, and doula who believes deeply in community, people power and redemption.
For the past five years, she has served as a member of the leadership team of the Young Women’s Freedom Center, where she is also a program alum.
She is a founding member of the Sister Warriors Freedom Coalition, a former recipient of the 2015 Teachers 4 Social Justice Award, was honored by the city of San Francisco for Latinx Heritage Month 2019. Krea was recently named a 2021-2023 Leading Edge Fund Fellow, where she will be working on her project to replace punitive and dehumanizing systems with a comprehensive new architecture that provides young people with the support and resources they need to address their trauma, and to heal and thrive.
Elilta Tewelde- Kundalini Practitioner
As a life long learner, Elilta Tewelde has gained experience through her many travels. Starting from the age of 3 when she and her family were uprooted during war in Eritrea. Her family fled to Sudan as refugees. Her grandfather was a medicine man and high priest in Eritrea and respected in many villages and towns. As a young child, she tapped into people’s energy intuitively. She has always had an affinity to indigenous practices and spiritual strategies. Elilita has incorporated her love for music into her kundalini practice. She is an avid photographer and lover of visual arts! After studying Kundalini theory and practice for three months in New York, Ellita fell in love with it’s teaching and daily practices. She has been able to incorporate her love of sound, breathwork, and chanting to develop a daily process to help herself and others heal. She will awaken your fire!
Madeline TH – Sexual Health and Wellness Community Resource
Madeline’s work is rooted in the belief that pleasure is sacred, healing, and deeply personal. She began her journey with content creation where she embraced the connection between pleasure, self-expression, and adult wellness products. That path evolved into a deeper calling when she became a manager at an adult boutique. In that role, she discovered her passion for creating meaningful spaces for conversations around sexual health and pleasure. Now as a certified sexual health and wellness community resource and the founder of Lovers’ Elixir LLC, she devotes her work to helping others reconnect with themselves. She creates safe spaces where people can learn, explore, and step fully into the power of their pleasure.
Amaya - Joy of Singing Coach
Amaya is a singer & song catcher who is devoted to honoring the sacred within our beautiful and sometimes messy human/spirit experience. With an extensive background as a performing artist and over two decades of healing and growth through meditation, somatic inquiry, and earth-based practices, she has gathered the jewels of hard learned wisdom and woven them with the transformative power of song. Amaya is dedicated to creating a cradle of belonging and a collective return to the birthright of expression through voice.
Mama Carla Charraga - Women’s Sweat Lodge Leader
Carla Charraga is an Indigenous Mexican Healing Practitioner who travels the Red Road Way. She is of Mayan and Otomi descent. Her Abuela was a Curandera. She has been following these ways for over 24 years. She is married to a Native American (Paiute) and both were adopted by a Karuk Medicine Leader. She is a Sundancer and a Helper at a local Sundancer. She has done numerous Vision Quests and helps put women up on the hill. She has been leading lodges, women, co-ed, and LGBTQ friendly lodges for three years and participated in lodges for 24 years.
Arkayla TH - Writer and Marketing Consultant
Arkayla is a writer and marketing consultant. Her work lives at the intersection of communications, engagement, and collective healing. With a background in public relations, she combines strategic communications with authentic storytelling to support nonprofits and small businesses in surpassing their outreach and audience engagement goals. She’s supported over 30 nonprofits and small businesses across the United States as a strategic comms expert, workshop facilitator, coach and more. She recently published her first poetry book, If Feelings Could Speak, and currently teaches workshops on engaging with your journal throughout life’s ebbs and flows.
In her personal life, Arkayla is a psychedelic advocate and creative. She enjoys journaling daily, painting, dancing, exploring herbal medicine and spending time with her dog, Sugar.
Arkayla prides herself on creating a life where creativity, healing and joy can coexist freely. This guides her approach to all of her work– creating the same space for her clients to grow.