Cat · violin + singing bowls
Cat brings her violin, singing bowls, and sound-practitioner experience into our shared sound field.
Yule + Full Cold Moon Sound Bath | December 23, 2026
Wild Indigo Forest Farm + Cat & Owl Alchemy
Yule +Full Cold MoonSound Bath
🕯️ Yule want to stay awhile. Celebrate the Full Cold Moon and the returning light at Knob N’ Wood Retreat Center with an indoor sound bath co-created by Cat of Cat & Owl Alchemy and Elise Dixie Jane, optional Reiki with Kimberly Krueger, and Cat’s Thistle and Thread Society moon-making craft. Your ticket includes Chef Elise Dixie Jane’s holiday-inspired food and an edible Yule log roll, the spiral labyrinth and mandala, outdoor bonfire hangouts, and a take-home gift bag with Wild Indigo Boundaries + Protection Spray and Cat’s tea. Reclined Comfort adds one of Cat’s handmade candles. Holiday decor, ritual candles, lunar phase candles, and a burning Yule log set the scene, with an optional polar bear plunge in Princess Leia’s pond to close, conditions permitting. Come solo or bring your people for a whole latke love and an evening of sound, art, food, and commUnity.
The evening’s spell
From workday to witching hour
5:30 PM · Yule be glad you came
Use the full arrival hour to park, come inside, use the restroom, and settle into your mat or reclining chair before sound begins. Let the workday melt away.
6:30–7:30 PM · Resting witch face encouraged
Our indoor sound bath with Cat & Owl Alchemy and Elise Dixie Jane begins promptly at 6:30 PM, with optional Reiki from Kimberly Krueger. Get cozy and let the season’s bustle soften.
7:30–9:30 PM · Have yourself a merry little moon-time
Make your full moon, share holiday-inspired bites, wander the spiral labyrinth and mandala, or gather around the outdoor bonfire pits. We’ll close the evening with an optional polar bear plunge in Princess Leia’s pond. Festivities finish at 9:30 PM.
6:30–7:30 PM · Listen · feel · move as you need
The Full Cold Moon Sound Bath
Our one-hour sound bath takes place indoors at Knob N’ Wood Retreat Center. Cat of Cat & Owl Alchemy and Elise Dixie Jane create the sound experience together, with optional Reiki from Kimberly Krueger.
Elise · crystal bowls + layered sound
Elise centers crystal singing bowls, weaving in gong, drum washing, crystal harp, rattles, and looping textures that build, repeat, and dissolve through the room.
Kimberly · optional Reiki
Kimberly offers Reiki to guests who choose to receive it. Reiki and touch are always consent-based. You may decline or change your mind without explanation.
There is no expectation that you perform relaxation. Slowing down may feel peaceful, emotional, restless, tender, spacious, or unfamiliar. You may sigh, cough, cry, sit up, change positions, drink water, step away, or simply notice what your body needs.
Quiet participation is welcome. You do not have to feel, heal, share, or respond in any particular way.
Cat’s Thistle and Thread Society · Moon-made magic
Craft now Moon over it later
For Cat, this gathering is equal parts sound bath and her Thistle and Thread Society: a holiday evening for making, gathering, and sharing a little lunar magic in commUnity.
🌕 Make your own full moon on a round canvas. Use glue to shape textured lunar craters, then add mica powder, glitter, herbs, and dried florals from Wild Indigo. Go earthy, botanical, luminous, or gloriously glitter-witched.
No art experience needed. Follow your intuition and bring home a moon of your own. A little lunar-tic creativity is encouraged.
Chef Elise Dixie Jane · Season’s eatings
Kitchen witchery with all the trimmings
Wild Indigo’s Chef Elise Dixie Jane is serving up the holiday-inspired food. The table is part of the gathering: a place to linger after sound, taste the season, and meet the person beside you.
A Yule log you can eat
Our edible Yule log roll is a confirmed part of the holiday spread, ready to share with the gathering. One log warms the masonry heater; this one belongs on your plate. Let the good times roll.
A holiday-inspired spread
Alongside the Yule log roll, Elise will prepare other holiday-inspired foods in the spirit of the many traditions our commUnity carries. The remaining dishes are still being developed, and the final menu will be added here as it is confirmed.
The holiday table opens as part of the festivities after sound, from 7:30 PM.
Dietary care before you arrive
Please email us about allergies, vegan or vegetarian needs, gluten-free needs, or other dietary requirements so we can confirm what the menu and kitchen can support. Specific preparation and cross-contact needs must be discussed in advance; a holiday theme does not imply kosher, halal, or allergen-free preparation.
The outdoor afterglow · weather permitting
Follow the spiral · Find the fire
Labyrinth + bonfire hangouts
Walk our spiral labyrinth with its mandala at your own pace, pause under the winter sky, or gather around an outdoor bonfire pit for conversation and commUnity. No particular belief or intention is required.
May the frost be with you
🐻❄️ Feeling brrr-ave? We’ll close with an optional polar bear plunge in Princess Leia’s pond. Staying warm and cheering from shore is equally welcome.
The plunge depends on weather, pond conditions, and safe access and may change or be canceled. Follow host guidance and never enter alone.
Come solo · come together
No plus-one required
You do not need a friend, partner, or built-in person to book your place. Come solo. We’ll be glad you did.
Your own merry little evening
The arrival hour, holiday food, moon-making, labyrinth, and fireside hangout offer natural ways to meet people without turning the evening into networking or forced sharing. Chat, create alongside someone, or settle in quietly. There is no correct amount of socializing.
The holidays can hold a lot
Maybe you make the holiday magic for everyone else. Maybe the season feels lonely, complicated, grief-filled, or overstimulating. You do not have to arrive cheerful or pretend everything is sparkling to spend the evening with us.
All faiths, spiritual paths, and those who follow none are welcome. No sound bath experience is needed.
Choose your cozy · Compare ticket packages
All three packages include the complete evening described above and a take-home gift bag. Choose the seating and comfort setup that feels best for you.
The difference is your seating, the comfort items provided, and the candle upgrade.
Gathering · $44.44
Your seat: Cushioned floor mat
Your comfort: Bring your own blanket, pillow, and eye mask
Your take-home gift: Wild Indigo Boundaries + Protection Spray + a tea bag from Cat & Owl Alchemy
Choose this if you enjoy a mat setup and want to bring your own cozy extras.
Choose Gathering →Comfort · $55.55
Your seat: Cushioned floor mat
Your comfort: Blanket, pillow, and eye mask provided
Your take-home gift: Wild Indigo Boundaries + Protection Spray + a tea bag from Cat & Owl Alchemy
Choose this if you want to lie on a mat with your comfort items already waiting for you.
Choose Comfort →Reclined Comfort · $88.88
Your seat: Zero-gravity reclining chair
Your comfort: Blanket, pillow, and eye mask provided
Your take-home gift upgrade: Wild Indigo Boundaries + Protection Spray + a tea bag from Cat & Owl Alchemy + one of Cat’s handmade candles
Choose this if you prefer a reclining chair instead of a floor mat and want the candle gift upgrade.
Choose Reclined Comfort →Don we now our extra apparel
Sleigh your own way
Holiday attire + what to bring
🎄 Wear your favorite holiday attire. Velvet, sequins, antlers, celestial crowns, festive sweaters, woodland witchery, a full holiday spectacle, or the coziest outfit in your closet.
Your version of festive belongs here, whether it jingles, sparkles, swooshes, or comes with slippers. There is no such thing as too much. We love too much here at Wild Indigo.
Keep comfort in your spellbook: choose clothes you can rest in, and bring any personal blanket, pillow, or eye mask your ticket setup does not include. Bring warm winter layers and sturdy shoes for the driveway and outdoor festivities. If you hope to plunge, pack swimwear, a towel, dry clothing, and warm layers to change into.
About Knob N’ Wood Retreat Center
Deck the halls
🕯️ Tucked into Wild Indigo’s forest, Knob N’ Wood is an artisan-built strawbale-and-cob Retreat Center where the building itself is part of the art. Timber beams carry the forest indoors, mica-flecked earth walls catch the light, stained glass spills color, and hand-painted cob brings moons, woodland creatures, and celestial details into the walls.
For this gathering, we’re turning up the holiday magic. Holiday decor will fill the Retreat Center, with Wild Indigo’s ritual holiday-themed candles and lunar phase candles glowing throughout the space. The masonry heater will hold our burning Yule log as we settle in for a sound bath with all the cozy trimmings.
Look closely and you’ll find handmade tile, stained-glass mosaics, reclaimed wood, and sustainable art woven into the rooms. Forest-facing windows, the library sound space, and the connected living and dining areas make this a place to wander with your eyes as well as your feet. Passive-solar design and natural-building craft meet Wild Indigo’s artsy fartsy heart.
A look inside Knob N’ Wood. Holiday decorations and the event layout will be created for this gathering.
A whole latke love · A world of light
Let’s gelt together
Love you a latke
Elise is Jewish and also celebrates Christmas, so this holiday gathering has more than one kind of sparkle. Come for a little Yule cheer, a whole latke love, and the pleasure of gathering around light, food, art, and music. No dreidel experience required.
We honor Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Diwali, Yule, the winter solstice, and the many traditions our guests carry. Each has its own history, calendar, and meaning. Our December 23 gathering celebrates the Full Cold Moon and solstice season while welcoming that wider world of light.
Seven principles worth reflecting on
Elise holds deep respect for Kwanzaa’s Nguzo Saba, the Seven Principles, rooted in African and African American culture. They offer a meaningful invitation to reflect on how we live, create, and care for one another.
- Umoja: Unity
- Kujichagulia: Self-determination
- Ujima: Collective work and responsibility
- Ujamaa: Cooperative economics
- Nia: Purpose
- Kuumba: Creativity
- Imani: Faith
Here at Wild Indigo, these principles invite us to consider our own responsibilities to commUnity, creative work, and the people who make our gatherings possible.
The witches behind the wishes
Meet your holiday alchemists
Cat Moeller-Cunanan · Cat & Owl Alchemy
Catherine “Cat” Moeller-Cunanan is a musician, educator, sound practitioner, and founder of Cat & Owl Alchemy in New Albany, Indiana. A lifelong musician, she began playing guitar at the age of four under the guidance of her father before pursuing classical violin training. Throughout her career, she has performed in a wide range of musical settings, from symphony orchestras and chamber ensembles to electric violin and rock performances.
Cat earned her Bachelor of Science degree from Ball State University, along with two master’s degrees from Indiana University in Secondary Education and Educational Leadership. She also holds a Gifted and Talented certification from Western Kentucky University. After nearly 30 years as a public school orchestra director, she retired from education in 2025 to devote herself full-time to helping others through music and sound.
About a decade ago, Cat discovered the work of Tom Kenyon, whose integration of music, science, and healing inspired her to explore the therapeutic potential of sound. She earned professional sound-practitioner certification through the VSTA and later studied Vibroacoustic Therapy with Kate Kunkle of Costa Rica. To her knowledge, she is the only practitioner in Southern Indiana formally trained in this specialized modality.
Cat founded Cat & Owl Alchemy to create spaces where sound, intention, and commUnity come together to support relaxation, restoration, and personal well-being. She offers private sound and vibroacoustic sessions, commUnity sound baths, retreats, corporate wellness experiences, and educational programs. She currently facilitates monthly sound baths beneath the historic dome of the Parthenon in New Albany.
In addition to her healing work, Cat is expanding Cat & Owl Alchemy with the opening of Southern Indiana’s first plant-based apothecary refillery, providing environmentally conscious refill products that reduce single-use plastic while supporting healthier homes and a healthier planet.
Whether performing music, facilitating sound experiences, or educating others, Cat’s work is rooted in one guiding belief: that music has the extraordinary ability to connect, comfort, and transform lives.
Elise Dixie Jane · Wild Indigo Forest Farm
Elise Dixie Jane is the creator and steward of Wild Indigo Forest Farm. A Clinical Herbalist, sustainable Earth artist, garden designer and educator, and bee-centric keeper, Elise has spent 17 years as a small-business owner learning how to meet people where they are and create experiences that feel deeply cared for. She grows, harvests, dries, processes, and brews 60+ herbs for Wild Indigo’s homegrown apothecary.
Elise is a third-generation herbalist and second-generation Reiki Master, raised around Traditional Chinese Medicine and a deep relationship with plant medicine.
Kimberly Krueger, LMT · Wild Indigo Bodywork Studio
Kimberly Krueger, LMT, is the owner of Wild Indigo Bodywork Studio and has practiced Therapeutic Massage for 36 years. Her work centers on chronic pain, with a special focus on supporting people living with autoimmune challenges. Her offerings include Lymphatic Drainage, Reflexology, Reiki, sound therapy with crystal singing bowls, and Chakra Chromotherapy Lights.
Before you arrive
Comfort + access
Expect sound, burning ritual and lunar phase candles, dried botanicals, craft materials, and the wood-burning masonry heater indoors, plus bonfire smoke outdoors. The sound bath is indoors; outdoor activities depend on weather and safe access.
For dietary, sensory, mobility, seating, or other accessibility needs, email Wild Indigo before booking so we can discuss arrangements and limits. No diagnosis is required.
Every attendee must complete the participant form before the gathering.
Bring the light · follow the glow
Your grand after-dark arrival
A driveway dressed in light
🕯️ You’ll be arriving after dark, so we’ll have the entire driveway lit with lights to help guide your way into the festivities. If you’re parking in an upper lot, follow the glow down the driveway to Knob N’ Wood Retreat Center.
Please be parked and settled before sound begins.
Andrew, your guiding light
Our bottom lot holds approximately 7–9 vehicles. Once it fills, Elise’s husband Andrew will be at the upper lots directing guests where to park and where to go.
He’ll also offer flashlights and headlamps for anyone who wants to join the fun of bringing the light and welcoming its return. A little solstice symbolism, a little practical magic: helping you feel safe and comfortable as you walk down the driveway to join the festivities.
Wear sturdy shoes and bring warm layers for the walk. If you need the closest parking or help planning your arrival, please email us about dietary, sensory, mobility, or other access needs before the gathering.
December 23, 2026 · 5:30–9:30 PM
Yule be in good company
Let the moon be full and your shoulders be light. Come rest, craft, nibble, wander, and warm yourself in good commUnity.