Restore and Revive Retreat: Optimizing Women’s Health in Modern Times (April 27th 9am-4:30pm EST)

Restore & Revive Retreat: Optimizing Women’s Health in Modern Times

Pricing: Early Bird Pricing through 2/9: $159

After 2/9: Price Increases to $189

When: April 27, 2024, 9 am - 4:30 pm EST

Where: Rising Fawn Gardens (https://www.risingfawngardens.com/directions/) 

Retreat Description: This is a women’s retreat focused on helping women nourish and revive their health, taught through the lens of holistic & functional wellness. We aim to provide a space for learning, community, and fun. Restore & Revive will provide active instruction around the importance of movement, breathing, and meditation. Additionally, speakers will provide guidance on nutritional support for optimizing women’s health in modern times. At the end of the day-long retreat, participants will leave with knowledge and tools to apply what they have practiced in their everyday lives. 

About the speakers:

Meet Brooke:

Brooke Cates is the visionary behind The Bloom Method, one of the globe's leading pre + postnatal fitness methodologies changing the way women move through motherhood! A certified Prenatal and Postnatal Exercise Specialist, Core Rehabilitation Specialist, and Holistic Health Coach, Brooke's passion is rooted in empowering women at every stage of motherhood and beyond.

In 2018, after five years of global in-person coaching, Brooke launched the first ever pre + postnatal fitness app, Studio Bloom. Today, with over 100,000 women benefiting from 700+ classes, diverse fitness styles, and empowering education, Studio Bloom is redefining how women connect to their bodies through movement.

Meet Margaret: 

Margaret Summersell is a Yoga Instructor, Trauma Informed Breathwork Facilitator, and Somatic Healing Practitioner. She has been working in Somatics for 7 years. As a Mother of two young children, she is passionate about guiding women back into connection with their bodies, and through somatic practices, serving as a guide to reconnect others to the beauty of their true essence. 

Meet Katie:

Katie Braswell, of Wild + Well, is a Holistic Nutritionist and Registered Yoga Teacher based in Chattanooga, TN. Growing up with a health-conscious family, her passion for real food and wellness started at an early age. Her mom was always a true advocate for Katie’s own health and wellness. Now, it is her turn to be an advocate for others through real food, intentional living, wellness, and community.

She has become passionate about working alongside women in their journey through childbirth, after experiencing the birth of her son. Katie’s specific areas of interest are preconception health, fertility, prenatal nutrition and supplementation, gestational diabetes, breastfeeding and postpartum care (focusing on nurturing mama and baby). 

She worked in the Natural Food Industry for 8 years, completed her Masters program in Holistic Nutrition in 2020 and since then has completed several continuing education programs (Angela Heap – Optimizing Fertility in 2021, Lily Nichols - Institute for Prenatal Nutrition in 2023 and Blood Chemistry in 2023).

She specializes in functional nutrition for families - especially the mama or mama to be who is looking to maximize their time adventuring with their little ones! Katie believes in meeting her clients where they are in their health journey to regain balance and vibrant health. Katie offers one-on-one nutritional and supplementation consultation packages, custom meal plan and prep consults, as well as, private and group yoga classes.

Meet Leah: 

Leah is the co-owner of High Garden tea with her husband Joel.  She is a trained clinical level herbalist, ecotherapist, naturalist, conservationist, wife, mother and daughter. As a 2 decade trained and teaching herbalist, Leah not only lives an herbal life, but she also teaches others to become herbalists in her PlantFolk Herbalism Program. She uses her MA degree in psychology with a focus in Ecotherapy to help guide others in finding great connection with their larger family and home, the wild. Leah practices and teaches EcoHerbalism, a term she created to represent the practice of working with plants as a part of the whole, placing importance on community rather than consumption. Leah is a forever student of the land and hopes to share her love of the natural world with as many as possible. 

Meet Tracy:

Tracy Hilliard, LMT, RN, has spent the larger part of her bodywork and massage career focusing on women’s reproductive health with an aim of enhancing the body’s innate systems for recovery and balance. Her goal is to meet clients wherever they are along the reproductive continuum. Tracy is a longtime student and self-care teacher of the Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy and draws upon many perspectives of health beyond massage including her studies of nursing, herbalism, mindfulness, and menstrual cycle education. 

Tracy encourages clients to cultivate gentle and deeper listening within the body by teaching simple self-care practices. She feels passionate about others learning more about their menstrual cycle and reproductive phases and is interested in how these transitions can lead us toward a more intimate knowing of the self. 

Meet Hannah:

Hannah is a functional nutrition educator and medical researcher based in Chattanooga, TN. She is a certified functional nutritional therapy practitioner (FNTP) and earned her Master of Science in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine in 2019 from the University of Western States. 

Hannah is passionate about wellness education and loves translating complex medical research into easily digestible highlights that can be applied to everyday life. 

Her special interests include gut health and the microbiome, autoimmunity, detox, stress & resilience, and traditional/ancestral foods. Before studying nutrition, Hannah worked in the mental health field with adults with mental illness, and the relationship between nutrition and mental health is dear to her heart. 

More recently, after delivering her son via an unplanned C-section and struggling with postpartum health, Hannah realized the profound importance of postpartum care, not just for the mother and baby, but for the health of our society. Today, Hannah’s nutrition work is focused on self-paced nutrition courses and group classes for women. 

Meet Madison: 

Madison is a Women's Health Functional Dietitian, a wife, and a mom of three. Her work as a dietitian in both the clinical and wellness settings gave her a lot of practical knowledge and experience, but she discovered her true passion once she utilized functional nutrition in her quest to heal after she had children.

Her interest in natural alternatives to “conventional” treatments led her to pursue training in functional nutrition with certification as an Integrative and Functional Nutrition Care Practitioner, in addition to her Bachelor of Science in Nutrition from the University of Tennessee. She quickly learned during her dietetic internship at Tulane University that nothing convenient comes without a price. A “quick fix” is usually not a fix at all, rather it becomes band-aid preventing the discovery of a truly sustainable solution (and often at the cost of a new set of side effects).

Meet Sandy: 

After thousands of hours researching and teaching herself these principles, Sandy Nannen studied herbalism at Clayton School of Natural Health to increase her knowledge.

She then graduated from Hawthorn University’s three-year program to become a Nutrition Consultant. She is a Autoimmune Protocol Certified Coach and completed Chris Kresser’s ADAPT training in functional medicine and ancestral health.

She is also a graduate of the Root Cause Protocol Consultant program with Morely Robbins. In 2020, she went on to become a homeopath under Joette Calabrese.

She currently works with clients of all ages and from all walks of life.

Schedule:

9:00: Check-in + Coffee, bone broth, and snacks

9:30: Movement Practice with Brooke Cates

10:30: Self-care for Belly Tension with Tracy Hillard

11:30: Moving Meditation Walk with Leah Larabell

12:45: Farm to Table Lunch (our delicious lunch will be gluten-free with dairy-free options; sourdough will be available for those who eat gluten)

2:00: Nutritional support for Optimizing Women’s Health in Modern Times with Hannah Wright, Katie Braswell, Sandy Nannen, and Madison Templeton

3:15: Meditative Breathwork - with Margaret Summersell

4:15: Closing