Beasts in the Garden
Half Day Retreat
Boulder, Colorado
Sunday June 9, 2024
Join Women Rising Wild on June 9 for this playful staycation we call Beasts in the Garden Half Day Retreat. Put on your fanciest sundress and bring along your mud boots for a day of nature connection, sisterhood, and delicious sensory delights. We will begin our time together with mindful movement, welcome activities, and meditation to open our hearts and bodies. Next, we will carpool and caravan from south Boulder to The Golden Hoof Farm for an educational tour and playshop with the animals. Here is where we will need our boots, sunhat, and appropriate outer layers for the weather. After our adventure on the farm we head to Dushanbe Teahouse for Ritual Tea Service. We will come full circle with sacred sister time and farewells at the park where we began our day. Continue reading for more information about The Golden Hoof and Dushanbe Teahouse.
Ready to join us? Have questions? To learn more about this event schedule a phone call or visit the registration page to confirm your reservation for Beasts in the Garden.
Investment: This all inclusive half-day retreat is $120.
The deposit is $25. Balance is due one week prior to our event. Registering with a girlfriend? Select Bring-A-Friend Discount when you reserve your space and you each save $10.
The Golden Hoof is a private, 2000 acre Regenerative Slow Food Farm headquartered in east Boulder, Colorado. Their aim is to provide healthy food for local consumption. The farm is holistically managed using methods inspired by nature’s self-sustaining ecosystems. The focus is creating the highest quality, most nutrient dense foods available while creating the healthiest, most resilient soils possible. Their goal is threefold. They seek to produce a Healthy Ecosystem, Happy Animals, and Healing Food. We will take part in an educational tour of the property and enjoy an animal meet and greet playshop with staff.
History of Afternoon Tea and Dushanbe Teahouse: The Dushanbe Teahouse located in downtown Boulder describes the custom of afternoon tea as “a wonderful way to spend time with a cherished friend while taking a respite from the hectic pace of today’s busy world.” The ritual of Afternoon Tea is credited to Anna, the Seventh Duchess of Bedford. As was customary during the later 1700′s and early 1800′s, people would eat a large breakfast in the morning, a petite lunch, and then conclude meals with a substantial dinner around 8:00pm. The Duchess, described a “sinking feeling” during the afternoon, and began to request tea and cakes to tide her over. Soon, she invited her friends to share the ritual with her, and it quickly became a fashionable, treasured custom. Accommodations for gluten free and dairy free guests are available upon request.
The Dushanbe Teahouse was gifted to Boulder from our sister city in Tajikistan. More than 40 artisans created the decorative elements of the teahouse, including its hand-carved and hand-painted ceiling, tables, stools, columns, and exterior ceramic panels. Often these skills are handed down from generation to generation within families and the brilliance of the crafts is evident in the beauty of the space.
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