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full moon in the trees womens retreat overview
We are thoughtfully filling each day with special and important experiences for you. The days will be balanced between ceremony, nourashing meals, connection and time for relaxation and/or solitude. Here is a summary of the weekend and what you will experience. We are still curating the retreat and so we will most likely add or revise things a bit, but this will give you a really good idea of what you can expect to experience and the weekend flow.
Thursday
As you arrive you will enter into a magical space with expansive, breathtaking forests surrounding you, the spirit of the trees reaching out to welcome and embrace you. Let nature’s gentle embrace awaken a deeper sense of connection to yourself and the world around you.
Take a moment to walk the grounds and meet with like-minded souls who are gathering for this mystical, empowering and transformative experience.
Snacks, refreshments
There will be tasty, nutritious snacks and refreshing beverages awaiting you as you settle into your rooms.
Opening Ceremony-
2:30 – 4:00pm
You will be immersed in sacred energy as we come together as women seeking to awaken onto a spiritual journey of connection and ceremony. A time where your nervous system can relax and breath and take a much needed time of calm, rest and surrender. There will be Guided Visualization, Vowel Sounds, mudra introduction.
Dinner -
5:00-7:00
Enjoy a delicious vegan, gluten free dinner. Learn from the chef the secrets behind her special creations.
Evening -
Before you sleep you can hike the stunning paths behind the house, communing with the trees receiving their messages of wisdom and truth, understanding and guidance. Or you can sit quietly and journal, go inward in meditation or just be in the quiet and calming gathering space, enjoying the artifacts set all around.
Friday
Awaken to the Day
Wake up to a calm mind, an open heart and a renewed sense of purpose as the first rays of light illuminate your path - Experience your early morning time in your own personal way. You may enjoy the Sauna to clear and calm your soul and/or begin your day with revitalizing exercise in the fully equipped exercise room.
Breakfast-
8:00 – 9:00
Enjoy fresh, energizing food to promote clarity and presence for the rest of your day.
Stone Ceremony/Watercolor exercise -
9:00-10:00
Bringing your inner self forth to speak to you. This will initiate a deeper connection to the voice who knows who you truly are. The stones will activate your awareness of what you are bringing forth, what is wanting to come forth, your true gifts that want to be expressed.
Breath Work -
10:15 – 11:45
Be immersed in a transformative vortex of intuitive energy and love with this Breath Work experience. You will discover the wisdom and mystery of breath as it moves you beyond your mind and body. This practice allows past wounds to heal and patterns that are no longer of service to be shed. Breath Work reduces stress, anxiety, and grief, depression as it increases self-awareness, self-love, presence, happiness and joy.
Private Contemplation -
11:45 – 12:30
Time to sit in contemplation and meditation. Journal, walk in the woods, take time to allow all that you have just experienced to gently settle within you. During this time there will be card reading and tuning fork healing.
Lunch and private time at the lake-
12:30-5:00
Savor another tasty creative and health conscious meal.
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1:30-2:30
Gathering together to explore techniques for accessing our inner wisdom, guidance and truth. Along with beautiful and effective ways to deeply connect with yourself and the world around you. Or you can also take this time to just relax and be in your own space
Dinner -
5:00-6:00
Allow yourself to dive into this wonderfully nurturing and truly delightful food.
Labyrinth -
6:00-7:30
Meditative walk through our thoughtfully created Sacred Labyrinth. You walk the labyrinth path with emotional, mental, physical and spiritual presence. You move through the process of release and then gently step into the birth of something new that is emerging from your most essential being.
Bedtime
Rest and renew
Saturday
Awaken to the Day
Wake up to a calm mind, an open heart and a renewed sense of purpose as the first rays of light illuminate your path - Experience your early morning time in your own personal way. You may enjoy the Sauna to clear and calm your soul and/or begin your day with revitalizing exercise in the fully equipped exercise room.
Breakfast-
8:00 – 9:00
Enjoy fresh, energizing food to promote clarity and presence for the rest of your day.
Yoga and sound bath-
9:30 to 11:30
Immerse yourself in the vibrational frequencies of sound, expressed through the playing of sacred sound bowls. Allow your body, mind and spirit to be drenched in the harmonizing sounds that will move into and through every part of you. The frequencies will balance your chakras, calm your nervous system, release emotional toxins, your blood pressure lowers, heart rate lowers and the body moves into healing mode.
Lunch-
12:30 to 1:30
Savor another tasty creative and health conscious meal.
Guided meditation, Introspection and Discussion (Retrieve Totem Animal) -
2:30-3:30:
Imagine this being the perfect, divine timing for finally discovering the patterns and fears you are ready and meant to release into to the Universe? Your inner self is calling these to your attention and this meditation will answer that call.
Mask Making -
4:00-5:00
Discover and express your inner Goddess through the fascinating and fun experience of mask making. Experience revelations, self-discoveries and "aha" moments as you bring your focus to the areas of your life that might need love and attention.
Fire Ceremony & Honoring the Native People of our land Ceremony -
7:30-9:00
A soulful celebration of a powerful and mystical Fire Ceremony - where we create a circle of enlightenment, igniting the spirit and uplifting the heart. You can choose to drum, sing, chant or simply dance around the circle and embrace the transformative power of the moment.
Join in a very special and deeply sacred ceremony to acknowledge, pray for, send healing and atonement to and recognize our true history of our original native people – remembering the power, beauty, and purpose and the conscious ways they interacted with all that was and is around them. In this ceremony of gratitude, we give thanks for our ancestors and those who continue to live in their traditions, protecting their oneness with spirit and keeping alive what is of the heart.
SUNDAY
Awaken to the day
Breakfast -
8:00 – 9:00
Savor the lovingly prepared and delicious food to begin this final day of our retreat.
Sharing and discussion and closing ceremony -
9:00 – 11:00
Time for sharing our moments of realizations, healings, deepening’s, aha moments. Sharing what we let go of and what emerged and came forth within us to bring home as we continue our journeys of healing and transformation.
To conclude, there will be a discussion on how to bring all that has been awakened home with you - specific guidance on how to integrate the enlightenment, insights, healing and inner discovery you may have experienced back into your life at home.
Ceremony to honor our time together and the divine, loving presence that has created a safe space for all to ‘be’, experience, express and celebrate our most authentic and beautiful essential selves
Checkout -
11:00am