The Healing Narrative:

4-Day Transformational Retreat

November 7 - 10, 2024
Norwood, VA

Our Itinerary Includes:

Small Circle Writing

River Walk

Energy Work & Guided Journey

Visit to Yogaville

Silent Meditation in the Lotus Temple

Hatha Yoga

Writing about our past empowers us to identify old patterns so that we can write new futures, transforming old wounds into new stories.

On this intimate 4-day retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains, we will write our origin stories, chart our timelines, discover our archetypes, and identify the path of our own particular hero’s journey!

Pricing:

Registration for one of the 3 Queen Bedrooms is $1,200

Registration for the Single Bedroom is $1,125

A $200 deposit is required to hold your spot, and payment plans are available.

Retreats remind us who we are and why we are here.

Self-care is an act of holy rebellion.

In a hyper-busy world focused on productivity, output, and profit, creating sacred space for ourselves enables us to listen to the quiet voice within. When we are in touch with our intuition, we are in touch with the divine. When we are in touch with the divine, we are able to access inspirational resources that were not present to us before.

Heal yourself so that you can heal the world…

The more chaotic and heartbreaking we find the world, the more crucial it is for us to be our most authentic selves, living our most empowered lives. Our personal healing has a ripple effect that impacts everyone we meet.

As we care for ourselves, we are better equipped to care for the world.

Liminal Time

Entering the liminal time of a retreat, removed from the demands of daily life, allows us to cultivate resilience, compassion, and perspective. We are able to refuel and re-energize, developing the rituals and inner resources we need to create a better life, not just for the few days we are away, but for every day we are alive.

A Sacred and Safe Container

My retreats offer a sacred and safe container for healing and a powerful opportunity for growth. I love fostering a supportive, nonjudgmental community where we can be daring and vulnerable, raw and real together. Whether we are in the mountains or by the sea, abroad or at home,  we will spend our days weaving together the magical and the practical, creating and sharing, delighting in beauty, and learning how find acceptance, empathy, and love for ourselves.

A Retreat Arc: The Healing Narrative

Hero’s Journey

Everyone has their own Adam and Eve. When we write our origin stories, revisiting where we come from and the people who raised us, we gain new perspectives and points of view into our own lives.

Origin Story

We mirror and reflect the archetypes, universal characters shared by humanity. When we discover the archetypes we’ve embodied in the past, we can begin to call in the archetypes we want to embody in the future.

Archetypes

Are you the hero of your own life? Trace the narrative arc of your own stories, discovering which themes, patterns, and universal characters you’ve encountered and that have shaped you along the way.

Past Retreats

  • When we befriend our inner dragons, we reclaim our power. Instead of fearing our darkness, we learn to harness it, integrating our shadow, and uncovering our light. This eight-day retreat wove together writing, yoga, meditation, Reiki, and energy work to transform and rewrite the stories of our lives.

  • On this special four-day retreat nestled in the Allegheny Mountains of Southwestern Virginia, we combined the narratives of our life experiences with the stories of our spirits. We used expressive writing, soul journeys, chakra balancing, guided meditations, and oracle cards, to allow our own intuitive wisdom to emerge on the page.

  • Winter is a special opportunity for going deeply within, processing the year past, and planting seeds for magic in the year to come This retreat was a weekend of writing, contemplation, and spellcasting at Shalom House, a retreat center nestled in 90 acres in the heart of Montpelier.

  • What do writing and mandala painting have in common? They can both uncover layers to the self. They can both help access the source from where we acquire our energy, self-worth, creativity and spontaneity. This retreat is designed to accommodate beginning painters and writers as well as those that make it their life’s work. goes here

Are you ready for a retreat?

  • Do you long for time to yourself?

  • Are you ready to stop putting yourself last?

  • Do you feel called to a healing journey in sacred space with a supportive community?

  • Are you ready to give to yourself so that you can give to others?

  • Are you overwhelmed by the needs of others and the demands of the world?

  • Would you like to remember who you truly are beneath all of the roles you play?

  • Do you want to feel nurtured, heard, seen and appreciated?

  • Are you ready to tell the stories inside you?

  • <autoplay speed=6></autoplay> "This weekend was lovely, supportive, genuine, and magical. I love the incorporation of meditation and waterfalls and fire, all of which were wonderful portals to writing truth, and seeing more clearly. I loved the ease with which it we all settled in. I loved the energy we all brought as individuals and as a unit. What fun! What inspiration! What a gift we all are!"

    — Sara

  • "Are you looking for a way to inject a higher octave into your writing? Then this is the retreat for you! 3/4 writing with prompts and 1/4 mystical, magical practices is an equation to open up and give the gooey messy, sticky sweet nectar of our insides a chance to make it onto the page."

    — Lisa

  • "I loved the location of this retreat. The setting was beautiful, the mountains, the water, all was perfect. I loved the trip to the waterfall. I am deeply grateful for the profound prompts and the writing circles were genius, and protective, creating no pressure in a safe creative environment. I love the spiritual aspects of the retreat….. It’s one of the reasons I felt called to come. I feel like you pulled so many beautiful things out of me that I may never have otherwise accessed, at least not all at once. What a blessing."

    —Julie

  • "I came to this retreat with little expectation for myself, and one big expectation for you, no matter the format. The sacredness of the circle must be maintained. You get an A+ with a sticker! I think the length of the retreat, and the smaller number of writers allowed for a wonderfully intimate environment. You get to know people little in a few days, but this amount of time gave us the experience of getting to know people better. It allowed for the awkwardness of being with strangers to pass, enough, so to laugh at each other's quirks and embrace the raw edges. I think the blending of experiences and writing was enriching and gave more meat to the stories we wrote."

    —Camille