Women Retreats
This series of three seasonal retreats gives tribute to our limitless creative loving selves and bask in the beauty of the sanctuary of Samsara Ridge, a lush, peaceful land just 90 minutes away from the Twin Cities.
Come camp with us on this sacred healing land, and gather under the protection of our 20 ft Lotus Belle Tent for teachings and community. Sneak away for a barrel sauna retreat in the woods. We have an outdoor kitchen shelter from which we will prepare healthy vibrant foods. You are welcome to attend one, or multiple retreats.
Be open to receive:
Nourishment with beautiful organic meals prepared with love and prayers
Cultivation of authentic friendships and community
Grounding and nurturing in our St. Croix River Valley... 44 acres of luxurious private land with hills, meadows, forest, sweet loving earth medicines of plants, birds, the elements, a rushing creek and peaceful pond to contemplate, restore and revitalize.
Wild Women:
Alchemizing Harmony & Passion in Work
June 28-30, 2024
$400
Many of us relate to work in unhealthy ways. Sometimes we’re obsessive, contracted and stressed, other times we’re numbed out and lethargic. We often get glimpses of a better way, but struggle to make a lasting change. Through this weekend experience, life-long friends Julia Beasley and Kate Noble will help you (re)connect to your deep yearning, vision, inner trust and confidence, and ultimately, harmonious passion for work.
We’ll gather in a natural environment where you’ll be met with a carefully crafted brew of experiences that tend to your body, mind and soul. You’ll get clearer about your vision. You’ll deepen your awareness of your blocks (and practice befriending them), and gain clarity about the path you’re heading down and the next step you’re going to take.
Key ingredients of the weekend include:
Connection through ceremony, group coaching & authentic relating
Mind-body practices including Tantra Yoga, guided and silent meditation, breathwork and journeying
Self-awareness exercises around limiting beliefs
Art, poetry, singing and dancing
Reflective journaling
Sauna
Magic
This retreat is for women who want to make a transition in their work— whether it’s starting a business, enlivening your business, changing your career, getting a new job, or showing up in a new way to your work.
Meet the Facilitators
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Kate Noble is a playful and earnest experience designer and facilitator. She creates environments that help others attune to synchronicity and practice integration––integration between their body and mind, the personal and universal, and passion and purpose. Kate’s life journey as a former sensation-seeking enthusiast turned over-working consultant turned more balanced and loving human inspires her dedication to facilitating transformative experiences.
Kate owns her own business––she’s a professional coach, life coach, and organizational and social change consultant. She holds a Master of Public Policy from the Humphrey School of Public Affairs with a focus on leadership, community engagement, and program evaluation. Her Bachelor’s Degree is in Psychology from the University of Puget Sound in Washington. Kate is a certified yoga teacher through a Tantra yoga and shamanism school in Ecuador, and will soon be an Associate Certified Coach trained through the Mindfulness Coaching School. She also holds a certificate as an Enneagram practitioner. -
Julia has led a life following threads of magic!
As an adult, she has sought out spaces that bring connection and wellbeing to the body mind and soul. Her background includes trainings of breath work, reiki and yoga. She has extensively participated in rituals and gatherings such as red tents, 13 moon rituals, Spirit Weavers and kirtans.
In 202 Julia and her husband Doug Beasley purchased a 45 acre wooded lot to host retreats and workshops. This is a life-long passion project.
She is most enlivened when creating ritual sanctuary space with other sisters in peaceful natural surroundings.
SOUL-FEMME CREATIVITY
AUGUST 23-25
$400
Come to tend your creative coals in the last of the summer's wildflower fields at Samsara Ridge, just north of St. Croix Falls. Re-invigorate with a combination of group and solo prompts and exercises to spark creativity and aliveness. Luxuriate with beautiful nutritious local organic food during the heart of the harvest season, access to a freshwater swimming hole at Wolf Creek, a barrel sauna and stunning sunsets over the St. Croix River Valley.
Led by Alex Bildsoe & Julia Beasley, creatively conspiring since kindergarten! These two will bring a unique blend of teachings gathered from art school, Burning Man, travels and more.
Meet the Facilitators
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Alex Bildsoe is an artist and baker on a journey through food research, illustration, teaching, writing, and philosophy. She studied studio art at Beloit College and did her masters in illustration at Falmouth College. She has taught art through community education, undergraduate workshops, and post-graduate guest lecturing positions. Alex is fascinated with the role that food plays in culture and personal narrative, and did her master’s thesis on the concept of flavor from a sociological, biological, and art theory perspective. She explores creative writing and visual storytelling through her zine The New Manifesto and is always finding ways to incorporate beauty and artistic expression into everyday life. Alex is a champion for local food producers and bakes naturally fermented bread with locally milled flour at Brake Bread in Saint Paul.
Alex has taught workshops and been a counselor at Wilderness Awakening’s sleep away camps. She makes baked goods for the New Moon Alchemy group and will continue expanding her food offerings through dessert catering and bakery wholesale. -
Julia has led a life following threads of magic!
As an adult, she has sought out spaces that bring connection and wellbeing to the body mind and soul. Her background includes trainings of breath work, reiki and yoga. She has extensively participated in rituals and gatherings such as red tents, 13 moon rituals, Spirit Weavers and kirtans.
In 202 Julia and her husband Doug Beasley purchased a 45 acre wooded lot to host retreats and workshops. This is a life-long passion project.
She is most enlivened when creating ritual sanctuary space with other sisters in peaceful natural surroundings.
Healing Heart Song Retreat
FALL
OCTOBER 4-6, 2024
Come share your voice in the soft early fall landscape of Samsara Ridge. This retreat is open for anyone regardless of previous experiences singing. Songs will be taught in the traditional This song weekend is open to all who want a space to sing and breathe and feel and be in community. We teach everything call and response, just open your mouth and echo back.
Led by Dani Coffield & Juila Beasley who can’t stop singing together since they started back in 2018 in a community song circle. This weekend workshop retreat focuses on our connection to our voice and gifting it to the circle and endless skies of Samsara Ridge.
Meet the Facilitators
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I stumbled into song circles and kirtan during a time when I was suffering a lot and still learning self-love, how to manage emotions and the day to day stressors of being a human on planet earth. It felt like an “aha moment” sort of thing to discover a path to joy, freedom, divinity. It has been a healing gift to learn how to transmute unhelpful patterns into energy that is more useful.
I have since facilitated song circles in parks and living rooms, as well as kirtans at yoga studios, many of these with song sister, Julia. I enjoy playing guitar, harmonium, drums, but most of all, I really love shakers. Currently I am a part of the Good Vibes Drum Circle, the Hopkins Ukulele Club and I practice kirtan with other enthusiasts. -
Julia has led a life following threads of magic!
As an adult, she has sought out spaces that bring connection and wellbeing to the body mind and soul. Her background includes trainings of breath work, reiki and yoga. She has extensively participated in rituals and gatherings such as red tents, 13 moon rituals, Spirit Weavers and kirtans.
In 202 Julia and her husband Doug Beasley purchased a 45 acre wooded lot to host retreats and workshops. This is a life-long passion project.
She is most enlivened when creating ritual sanctuary space with other sisters in peaceful natural surroundings.
Past Retreats
WILD NATURAL WOMAN RETREAT
MAY 2021
EMBODYING THE GODDESS RETREAT, MAY 2021
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