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WOMEN'S SELF-CARE AND WELLNESS RETREAT

** 2025 Retreat Open for Registration **

DATE: Thursday, October 9 to Sunday, October 12, 2025

LOCATION: Big Raven Farm, Spring Grove, MN

Interested in a retreat that will reset and re-energize your life?

Spend three days deepening your understanding of whole body, mind, and energetic health in a safe and comfortable, small group environment. Each day will include healthy meals, connection, discussion topics, reflection time, journaling, nature, movement therapy, and body work. We will spend time intentionally focused on “being” to offset our daily lives where so much of our time is focused on “doing”.

Discussion topics will include self-awareness, living with intention, stress management, personal leadership, nutrition, body awareness, balance, creating a healing environment, and deepening connection.

Body work, movement therapy, and yoga will be provided by JoAnn Zitzow of My Place Wellness.

Big Raven Farms is a beautiful, renovated farmhouse situated on 10 acres in Spring Grove MN, approximately 150 miles from the Twin Cities. See website for more information at https://bigravenyoga.com/pages/big-raven-farm

All accommodations are double occupancy. There are six bedrooms, and three bathrooms. Rooms are listed below with description. All rooms are the same cost, sign up early to get your pick.

For photos of the rooms see the Big Raven Farms website. https://bigravenyoga.com/pages/big-raven-farm

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