Clarify our Ideas + Design the Next Phase
Over a cup of tea, Jenn and I were talking about our ideas and visions for our personal life and professional life. The questions that arose were, “What am I contributing in the world? What do I gain pleasure in doing/giving/offering? What do I REALLY want to create, be and do in this next phase of my life?”
Some clarity arose and with it, more questions, along with a desire to take out a massive pad of paper and draw circles, make lists, move our hips to move the answers from our hips to our brains and get a little sidetracked with sharing personal memories. We went to bed with a buzz of possibilities but also an overwhelm. There was a desire to make shit happen but also a need for more clarity and deliberate design.
The next morning we looked around at the ancient stone walls and with Jenn’s desire to have her new Tuscan home be a place for women to gather, dance, share, heal and connect is when this idea was born: Let’s invite a few friends for a weeklong sleepover and we can bring a contribution to the week’s experience as we play in a structured retreat schedule (we’ll be intuiting each day but let’s be honest, sometimes we need someone to watch time so we actually get shit done!).
So, basically, Jenn is inviting you to her amazing Tuscan home for a relaxed but productive women’s retreat.
Six of us.
Stretching in the morning Under the Tuscan Sun (it’s one of my favorite movies so I had to throw in a pun!)
Afternoon’s experiencing a “workshop” each of us bring to help with clarity, embodiment and “actionables” for after the retreat.
For those of you invited that haven’t been here before, let me paint a picture for you- cuz I’ve been living with Jenn for two months and helping her build her garden and renovate.
A classic and charming five bedroom house with a stunning garden and soaking pool. Jenn has named it the Prosecco Pool where an olive tree shades your submerged body as you sip Prosecco and look between two mountains into the city of Lucca. No more need to be said! She recently had a fire pit made in the garden so there may be some chanting and howling at the moon!
And of course, she’s a 25 minute drive into the ancient city of Lucca, famous as the birthplace of Puccini. It’s just a damn charming little town and we will make sure we go there to walk the cobblestoned streets!
WHAT THIS IS ABOUT
Inviting friends who have wanted to come here to Jenn’s house or have felt in need of some relaxation brewed with focus for “what’s next!” within a structure frame.
It’s about connecting with five other women in a beautiful home, donated by Jenn, while we move into clarity and feel like we be getting shit done! Ya know, making plans, drawing our blueprints, and then sharing it so we hold each other accountable after we leave.
WHAT WE’RE ENVISIONING
Five full days of time spent moving, connecting, learning and sharing with personal reflecting and relaxation time. Each day will have a focus so that we progresses in clarity, decision making and taking home a blueprint for our next steps.
OUR CONTRIBUTION:
Our idea is that each of us are desiring a feminine focused time together and that we can each bring something to the group to give an afternoon’s experience, like a workshop of sorts. For example- I (Angela) would like to offer a morning routine of movement.
Your contribution doesn’t have to be your specialty or career. It’s anything you feel has been helpful to you and you feel confident in guiding five other women through it with you. It could be poetry, painting, writing, voice, dance, etc.
There is a focus of clarity and embodiment. So anything that will assist our experience in listening to our intuition and trusting the answer.
WHO:
This is quite casual. There’s only room for four other women (for a total of six of us) and we want this to feel more like a sleepover with a focus.
HOW:
There is no fee to the retreat itself as this is about friends gathering in a friend’s home for a week.
Although there is no payment to come join friends in Jenn’s house, we will come up with a basic fee to put into a kitty that will cover our group cost for food which will include three meals and of course, some Italian wine, and any materials we may need based on your gift to the group (for example- paint for an intuitive-throw-paint-around experience!!).
ACCOMMODATION:
Jenn’s house is in renovation stage. There won’t be any work happening during the retreat but it’s for those who don’t mind a minimally decorated bedroom. But you will be in a 13th century farmhouse nestled in the mountains overlooking the city of Lucca with five other amazing women.
You will have your own room for privacy and reflection time.
MEALS:
We’ll share making meals perhaps rotate it so there’s a few days you don’t have to think about meal making. All meals will be GLUTEN FREE.
We are thinking fruit for breakfast with gluten free bread, biscuits and jams This will make breakfasts easier to prepare. Salads for lunch and wholesome gluten free dinners with wine and laughter.
We’re thinking the kitty fund will be around 150 Euro’s each for all five days (we’ll need to confirm this over the next week as we look into it- we don’t want anyone to have any surprise costs). This will cover all our food, wine, materials, and accommodation- not to mention the workshop experiences we will have and extraordinary support we will all give to each other.
WHEN:
August 27-31 (potential dates!)
Ideally, we would all arrive the day before and leave the day after.
HERE'S A ROUGH SKETCH OUTLINE:
7:30 AM - YOGA/ MOVEMENT
9 AM - BREAKFAST
10 AM – FIRST WORKSHOP EXPERIENCE
11:30 AM – PERSONAL RELAX TIME
1 PM – LUNCH
3 PM – SECOND WORKSHOP EXPERIENCE
4:30 PM – PERSONAL RELAX TIME
6 PM – WINE, CONNECT AND PREPARE DINNER
7 PM – EAT, DRINK, CHAT, LAUGH, CRY, REVEL
THEN GET SOME DAMN GOOD SLEEP FOR ANOTHER GOOD DAY
SOME POTENTIALS:
ONE OF THE AFTERNOONS WE CAN GO INTO LUCCA TO ROAM THE INNER WALLS AND ANCIENT CITY.
AND FOR OUR LAST NIGHT, WE CAN CHOOSE TO STAY IN HOUSE AND DO SOMETHING THAT WE FEEL CALLED TO DO OR GO INTO LUCCA FOR A CELEBRATORY DINNER.
SO, TO RECAP:
This is for six women to gather together for a small retreat with the intention to have a structured experience focusing on clarifying what we want to create in the world, to feel in our bodies and to form actionables for how we live that integrity in our life.
You’re invited because we know you, we like you and we want you here. Your presence is desired and we think you will bring something deeply valuable to our week together. Hope you can make it.
**We are open to suggestions if you don’t think you can come and know of someone you think would like to come, however, because this is a friends gathering more than a paid retreat, we’d want to “meet” them via Skype or Whatsapp.
Email me or Jennifer to let us know your thoughts.
Can you make it?
Some clarity arose and with it, more questions, along with a desire to take out a massive pad of paper and draw circles, make lists, move our hips to move the answers from our hips to our brains and get a little sidetracked with sharing personal memories. We went to bed with a buzz of possibilities but also an overwhelm. There was a desire to make shit happen but also a need for more clarity and deliberate design.
The next morning we looked around at the ancient stone walls and with Jenn’s desire to have her new Tuscan home be a place for women to gather, dance, share, heal and connect is when this idea was born: Let’s invite a few friends for a weeklong sleepover and we can bring a contribution to the week’s experience as we play in a structured retreat schedule (we’ll be intuiting each day but let’s be honest, sometimes we need someone to watch time so we actually get shit done!).
So, basically, Jenn is inviting you to her amazing Tuscan home for a relaxed but productive women’s retreat.
Six of us.
Stretching in the morning Under the Tuscan Sun (it’s one of my favorite movies so I had to throw in a pun!)
Afternoon’s experiencing a “workshop” each of us bring to help with clarity, embodiment and “actionables” for after the retreat.
For those of you invited that haven’t been here before, let me paint a picture for you- cuz I’ve been living with Jenn for two months and helping her build her garden and renovate.
A classic and charming five bedroom house with a stunning garden and soaking pool. Jenn has named it the Prosecco Pool where an olive tree shades your submerged body as you sip Prosecco and look between two mountains into the city of Lucca. No more need to be said! She recently had a fire pit made in the garden so there may be some chanting and howling at the moon!
And of course, she’s a 25 minute drive into the ancient city of Lucca, famous as the birthplace of Puccini. It’s just a damn charming little town and we will make sure we go there to walk the cobblestoned streets!
WHAT THIS IS ABOUT
Inviting friends who have wanted to come here to Jenn’s house or have felt in need of some relaxation brewed with focus for “what’s next!” within a structure frame.
It’s about connecting with five other women in a beautiful home, donated by Jenn, while we move into clarity and feel like we be getting shit done! Ya know, making plans, drawing our blueprints, and then sharing it so we hold each other accountable after we leave.
WHAT WE’RE ENVISIONING
Five full days of time spent moving, connecting, learning and sharing with personal reflecting and relaxation time. Each day will have a focus so that we progresses in clarity, decision making and taking home a blueprint for our next steps.
OUR CONTRIBUTION:
Our idea is that each of us are desiring a feminine focused time together and that we can each bring something to the group to give an afternoon’s experience, like a workshop of sorts. For example- I (Angela) would like to offer a morning routine of movement.
Your contribution doesn’t have to be your specialty or career. It’s anything you feel has been helpful to you and you feel confident in guiding five other women through it with you. It could be poetry, painting, writing, voice, dance, etc.
There is a focus of clarity and embodiment. So anything that will assist our experience in listening to our intuition and trusting the answer.
WHO:
This is quite casual. There’s only room for four other women (for a total of six of us) and we want this to feel more like a sleepover with a focus.
HOW:
There is no fee to the retreat itself as this is about friends gathering in a friend’s home for a week.
Although there is no payment to come join friends in Jenn’s house, we will come up with a basic fee to put into a kitty that will cover our group cost for food which will include three meals and of course, some Italian wine, and any materials we may need based on your gift to the group (for example- paint for an intuitive-throw-paint-around experience!!).
ACCOMMODATION:
Jenn’s house is in renovation stage. There won’t be any work happening during the retreat but it’s for those who don’t mind a minimally decorated bedroom. But you will be in a 13th century farmhouse nestled in the mountains overlooking the city of Lucca with five other amazing women.
You will have your own room for privacy and reflection time.
MEALS:
We’ll share making meals perhaps rotate it so there’s a few days you don’t have to think about meal making. All meals will be GLUTEN FREE.
We are thinking fruit for breakfast with gluten free bread, biscuits and jams This will make breakfasts easier to prepare. Salads for lunch and wholesome gluten free dinners with wine and laughter.
We’re thinking the kitty fund will be around 150 Euro’s each for all five days (we’ll need to confirm this over the next week as we look into it- we don’t want anyone to have any surprise costs). This will cover all our food, wine, materials, and accommodation- not to mention the workshop experiences we will have and extraordinary support we will all give to each other.
WHEN:
August 27-31 (potential dates!)
Ideally, we would all arrive the day before and leave the day after.
HERE'S A ROUGH SKETCH OUTLINE:
7:30 AM - YOGA/ MOVEMENT
9 AM - BREAKFAST
10 AM – FIRST WORKSHOP EXPERIENCE
11:30 AM – PERSONAL RELAX TIME
1 PM – LUNCH
3 PM – SECOND WORKSHOP EXPERIENCE
4:30 PM – PERSONAL RELAX TIME
6 PM – WINE, CONNECT AND PREPARE DINNER
7 PM – EAT, DRINK, CHAT, LAUGH, CRY, REVEL
THEN GET SOME DAMN GOOD SLEEP FOR ANOTHER GOOD DAY
SOME POTENTIALS:
ONE OF THE AFTERNOONS WE CAN GO INTO LUCCA TO ROAM THE INNER WALLS AND ANCIENT CITY.
AND FOR OUR LAST NIGHT, WE CAN CHOOSE TO STAY IN HOUSE AND DO SOMETHING THAT WE FEEL CALLED TO DO OR GO INTO LUCCA FOR A CELEBRATORY DINNER.
SO, TO RECAP:
This is for six women to gather together for a small retreat with the intention to have a structured experience focusing on clarifying what we want to create in the world, to feel in our bodies and to form actionables for how we live that integrity in our life.
You’re invited because we know you, we like you and we want you here. Your presence is desired and we think you will bring something deeply valuable to our week together. Hope you can make it.
**We are open to suggestions if you don’t think you can come and know of someone you think would like to come, however, because this is a friends gathering more than a paid retreat, we’d want to “meet” them via Skype or Whatsapp.
Email me or Jennifer to let us know your thoughts.
Can you make it?