preparing for the retreat

Here’s a peek at what’s currently planned for the retreat weekend. More details are on the way.

 

FRIDAY, AUGUST 22

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• 4:00 PM – Arrival of the Medicine Womyn: Welcome, beloved sisters. Step into your power and open your heart to the journey ahead.

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• 5:30–6:30 PM – Feast of the Heart & Soul with Lucky Star: Savor a nourishing meal that feeds both body and spirit, setting the sacred tone for the weekend.

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• 7:00–8:00 PM – Opening Circle of Sisterhood with MW Staff: We gather in a sacred circle to ignite our intentions, connect deeply, and honor the path before us.

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• 8:00–9:00 PM – Fireside Gathering of the Ancients: As the flames dance, we sit in circle sharing stories of wisdom, strength, and remembrance beneath the evening sky.

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 23

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• 7:00–8:00 AM – Morning Feast of Vitality:
  Nourish yourself with a ceremonial breakfast designed to awaken your inner radiance.

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• 8:30–9:45 AM – Medical Qigong with Grandmother Rosemary:
  Rooted in Traditional Chinese Medicine, this practice weaves breathwork, methodical movement, stretching, and self-massage to harmonize body, mind, and spirit. Unlike Tai Chi, no forms must be memorized — each session stands alone. Feel the life force, feel the Qi!

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• 10:30 AM–12:00 PM – Gathering the Bones; ReVitalizing the Wild Mature Feminine with MotherBone: This workshop is an experiential exploration for breathing life into and inhabiting our wild instinctive nature. It’s both a remembering and a reclamation of a deep bone knowing in us that is well, intact and alive but has long been stifled or untapped. We’ll come together to shed false skins and distractions so we can inhabit ourselves more truly and fully. 

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• 12:00–1:00 PM – Nourishing Feast:
  Enjoy a deeply grounding meal, replenishing your body with the gifts of the Earth.

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• 1:00–2:00 PM – Heart Pods: Sacred Sharing Circles: Gather in intimate pods to share truth, be witnessed, and experience the medicine of authentic sisterhood.

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• 2:00–3:00 PM – Free Time for Sacred Rejuvenation: Honor your spirit — wander, rest, reflect, swim, or simply be.

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• 3:15–4:20 PM – Aromatics & Plant Medicine with Ilana: Awaken your senses and spirit through the wisdom of healing herbs and aromatic allies.

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• 4:30–5:30 PM – Herbal Creations: Crafting Sacred Potions with Kori & Ilana: Create your own botanical treasures—sugar scrubs, body oils, clay masks—and bless yourself with a lake immersion.

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• 5:45–6:45 PM – Feast of the Warrior Goddess: Dine in honor of the fierce, beautiful goddess within, with a meal and dessert made to celebrate your journey.

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• 7:00–8:00 PM –Get Into the Flow; An Intro to Fire Dance with Kim Cleary: This workshop explores the ancient art of fire manipulation using palm torches. We will embody our inner goddess & activate the fire within. Participants will learn basic fire safety practices before journeying through introductory palm torch moves. From there, we'll build a simple yet stunning choreographed dance. No previous fire dance experience is necessary. *Please wear natural fiber clothing to this workshop/no synthetics*

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• 8:15–9:15 PM – Sacred Fire Tending with Annette: Sacred Fire Tending is a ceremonial space where we remember the ancient practice of communing with the elemental flame as a living spirit, honoring fire as both a physical and spiritual teacher. Together, we will explore the feminine art of tending ceremonial fire and step into the sacred role of the firekeeper. Through this practice, we’ll learn the foundations of fire ceremony, respectful fire-building, energetic tending, and the use of herbs to carry specific intentions in prayer. This is a space of remembrance, reverence, and radiant power.

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• 9:30–11:00 PM – Fireside Drumming, Dancing & Song Circle with Tiffany & MW Staff: Let your spirit soar as we drum, dance, and sing beneath the stars, celebrating the wild and the sacred within.

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SUNDAY AUGUST 24

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• 7:00–8:00 AM – Light Breakfast of Sacred Nourishment: A light offering to sustain and center you as we prepare to close our beautiful journey.

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• 8:00–9:30 AM – Breathwork Journey & Gentle Movement with Beth: Awaken your inner goddess through conscious breath and gentle, soul-infused movement. This isn't your average woo-woo wind-down. This is a soul-stirring, root-shaking, breath-fueled ceremony led by Beth — seasoned body whisperer, soul midwife, and transformation station conductor. We're talkin’ big medicine. The kind that melts masks, awakens ancestral whispers, and calls you back to your bones.

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• 10:00–11:00 AM – Brunch of the Divine: Come together to share a final feast — a celebration of all we've lived, loved, and become.

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• 11:15 AM–12:45 PM – Sound Bath and Sacred Play with Tammy & MW Staff: Begin with a grounding sound bath to soothe the soul, then open into joyful, heart-centered play through voice, rhythm, and movement. Release, remember, and return to the medicine of joy.

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• 1:00–2:00 PM – Heart Pods Council; Final Reflection: Circle once more to honor your journey, share insights, and celebrate the sisterhood woven over these sacred days.

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• 2:15–2:45 PM – Raffle & Silent Auction with Jennifer: Bid on sacred treasures that support our shared vision of growth, healing, and community.

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• 3:00–4:00 PM – Closing Circle for the Medicine Womyn: Gather one last time to honor all that has been birthed, healed, and reclaimed within our sacred circle.