Let’s Build Your Dream Retreat, Together.
Hosting a retreat is an act of courage and creativity and it helps to have a guide. With over 20 years of experience guiding groups, leading workshops, teaching classes, and welcoming hundreds of guests to our off-grid sanctuary in the Maine woods, we have learned what makes a gathering truly nourishing. Whether you’re dreaming of a yoga immersion, a creative workshop, a wellness weekend, or a community getaway, we can help you design a retreat that flows beautifully from start to finish.
Together, we’ll cover the essentials:
Choosing the right location, lodging, and timing
Structuring your schedule for balance and spaciousness
Pricing your retreat and managing logistics
Creating memorable touches from meals to rituals
Marketing and registration tips that align with your values
Let’s bring your retreat dream to life: grounded, intentional, and unforgettable.
Reach out to begin your consultation today.
Why work with Emily?
Designing, structuring, and hosting soul-centered retreats isn’t something she learned in a weekend workshop. It’s something she has been building for over a decade across adventure education, community leadership, sustainable development, policy, teaching, logistics, and running this off-grid retreat center. Her path is the combination of academic rigor, global fieldwork, community organizing, and hands-on operational leadership that makes her one of the most uniquely qualified retreat mentors in the wellness and nature-based space today.
Most retreat consultants come from wellness or hospitality. Emily comes from global sustainable development academic background working with small businesses to thrive. She brings a deep understanding of human communities, cultural responsiveness, and environmental ethics. She also provides research-level experience in tourism, culture-keeping, economics, and community resilience.
As Assistant Director at Apogee / Parallel Adventures, she wasn’t just managing events but helping operate large-scale, multi-location programs for hundred of participants. She has been leading cultural and nature-based trips since 2015.
And lastly, she has hosted hundred of retreat participants here at Nurture Through Nature. She has used this land as her living labotory and knows exactly what it takes to see a retreat succeed. She’s a facilitator, communicator, connector, and leader.
Emily is uniquely qualified because she’s built her entire life around community, nature, sustainability, healing, culture, and experiential education.
No one else has her exact blend of:
🌀 Global fieldwork
🌀 Academic expertise
🌀 Operational leadership
🌀 Retreat hosting experience
🌀 Sustainability knowledge
🌀 Group facilitation
🌀 Community building
🌀 Risk management
🌀 Cross-cultural awareness
🌀 Entrepreneurship
🌀 Off-grid logistics wisdom
🌀 Lived healing journey
She can’t wait to meet you!
What others have to say about working with Emily
Melissa M-
“She’s not just a retreat consultant. She’s a retreat architect, a retreat doula, a retreat strategist, and a retreat host who has lived every layer of this work.”
Samantha P-
“Emily sees things in your retreat vision that you didn’t even know were there. Her understanding of space, flow, and nature-based programming is profound. She helped me create a retreat that felt held, sacred, and beautifully rooted in the land. Every facilitator needs an Emily in their corner.”
