Family Forest Fun - An Earth Day Weekend!
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April 25-26, 2020 | This experience is for families of all varieties. Kate Bast, Certified ANFT Guide from Shinrin-Yoku Madison is teaming up with Hike and Heal Wellness for a weekend of nature connection, exploration and family fun. Take a deep breath and full body stretch as you shake off winter’s dust and come out of hibernation. As your guides, we will help facilitate a deep connection - with your family, the land and your truest self. Through this experience, you will be able to benefit from new and refreshing ways to interact with one another and our outer landscape. Parents & children will receive time away from each other (if preferred) for self-care, and then come back together for tons of memory-making, fun. Join us and celebrate earth day 2020 by being fully immersed in all that nature has to offer.
The Important DetailsDates: April 25 - 26, 2020
Times: Arrive by 9am Saturday and leave by 12pm Sunday Location: MMSD School Forest Campground in Verona, WI Price: $175 for a family of 2-3 people, or $275 for a family of 4-5 people. Most of the kids should be between the ages of 8-14, but we are willing to work around ages. Email Moira with questions. Sleeping: Rustic Bunkhouse Lodging or Family Camping: bring a tent or use the bunkhouse! There are big cabins that you can put your sleeping pad and sleeping bag in for protection from the elements. If you'd like to bring your own tent for a more private experience, that works too. Cell phone / device policy: leave it in your car! Show your family how to unplug. Even more fun, print a map to get to our location and leave it at home! Tell your extended family and friends where you are going and check in when you return home. Your guides will provide you with their cell phone numbers so your family can get ahold of us if needed. Cancellation Policy: This is a rain or shine event. If forecast shows storms that would make it unsafe to be outside, we will still have an alternate plan (there are shelters to use at our site for group work for protection from the elements) for that weekend at the same location. If you should need to cancel, please see our cancellation policy. |
Who is this Retreat For?Families of all sorts! Bring your kids, brother or sister, nieces & nephews, grandpa's and grandma's if they're abled and wanting to play. There will be a bit of self-care in addition to family forest play-time. We'll play group games, enjoy cooking together as one, enjoy periods of stillness and everything in-between.
Quick Links for FAQsFlow of Program
Registration InfoRegister online above and you'll receive a receipt of payment in your email. 2 weeks before the event you will receive waiver forms to fill out, an items to bring list, a FAQs sheet, driving directions and more logistical information to help with travel arrangements. A few days out, you'll receive a final reminders update with expected weather and any rain plans. Questions? Email Moira and she'll help you.
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What to Expect
Hike and Heal Wellness joins forces with Shinrin-Yoku Madison to offer an immersive experience into the old growth forest of Madison's Jackson School Forest / Olson Oak Woods State Natural Area in Verona, WI. With over 400 acres of land to explore and open the senses to, this experience will be enriching, relaxing, soothing and oh-so-needed in our overstressed society. "Nature is the healer, the guide opens the door." Kate and Moira will be your guides, offering sensory invitations to ignite the childlike state of mind as well as awaken the pleasures of presence to find beauty and awe.
Be prepared for gentle movement, days in nature on unpaved trails -- sometimes going just a short distance, others perhaps a couple of miles -- periods of silence and stillness, laughter, joy, grief (yes -- sometimes seeing things in nature invites grief, which is normal human nature and provides a great sense of release) and space to connect with others just like you who put a high value on their relationship with the earth and the vast web of interbeing.
Be prepared for gentle movement, days in nature on unpaved trails -- sometimes going just a short distance, others perhaps a couple of miles -- periods of silence and stillness, laughter, joy, grief (yes -- sometimes seeing things in nature invites grief, which is normal human nature and provides a great sense of release) and space to connect with others just like you who put a high value on their relationship with the earth and the vast web of interbeing.
