Awakening Wildness and Ease
June 2027
What to ExpectJune 3-6, 2027 AWEthentic retreat at Green Rock Retreat in Culver, OR
Early pricing: reserve your spot before 12/31/26
AWE-thentic Retreat: Awakening to Wildness and Ease
How do you authentically greet each day? Do you long for deeper connection with yourself, with nature, and with like-minded others?
Join us to find your way home again.
Connect: with nature and with your inner knowing
Reflect: on your soul’s path and how nature can guide you through the mysteries
Rest: and find balance away from your daily responsibilities while remembering who you truly are
Join us for four days and three nights at this beautiful natural 50-acre sanctuary perched on the rim of the Crooked River Gorge, 30 miles north of Bend, OR. This “glamping” retreat will offer time to feel our bodies, attend to our breath, and connect with nature and our creative selves. Nourishing vegetarian meals will align with the transition from spring to summer.
We will start our days in silence, with meditation and gentle yoga. After breakfast, the day opens into conversation, intuitive writing, awe-walks, creativity and free time. This year also includes a day trip to Smith Rock State Park and a guided sensory experience in nature. In the evenings, we enjoy dinner and then stargazing or yoga Nidra. This long weekend will offer time on your own and quiet, as well as with others in community and conversation. We will explore the themes of awe, wonder, wildness and ease as an approach to living and moving in life in the fullest way possible. Vegetarian meals are provided from Thursday dinner through Sunday breakfast.
Available accommodation: Sturdy, comfortable luxury platform tents are arranged with either a single Queen memory foam bed or two-three twin beds. Pendleton wool blankets and duvets are provided. Each tent also has an electric fireplace should the June night feel cool.
Each tent has its own outdoor bathroom with running water, flushing toilet and shower. Au natural, but in a private and comfortable way.
BOOK EARLY AND SAVE!
Save your spot now by paying your $500 nonrefundable deposit before 12/31/26
Booking options:
Single: Early bird $1949 (after 1/1/27 $1999)
Double: Early Bird $2659 (after 1/1/27 $2799)
Triple: Early Bird $3379 (after 1/1/27 $4199)
Save when you bring family/friends! Double and triple accommodations must be booked with friends. Please specify your roommate(s) when booking. We will keep a waitlist for those interested in sharing with people they don’t know and advise if we have enough interest for this type of booking.
*as always, I appreciate check or Venmo payment when possible. It saves me the credit card fees, which I appreciate as a solo small business owner. Please let me know if you’d like to pay by check by sending me an email: breathelovepeace108@gmail.com
Venmo payment can be sent to: @breathelovepeace
Your Retreat Guides
Erin and Christy have the fortune of being cousins first, and kindred spirits who have travelled parallel life paths. They enjoyed many childhood adventures and then reconnected as adults with a shared intention of inspiring women to live with awe, with wildness and with ease.
Erin Collins MN RN CHPN, E-RYT
Erin has been a practitioner of yoga since 1995 and has been a teacher of yoga and meditation since 2005. Her current mix of service includes yoga and meditation classes and retreats; education, guidance and bedside support for people facing serious and terminal illness and parenting two teenage boys as they prepare to enter the wild, wonderful world. Erin spent much of her 20th decade adventuring in the wild– climbing, skiing and sailing…and now enjoys the balance of internal practices with gentler versions of time in nature.
Christy McConnell
Christy is the author of the book Awakening Wildness: Reconnecting with Nature and Ourselves. She has been a professor of education for 20 years and has delivered international keynote addresses, presented workshops and retreats on ecological experience, and published extensive research on cultivating meaningful experience. Christy earned her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction and her MA in Professional Creative Writing from the University of Denver. She has won numerous national awards including Outstanding Dissertation (AERA), Outstanding Book (AATC), Distinguished Mentor (AATC), and Master Scholar (DU). As an ecologically minded adventurer, teacher, and Level One Interspecies Reiki certified practitioner, Christy hopes to help humans, animals, and nature thrive through connection.
Awaken to Wildness and Ease