ForREST Retreat: Winter Hibernation Weekend

Each guest enjoys a private room in our one-of-a-kind shipping container home. These cozy, thoughtfully designed spaces are built for deep rest:

• Warm, grounding materials that honor the elemental world
• The profound quiet of 54 acres of winter forest
• Complete darkness for the deepest sleep
• Radiant warmth while the winter forest dreams outside
• Private, cozy container room for one night
• All meals: arrival snack, lunch, dinner, early breakfast (optional), and brunch
• Optional restorative yoga class (Saturday)
• Optional morning yoga class (Sunday)
• Elemental care package: wood-burning sauna and steam room
• Access to multiple fire pits and lounge areas
• Complete freedom to rest, read, wander, or simply be
• The best sleep of your life
• Connection to the wisdom of winter and the power of silence

Your own quiet cocoon. Your own peaceful haven. Your own place to surrender completely.

One of the most profound gifts of winter is silence. In the ForRest Retreat, you're invited to experience the medicine of quiet—to let go of constant conversation and drop into a deeper listening. The winter forest is your teacher here, showing you that in stillness, everything essential is revealed.

Let the silence wash over you. Let it fill you. Let it teach you what words cannot.

When you truly rest, you:

• Restore your nervous system and reduce chronic stress
• Enhance immune function (just like hibernating animals)
• Improve memory and cognitive clarity
• Regulate hormones and metabolism
• Access creativity and insight that only come in stillness
• Reconnect with your body's natural rhythms
• Remember that you are part of nature, not separate from it

Rest is not a luxury. It is a biological necessity. It is how we heal, how we integrate, how we become whole again.

Let yourself receive these gifts. Let yourself heal. Let yourself return to wholeness.

We live in a time that treats rest as something to be earned, rationed, or felt guilty about. But nature shows us a different truth: rest is the foundation of all growth. Seeds rest in winter soil. Bears rest in caves. Trees rest, drawing their energy deep into their roots.

You are as wild as the forest. You, too, need seasons of deep rest.

This retreat is your permission slip to honor that truth.

Give yourself this gift. Give yourself permission. Give yourself the rest you've been craving.

The forest is quiet in winter for a reason. The animals rest. The trees rest. The earth rests.

And so can you.

Come hibernate with us. Come remember that rest is revolution. Come reset your weary nervous system. Come experience the profound medicine of winter silence.

Come home to your wild nature.

Let yourself soften. Let yourself slow. Let yourself sleep.

You are as wild as the forest. You deserve to rest.

"Wild Nature Retreats are designed to help you remember you are nature. Through guided Forest Therapy, art, play, and rest, the magic is revealed."

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