Past Retreats
Each seasonal retreat provides a unique experience to unwind, slow down, reflect and reset your nervous systems as we transition into a new cycle. These gatherings provide deep nourishing space for self-care, nature immersion and cultivating connections with like minded women in community.
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Autumn Equinox Camping Retreat: Rest, Release and Renew
September 25-26, 2021, Midnight Rose Farm, Thompson OH
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Come together in community for a camping retreat in nature to celebrate the Autumn Equinox!
All women welcome; this is an LGBTQ+ affirming retreat!
As we transition from long days and the busyness of summer, many of us may be feeling a deep need for rest, grounding and rejuvenation. We may be feeling exhausted, over extended and just needing a break from day to day life.
We have cultivated so much since the spring equinox and now it is time to enjoy the harvest and the fruits of your labor. The Autumn Equinox gives us permission to start slowing down, resting, releasing what no longer serves and going inward to reflect on our lives so we can show up in service to ourselves, our families and the greater community.
Autumn Equinox is a day of equal light and dark and it's also is the beginning of longer nights and shorter days. In the natural world, the leaves are falling and life is starting to go into dormancy, we too reflect these changes within us. It's time to come into balance within ourselves, to shed what no longer serves and start thinking about all the ways we want to nourished and renew in the months ahead.
Are you longing for?
-Time for connection and sharing your heart with others in community
-Time to unwind, to go inward and reset your nervous system
-Time to just be, relax and be held by nature
-Deepening your self-care and self-love practices for grounding and transitioning into the new season
This retreat is for you if you are ready to say YES to...
-Your healing and coming back into balance within
-Sacred ritual with the elements to support in alchemizing your intentions and prayers for this potent time
-Reclaiming your voice and body through embodied intuitive song, sound and movement
-Releasing what no longer serves you and saying yes to cultivating the life you truly desire
-Celebrate all the abundance that this season of harvest brings into our lives
Our time together will include these opportunities:
-Yoga for Every Body: "A Journey Inward: Renew and Release"- Lead by Erin Hill
-Nature connection alone and in community
-Journaling
-Equinox Fire Ritual
-Earth altar creation
-Song circle sharing
-Sound healing meditation
-Breath work
-Movement Medicine
-Private massage, reiki and sound healing sessions (for additional cost)
- Vegan dinner breakfast
all activities are optional...
Location and Accommodations:
We will be gathering at the beautiful Midnight Rose Farm in Thompson Ohio. midnightrosefarm.com
We will have access to the quaint and cozy Monarch House that includes access to restrooms, kitchen and healing space.
We will be camping under the stars in a large meadow. We will have an open-air shelter to set tents under weather depending.
Limited indoor sleeping accommodations available for additional charge per-request.
We will be provided a healthy vegan dinner and breakfast along with snacks and tea for lunch. Please bring additional supplemental items for your lunch and other meals if desired. If bringing additional food we ask you bring your own cooler as there is limited fridge space available.
Special Wellness Offers:
You will have time on Saturday and Sunday to receive extra self-care for an additional charge from amazing healing practitioners from Branches of Wellness.
Dawn Osewalt -Thai massage
Bethany Soeder-Massage
Lindsey Marie Whited- Sound healing
Kamalika Stockton- Reiki
Practitioners are offering treatments for a $1 per minute starting at 20 min.
You can sign up when you arrive.
Personal Investment:
$133- Space is limited, pre-registration required at
http://www.branchesofwellness.com/event/autumn-equinox-camping-retreat-rest-release-renew/
Payment plans available.
In order to make this retreat accessible to women in recovery, we also request a $5-$50 donation towards our scholarship fund which allows those in our community who are in need to join us. Please venmo @Lindsey-Whited-11 or Paypal lindseyecomedia@gmail.com
Upon registration you will receive details about what to bring and how to prepare for our time together.
We look forward to being with you all!
Please email lindseymariewhited@icloud.com with any questions.
About Lindsey:
Lindsey Marie Whited is a health and wellness advocate for herself, others and the Earth, a facilitator of sacred sound and song, energy worker and Earth-based ritualist. She believes we all have the ability to heal using sound, movement and nature as tools to come back into a state of balance and ease within our bodies. She is passionate about supporting all women on their healing paths, sharing tools of wisdom that have worked for her own physical and spiritual healing journey. She is so excited and honored to facilitate this healing weekend for the community!
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Beltane Nature Retreat
creating beauty and renewal in community
10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 1st, at Hogback Ridge Park, Madison, OH
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Come together for a day retreat in nature to celebrate Beltane and life!
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Beltane also known as May Day, marking the midpoint between Spring and Summer. This is the moment where life really begins to emerge, blossom and flourish!
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This day is the Earth’s most fertile point and is a day to connect with what is emerging and alive within each of us. It's a moment to come into circle and and connect with the natural world and embody each of the gifts we are birthing at this time.
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This is an opportunity to completely unplug from the stress of daily life, immerse in nature and allow yourself to fully receive the gifts of this spring season!
Expect a day filled with ...
• serene nature
• rest
• self-care
• deep nourishment
• movement
• song
• play
• creation
...and connection with each other and the elements.
Our time together also includes.
• 90 min yoga flow with Erin Hill
• meditation
• forest bathing
• wildflower hike
• journaling
• creating earth altars
• making flower crowns
• beltane fire ritual
• song sharing
• two fresh vegan meals
and more...
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We will have an array of practitioners offering their passion and wisdom through-out day.
Massage, Reiki and angel card readings will also be available and priced separately.
Sessions start at 20 min for $1 a min. Sig up upon arrival day of retreat.
Lindsey Marie Whited will be hosting her second retreat in collaboration with Branches of Wellness. She is honored to hold space for the day to facilitate deep healing in nature with community. She will be leading a variety of activities throughout the day that will be focused on creating beauty and embodied connection.
Lindsey is a wellness advocate, a facilitator of sacred sound and song, body-worker and Earth-based ritualist. She believes we all have the ability to heal and come back into a state of balance and ease within our bodies. She is passionate about supporting individuals on their healing paths, sharing tools of wisdom that have worked on her journey of healing trauma, addiction, anxiety and chronic illness.
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She is excited to be part of supporting the cultivation of each individuals own embodied wisdom and heart song inspired by nature and all creation.
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Erin Hill, the owner of Branches of Wellness will be leading a 90-minute yoga practice for all bodies/all levels, geared to encourage the expansion of the energy within!
Erin is a compassionate, intuitive, and nurturing yoga instructor and energy worker. Through her classes and practices, Erin encourages people to embrace themselves where they are today, move at their own pace down their chosen path, and smile while they discover their wonderfulness and potential.Erin was led to yoga and Reiki in the early 2000s, as they were part of her path to healing from systemic and discoid lupus erythmetosis. In 2006, she received her Master level Reiki certification from Carol J. Spears, and went on to receive her 200-Hour Yoga Teacher certification from T.R.Y. 4 Life in 2008. Shortly thereafter, Erin founded Branches of Wellness to inspire others to take their healing into their own hands with natural holistic approaches.
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Cassandra McCollom will be offering Angel Card Reading sessions during the retreat. She is a certified Hatha Yoga Instructor, Angel Card Reader™and Flower Therapy Healer. In Cassandra’s Intuitive Angel Reading sessions she will help you to enhance your power by activating your Angels! She connects with your Guardian Angels bringing messages of Love, Light, Healing and Wisdom to your life. She also works with 15 Archangels that have different specialties and talents that you will learn how to work with for your specific needs. Each session is customized just for you to address any aspect of life you need guidance for. Cassandra has a grounded approach in her readings that balances both the shadows and light of each situation. You will leave with practical tools and a personalized team of Angels to help you experience Healing, Magick and Miracles everyday!
Types of Readings:
Life Purpose
Health & Wellness
Love & Romance
Life Cycles & Transitions
Career Guidance
Abundance & Prosperity
Kamalika Stockton will be guiding us through a walking meditation and Forest Bathing experience during our wildflower and creek hike. She will aso be offering private Reiki sessions for an additional charge during the afternoon.
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Kamalika is a Level 2 Certified and Insured Wim Hof instructor based out of the NE Ohio and surrounding regions. She is also a certified Reiki practitioner. Kamalika has experience as a licensed Art Teacher who provides group workshops and one-on-one sessions for Vision Boards, sculpting and collaging to help you find alternative routes of deeper personal expression and reflection. Kamalika also offers group and one-on-one Hiking, Meditation and Shinrin-Yoku (“Forest Bathing”) to help you find grounding through nature.
Brianna Tavares will be offering private massage sessions during the retreat for an additional charge. She is a Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Cupping Therapist, and Reiki practitioner. Her healing journey began after she was introduced to Reiki. After her first treatment, she was astounded by the intuitive form of healing and decided to pursue her own training through Branches of Wellness in 2014. Through her own experience with a back injury, she was exposed to medical massage. Using massage therapy and chiropractic care she was able to avoid surgery and go back to functioning and living a normal life. The two worlds of Reiki and massage melded together, so Brianna decided to enroll in the Cleveland Institute of Medical Massage, which she graduated from in October of 2018. She received her Medical License from the State of Ohio shortly after and has been a Massage Therapist with Branches of Wellness since December 2018.
Dawn Osewalt will be offering private massage sessions during the retreat for an additional charge. Dawn is a Thai Massage and Reiki practitioner and got her start helping others over 33 yrs ago as a dispatcher and has since retired. She has been practicing Reiki for over ten years and Thai Massage for four, She loves helping people and learned Thai massage is a way of continuing her passion on a more personal level and as a way to help keep herself in shape. Thai massage differs from traditional massage mainly because you stay fully clothed, and your treatment is typically on a mat on the floor. Thai is more stretching and acupressure. You get the same benefits as a traditional massage, but you also will become more flexible with regular treatments. She is excited to share her passion for healing at the retreat.
All women welcome; this is an LGBTQ+ affirming retreat.
Date/Time: Sunday, May, 1st, 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
...with optional sunset dinner around the fire 6-8 p.m.
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Location: Strong Cabin at Hogback Ridge Park, Madison OH
Hogback is bordered by the Grand River and Mill Creek and the landscape includes hardwood forests, hemolock ridges, floodplains, small waterfalls and swimming holes along Mill Creek.
We will be adventuring out on the trails that run along the creek exploring the abundance of spring wildflowers. The Bluebell Valley Path includes a boardwalk for exceptional wildflower viewing.
Our main gathering place for the day will be at Strong Cabin, a small private cabin nestled in the woods next to a small lake. The cabin has full amenities and includes a small kitchen, bathroom, communal space, outdoor fire pit, picnic tables and lots of area around the cabin to relax and explore.
Hogback Ridge Park is the perfect place to unplug, unwind and receive healing from nature and the elements.
Investment:
Non-Refundable Registration Fee:
$25 to cover cost of food and supplies.
$111 - early bird until April 27th, $133 after
$155 - includes retreat + the priceless support for another in need.
This tier covers 1/3 of a scholarship ticket.
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Payment plans available, please inquire through Branches of Wellness.
To register and for more info visit www.branchesofwellness.com
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Limited scholarships available for those who are in recovery and for BIPOC.
For scholarship inquirers please reach out to Lindsey: lindseymairewhited@icloud.com.
gratitude is extended to all involved from those who organized, provided services, provided the land, and to those who showed up for healing. My heart is full. My mind body and spirit are ready for continued healing and growth. When I left this retreat I was full of self love, gratitude and readiness to do the work I was created to do. Thank you .
-Autumn Equinox retreat participant
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