Retreat is practice ground, is a sacred, living art form of us together. Where we know time by the birdsong and the changing light. It’s a communal magic of attention - not insular but mycelial.
Golden Hour is an invitation for lingering. Swimming, resting, wandering. Willow sway and buzzing bees and songs and stories and circles. The night is so dark here, hundreds of millions of salt stars, we constellate our belonging, watch the sparks of the fire move toward the sky. In the mornings fog rises from the valley, quiet and new again.
Come to remember, to record, to create, come to be known, come to know yourself. To brave the wilderness of our belonging. To liberate the place inside us that yearns toward connection. This is spiritual work, this is ecological research, this is play, this is an experiment. How do we soften and expand enough to rest, to dream? How do we tend ourselves and each other through the heartache and rage of emergent, global polycrisis?
Our retreat time will be held in the loving structure of “Sometimes Silent”, a flow between quiet, spacious days interspersed with opportunities for intentional connection. These gatherings uplift our humanity, align us with purpose, and offer space for our grief and our joy, our creativity and our care, the folkwork of being together.
Guests, please note that this is a hosted retreat, and reservations must be made through the Retreat Leader Host. Red Clover does not manage the bookings for Hosted Retreats, and you must reserve your space directly with the Hosted Retreat Leader. Click the button to book directly through the Retreat Leader Host’s Website or their retreat booking site.
Gwendolyn & Libby (we/us) are committed to a Culture of Gathering, a way of coming together that builds praxis around care - the ways we breathe, center, connect. As two distinct voices and skilled Circle keepers, we hold the harmony of the collective experience, offering many entrance points to practice and belonging. The first time we met we bonded over late night poetry and conversations about liberation and community. We both arrived with the same library book, The Seed Keeper, by Diane Wilson in tow and knew whatever was happening was something special.
Gwen (@gwendolynren) brings past experience as an event producer and designer, and has been hosting “Sometimes Silent” retreats since 2018 - over 30 of them in the years since. She has a special gift for creating emergent spaces that honor and uplift our humanity with reverence and irreverence, sharing her love of poetry, rest as practice, and a place based awe that invites others into profound moments of both personal and collective healing.
Libby (she/they @work_with_libby) is a holistic educator and facilitator, with a background in academia and evaluation. She offers practices that bridge the sometimes long distance between the head/heart/and center, offering somatic awareness and breathwork that invites us into more choice through the gifts of embodied presence. Believing transformative change is possible her work guides us toward the real-time possibilities of interdependence, and the deconstruction of oppressive structures.
Gwen and Libby are joined by gifted friends, who will offer special practices during the retreat, including Molly Andrews-Hinders (song) and Hope Hamling (qi-gong).
Want to know more? Listen to our podcast episode with Gwendolyn and Libby about invitations to co-creation, the evolution of their work, and this retreat.