HI, IT’S US.

Gwen, Sam, and Stacey. This is our third Spring Retreat together at Hope Springs, weaving devotional practices and sharing the magic.

 
 
 

Here we are in May 2023, safely in the tow truck after our van broke down on the way home.

L to R: Stacey, Sam, Gwen

 
 

Stacey Pickering is a multi-facted healing arts practitioner who uses music, sound, and vocalization to transcend barriers and guide connection. Stacey will be joining us to offer a sound bath to attune to our wholeness and an eco-therapy experience, to attune to land and spirit. ig: @we_are_vibrational_wellness

Samantha Jones is a yogi, meditator, tea guide, and cultivator of sacred space. She lives a life steeped in devotion, offering practices to reignite our connection to self and Spirit through presence and deep listening. Samantha will be offering a tea ceremony, in the lineage of Cha Dao at Spring Retreat. ig: @samanthaljones

Gwendolyn has spent a lifetime as a vision keeper in heartfelt preparation for this work and since 2006 has been professionally designing, planning, producing, and executing complex events near and far, from the intimacy of a feeling to the landscape of an environment. Logistically and creatively, this chapter has evolved into her curation of intentional spaces that support her heart’s mission: to offer containers and practices that stoke healing connection (to self, each other, and greater nature). Facilitating retreat since 2018 she melds experience, skill, and intuition to inspire emergent gatherings.

Gwen draws from creative practice, somatic inquiry, meditation, contemplation, gentle restorative and yin based yoga, reiki, circle, sounding, connection to nature, community based storytelling and place making ritual. Designing retreats that take us through a personal & collective journey: from silence to story, breath to song, stillness to movement, rest to emergence, often collaborating with dear friends to offer diverse voices and practices that lead us home to ourselves and each other.

A facilitator of emergent space, she guides in the spirit of the pause, weaving spaciousness and holding open the portal of possibilities. She has been sculpting this container of silent/not silent retreat since 2018.