Broom-making Retreat

Gray Bear Lodge in Hohenwald, TN

April 16-19, 2026

Register here: https://www.graybear.org/broommakingS26.html

Where the Hands Remember: A retreat in broommaking, self-inquiry, and connection.

In this increasingly digital driven world; a movement is happening to turn-back the clock. A movement towards analog; towards simplicity, towards shared experiences, towards presence and a relaxed nervous system. The time honored tradition of hand-woven craft is arising to meet this need. Approachable, fun and easeful; guests will leave with a physical piece of art, a remembrance. No experience needed; all are welcome.

This three-day broom-making retreat is an invitation to come into deeper relationship with ourselves, the natural world, and an age-old craft that carries wisdom in its fibers.

Through the practice of broom-making, we will explore how the act of making becomes a mirror—revealing our patterns, our patience, our resistance, and our creative potential. As our hands learn the language of natural materials, we are guided inward, into the quieter places where knowing lives.

Our days together will weave self-inquiry, embodied movement, connection circles, and immersive craft instruction. This retreat is both a return and a becoming: a space to tend what is essential, to be witnessed, and to create something meaningful with our hands that carries the imprint of our journey.

Wildheart Women’s Retreat

Turtle Island Preserve in Boone, NC

May 14-17, 2026

Register: https://www.turtleislandpreserve.org/wild-heart

During your stay at Turtle Island Preserve, you will learn new skills: broom making, basketry, medicine making, off-grid cooking & nourishment, and fire making…but it’s not the skills themselves that will leave the biggest impact. It’s what happens inside of you as you begin to listen more deeply to the natural world intimately surrounding you. It’s what you begin to feel in your heart as your physical being slowly remembers what you have been craving. It’s the simultaneous grief and joy you will feel as you listen to your sisters speak your longing and understand your desires.

This retreat is a return to what many of us long for: the unimaginable beauty of the rising sun filtering through a carefully crafted spiderweb, covered in dew. It’s the thrill of feeling totally alive after immersing your body in cold, wild mountain waters. It’s the way we begin to love ourselves again for our courage, for our vulnerability, for our tenderness, because this has not only been a gift for the woman sitting next to you in a sacred circle, but our sharing has allowed all of us to feel for the first time in years…and to rediscover our “Wildhearts”.

Women’s Rewilding Retreat

Wild Abundance Campus in Barnardsville NC

September 24-27, 2026

Join the Waitlist: https://www.wildabundance.net/in-person-classes/rewilding-for-women/

Learning together with our hands and hearts.

During this special women’s weekend retreat, you’ll learn and practice some of the essential, beautiful skills and ceremonies that have woven women together for millennia. We’ll gather around altars and fires to share stories, rituals, and our hopes for our lives. Together, we’ll explore traditional crafts, nourishing self-care, wild foraging, herbal medicine making, and more.

With the loving guidance of wise women from diverse backgrounds, you’ll learn to nurture the feminine strength within you. As we practice ancient lifeways and explore timeless ideas, we’ll connect with each other and with the nature of womanhood, throughout the ages and across all walks of life.