A Gathering In Nature
Nourishment for Body, Mind & Spirit
A Gathering In Nature is a weekend retreat bringing together individuals of all generations and backgrounds to foster relationships with ourselves, each other, nature and the divine.
On the enchanting grounds of the North Lakeland Discovery Center located on Statehouse Lake, we will explore the forest and the water, consider ancient wisdoms, and build relationships with others as we reconnect with what the sacred means for us in today's ever-changing world.
This weekend will be rejuvenating in all the best ways, including:
• Nourishing food, locally sourced and lovingly prepared by Wild Whisk
• Activities designed to rekindle your deep knowing and creativity
• Daily mindfulness yoga to awaken your body
• Learn holistic healing routines to integrate into your daily habits - including creating a healthy gut microbiome utilizing plant based medicine
• Forest bathing rituals that will serve as the container for our weekend, deepen your experience, and give you something to take home with you
• Shared experiences with others seeking to remember what they have always known
• Music throughout the event
Space is limited, register to attend today.
On the enchanting grounds of the North Lakeland Discovery Center located on Statehouse Lake, we will explore the forest and the water, consider ancient wisdoms, and build relationships with others as we reconnect with what the sacred means for us in today's ever-changing world.
This weekend will be rejuvenating in all the best ways, including:
• Nourishing food, locally sourced and lovingly prepared by Wild Whisk
• Activities designed to rekindle your deep knowing and creativity
• Daily mindfulness yoga to awaken your body
• Learn holistic healing routines to integrate into your daily habits - including creating a healthy gut microbiome utilizing plant based medicine
• Forest bathing rituals that will serve as the container for our weekend, deepen your experience, and give you something to take home with you
• Shared experiences with others seeking to remember what they have always known
• Music throughout the event
Space is limited, register to attend today.
What is Included:
Five locally sourced meals
All meals are hand picked and locally sourced from the great Northwoods from the land and farmers. Healthy meals are prepared and served on site.
Mindfulness Yoga Experiences
Yoga is a system of health that fosters strength, balance and flexibility. The word yoga means to join. This joining of body and mind is cultivated through present moment breath awareness. Our morning yoga sessions, suitable for all, will promote energy and relaxation. As we awaken the teacher within, our practice will set the stage for our encounters with nature as our retreat unfolds.
Group Reiki
Group Reiki is an opportunity to enter into sacred space, and receive healing and restorative Reiki energy. Our lead Reiki Master is Barbara McFarland, with over 20 years experience. Together, our three Reiki Masters have over 60 combined years of healing energy work: Barbara McFarland, Sue Dickey, and Janet Bowen.
Gut Health/Microbiome/Self Care
Learn to eat and drink in a way that will grow a healthy and balanced "garden" in your gut! Holistic nurses Janet Bowen RN and Sue Dickey RN will describe how implementing self care practices will create the foundation for a vibrant and dynamic body-mind-spirit. They also explore how incorporating essential oils and plant-based medicinals provided by Mother Earth will improve overall wellness.
All things Fungi: Facts/cooking-sampling/FoodLore
What the heck is this fungi foodlore thing? Think of a lunch and learn with a little folklore. Emilymae King will share her knowledge about mushrooms, from benefits to how they impact our world. Lori Everson will demonstrate a tasty mushroom dish for everyone to sample. We will make tinctures for you to take home.
Activities
Scroll down and read the full agenda for a taste of what's to come!
*On-Site Optional Lodging
Cozy bunkhouse lodging is available. Participants may contact the North Lakeland Discovery Center for information regarding lodging in the newly renovated bunkhouse cabins.
All meals are hand picked and locally sourced from the great Northwoods from the land and farmers. Healthy meals are prepared and served on site.
Mindfulness Yoga Experiences
Yoga is a system of health that fosters strength, balance and flexibility. The word yoga means to join. This joining of body and mind is cultivated through present moment breath awareness. Our morning yoga sessions, suitable for all, will promote energy and relaxation. As we awaken the teacher within, our practice will set the stage for our encounters with nature as our retreat unfolds.
Group Reiki
Group Reiki is an opportunity to enter into sacred space, and receive healing and restorative Reiki energy. Our lead Reiki Master is Barbara McFarland, with over 20 years experience. Together, our three Reiki Masters have over 60 combined years of healing energy work: Barbara McFarland, Sue Dickey, and Janet Bowen.
Gut Health/Microbiome/Self Care
Learn to eat and drink in a way that will grow a healthy and balanced "garden" in your gut! Holistic nurses Janet Bowen RN and Sue Dickey RN will describe how implementing self care practices will create the foundation for a vibrant and dynamic body-mind-spirit. They also explore how incorporating essential oils and plant-based medicinals provided by Mother Earth will improve overall wellness.
All things Fungi: Facts/cooking-sampling/FoodLore
What the heck is this fungi foodlore thing? Think of a lunch and learn with a little folklore. Emilymae King will share her knowledge about mushrooms, from benefits to how they impact our world. Lori Everson will demonstrate a tasty mushroom dish for everyone to sample. We will make tinctures for you to take home.
Activities
Scroll down and read the full agenda for a taste of what's to come!
*On-Site Optional Lodging
Cozy bunkhouse lodging is available. Participants may contact the North Lakeland Discovery Center for information regarding lodging in the newly renovated bunkhouse cabins.
Location
North Lakeland Discovery Center
14006 Discovery Lane Manitowish Waters, WI 54545
14006 Discovery Lane Manitowish Waters, WI 54545
Date & Time
May 19, 2023, 3:00 PM -
May 21, 2023, 1:00 PM
May 21, 2023, 1:00 PM
Event Guides
Lori Everson
Food Leader, Cook and artist
At Wild Whisk, you can taste Lori’s down-to-earth whole cooking and feel a connection between her lived experiences as well as the ancestral cooking methods passed down in her family. We believe food is art born from nature – it should be presented as a work of art and shared as a gift of love
Betsy Schussler
Hatha Yoga
practitioner and Teacher
practitioner and Teacher
Betsy has been a hatha yoga practitioner and teacher for several decades and is registered through the Yoga Alliance. Her mindfulness-based practice is influenced by her teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh with whom she began studying in 2003. Knowledge of yoga has also influenced her work as a speech pathologist in the areas of respiration, voice, and swallowing.
Barbara McFarland
artist, Reiki master
Barbara is an artist and Reiki Master who has resided in Manitowish Waters all of her life, painting and following her love of nature. She and her husband, John, have been supporters of the Arts and artists of the area through the Manito Art League and the North Woods Art Tours.Their interest in the art and history of Indigenous cultures also is evident in their art.
Janet Bowen
HOLISTIC RN AND PLANT-BASED ALCHEMIST
With her medical and research background, fueled with her curiosity as a lifelong seeker of knowledge and love for Mother Nature, Janet teaches a gentler, more intuitive, nature and plant-based approach to improve health and overall wellness.
Emilymae King
Mycologist & Herbalist
Emilymae is the Director at Terri's Treehouse Early Learning Outdoor Immersion Center in Woodruff, Wis. She also teaches at Nicolet Technical College, in the field of foraging locally. She is the Founder of Flora and Mycology of the Northwoods.
Sue Dickey
Fiber Artist, Holistic Nurse
Sue’s lifetime focus and pleasure has been artistic creation through her holistic nursing career, fiber arts exploration, outdoor experiential practices, spiritual seeking with Reiki and hypnosis training. And so it is and so it shall be … Namaste
Friday
5/19
5/19
Welcome
3-5 Arrival and Check in
5-6 Dinner & Presentation
• EmilyMae King: Foraging and building relationships with Adaptogenic Fungi
6:30-9:00 Introductions and Presentation Highlights from Lori, Sue, Janet, Betsy, and Barbara
9pm-?? Amadou Fire Keeper Ceremony
5-6 Dinner & Presentation
• EmilyMae King: Foraging and building relationships with Adaptogenic Fungi
6:30-9:00 Introductions and Presentation Highlights from Lori, Sue, Janet, Betsy, and Barbara
9pm-?? Amadou Fire Keeper Ceremony
SaturdaY
5/20
5/20
Nourishment of Mind, Body & Spirit
7-8 Yoga: Breathing and Moving in the Here and Now
8-9 Breakfast and Guided Meditation
9-11 Group Reiki
11-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 Picnic Lunch
12:30-12:45 Break
12:45-2:45 Building Your Health Holistically – Janet Bowen
• Grow a Garden in Your Gut: Your Microbiome and its connection to excellent health & wellness
• Circadian Rhythm/Sleep-Wake cycles: Eating and sleeping to coordinate with Mother Earth
• Food as Medicine
• CBD & Essential Oils/plant-based health practices
2:45-3 Break
3-5:45 Forest Bathing & Spirit Houses – Barbara McFarland
• Forest Bathing-attuning all our senses to nature Barbara & EmilyMae
• We will construct our virtual home in the forest Barbara
5:45-6 Break
6-7 Dinner Mediterranean Style
7:15-9 Rituals & Ceremonies of Self Care – Sue Dickey
• Honoring Life as Sacred
• Desiderata
• 21 days to Change a Habit
• Great Day Protocol
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle...composting, et al
• Muscle Testing
• Hands in Soil
• Be intentional "This or something better..."
9pm-?? Fire Ceremony
8-9 Breakfast and Guided Meditation
9-11 Group Reiki
11-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 Picnic Lunch
12:30-12:45 Break
12:45-2:45 Building Your Health Holistically – Janet Bowen
• Grow a Garden in Your Gut: Your Microbiome and its connection to excellent health & wellness
• Circadian Rhythm/Sleep-Wake cycles: Eating and sleeping to coordinate with Mother Earth
• Food as Medicine
• CBD & Essential Oils/plant-based health practices
2:45-3 Break
3-5:45 Forest Bathing & Spirit Houses – Barbara McFarland
• Forest Bathing-attuning all our senses to nature Barbara & EmilyMae
• We will construct our virtual home in the forest Barbara
5:45-6 Break
6-7 Dinner Mediterranean Style
7:15-9 Rituals & Ceremonies of Self Care – Sue Dickey
• Honoring Life as Sacred
• Desiderata
• 21 days to Change a Habit
• Great Day Protocol
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle...composting, et al
• Muscle Testing
• Hands in Soil
• Be intentional "This or something better..."
9pm-?? Fire Ceremony
Sunday
5/21
5/21
Fungi Foodlore & Farewell
7-8 Yoga
8-9 Breakfast
9-noon All things mushrooms with Lori and EmilyMae
• Learn how to make and take a mushroom tincture
12-1 Lunch: Build a Healthy Pizza
1:00 Wrap up and closing ceremony
8-9 Breakfast
9-noon All things mushrooms with Lori and EmilyMae
• Learn how to make and take a mushroom tincture
12-1 Lunch: Build a Healthy Pizza
1:00 Wrap up and closing ceremony
