37675 Balch Park Road, Springville, CA 93265, USA
Up to 30 in group
May 1 - 4, 2025
About this Retreat
Rochelle Calvert, PhD, CMT, SEP, licensed clinical psychologist, certified mindfulness teacher, somatic experiencing practitioner has a devoted love to share the power and healing potential of mindfulness, somatic awareness and nature. She has studied and taught mindfulness for the past 20 years and knows personally the transformational potential. To share the love of these healing practices she has published a book Healing with Nature: Mindfulness and Somatic Practices to Heal from Trauma.
Dr. Calvert leads courses and retreats in mindfulness, somatic experiencing and Awake in the Wild, nature-based mindfulness. She also facilitates professional trainings in mindfulness for clinicians. She is the director of the Ecotherapy Program at SouthWestern College and New Earth Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is a certified mindfulness teacher with the Mindfulness Teaching Institute, the International Mindfulness Teachers Association and Awake In The Wild organization.
Rochelle is the founder and clinical director of New Mindful Life, which offers mindfulness, nature-based, and somatic experiencing therapies. She teaches individual meditations with nature that assist in healing from trauma. She supports her clients and takes them into nature with the aid of Bertha Grace, a Sprinter van that serves as a mobile therapy office.
Rochelle now lives in Taos, New Mexico and has a private practice in both Taos New Mexico and San Diego, California. She enjoys spending her free time in nature, hiking, practicing yoga, exploring Indigenous heritage, and resting with trees. She practices mindfulness-based meditation rooted in the Buddhist Theravada Tradition and practices meditation outside in nature daily.
Details of this retreat
Off-Grid Retreats is delighted to team up with Retreat Teacher Rochelle Calvert to offer Healing with Nature, a nature-centered mindfulness weekend retreat, for the 2nd time!
Unfortunately, Retreat Guru does not allow us to include our donation-based scholarship along with our thorough registration questionnaire on their platform, thus we highly recommend that you continue to learn about this retreat and/or register through offgridretreats.org/events/may2025healingwithnature
But if you wish to proceed through RG, please know that we will email you our registration questionnaire upon your registration. You are required to complete this in a promptly manner in order to attend this retreat.
MORE ABOUT THE TEACHER & SITE
Rochelle Calvert is the guiding teacher at Healing with Nature Retreat. To learn more about her please click her photograph under the "Your Guides" section just under the "Retreat Highlights" section.
Practice and connect in the beautiful landscape of the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains at River Ridge Ranch. This ranch is amidst the Tule River and a vital ecosystem of a 722 acre nature preserve of oak woodlands. Through this retreat, explore how nature-based practices, relational connection to the natural world, and somatic healing can support the transformation of challenging or traumatic experiences.
Check in is at 4:00 pm PST on Thursday, May 1st at River Ridge Ranch in Springville, CA.
MORE ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Practitioners from any and all backgrounds are welcome. Some mindfulness experience is valuable but not required.
Complete mindfulness instructions will be given, appropriate for your level. This retreat is intended to be enjoyable, not rigorous and participants are expected to have an open mind and heart as we build our community and share experiences together.
We welcome you to study, practice, and integrate the wisdom of these teachings into this community. Relax, participate in guided nature meditations, experience reflective journaling and enjoy beautiful hikes too.
REGISTRATION DETAILS
When you register, Off-Grid Retreats will email you more detailed driving directions, a recommended packing list and more. You may also sign up for our carpool email in the registration process.
About our pricing: Off-Grid Retreats is a 501c3 nonprofit—our fees are just enough to cover our costs. We rely on your donations, collected at the end of the retreat, to keep beautiful natural spaces accessible to everyone. Thanks to your generosity we're able offer our retreats freely to all regardless of financial means, and a portion of the pre-setup and glamping tent fees goes towards this goal as well. If you are unable to afford our fees at this time, please email us (hello@offgridretreats.org) to learn more about our scholarship rates.
COVID Policy: Off-Grid Retreats takes COVID precautions seriously and will adhere to any state mandated requirements. We reserve the right to change requirements, if the state's mandated requirements change. Currently, there are no vaccination requirements for this retreat. However, we require all guests to take a COVID test within 3 days of the retreat start date. Only upon receiving a negative result are guests permitted to attend. Then, upon your arrival at River Ridge Ranch, you will be required to test again but we will provide the tests. In the unlikely event that you test positive for COVID at River Ridge Ranch, we will need you to vacate the premises but we will refund your payment.
Cancellation Policy: If you cancel your reservation more than 1 week before the retreat start date, you must cover the refund processing fee. Then, the remaining amount paid will be refunded to you. If you cancel less than 1 week before the retreat start date or leave the retreat early no refund will be provided.
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