What's in a Landscape?

Find out May 24, 2025, 10am-1pm | $139 includes light refreshment and more

As the seasons and our surroundings change, so changes life.

Three different Through the Seasons Workshops are designed with you, health and wellbeing, building a relationship with Nature, and the Three Waters Reserve in mind. You'll find a session this May, August and October.

Through the Seasons, a new series and retreat experience, co-developed with Toni Maddi, a longtime collaborator of mine, will help you explore and understand your landscapes, and learn to connect sensations and the moment.

Our very first workshop explores the idea of landscapes and how they effect our abilities to connect, or let go.

We're calling it "Spring! Let it Go! The Art of Finding Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Space."

Externally, a landscape is what we look out upon -- details, aesthetics, forms, color, beauty, visuals of a natural setting. What else can be in a landscape? Scent, texture, a sense of place, lightness or darkness, sensation, connection, care, reflection, support, processing, understanding.

Have you also considered your internal and emotional landscapes? What are you noticing, feeling, sensing, seeing there? How are you connecting with them? What are you holding on to, and what do you need to let go of?

Like a spring cleaning, you will learn to release what doesn't serve, and make room, across many landscapes, for what does. It is about both "spring cleaning" to make space, recalibrate your energy and improve your health and wellbeing.

Three different workshop sessions are hosted at the lovely Three Waters Reserve, in Brodhead, WI -- 45 minutes south of Madison, 1.5-2 hours northwest of Chicago's Northwestern Suburbs.

Each session starts inside with insights from Toni, who empowers people like you with the spiritual tools and resources you need to open yourself up life’s wonders and to the magic in every day. With this help, you can start living more authentically.

Then, we'll head out upon the conservancy land for some Shinrin-Yoku - forest bathing and nature connection - with certified guide Kate Bast (yep, that's me!), bringing the day full circle by learning how Nature can impact our sense of space, and sending you home with tools and techniques you can practice on your own.

Come explore with us, and see what you find.

Click here for more details and registration for any -- or all -- of the Through the Season's sessions.