Weekend Retreats
Fall Retreat 2024: Meditation, Yoga, & Sound Healing
Join Jessica Bowles & Frannie Williams for a nourishing retreat to release, revitalize and replenish!
This 4-day women’s retreat will be held in the lush NC mountains, just outside of Asheville, during the beautiful fall season. Each day will consist of meditation, gentle yoga (open to all levels), opportunities to connect with nature, delicious farm fresh vegetarian meals, and so much more!. The retreat will also include two amazing special guest teachers Marisa Cohen & Jules Wyatt. And options for to schedule massage therapy, reiki healing, astrology chart readings, and intuitive guided sessions.
Dates: Sept 26th - 29th 2024
Location: Prama Institute & Wellness Center - Marshall NC
Program fee: $599
Accommodations (Meals included):
Shared Dorm Room - $130 per night
Shared Private Room (Double Occupancy) - $175 per night
~ Payment options available ~
Purchase Retreat Full payment (Program fee & Accommodations) - OR -
Purchase your Accommodations to reserve room; then the program fee due by August 1st
Weekend Schedule:
Thursday Sept 26th
3:00 – 4:00 Arrival/Registration
4:00 – 5:15 Gentle Yoga Class (optional) Marisa
5:30 - 6:30 Dinner
7:00 - 9:00 Program Session 1: Release & Restore Jessica
10:00 PM Lights Out
Friday Sept 27
8:30–9:15 AM Morning Meditation (optional)
9:15 – 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 –11:30 Program Session 2: Finding Freedom Within Frannie
12:00- 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 3:00 Free Time
3:00 - 4:30 Program Session 3: Create, Manifest, & Attract Marisa
5:30 - 6:30 Dinner
7:00 - 8:00 Evening event: Sound Healing Jules
8:00 - 9:00 Evening tea time
10:00 PM Lights Out
Saturday Sept 28
8:30–9:15 AM Morning Meditation (optional)
9:15 – 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 –11:30 Program Session 4: Ayurveda for Easeful Living Jessica
12:00- 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 3:00 Free Time
3:00 - 4:30 Program Session 5: Astrology for Clarity & Balance Marisa
5:30 - 6:30 Dinner
7:00 - 8:00 Evening event: Immerse into Joy Frannie
8:00 - 9:00 Bonfire/Burning Bowl Ceremony
10:00 PM Lights Out
Sunday Sept 29
8:30–9:15 AM Morning Meditation (optional)
9:15 – 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 –11:45 Program Session 6: Celebrate Your Journey Jessica & Frannie
12:00- 1:00 Lunch
1:00–2:00 PM Departure
Session Details:
Program 1: Release & Restore
During our first evening session, you will discover the importance of retreat and how to nurture your whole being. You will be led through gentle yoga postures, breathwork, supportive Restorative yoga postures, a Yoga Nidra meditation , and guided journaling. This practice will allow you to release tension and unconscious holding, open the body’s energy pathways, preparing you to glide into the weekend with more ease.
Led by: Jessica
Program 2: Finding Freedom Within
During our first morning session, we will be guided through the healing practice of Somatics Yoga, gentle movements to promote physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual releases of unconscious holding/energetic blocks. Our body stores memory of all the trauma, emotions, and limiting beliefs you have yet to release. Through somatic healing we tap into your 5 senses to process these memories and release the emotions attached to them. You will also discover the positive, joyous emotional memory your body is storing. This session will include self massage, vibrational release, and gentle movement, ending with a practice of grounding and recharging through a walking meditation in nature.
Led by: Frannie
Program 3: Create, Manifest, & Attract
For this afternoon session we will be exploring the power of crystals and when designing them into a grid how this focuses their energy and your intention in a particular way for a particular purpose. During this class you will experience how to meditate with crystals, set an intention, and then be guided through the process of making the grid, followed by a closing meditation. *INCLUDES a cloth grid & a crystal pack to use in class and take home with you!
Led by: Marisa
Friday evening event: Sound Healing
Experience an evening of sound healing as Jules plays Quartz Crystal Singing Bowls tuned to the individual chakras while leading the group in meditation, visualizing, and feeling each chakra while the vibration of the bowls intensifies and opens in a safe space and comforting environment.
Led by: Jules
Program 4: Ayurveda for Easeful Living
During our second morning session, we will dive into the knowledge and practice of Ayurveda and how it enhances our quality of living by giving us the wisdom to bring balance to all the cycles of our life. Learn how this science of life can help us cultivate more ease of being by tapping into our basic nature and individual uniqueness, discover how to create lifestyle shifts to bring balance, and learn how to enhance our mental and emotional wellbeing by aligning with nature's daily & seasonal cycles. This class will also include guided journaling, and a calming Fall yoga practice.
Led by: Jessica
Program 5: Astrology for Clarity & Balance
During this afternoon session, learn how the movements and positions of planets influence us and help us to understand ourselves and our life’s journey with more clarity. Discover the patterns of energy the planets create, the insight and knowledge within your birth chart, your zodiac signs, and how unique you truly are! Class will also include a gentle yoga, pranayama, and meditation practice joining the wisdom of the current planet energy with our own to help bring alignment and balance.
Led by: Marisa
Saturday evening event: Immerse into Joy
For this evening event you will experience a room permeated with Reiki healing energy to deeply replenish your whole being and allow you to connect deeper into your heart space as we journey into the full capacity of your joy within. We will reinvigorate the love in your heart as we practice guided journaling, gentle yoga to open the heart chakra, and a mini reiki healing. After class we will gather around a bonfire for a burning ceremony to free ourselves of anything that is not allowing us to live from a deep state of love and joy!
Led by: Frannie
Program 6: Celebrate Your Journey!
During the Sunday morning session we will discuss how to continue to thrive in the peace we cultivated during retreat, and how to continue to incorporate these healing and nurturing practices into our daily life. Them you will be led through an awakening yoga practice to increase prana (life-force) and clarity of mind, followed by a closing celebration ceremony!
Led: Jessica & Frannie
Accommodation Options:
Semi-Private Rooms
Prama features 3 beautiful semi-private rooms with showers and bathrooms. These rooms can be used to sleep a two people (two beds). Includes full linen service.
Dorm Accommodation
The Prama Institute’s eco-friendly dorm rooms feature large-style bunk beds. All participants will have a lower bunk with privacy curtains, pillows, and personal reading lamps. Includes full linen service. Bathrooms are conveniently located down the hall.