Journey to Sweetwater Sanctuary
August 23rd - August 25th
You’re invited To Immerse Yourself
in the Elements and Partner with Nature Consciousness
At Sweetwater Sanctuary in Danby, Vermont.
Immersion with Nature, or Nature Bathing, is a timeless and sacred act of clearing, refreshing, and renewal.
By immersing ourselves in the foundational elements of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, which are the primary expressions of Nature Consciousness, we can enter into a co-creative partnership where all life thrives.
Join us for this unique journey we weave together various forms of Nature Bathing into a three-day retreat at the beautiful Sweetwater Sanctuary Retreat Center at the foot of Marble Mountain in Danby, Vermont. This gorgeous location features a stream, forest, and many herb gardens. The area is remote and ideal for immersion with the Elements and Gaia
Your restorative experience begins at 10 am on Friday August 23rd, with a welcoming circle and day full of immersion and connection, and ends Sunday afternoon, August 25th, after our closing circle and lunch feast.
During this journey, you will connect with the plants and the land through your Nature Allies so that you can deeply soak in the healing, rejuvenation, and inspiration that occurs when we allow ourselves to be held in the arms of Nature.
Throughout your experience, you will enjoy opportunities to immerse in the elements and connect with Gaia and the more than human beings she nourishes.
You will:
Experience the power of energetic bathing through Forest Bathing, Flower Bathing, Stream Bathing and Light bathing.
Along with these ancient immersion experiences, you will be supported with a limpia, sacred plants, moon, forest, and mountain stream.
Immerse in each element to open the portal for our original brilliance to shine brightly and reconnect with ourselves as Earth-honoring people.
Share delicious, organic meals together from our nourishing Kitchen.
Enjoy lively discussions, laughter, and heart-centered community connection
Make your own altar to take home through a marigold dye bath process.
We’ll spend time with the healing stream that runs through the magnificent Sweet Water Sanctuary and with the forest to connect with trees such as White Pine. This is a very special place that has been stewarded in a conscious Nature partnership for many decades, elevating the experience of immersion.
Our journey container is woven from co-creative partnership between humans and all the more than human beings, experienced through community and heart-directed and heart-centered intention.
Itinerary
Please note that depending on weather and timing, specific activities planned for each day may change.
But, with that said, our general daily schedule will be:
Thursday 22nd, Evening
Early arrivals. More info in registration.
Friday 23rd, 10:00 am to 8:00 pm(ish)
We’ll meet for our opening circle and then go to the forest for an experience of quiet and connection, bathing in the energy of our Tree kin. This will be followed by a hearty lunch and an afternoon spent with our Flower kin. At the end of the day, there will be a delicious dinner where you’ll have the opportunity to meet and socialize with our retreat family.
Saturday 24th, 8:00am to 10:00pm(ish)
Enjoy breakfast. Then, we will move into Nature and color immersion and create a marigold plant dye. We’ll enjoy lunch together and then connect with the Sun and immerse in Light. We'll complete the afternoon by making our personal altar cloths and be done in time for you to rest before we come together for dinner. This day will be topped off with evening immersion in Sound and Moonlight.
Sunday 25th, 8:00am to 2:00(ish)
Greet your new friends for breakfast and then we will head to the mountain Stream with flowing, sweet water. Here we will immerse ourselves in the element of Water. When we are complete at the Stream we will create a Nature altar and gather for our closing circle. Lunch will be our celebratory feast.
Monday 26th, Morning
Late Departures. More info in registration.
Deposit and Registration
The cost of the journey is $495
Your space will be held by a nonrefundable deposit of $150.
The remaining balance of $345 is due by July 23rd.
The workshop tuition includes 3 days of programs and nourishing organic meals, all supplies, and accommodation (indoor or camping).
ONE Members receive a 15% discount (code was sent to Members via email). If you are not already a member you can become one here.
All proceeds from this event will benefit ONE, a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization, and a portion of the proceeds will be returned to Vermont Releaf Collective.
After paying the deposit, you will receive an email with a link to our registration form. Please take a moment to fill it out so we can contact you and share retreat information. Please email us if you have any questions hello@natureevolutionaries.com
Meet Your Facilitators
Pam Montgomery
Pam has been investigating plants and their intelligent spiritual nature for more than three decades. As an author, teacher, and practitioner, she has passionately embraced her partnership with the plants who are guiding us in our spiritual evolution.
She is the author of Partner Earth: A Spiritual Ecology and the best-selling Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness. She teaches internationally on plant spirit healing, spiritual ecology, and people as Nature Evolutionaries.
Pam is the founder of ONE. She has dedicated herself to co-creative partnership with all of life and feels the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries is a way to make this partnership manifest. You can learn more about Pam here: www.wakeuptonature.com
Lauren Valle
Lauren Valle is a community herbalist, gardener, artist and a mother of two young boys. In her herbal practice she supports clients by working with the plants as dynamic beings whose healing gifts, vast wisdom and generous allyship guide us in becoming whole. Personal healing and transformation are linked to community resiliency—both are critical forces in the great turning of the tides that is unfolding toward a living future on planet Earth for all beings.
Lauren is grateful for the visionary leadership that ONE brings in their work of education and advocacy for humanity to come back into relationship with Nature as our conscious partner and guide, whose survival and thriving is linked to our own. Lauren was a member of ONE’s Visioning Council from 2018-2020.
Laura Parisi
Laura is a Food Alchemist, Holistic Health Coach, Gardener, Artist, and Reiki Master. She is known as an extraordinary teacher, spiritual nutritionist, energy healer, and co-creative partner with nature. Through the eyes of the spirit, she combines her knowledge of food and plants as medicine, along with her love of cooking, tending the land, and gratitude for what Mother Earth has provided for us. Laura is committed to helping individuals live vibrantly healthy, happy, and balanced lives. She is the founder of Rooted Angel LLC and Rooted Angel Cooking School.
Joining the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries was the answer to a prayer that had been with Laura for quite some time - how do we collectively transform the earth to love?
You can learn more about Laura on her website, rootedangel.com.
April Thanhauser
April lives in a forested area of Vermont where she engages in and teaches Communing with Plants. A practitioner of reflexology and Plant Spirit Healing, she is especially devoted to healing through limpias; spiritual bathing with plants. She is also a storyteller and puppeteer who delights in the cooperative making of community celebrations and ceremonies in honor of the natural world.
In ONE, she welcomes the opportunity to work for the resurgence of our human awareness of the sacred in Nature and our rededication to the interconnectedness of all beings
