This summer, we invite you to join us in Sedro-Woolley, WA in the beautiful Pacific Northwest for a healing and restorative retreat. In an intimate space held by thoughtfully tended land, we'll guide you on a journey to restore your sanctuary within and without. You'll cultivate a deeper relationship with yourself and others and leave feeling refreshed and energized.
Camping in nature allows us to strip back to our essence, and because of this, we'll spend much of our time outdoors with plenty of room to roam and ample time to rest. There's even a sauna for our use throughout the weekend!
Meditation
Breathwork
Nourishing Meals
Tea + Snacks
Sauna
Fire Ceremony
Ecstatic Dance
Tarot + Astrology
Storytelling
Free Time
Sunrise Yoga
Nature Hikes
Lake Swims
Creativity Workshops
and more!
🌲 WISDOM TREE 🌲
Designed by our dear friend Laura Gunnip of Fireweed Print Shop in Twisp, WA. Let the wise tree be your deep listener. Speak, write and draw your intentions and dreams here. Read the wisdom passed down from others. Lay, sit or move with the tree. Allow the leaves to shade and cool you. Take a nap! Chant or meditate. Hug! Share and receive deep knowing.
Welcome your Inner Child. Skip don’t walk to the imagination corner! play! Sing! Dance! Dream! Create! Play an instrument, sing a song, write a poem and draw a picture! Let your inner child come out! What did you like to do as a little one? Thread a bead bracelet? Play in the sand? Blow bubbles? Paint? Dance with a ribbon? Pretend to be your favorite animal? Make a fort? All that is welcome at the Imagination Corner! Bring a friend and play!
Lay, sit and meditate by the soothing restorative pond. Allow the sun rays on the water be a reflective pool to your dreams and desires. Throw a pebble in and make a wish. Let yourself rest and reflect by the calming water.
Meet a new friend and get to know each other with our daily prompts and questions! Pick a card! Read your birth chart! Share something you know with someone or the group! Pass on the love and knowledge.
Let’s dance, sing and share stories by the flames. Let the fire ignite something inside you! Allow the feelings to come. They're welcome here — the fire can hold them.
7:00AM Tea/Coffee
7:30AM: Sunrise Yoga
9:00AM: Breakfast
-Free Time-
11:00AM: Group Session
1:00PM: Lunch
-Free Time and/or Group Session-
6:00PM: Dinner
8:00PM: Campfire + Ecstatic Dance
*subject to slight changes
• Two nights camping on a beautiful organic off-grid property surrounded by thousands of acres of forest
• Two and a half days of programming and teachings led by your three facilitators, including yoga, meditation, ecstatic dance, tarot, astrology, guided nature walks, group time at the lake, fire ceremonies, and creative workshops. All in service to restore your sanctuary
• All meals (including farm-fresh herbs and eggs laid by the farm's hens), snacks, tea/coffee, and water
• Use of the on-site sauna and mini cabin
• Nightly campfire*
• Friday + Sunday car shuttle from Alger Park and Ride
• Free time to walk, rest, write, explore, and get to know new friends
*county fire regulations permitting
IMPORTANT DETAILS
🗓 WHEN
Friday, July 28 - Sunday, July 30
Arrive from 4PM and set up camp by 6PM on Friday; say our goodbyes at 4PM on Sunday
📍 WHERE
On an off-grid, energy-regenerative property in Sedro Woolley 20 miles southeast of Bellingham, Washington, adjacent to Lake Whatcom. Address will be shared when you sign up.
🤝 PRICING
Standard: $650
50% deposit required, payable on Paypal.
Contact us about payment plans.
Limited number of work exchange tickets also available.
NEAREST AIRPORTS
• Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (1 hr 40 min - 2 hr via car)
• Bellingham International Airport (30 - 45 min via car)
DRIVING
In the interest of the environment and to reduce the number of vehicles on-site, we encourage carpooling or public transit. We'll start a group chat to coordinate rides closer to the retreat. You can also plan to use our car shuttle to and from Alger Park and Ride.
PUBLIC TRANSIT
Northbound from SeaTac Airport: Take the 1 Line (light rail) from SeaTac Airport to King Street Station. Catch Amtrak Cascades (train or bus) from Seattle, WA (King Street Station) to Mount Vernon, WA (Mount Vernon Station) then Skagit Transit 80X Bellingham (Whatcom/Skagit) bus from Mount Vernon Station to Alger Park and Ride.
Southbound from Bellingham Airport: Take the 3 Airport/Downtown bus from Bellingham Airport to Viking Union. Catch the 190S Lincoln St bus from Viking Union to Lincoln Creek Park and Ride, and then the 80X Mount Vernon bus from Lincoln Creek Park and Ride to Alger Park and Ride.
You are welcome, just as you are! Sun Moon Stars values inclusivity. Restore Your Sanctuary retreat is open to all genders and gender expressions. We are proud LGBTQ+ and allies, and we believe Black Lives Matter. We are expressly inclusive of the BIPOC, trans and gender-nonconforming communities. We work to examine our privilege and be better humans and allies every day.
Although we love them, please leave pets and children at home.
We ask that you honor the retreat as a substance- and smoke-free space.
KAREN OLIVIA KIELY
Karen's passion is in creating sacred spaces for healing where you are witnessed in your full, true self. A way-shower on your journey to embodiment of your power and purpose, she is guided by the modalities that have served her on her path — astrology, energy healing, breathwork, yoga asana, and more — and invites you to remember the ancient ways by infusing her work with Celtic practices and symbols and observance of natural cycles.
Karen is a graduate of Portland School of Astrology, a certified Breathwork & Embodiment Coach, RYT 200, and Reiki II certified. She operates a retreat space in magical West Cork, Ireland, and currently offers her services online as well as in-person in Ireland and Northern California.
Karen can’t wait to create sacred space and make magic with you on retreat. She will be facilitating morning yoga, breathwork, group astrology workshops and more!
ELISSA ESKRIDGE
Elissa is a dancer and educator with over 15 years of experience teaching and facilitating dance. She was raised in a dance studio owned and operated by her mom. Dance has been her entire life. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington, and is the founder of Ecstatic Dance Fire, a conscious dance practice weaving community through dance, music, and sacred fire. Elissa is a certified holistic health coach from the Institute for Integrated Nutrition and previously worked with the Anasazi Foundation as a wilderness therapy guide to at-risk teens and adults. Her mission is to reconnect individuals to nature through dance and the celebration of life.
Elissa is honored to hold space for ecstatic dance, fire ceremonies, and nature hikes during the Restore Your Sanctuary retreat.
CHELSEA HANAWALT
Chelsea grew up in a small town in sunny California where she spent her days playing outside and creating adventures. Her big imagination and love for performing led her into the world of theatre and embodied expression. Chelsea is a teacher, performer, applied theatre and reiki practitioner based in New York City. She combined her love for the mystical and theatre and created allow the sun where she offers embodied card readings, reiki and moon circles. She is a practitioner with The Glowing Heart Center and a Co-founder of The Journey Theatre Project. This year Chelsea started her path towards getting her drama therapy credential, going deeper into her love for theatre and healing.
Chelsea is excited to be playing outside again at the Restore Your Sanctuary retreat. She will be facilitating creative embodiments, story circles, offering group oracle/tarot readings and more.