Step inside an intimate, thoughtfully curated experience designed to slow you down, open you up, and reconnect you to what truly matters.
September 26th, 2026
Los Osos, California
Join us for a special edition of VAH Empower Hour, hosted in the private Los Osos home of author Paula Mathias, where conversation, connection, and personal growth unfold in a setting that feels both elevated and deeply personal. This is not your typical event—it’s a gathering of women who value meaningful dialogue, intentional living, and the courage to choose themselves.
What to Expect
Expect hands-on fun, supportive staff, and a mix of structured activities and open play. This is a space where campers can move, make, imagine, and grow.
Set against the backdrop of a beautiful coastal home, your morning begins with coffee and effortless connection w/ VAH founder Valeria, leading into powerful, guided conversations with Paula alongside Dr. Bella Dishell, who will bring a grounded, therapeutic perspective to themes of boundaries, self-trust, and the permission to prioritize your own life. Expect a blend of storytelling, insight, and actionable reflection designed to meet you exactly where you are.
Throughout the day, you’ll move through moments of reflection, nourishment, and community—from a shared lunch to a mindful outdoor walk—before closing with a restorative sound bath led by Ana Culbertson of Oceana Yoga, inviting you to fully unwind, integrate, and reset.
10:00 – 10:30 AM: Coffee + Connection w/ Val
10:30 – 11:40 AM: Coaching w/ Dr. Bella Dishell
11:40 – 11:55 AM: 15-Minute Nature Walk
11:55 AM – 12:35 PM: Shared Lunch
12:35 – 12:45 PM: Break + Transition
12:45 – 1:50 PM: YES Method w/ Paula Mathias
1:50 – 2:10 PM: Break + Transition Outside
2:10 – 2:50 PM: Outdoor Sound Bath w/ Oceana
2:50 – 3:00 PM: Closing + Thank You
Meet
Our
Host &
Guides
Paula Mathias -Host
Paula Mathias is an author, speaker, and senior leader who helps women move beyond automatic decisions and start choosing what truly matters. Through her YES Test Method, she offers a simple, powerful framework for making clear, confident, and intentional choices.
Author & speaker
Dr. Bella Dishell
life and wellness coachFor more than thirty years, Dr. Bella Dishell has worked with individuals, couples, and groups through life’s most defining transitions, including more than two decades in private clinical practice. Her approach is grounded in advanced training in psychology, with a doctorate in clinical psychology and a master’s in counseling psychology. Today, she brings that depth of experience and training to her work as a certified life and wellness coach. She helps women find clarity, build self-trust, deepen their sense of identity, reconnect with what matters to their hearts, and move forward with alignment and purpose.
Ana Culbertson
With advanced training in yoga, wellness coaching, and herbalism, Ana Culbertson of Oceana Yoga brings a holistic, nature-rooted approach to healing. Inspired by years of study in meditation, eco-living, and spirituality, she guides others into deeper relaxation, awareness, and inner balance.
Oceana yoga & Sound Bath healer
The Woman You’re Becoming: Identity, Clarity & the Power of Participation
With only 14 seats available, this experience is intentionally intimate, allowing space for authentic connection and conversation you won’t find anywhere else.
This is your invitation to step away from the noise, into a beautiful space, and into a version of yourself that feels aligned, grounded, and empowered.
Where We’ll Be
Authors Home, Los Osos, California
Address given at time of ticket purchase.
If you feel called, we invite you to read Paula’s book The Yes Test Method before the event. It’s not required—but it will deepen your experience, spark reflection, and allow you to arrive with questions and insights already unfolding. ✨