We are offering a later (and a smidge longer) fall retreat to center and get ready for a quieter season. Arrive Thursday afternoon and depart Sunday with 3 nights & 2 full (delicious) days for pausing at Tops'l Farm. You will enjoy the same relaxed cadence to each daily itinerary - lots of free time to explore the mid-coast, relax in your lodging, sauna/hot tub/cold plunge, do yoga, meditate and eat amazing food! Hosted by Jane Frederick, you will be guided through a gentle pause in order to recharge your body, mind and spirit in advance of the winter season.

This longer format will allow us to dive a little further into our exploration of calm as we head into a season of wintering. The benefits of regulating/restoring our nervous system go beyond just feeling good in the few days we're pausing, after all. A healthy nervous system is the very foundation of a creative mind, a warm, open heart, and our capacity to experience ease and joy in our everyday lives. 

Join us - Thursday November  7th  - Sunday  November 10th  2024 The retreat begins at 3 pm on Thursday. Please make plans to be able to arrive at 2:30/2:45 at the latest. 

IF YOU ARE ABLE TO COME EARLY - PLEASE DO SO! WE HAVE THE OPTION TO COME ON WEDNESDAY PRIOR TO THE RETREAT "OFFICIAL" START SO YOU CAN LAND ON THE FARM AND GET TO PAUSING A BIT SOONER...JUST ADD THAT OPTION TO YOUR RESERVATION AT THE TIME OF BOOKING.

Optional Workshops & Activities (all included): Yoga, Meditation, Sauna/Hot Tub, Forest Bathing, Massage, Tarot, and Foraging & Herbal Tea Making.

This retreat offering is a nurturance of the spirit of pause; an exploration and contemplation of slowing down enough to recognize our own presence.  As Einstein once famously said “No problem can be solved from the same mindset that created it.” 

We look forward to welcoming you to the farm for a little break!

For a full FAQ about staying with us, please visit our website FAQ page. 

Lodging.  Lodging options listed for this weekend are in both shared and private  at the Tops'l Farmhouse and Cider House (located 1.5 miles down the road from Tops'l Farm) as well as our neighboring farm Wanderwood (locatated 10 minutes down the road from Tops'l).

Please review the different options in our pricing page and choose which one might be best for you! Some are private rooms (just you), some are "private shared" (you and someone you know) and some are simply shared just like summer camp! Please reach out if you have any questions on these lodging types. 

-Food.   All meals and snacks included. A focus on simple, nourishing meals with seasonal ingredients. Breakfast in the farmhouse and lunch will be casual offerings that you can enjoy in a group setting or take to eat quietly somewhere on the farm.  Dinners will be in our event barn space & shared.

If you have dietary restrictions please let us know in the notes section on checkout and we will do our best to accommodate. 

- Misc. Alcohol, phone use, etc. We are not enforcing strict rules around these things. Our goal is to help create a space for yourself to truly recharge and reconnect with yourself. We highly encourage you to drop your phone off with us for a period of time. If that brings you severe anxiety, then of course this isn't the right choice for you. Same goes with choosing (or not) to have this time on the farm be spirit-free - we know you will make the best choice for yourself and we will honor that space!

-Cancellation Policy.

Please note that because Petite Pauses are by design limited to a tiny number of attendees, our cancellation policy is in place to help guests and us alike work together sharing costs that may arise from unexpected cancellations.

HOLD DEPOSITS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE. 

Hold deposits ARE transferable to another attendee found and assigned by original attendee.

Cancellation requests submitted within 30 days of retreat date, 50% of total amount (less deposit) will be refunded.

Within 14 days of your retreat: sorry but no refunds given, no exceptions. If you find yourself in this spot, please find someone to gift it to. 

Any refunds allowed will incur a 3% processing fee.

No one books an experience like this with the intention of cancelling it, but unexpected events do occur, so please consider purchasing travel insurance. By booking a spot on our retreat you assume responsibility for reading and understanding our cancellation policies. Exceptions cannot be made for any reason, including weather,  injury/illness, or personal emergencies. No refunds or credits for failure to attend or failure to complete the retreat, or for arriving late or leaving early.

- Some legalese. Many of the experiences at the farm are adventures in the woods and as such require an adventurous spirit and the understanding that they are inherently risky. With that said, please review the following:   

By visiting Tops'l Farm (VENUE) , you as the GUEST agree to the following during your stay (EVENT):

Farm on Bremen Road LLC, (DBA TOPS’L FARM)  is not responsible for any damage, theft, or loss of any articles or property left at the VENUE prior to, during or after an EVENT. The GUEST agrees and accepts responsibility for any damage done to the venue owned by TOPS’L FARM by the GUEST and those in the guests reservation (guest invitees). The GUEST agrees that TOPS’L FARM shall not be liable for any suit, actions, claims, loss, damages, expenses, injury or casualty of any kind to any person or property occurring at or in the vicinity of the VENUE, whether occurring before, during or after the EVENT. The  GUEST as a material part of the consideration for this contract, hereby waives all claims and demands against TOPS’L FARM for any such loss, damage, injury or casualty. GUEST further agrees to indemnify and hold TOPS’L FARM and its staff and hired vendors free and harmless from any and all liability for any and all such loss, damage or injury to property and other persons, and from any and all costs and expenses arising therefrom, including but not limited to attorney fees.  GUEST also grants permission to take and use: photographs and/or digital images of me for use in news releases and/or marketing.  

Please note: While this retreat is about pause and self-reflection for each individual person, it has been crafted with a collective group experience at the core of its design. There are few opportunities as conducive to nurturing self-love, personal growth, and emotional healing as those that afford us to share safe, honest, compassionate space with other humans. (And these moments are so few and far between in our busy, fast-paced modern world!). We will be sharing stories (each to the degree they may feel inspired), time and space, and will inevitably learn a great deal about ourselves and each other in the process.

Never done the group thing before, and worried about kumbayas or eye-gazing or interpretive dances?   Don’t fret. Jane and Sarah are dynamic mixtures of sensitivity, respect, sincerity (and delicately-placed humor and irreverence), and are consistently tuning in (both overtly and implicitly) to the varying needs and desires of participants.  Every person and every group are met where they’re at, and the content of gatherings and discussions are designed to adapt in real time to the nuances and needs of a group and its members.

Can’t get enough of juicy group stuff and LOVE kumbayas and eye-gazing and interpretive dances? Well, there may be some of that too. We can promise you realness and honesty, safety of expression and the celebration of personal truth. Beyond that, the specifics of actual activities and engagements depend on the unique constellation of the dear humans that show up together.

For each retreat we will be gifting up a spot to a woman (healthcare, educational field or just a tired human) who really needs this pause and connection. If you have the means by which to pop in a little something extra to help us grow this gifted option the universe will thank you! Will be an option to "add on" this gift during check out.