Last day for early-bird pricing is Friday, October 9th!
➡️Register here⬅️ Only 15 spots available!
You’re invited to take a mindful pause.
🍁Surrounded by nature's vibrant tapestry of golden, red, and orange leaves, you’re immersed in a season of transition.
Watching the trees gracefully shed their leaves, ask yourself: “What am I ready to let go of?” With each exhale, as easy as vapor dispersing in the air, release old stories and patterns that no longer serve you.
Breathe in the crisp autumn air, feeling invigorated and inspired to create anew.
❣️Welcome to our transformative retreat that aligns mind, body, and spirit with the rhythms of the season! Tuning into the wisdom of Chinese Medicine and other modalities, this experience encourages a release, refresh, and renewal of your senses within healing, supportive community.
Our unique blend of self-care practices supports deep healing, strengthening your immune system while feeling more resilient, empowered, and calm. You’ll also tap into greater clarity with manifestation techniques, cultivating more abundance in your life.
Beyond the expansive transformation during our day retreat, you’ll have resources to support your overall health and wellness in the days, weeks, and months ahead!
Retreat Highlights:
🙆Qigong + Acupressure: Pronounced “chee gong”, this ancient Chinese modality promotes qi (lifeforce energy) circulation, alleviating stiffness, pain, and inflammation. Acupressure involves pressing key points on the body - usually along meridians (energy pathways) - to stimulate greater energy flow. Experience deep restoration and mind-body-spirit healing with this nourishing blend of mindful movement, breath, intention, and visualization.
🧘♂️Yoga + Breathwork: You’ll be guided through a grounding breath and body awareness meditation with some gentle guided pranayama (breathwork) before moving into an all-levels asana practice. The movement will start off slow with restorative poses and build toward an energizing slow flow that will support you in practicing surrender and receiving energy. The practice is an invitation to cultivate inner resources of resilience, stability, courage, and joy.
✨Reiki + Meditation: Reiki is a universal-life force energy that can be accessed for treating the whole person, including body, mind, emotions, and spirit to create beneficial effects that include relaxation, and feelings of peace and wellbeing. Through distance and optional hands-on Reiki healing paired with guided meditations, experience a release of stuck energy while feeling inspired to welcome in new beginnings.
🌲Forest Bathing: Immerse yourself in the tranquility and healing power of nature through this meditative practice. As you walk mindfully, engage all your senses to fully experience the magic of autumn. This practice helps alleviate stress, enhance your mood, and foster a deep connection with the natural world.
☕Cacao Ceremony: Ceremonial cacao is unsweetened drinking chocolate made from whole cacao beans and minimally processed to retain its bioactive compounds. Theobromine is the main stimulant in cacao. It stimulates the cardiovascular system and is a vasodilator (which relaxes your blood vessels, allowing for better blood and qi circulation throughout the body). This increased blood flow also reduces stuck, stagnant energy, supporting emotional release.
🎶Soundbath: Blending Tibetan singing bowls and other sound tools into immersive soundscapes, you are invited into deep rest - a gentle reminder that we, too, are simply energy and vibration. An experience designed to restore your yin and yang balance.
💗Manifestation Practices: Throughout our experience, you’re invited to release old patterns and stories. This process of letting go creates space for heightened clarity and manifestation for the abundance you’re inviting in.
📖Mindful Journaling: Further integrate your experience with thoughtful prompts, encouraging unique perspectives and expanded vision for what’s possible.
🍴Vegan Lunch: Aligning with the autumn season, a nourishing plant-based lunch and snacks will be provided, along with various beverages.
Meet Your Healers:
🌟Sarah Karp (Qigong Health and Wellness, LLC) facilitates physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual healing through ancient Chinese modalities. She offers group qigong classes, personalized qigong flows, medical qigong, acupressure, cupping, hypnotherapy, cacao ceremonies, and other various wellness events. Sarah is a Cacao Ceremony Facilitator and certified as a Master of Medical Qigong and Rapid Transformational Therapy Practitioner (Hypnotherapist). For more details, visit QigongHW.com or email QigongHW@gmail.com.
🌟Cassie Paton (RYT-500) studies with Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman, whose teachings are rooted in the Iyengar and Jivamukti traditions. Her sequencing and cues support spinal and joint health with a focus on an easy breath. She invites students of all levels to cultivate curiosity and courage to deepen their practice—both on and off the mat. Learn more at throughlineyoga.com.
🌟Derek Vogel, founder of Zen Den Studios, is a certified audio engineer and ceremonial cacao facilitator devoted to the art of sound and vibration. Rooted in the physics of sound, he explores how specific frequencies interact with the body and nervous system, blending technical precision with ceremonial presence. Through cacao ceremonies and immersive soundscapes, Derek creates space for guests to slow down, realign, and find their zen. Connect: ZenDenDerek@gmail.com.
🌟Jenny Jones is a reiki-attuned intuitive guide and ceremonial space holder with a gift for creating sacred containers where women feel genuinely seen and held. Her work weaves guided meditation, energy work, and intentional ritual to support grounded presence and inner stillness.
📍Location:
Oldfields School is located on a beautiful 130-acre historic campus in Sparks Glencoe, Maryland.
➡️Please let us know if you have any mobility concerns prior to registration so we can best support your needs. For questions or specific accessibility requirements, please contact retreats@manor-mill.com.
Learn more about campus accessibility here.
Price:
Early-bird (through October 9th, Friday): $397
After October 5th: $444
☮️Looking for healing + connection in the meantime?
Join our Free Online Wellness Class + Community Circle on the second Saturdays at 10am-12pm via zoom. During our first hour, we’ll practice qigong, acupressure, and meditation. During the second hour, open sharing and connection is welcome.