Your body is asking new questions. This is where you get real answers.
Sorting through wellness advice on the internet is a full-time job nobody asked for. So we cut out the middle scroll.
Four days. Seven leading female physicians from the Mayo Clinic. CIVANA's award-winning wellness team. One retreat built around what your body is actually doing in this chapter — hormones, brain health, sexual wellbeing, mood and anxiety, and the rest of the questions you've been carrying around.
Clinical insight you can trust. Real-life tools you'll actually use. And the kind of days that remind you wellness is supposed to feel good.
Early Bird: $300 off when you book by June 30.
Why This Retreat Is Right for you
We designed this summit around what's been missing from the conversation about women's health in midlife. Not about telling you need fixing. Not overcomplicated biohacking. A real experience where the science is credible, the practices land in your body, the conversations go where they need to go, and you leave with something you can actually use.
Science you can trust.
Leading physicians from Mayo Clinic across menopause, integrative medicine, psychiatry, neurology, physical rehabilitation, and sexual health. They teach, they listen, and they stay for the full experience.
Practices you can feel.
Every clinical session is paired with an embodied practice. You learn about hormones, then move through a functional strength lab. You hear the science of sleep, then practice a nervous system reset. Breathwork, yoga nidra, somatic release, mobility training. Nothing stays theoretical.
Conversations you didn't know you needed.
Sexual health at midlife. Body image and identity. Brain fog and cognitive shifts. Libido. Partnership. Reinvention. The rooms are built for honesty.
Tools you'll actually use at home.
A personalized 90-day healthspan plan. Three daily non-negotiables. A weekly movement blueprint. A Brain Vitality Checklist. Your "Living Forward" Workbook ties it all together.
Meet the Circle
Ten physicians. Four days. No stage, no exit after the keynote — just clinicians who show up, sit alongside you, and stay for the whole experience.
Dr. Jewel Kling
Women's Health & Menopause
Dr. Talia Sobel
Menopause, Weight Management & Sexual Health
Dr. Denise Millstine
Integrative Medicine
Dr. Nandita Keole
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Dr. Neeta Jain
Psychiatry & Psychology
Dr. Amaal Starling
Neurology
Dr. Natalie Strand
Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine
Clarity over guesswork.
You shouldn't have to piece this together alone.
Midlife health is complex. It's personal. And it deserves more than fragments.
This Womens Health Summit was built to bring the full picture into one place: the science, the practice, the conversation, and the time to actually absorb it all.
Reserve Your Spot
Topics You'll Explore
Featured Sessions
- The New Longevity: Feeling Fully Alive Now and Into the Future: An opening panel with all faculty.
- Hormones & Strength: A deep dive into menopausal hormone therapy paired with a functional strength lab for bone density. You leave with circuits you can do at home.
- Sexual Health at Midlife: Libido, partner communication, clinical and lifestyle interventions.
- Brain Health & Cognitive Vitality: Brain fog, focus, sleep, and evidence-based protection habits. Interactive cognition exercises and myth-busting around dementia risk.
- Midlife Is Not a Crisis. It's Authority: A physician-led panel on owning expertise, setting boundaries, managing energy, and rewriting ambition.
- Personal Healthspan Planning Lab: Small groups guided by physicians and the CIVANA team. You create your 90-day healthspan plan, choose three daily non-negotiables, one relational commitment, and one joy practice.
The Experience
- Day 1: Arrive + Understand Settle in, meet your physicians, and set the tone. Opening panel, your first track pairing, and an evening sound bowl.
- Day 2: Learn + Normalize Hormones, sleep, mood, sexual health. The conversations you've been waiting to have, plus morning movement and evening connection.
- Day 3: Feel + Integrate Brain health, body image, identity, and a physician-led panel on owning your authority. This is where the work starts to land.
- Day 4: Apply + Move Forward Culinary workshop, your Personal Healthspan Planning Lab, and the plan you'll take home with you.
What's Included
accommodations
Comfortable overnight accommodations for three nights
Physician-led sessions
Four days of workshops, panels, and breakouts with specialists in women's health.
Meaningful Connection
Time to slow down, be yourself, and connect with women who get it.
Nourishment
Hormone-forward lunches, smoothie stations, healthy snacks between sessions, a mocktail bar, and evening receptions with lite bites.
Spa
One 60-minute spa treatment, plus full access to spa amenities and pools.
Daily Wellness Classes
Desert hikes, dance cardio, Pilates, meditation. Choose what feels good for your body.
A Toolkit for Real Life
A "Living Forward" Workbook, your personalized 90-day plan, a weekly movement blueprint, and a Brain Vitality Checklist.
resort amenities
Access to resort amenities that include fitness center, pools, labyrinth, and cactus garden
FAQs
Who is this for?
You might already be tracking your symptoms or you might just be starting to wonder why everything feels like it shifted overnight. You might have a great doctor but still feel like something's missing from the conversation. What the women at this summit share: they're done with guesswork. They want real science, real conversation, and a plan they can actually follow.
Should I come alone or bring someone?
You're welcome to come alone or bring a friend, a sister. Double occupancy rooms are available. Either way, you'll leave knowing and building connections with women you didn't walk in with.
What's included?
Three nights of accommodations, all summit sessions and physician-led workshops, hormone-forward lunches, smoothie stations, snacks, mocktail bar, evening receptions, a culinary workshop, a spa treatment, your "Living Forward" Healthspan Workbook, and full access to CIVANA's resort amenities.
Can I build a schedule that fits me?
You'll choose between different physician tracks, pick from a morning movement menu, and have plenty of unstructured time built in. The communal sessions bring everyone together. The rest is up to you.
Is this a medical program?
Think of it as the deeper conversation you wish you had time for with your doctor, held in a space built for connection, movement, and joy. The physicians here are clinicians who specialize in the topics they're teaching, and they're with you through the summit.
Who are the physicians?
Seven Mayo Clinic specialists across menopause, integrative medicine, psychiatry, neurology, physical rehabilitation, and sexual health.
What should I pack?
Clothes you can move in, layers for morning and evening in the desert, and whatever makes you feel like yourself. September in the Sonoran Desert means warm days and cooler mornings.
This is your invitation to step into what's next.
*Stay dates are 9/17/26–9/20/26. Rate is prepaid, non-refundable. Cannot be combined with other offers. Subject to availability. One 60-minute Spa treatment (up to $225), service charge included. Max of one treatment per guest and cannot be transferred to other guests. Experience Fee will be applied per guest, per night + tax and includes: full access to daily complimentary wellness programming, restful resort amenities, fitness center, resort bikes, CIVANA water bottle with access to on-property FloWater alkaline water hydration stations, WIFI, self-parking, and more.