channel your inner child
adult summer camp style weekend
Are you feeling the need to focus on your inner dreams and desires maybe needing some time to disconnect in order to reconnect?
Maybe a weekend getaway will help you pivot
'cause it's all about living a creative life....
IF YOU CAN'T JOIN IN PERSON, TRY OUT OUR VIRTUAL OPTION FOR FRIDAY NIGHT'S WORD PLAY WORKSHOP
disconnect to reconnect
Are you yearning to escape if only for a few days?
Are you questioning your life path and pace?
Are you craving some time to connect to the earth?
Are you yearning to disconnect from fast-paced society in order to reconnect yourself to the earth's bounty and lessons?
Are you savoring an opportunity to craft?
Want to learn new art techniques?
Are you hungry for foraging, discovering,
and engagement?
Who says kids get to have all the fun in the summer?
This weekend getaway in an Adult Summer Camp mindset is a great opportunity to spend some time for yourself nurturing the human spirit; connecting to the earth, yourself and others; and enjoying a glamping weekend as a disconnection from hectic regular life to a magical memory-filled nature escape.
The agenda includes structured art/nature/writing workshops with instruction, free time for wandering or napping, and group dinners.
Check out the general itinerary and other information in the FAQ.
forest therapy guided walk
What is Forest Therapy?
This guided nature immersion walk is inspired by "Forest Bathing" or "shinrin-yoku" developed in Japan in the 80s when the government recognized an increase in health problems brought about by the intensity and demands of the massive shift into an urban work environment. They conducted much research and through focus groups found significant benefits when spending time in forests and natural surroundings. They discovered that trees emit Phytonocides which benefit humans by increasing NK cells. It makes sense to realize that humans are not intended to live in so much constructed environments with artificial lighting and that being in nature is extremely beneficial.
What does this mean? What does this look like? How does this work? Your host Val is a certified guide and the Forest is the therapist. Each experience is unique to the individual. This is a slow walk without internet or phone distractions where you will be given invitations that emphasizes sensory interaction with the surroundings.
In your regular life, when would you have time to gaze at plants or insects, make a slow wander with no destination in mind, and stop in adoration of colors or more?
The walk is gentle and takes approximately 2.5 hrs. This will be your introduction to the land and the camp experience. P.S. Located in the rural rolling foothills of Appalachia in a part of Tennessee called the Western Highland Rim, the camp is about 20 minute drive to the small town of Hohenwald - German for "High Forest".
why?
NATURE & ART
Create art and traditional craft using natural objects that you forage on the land.
NATURE & SENSES
Camp starts with a guided Forest Walk experience to engage all of your senses.
NATURE & FOOD
Discover more about edible flowers, foraged items, gardening, and eating healthy.
EAT HEALTHY
Learn about what you may already have around you that is edible. Learn about improving your health with organic, non-gmo, and non-processed food.
SELF-SUSTAINING
Fall in love with chickens and learn how you can shift from Mass-Ag production chain to local sourcing including your own backyard.
UPCYCLING & IMPACT
Learn about composting and the general waste impact on the land. Use upcycled materials in projects. Discover ways to reduce your personal environmental footprint.
itinerary highlights
WORD PLAY
Fun with words in this interactive workshop where we will embrace randomness and creative thinking. Join writer-in-residence around the campfire for word play with improv techniques. Take the words and continue to write over the weekend either poetry or paragraphs. Check back in with C.T. for feedback. Transform your writing into one-of-a-kind art if you desire with the cyanotype workshop or use materials on hand to collage or hand-letter compositions.
THIS IS ALSO AVAILABLE AS A VIRTUAL WORKSHOP. $40/person
(he/him)
CYANOTYPES
This workshop features a traditional photographic process of using the sun to expose chemically treated paper to make a print from natural objects that block out the sun causing white spaces when 'developed' by placing the paper in water to stop the exposure.
This workshop requires the sun, but for unexpected inclement weather, we can still create these inside with longer exposure time.
Experiment with composition and objects you find outside.
INSTRUCTOR: VAL
(she/hers)
nature + lemon lodge
DONKEY THERAPY
A highlight of camp is spending time with the donkey crew - Pepper Patrol.
LEMON LODGE
Your camp memories will be forged in a home away from home environment.
MAGICAL MOMENTS
The refreshing water of the Buffalo, the sounds of birds and sights of fireflies are just a few of what you'll find.
Don't let the word CAMP fool you
as you'll find comfort in our uniquely designed dwellings either the Lemon Lodge or the Raspberry Residency House
Our 17 acres is split into two with 5 acres featuring lodging, the donkey land, bamboo grove, burgeoning garden, peafowl aviary, chicken zone, and art studios for the residency program. The 12 acres is a blend between untamed Tennessee wonderland and a careful effort to allow for natural wildflowers and habitat featuring about 400 feet of Buffalo river frontage. We'll start the camp experience Saturday morning with a gentle forest walk with your certified guide and host.
GENERAL ITINERARY :
Arrive FRIDAY between 5 AND 7PM
Introductions, group dinner, and writing workshop. If the skies are clear and you want to set the alarm for watching meteor shower, that's a great option but remember we'll get started around 9:30am on Saturday.
SATURDAY continental breakfast including fresh farm eggs to cook as you desire will be available along with coffee, tea, and juices.
The morning features a FOREST THERAPY WALK and light picnic lunch by the river. The early afternoon is your own to wander, read, work on your writing, take a nap so you can stay up late, or just hang out on the porch or pet the donkeys.
Late afternoon we will have our Cyanotype workshop where you can use some of the natural items you may have found during the day to create original art. You can even write your word play project on the compositions for a special effect.
Saturday evening will be a group dinner and a campfire weather permitting. We also have a film to share. Stay up as late as you want to watch the meteors. If there are no clouds in the sky, the best viewing is usually between 1 and 4 am.
Sleep in on Sunday and enjoy a continental breakfast on your own time before you depart.
Camp Program Fee includes meals, workshops and materials, Forest Therapy guided walk, time with the donkeys, plus the lodging of your choice.
Lodging options include:
up to 5 in our dormitory loft with twin beds (hall bath on 1st floor)
private room with Full bed (shared bath on 1st floor)
double room is King and Twin - includes bathroom
PROGRAM WITH LODGING:
Dorm Single Beds $369 (ea)
Double Ensuite $399 (ea)
Private Rm Full Bed, shared bath (one available) $469
YOU ARE A HUMAN BEING, NOT A HUMAN DOING.
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