The Self Heal School Women's Retreat

We have so many wonderful groups staying at Hidden Valley this summer. If you haven't heard of the Self Heal School of Herbal Studies, now's your chance! This organization focuses on learning about plants, plant medicines, and other practices that can enhance a person's health and well being. We're very excited to have them staying with us in August! Read on for more information about this wonderful organization:

21st Annual Women’s Retreat

Since 1989 Self-Heal School has been hosting annual events inviting women to come together to share and celebrate women’s healing arts. This year’s retreat will take place August 10-12 at the former residence of the late healer and teacher, Doctor Bernard Jensen, in the secluded foothills of Escondido. This 11-acre garden paradise boasts a pool and Jacuzzi, gardens and fruit trees, waterfalls, shady groves, open vistas, comfortable quarters and beautiful expansive common areas for group activities. The retreat offers women a chance to relax and be nurtured, to heal their body, mind and heart, and to renew and rejuvenate. Six delicious vegetarian meals are served.

Arriving on Friday, women settle in their quarters and get comfortable, swim in the pool, soak in the Jacuzzi, or walk the garden paths. Women are offered the choice of several workshops in each of five workshop periods. Friday night teachers introduce themselves and the workshops they’ll be offering such as dancing, art, singing and music therapy, transpersonal psychology, nutrition, and herbal and energy healing. Some of the workshop titles include: Your Wonderful Womb; Stress - how to use it to strengthen yourself; Herb Walk Around the Ranch; Intro to Human Design - making decisions in alignment with your life plan; Sounding and Singing Meditation; Marriage and Family Therapy in a Bottle; Taking Care of our Energy Bodies; Developing Abundance Consciousness; Self-Journeying with Music Therapy; and Creating Magic Wands. Other activities include an Herbal Spa Saturday afternoon, a Talent Show Saturday night and a Barter Faire on Sunday morning.

Jane Richmond, retreat coordinator, chooses great teachers for their knowledge, experience and enlightened awareness. Women attending these events experience renewed spirit, joy, laughter, new friendships and transformation, as well as learning self-healing arts that they can use in their everyday life and share with others.

Cost: $345 assigned bed, $315 bring a cot or mat. Pay in full by July 27 to receive a $50 Early Bird discount.

Self-Heal School, owned and operated by John Finch and Jane Richmond, also offers classes and workshops in local plant identification, shamanism, herbal medicine-making and therapies, holistic nutrition, aromatherapy, energy healing, and holistic herbal clinic operation.