Women's Creative Retreat

Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA

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Girls Who Play With Fire
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Oct 24 - 27, 2024
Group size: 3 - 3
Women's Creative Retreat
Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA

Girls Who Play With Fire
  • Email address verified

Oct 24 - 27, 2024
Group size: 3 - 3

About this trip

What If You Nurtured The Part Of Yourself That Wants To Push Your Creative Edges?

This retreat is open to anyone who is interested in exploring their creativity and cultivating a deeper connection with their creative life force.


Join us in beautiful Brattleboro, VT this fall when the leaves are beautiful and the weather is crisp for an experience that will leave you feeling inspired and revitalized!


You’ll have a long weekend away from your daily life to devote to your creativity, exploring your creative edges through the mediums of glass, clay, paint, movement, sound and food. 


During the retreat you’ll have lots of time in the studio creating, as well as time to relax, connect with others,
and have fun!


Immerse yourself in a group of inspiring, positive, adventurous women and experience a sense of connectedness and community as you explore different mediums. 


You will not be focusing on the technique, but will experience each of these mediums in a way that will help you tune in, let go, and see what happens when you aren’t attached to the outcome. (you just might surprise yourself!) 


We’ve found that approaching your creativity this way opens you up to a whole new world of possibility, a deeper sense of trust in your intuitive knowing, a more embodied presence, and a sharpening of your senses, awareness, and focus that ripples out into your career as well as your entire life.


You’ll leave with your paintings, glass, and clay creations that were made from following your unique creative life force, and a renewed sense of vitality and inspiration. (If you are traveling far, we can also ship them to you).


what you’ll

experience:

  • Deepen your intuition and self trust
  • Ignite your creative flow accessing a deeper level of your creativity
  • Find a more authentic expression
  • Sharpen your focus, awareness, and senses
  • Become more present and embodied
  • Find more of what you love and connect with the beauty of your natural expression
  • Go beyond your mind and into your true essence
  • Connect with a community of inspiring women on a similar path
  • Walk away feeling revitalized with fresh inspiration
  • No artistic experience necessary!


What Would Be Possible For You If You Were Able To Go Beyond Your Mind Chatter, Access Something Deeper And Express It Freely?

When was the last time you gave yourself the gift of your undivided attention and the space to explore your creative side?


Daily Flow: 


THURSDAY NIGHT

4pm Arrival

Check in and Welcoming

Delicious Nourishing food

6:45-8:45 - Creativity warm up: Painting workshop (2 hours)

Relaxation and connection time

Sleep


FRIDAY 

8:30-9:30am Breakfast

Integration Circle

Morning Somatic Flow with Clay (2 hours)

Group Circle + Body Tuning Exercise

Midday: Lunch 

Afternoon Somatic Flow with Glass (3-4 hours)

Relaxation and time to get ready for dinner

6:30pm Group Somatic Food Experience + Dinner

Luxurious Soundbath, Time to relax and connect

Sleep


SATURDAY


8:30-9:30am Breakfast

Integration Circle

Somatic Glass Experience (3-4 hours)

Group Circle + Body Tuning Exercise

Midday: Lunch

Somatic Clay Experience (2-3 hours)

Relaxation time and time to prepare for dinner

6:30pm Chef lead Group Somatic Food Experience + Dinner

Evening Sound Experience (2-3 hours)

Relaxation and sleep
 

SUNDAY

Relaxing, cozy fall morning

8:30-10am Breakfast

Group Integration Circle - writing exercise, group created improv experience for integration and closure

Final Photos + testimonials

Departure (approx. 1:00pm), lunch for the road provided

Depart with your glass and paint creations (clay will be shipped or available for pickup later, if you are flying we can ship everything for you)

*Please note this is an outline that is subject to small changes due to unexpected opportunities and the group’s desires



About the Artists:


Randi Solin and Natalie Blake have been mastering their craft for over 25 years.

Recognized worldwide for their unique creative styles, these women have successfully collaborated to develop Fire Arts Vermont, an award winning destination space in Brattleboro connecting the community with the arts. 


About the Food:


During your stay with us, you'll be eating the finest locally sourced, organic food.

We're collaborating with a local private chef to bring you the most delicious food each day.

We'll also be going to the local farmers market to create a farm to table meal together.


About your chef:


Jessica Jean Weston is chef owner of Superfresh! Organic Café in Brattleboro, VT, author of Healing Tonics, Juices, and Smoothies: 100+ Elixirs to Nurture Body and Soul, a certified holistic health coach, and doTERRA Wellness Advocate. Weston was named one of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition’s 30 Under 30 Health and Wellness Leaders of 2017. With a BA in Medical Anthropology from Ithaca College and as a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN), Jessica has spent her career exploring the broad subject of food as medicine with Mayan healers in Belize, on organic farms, and with herbalists, shamanic practitioners, and more.

Jessica’s personal journey to health navigating a series of food intolerances, as well as what made her feel most vibrant, led her to a non-GMO plant-based diet free of soy, gluten, dairy, eggs and meat. Recognizing that everyone has their own path to explore with different physical, emotional and environmental needs, her goal is to simply share her experiences and knowledge through creating delicious, approachable cuisine, with understanding that no one being is alike (even the same on a different day with different circumstances).

Why gift yourself this retreat?

Athletes and creatives when in their greatness are tuned into an optimal somatic flow state where all of their thoughts drop away and they’re completely present and focused on what they’re doing. 


In this state their unique life force energy has connected to something greater than themselves, unleashing an uninhibited expression of that energy where anything is possible and the beauty of what comes through is astounding. 


Accessing this state regularly helps to ignite your creative flow, express yourself authentically, feel more alive and connected to yourself, deepens your self trust, helps you trust your intuitive knowing, increase your awareness and focus, and feel more relaxed with life.


At this retreat you’ll experience an approach using the mediums of glass, clay, paint, sound, movement and food to help you explore your creativity, tune into your creative edges and access your optimal somatic flow state so that you can expand into new experiences of the authentic expression of your creative life force.


We use multiple mediums because you interact with each of them in different ways, challenging you to push your creative edges and giving you a deeper awareness of how your unique life force energy connects with THE greater life force energy, rippling into your entire life and your relationship with everything.


Your creation process through these mediums is a metaphor for life, giving you a deeper self awareness

Is this retreat for me?

This is for you if you:

  • Crave some time to create more
  • Are open to new experiences outside of the everyday
  • Are excited to connect with other creative women and are happy to share common space with them

This is not for you if:

  • You aren’t flexible or prefer a set schedule
  • You have no desire to see what’s possible and push your edges
  • You don’t like sharing common space with others

Cancellation Policy

If we cancel for any reason, your money will be refunded minus any fees you've paid wetravel.


If you cancel before October 1,  2024 you will receive your payments back, minus wetravel fees.


If you cancel on October 1-14th 2024,  we will refund not be able to refund you your payments minus your deposit and wetravel fees.


If you cancel on October 15, 2024, or later, we will not be able to refund you.


PLEASE CHECK WITH US BEFORE YOU BOOK YOUR PLANE TICKETS, as we'll need to make sure we have four spaces filled to hold the retreat!

We reserve the right to reschedule to retreat if there are not enough attendees, in that case you may apply your deposit and any amount paid towards the next one or receive a refund.


What’s included

  • Your stay
    3 nights of lodging in our artistically curated spaces: choose from a beautifully remodeled church, grange hall or private studio on a horse farm.
  • Delicious Organic Foods
    Delicious farm to table and organic meals + non-alcoholic drinks. Creative food experiences where you’ll learn more about your creativity through group dynamics. Some alcohol will be provided.
  • Art Immersion
    All art materials for glass, clay and paint experiences. Studio time in glass and clay studios with Natalie + Randi. Somatic painting experience with Pam.
  • Especially for You
    Time to connect with the artists and other inspiring women to ask questions and reflect. Creativity mentorship + coaching to help you move through whatever comes up!

What’s not included

  • Travel
    Air travel, ground transportation, travel insurance

Available Packages

Grange - Can't Elope

 

The Can’t-Elope Room (* Bedroom 2 on the listing)

Click the name above to view photos. Double bed. Large closet, dresser, desk and chair. 

The ceiling is very tall with one large window that’s a little high, so lots of light and view of the sky!

Shared full bath is very easy to get to. 


**Once booked please check with us before booking your plane tickets**

$3,845
Deposit:$1,500

Itinerary

Daily Flow
Women's Creative Retreat

THURSDAY NIGHT

4pm Arrival

Check in and Welcome

Delicious Nourishing food

6:45-8:45 - Creativity warm up: Painting workshop (2 hours)

Relaxation and connection time

Sleep


FRIDAY 

8:30-9:30am Breakfast

Integration Circle

Morning Somatic Flow with Clay (2 hours)

Group Circle + Body Tuning Exercise

Midday: Lunch 

Afternoon Somatic Flow with Glass (3-4 hours)

Relaxation and time to get ready for dinner

6:30pm Group Somatic Food Experience + Dinner

Luxurious Soundbath

Time to relax and connect

Sleep


SATURDAY

8:30-9:30am Breakfast

Integration Circle

Somatic Glass Experience (3-4 hours)

Group Circle + Body Tuning Exercise

Midday: Lunch

Somatic Clay Experience (2-3 hours)

Relaxation time and time to prepare for dinner

6:30pm Chef lead Group Somatic Food Experience + Dinner

Evening Sound Experience (2-3 hours)

Relaxation and sleep
 

SUNDAY

Relaxing, cozy fall morning

8:30-10am Breakfast

Group Integration Circle - writing exercise, group created improv experience for integration and closure

Final Photos + testimonials

Departure (approx. 1:00pm), lunch for the road provided

Depart with your glass and paint creations (clay will be shipped or available for pickup later, if you are flying we can ship everything for you)



*Please note this is an outline that is subject to small changes due to unexpected opportunities and the group’s desires


Your Organizer


GW
Girls Who Play With Fire
Fire Arts Vermont is a destination spot located in Brattleboro, VT featuring a gallery, bakery + cafe and live glassblowing arena as well a world class large scale clay studio. Home of the "Girls Who Play With Fire", six inspiring women who are multi-talented creatives offering transformational retreats for you to explore + expand your creativity.