A womens Retreat for renewal, healing & empowerment
Date rescheduled to a January 2026 weekend
Specific date will be announced soon
Friday 5pm - Sunday noonish
at Lake Yale, 1 hour NE of Vancouver, WA
accommodations & food included
The first payment reserves your spot, the second installment of your payment is due by Jan 1.
Step into a sacred space where you are invited to slow down, reconnect & remember
the wisdom that already lives within you.
This retreat is a gentle yet powerful journey
of awakening the Divine Feminine,
your inner source of
intuition
creativity
softness
strength &
flow.
What is included in your experience?
An expansive home, built for group experiences, on Lake Yale in Washington State. The property sits directly on the lake, and has full growth evergreen trees.
Five Rituals and Ceremonies designed in concernt with the Divine, Mary Magdalene and deep feminine wisdom
Feminine encoded experiences to activate your deepest memories of ceremony, safety, personal power, and togetherness
Nourishing meals prepared by former Wattle Tree Place Cafe owner Sophie Wegecsanyi
On Site Sleeping arrangements
Community, space for integration and rest, fireplaces, water, earth and sky
Painting experience led by Natasha Mansfield, with the opportunity to purchase digital printings of the group creation
The first payment reserves your spot, the second installment of your payment is due by Jan 1.
Meet Your Facilitators
Artist On-Site
Natasha will be creating a full sized paiting for us LIVE throughout our weekend, an expression of the collective experience we are having.
She will also be assisting in fascilitating our afternoon experience on saturday, lending her experience in art therapy to support your process.
Art for Purchase
There are 2 ways you can take home this painting after the retreat:
1) The painting of our weekend will be available for purchase during our weekend. The details of the sale are still being finalized, but a silent auction has been considered. Know that Natasha does accept payment plans.
2) You will be able to purchase journals, stickers, prints and other items through Natasha's website with the image of our intuive retreat painting.
Visit Natasha's website here to learn more about her, see her work, and view what kinds of merchanise you can purchase of the retreat painting once those are for sale.
Who is this for?
-Healers
-Space holders
-Those in menopause
-Those in transition
-Women
-People on a Divine Feminine Journey
-People looking to embody Divine Feminine within and enhance their creative flow
-Women healing trauma
-Those desiring to connect to community
-Anyone Wanting to connect to their Heart and True Self
-Feeling stuck or stagnation with creation and creative abilities
The first payment reserves your spot, the second installment of your payment is due by Jan 1.
What will my experience be like?
Through guided practices, nourishing rituals, movement, art, meditation, and sisterhood, you will:
Release old patterns and energies that no longer serve you
Awaken your heart, womb and voice as vessels of truth and expression
Reclaim your feminine essence with grace and empowerment
Connect with other women on the path of healing and remembrance
Cultivate balance between the sacred feminine and the grounded masculine within
Meet the House
This Lake House is ready to welcome you with a big hug! She's got a fireplace burning, a big family kitchen and views of Lake Yale that you can just lose yourself in all day. Her cozy living room and immense windows allow you to take it all in. If you want to venture outside, the deck and hot tub are right there. A little jaunt down a light decline, and you can wander across the evergreen tree framed lawn to the pathways to the lake.
The Living Room will be our central place for rituals and ceremonies. Our main altar, laying on yoga mats while cacooned in sacred words of rebirthing, singing bowls, the energies moving, you becoming, mmm.
The fire will hold us steady, and burn what we need to release and transmute.
The kitchen is a large family friendly kitchen, simply made to create a feast for a group! Especially this gathering of women who are nurturing new layers of themselves.
Sleeping Accommodations
& about the house
3 guest bedrooms--all on the 2nd flood
2 full guest bathrooms--one on the main floor and one on the 2nd floor
Slumber Party Room anyone? Most attendees will get the intimate experience of sisterhood in the Slumber party room, a large game room. We will be glamming it up in our special way to make it both sacred, and give each person a smidge more privacy while in bed. We're going way back to childhood, as these beds are mattresses on the floor, some queens, some singles. This room will probably have 6 women in it.
There are 3 guest bedrooms with either a queen or a double bed in them. If you have a medical need, or some other circumestance where you feel a bedroom will be needed for you, please reach out to us and let us know. Examples would be you cannot get on the floor or up from the floor, sleep apnia, etc. Please, advocate for your needs. We do want everyone to have healthy sleep. Also, if you are attending with a BFF or relative and would be fine sharing a queen bed, please also let us know. We will do our best to ensure those who need the private bed rooms, elevated beds, etc receive them.
In addition to the 2nd floor having the Slumber party room, 3 guest bedrooms and a bathroom, there is also a loft room. It has a cozy atmosphere when you need to get away from the crowd, either for some journaling, integrating your experiences or an intimate conversation.
There will also be additional altars upstairs for you to connect to and use, either in bedrooms and the slumber party room, or simply a communal one in the loft area.
Reminders about the house:
This is not an Air BNB or a vacation rental home. It's a friend's vacation home, which they are lovinly allowing us to use for this sacred retreat. This means the home is not depersoanlized like a vacation rental--think items in bathrooms draws, their personalized style around the home rather than decorating for the genral public and--This One Is a Bonus--The House Feels Lived in and Loved!
Accessibility:
There are 3-4 stairs to get into the front door of the home. There is no path from the driveway to the front door, which I think is about 10 feet, it is just grass. There is a bathroom on the main floor. Most of our experiences are indoors, save for our Saturday sunrise walk in the forrest. There is a downward slope on dirt to get into the yard to go on the walk. The rest is flat, but the forrest path has small branches underfoot and general debris you have to pay attention to. If you have additional questions or have specific needs, please reach out to us so we can be accommodating. [email protected]
After You Sign Up
If you have registered with pay half now, half later, the second installment of your payment is due by Jan 1.
look for your Confirmation Email
Whitelist [email protected]
You'll get all your emails from this address. Details about the retreat address, what to bring, dietary needs, and other exciting informaiton will be coming over the next few weeks!
Add the Retreat to your Calendar
Maybe even make sure you can cut out of your day early on the Friday of the event!!! Dinner will be waiting when you arrive at Lake Yale!
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Bits and Bobs
This is a 21 and over event. No children, no pets.
Dietary accomodations can be made. We will send out a questionnaire after registration.
For all Dietary and accomodation questions, contact Sophie at [email protected]
For all Registration questions, contact Vanessa at [email protected]
Testimonials:
Attending an event led by Vanessa was transformative and felt like play! Reflecting on the experience now, I see a direct correlation to the ease I feel in parts of my life today. Engaging in processes of discovery and revelation; I have a stronger connection to self, to those I call mine, and my expansive purpose in this world! Thank you Vanessa for creating the space to share in joy and leadership.
Stacy H.
I've had the absolute pleasure of attending multiple retreats organized by Vanessa. I love the balance she creates of reflective calm, creativity, and sidesplitting laughter. The memories I've made, and lessons I learned with her stick firmly in my heart. She allows space for us to be vulnerable and feel safe and cared for in ways that feel so natural and let me feel grounded in the moment.
Megan B.