PROUDLY PRESENTED BY:
A TIME FOR
Women
A Space to Pause.
A Retreat for Connection, Calm, and Renewal
For women who need space to breathe, soften, and feel supported
Friday, April 10 - Sunday, April 12, 2026
Skamania Lodge, Stevenson, WA
Are you craving a much needed break from the noise?
The world is loud right now.
The news, life demands, family commitments, emotional overwhelm, our changing bodies and work schedules can be overwhelming!
A Time for Women is a conscious step back from urgency and a step into restoring yourself, a quiet respite.
A space that protects your energy, lowers the volume, and reminds you what calm actually feels like.
You will experience your nervous system shifting out of constant alert and into a steadier rhythm.
You will breathe in calm and exhale the pressure you didn’t realize you were carrying.
You will deepen your understanding of the changes unfolding in your body.
Take a break from your everyday life and return relaxed and whole.
Experience What It Feels Like To Be Supported
BEING UNDERSTOOD
This weekend is about learning and discovering together. In community, conversations deepen naturally. You’ll share insight, hear yourself reflected back, and feel the grounding truth that you’re not alone.
CONNECTION THAT'S EASY
Not networking. Not small talk. Just natural connection. Shared recognition. The kind of companionship that feels grounding instead of draining. You’ll leave knowing you are not navigating this season alone.
COME HOME TO YOURSELF
There will be moments when everything slows enough for you to feel your own heartbeat again. When you are not managing, anticipating, or bracing just present inside your body. This is where steadiness begins.
UNDERSTAND YOUR BODY
Gain clear insight into the hormonal shifts, inflammation, sleep changes, and energy fluctuations you may be experiencing so you can respond with confidence instead of confusion.
What You Will Experience
During the retreat, you’ll be guided through easy conversations by teachers who are nationally recognized in their field. Be prepared to discover. . .
A Calmer Nervous System
Practice simple tools that downshift stress to feel more steady in daily life. You'll be guided to experience what it feels like to come out of constant alert mode and into a steadier, more regulated state.
Relief from Emotional Overload
Giving yourself a much needed respite will allow you to reset and refresh. Through experiential exercises during the sessions, you'll understand what you need to get through overwhelming moments with more awareness.
Understand Your Body
Gain clear, grounded insight into the hormonal shifts, inflammation, sleep changes, weight fluctuations, and energy dips. Discover evidence-based tools to reduce inflammation, balance hormones, improve sleep, and restore energy.
Permission to Relax
Rediscover what it feels like to soften without losing your strength or effectiveness. During the sessions, you'll release the pressure to always be “on”, experience rest without guilt, feel supported instead of constantly self-managing and reconnect with the version of you that feels spacious and at ease.
Better Sleep Support
Your guides during the retreat, will teach your nervous system to know when it's time to sleep. Experience practical, evening habits that help your body recognize when it is time to rest. Discover how to create a calming pre-sleep rhythm and improve the depth and quality of your rest over time.
Grounded in Yourself
The most important piece: You'll have tools so when you walk back into your world, you won’t feel depleted. You’ll feel more anchored ,clearer in your boundaries, calmer in your responses, and more connected to yourself.
You’ll be guided by highly trained practitioners devoted to helping women navigate change, ease stress, and support their well-being.
MEADOW LINN, MA
Meadow Linn is a bestselling author, internationally respected personal development teacher and guide, highly acclaimed chef, and most importantly, a proud and devoted mother to James and Clara.
For over 17 years, Meadow has focused on guiding and coaching thousands women reconnect with themselves through grace, creativity, and the trademarked Soul Coaching® program.
She is the co-author of Quest and The Mystic Cookbook with her mother, world-renowned teacher Denise Linn. In addition, Meadow brings generational wisdom into every space she enters.
As a Soul Coaching® Trainer, life and health coach, and educator, she is known for her gentle presence that gives women permission to breathe, soften, and truly love themselves.
Through her workshops and teachings, she guides women to trust their inner voice and create lives rooted in meaning, balance and self-respect.
GRETCHEN HOGG, RN, BSN, CCHt
Gretchen Hogg began her career as a registered nurse in the United States Navy, serving in multiple clinical areas with advanced specialization in intensive care. Her greatest passion emerged in Obstetrics and Neonatal Intensive Care, where she supported mothers and medically fragile newborns during some of life’s most tender moments.
While building her nursing career and raising three children, Gretchen lived the same balancing act many midlife women know well, managing family, career, and personal responsibilities. During this time, she expanded into the mind-body-spirit healing arts, completing extensive training alongside her demanding professional and family life.
Today, Gretchen specializes in helping women who feel overwhelmed by the weight of everything they carry. She supports women through transitions, emotional overload, and identity shifts, creating a grounded space where they can reconnect with themselves and regain clarity.
By bridging evidence-based healthcare with integrative healing modalities, Gretchen helps women experience meaningful, lasting internal change.
PLUS - Special Guest Appearance
Dr. Katherine Walker ND, IFMCP
Dr. Katherine Walker is a Naturopathic and Functional Medicine physician devoted to helping women understand, support, and feel at home in their changing bodies. Her work centers on women’s health across every stage of life, from perimenopause and menopause to thyroid health, adrenal resilience, mood shifts, sleep disruption, and hormonal imbalance.
Dr. Walker uncovers the root causes behind symptoms. She approaches women’s health through a whole-person lens, recognizing that hormones, stress, digestion, sleep, and emotional well-being are deeply interconnected.
Dr. Walker specializes in hormone balancing, gynecology, fertility transitions, thyroid disorders, autoimmune conditions, digestive health, and complex inflammatory issues. She integrates conventional insight with evidence-based natural therapies.
She has been recognized multiple years in a row by her peers as one of Portland Monthly’s Top Naturopathic Physicians.
A respite for your mind, body and soul
Nurturing Accommodations
Connect with Mother nature
Take a Break from Everyday Life
Retreat Schedule
A thoughtfully paced experience to support rest and ease
Friday, April 10th
4:00pm - 5:30pm: Opening Session with Meadow Linn
7:00pm - 8:00pm: Evening Session: Preparing the Body for Rest with Gretchen Hogg
Saturday, April 11th
8:30am - 10:00am: Forest Bathing & Gentle Walk with Gretchen Hogg
10:00am - 11:00am: Break
11:00am - 1:00pm: What does it feel like to be a relaxed woman? with Meadow Linn
1:00pm - 2:30pm: Delicious Group Lunch
2:30pm - 4:30pm: Chronic Stress, Emotional Overload & Creating Inner Sanctuary with Gretchen Hogg
4:30pm - 7:00pm: Dinner break on your own time to relax
7:00pm - 8:00pm: Evening Session: Gentle Movement to support deep sleep
Sunday, April 12th
8:30am - 10:00am: Hormones, Sleep, Weight, Energy & Inflammation: What’s Happening and Finding Relief: Dr. Katherine Walker
10:30am - 11:30am: Vision Circle: Taking the Lodge Experience Home with You with Meadow Linn
11:30am - 12:00pm: Closing Circle: Carrying the Sanctuary Home with Gretchen Hogg
This is Your Time to Step into Being a Relaxed Women.
A Weekend of breathing room.
A Weekend of honest conversation and calm.
A reset that carries into your life.
Included in Your Retreat Price
Two nights in your own room at the beautiful Skamania Lodge with indoor swimming pool, jacuzzi, outdoor fireplace
All sessions with Meadow Linn, Gretchen Hogg and Dr. Katherine Walker
Delicious Group Lunch with Vegan and Gluten Free Options
The opportunity for you to reconnect with yourself and the deeper meaning of your life
Total value: $2199
On Sale Now Only $999
PLEASE NOTE: If you would like to add on a hotel room night either before or after the retreat, we have a highly discounted rate of only $145 plus tax. Details are in your retreat confirmation email.
Retreat Location
Skamania Lodge, Stevenson, WA
45 Minutes from Portland Oregon International Airport
When you register for the retreat, you will receive a confirmation letter from [email protected]
which will include a shuttle transportation suggestion to get to Skamania Lodge from the Airport.
Surrounded by 175 secluded wooded acres, Skamania Lodge is grounded in a calming energy ideal for absorbing sacred spiritual teachings.
This mystical setting offers optimal space for deep relaxation, self- healing, and energy clearing.
The purifying energy of the majestic natural wonders are what makes Skamania Lodge the perfect location for spiritual exploration and inner discoveries.
Two nights hotel accommodations are included in the retreat registration price for arrival on Friday, April 6 and departing on Sunday, April 8th.
If you would like to add nights to your reservation, the price will be $109 plus $23 resort fee and tax. After you have made your retreat reservation, simply contact our office to add any further nights to your stay. 480-970-8543
If you wish to experience . . . .
Unparalleled wisdom with a circle of teachers and sages who light up your soul
A deeper soulful connection to your angels, the spirit world, past-lives, color healing energy, oracles and more
An intimate retreat where you are seen and heard
Stepping out of your normal everyday life and unwind, release stress and feel like yourself again
Sacred “aha” moments that you didn’t think were possible
A Summer adventure combined with heart-opening workshops
Feeling connected to Mother Earth and nestled in the sacred energy of the Columbia River, Cascade Mountains and lush green forest
THEN THIS RETREAT IS FOR YOU!
How can we help you make this dream retreat happen for you?
Meet Chantalle!
She is our Office Orchestrator standing by to answer any questions you may have!
Call Chantalle at: 480-970-8543
Email Chantalle: [email protected]
FAQ's - Questions that attendees have asked before attending the retreat
I have food allergies. Will the meals accommodate me?
We provide delicious and nutritious food and Vegan and Gluten Free options. To keep you feeling energized and focused as you learn from great spiritual teachers and embark on incredible journeys, we do our best to provide food that nourishes the body, mind and spirit. Do you have a food requirement that we did not list? Please email [email protected] and we will do our best to accommodate your needs.
What if I come alone, will I feel welcome?
At Celebrate Your Life! we do everything in our power to ensure no one comes to our retreats or events feeling alone. When you register for a retreat, you will receive an invitation to join a private Facebook group specific to the retreat or event you are attending. Over the past 24 years, we continue to hear the same feedback: our events feel like home, like family, because of our connected and engaged soul tribe community. Our community gives you a sense of belonging from true soul connections made before you even attend one of our events.
What should I wear?
We recommend that you dress comfortably. You will be sitting, standing, meditating, moving and want to feel good. The spaces are climate controlled. While we do our best to ensure that it is not too cold or too warm, we do know that everyone is different. Therefore, we suggest that you bring layers in case you get chilly or warm.
Does the price include hotel?
Yes! This unique retreat includes Friday and Saturday night. If you would like to add an additional nights, please email [email protected] with the dates that you would like to check-in and check-out. Each additional night is $109 plus a $23 resort fee plus tax. This rate is available for three nights prior to the retreat and three nights post pending hotel availability.
What airport do I fly into?
Portland International Airport is only 45 minutes from Skamania Lodge. We will provide the name of a shuttle service to all attendees that you can use to get to and from the airport.
Do I need to rent a car?
You will not need transportation to participate in all aspects of the retreat. In addition, Portland International Airport is only 45 minutes from Skamania Lodge and we will provide the name of a shuttle service to all attendees that you can use to get to and from the airport. In the end the decision is yours.
What is your refund policy?
Due to the extensive investment required to create these magical retreats, tickets are non-refundable and non-transferrable.