With Katherine May
and Elisabeth T. Lilja

Saturday 26th - Monday 28th October 2024

 
 
 

On the cusp of winter, a pathway
back to the magical…

Designed with burned-out creatives, leaders and caregivers in mind, this exclusive small-group retreat will help you to rekindle your sense of wonder.

Combining reflective workshops, healing rituals, meditation and yoga, Wild Rest will nurture and inspire you as you immerse in Katherine’s unique worldview.

In the tranquil surroundings of Salt City Therapy, we’ll create a nurturing environment where you can explore your yearning for deeper experience. Working with the four elements - earth, water, fire and air - we will immerse ourselves in the sensory and associative experience of the world around us, working to restore a sense of fascination and flow.

During your time with us, we’ll take great care of you with delicious food and daily meditation, and iRest Yoga Nidra practices, and we’ll even provide a contact number so that you can turn off your phone guilt-free.

All you need to do is come as you are: perhaps tired and jaded, perhaps wondering what on earth comes next, but either way, ready for a better way to walk through this life.

We strongly recommend that you read Katherine’s book, Enchantment, before attending the retreat.

 

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Katherine May is an internationally bestselling author and podcaster living in Whitstable, UK. Her most recent book, Enchantment became an instant New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller. Her hybrid memoir Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times was adapted as BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week, and was shortlisted for the Porchlight and Barnes and Noble Book of the Year. The Electricity of Every Living Thing, her memoir of a midlife autism diagnosis, was adapted as an audio drama by Audible and won a British Podcast Award in 2023.

Katherine hosts a top-ranking podcast, How We Live Now , and she has been a guest presenter for On Being’s The Future of Hope series.

Katherine lives with her husband, son, two cats and a dog. She loves walking, sea-swimming and pickling slightly unappealing things.

 
 

Elisabeth T. Lilja (she/they) is a licensed therapist, with a Masters of Social Work and yoga instructor. She is the owner of Salt City Therapy, a private therapy practice nestled in Salt Lake City, Utah. She specializes in trauma, and helping people to strengthen their relationship with their body and self-trust through somatic invitations.

Elisabeth has been teaching the practice of yoga for over 18 years as a way for people to reconnect with themselves. She approaches teaching with the invitation to curiously invite embodiment---deepening of your connection with body, breath, and mind.

Aside from her work as a therapist, she is a lover of butter, breve chai lattes, the Utah desert, digging in the garden (dirt often under the nails), riding bikes, swinging on swings, baking cookies, eating cookies, time outside, walking in nature, and reading a book in a cuddle pile of her two dogs (Bodhi and Cholula) and cat (El Guapo). 

 
 

Features

  • Reflective workshops led by Katherine May

  • iRest Yoga Nidra lead by Elisabeth T. Lilja

  • A slow pace, with plenty of space to rest, reflect and restore

  • A rare chance to work with Katherine in a small group setting

  • Snacks, refreshments and a delicious lunch

 

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We will immerse ourselves in the sensory and associative experience of the world around us, working to restore a sense of fascination and flow

 
 

About You

This is not a writing retreat. It’s open to anyone who would like to spend some time in a nourishing, reflective process, using various creative methods. No skills are required, just a willingness to immerse yourself. 

With that in mind, please leave your work behind for a few days. You will get so much more out of this if you can avoid checking emails and booking in Zooms. We will provide a contact number so that you can safely park that phone for a while. 

You’ll need to be comfortable with working with a small group - but introverts and quiet folk will feel at home. We won’t overrun your personal boundaries, and ask that everyone is respectful of personal space. If you need to spend some time alone, no-one will raise an eyebrow.

Please only join if you can attend all three days; this helps to create a bonded, coherent group who can support each other over the course of the retreat. 

This retreat involves some gentle physical elements, but these should be fine for moderately fit and mobile people, and they are optional. We’ll do our best to accommodate any needs you have - please let us know in your registration form.

 

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About the Venue

Salt City Therapy is home to an inclusive, somatic, trauma informed, and sensitive therapy practice nestled in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Our therapists specialize in trauma and the protective responses that may eventually leave us feelings isolated, lonely, overwhelmed, and disconnected from ourselves, our body, and those around us.

We believe that no one person is the same, and that means that no one person can be supported with only one therapeutic modality. Salt City Therapy aims to foster therapeutic relationships that assist YOU in developing greater connection with yourself, body, community, and self-trust.

Salt City Therapy aims to cultivate a soothing space where you can explore connection with yourself through different practices, including this creative retreat.

Our retreat will be spent in both a cozy community space with comfortable chairs, and inviting couch, or our group practice room filled with cushions, zafus, and blankets.

 
 
 
 

Spend some time in a
nourishing, reflective process

 
 

Accommodation & Food

Accommodation is not provided for this retreat. If you do not live nearby, please ensure that you book your own lodgings - we recommend that you book accommodation close to Liberty Park for ease of access to the venue. We can provide a list of accommodation suggestions on request.

We will provide you with delicious lunches, and snacks, hot and cold drinks will always be available. However, you will need to make your own arrangements for breakfast and dinner.

 
 
 
 

Travel

Salt City Therapy is located in the Liberty Park area of Salt Lake City.

By Road
There is plenty of parking at/near to the venue and we’ll provide further details on booking.

By Air
Salt Lake City International Airport is a short distance (8 miles) away from the retreat venue. Car hire is available at the airport.

Public transportation
Salt Lake City is served by buses and trains. More details can be found here. Uber and Lyft also operate in Salt Lake City.

 

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Terms of booking

  • Payment must be paid in full at the time of booking.

  • No refunds will be given after 31st August 2024.

  • We recommend that you obtain travel insurance to cover you for the activities you plan to undertake and additionally includes adequate cover for travel delay, cancellation and/or curtailment, medical expenses and your personal belongings. Your policy should also include cover for any medical claim and repatriation due to Covid-19 and trip cancellation due to you falling ill with Covid-19 or being unable to travel.

  • Community care: If you aren’t feeling well, or have been exposed to someone please consider taking a Covid-19 test. Please do also make sure you obtain appropriate insurance to cover the possibility of you being unable to attend due to illness or other reasons

  • It is your responsibility to arrange any necessary visas or immigration documentation if travelling from outside the USA.

FAQs

  • Yes! We expect that there will be a mix of people attending with a friend or partner, and those attending by themselves.

  • We ask that you try to attend all the workshops, but we offer you the opportunity to opt in and out of the other events and activities.

  • There are stairs leading up to the space and unfortunately there isn’t an elevator. Do get in touch if you’d like to discuss how accessible the space is for you.