Taproot Retreat - for Women's Health and Wellness - DATE/LOCATION ARE CHANGING< STAY TUNED

“A source of inspiration, creativity, strength. Connection to the most significant element, quality or thing or person - the essence…of yourself.”

Taproot Retreat, a day honoring women’s health and wellbeing, will help you feel grounded. Our roots help define us, from where and whom and what traditions we originate, and shape our identities. Through a series of gentle experiences, this retreat is designed to ground, nurture and help you be present with yourself in the moment, right where you’re at.

Nature is an essential element of the day. You will experience earthing/grounding, sound healing, aromatherapy yoga, a simple and meditative creative experience (no art skills required!), and nature connection and forest therapy (aka, “forest bathing”).

These connection experiences flow from one into the another, joining the day together, deepening your relationship with and nurturing of yourself, and coming full circle, reflecting on the day’s journey and noticings. You may dive deep, or simply bask in this opportunity for self-care and quietude. Your facilitators are kind and supportive, and experts in their fields.

After making much ado about something, stay for “Much Ado About Nothing,” at 6pm in the theater up the hill. You will receive a discount code and directions for buying tickets for plays that day, or you can use it for another play on a different day! Register asap so you can be sure to get a seat for the evening's performance!

Location: American Players Theater, 5950 Golf Course Road, Spring Green WI 53588.

Please park in the big, main lot right in front of the box office/shop, where we will greet and sign you in. Restrooms also are located here. From the box office we will direct you to the event location, quite nearby.

What to bring and wear: A full water bottle; if it’s a cooler day, you may consider filling it with hot tea. A yoga mat, a light blanket and an old towel that can be placed under your mat, as we will do yoga and all other experiences outside. Bring shoes for walking on the trails, and perhaps slide on/off sandals for other portions of the day. Dress in layers – and bring more of them than you think you need. Also bring a light blanket, or one suited to the day, for use during the experiences. A raincoat is recommended, if it looks like rain in the forecast.

Lunch - It’s BYOL: Lunch Is not provided as part of the retreat. To keep costs down, and to ensure everyone has sustenance they can safely enjoy, we ask that you bring your own lunch. Snacks and refreshments are provided throughout the retreat. We thank you for your understanding.

What you’ll receive:

• A sense of calm, renewal, laughter, joy and more
• Activation of the parasympathetic nervous system - the rest, digest, heal state, and its many health and wellbeing benefits
• Increased awareness
• A journey within, and outside with Nature
• Expert support, direction and guidance during each experience
• The kindness and support of fellow attendees
• Four unique experiences
• A closing tea ceremony and circle
• A small bag of thank you gifts
• Four small bottle of essential oils
• These are just the tangibles!
• A discount code for the evening’s plays – or save for another play during fall 2024

Fee: $148.  A limited amount of schlorships is availabe. Please email Kate or Takeyla, explaining your need. 

katebast@gmail.com   -or-  poetic.world@gmail.com

Registration: In advance only. Our use of matierals requires that we prepare them in advance. 

After registration you will receive: Two forms that must be submitted prior to the retreat, a map link.

Your host guides and their unique offerings:

Takeyla Benton: Calling in Ancestors, Sound Healing & Energy Balancing, Guided Meditation

Takeyla guides you through a series of experiences with sound healing and guided meditation that tap us into the day's journey. She is a mystic, storyteller, and esoteric healer. She infuses her passion for healing and spirit-centered self mastery in her sacred soul work of Key Transformations. She offers sound healing, guided meditation, energy healing/balancing and spiritual consultations & Goddess guidance. Her work via Key Transformations, can be found at TakeylaBenton.com.

Kate Bast: Forest Bathing, aka Shinrin-Yoku, Nature Connection Walk

Kate  Bast is a certified nature and forest therapy guide. Through her business Shinrin-Yoku Madison, she leads groups, individuals, employee wellness groups and other organizations on these gentle, silent nature connection walks, immersing them in the atmosphere of nature to find calm, a balm, meaning and connection. Each walk is a series of invitations, or prompts, that suggest ways to connect with nature in the moment and become alive the senses. It is the pursuit of noticing, the felt sense of the moment,  just be-ingness. Forest bathing measurably improves our health and wellbeing. Nature simply makes us feel good! Kate lives in Madison with her family, an their one-eyed doodle Clio.

Beth Blahut: Creative Inspiration

Beth Blahut is a fiber artist living in New Glarus. Her work usually involves a sewing machine, whether she's making images in lace with sewing thread, embroidered portraits, or sculpture with industrial felt. Currently she is developing creative projects and collaborating within the public sphere. Beth will lead us in a meditative and engrossing creativity experience using fibers to tap into the day's themes.

Lark Gibson: Aromatherapy Yoga Lark Gibson, 200 RYT, has been practicing yoga for more than 2 decades and sharing her passion and knowledge of Prana Flow, Yin, and Pre-Natal yoga for the past 13 years via 1-on-1, semi-private, and online classes. She designs and executes multiple yoga and wellness retreats annually through her business Radiant Spirit Retreats and runs her own yoga studio on her beautiful property of 25 acres north of Spring Green. Lark is also regularly a guest yoga instructor at other's retreats and other off-site events. She brings a blend of asana, breathwork, meditation, essential oils, creative sequencing, intuition, inspiration, and intention into every class. Lark leads us in a gentle yet flowing yoga class designed to help your body, mind, and psyche ground, restore, and connect more deeply to your soul. To enhance our practice surrounded by the beautiful outdoor landscape, Lark incorporates special calming blends of essential oils, and guide you through relaxing breathwork and meditation.