Healing with Nature: A Winter Solstice Retreat

Healing with Nature: A Winter Solstice Retreat is a wellness retreat led by Rochelle Calvert at Drala Mountain Center in Red Feather Lakes, Colorado. It is held around the winter solstice, the turn of the year when the nights are longest, and its focus is the natural world as a source of rest and healing. It suits anyone who wants to spend the darkest stretch of the year outdoors and away from the usual pace, in a mountain setting.

The Setting

Drala Mountain Center is a retreat center in Red Feather Lakes, in northern Colorado. It hosts meditation, mindfulness, yoga and wellness programs throughout the year, and this solstice retreat is one of its in-person winter offerings.

Leading the Retreat

Rochelle Calvert guides this retreat. She has also led a free online program at Drala Mountain Center on the same theme, listening to the medicine of winter, which suggests the season is central to her work with nature and healing. The in-person retreat gives that theme more room, with time on the land at the solstice itself.