november 13-15 | fennville michiganCrossing the Threshold:
A Wintering Wild Woman Rite of Passage
La Loba is the thread through the entire journey.
She enters the wilderness
She gathers the bones
She brings them to the fire
She sings over them
Life returns
The Wild Woman within awakens
This is not simply another women’s wellness retreat.
It is a crossing.
The days are getting darker, sister, hibernation is calling.
To seal the season of fall, it is time to answer the Wild Woman’s call.
Maybe you’ve already felt her pull - in your voice, dance, and dreams.
Or maybe her song is new to you - so it seems.
The Wild Woman teaches us how to free ourselves from restrictions to anchor in our truth.
Crossing The Threshold
The wild woman remembers what you have forgotten
It is time to
Enter the dark
Gather your bones
Find your song
A stepping away from the familiar
Into the wilderness
Into the dark
Into the places beneath the roles we have learned to carry
We gather what has been scattered
We bring it to the fire
We give it voice
And we return carrying our medicine
Friday ⟡ I Leave behind
I cross the threshold.
Saturday ⟡ I Descend
I enter the dark.
Saturday Afternoon ⟡ I Gather
I gather my bones from the land.
Saturday Night ⟡ I Reanimate
I sing over what was scattered. Life returns.
Sunday ⟡ I Return.
I carry my medicine home.
“Take the leap. You’ll be held, seen, and heard the entire way through. You’ll meet parts of yourself that are ready to be welcomed. And somewhere along the way, you’ll realize you can be that support for yourself too. It’s the embodiment of what you’ve been seeking.”
— lisa, crossing the threshold retreatWhat to Expect
We blend guided moments, deep exploration, and space to reflect, so the experience feels both focused and fluid.
❋ Intentional StructureConnection is a core part of the process. We honor each woman’s unique medicine and encourage participation. You’ll learn just as much from the group as from the experience itself.
❋ Collaborative EnergyLed by experienced guides who not only know how to hold space but have walked through our own thresholds as well. This means meeting you where you are at and cultivating a container that leads to lasting transformation isn’t just a playbook, but a lived experience that leaves you transformed.
❋ Transformative Facilitation❋ A Supportive SpaceOur retreat prioritizes comfort, safety, and respect, so you can show up as you are and fully engage in the process.
This is more than just a retreat…
It is a rite of passage
A stepping away from the familiar
To reclaim the medicine that lives within you
“You’re never too old or too far along in your life’s journey to invest in yourself and to embrace new ideas and patterns. Being able to rediscover yourself and what you are called to be at any stage of life can be so enlightening and powerful. This retreat could be just what your soul has been longing for, it was for me.”
Donna, Crossing the threshold retreatInspired by the mythic thread of La Loba:
the Wild Wolf Woman who enters the wilderness, gathers the bones, and sings life back into them
Throughout the weekend, you will live this story not simply hear it
You will gather your bones from the land
Retreat Details
November 13th to November 15th, 2026
Friday 3 pm through Sunday 3 pm
Fennville, Michigan
Retreat Includes:
⟡ 2 nights cozy lux lodging
⟡ All inclusive: once you arrive everything is taken care of
⟡ Private chef created delicious organic plant-forward meals, tea, coffee, and snacks
⟡ 3 facilitators/ guides/ healers for the entire weekend
⟡ Meditation
⟡ Healing sound baths
⟡ Gentle yoga
⟡ Walking trails and guided hikes
⟡ Ceremonial circles with drumming, fire, water rituals
⟡ Peace Labyrinth and Zen Garden
⟡ Beach walks
⟡ Integration coaching session within 14 days post-retreat
Early Bird pricing ends 10/10
Bring a friend and you both get $100 off
About the space:
Nestled amongst 50+ acres of pristine forest, sits the cozy luxury private oasis where our experience will unfold. Just a short walk from lake Michigan, the land here whispers a special kind of peace. Together we will enjoy over 2 miles of curated trails, a beautiful labyrinth, zen garden, and outdoor fire pit alongside our indoor oasis complete with a sauna. The space is ideal for nature lovers and homebodies alike as the beautiful home has plenty of space to curl up with your journal, tea, or book by the fire. Each room is well appointed, spacious, and well lit to help you feel at home during your stay.
The land here is uniquely suited to this experience. She, too, over the last two years has gathered her bones and found her song, stepping into her own medicine of holding space for other people’s transformations.
Room Style Options
Ensuite: private room with private bathroom
Private: private room with shared hallway bathroom
Bunk room: top & bottom bunk to yourself with shared hallway bathroom
Enjoy Cozy Luxury
Learn to see in the dark“Do it for yourself! This experience was so nourishing and wholesome. It was everything I’ve been missing and didn’t know I needed. I am so grateful that I did this for me. It feels like I have opened a new chapter of self care that is able to coexist in the chaos of life.”
— Liz, Crossing the Threshold Retreat
THIS CROSSING MAY BE FOR YOU IF…
You are standing at the edge of something.
A season has ended.
Something inside you has gone quiet.
You have spent years being strong, capable, needed, responsible.
You feel the pull toward something deeper but you aren’t quite sure what it is yet.
You don’t need another space telling you how to become a better version of yourself.
You want somewhere you can listen.
Somewhere you can remember.
Somewhere you can be witnessed.
Somewhere wild enough to let something real emerge.
YOU WILL LEAVE WITH…
A deeper relationship with your own intuition.
A clearer sense of what you’re ready to release.
Something tangible gathered from the land.
A ritual object created with your hands.
A voice for something you’ve struggled to name.
A winter practice to carry home.
The collective Crossing the Threshold Recipe & Medicine Book.
And, hopefully, a remembering:
The life you thought was gone may simply have been waiting for you to sing.
A woman arrives → crosses → descends → gathers → sings → reanimates → returns
Meet Your Guides
Rachel Kathryn Weber
Rachel Kathryn Weber is a Chicago-based energy healer, sound healer, and mentor who facilitates women’s courses, retreats, and transformational experiences across the Midwest and the world.
Through her brand Earthed Empress, Rachel creates transformative, life changing experiences that help women activate their power, purpose, and confidence.
Rachel has trained in multiple healing lineages, including becoming a Usui Reiki Master, receiving the Munay Ki Rites (Andean shamanic teachings from the Q’ero peoples in Peru), and learning earth-based wisdom with Shipibo Konibo and Anishinaabe elders. Rachel weaves together embodiment and feminine wisdom through all of her work to help women reconnect to their intuition, heal their lineage, and step into their unique leadership.
Instagram: @earthedempress
Website: earthedempress.com
Anna Lee Jackson
Anna Lee Jackson will be creating in the kitchen, serving delicious meals for the entire retreat! Anna is a holistic nutrition coach passionate about using food as medicine to help women feel their best. After spending decades struggling with her own health — including hormonal imbalances, cystic acne, and weight challenges — she discovered that healing truly begins in the kitchen. Anna believes that nourishing the body with clean, whole foods is one of the most powerful tools for restoring balance and vitality. Her approach centers on practical, plant-forward cooking that supports hormonal health, sustained energy, and overall wellbeing. Through her coaching, she empowers women to transform their relationship with food and build healthy, vibrant bodies from the inside out.
Jacqueline Marie
Jacqueline Marie is a womb-wise guide, Reiki practitioner, and doula for life’s great thresholds—birth, death, motherhood, and rebirth. Her work is rooted in the understanding that the feminine body holds memory, medicine, and profound spiritual intelligence.
Through ritual, presence, and heart-centered care, Jacqueline invites women into deeper intimacy with themselves and the cycles that shape their lives. She holds space not to fix or rush transformation, but to honor it—trusting the wisdom that unfolds when women are truly seen.
Instagram: @earthwombheart
Danielle Loevy
Danielle Loevy is a Chicago-based ICF-certified executive leadership coach and facilitator with a Juris Doctor and a Master's in Learning and Organizational Change. She works with people, teams, and organizations ready to do the deeper work of transformation.
Danielle’s coaching and facilitation is influenced by multiple disciplines, including presence, somatic embodiment, IFS parts work, restorative justice circle-keeping, dream-tending, Shamanic Reiki, and soul craft immersion in nature. She weaves together nervous system healing, body wisdom, and soul inquiry to help people reconnect to their deepest alignment.
Danielle creates retreats because she believes the most important journey any person can take is the one back to the wholeness of themself.
Website: loevyleadership.com
All times are in Eastern Standard Time *preliminary schedule - subject to changeFriday · The Arrival
I. LEAVEI leave the ordinary world.
Arrival3 to 4:30pm
Crossing the physical threshold onto the land: Opening Circle + Tea ceremony Nourishing chef created dinner + desertFireside storytellingyoga nidrasound healing + reikiWe leave the ordinary world and enter a more feminine, instinctual, inward dimension.
Saturday Morning· Entering the Dark
II. DESCENDI enter the dark.
Morning: candlelit awakening with coffee + tea + breakfastbrunch Silent nature walkShamanic journey: Meeting the parts of ourselves we have banishedlunch + rest & digestWhat does my body know that my mind has been trying to override?
9:00am
gentle yogasomatic practice
Saturday Afternoon· Gathering the Bones
III. GATHERI reclaim what has been scattered.
You enter the land.
You search.
You find an object that carries something lost, forgotten, buried, abandoned, or waiting to be reclaimed.
Your bone.
gather your bones from the land
Saturday Night · Singing the Bones
IV. REANIMATEI meet the woman beneath and sing her back to life.
This is the heart of the initiation.
Bring your bones to the fire.
Give them voice.
Singing our bones: Song.
Sound.
Movement.
Drumming.
Words.
Silence.INTEGRATION TIMECELEBRATORY DINNERDRUM CIRCLE + ECSTATIC DANCE AT THE FIRELa Loba sings over the bones. And we will sing over ours.
We give voice to what was already alive underneath.
Drumming. Dancing. Music. Laughter. Voice. Wildness.
Giving Birth to Life.
Sunday · Carrying Your Medicine Home
V. RETURNI cross back.
The descent is complete.
Now we integrate.
Morning: candlelit awakening with coffee + teaThis is what I am leaving. This is what I am reclaiming. This is what I will tend through the winter.
9:00am
morning Medicine-makingbrunchLand + lake closing ritualgoodbyes + departures2:00pm
So are you ready to Cross the Threshold?
Here are your next steps
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Schedule your discovery call and invest your deposit to reserve your spot. Rooms will be assigned on a first come first serve basis.
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⟡ ensuite bedroom with private bathroom
⟡ private bedroom with shared hallway bathroom
⟡ bunk room with shared hallway bathroom
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As the retreat draws near we will send you everything you need to know- detailed schedules, packing list recommendations, add-ons to consider, and more.
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Fennville, located in beautiful Southwest Michigan, is a 2.5 hour drive from Chicago and from Detroit. The closest airport is Grand Rapids International, which is 50 minutes away from the house. Once you arrive at the house, there will be no need for a car for the rest of the weekend. We are happy to help answer questions about transportation
This retreat will run with a minimum of 6 participants and maximum of 16. If the minimum is not reached, retreat fee refunds will be issued, but not travel expenses.
IMPORTANT: Please hold off on booking travel until we’ve communicated that the minimum has been reached.
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Now all that's left to do is pack your bags and get excited for your new adventure.