Retreat Days

This is the time to put Nature's wisdom at the center of the new world we want to build together.

- Janine Benyus, godmother of Biomimicry

But how do we hear Nature's wisdom in addressing planetary, social and personal challenges?

Are you curious about ways to communicate with the many other living beings who also inhabit our habitat?

Want to tap into the copious clues that Nature freely offers to help us remember our own true nature as co-creative and wise stewards of our lives, communities and planet?

If so, we invite you to join us in

Deepening Our Dialogue with Nature

Sunday, May 18th, 2025
10am - 4pm
South Bristol, NY

This full-day retreat offers invitations to dialogue with nature that are inspired by 30 years of personal practice and shared teachings from Biodynamic gardening, Findhorn Foundation, Rosemary Gladstar, Rocio Alarcon, Pam Montgomery, the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address, Nature and Forest Therapy, Thich Nhat Hahn, Joanna Macy, Celtic wisdom, John O'Donohue and more.

Perhaps there are 10,000 paths to Nature's wisdom...

~ Bring your big life questions.

~ Sink into the Presence of a sanctuary abundant with vernal life.

~ Be invited into various ways of connecting, listening, receiving, communing and reciprocating with the wider-than-human world.

~ Nurture these life-giving relationships.

Surely, new insights and awareness will appear.

Likely...art, poetry, movement and more threads of our new world will be woven.

One never knows what will be revealed until one slows downs...connects...offers...asks.

If you listen, they will teach you.
- United Plant Savers

Everyday more humans - including scientists - are re-awakening to the reality of the sentience and unique forms of intelligence of all the other aspects of nature. This knowing is encoded in our DNA and many of our indigenous relations have never forgotten and, thankfully, remind us.

Our spacious retreat day offers an opportunity to remember more together, in companionship with other heartfelt humans and the Earth.

Included is a nourishing lunch of vibrant, spring, plant forward fare from local farms.

Will you join us?

YOUR HUMAN GUIDE: Deb Denome

Deb Denome has lived her life in conscious partnership with nature since 1996. She is delighted to be completing a year of intensive programs in Nature Connected Coaching, Co-Creative Partnership with Nature and Gestalt Professional Coaching. The common theme: more ways to support humans in accessing the wisdom in our own bodies and the wisdom in the rest of the natural world. Here and now, experiential, embodied, holistic and transformative practices for accessing a wide range of nature communication methods...exploring our interconnected relationships with All that Is.

LOCATION: Shimmering Light, 6141 Hicks Road, Naples, NY 14512 (town of South Bristol)

REGISTRATION: The suggested contribution for the day, including lunch, is $111, $131 or $151. Those able to contribute more are paying it forward for others. Everyone is invited regardless of financial circumstances. Simply input your own contribution amount on the registration page. Thank you!

space is limited!
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A Portal into

Celtic Spirituality

Saturday, October 5th, 2024

9:30am -4:30pm

Shimmering Light Farm, Naples, NY

Dear Forest Friends,

If you have attended our Forest Bathing events you know the practice is a secular immersion into the wider-than-human world of the elements, minerals, plants, animals who share our Earth.

Recently we had the great honor of guiding at Great Camp Sagamore with Robin Wall Kimmerer who inspires us, through her Indigenous teachings, to deepen our own intimacy and reciprocity with the rest of Nature.

We are aware that many of us who are not Indigenous to North America have also been seeking our own ancestral connections and practices.

Celtic Spirituality is but one of these.

   Are you called to the magic and mystery of the Celts, who lived in many regions across Europe?

Do you crave a deeper, spirited relationship with the lands we are blessed to inhabit here in the Finger Lakes?

Join Jeanne Crane of Celtic Spirit Books and Deb Denome of Finger Lakes Forest Immersion and slip through a portal into the liminal realm where the threads of our interconnectedness can begin to weave a more full story of our belonging to the Oneness of Nature.

Sink into the brilliant autumn sights, sounds, and sensations of a sanctuary abounding with life, resilience, awe, wonder and wisdom.

“Truly transformational”
   “I’m amazed at how simple, yet profound this experience was for me.”
   “I am so filled by all that I saw and felt.”

Our spacious day will include joining together with other seekers to:

Co-create ceremony to welcome the new year of the Celtic calendar.
Immerse in the symbols of a culture where symbols hold more meaning than words.
Feel into the palpable rhythm of the spiral with our bodies.
Develop relationship with Una, the First Herb, Mother of All Herbs, Mugwort, and create a saining bundle for visioning and smoke cleansing.
Drop into a guided journey to meet one of your Spirit Guides for the day.
Let our senses and intuition lead us out onto the land; feeling the thin places and portals; meeting plant, animal, mineral and elemental kin; noticing meaningful symbols and receiving wisdom for our own life path.
Join in weaving a story of connection between Celtic lands and the Finger Lakes that will remain with us as we return to our daily routine.

Included is a savory lunch of locally sourced, seasonal foods and relaxed time to connect with one another. (Vegetarian and vegan)

YOUR HUMAN GUIDES: Jeanne Crane and Deb Denome

Jeanne is a retired organizational consultant and life coach who facilitates workshops, and leads and writes about transformation and spiritual journeys. Jeanne is of Irish descent and she has been practicing Celtic spirituality for 30 years and has guided journeys to Ireland and made her own pilgrimages through the five Celtic Nations. She is fascinated by what empowers change and what resources we can tap to co-create the future we wish to see by connecting to ancient wisdom and the great Mysteries of the Universe. www.celticspiritbooks.com

Deb is a Certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guide, Horticultural Therapist, and Herbal Educator known for guiding experiences of transformation via 27 years of nature immersions, workshops and retreats. She has many Scottish ancestors and has been studying Celtic spirituality for 20 years and has also guided trips to the sacred places of Scotland and Ireland. Deb stewards the land we will be exploring and shares it with love, reverence and knowledge. She is a passionate student of human consciousness as it relates to our interdependence with the consciousness of All that Is. www.flforesttherapy.com

LOCATION: 6141 Hicks Road, Naples, NY 14512 (town of South Bristol)

REGISTRATION: Space is limited to provide a full experience. Your investment for the day, including lunch, is $91, $121 or $151. Those able to contribute more are paying it forward for others.

Ancestral memories await us!

REGISTER TODAY!! :)