Oct
4
to Oct 6

Retreat in Lovettsville, VA

Bring out your Essence with a Soul-nourishing weekend retreat!

Backyard view over the Potomac River

Golden Essence Retreat: Awaken and Ground the Wisdom within.

Immerse yourself in your intrinsic nature, that indispensable quality of YOU that determines your true character - your ESSENCE. This retreat is designed for diving in, discovering, and exploring yourself; returning to life grounded in your golden essence. You’ll come away revitalized, nourished, and ready to walk your own wisdom path with confidence and full trust in yourself.

With 3 experienced facilitators and professional space-holders, you will feel revitalized, relaxed and held like never before on this weekend retreat. Come connect with the deepest parts of yourself and with other heart-centered souls in a gorgeous, luxurious home. Explore and forest-bathe in Virginia’s lush landscape, on a private property extending 70 acres with breathtaking views and private access to forest, hills, and the Potomac River. Replenish your beautiful energy by deeply grounding into the natural beauty and accessing your own natural wisdom intelligence. The house is full of amenities for your full relaxation - hot tub, fire pits, back porch swing, wading in the river, hiking trails throughout the wooded property, outdoor dining and lots and lots of space in this 8000-square-foot home.

You will be supported with nourishing, delicious, locally-sourced meals created and provided by our soul-aligned chef Bailey McAvenia - an artist with food, experienced in catering wellness retreats, and a certified transformational energy coach - you will be nurtured mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

We gather in ceremony to laugh, play, dance, and sing by the fire. Our hostess Rhiannon, an experienced cacao ceremony facilitator and medicine musician, will have us activating our voices inside and out.

We heal, transform, and transmute through mindfullness practices like yoga, meditation, and earth medicines. Our hostess, Melissa, an experienced facilitator of plant medicine journeys will provide everything you need on your healing or transformational journey. This powerful experience will be held in sacred ceremony and will be optional (all the tools will be provided to you so you can feel empowered with our in-person assistance or for yourself in the future). Information about microdosing will be provided along with the tools you’ll need to begin your journey. You may choose to microdose or join the circle for mild to medium psilo journey.

Integration is key and will be provided during the retreat and after. We continue to support you individually and through our group sharing.

Included:

  • A beautifully held container with 3 heart-centered, soul-aligned facilitators

  • 2 nights and 3 days on site in luxurious digs (optional camping!)

  • Nature galore! Gorgeous views, forest, and River

  • All nourishing, locally-sourced and exquisite cuisine by our magical chef and space-holder queen.

  • Welcome circle and cacao ceremonies

  • Sacred fire and stargazing

  • Yoga, meditation, pranayama, journaling prompts, spacious free time to explore

  • Live Music, Sound-healing medicine music

  • Safely held small to medium dose psilo journey (optional) with an experienced facilitator, integration coach, and plant medicine channel

  • integration circle

  • preparation and integration sessions/calls individually and as a group

  • Surprise goodie bags with original artwork and more

  • hot tub!

  • Additional offerings by our facilitators:

  • Rhiannon: Medicine music, cacao, excavating stuck energy coaching, clearing energy, group processing, one-on-one moving energy/channeling/ human design activation, astro chart reading, hands on healing, vocal activation, elemental wisdom connection/movement/dancing, radical alignment sessions, re-wilding, inner child work

  • Melissa: Meditation guide, yoga instruction, light language healings and activations, hands-on healing & energy work, sound healing meditation, Somatic Dance and higher self embodiment, plant medicine mama, channel, guide, processing and integration coach, Transformational Energy coach, encoded art trance and art therapy guide,

  • Bailey:With Heart Transformational Energy Coaching, exquisite high vibrational retreat chef

Email MelissaprestonJessell@gmail.com for more information and to reserve your spot! Spaces are limited to ensure an intimate and enriching experience :)

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Weekly Free Guided Meditation and Cacao Circle
Nov
5
9:00 AM09:00

Weekly Free Guided Meditation and Cacao Circle

  • Getty Park Silver Spring, MD, 20902 USA (map)
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Weekly Free Guided Meditation and Cacao Circle in The Getty Park Gazebo, Silver Spring, MD

Getty Park Gazebo, Silver Spring, MD

Every Sunday morning neighbors in the Forest Estate Neighborhood gather together for a free guided meditation and cacao circle (meditation and cacao provided by me and www.flykakao.com). All are welcome!

What to bring:

-a mug

-a journal

-a pen

-and anything you may need to sit comfortably for 30+ minutes

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Coming into Presence: The Return - Art by Melissa Jessell at Wild Geese Gallery
Jun
1
to Jul 23

Coming into Presence: The Return - Art by Melissa Jessell at Wild Geese Gallery

COMING INTO PRESENCE: The Return

Artwork by Melissa Preston Jessell

Presented by Wild Geese Gallery, NYC

Message from the artist about the works presented at Wild Geese Gallery:


“It used to be that my work had the energy of seeking, pushing to look more closely in order to awaken the mundane. Now, it’s simpler than that. It is awakening presence within me while I work. I’m playing with presence with photography as the driving means by which to awaken myself. Putting more awareness around the action of using the camera as a tool to look even more closely, in a way that my eyes are unable (or no longer able) to do, is the process. The energy of that deep engagement is embedded in the image, the moment of capture. 


I’m an energy worker - healer and coach - I work with plant medicines in my own wellness and spiritual development practices and I guide others in processing and integrating their own experiences. The seeking that was originally in my work was a direct result of my mystical, meditative and psychedelic experiences. Searching the material world for hidden doorways to deepen my experience of the present everyday in order to better remember what I had come in contact with. The seeking energy had transmuted into allowing the surface and light to be as it is, entering into communication with the object, dharana, which is reflective of my being and my energy at the time of creation. This energy is healing and transformative for me, as the artist, and may it be a doorway for healing and a deeply transformational experience for the viewer as well.” 

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Coming into Presence: Art by Melissa Jessell at Wild Geese Gallery
Dec
22
to Jan 31

Coming into Presence: Art by Melissa Jessell at Wild Geese Gallery

COMING INTO PRESENCE: Season of Love

Artwork by Melissa Preston Jessell

Presented by Wild Geese Gallery, NYC

Message from the artist about the works presented at Wild Geese Gallery:


“It used to be that my work had the energy of seeking, pushing to look more closely in order to awaken the mundane. Now, it’s simpler than that. It is awakening presence within me while I work. I’m playing with presence with photography as the driving means by which to awaken myself. Putting more awareness around the action of using the camera as a tool to look even more closely, in a way that my eyes are unable (or no longer able) to do, is the process. The energy of that deep engagement is embedded in the image, the moment of capture. 


I’m an energy worker - healer and coach - I work with plant medicines in my own wellness and spiritual development practices and I guide others in processing and integrating their own experiences. The seeking that was originally in my work was a direct result of my mystical, meditative and psychedelic experiences. Searching the material world for hidden doorways to deepen my experience of the present everyday in order to better remember what I had come in contact with. The seeking energy had transmuted into allowing the surface and light to be as it is, entering into communication with the object, dharana, which is reflective of my being and my energy at the time of creation. This energy is healing and transformative for me, as the artist, and may it be a doorway for healing and a deeply transformational experience for the viewer as well.” 

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GRATITUDE CACAO CIRCLE
Nov
26
3:00 PM15:00

GRATITUDE CACAO CIRCLE

Hosted by Sweetbay Yoga Studio and Kakao Ceremonial-Grade Drinking Chocolate, we’ll be sitting in Gratitude and setting our intentions for the Holiday Season. Cacao is wonderful way of coming together in communion, sharing a heart-warming, heart-expanding plant medicine, and sitting in meditation. The benefits of cacao include:

Calming of the Nervous System

  • Enhanced Creativity

  • Increased Blood Circulation & Digestion

  • Deepened Meditations & Inner-work

  • Clearing Blocked/Stuck Emotions

  • Euphoric Connection to Self, Others, and Nature

  • Increased Energy (without the jitters or crash)

  • Prolonged Focus

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Free Cacao Ceremony!
Nov
19
2:00 PM14:00

Free Cacao Ceremony!

  • 1504 Sanford Road SILVER SPRING United States (map)
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Come join your neighbors in a FREE cacao ceremony for setting our intentions around gratitude for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday and Holiday Season. We’ll be sitting with one another in guided meditation, sharing cacao by Kakao Cermonial-Grade Drinking Chocolate (signature blend), and setting our intentions for rippling out the energy of gratitude. Join us in this beautiful offering!

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