An intimate evening of sustainability, ancestral craft, cacao, community + sound healing WHAT IF MENDING COULD BE MORE THAN REPAIR? Join Isabel Varela, founder of Repurpose Your Life, and Clementina “Sustainable Latina” Martinez-Masarweh for an intimate four-hour retreat exploring our relationship with what we carry, what we discard, what we repair—and what we choose to transform. For one evening, two women, healers, artists, entrepreneurs, educators, and changemakers from the East and West Coasts come together in New York City to create an experience that brings their distinct bodies of work into one room. Through meditation, breathwork, conversation, ancestral mending, cacao, community, and sound healing, we'll slow down and explore sustainability not simply as something we practice environmentally, but as something that can inform the way we live.We'll move from conversation into our hands, learning the art of visible mending through Sashiko-inspired stitching while gathering together in circle.And we'll close by moving from making into stillness through an immersive sound healing experience.This is an evening of repair, reconnection, creativity, and intentional transformation. A RARE + INTIMATE NYC EXPERIENCE This isn't a large workshop or conference.You'll experience this work inside the Repurpose Your Life© Micro Healing Center, a private and intentionally intimate space on Manhattan's Upper West Side near Central Park.For this special collaboration, Isabel and Clementina are bringing together two bodies of work—human transformation, healing, sustainability, ancestral wisdom, creativity, circularity, and conscious living—for a small group of guests.The intimate setting means you'll have the opportunity to learn, create, reflect, ask questions, connect, and experience the evening alongside both facilitators rather than simply watching from an audience.And you'll leave with more than the experience itself. EVERY GUEST RECEIVES A CURATED ECO-CONSCIOUS SWAG BAG VALUED AT $250–$400 Each attendee will receive a specially curated swag bag featuring products and offerings selected to reflect the values of the evening: sustainability, wellbeing, creativity, conscious living, and intentional consumption.With an anticipated retail value of up to $400, the swag bag alone is designed to offer extraordinary value beyond the four-hour retreat experience.*Very limited attendance. Advance registration required.*Final swag bag contents and retail value are subject to final sponsor/product confirmations. YOUR RETREAT INCLUDES ARRIVE · MEDITATION + BREATHWORK We'll begin by slowing down and arriving in the body through guided meditation and breathwork, creating space to transition out of the day and into the experience. SUSTAINABILITY · WELLBEING · ENVIRONMENT Together, Isabel and Clementina will open a conversation around the interconnectedness of personal wellbeing, sustainability, consumption, creativity, and our relationship with the environment.We'll explore the choices we make every day and how seemingly small acts—including repairing something instead of immediately discarding it—can become part of creating meaningful change. ANCESTRAL MENDING · SASHIKO Led by Clementina “Sustainable Latina” Martinez-Masarweh, you'll explore Sashiko-inspired visible mending through hand stitching and denim patches.Clementina will introduce the practice and guide you through creating your own visible repair.No previous sewing experience is necessary. Mending kits and materials will be provided. CACAO + MENDING CIRCLE We'll gather in circle with cacao while continuing to mend together.Rather than rushing toward a finished product, this portion of the evening is an invitation to slow down, work with your hands, connect, share, and honor the practice of repair. SOUND HEALING Isabel will close the evening with an immersive sound bath, creating space for rest, reflection, and integration. Meditation + breathwork Sustainability + wellbeing conversation Guided Sashiko-inspired visible mending workshop Mending kit + materials Denim patches Cacao Community mending circle Immersive sound bath Light bites Curated swag bag WHAT TO BRING Bring one denim item you'd like to mend—jeans, a denim jacket, shirt, bag, or another denim piece that could use repair or a little new life.Don't have something that needs repairing? Denim patches will be available to practice on.No previous sewing or mending experience is required. MEET YOUR FACILITATORS CLEMENTINA “SUSTAINABLE LATINA” MARTINEZ-MASARWEH Multidisciplinary Artist · Slow Fashion Designer · Filmmaker · Educator - Reiki HealerClementina Martinez-Masarweh, known through her work as Sustainable Latina™, is a multidisciplinary artist, fashion designer, filmmaker, and educator working at the intersection of sustainability, culture, healing and storytelling.As a first-generation Mexican American, Clementina's approach to creativity and social change is deeply connected to cultural identity and community. She is the product of an activist father with United Farmworker Association and a mother who was self taught in design and art, she learned Through her work, she transforms textile waste and post-consumer materials into fashion, art, film, and educational experiences that challenge overconsumption and invite people to rethink their relationship with what they buy, wear, and discard.Her work brings together circular design, environmental justice, climate literacy, repair, mending, upcycling, and cultural storytelling. She also teaches practical skills in repair, resilience and circular design and develops educational programming designed to turn awareness into tangible action.At the Ancestral Healing + Mending Retreat, Clementina will guide participants through Sashiko-inspired visible mending, with ancestral mending history, bringing together craft, sustainability, storytelling, shared tools for resilience and the transformative act of repair. ISABEL VARELA Human Transformation Guide · Medicine Woman · Founder, Repurpose Your LifeIsabel Varela is a Human Transformation Guide, Medicine Woman, sound healer, and founder of Repurpose Your Life in New York City.With 18 years of experience building businesses across four industries and more than 400 sound bath sessions delivered, Isabel works at the intersection of ancient wisdom and modern strategy.She has facilitated nervous-system regulation and sound-healing experiences for Fortune 500 companies including Ralph Lauren and DoorDash, led workshops at Accenture, and built one of NYC's most intimate healing communities at My Little Magic Shop.Her work is rooted in her Central American Indigenous lineages and shamanic practice, and she has studied with Mayan elders, Hopi elders, and Toltec shamans.Isabel's work centers on helping people recognize and transform the patterns keeping them stuck so they can reconnect with themselves and intentionally create what comes next. EVENING FLOW 5:00 PM · Arrival + Welcome 5:15 PM · Meditation + Breathwork 5:35 PM · Sustainability, Wellbeing + Environmental Connection 6:00 PM · Sashiko + Ancestral Mending Workshop 6:30 PM · Cacao + Mending Circle 7:45 PM · Reflection + Integration 8:00 PM · Sound Healing 8:50 PM · Closing Circle 9:00 PM · Retreat Ends LOCATION Repurpose Your Life Center Upper West Side · New York CityThe Repurpose Your Life Center is an intimate private space. For the privacy and safety of the Center, the exact address will be shared with registered guests prior to the retreat through an email.Advance registration is required. No walk-ins. MEND WHAT YOU WEAR. HONOR WHAT CAME BEFORE. REPURPOSE WHAT COMES NEXT.