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).
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).
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.
This is for you if you:
This is not for you if:
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.
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**
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