Wild Nature Retreats

09/25/2026

Every September, I think of my mother. She was a teacher, and September was when she came alive — lesson plans reworked one more time, supplies bought from her own pocket, work that never really ended.

I understand her differently now that I'm a mother myself. A good teacher doesn't just educate your children — they decide whether your child wants to go to school at all. That one thing changes everything for a family.

At Blackhouse, we think about this a lot: nature holds people the way teachers hold people. A canopy holding shade. A root system holding a hillside. A teacher holding space for someone to stumble and try again. And nothing can hold space forever without being replenished itself.

This season, we're honoring that with Voice Reset with Jam Gamble — a day retreat for anyone who's spent their life holding space for everyone else, and hasn't had space held for them. (Ana went through Jam's Slay the Mic program herself, and knows firsthand what it can do.)

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Every September, I think of my mother. She was a teacher, and September was when she came alive — lesson plans reworked one more time, supplies bought from her own pocket, work that never really ended. I understand her differently now that I'm a mother myself. A good teacher doesn't just educate y...

07/23/2026

Time for a little five senses pleasure - a little mint sorting asmr with love from Debi

If only you can smell the mint 🍃

07/22/2026

The forest doesn't ask what you do. It doesn't care about your title, your revenue, or your strategic plan. It just asks you to show up and pay attention.

That's what we built Creative Rest for — a small, intentional weekend at BlackHouse: guided forest therapy, open creative time, long afternoons by the pool, and the kind of unhurried rest your nervous system has been asking for.

July 24–26. A few spots are left for this weekend - come rediscover your creative energy.

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Your creative spirit isn't tired—it's overstimulated, overthinking, performing. In a world that measures your worth by output, we're inviting you to step into a different rhythm. No expectations. No critique. No performance. Just you, the land, and permission to create from pure play. Creative

06/10/2026

Free Your Mind. Be Wild. 🦜🌳

06/05/2026

View from the Yes room, where you can bird watch from the comfort of the perfect bed. 🛌🦜💕 Ask about the design of our mattresses because of course we didn’t just go out and buy some. Our mattresses were especially designed for the upmost comfort and the deepest sleep. 👨🏾‍🎨😴💤 For all the bird lovers, anyone know kind of bird this is? .crooked

06/04/2026

Creative rest isn’t a luxury — it’s a necessity.

It’s the kind of rest that happens when you stop producing and simply receive. When beauty fills you back up. When nature does the talking and you finally get quiet enough to listen.

Dr. Sandra Dalton-Smith identified creative rest as one of the seven types of rest we all need — and it’s the one most of us overlook. It’s restored not by sleep, but by exposure to beauty. A forest path. The sound of moving water. A meal made with intention. A sky you actually stopped to look at.

Nature is one of the most powerful sources of creative rest because it asks nothing of you. It doesn’t need you to perform, produce, or respond. It simply exists — and in that existence, it quietly restores something in you that busyness depletes.

If you’re a creative, a caregiver, a leader, or someone who gives a lot of yourself — you know the feeling of running on empty. Not tired in your body, but hollow somewhere deeper. That’s a creative deficit.

At Wild Nature Retreats, we designed the Creative Rest weekend for exactly this. Three days at BlackHouse on the Nottawasaga River — forest walks, cedar sauna, salt water pool, nourishing food, and wide open space — so your imagination has somewhere to land.

This is for the person who can’t remember the last time they felt genuinely inspired. Who needs more than a day off. Who is ready to come back to themselves.

June 12–14 · All-inclusive · Link in bio to register.