Seasonal Transition Retreat
A 3-hour, in-person retreat designed to help you woo into winter rather than dread the cold ahead. This experience invites you to connect with the cycles of the natural world, quiet your mind, restore your body, and prepare your soul for a season of rest, reflection, and renewal.
Reserve Your Space3101 About Town Place
Morgantown, WV 26508
Clinical Therapist, Groups Coordinator
About the Retreat
The Seasonal Transition Retreat will help you move into winter with more steadiness, intention, and care. Here, you will connect with the cycles of the natural world as the dynamic, natural human you are, so just like bears in their burrows, you can winter well.
In this space, we will shift the narrative of seasonal depression and look forward to wintering with intention. This is an engagement we often forget to give ourselves permission to be part of, but it is a process our bodies, minds, and souls organically feel amidst fallen leaves and shorter spans of light.
To prepare for our own hibernation periods, we will be using Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May.
Her text will frame our discussion on what seasonal downshift is and what it can become for you. Throughout the retreat, we will move through reflection, writing, meditation, and gentle movement practices to support restoration of the body, rest of the mind, and deeper resonance with the soul.
Investment & Winter Care Package
- Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
- A thoughtfully curated winter care package with a journal, pen, herbal tea, cozy seasonal comforts, and retreat handouts
- A 3-hour guided retreat focused on becoming in sync with nature through reading, reflection, poetry writing, body nourishment, mind quieting, and creative soul expression
- A small, supportive community
- Dedicated time to turn inward, relate amongst others, and enhance your relationship with seasonal change
Retreat Purpose
Our intention for this retreat is to support you in coping and finding an enlightened relationship with the winter season. We know winter can bring about discomfort, fatigue, isolation, pain, and grief for many.
It is our hope to create a space to nurture and acknowledge the experience of seasonal change and provide you with insight and practices that you can carry beyond this retreat to uplift your peace.
Another mission of this retreat is to foster and embrace the light that community can bring. We are so glad to have you, your story, and your wisdom here in this circle of learning, relation, and encouragement.
You can also find this experience to be purposeful in whatever way it becomes to you, because it is yours.
Retreat Itinerary
Welcome, agenda, purpose, and community guidelines.
Share names and connect through a nature aspect reflection.
Review and rate your sense of wellbeing and mood throughout each season, followed by experience sharing.
Explore definitions of winter, Wintering readings and reflection, and letting go of the Seasonal Depression label.
Guided journaling and optional group sharing.
Wintering excerpt, hibernation discussion, restorative movement, recipe swap, and midmorning snack.
Wintering excerpt and reflection, suggestions for cold connection, Cold Plunge Poetry Meditation, and journaling.
Wintering excerpt and reflection, Accessing Your Essence, hand movement, expressive dance, and winter intention setting.
Winter intention circle round and closing mantra.
Ready to winter well?
Space is intentionally limited to support a small, meaningful community experience.
Reserve Your Space