Welcome to our ❤️🔥 Retreat Series!
Please arrive as early as 60 minutes before class to park, drink homegrown herbal tea 🍵 from our herb farm + Sunergos coffee + seasonal juice, set up your sacred yoga space, and frolic around the forest farm.
Prior to class, we will set our intentions and pull a card from Indiana native Sarah Baldwins Herbal Healing Deck - to see what our Herbal Medicine shall be!
If you feel called, please 🙏🏽 bring an object to place on the altar. This can be as simple as an acorn or photo.
THE RECEIVING
A Forest Retreat for the Ones Who Give So Much
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2026 • WILD INDIGO FOREST FARM
CO-HOSTED BY ELISE DIXIE JANE + MEGAN BYLER
BODYWORK FACILITATORS • KIMBERLY KRUEGER, LMT + KATIE BREWER, MS, LMT (RIPPLE HEALTH + HEALING)
Before the season asks you to give, come receive
You don't have to make the magic this time.
You get to experience it
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RETREAT AT A GLANCE
DATE
November 7, 2026
INVESTMENT
$177 + applicable tax
CIRCLE
16 guests maximum
CAMPING
Optional Nov. 6–8 email wildindigoforest@gmail.com to inquire about pricing
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THE HEART OF THE GATHERING
A Day Built Around Receiving
Some people reach the holidays carrying everyone. Others reach them wondering who will carry them.
The Receiving was created for both.
Maybe you are the person who cooks the meal, remembers the traditions, buys the gifts, checks on everyone, keeps the plans moving, notices who is uncomfortable, and makes the magic happen. By the time the holidays arrive, you are already tired.
Or maybe the season is hard for a different reason. You do not have a built-in person or circle waiting for you. There may be no long list of people to buy for, no full calendar of invitations, and no obvious table where you know you belong. The world can be very social and still feel profoundly lonely.
The Receiving is a full day in the forest where neither person has to perform a role. You do not have to host. You do not have to entertain. You do not have to prove you are okay. You do not have to create the experience for anyone else.
For one day, the care moves toward you.
Before the season asks you to give, come receive.
Food you did not cook. Conversation you do not have to carry. Ritual you do not have to create. Space you do not have to manage. Rest you do not have to earn.
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This Retreat Is For You If...
- You are usually the caretaker, organizer, host, helper, emotional anchor, or person who keeps everything moving.
- You are already bracing for the holiday season and want to enter it more grounded in yourself.
- The holidays can feel lonely, tender, complicated, or strangely empty for you.
- You are tired of relationships that sound warm but rarely become real plans.
- You want more depth than small talk, politeness, or “we should hang out sometime.”
- You want to meet people without networking, performing, or forcing vulnerability.
- You need a day where choosing quiet, rest, nature, bodywork, creativity, or connection are all equally valid.
- You want to remember your own rhythms before the season gets loud.
PLANS, NOT PROMISES
We Are Making Room for Reciprocity
There is a particular kind of loneliness that can happen when people say, “I miss you,” “I want to see you,” or “we should hang out,” but the plan never comes. Warm words matter. Follow-through matters too.
The Receiving is not about collecting more surface-level contacts. It is about creating the conditions for mutuality: being seen, listening well, making room for one another, and noticing who actually shows up.
We cannot promise that one retreat will create lifelong friendship. Depth cannot be manufactured. But we can make the day different from the kind of gathering where everyone arrives alone, stays mostly alone, and goes home with another list of people they will probably never speak to again.
Connection is not measured by intensity.
It is measured by reciprocity, attention, and follow-through: make a plan, keep the plan, and tell the truth when you cannot.
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How connection will be held
- Gentle pairs and trio prompts early in the day, so no one has to figure out how to break into a room by themselves.
- Shared-table conversation that can move from light to meaningful without demanding oversharing.
- A “listening without fixing” practice: one person speaks, one person listens, and no one has to rescue, advise, or solve.
- Collaborative and individual activities that let connection happen beside something, rather than under a spotlight.
- Permission to step away, be quiet, or opt out without explaining yourself.
- An optional closing moment for mutual contact exchange—and, when it feels right, one actual next plan instead of another vague promise.
No forced friendship. No forced vulnerability. No pressure to perform. Just a deliberately smaller circle where reciprocity has room to become visible.
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WHAT YOU GET TO RECEIVE
You Do Not Have to Make the Magic This Time
You get to experience it.
Seasonal Nourishment — Gastronomy as Care. This is not a snack table squeezed between workshops. The food is part of the retreat itself: a generous breakfast, an abundant build-your-own power-bowl lunch, and an afternoon French-croissant + phyllo pause, all designed to make being fed feel like one of the ways you are being cared for.
Restorative Bodywork — Individual Care, Already Included. Every guest has the opportunity to receive one 25-minute bodywork session with Kimberly Krueger or Katie Brewer. If conditions are comfortable, guests may also have the option to receive their session in the outdoor bodywork studio beside Princess Leia’s Pond. The pond-side studio is weather permitting, so no guest’s appointment depends on the forecast. Touch is always consent-based, and you may change or decline anything at any time. Please Note: You will be full clothed for your session.
Chakra Chromotherapy Lights — Color as Part of the Receiving. Indoor bodywork sessions at Knob and Wood are held beneath Chakra Chromotherapy lights, creating a soft color-based sensory environment around the massage table while guests rest and receive. Kimberly’s sessions may also incorporate crystal singing-bowl sound therapy.
Aura Portrait — A Keepsake of Your Energy. One individual aura portrait with Elise Dixie Jane is included for every guest who would like one. Portraits are woven into short windows throughout the retreat so you can receive yours without turning the closing of the day into a line.
The Forest — Room to Exhale. Native woodland, wetlands, pond water, late-autumn quiet, and room to wander are not scenery here; they are part of how the day holds you. There is space to be with people and space to hear yourself again.
Guided Sylvotherapy Forest-Bathing Workshop — Receive From the Living Forest. This dedicated, optional workshop is a guided hike through the wider Wild Indigo forest with sensory invitations, slow observation, relationship with trees and place, and enough spaciousness to experience the woods rather than simply move through them. The workshop closes with an intentional tea ceremony—a simple shared pause to receive warmth, integrate the walk, and return to the circle. It stands on its own as a workshop—not as part of free-choice time.
Choice + Free Time — Follow What Your Body Wants. Separate from the sylvotherapy workshop, choice time is intentionally unstructured. Swim in Princess Leia's Pond when weather permits, join an art workshop, rest, wander, enjoy personal leisure time, receive bodywork, or step into your scheduled aura portrait window.
Yoga, Meditation + Sound Bath — Return to Your Body. Accessible yoga and pranayama/breathwork help the body settle, followed by guided meditation and a dedicated sound bath for whole-group grounding and integration. The day closes with reflection, ritual, kirtan, and—weather permitting—a gathering around the bonfire.
Real Connection — The circle is intentionally small enough for names, reciprocity, and conversations that can move beyond politeness. No forced friendship and no manufactured vulnerability—just thoughtful conditions where mutual connection and real follow-through have room to become visible.
Permission — Nothing to Perform. You may opt out of any prompt, practice, touch, group share, photo, workshop, or activity without explanation. Quiet participation counts. Rest counts. Changing your mind counts.
Wild Indigo Herbal Magic — Something to Carry Home. You will leave with a take-home care package of Wild Indigo herbal magic created around receiving and returning to yourself. The details stay a little mysterious until retreat day.
Your Aura Portrait
Your energy moves. Your portrait should too.
Each guest is invited to receive one aura portrait with Elise Dixie Jane. Aura portraits will be scheduled in short windows during arrival, lunch, and the afternoon choice periods whenever Elise Dixie Jane is not facilitating. Any remaining portraits will be completed before guests depart, so this remains part of the receiving rather than becoming an end-of-day bottleneck.
Belief optional. Curiosity encouraged. The portrait is offered as a meaningful, playful visual reflection of the day. As with all photography at The Receiving, participation is consent-based.
If You Are Coming Alone
Please do. You will not be expected to figure out belonging by yourself.
We are designing the arrival, opening circle, lunch, choice periods, and closing so there are natural, low-pressure ways to meet people. You can be deeply social, quietly present, or somewhere in between. There is no requirement to arrive with a friend, partner, or built-in person.
And if the holidays are a tender time because you do not have someone special to spend them with, or because your circle looks different than you wish it did, you do not have to hide that here. You are welcome without needing to make the season look cheerful.
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THE LAND AS CO-FACILITATOR
A Forest That Knows How to Receive
The forest is not a backdrop to this retreat. It is part of the experience. The forest knows how to receive: rain, light, fallen leaves, quiet, rest, and return. Nothing here is asked to stay in one season forever.
The heart of The Receiving will be held in Knob N' Wood, Wild Indigo's retreat center. Weather permitting, portions of the gathering will move outside to the area beside Princess Leia's Pond. The optional guided Sylvotherapy forest-bathing workshop will travel deeper through the wider Wild Indigo forest, giving guests a more immersive relationship with the land than a stationary retreat space could offer.
November brings a different kind of forest: quieter, barer, more honest. The land is already practicing release. It does not ask the trees to keep producing. It does not ask the pond to be summer. It offers a useful rhythm before a season that can ask people to do far too much.
Knob N' Wood remains the retreat home base throughout the day. Pondside and forest experiences are weather permitting, with a cared-for indoor alternative inside the retreat center. Guests are always welcome to choose rest or personal leisure in place of an outdoor activity.
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SEASONAL NOURISHMENT
Gastronomy Is Part of the Receiving
Food is one of the major ways The Receiving will feel different from a typical retreat. This is not functional retreat fare placed out simply to get everyone to the next workshop. At Wild Indigo, gastronomy is hospitality: seasonal ingredients, fermentation, color, texture, abundance, and a table worth lingering around.
You are coming here to receive, and that includes being fed generously. Across the day, breakfast opens the morning, an abundant build-your-own lunch becomes a gathering in its own right, and an afternoon pastry pause brings everyone back to the table before yoga. Food is not what happens between the experiences. Food is one of the experiences.
BREAKFAST • A warm breakfast spread with quiche, phyllo bites, and a mix of savory + sweet frittatas. This is a real breakfast—not a handful of retreat snacks—so come hungry.
BUILD-YOUR-OWN POWER BOWL LUNCH • The centerpiece of the day is an abundant full spread with fermented foods, pickled foods, cooked greens, seasonal root vegetables, beans, quinoa, rice, and a locally raised protein from Williamson Farm, plus toppings, herbs, sauces, and seasonal extras. Build a bowl that feels completely like your own.
This is intentionally a full spread with plenty of food—not a tiny bowl or token retreat meal. Build something colorful, comforting, plant-forward, protein-rich, fermented, fresh, and completely your own, then go back for more.
AFTERNOON CROISSANT + PHYLLO PAUSE • After the Guided Sylvotherapy Forest-Bathing Workshop and free-choice time, and just before the 4:00 PM yoga session, the table opens again with croissants from France, fruit nibbles, and phyllo bites—a small return to pleasure, conversation, and being fed before the final movement of the day.
DIETARY CARE + ACCOMMODATIONS • The spread is intentionally vegan-friendly, vegetarian-friendly, and gluten-free-friendly with substantial choices—not one token side dish. We are also happy to honor kosher and halal dietary needs, along with dairy-free, egg-free, nut/peanut-free, soy-free, sesame-free, shellfish-free, and other food allergies, intolerances, sensitivities, or dietary practices. Because needs and levels of observance vary, please share the details before the retreat so we can confirm ingredients, sourcing, preparation, and cross-contact needs with you.
COMPLIMENTARY BEVERAGES • Unlimited Berkey-filtered water and unlimited homegrown Wild Indigo herbal tea will be available throughout the retreat, along with complimentary Sunergos coffee, a seasonal juice, and Wild Indigo's welcome tonic of Italian olive oil with a 727 polyphenol count + freshly squeezed lemon juice.
The invitation is simple: come hungry. Let someone else plan the food, make it beautiful, keep the tea flowing, and feed you for the day.
Come sit around a table where no one is waiting for you to take care of them.
Eat slowly. Let someone else refill the tea. Let the conversation be carried by more than one person.
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A Spacious Day, Not a Packed Schedule
The schedule is designed with choice and breathing room. You are never required to do everything. The point is not to complete a retreat. The point is to notice what you need.
9:00-9:55 AM
Seasonal Nourishment • Breakfast + Arrival
Quiche, phyllo bites, savory + sweet frittatas, complimentary beverages, gentle arrival, and the first bodywork appointments. Aura portrait windows begin.
10:00 AM
Opening Circle
Connection, gentle movement, a nervous-system reset, and reflection on what the holidays bring up for us—without forced vulnerability.
11:30 AM
Transition
A little room to move toward lunch without rushing.
12:00-1:30 PM
Seasonal Nourishment • Build-Your-Own Power Bowl Lunch
An abundant full spread with fermented + pickled foods, cooked greens, seasonal root vegetables, beans, quinoa, rice, Williamson Farm protein, toppings, herbs, and sauces. Bodywork begins again at 12:45 PM, with aura portraits woven around lunch.
1:35-3:35 PM
Guided Sylvotherapy Forest-Bathing Workshop
A dedicated optional guided hike through the wider forest with sensory invitations, slow observation, relationship with trees and place, and a closing tea ceremony for warmth, integration, and return. Bodywork and aura portrait appointments are scheduled around workshop attendance.
1:35-3:45 PM
Choice + Free Time
For guests not in the workshop—or whenever their schedule allows—choose swimming in Princess Leia's Pond when weather permits, art workshops, personal leisure time, bodywork, or a scheduled aura portrait window.
3:45-4:00 PM
Seasonal Nourishment • Afternoon Croissant + Phyllo Pause
Croissants from France, flavored whipped butter, preserves, fruit nibbles, and phyllo bites—a beautiful return to the table after the Sylvotherapy Forest-Bathing Workshop / free time and before yoga.
4:00 PM
Yoga + Meditation + Sound Bath
Accessible yoga and breathwork, followed by guided meditation and a dedicated sound bath for whole-group grounding and integration.
5:00-5:10 PM
Reset + Portrait Catch-Up
Bathroom / transition break and final aura portrait catch-up if anyone still needs their portrait before closing.
5:10 PM onward
Closing Ceremony
Weather permitting, we’ll gather around the bonfire for closing circle, kirtan, reflection, integration, and an optional “plans, not promises” connection moment.
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Bodywork and Aura portrait appointments are staggered across arrival, lunch, and the afternoon. The Guided Sylvotherapy Forest-Bathing Workshop stands as its own optional workshop and includes a closing tea ceremony, while separate choice time is reserved for pond swimming, art workshops, personal leisure, bodywork, and Aura portraits. Aura portrait and bodywork appointments will be scheduled around workshop attendance, with a final portrait catch-up before departure if needed.
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BELONGING + CARE
You Are Allowed to Choose
The Receiving is invitational, not demanding. No one has to earn belonging by being vulnerable, cheerful, spiritual, social, or willing to do every activity.
- Touch and bodywork are always consent-based; preferences and boundaries matter.
- You may opt out of any prompt, practice, share, touch, photo, or activity without explanation.
- Quiet participation is welcome.
- Dietary care matters. Dietary needs will be collected before arrival. We are happy to honor kosher and halal dietary needs, vegan and vegetarian diets, gluten-free needs, dairy-free and egg-free needs, nut/peanut, soy, sesame, shellfish and other allergies or sensitivities, and additional dietary restrictions whenever we can safely do so. Guests with strict observance, celiac disease, or severe/anaphylactic allergies should share preparation and cross-contact requirements in advance so we can confirm what our retreat kitchen can safely support.
- Aura portraits, general photography, videography, and contact sharing are consent-based. The aura portrait is included in the retreat, but no one is required to be photographed.
- A quiet / lower-stimulation option is intentionally part of the day.
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WHAT TO BRING
Other Than An Open Heart
The Receiving is invitational, not demanding. No one has to earn belonging by being vulnerable, cheerful, spiritual, social, or willing to do every activity.
- Yoga mat
- Water bottle
- Journal + writing materials
- Any coloring pencils, gel pens, markers, or other artsy fartsy tools for crafting during free time
- Optional Bolsters and props needed for a cozy restorative Sound Bath
- Blanket to place under your mat outside & cozy up with during the Sound Bath and Outdoor circles
- Please wear loose comfortable clothing for a more comfortable bodywork session
- Hiking boots
- Meet Your Guides
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Elise Dixie Jane • Wild Indigo Forest Farm
Elise Dixie Jane is the creator and steward of Wild Indigo Forest Farm, a healing-in-nature Retreat Center rooted in the native woodland and wetlands of Clark State Forest. A Clinical Herbalist, sustainable Earth artist, wildlife conservationist, garden designer and educator, bee-centric keeper, Sylvotherapy Guide, and Aura Photographer. Elise Dixie Jane has spent 17 years as a small-business owner, learning how to meet people where they are and create experiences where people feel deeply cared for.
Long before Wild Indigo had a name, Elise Dixie Jane found herself returning to wild places whenever life became too loud. The trees never asked her to hurry. Nature quietly reminded her that belonging is not something we earn—it is something we remember. The Receiving grows from that same remembering.
Megan Byler • Empowered with Megan
Megan Byler is a New Albany-area women’s empowerment and conscious-living coach behind Empowered with Megan. Her work centers on helping people reconnect with self-trust, move beyond limiting patterns, and say yes to lives that feel more aligned. Megan also leads accessible Hatha yoga and pranayama/breathwork experiences, weaving movement, reflection, encouragement, and genuine connection into the spaces she holds.
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 bodywork offerings include Lymphatic Drainage, Reflexology, and Reiki. Kimberly’s sessions may weave in sound therapy with crystal singing bowls, and Chakra Chromotherapy Lights for balance. Her approach is grounded in experience, restorative touch, presence, and consent, with each session shaped around the person who is actually on the table—not an expectation of who they should be.
Katie Brewer, MS, LMT • Ripple Health + Healing
Katie Brewer is the founder of Ripple Health + Healing in New Albany, where she brings together clinical bodywork and functional health. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Exercise Science and a Master's in Human Nutrition & Functional Medicine, and her bodywork includes therapeutic bodywork and Craniosacral Fascial Therapy. Her work emphasizes nervous-system support, curiosity, self-trust, and meeting the whole person rather than treating the body as a collection of symptoms. At The Receiving, Katie will offer individual 25-minute sessions designed to help guests soften, reconnect, and receive care at their own pace.
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Investment + What Is Included
Retreat investment: $177 per person + applicable tax.
This includes one Aura portrait with Elise Dixie Jane at a special $37 retreat rate (normally $44), already folded into the retreat investment—no separate aura payment is required.
The circle is limited to 16 guests so the day can remain personal enough for names, conversation, choice, and care.
Your retreat includes
FULL RETREAT DAY — Saturday, November 7, 2026, held at Knob and Wood with weather-permitting outdoor time beside Princess Leia's Pond and throughout the wider forest.
SEASONAL NOURISHMENT — Breakfast with quiche, phyllo bites, and savory + sweet frittatas; an abundant build-your-own power-bowl lunch with fermented foods, pickled foods, cooked greens, seasonal root vegetables, tempeh, beans, quinoa, rice, Williamson Farm protein, toppings, herbs, and sauces; plus the afternoon French-croissant, fruit + phyllo pause.
COMPLIMENTARY BEVERAGES — Unlimited Berkey-filtered water + homegrown Wild Indigo herbal tea, complimentary Sunergos coffee, a seasonal juice, and Wild Indigo's Italian olive oil (727 polyphenol count) + freshly squeezed lemon welcome tonic.
RESTORATIVE BODYWORK — One included 25-minute individual session with Kimberly Krueger, LMT, or Katie Brewer, MS, LMT. The indoor Knob and Wood studio is guaranteed; a pondside studio beside Princess Leia’s Pond may be offered when November weather is comfortable.
CHAKRA CHROMOTHERAPY LIGHTS — Indoor bodywork sessions are held beneath Chakra Chromotherapy lights as part of the restorative sensory setting.
AURA PORTRAIT — One aura portrait with Elise Dixie Jane, included in the retreat investment and offered with consent.
GUIDED SYLVOTHERAPY FOREST-BATHING WORKSHOP — A dedicated optional guided hike through the wider forest with sensory invitations, slow observation, relationship with trees and place, and an intentional tea ceremony to close the workshop.
CHOICE + FREE TIME — Separate from the Sylvotherapy workshop: pond swimming when weather permits, art workshops, personal leisure time, bodywork, and scheduled aura portrait windows.
YOGA + BREATHWORK — Accessible movement and pranayama/breathwork to help the body settle and return to itself.
MEDITATION + SOUND BATH — A dedicated whole-group guided meditation and sound bath for grounding, integration, and deep rest.
GENUINE CONNECTION — Shared-table conversation and low-pressure opportunities for reciprocity, mutual follow-through, and plans—not promises.
RETREAT MATERIALS — Art and activity supplies used during the day.
WILD INDIGO HERBAL MAGIC — A take-home care package created around receiving and returning to yourself; the contents stay a surprise.
SMALL CIRCLE + OPENING & CLOSING CIRCLES — A maximum of 16 guests so the day remains personal enough for names, choice, conversation, and care. We begin together with an Opening Circle and end together with a Closing Ceremony for reflection, integration, kirtan, and connection—gathered around the bonfire when weather permits.
Scholarship places
Two full scholarship places are planned for The Receiving. The intention is to keep cost from being the only doorway into the circle while still caring responsibly for the practitioners, food, land, and retreat experience. Scholarship request details will be shared with registration.
Optional forest camping • November 6-8
For guests who want to make The Receiving a slower forest weekend, optional primitive camping will be available from Friday, November 6 through Sunday, November 8. Camping is separate from the retreat investment; final campsite details and pricing will be provided with registration information. Please email wildindigoforest@gmail.com if you wish to camp the woodland!
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A FEW THINGS YOU MAY BE WONDERING
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to come with someone?
No. Coming alone is explicitly welcome. The day is structured so solo guests have gentle ways to meet others without being pushed into networking or forced sharing.
Do I need retreat experience or a spiritual background?
No. Curiosity is enough. You are not required to identify with any spiritual practice or belief to participate.
Do I have to participate in every activity?
No. Choice is part of the design. You may rest, step out, be quiet, or opt out of any activity, touch, prompt, or group share.
What if I do not want bodywork?
Bodywork is included and offered, never required. Touch is consent-based. You may decline or change your mind.
Where will bodywork take place?
The indoor studio at Knob N' Wood and Hummingbird Haven (our Bed & Breakfast) is the guaranteed bodywork setting for the retreat. If the November weather is comfortable, an optional outdoor studio beside Princess Leia’s Pond may also be available for guests who would enjoy receiving bodywork near the water and forest. We will never move a guest outdoors simply to keep the schedule; warmth, comfort, privacy, and consent come first.
What if the weather is bad?
The retreat itself is based in Knob N' Wood. Weather permitting, we will also use the outdoor gathering area beside Princess Leia’s Pond and the wider forest for the guided Sylvotherapy forest-bathing workshop. The bonfire Closing Ceremony is weather permitting as well. If weather or fire conditions change the outdoor plan, a cared-for indoor alternative will be available inside Knob and Wood.
Will there be enough food—and are there vegan / gluten-free options?
Yes. Seasonal nourishment is a major part of The Receiving. Breakfast includes quiche, phyllo bites, and savory + sweet frittatas; lunch is a generous build-your-own power-bowl spread with fermented and pickled foods, cooked greens, root vegetables, tempeh, beans, quinoa, rice, Williamson Farm protein, and plenty of toppings; and the afternoon brings French croissants, fruit nibbles, and phyllo bites. Vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free-friendly choices will be substantial and clearly identified.
Can dietary or accessibility needs be accommodated?
Please tell us what you need. We are happy to honor kosher and halal dietary needs, vegan and vegetarian diets, gluten-free needs, dairy-free and egg-free needs, nut/peanut-free, soy-free, sesame-free, shellfish-free, and other allergies, intolerances, sensitivities, or dietary practices whenever we can safely do so. For strict kosher/halal observance, celiac disease, or severe/Anaphylactic allergies, we will ask about sourcing, preparation, and cross-contact requirements in advance so we can confirm exactly what our retreat kitchen can support. Sensory, mobility, and accessibility needs will also be collected before arrival so we can plan honestly and carefully.
How does the aura portrait work, and do I have to be photographed?
One Aura portrait with Elise Dixie Jane is included in your retreat investment. Portraits will be scheduled in short windows throughout the day so they do not compete with bodywork or the guided Sylvotherapy forest-bathing workshop. Any remaining portraits will be completed before departure. Aura photography, general photography, and videography are consent-based; you may decline.
Is the retreat only for people who love the holidays?
Not at all. The Receiving is also for people who find the holidays lonely, complicated, grief-filled, over-stimulating, or simply not very meaningful. You do not have to pretend the season is joyful to belong here.
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READY TO RECEIVE?
Come Back to Yourself Before the Holidays Begin
Come receive food you did not cook.
Conversation you do not have to carry.
Ritual you do not have to create.
Space you do not have to manage.
Rest you do not have to earn.
Come sit around a table where no one is waiting for you to take care of them. Come walk beneath the trees. Come tune back into your own rhythms. Come meet people who are also craving something deeper than politeness.
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Saturday, November 7, 2026 • Wild Indigo Forest Farm
$177 per person + applicable tax • Includes Aura Portrait • 16 guests maximum
Optional primitive camping November 6–8 • Up to two scholarship places planned
Reserve through wildindigoforest.org when registration opens.
Wild Indigo Forest Farm • @wildindigoforestfarm
Wild Indigo Aura Photography • @wildindigoauraphotography
Megan Byler • @empoweredwithmegn
Katie Brewer • @freetheripple__