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Winter’s Embrace

January 24, 2025

January 26, 2025

A Soul Renewal Retreat is your sanctuary—a place where you can shed the layers of the past, warm your inner light, and emerge ready to live your life with greater clarity, purpose, and joy.

Winter’s Embrace

As we step into a new year, the world around us may be pushing for resolutions and new beginnings. But what if, instead of rushing forward, you paused? What if you allowed yourself the sacred time to go inward, to rest, to restore? 


The winter season, with its quiet beauty and stillness, invites you to do just that—to embrace the cold, the silence, and the opportunity to truly connect with your deepest self. 


Why This Retreat? 


This isn’t just a retreat; it’s a sacred journey into the heart of winter and into the heart of yourself. If you’ve been feeling stuck, unable to manifest your desires, or simply overwhelmed by life’s demands, this retreat is designed for you. Imagine three days surrounded by the breathtaking winter landscape of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore—voted “Most Beautiful Place in America” by ABC’s Good Morning America—yet known only to a select few in its most tranquil season.


What You’ll Experience


  •  Deep Connection with Nature:

Winter at Sleeping Bear Dunes is a time when the land breathes, rests, and transforms. You’ll hike through serene forests, walk along deserted beaches, and climb frozen dunes—all while reconnecting with your own inner rhythm. The stillness of the season will guide you to a place of peace and clarity, helping you find balance amidst the cold.

  • Spiritual Growth and Renewal:

This retreat is designed for women who are on a spiritual journey, yearning for something sacred, new, and deep. Through guided workshops, sound healing infused with Reiki, and reflective practices, you’ll dive into your inner world, uncovering and releasing old patterns that no longer serve you. This is your time to embrace stillness, celebrate sensitivities, and allow yourself to be fully present.

  • Shadow Work Workshops:

Uncover the parts of yourself that have been hidden away—your fears, insecurities, and past traumas—in our powerful shadow work sessions. These workshops are designed to help you confront and integrate your shadow self, leading to profound healing and personal growth. You’ll learn how to embrace these aspects of yourself with compassion, transforming them into sources of strength and wisdom.

  • Intimate, Supportive Community:

Surrounded by a small group of like-minded women, you’ll find the space to share, connect, and grow together. These three days are not just about individual transformation but about amplifying our collective energy and healing as a community. You’ll leave with lasting friendships, a deeper sense of self, and a renewed enthusiasm for life.


What’s Included
  • 3 Transformative Days: Deep-dive sessions, workshops, and soulful conversations designed to renew your spirit.

  • Nature Immersion: Guided hikes, sunrise beach walks, and the healing practice of Shinrin Yoku (forest bathing).

  • Accommodation:  Cozy, multi-level cottage in the heart of Glen Arbor, Michigan, with all meals included.

  • Nourishing Meals: Enjoy delicious, gourmet meals that feed both body and soul, including a hands-on cooking class with a local chef.

  • Exclusive Community: An intimate group of women who, like you, are ready to embrace the stillness of winter and transform from within.


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Friday
  • Meet & Greet: The beginning of new friendships. So many smiles! So much happiness! So much excitement!  Gorgeous Charcuterie Board themed with regional favorites.

  • Open Circle & Sound Healing infused with Reiki: We dive right in the first evening.  As we begin to restore the body and clear the mind.  Let's shift the habitual patterns that may have been attained during this pandemic that keep you from being calm, clear and balanced.  The sound healing will systematically release stored physical, emotional, and mental tensions.


Saturday
  • Sunrise Walk: to the beach for mediation and set intentions for the day while soaking in the incredible opening and healing energy of Lake Michigan.

  • Breakfast: Delicious and nutritious buffet style breakfast enjoyed together.

  • Workshop 1: Begin to let go of the old beliefs and habits that keep you locked in your past and fearful of your future. Experience your emotions fully, knowing that you have a grounded and calm inner presence. We will work with practices like….
    guided self-analysis
    journaling
    group discussion
    active imagining

  • Lunch Delicious and nutritious lunch enjoyed together

  • Guided Walk: We will practice Shinrin Yoku, a Japanese technique that destresses, boosts health and wellbeing. I’ll teach you this simple method of being calm and quiet amongst the trees, observing nature around you whilst breathing deeply. The experience will create positive, calming neuro-psychological effects through changes in the nervous system, reducing the stress hormone cortisol and boosting the immune system. I hope you share this new learned technique with anyone you know that needs help reducing stress, anger, anxiety, depression, reduce blood pressure or could use improved concentration and mental clarity.

  • Workshop 2: The deep work of cultivating a practice in yourself that will help open your eyes to how these various psychological concepts and ideas are expressed in our broader culture.  Explore and deepen your relationship with the ideas of how shadow projection and culture intertwine, we will work with practices like…
    guided self-analysis
    journaling
    group discussion
    active imagining

  • Dinner: We've been diving deep so let's lighten things up with a little walk to a local gourmet store for a demonstration-style cooking class!  We will have the place to ourselves so the experience is personal and fun as we sip a glass of perfectly-paired wine, beer or cocktail, while learning new culinary facts and skills from Chef Julie.

  • Free time: In town or opportunity to work with Heather one on one back at the cottage


Sunday


  • Sunrise Walk: to the beach for mediation and set intention for the day while soaking in the incredible opening and healing energy of Lake Michigan

  • Breakfast: Delicious and nutritious buffet style breakfast enjoyed together.

  • Workshop 3  & Closing Circle: We create intentions to live not from the unconscious past programming but from a new perspective — the perspective of knowing your true self. As we conclude our inner exploration now we take this new felt sense of wellbeing back into our personal life, family life, work life, and love life.


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Guided By Experience

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For centuries, sailors needed a lodestar to guide them through the darkness of night. Now more than ever, people are searching for a brighter way—a different way. Without a map, it’s too easy to get lost, deluded, confused, and discouraged along the way. You need a guide who can give you the right direction, offer necessary encouragement, and help you avoid the clutches of the ego. Someone who has already traveled the paths, learned the byroads, and blazed trails that have never been walked before.

As an outdoor guide, backpacker, nature-based mentor, and storytelling goddess, I offer guidance for finding your true, authentic path through life. My mission is to open minds to new discoveries and inspire others to live their truest, most authentic lives. In doing so, I create a strong, compassionate, and loving environment that facilitates deep healing and sacred connection to Nature. Every person can open up, be real, and reimagine themselves while finding a new community of friends.

I humbly share my inspiring collection of ancient wisdom, personal stories, and the sage advice I’ve gained through my experience and reflection as an explorer, writer, coach, and facilitator. Sharing my deeply personal experience of how I overcame obstacles to accomplish my dreams, I’m here to guide you through your own bold adventure, ensuring that you feel safe, supported, and truly connected to the natural world around you.

As a seasoned nature mentor and international tour guide, I bring decades of hands-on experience in leading individuals through some of the world’s most breathtaking landscapes. Whether you’re new to the wilderness or a seasoned adventurer, I’m here to ensure you feel empowered and ready to take the first steps on your own quest for greater understanding and deep transformation.

This is an invitation to step out from your ordinary life and take the first steps on your own journey.

Heather Zigler

Ready to Embrace Your Soul’s Winter Journey?


Your soul is calling. Answer it with a full-body YES. Join us for Winter’s Embrace: A Soul Renewal Retreat and step into 2025 with a renewed sense of self, purpose, and connection. Click the link below to reserve your spot and embark on a journey that will warm your heart and ignite your spirit.

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