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Retreats & Mini-Retreats
Sometimes the most important thing you can do is step outside your life — and look at it from a new vantage point.
That little bit of distance can make room for what daily life tends to crowd out: rest, perspective, imagination, and the questions that have been waiting for your attention. A retreat gives you space to listen differently — to return to yourself, to your body, and to what may be ready to change.
A retreat is not an escape.
It’s a return!
A retreat is a return to yourself, to your own priorities, to the questions that matter most and rarely get the unhurried attention they deserve. It’s a way to slow the hustle, the planning and doing, and get back in touch with the essential rhythms of your basic nature.
And yet…
And yet we often lose touch with this! We push ourselves beyond our limits, deny ourselves rest when it’s needed, forget to include time to genuinely recover from our seeking and trying, from our people-pleasing and caregiving. We often go for long periods of time without having a single day to ourselves, to do just as we please, to go deeper into our thoughts and intentions. To consider what we really want.
No wonder many of us have literally FORGOTTEN what we want!
No wonder we often find it difficult to prioritize our own happiness, or to stay on course. No wonder there are times when we feel out of touch with ourselves. No wonder we have encounters with uncertainty, disillusionment, or self-doubt.
No wonder we don’t feel as good as we’d like to.
Current Retreat Offerings
One
Your one-TO-one Personal Renaissance Retreat
IN PERSON, in a lovely, supportive environment in Lexington, Kentucky.
A full day, ONE-to-ONE retreat designed entirely around you, held in either a downtown hotel or a small private property. You can spend the night!
This is where you meet the version of yourself who already knows what’s most important now, what’s still possible, and what comes next. We prepare for your retreat with a questionnaire and a conversation. We follow-up your retreat with a week-after phone call or Zoom.
Available by appointment only. Requires one month advance notice so that all arrangements can be made to amplify your experience and exceed your expectations.
Two
Fresh Start GROUP New Year’s Retreat
IN PERSON. Location to be announced soon, in or near Lexington, Kentucky.
A full-day SMALL GROUP retreat for women. A synergistic blend of action and reflection, remembering and looking forward, expressing and stillness, speaking and silence, doing and not-doing, being a part of the group and being in your own space.
Many women say that sharing the day with each other — even people they didn’t know before the retreat — was their favorite part.
Offered annually, the first or second week of January. Limited enrollment.
ADDITIONAL RETREATS — Both In-Person and Virtual, including destination retreats and local themed group experiences — are in development.
Check back often or join our mailing list to be contacted as soon as something new is available.
What to expect
from a Retreat with Meriah and Friends
Every retreat Meriah leads — whether for one woman or a small group — is grounded in the same philosophy…
- Body, mind, and spirit are not separate concerns. They arrive together. They need to be considered together.
- Imagination is treated as a friend.
- The pace is unhurried, relaxed and intentional.
- The principles of good coaching and transformation facilitation are always in play
- Nothing is forced. Everything is optional
- You’ll be in good company!
- Activities are diverse: drawn from somatic awareness practices, creative explorations, meditation and visualization, and various forms of self-reflection — each activity chosen specifically for the women in the room, not pulled from a generic agenda.
What you take home is real — inspiration, rejuvenation, and something specific and actionable. A next step that you’ve intuited and chosen while in retreat.