a cozy

bohemian

winter writing retreat

woven word women's retreat | House Boheme in Rutherfordton, NC | December 4-7, 2025

woven word women's retreat | House Boheme in Rutherfordton, NC | December 4-7, 2025

A soul-stirring 4-day, 3-night women’s retreat immersing in creative expression and embodied storytelling—a sacred space where poetry, movement, ritual, inner journeying, connection, and nature weave together to awaken the stories within.

Here

storytelling is more than words on a page

it lives in your body, your breath, your presence

allowing it to move through you with power and truth

Here

your story is held in the luminous threads of shared experience

Here

your voice is both your own and part of something greater

interwoven with the stories of others

each thread strengthening the whole

This is an invitation to slow down, to feel, write, create, express—to honor the weaving of your own becoming

Come as you are. Leave feeling rooted, expressed, and alive.

come

Nestled in the foothills of Appalachia, lies an oasis in the valley of mountains - a haven for artists | writers | creators in the form of a globally influenced Bohemian-style abode. House Boheme in Rutherfordton, NC is an image straight out of a dream.

Here, the land itself is a storyteller in early winter. As the land softens into stillness, words, like roots, grow in the unseen. This is a time when inspiration shifts inward, mirroring nature’s own retreat. The stark, skeletal beauty of bare branches against a crisp sky encourages raw, unfiltered creativity. Your art, writing, and movement take on a distilled, essential form in this season. The Woven Word Retreat is designed to honor this sacred pause, weaving together movement, rest, and expression. Through yoga, Yoga Nidra, guided writing, and more, we embrace winter’s hush, allowing what is hidden beneath the surface to emerge—raw, real, and ready to be spoken.

As soon as you enter, the creatrix within will stir.


experiences

  • Yoga Nidra & Reiki with Kate Wargo

    Let it all fall away-the weight you’ve been carrying, the energetic knots tangled in your body, the creative blocks that have kept your voice quiet and your hands still. This is a space to unravel. To soften. To surrender to the deep well of stillness within you.

    Through the dreamlike descent of Yoga Nidra (yogic sleep) you’ll be guided into the in-between, that liminal space where the thinking mind dissolves, and what’s been buried beneath the surface begins to stir. Here, you’ll release the old, clearing space for something new to rise.

    As you drift, Reiki energy will flow through the space like a whisper, gently untangling what’s been stuck and infusing you with creative renewal. It’s a subtle, sacred alchemy—a dissolving and a becoming.

  • Forest Bathing with Christa Hebal

    Step into the hush of the trees, where the wind moves through the branches like a song you’ve almost forgotten. Here, you’re invited to slow down, to listen—not just with your ears, but with your whole being. The land holds stories, the earth hums beneath you, and as you sink into its rhythm, something in you begins to loosen. No rush. No need to reach for anything. Just a quiet remembering. This experience culminates with a wild-foraged tea ceremony from the land with snacks.

  • Yoga with Tara Eschenroeder

    Infused with poetry from her self-published collections Collecting Feathers, Landing hOMe, and Sacred Details. Tara will take you on a journey hOMe. While drinking in the sacred sounds of heartbeat and breath, we will take the ability to listen and feel even deeper within. We will tap into that intuitive sense of knowing; how and when to move and when to be still. Allow yourself to reconnect to that sacred animal within and the poetry that is your practice, ultimately reminding us how to simply be free both on and off of the yoga mat as we continue to author the most epic novel of all; our life

  • Hypnotic Journy with Shanna Pranaitis

    Who are we without all the layers of shoulds, societal ideals, and cultural expectations? Who is the wild woman who lives at the core of our being? She is the source of our wisdom, intuition, and creativity deep within you. Together we will go on an expansive hypnotic trance journey to reconnect with her and discover what she knows that you want to remember. We will bring her wisdom into the real word to access deeper wells of creativity and powerfully express what you long to express in words. Hypnotic trance is an expanded state of consciousness that empowers you to harnesses the power of your own imagination to directly access your unconscious wisdom. There will be time for reflection, sharing, and discussion of how to use this tool in your daily life.

  • with Morgan Woelflein

    Poetry has always been in the realm of women. The first poet we know by name is a woman, Enheduanna, a priestess who wrote poems to the Goddess Inanna. For thousands of years poetry and story were woven into ancient feminine spiritual rituals. Goddess temples were where women could go to read, write, dance, make music, and create art.

    There is poetry found in the body of woman. In the way a woman moves. In the folds of her flesh. In the patterns of her skin. In the raw truth of her body, her womb. Every woman deserves to see the poetry within her. Every woman can access the creative current that holds the truest truth of our existence.

    In Poetry of Woman we will write from the magic born of womb and pussy. Through practices centered on nourishing the female nervous system and honoring the female body, you will be guided to the dark place where all poems live. Here you will unearth the ancient language of woman that lives in your soul.

    You Will:

    • learn of the first poets, the Priestesses who wrote for the Goddess

    • become more in tune with your body, pleasure, and creativity

    • open your body to the wisdom of the Goddess like the ancient feminine oracles

    • dance in ritual with your sisters

    • share stories of your female body in a safe space of only women

    • receive writing prompts based on the wise words of women

    • remember that you hold the creative force of the universe in your body

    Disclaimer: This experience may involve nudity. If you choose to dance naked in the flames--wonderful! If you don't--also wonderful! This ritual is about deepening your connection to your own body and your own womanhood. Hugs and hand holds are welcome if you need loving touch. There will also be no sexual contact between participants or facilitators.

  • with Tiffany Narron

    Let's come together  to slow into our senses, nourish our bodies with gentle sensuous movement and allow forward our very own poetry as prayer. I will be guiding the space with somatic movement to explore slow and sensual movement alongside a curated selection of poems to read, explore and then write to prompts in-between movement and breath. No writing experience is necessary, just an open heart, body, mind. Come as you are, share as you’re comfortable. Nourish your body and harvest your winter dreaming seeds.

  • A special live performance by local popular singer/songwriter, Lillie Syracuse.

  • Saturday evening will be more than just a meal—it’s an embodied experience, a celebration of the stories we carry and the selves we are becoming. As we gather for dinner, you are invited to arrive dressed in an outfit that reflects an archetype you’re embracing in this season of your life (optional, but encouraged).

    Perhaps you feel called to embody The Wild Woman, The Poet, The Mystic, The Lover, The Healer, The Queen, The Warrior, The Seer—or another figure who whispers to your soul. Your outfit can be as subtle or as bold as you desire—a flowing dress, earthy textures, regal layers, symbolic jewelry, or a single piece that holds meaning for you.

    This is an evening of witnessing, reflection, and creative play, where we weave together our presence, our voices, and our archetypal energies into a shared story. Come as the version of yourself that is ready to be seen. Let this be a night of transformation, expression, and deep connection—a space where we honor the many layers of who we are and who we are becoming.

your weavers

Kate

Kate is a writer, poet, and storyteller who explores the thresholds of transformation through language, rest, and the subconscious.

  • A certified Yoga Nidra facilitator in the ISHTA lineage and a Holy Fire® III Karuna Reiki® Master Teacher, she is passionate about the power of dreams, neuroscience, and the body’s innate wisdom. Her work blends poetic storytelling, deep rest, and energy healing to guide others into the quiet spaces where creativity and self-awareness take root. Through words, breath, stillness, and Reiki, she invites you to listen, unravel, trust the unseen, and bring forth the stories within.

Tiffany

Tiffany is a Full Spectrum Doula, counselor, and writer living in the mountains of North Carolina.

  • She honors the roots of nature-based systems of wellness and reciprocity, of ceremony and story, and their deep influences in her life and work and is committed to centering them to co-create communities of presence and care. Writing is one of her love languages and gifts. She feels her writing allows the everyday flow of living to fuse with the symbology, ritual, folklore, and deep reverence found in nature. The dreamlike prose that emerges holds yearnings of the spirit and prayers that capture the delicate details of this living, interweaving them into self and our shared collective journey.

Morgan

Morgan is a feminine wisdom keeper, writer, yoga teacher, and guide for women. Her work is a spell to awaken the Goddess, a spell to soothe the soul and body of woman.

  • Weaving her studies of menstrual health, female sexuality, and ancient feminine spirituality into her offerings allows Morgan to support women to come home to the unique wisdom of their bodies. Through womb yoga, soul-deep mentorship, and practices for female sexuality she guides her clients to return to a place of nourishment and nervous system regulation.

    Since completing her Yoga Teacher Training in 2021 she has been teaching yoga and holding women's circles at local studios in addition to working with women 1:1. Morgan is constantly deepening her knowledge through continuing education and many days spent reading books on the Goddess.

    Morgan's poetry channels the primordial Dark Feminine and her love for the Goddess shines through all she brings to the world.

Christa

Christa Hebal is a true lover of this wild and wondrous world and one of her greatest passions is sharing that love with others as a certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guide.

  • She was born and raised in the ancient mountains of Northeast Tennessee and has lived in Asheville, NC for 25 years.  Christa's adventurous heart has led her on many fulfilling journeys around the world, forever widening and expanding perceptions of what it means to be an enlivened interconnected being of this earth.

    She loves to help others find balance and encounter wholeness through embodiment and nature connection practices that support healing for people and planet. Christa has had a professional bodywork practice for 19 years as a Nationally Certified Massage Therapist, practitioner of Ortho-Bionomy®, Usui Reiki Master, Certified Pediatric Massage Therapist, Clinical Aromatherapist, and Certified Traditional Herbalist. She is also currently certified in CPR and Wilderness First Aid. 

    Christa is thrilled to immerse in nature with others and share the practice of forest bathing as an ANFT Certified Guide.  She feels deeply inspired to share forest bathing as an integral experience for our personal and collective remembrance and evolution during these transformative times.

shanna

Shanna Pranaitis is a certified Integrative Hypnotist and Change Work Coach, feral human, performing  artist, and business owner with a spicy brain.​

  • Shanna has performed on stages around the world as a radically traditional flutist, exploring the edges of new sounds and experimental music creation. She understands what it’s like to do battle with the gremlins of fear and doubt when it comes to artistic expression and to courageously walk through the fires of the creative process. ​

    In her private hypnosis and coaching practice, she challenges you to uncage yourself from the rules, have-tos, and shoulds that are keeping you in a prison of hustle, burnout, and anxiety so you can joyfully reclaim the most wildly authentic version of yourself. Her holistic approach using neuroscience-based techniques fosters inner alignment to help you more easily create change by collaborating with your body, nervous system, and unconscious mind. With these tools and her uncanny ability to ask questions that go straight to the heart of the matter, she guides you on a journey of self-discovery that will help you connect to deeper levels of self-trust and unconditional confidence in your instincts. When she’s not helping people reconnect to their wild selves or creating weird sounds on flutes, you can find her hiking in the woods and mountains, reading a fantasy/sci-fi book, deep-diving on a subject (like lightning bugs!), and exploring new locations by wandering and getting delightfully “lost” while befriending all the local cats.

Tara

Tara (she/her)— a 500 hour E-RYT, RCYT, YACEP, CTA Certified Coach, and self-published author.

  • With some teachers, the lessons are planned. They are practiced. They are rehearsed, and they are perfected to a tee, but Tara Eschenroeder offers a different experience. Teaching was Tara’s Dharma long before she realized it. She grew up with a bow and arrow in her hands, learning to pull back with just enough aim and control to send her arrow into the abyss, knowing and trusting it would hit its intended mark. And so she enters each class, each workshop, each lesson, each experience…having prepared her body and mind to become that bow - that vessel - that lesson…letting that arrow fly... weaving its way into the provided space and landing wherever it is intended.

    Tara felt that call in 2007 when she first felt the spark of a tiny flame. And instead of approaching that flame fearing the heat, she chose to approach it with love, stoking the fire that was burning within for her passion of yoga. By the end of 2009, she received her 200 hour RYT under Arlene Bjork and Grace Yoga Training Systems. She continued to follow what she knew and trusted her path to be, and she obtained her 500 hour RYT through Om On Yoga under the guidance and wisdom of Jennifer Elliott.

    When practicing with Tara, no two classes, workshops, or experiences are ever the same. Students are not told what to do, they are empowered to listen to their own bodies. And while there are general cues throughout of “warrior” and “downward dog” (sometimes accompanied by their Sanskrit name), one is also just as likely to hear cues of “listen to the animal within,” “move through honey, “ride the wave of your breath,” or, simply, just an encouragement to “dance.” Her mentoring and life coaching sessions follow a similar pattern. Mentees are not told what to do but instead empowered to listen within with offered guidance- never forced, and always an open-minded invitation to explore. Tara’s Psychology degree from James Madison University, Elementary Education License from Mary Baldwin College, and coaching certification from Yoga2Life give her a studied foundation for helping others, but it’s her natural instincts and open heart that help students see the best in themselves.

    Asheville, NC is Tara’s hOMe where she has the honor of teaching, guiding and presenting throughout the community. She also spends much of her time around the country and outside of holding workshops, retreats, classes, and presenting at festivals. She has also received additional teaching credentials with Project Yoga Richmond and YoKid Stretch Your Limits, as well as served as an Ambassador for Lululemon Athletica. Yet, so much of her teaching is done off of the yoga mat. Tara openly and outwardly lives the teachings has been inspired to share. Just as she would encourage a student falling out of a pose to take themselves lightly, she does the same as she navigates through challenges. And just as she would encourage a student to trust themselves as they spread their wings into something new on the mat, she is a living example of trusting what she knew was her calling as she spread her own wings. She approaches life with that same love that she used to approach that initial flame, and she encourages each person with whom she comes in contact with to do the same. And by doing so, she is living out her truth and her Dharma of being a vessel of blessing.

    Sat Nam.

    Namaste.


a cocoon of creativity

a cocoon of creativity


Inclusions

꩜ 3 nights accommodation

꩜ Daily workshops and community circle

꩜ Local, from-scratch, deeply nourishing meals on Saturday & Sunday by our private chef, Kearsley.

꩜ Snacks, coffee, tea

꩜ Hiking/forest bathing

꩜ A live house performance by local and popular singer/songwriter, Lillie Syracuse

Threads of Light online platform access

꩜ Gift box

pricing and reservation

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