Patterson Lake Cabins
Connect with your deepest self, attune to your inner needs, and learn practical skills for creating a life in alignment with joy and health.
Neuroscience research suggests that feeling happy and joyful will create and strengthen neural pathways that support a positive outlook on life. Most of us are braced, psychically and physically, against the constant signals of distress that continually barrage us. Retreating from the rigors of daily life can allow us to reset, rejuvenate, and learn new skills that will serve us in creating more peaceful, grateful, and joyful lives.
This three-day women’s retreat will allow you to commune with your deepest self and enjoy the community of like-minded ‘sisters’. Together we will attune to our inner needs through the exciting and powerful modalities of journaling, creativity, movement, and more. We will learn practical skills for creating a life that aligns us with joy and health as we embrace survivorship as a life practice.
Highlights
Creative Expression through Mindful Journaling. Learn new ways to explore your creative side through the art of mindful journaling. You will be given time throughout the retreat to explore your story by answering questions prompting memories and desires.
Cognitive Reframing. Learn how to identify and change underly-ing automatic negative thought patterns that influence your emotions and behavior.
Abundance & Gratitude Bowls – Eat to Thrive. An appetizing overview of food as medicine and intentional mindset for optimal nutrition.
Shake Your Soul® is a fun-filled movement practice that relaxes your nervous system, energizes your body, and awakens your soul through a powerful, fluid dance repertoire set to world music. This practice engages with intention setting to gently move us into opening our creative spirit.
Creative Expression through Jewelry Design. This creative workshop will offer attendees time to design and create a piece of jewelry that best describes their survivorship journey.
Sleep, Stress, and Fatigue looks at the relationships between them and provides strategies for practicing good sleep hygiene and stress management.
Resilience, Relaxation, & Mindfulness applies tools to counter adversity, loss, and negativity, cultivate gratitude, perspective, reframing, and mindfulness habits. Experiential participation samples numerous clinically proven techniques for relaxation and stress reduction.
Adaptive Pilates & Stretching. This is a one-on-one experience with low-impact mind-body exercise that aims to strengthen muscles while improving postural alignment and flexibility.
Community Fire Ceremony is a symbolic event to support release and healing.
Motivational Techniques for Sustainable Change. Learn how to strengthen personal motivation with attainable goal setting. Explore meaning, importance, and capacity for change.
Creating a Personal Wellness Plan provides an intentional, summarizing checklist plan, individualized by each participant, to prioritize the key skills and concepts learned during the workshop, to immediately integrate into everyday life for optimal wellness.
Proprioception, Balance, Agility, strength tied in with body awareness and a mindful approach to improve overall performance in an adaptive Pilates/stretch class.
Itinerary
Friday, April 29
8:45am: Welcome and Introductions with EASE Faculty
9:15am: Creative Expression Through Mindful Journaling I
with Jayne Van Brunt, BSN and Teri Hugo Hirss M.Ed
10:30am: Intro to Proprioception & Connection
with Michele Stutzman, Certified ACE Coach
10:45am: Break
11:00am: Creative Expression through Mindful Journaling II
with Jayne Van Brunt, BSN and Teri Hugo Hirss M.Ed
Noon: Lunch on own
1:30pm: Cognitive Reframing Techniques
with Katie Kemble, DNP
2:45pm: Break
3:00pm: Abundance and Gratitude Bowls: Eat to Thrive
with Chandra Villano, ND
4:15pm: Personal time. Enjoy Patterson Lake, Sun Mountain trails, or rejuvenate.
6:00pm: Community Dinner at Lodge
Saturday, April 30
8:45am: Announcements with EASE Faculty
9:00am: Shake Your Soul®
with Teri Hugo Hirss, M.Ed
10:00am: Break
10:15am: Creative Expression Through Jewelry Design
with Jayne Van Brunt, BSN
11:45am: Lunch on own
1:00pm: Sleep, Stress, and Fatigue
with Katie Kemble, DNP
2:15pm: Break
2:30pm: Resilience, Relaxation, and Mindfulness
with Chandra Villano, ND
3:45pm: One-on-One Intro to Adaptive Movement with Michele Stutzman, Certified ACE Coach AND/OR personal time to enjoy Patterson Lake, Sun Mountain Trails, or rejuvenate
5:30pm: Dinner on own
7:00pm: Community Fire Ceremony
with Jayne Van Brunt, BSN and Teri Hugo Hirss M.Ed
Sunday, May 1
8:30am: Motivational Techniques for Sustainable Change
with Katie Kemble, DNP
9:30am: Creating a Personal Wellness Plan
with Chandra Villano, ND
10:00am: Break
10:15am: Pilates and Stretching
with Michele Stutzman, Certified ACE Coach
11:00am: Shake Your Soul®
with Teri Hugo Hirss, M.Ed
Noon: Community Lunch at Lodge and Parting Reflections
1:00pm: Adjournment
Registration and Lodging
1-Bedroom Cabin
Your registration fee includes Friday night dinner and Sunday lunch, plus syllabus and all supplies for retreat. Please note that lodging is not included in event registration fee; details below.
Cabin Reservations
Loft Cabin
This retreat will be held at the Patterson lake cabins at Sun Mountain Lodge in the beautiful Methow Valley, starting at Friday morning and ending Sunday afternoon. Call 800-572-0493 and mention that you are with the EASE Cancer Foundation to receive exclusive discounted rates:
1-Bedroom Cabin: Full kitchen, full bath, gas fireplace or gas stove, separate bedroom with queen bed, and living area with queen wall bed. View floorplan. $186/night + tax
Loft Cabin: Two bedrooms, 1 3/4 baths, full kitchen, dining and living area and gas burning stove, plus a lovely veranda. These suites sleep up to five people. There is a bedroom with a queen bed & bath upstairs, another bedroom with another bath downstairs, and a twin day bed in the living area. View floorplan. $246/night + tax
Health and Safety
COVID-19 Precautions
Our health and safety precautions include wearing masks, social distancing, and requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination. Please note that if increasing COVID-19 infection rates pose a greater risk to participant safety than these precautions can mitigate, the retreat may be postponed. We will communicate with you promptly if this is the case.
Faculty
Teri Hugo Hirss, M.Ed
Teri is a registered movement therapist and educator. She is a life coach and stress management consultant. She leads retreats internationally, as well as, from her home base in the green Mountains of Vermont. Teri has spent the last 30 years empowering women to live their lives fully and joyfully.
Katie Kemble, DNP, ARNP, FNP-C, AOCNP, FAANP
Dr. Kemble is an oncology nurse practitioner at Confluence Health and Associate Teaching Professor at the University of Washington. She conducts and facilitates translational research and has spent 30 years creating innovative programs supporting cancer survivors and the communities in which they live.
Michele Stutzman, Certified ACE Coach
Michele has been in the Fitness Industry for over 35 years. She is Life Coaching Certified (Robbins/Madanes), Pilates Certified, ACE Personal Training, and ACE Group Exercise. Michele believes there is no better gift than adding positivity to someone else’s life. Her passion is to inspire & support people to reconnect to their bodies.
Jayne Van Brunt, BSN
Jayne is an artisan, oncology nurse, and healthcare coach. Leaning on her 35+ years experience in nursing, she began to advocate for change. She is the author of The Nightingale Gene, a book written to address burnout in nurses and caregivers, and co-author of the memoir Shut Your Mouth. Her coaching programs encourage women to find balance in their lives through storytelling, art, and cooking.
Chandra Villano, ND
Dr. Villano is a Naturopathic doctor with a background in exercise physiology in cardiopulmonary rehab. She is a cofounder of the EASE Cancer Foundation and a Wellness Place board of director. She has clinical specialty in whole foods and mindful living, and is passionate about neuroscience, epigenetics, and the endocannabinoid system.