What to Expect from our Women's Retreat and Spa Day

Gathering-Women is foremost invested in creating a safe and supportive environment for women to connect in community, as women have done since the dawn of human civilization. We honor the sacred bond of sisterhood, no matter if we're family, friends, or strangers. We gather to celebrate our unique and intuitive nature and enhance our powerful selves.  

As women we connect to ourselves, our values and past, and each other through the sharing of food. We will always gather around nutritious and delicious food. As this is also our discussion topic this month, food will be front and center. We will sart the day with energizing fresh-made carrot-orange-ginger juice, break for a warm comfort food vegitarian lunch, and enjoy healthy snacks and treats until our chocolate session.

Andrea has been a certified yoga/tai chi/qigong teacher for over 20 years and has taught all levels of classes. The yoga we will practice this session will accommodate all the participants needs and abilities. Yoga will conclude with a guided meditation to cultivate a deep peace and appreciation for life. We will move, stretch, balance, and strengthen our bodies, inspiring future practice. 

Licensed and experienced professionals, Kita and Karl will provide mini-facials to rejuvenate and enliven your skin, and chair massages release tension in your shoulders, neck, and back. These sessions in the afternoon will have you going home feeling renewed and treated like the gorgeous woman you are. 

Our discussion topic this month is looking at our relationship with food. As women, we have a complex food life influenced by our responsibilities for others, family background, destructive diet culture, stressful or demanding lifestyles, and an American culture that does not value food as a source of living a great life. We'll have large group and dyad discussions to learn and grow. 

We will spend the afternoon, while the spa treatments are happening, making chocolate creations. Andrea is an experienced chocolate maker and chocolatier and will facilitate a chocolate workshop; teaching basics of chocolate, history, how to work with it, and mostly enjoying its goodness. You will go home with a gift box of chocolate to share, or just for yourself to indulge.