OCTOBER 8-11, 2026
Northeast Oregon
Return Rooted: a retreat for creatives and change makers
THE CALL
October is a transformative time of year when we welcome the growing dark. This early spring retreat is a portal, a chance to press pause in a churning world. Invite the tender parts of your body to rest, renew, and root down. Receive the gift of silence and solitude. You don't have to know it all or do it all. Welcome the drip-drop of knowing as it pools up inside of you. There is no urgency. Only the potent and powerful moment before you.
THE RETREAT
Return Rooted will leave you feeling more grounded and centered with tools to support your holistic wellbeing as we explore themes of creativity, radical imagination, healing, community care, and joy as a birthright. Return Rooted is:
A delicious antidote to grind culture
A heart-filled reclaiming of your time and energy
A joyful act of resistance in the face of an unknown future
A chance to gather together to create, connect, and return home rooted
THE PEOPLE
Return Rooted is for change-makers, creatives, doers, healers, teachers, grievers, care-givers, leaders, women and gender expansive people who are holding it all together. It is for those who have been pouring their life energy into their relationships, their work, and their communities. It is for those who are craving abundant time, creative re-ignition, and radical rest.
We are gathering at a retreat center located one hour northeast of Portland, Oregon. The 20-acre retreat space is co-stewarded by artists and surrounded by pine trees along the Columbia River basin.
Lodging is a mix of retreat house bedrooms and cabins. Bedrooms are spacious, well-appointed, shared spaces. We have two solo cabin options as well. Every participant will have a double or queen bed. Bathrooms are shared. Participants also have access to a beautiful bath house with outdoor soaking tubs and a sauna. The spaces are cozy, welcoming and filled with art.
THE LOCATION
THE LODGING
The creative play sessions are guided, joy-filled, exploratory workshops using accessible art modalities. No experience required. And if you are an experienced creative, these sessions will deepen and expand your practice. We will write, scribble, paint, build, collect, collage, stitch and move our way through four transformative days together. We will have all necessary art materials on hand. All you need to do is be present.
THE CREATIVE
PLAY SESSIONS
Delicious, vibrant, comforting, whole foods are center stage during our time together. You will be deeply nourished and all dietary needs and preferences will be met. All meals are communal and served with love and intention.
THE FOOD
“Now more than ever, the world needs creative minds, rooted in curiosity, with clear, expressive voices, connected to purpose, who trust, deeply, what they know, feel and see. This is how we shift culture.”
— Sarah Greenman, The Creative Alchemy Cycle
Your Guides
Myriam Loeschen
Myriam Loeschen (she/her) is a facilitator, artist, community-builder and fierce advocate for human connection. Her work brings together creative practice, careful listening, and everyday forms of nourishment—joy, music, nature, poetry, and grace—as ways of supporting people in reconnecting with themselves. Myriam offers radical, accountable partnership and is dedicated to holding courageous and resilient space where people can show up with their imperfect, human selves and be seen. Myriam is interested in what helps people come back into themselves: shared meals, honest listening, rhythm, time outdoors, language that tells the truth, and spaces where nothing has to be proven. She pays attention to how creativity moves through daily life—not as performance, but as sustenance.
Sarah Greenman
Sarah Greenman (she/they) is an artist, author, facilitator, birth-worker, and executive director at large. Her work is steeped in the Celtic imagination and informed by socially engaged movements for change. Sarah is rooted in a core framework of joy, justice, inclusion, right-relationship, and anti-racist practice. Sarah is an intuitive contractor, tapping on the walls of our lived experience to find weight-bearing beams of truth on which we may build our own work. She is a process junkie, a practical optimist, an eco-spiritualist, and a creative midwife. Sarah believes that your creativity is a gift, meant to be wielded with great love and joy. It is a bone-deep tool for healing, justice, and collective liberation. She is also the author of The Creative Alchemy Cycle: Activate Your Creativity to Wake Up and Get Free.
Thursday, October 8
Check-In2:00 pm
Welcome & Ground3:00 pm
Dinner6:00 pm
Bonfire & Story Circle7:30 pm
Friday, October 9
Rise & Stretch7:30 am
Breakfast8:00 am
Creative Play Session #19:30 am
Lunch12:00 pm
Open Time / Rest1:00 pm
Creative Play Session # 22:30 pm
Golden Hour Walk / Rest
5:00 pm
6:00 pm
Dinner7:30 pm
Bonfire / Music
Friday, October 10
Rise & Stretch7:30 am
Breakfast8:00 am
Creative Play Session #39:30 am
Lunch12:00 pm
Open Time / Rest1:00 pm
Creative Play Session #42:30 pm
Golden Hour Walk / Rest
5:00 pm
6:00 pm
Dinner7:30 pm
Closing Night Ceremony
Sunday, October 11
Rise & Stretch7:30 am
Breakfast
8:00 am
Final Creative Session
9:00 am
Close10:30 am
Depart11:00 am
Join us.
A beautiful and spacious shared bedroom or cabin with natural light, cozy furnishings, and a very comforatble double or queen bed. Shared bathrooms.
We have twelve shared spaces available.
A beautiful and spacious solo cabin with natural light, cozy furnishings, and a very comforatble double or queen bed. Shared bathrooms.
We have two solo spaces available.
SHARED
$2,800
SINGLE
$3,400
A beautiful and spacious shared bedroom with natural light, cozy furnishings, and a very comforatble double or queen bed. Shared bathrooms.
We have two spaces at this price point reserved for those whose voices have been historically underrepresented. This means people of the global majority, queer people, people with disabilities (visible and non-visible), and people who cannot typically access these kinds of events due to prohibitive cost. (If you have the resources to select the standard price above, please do not select this option.)
EQUITY
$1,990
