Deepen. Connect. Manifest. 

Ayurvedic retreat for your journey into 2018
November 10 - 12, 2017
Tatoosh Lodge & Yurt, Wellspring Spa
Ashford, WA
Marisa Gant & Afrin Sopariwala

These are changing times and bringing forth increased opportunities for connecting with something greater than self to guide and cultivate a deeper sense of peace.  Join Marisa and Afrin for this weekend woodland cozy retreat at the base of Mt. Rainier where you will learn ways to connect with your authentic essence and build capacity to bring forward that essence in a greater way into your daily life.  This retreat will provide the space for you to proactively cultivate a health, wellness and spiritual plan to support you in navigating through the Holidays and into the New Year with greater attunement to your authentic self.   The overall aim is to illuminate for you a macro level understanding and grounding of yourself in the context of a greater whole, recognize and provide clarity at a micro level into the unique ways in which you are developing and can develop towards your potential and essence, and provide tools/frameworks and resources to continue your exploration following the retreat.  

Ayurveda serves as an anchor cosmology to bring forward the wisdom of this ancient science around walking a spiritual path.  Nature-based spiritual exercises that deepen a connection with spirit will also be woven throughout the retreat to take advantage of the beautiful landscape.  In addition, there will yoga practices to bring forward the body as another means for stewarding wellness as well as there will be an interpersonal journey into the terrain of your intrapsychic or intuitive self to add another layer.

You will come away with a fuller understanding of ways to connect with your essence, deeper cosmologies that enliven spiritual, wellness and health practices and routines into your day-to-day life, tools/frameworks for deeper and richer evolution and a creation of your own personal spiritual and wellness galaxy at the moment and what’s emergent. 

The retreat will begin Friday at 6pm with a dinner followed by an introduction, meditation and intention setting and end on Sunday with an optional lunch.  Included in this retreat are two yoga practices, three group meditations, a mix of personal/spiritual exercises and Ayurvedic cleansing meals (all meals included).  The site itself is also a spa and there will be time available for you to enjoy a massage, hot tub or sauna experience if you so choose.

Please read more about Marisa and Afrin below and feel free to review the schedule of the retreat to have a more clear idea for how the weekend will unfold.

Cost: Afrin and I switched the cost of this retreat from a $400 dollar cost to a pay-what-feels-right model (with a recommended sliding scale of $150 - $400 dollars).  We have 9 more spots available to any and all of you and we ask that you register as soon as possible to take part in this experience!  There are some different reasons that we opened up our pricing structure to be more fluid:

  • First weekend retreat: this retreat marks the first time for both of us offering a two-day style retreat and we want to honor everyone who is willing and able to jump into this experience and learn with us.
  • Inclusivity: With so much turbulence & transformation currently happening, we both desire to bring this experience to anyone and everyone.  These times call for “all hands on deck” and wellness & spiritual vibrancy benefits everyone and sends out ripple effects.  We both wholeheartedly believe everyone has a role to play in society right now and we offer this retreat as a space and vehicle for those aspiring to cultivate their authentic selves and expression out into the world.
  • Honoring all forms of exchange: At the end of the weekend, you are invited to receive the retreat experience as a gift, pay what feels right in your heart, or simply pay what you feel is an appropriate and authentic energy exchange for the value the retreat brought to you.  For transparency sake, we ask that you take into consideration the retreat costing around $900 for lodging and food and not to mention the time, energy & love we both invested into making it a beautiful and valuable retreat.  We are also happy to discuss for a limited number of people different ways you can contribute to the weekend experience such as through orchestrating food, photography or videography and/or other means that we would love to entertain with you.