How to prepare?

Step One: REQUIRED FIRST

• Make sure you've done the Retreat Questionnaire FIRST as it is required for your hosts to prepare the retreat for you.

​Step Two: Helpful

• Review the packing checklist​ and To Dos, like map the driving directions

Step Three: Optional

• Book any additional services (listed below) during 'free-time' that interest you. Please only reserve during designated free-time as listed on the schedule here.

• Spa Passes: are included already at a discounted rate. Do not purchase these.
• Massage offered by the spa 10am-10pm: to book a massage, please book with them directly. Click here for details. Spa attendants you can book after 2:30pm at extension 4 or contact the reception in the morning hours at extension 1 at 1-866-826-7108 if you have questions.
• Aromatic Soaking Baths: These baths are in a beautiful tub room with two stainless steel soaking tubs, music and essential oil aromatics to fill your lungs and body. Also available between 10am – 10pm. Click here for details. Book with them.
• Private yoga offered by Jena - email jenabairdadventures@gmail.com to reserve. A discounted $45 (reg. $75) for 1hr of one-on-one yoga instruction. Requires prepayment.
• Mini Iridology Assessment offered by Stephanie, email stephanie@wellnessbymothernature.com to reserve. Read more about it here. Approx 20 - 30 minutes for a retreat special of $45 (reg. $57). Requires prepayment. 

Step Four: Workshop Prep
The following are ways for you to best prepare for your upcoming retreat. The more ready your mind and emotions, the more healing.

• HEAL Documentary (available on Netflix here) - Initially, we were planning to show this documentary on the Bodie Room big screen Friday night after dinner but based on last year's requests of 1) more yoga and 2) more freetime, we decided to give you more scheduled free time each day (hence nothing planned after dinner), as well as more yoga. Besides, the workshop times are so precious when you can do a little bit of homework and watch it on Netflix instead. PLEASE, please, please watch this before the retreat. I cannot convey enough what a leg-up it will provide you in the healing work we'll be doing. It introduces so many things on a visual platform that enables us to dive deeper during the small window we have together. 
• Birth data - for you and the birthdate of another. The most popular workshop at our retreats is the astrology workshop. Even those who aren't sure they believe astrology to be real always tell us afterwards how accurate or helpful the workshop is for them to understand themSELVES or the people we describe. In order to read for you in detail, we need your birth DAY, TIME and LOCATION, which is info you provide on the retreat questionnaire. We will also have time to offer an overview of another person in your life whom you'd like to better understand; whether that be your child, partner in business or love, sibling, etc. We only need their birthdate; whereas, it is ideal that you have all of the birth data listed above, if possible.
• "Becoming YOU" Workshop Planning - What do you need to let go of or release that no longer serves you? What do you wish to bring in instead? What physical, emotional, spiritual, mental and environmental (people and places) aspects of your life do you want to see different than the present reality? What injury have been you facing? What diagnoses do you want to release? What relationship do you want to conclude or develop? What habits do you want to build? What does becoming YOU, mean?