WOMEN’S
ADVENTURE CAMP
Sept 25-29, 2021
NamaStay Retreat Center
Springdale, Utah
Zion National Park
Feel safe, have fun and learn
Connect to your native awareness,
Free yourself from fears that hold you back,
at your own pace.
Experience yourself as the
capable and powerful woman you are,
fully supported
to be
fully alive in the world.
Incomparable Beauty: Fall in Zion
Fall is a glorious time in the Utah’s red rock country, and we will be making the most of it, wandering and adventuring in Zion Canyon, working with wild Mustangs, staying at a breathtakingly beautiful retreat center, eating yummy and healthy food, taking personal reflective time, playing with art, dancing, and ending each day gathering with friends around the campfire.
In this time together in the red rocks, we will expand our ability to tap into and listen to our deep feminine self: our innate animal awareness, our connection to the oneness.
Come have your own personal experience of the depth of innate wisdom and magic available inside you and in the world around you.
Come reconnect with your deep loving wild nature. It is available to you, waiting for you, part of you.
Part of us all.
WHAT ARE THE ADVENTURES?
Over the course of three full days, we’ll have opportunities to:
Take simple scenic hikes in Zion National Park,
Engage in a beautiful (and very safe) interaction with horses whose wild nature has been respected, learning to connect at a deep and powerful animal level,
And for those desiring a more challenging adventure, you can choose to
Hike the Zion Narrows,
and/or experience canyoneering: rappelling through tight and beautiful slot canyons.
Exploring your experience through art is also on offer, at any time – we will have an area set up with a collection of stimulating and inspiring art materials to work with as you will. Whether you’d like to create a vision board, do some nature journaling, paint, create a spirit doll…the sky’s the limit.
You will always be at choice to make your day as easy or as challenging as you personally desire.
WHAT’S THE PLAN?
SATURDAY
Arrive by the late afternoon/evening.
After settling into rooms and a delicious dinner, we’ll have an orientation session in the Pavillion, a short Crystal Bowl session to ground in the space and gather around the campfire.
SUNDAY
After breakfast we’ll put together our lunches for the day and have a short gathering of the group, to orient for the day: what is possible, what to think about and notice.
Depending on the selection each has made, part of the group will head to get outfitted to hike the Narrows (click for a full description and images), others will head into the park for a guided scenic hike, and others may manage their day independently, taking a shorter stroll in the park or hanging at the beautiful grounds of “camp.”
In the afternoon after quiet time we’ll gather for sharing and debriefing about the day, have dinner, do a short crystal bowl session and hit the campfire. Dancing will also be an option each evening, as will be the chance to do some art.
This is our adventure to design as we go. For the entire time we are there, we own the whole space…let’s make it ours!
Monday is HORSE DAY!
After our morning routine we’ll board the vans for a trip to Ivins, Utah, to visit Windhorse Relations. They run a wonderful, loving, respectful program designed to connect people and horses at a soul level, and it works beautifully.
Click here for a description of the day
On the way home we may take a scenic drive up to the high point of the park, Lava Point, where we can get a beautiful vantage point of the country. This will be a chance to put what you’ve learned about the geology of the area into a larger perspective
Back at camp it’ll be personal time to be alone or visit, journal, play with some art, nap or wander, until our pre-dinner conversation, dinner, and evening activities: the campfire, dancing.
TUESDAY
We’ll either go for a scenic hike in the Park, or for those intrepid souls who want to get on the ropes, a half-day canyoneering trip is on offer. (click for a full description and images) Or you may be ready to stay home, rest up and enjoy the quieter activities of camp.
All up to you.
The late afternoon/evening will follow the patterns of the days before.
WEDNESDAY
We have breakfast, gather one more time and prepare for fond farewells and check out.
If you want to explore the area a little more before you leave, and are interested in help planning a continuation of your adventures, I’ll be delighted to talk with you about other things to do and see while you’re in the southwest.
WHAT IS THE VENUE?
We will be staying at the beautiful NamaStay Retreat Center, located in the heart of Springdale, Utah the gateway to Zion National Park. Please click here for a tour of the property, with photos, videos and descriptions of the venue and the choices of rooms available.
WHO WILL WE MEET HERE?
This will be a small group of women who are interested in being safe together as we try new things and explore what our bodies, minds and spirits desire and are capable of. My ultimate intention is to expand my own and your ability and willingness to have fun together and make the most of this remarkable time in which we are alive.
We will be exploring and learning how to risk trying new things even when it’s scary.
And what is scarier than trusting that you’re OK, perfectly OK, right here, right now, in this body of yours just as it is?
Let’s have fun and practice.
Practice being adventurers together, helping each other, learning about and respecting our own and one another’s desires and boundaries, releasing judgment, doubt, assumptions and old stories, and having a great, great time in the process.
WHO IS OUR GUIDE?
SCOUT WILKINS
I’ve been a guide since I was eleven years old, when I began working at the Alexander Lindsay Junior Museum – a place designed to connect kids and nature. It worked!
My role in the world has pretty much always been to explore and understand the places or things that excite me, and then to share what I love with others, helping them to experience, understand and love them as well.
In the last twenty years my explorations have expanded to include the fascinating study of realms of consciousness, which I access through on-the-ground work helping people feel authentically safe enough to trust themselves at entirely new levels.
I work to gently expand the willingness to take a risk and try something new together – for them, and myself.
Since I was a youngster, people have told me that somehow things just seem more possible in my presence.
I am so grateful this is true. I really love my life, and what I do. I love people, and helping them go somewhere or do something they always wanted to try but were not quite sure they could or would.
WHAT IS INCLUDED & HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?
INCLUDED
- FOOD
- LODGING
- FULL ACCESS TO THE ENTIRE RETREAT FACILITY
(our group will be the only people there) - SCENIC HIKES
- HORSE ADVENTURE
- ALL TRANSPORTATION DURING THE RETREAT
- SPECIAL USE PERMITS
- GUIDE FEES & OTHER REQUIRED COSTS
**Tips for other guides you may work with are not included, and are deeply appreciated.
NOT INCLUDED
- EXTENDED ADVENTURES ($40 upcharge per person per adventure for technical gear) The two adventure options are hiking the Zion Narrows or Canyoneering. You can choose to do neither, either one or both.
- TRAVEL TO SPRINGDALE.
(We will be working to help coordinate shuttle travel from Las Vegas for those flying. Whatever we can arrange will be offered at cost) - PARK ENTRANCE FEES
National Parks carry an entrance fee of $35 for seven days, which will be your responsibility. Many of you will have park passes – be sure to bring yours! If you want a pass, you can purchase one when you arrive here. If you are over 62, you can purchase a lifetime pass for $80.
To INQUIRE OR SIGN UP
EMAIL [email protected]
Because we’re going to be a small group and there are several variables in the pricing (rooms and adventures) we’re going to be doing the bookings over the phone.
Please be in touch and let me know you’re interested and/or have questions. I’ll email back, answer what I can and give you my number so we can talk. If you include your phone number in your email, I’ll call you back.
Cheers!!! I hope I get to see you here!
Terms and Conditions
$1,000 to book, remainder due by July 21, 2021
Cancellations: Full refund on or before July 21, 2021
50% refund from July 26 – Sept 1, 2021
No refund after Sept. 1, 2021 except extenuating circumstances, including COVID travel restrictions
COVID Policies We will be following the recommended best practices of the time.
FAQS
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EMAIL [email protected]
Because we’re going to be a small group and there are a lot of variables (rooms, adventures, etc) we’re going to be doing the bookings over the phone.
Please be in touch and let me know you’re interested and/or have questions. I’ll email back, answer what I can and give you my number so we can talk. If you include your phone number in your email, I’ll call you back.
