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Inside Joshua Tree’s exclusive sexual wellness retreat: ‘I’ve seen women changing’

Back to the Body offers immersive somatic sexology retreats helping women overcome body shame and reclaim agency, with prices ranging from $550 to $18,000, reflecting a growing $48.2 billion market.

  • Back to the Body operates from a sprawling Joshua Tree site where Madsen offers weeklong retreats from $8,000 to $18,000 and two-night stays from $550 to $2,000, with 30 spots left for 2026.
  • Madsen, who founded Back to the Body in 2011 after her 2007 certification from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, frames her work as reclaiming arousal as agency rather than just pleasure.
  • Practitioners lead sessions using sexological bodywork emphasizing `one-way touch`, breathwork, intimacy coaching, and movement, while group sensory exercises with fruit, feathers, and stones complement live `pleasure demonstrations` featuring Cosmo Meens in the demonstration space.
  • One long-time participant, Deb Morris, says her over a dozen retreats over a decade were `life changing`, increasing her vibrancy and social life, as Madsen aims to change the world `one vulva at a time`.
  • Critics including Dr. Gail E. Wyatt warn hands-on sex education risks boundaries, while practitioners follow the Association of Certified Sexological Bodyworkers code and Global Industry Analysts Inc. projects the market to reach $48.2 billion by 2030.
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Inside Joshua Tree’s exclusive sexual wellness retreat: ‘I’ve seen women changing’

By Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times This is what arousal looks like. About 20 women are lying blindfolded on yoga mats in an airy structure in the Joshua Tree desert. Some are partially dressed in loungewear or lingerie; others are fully nude. Sexy indie folk music blasts from the sound system and outside, through the open double doors, the wind kicks up, rustling the fragrant desert scrub brush, pomegranate trees and ponderosa pines. Related A…

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