LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE RETREATS
Transform Loss Into Light | A Grief Retreat on the Farm
TEND YOUR GRIEF
TEND TO YOURSELF
& HONOR YOUR LOVED ONE
THE RETREAT & RENEWAL
This annual retreat, located at a private farm in Lake Mills, embraces different modalities to help you tend your grief and let your light shine again.
Let this day be a balm for your soul — an invitation to pause, breathe, and feel held.
Your Grief Companions and Facilitators:
Co-Creator and Shinrin-Yoku Guide Kate Bast
Grief is a multifaceted and individualized experience. Kate finds that time spent with nature tends her grief best. She is a certifed Nature and Forest Therapy Guide, trained to guide people through nature connection experiences that embrace the felt sense of the moment. With our senses fully activated, it is in these moments that we find nature's healing and comfort. Kate completed her training and launched her practice, Shinrin-Yoku Madison, in 2019. She also is a Grief Support Specialist, a certification earned from UW-Madison Continuing Studies in 2023. Kate guides you to find calm, a balm, meaning and connection.
Co-Creator and Grief Yoga® InstructorMichelle Kullmann
After losing her beloved 18-year-old son, Cade, in November 2021, Michelle has been turning her pain into purpose. She started immediately with advocacy and awareness about fentanyl poisonings to help save lives from the same fate as her son. Michelle has evolved her passion to help others on their grief healing journey work through the pain of loss and experience joy in their lives again. Michelle earned a Grief Support Specialist Certificate from UW-Madison Continuing Studies, completed her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training in Thailand, completed an additional 100-hour training in Grief Yoga®, achieved her Grief Educator Certification through David Kessler, holds a certificate as a Laughter Yoga Leader and is the owner of Shining Light Grief Support.
Journaling Presenter LaDonna Radell
LaDonna is earthly mom to Eric, and angel-mom to Spencer, forever 26. Spencer was taken by the opioid epidemic on October 6, 2016. LaDonna embraced journaling as a way of calming her mind and healing her heart. Her goal is to help others who have experienced great grief; sharing her experiences so that they may find their lost smile and joy once again.
Location Host Annette Kruschek
Annette is a mother to eight children and a wife to a husband of 26 years. Annetteresides on a hobby farm in Lake Mills, Wisconsin. Annette recently co-authored a book whichshares her personal story of losing a child at the young age of four. Annette’s hope is to bringhope to the hopeless and inspire others to live a life that is meaningful no matter what thecircumstances.