The Women’s Reset Coastal Edition
🌊 The Reset Coastal Edition
Emotional Resilience, Leadership & Nervous System Reset by the Ocean at The Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay
October 24 | 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM | Half Moon Bay, CA
Step away from constant execution and into a curated oceanfront experience designed for ambitious female founders seeking clarity, emotional resilience, and meaningful connection.
Hosted at the breathtaking The Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay, this intimate half-day retreat brings together a small circle of women leaders for a powerful reset through movement, mindfulness, guided reflection, and honest conversation.
This is not a networking event.
It’s a space to pause, recalibrate, reconnect, and return to yourself — alongside women who deeply understand the emotional demands of building and leading.
✨ Limited to 10–12 curated participants.
🗓️ What to Expect
10:00 – 11:00 AM | Arrival, Meet & Greet
Arrive, settle in, and meet the women joining us for this intimate experience. We’ll begin with quick introductions and create space to connect before moving into the retreat experience.
11:00 – 11:40 AM | Oceanfront Yoga 🧘♀️
A gentle, grounding yoga practice by the ocean led by Aisha Asanova, designed to help you transition out of “doing” mode and reconnect with your body, breath, and presence.
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM | Guided Meditation 🧘
A short guided meditation to slow down, release mental noise, and prepare for deeper reflection and connection.
12:00 – 1:00 PM | Nourishing Lunch & Connection 🥗
A relaxed lunch and an opportunity to connect with fellow founders and leaders in an intimate setting.
1:30 – 3:30 PM | Featured Workshop 🧠
The Female Founder’s Nervous System with Dr. Alyssa Steiger
An interactive workshop exploring the unique emotional and nervous-system demands of building and leading a company — and how founders can cultivate greater awareness, resilience, and sustainable performance.
3:30 – 4:00 PM | Networking, Reflection & Closing 🤍
A final opportunity to share reflections, connect with one another, and close the experience with intention.
✨ Featured Workshop: The Female Founder’s Nervous System
Alyssa Steiger, PsyD — Leadership Psychologist | Executive Coach | Co-Founder, MindSight Leadership
Dr. Alyssa Steiger is a licensed clinical psychologist and leadership coach who brings nearly two decades of experience helping individuals and teams navigate complexity, build emotional resilience, and lead with purpose. With expertise in applied neuroscience and the psychology of stress and decision-making, she helps leaders unlock clarity and confidence in high-pressure environments. Alyssa's background blends business and behavioral science. She studied business before earning her doctorate in psychology and has held leadership roles as a clinical director, educator, and founder. She also co-owns Thought Partners, a group psychotherapy practice in the Bay Area, and founded Agewise, a nonprofit providing free therapy to low-income older adults. At MindSight Leadership, Dr. Steiger supports leaders in building emotional intelligence, cultivating trust, and fostering high-performing, psychologically safe teams.
The Female Founder’s Nervous System is an interactive workshop designed specifically for women building and leading companies.
Drawing from clinical psychology, entrepreneurship, leadership coaching, and applied neuroscience, Dr. Alyssa Steiger will explore how the founder experience can shape the way we respond to stress, make decisions, lead teams, and navigate uncertainty.
Participants will have the opportunity to explore:
🧠 Understanding the founder stress cycle and nervous system
🌿 Recognizing patterns of hypervigilance, over-responsibility, and burnout
🤝 The challenge of delegation and the “if I don't do it, it won't get done right” mindset
💭 How stress can influence decision-making, creativity, and leadership
⚡ Practical, neuroscience-informed strategies for regulation and recovery
✨ Building sustainable high performance without losing your ambition
Through guided reflection, practical frameworks, and meaningful group conversation, the workshop will create space to better understand your own patterns and develop tools to navigate the emotional demands of entrepreneurship with greater awareness and resilience.
🧘♀️ Meet Your Facilitator
Aisha Asanova — Yoga Instructor, Corporate Professional & Community Builder
With 15+ years of experience in the corporate world, Aisha understands the pace, pressure, and constant demands that come with building a career, leading initiatives, and striving for ambitious goals. Throughout her professional journey, she has also discovered the importance of creating space to pause, listen to yourself, and stay connected to what truly matters.
Her passion for yoga, mindfulness, and community comes from a personal belief that success is not only about what we accomplish, but also about how we feel along the way. She believes that taking time to care for ourselves, reconnect with our inner wisdom, and cultivate emotional resilience helps us show up more fully — both in our work and in our lives.
Through her yoga practice and community-building work, Aisha is passionate about sharing the tools and practices that have helped her feel more grounded, present, and connected. Supporting the Sisters Female Founders community is a meaningful opportunity to bring these worlds together: creating a space where ambitious women can step away from their everyday responsibilities, reconnect with themselves, and find support among women who understand their journey.
For Aisha, this retreat is about more than yoga or meditation. It’s an invitation to slow down without losing your ambition, make space for yourself while building something meaningful, and remember that you don't have to do it all alone.
Certifications
200-Hour Hatha & Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training — Nepal Yoga Academy
50-Hour Bhakti Flow Advanced Teacher Training — Rusty Wells
Aisha has shared yoga and mindfulness practices across corporate and community wellness settings, including sessions at YouTube and Genentech. Her approach combines grounding movement, breathwork, and intentional presence to help participants reconnect with themselves and cultivate resilience from within.
🌊 Who This Is For
This retreat is designed for female founders, builders, creatives, and leaders who:
Are navigating high-performance environments
Feel emotionally or mentally stretched
Want space to slow down and reconnect with themselves
Value intentional community and meaningful conversations
Are seeking clarity, grounding, and emotional renewal
Are open to mindfulness, self-awareness, and personal growth
🌿 By the End of This Retreat, You Will
Feel more grounded and mentally clear
Experience a nervous system reset through movement and breath
Gain new insights into your patterns as a founder and leader
Learn practical tools for navigating stress and uncertainty
Build authentic connections with like-minded women
Leave with greater clarity, presence, and emotional alignment
🤍 A Space to Reset
The strongest leaders are not the ones who never pause — but the ones who know when to step back, reset, and reconnect.
Join us by the ocean for an intentional half-day designed to help you reconnect with yourself, your leadership, and a community of women walking a similar path.
We can’t wait to welcome you. 🌊🤍
🎟️ Tickets & Important Ticket Policy
We’re keeping this intimate and intentionally limiting the retreat to 10–12 participants.
✨ Early Bird — $129
Only 4 tickets available
🌊 General Admission — $150
8 tickets available
By purchasing a ticket to this event, you acknowledge and agree to the following:
All ticket sales are final. No refunds will be issued unless the event is canceled or materially rescheduled.
If you are unable to attend, tickets may be transferred to another participant with prior notice to the organizers.
In certain cases, organizers may offer a credit toward a future event at their discretion.
Please ensure you are able to attend before completing your purchase, as this policy helps us intentionally curate and plan this intimate experience for all participants.
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