EarthTime: An Outdoor Retreat

Location: Seaforest Eco-Retreat in Joyce, Washington (North Olympic Peninsula)

Date: Friday August 22th - Sunday August 24th, 2025

Time: 2pm Friday arrival - 2pm Sunday departure

What does it mean to be awake and alive in the complexity of these times? To remain both resourced and actively engaged in all that’s unfolding? To maintain slowness and presence in an attention-grabbing, urgent world? To stand deeply embedded in place—resisting the desire to escape or deny, and instead attune ourselves to a different narrative, a deeper voice, a brighter future that reflects our innate desire to move toward Life?

EarthTime: An Outdoor Retreat will offer slow and deliberate ways to collectively explore these questions through nourishing modalities that connect Place, Time, and the Body. Together, we’ll work to remember ourselves back into the Earth, back into our Center, and into the interdependencies we share with one another.

Activities will include:

• New moon ritual 
• Mindful movement, yoga, and meditation
• Creative rest
• Nature-based art and crafting
• Beach time — fossils and honorable foraging
• Journaling, self-inquiry, and group dialogue 
• Vision, values, and purpose workshop
• Wilderness skill-building
• Library
• Slow, nourishing food
  
• Optional massage, craniosacral therapy, and reiki

While we’re brimming with excitement, we pledge to not be one of those retreats that jam-packs it in, leaving you exhausted at the end. We are firmly committed to your rest and restoration.

This retreat will embody slowness, non-judgment, playfulness, presence, and connection with the feminine. This is a container designed for those who wear the identity of woman or who seek intentional nourishment of their feminine Self, regardless of gender identity. 

This retreat might be for you if you’re calling in:

• A slow down to summer’s busy pace
• A community of kindred spirits
• Deeper connection with Self, Place, and Source 
• Ways to engage in the issues that matter to you
• Moving from self- to collective care
• Nervous system regulation
• Physical, emotional, or energetic renewal 
• A gift to yourself!

We hope you’ll join us for this opportunity to reconnect and re-ground, and shift into deep listening with our inner and outer world.

“Removal and contemplation were necessary to be able to see what was happening, but the same contemplation would always bring one back around to their responsibility to and in the world…the world needs my participation more than ever…[to retreat] means giving yourself the critical break that media cycles and narratives will not, allowing yourself to believe in another world while living in this one.”

– Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

About the Land

Tucked between the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Lake Crescent, Seaforest Eco-Retreat is a 5-acre wild, eclectic haven nestled in a lush forest of alder, cedar, and hemlock. We share this land with hundreds of species of flora, fauna, and fungi, including native berries and shrubs, eagles, bunnies, oyster mushrooms, and many more. Wide swaths of public land border Seaforest, where salmon, elk, and black bear roam as they have for millennia. Sunlight quietly filters through the shady foliage, while the salty, coastal breeze gently sings its tune. It is a generous and abundant landscape that’s welcomed hundreds of campers and volunteers from across the world. 

Seaforest is fully off-grid, meaning we don’t utilize running water or electricity. We’ll be cooking in our outdoor kitchen and fire pit. The restrooms are private stalls with composting toilets. We have drinking water, flashlights, and the option for a basic shower. There are tent sites and tiny cabins available.

Registration

We’re offering a variety of pricing tiers based on lodging, in addition to working hard to keep expenses low. Additionally, we are offering four work exchange spots for those interested in joining at a lower cost. We kindly ask that folks consider how their systemic privilege and current circumstances impact their financial access when selecting their ticket option.

All meals and snacks are included in the price. Food will be nourishing, mostly organic, and sourced with produce from local women- and queer-owned regenerative farms. We’ll gladly accommodate dietary restrictions.

About Your Retreat Facilitators

Abbey Loos and Izzy Zucker, friends for over a decade and souls who have known each other much longer, are thrilled to host you. We weave the warmth of our Southern roots and upbringing near Atlanta, Georgia, our collective years of travel and study throughout the globe, and our connection with Place along the Salish Sea to create spaces of openness, non-judgement, play, connection, and unconditional love. You can learn more about us below, and please don’t hesitate to reach out to us with any questions!

Izzy (she/her) is a certified coach, consultant, facilitator, and writer committed to shaping a more liberated and loving world. She brings nearly a decade of experience helping mission-driven organizations align their story and strategy toward systemic change, and now works with clients to embody this change from the inside out. 

Her integrative approach draws on somatics (how change happens in bodies), self-inquiry, strategic reframing, positive psychology, ecology, biomimicry, and phenology (seasonality), ritual, meditation, and the creative arts. Port Angeles is her beloved home. You can learn more about her through her Substack or website.

Abbey (she/her) is a holistic therapist in training and facilitator of healing experiences centered around nature connection, ceremony, art, song, and movement. She is also a registered yoga teacher, kayak guide, and founder of the non-profit Rooted Hands Collective, which brings connective outdoor experiences to underserved communities across Western Washington. She is currently participating in a Masters of Counseling program at Seattle University and recently completed a 9-month wilderness immersion program at Wilderness Awareness School in Duvall, Washington. She stewards Seaforest with her community and visitors from around the world, where she enjoys leading natural building, permaculture, and land tending projects.

Reflections from last years gathering

“I felt recharged in a way I’ve never known after the Seaforest women’s retreat.

The gathering felt effortless in its connection and community—all ages learning and growing together, being reminded of how connected we all truly are. Izzy and Abbey gently guided us to dive deep through the facilitation of sacred and safe space, everything held with their kindness and wisdom.

The retreat was a perfect combination of movement and stillness, music and dance, laughter, relaxation, nourishing food, ritual, and readings. It was filled to the brim with soul-healing!

Personally, this experience ignited longing deep within me, and has since helped me step toward deeper sisterhood and community. I cannot wait for the next one, and to see how this gathering becomes even more beautiful and powerful over time.”

— Maddie Dowling, 2024 Seaforest Retreat participant

“Thank you for such a wonderful weekend. Spending uninterrupted time with my daughter and best friends in the woods was deeply valuable—it moved me in ways I hadn’t expected, leaving me beautifully surprised. Throughout the retreat, I felt very safe and supported. Since then, I’ve continued to carry a sense of openness, embracing new opportunities and remembering to slow down and appreciate every moment.”

– Julie Hoffman, 2024 Seaforest Retreat participant